EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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call in the county surveyors for the purpose of ascertaining

where the center of the said road is, so as to know where the

fifteen feet from the said center of the said road will run and

be located, and if the said surveyor shall decide in favor of the

location made bv the supervisor then the party appealing to

said surveyor shall pay the expenses of said survey ; but if the

said surveyor shall decide that the location made by the said

supervisor is not correct, and that it is an injury to said party

so appealing, then the County Commissioners shall pay the

said surveyor four dollars for each day he may be employed

in surveying said road ; but said surveyor shall not charge for

Surveyors.

any survey made on any road unless he shall have been called

in on an appeal from the action of some road supervisor of the

public roads in said county.

128. The County Commissioners of Wicomico County shall

have the power by ordinance or resolution of condemning,

County Com-
missioners'

laying out, opening, extending and making new roads and for

power.

altering, straightening, widening, grading, inlproving or clos-

ing up in whole or in part any existing road, and for removing

trees, posts and other obstructions and for laying out public

drains, watercourses and public landings on any navigable

waters in Wicomico County, when in their opinion the public

necessity or convenience require the same, without any previous

application or petition ; the County Commissioners may con-

tract with the owner or owners of the land for the purpose of

laying out, opening, extending and making new roads, and for

altering, straightening, widening, grading, improving or clos-

ing up in whole or in part any existing road or for a public

drain or public landing, for the right of way over the land

necessary for any said road or for land for public drains and

public landings if he, she or they be competent to contract ;

and in case the said County Commissioners shall so contract

Plat of road

they shall cause a plat of the said road to be made bv a compe-

to be made.

tent surveyor and filed and recorded in the office of the Clerk

of the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, with the deed or

deeds conveying the land so acquired, which plat shall be re-

ferred to in and shall be a part of said deed or deeds, and the

lands so conveyed shall be and become thenceforth the prop-

erty of Wicomico County, and be subject to the purposes and

uses for which granted ; if, however, the County Commis-

sioners aforesaid shall proceed by condemnation in the exer-

cise of the powers herein granted, all benefits or damages done,

suffered or incurred by laying out, opening and making of new

roads, or by altering, straightening, widening, grading, im-

proving or closing up, in part or in whole, any existing road or