622 HARFORD COUNTY. [ART. 12.

the public roads, in Harford county, when and where they may
deem such re-survey necessary and expedient.

95*. Whenever the said commissioners shall deem it ex-
pedient that any of the public roads in said county shall be
re-surveyed, they shall appoint three persons not interested nor
holding lands through which said road may pass, and the per-
sona so appointed, or a majority of them, after giving thirty
days' notice thereof, shall meet on. the premises and re-survey
and mark and bound such public road according to the best
evidence they can obtain of the location thereof, either by
examination of witnesses, or by reference to former surveys, or
by personal inspection of such road; and in the absence of other
sufficient and satisfactory evidence, the said examiners are
authorized to adopt the centre of such road as the centre there-
of according to its true location, and mark and bound such
road accordingly, giving it the proper width to which it may
be entitled, being not less than thirty feet in any case, and they
shall make and return to the county commissioners a plat of
such road, with a full report of their proceedings, under their
hands.

96. The said examiners, before they proceed to act, shall take
an oath to execute the trust reposed in them by the commission
to them issued, faithfully and without favor, affection or par-
tiality, which oath shall be endorsed on the commission and
returned therewith.

97. After the expiration of ten days from and after the return
of the examiners, the said county commissioners, after hearing
and considering any objections that may be made, shall proceed
to pass judgment thereon, and affirm or reject the same, or or<ier
it to be amended, in their discretion, and may continue over their
proceedings to their next meeting, and so from time to time, so
long as the said commissioners shall, in their judgment, think
such continuance necessary for the purpose of justice; and the
final judgment of said commissioners, in relation to such road or
roads, and the plat thereof as confirmed by such judgment, shall
bo recorded among the Land Eecords of said county by the clerk
of the Circuit Court, in a separate book, to bo by him provided
for that purpose, and for .such recording, the clerk shall be
entitled to charge and be paid by said county commissioners
according to the rate for recording such matters authorized by
law; and the re-survey of such road or roads as established

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