EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the public convenience requires that such road should be

Public con-

opened, altered or relocated, they shall proceed to locate the

venience.

same in such manner as will, in their judgment, best promote

the public convenience, and shall cause a plat of the same as

so located, and of the location of the old road when the appli-

cation is to alter or relocate a road, to be made out by the

County Surveyor, under the direction of the Roads Engineer,

and shall return the same, together with a full report of their

proceedings, under their hands, to the Highways Commission,

with the reason on which their opinions are founded. Said

examiners shall have power to change the location of any road

petitioned for and to change either of the termini thereof as

advertised, if they consider that the public convenience would

be best promoted by the making of such changes, but shall not

make any such change which requires said road to pass through

or along the property of any person not originally notified or

whose name did not appear in the original advertisement of

the notice of intention to file a petition as aforesaid, without

giving such person at least five clays' notice of such intended

change and an opportunity to be heard, or unless such person

waives such notice. If the application be for the closing of a

road or portion of a road and the examiners shall determine

Examiners
shall deter-

that it is expedient that such road be closed, they shall return

mine.

with their report a description and plat of the road or portion

of the road so recommended to be closed. If said examiners

decide that it is expedient that such road shall be opened,

altered or relocated as aforesaid, they shall make an estimate

of the cost of making such road or alteration, including the

cost of the proceedings and the amount of the preliminary

deposit as aforesaid, and also of the damages, if any, to be

paid; and shall assess the cost of said road as aforesaid and

damages and benefits caused thereby upon the persons inter-

ested and the district respectively, in such proportions as they

shall deem just and proper, including in such assessments and

estimate such damages as may be occasioned by any change

of of necessity for fencing along the line of said proposed road;

and if they shall decide that a road or portion of a road be

closed, they shall likewise make an estimate of the damages

and assess the benefits occasioned thereby. The examiners

shall return such estimate and assessment to the Highways

Commission as a part of their return, and the Highways Com-

mission shall thereupon cause notice to be given to all persons

assessed of their respective assessments so returned by the

Notice to be
given to par-

examiners, by publication in one or more of the newspapers

ties asseued.

published in Baltimore County once a week for two successive

weeks, and of the date on which objections to such return and