806

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

award will be heard by the Highway's Commission, the date

of such hearing to be not less than thirty days from the date

of such return by the examiners, and copies of such advertise-

ment shall be served or left upon the premises of the person

assessed for damages so far as may be practicable, as provided

for in the case of the original notice by the examiners. If any

person or body corporate or taxpayer of any district interested

in the opening, altering, relocating or closing of any road as

aforesaid shall feel aggrieved by the award, report or retvirn

of said examiners, he, she or it, shall file objections thereto in

writing with the Highways Commission on or before the date

fixed by the notice last aforesaid for the hearing of such ob-

jections, and the said Commission on the day so fixed for said

hearing, shall proceed to consider the award, return, plat and

proceedings of the examiners, and all the proceedings in the

case, and it may modify or confirm, reject, reverse, alter, amend

or correct the award, return of report, plat and proceedings,

or return the same to the examiners for alterations, corrections

or amendments; provided, however, that the said return or re-

Proviso.

port, after having been altered, modified or amended as afore-

said either by the Commission or examiners, shall not be finally

ratified and confirmed until after the expiration of ten days

from the date of such change, and an opportunity given the

parties interested to be heard on such change ; and provided,

further, that the Commission or examiners shall not make any

Shall not mak
any change.

change which requires the road petitioned for to pass through

or along the property of any person not originally notified by

the proceedings or whose name did not appear in the original

advertisement of the notice of intention to file a petition for

such road, without giving such person at least five days' notice

of such intended change and an opportunity to be heard there-

on, or unless such person shall waive such notice. Any person

Right to ap-

interested may appeal to the Circuit Court for Baltimore

peal.

County from the final order of ratification or rejection of such

report or award by the Highways Commission, the parties to

such appeal to be arranged in the record of proceedings as their

actual interest may require, said appeal to be taken within the

time and subject to the provisions hereinafter contained. If

after the proceedings aforesaid it shall be finally determined

that a road shall be opened, altered, relocated or closed as

aforesaid, then the entire cost thereof, including a sufficient

amount to refund to the depositor, the preliminary cost, and

all damages to be paid persons found to be damaged by such

proposed work, shall be deemed due and payable by the per-

sons or district funds to whom or which the same was assessed

as aforesaid, and such assessment or award shall be considered