EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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owners through or along whose property the proposed road is

to pass, or be publicly posted on such property in case the

owner cannot be found at least five days before the day of meet-

ing ; and in case the owner be an infant or non compos mentis,

then a copy of said notice shall be left with a parent or guardian

of said infant, or with the committee or person having charge

of the person alleged to be non compos mentis; and at the

time appointed the examiners or a majority of them shall meet

on the premises and proceed to examine and determine whether

the public convenience requires that the roacl should be open,

altered or closed, as the case may be ; but they shall have power

to adjourn from time to time. If the application be for open-

ing, closing- or altering a road and if the said examiners shall

determine that the public convenience requires that the road be

epened, closed or altered, they shall proceed to locate the same

in 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 to be made out under the direction of the Alle-

gany County Roads Engineer, and shall return the same, to-

gether with a full report of their proceedings under their hands

to the Road Directors, with the reasons on which their opinions

are founded. And if said examiners shall be of opinion that the

To report

roacl ought not be opened, altered or closed, they shall report

to Road
Directors.

their opinion to the Road Directors, under their hands, together

with the reasons upon which it is founded.

216M. Whenever any road shall be located and surveyed as

a public road, a board of examiners shall make an estimate of

To make an es-
timate of cost.

the cost of making said roacl and also the damages, if any, to

be paid, and shall assess the damages and benefits caused

thereby upon the persons interested in such properties as they

may deem just and proper, and shall cause notice to be given

to all persons assessed of their respective assessments. And to

all persons to whom damages shall be awarded of their respec-

tive awards by publishing in one or more newspapers of Alle-

ganey County once a week for two successive weeks; and that

objections thereto may be filed with the said Road Directors

within thirty days from the first publication of said notice, and

if any person or body corporate shall feel aggrieved by the

award, assessment or report of said board of examiners, he

she or it, within thirty days from the first publication of said

notice, shall file his or its objection in writing with the said

Road Directors; and the said Road Directors, after five days'

Filing objec-

notice to all persons interested, or as soon thereafter as practi-

tions to award

cable, shall proceed to consider the award, assessment, plat and

other proceedings in said case, or may, in their discretion, send