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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

such manner as will, in their judgment, best promote the
public convenience, and shall cause a plat of the same and
also of the old road, when the application is to alter or close
a road, to be made out under the direction of the Baltimore
County Roads Engineer, and shall return the same, together
with a full report of their proceedings under their hands to
the County Commissioners, with the reason on which their
opinions are founded.

If decision
against open-
ing, reasons
for.

Sec. 212. If the said examiners shall be of the opinion that
the road ought not to be opened, altered or shut up, they shall
report their opinion to the County Commissioners, together
with the reason on which it was founded.

When any
road shall be
located and
surveyed,
examiners
shall make
estimate of
cost and
damages, etc.

Sec. 213. Whenever any road shall be located and surveyed
as a public road, the board of examiners shall make au esti-
mate of the cost, of making said road, and also of the damages-,
if any, to be paid, and shall assess the damages and benefits
caused thereby upon the persons interested, and the districts,
respectively, in such proportions as they may deem just and
proper, and shall cause notice to be given to all persons
assessed of their respective assessments by publication in one
or more newspapers of Baltimore County once a week for two
successive weeks; and that objections thereto may be filed
with the County Commissioners within thirty days from the
first publication of said notice, and shall furnish to the County
Commissioners a report of such assessment; and if any person
or body corporate or district acting through its Road Com-
missioners shall feel aggrieved by the award, report of pro-
ceeding of said Board of Examiners, he, she or it within
thirty days after said report is filed in the office of the County
Commissioners shall file his, her or its objection in writing,
and the County Commissioners, after five days' notice to each
side interested, or as soon thereafter as practicable, shall pro-
ceed to consider the award, return of report, plat and pro-
ceedings of said examiners, and all the proceedings in said
case, and they may notify and confirm, reject, reverse, alter,
amend or correct the award, return of report, plat and pro-
ceedings in said case, or may, in their discretion, send back
to said examiners the award, return of report, plat and pro-

May appeal
from final
order of ratifi-
cation

ceedings for alterations, corrections or amendments of any
person interested in said proceeding may appeal from the
final order of ratification or rejection of the County Commis-
sioners of said county to the Circuit Court for said county;
provided, said appeal is taken within thirty days from the
passage of said final order of ratification or rejection; and