1480 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

in such proportions as they shall deem just and proper, includ-
ing in such assessments such damages as may be occasioned by
any change of or 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 exam-
iners shall return such assessments to the said county commis-
sioners as a part of their return, and the said county commis-
sioners shall thereupon cause notice to be given to all persons
assessed of their respective assessments for damages and bene-
fits so returned by the examiners, by publication in one or more
of the newspapers published in Montgomery county once a week
for two successive weeks, and of the date on which objections
to such returns and award will be heard by the said county
commissioners, the date of such hearing to be not less than
twenty days from the date of such return by the examiners,
and copies of such advertisement shall be served personally
where practicable, or left upon the premises of the persons so
assessed.

463. If any person or body corporate or taxpayer of any
district interested in the opening, altering, relocating or clos-
ing of any road, as aforesaid, or the condemnation of any such
property or property right, shall feel aggrieved by the award,
report or return of said examiners, he, she or it shall file
objections thereto in writing with the said County Commis-
sioners on or before the date fixed by the notice last aforesaid
for the hearing of such objections, and the said commissioners,
on the day so fixed for said hearing, shall proceed to consider
the award, return and proceedings of the examiners, and all
the proceedings in the case, and they may modify or confirm,
reject, reverse, alter, amend or correct the award, return of
report or proceedings, or return the same to the examiners for
alterations, re-corrections or amendments; provided, however,
that said return or report, after having been altered, modified
or amended as aforesaid, either by the said commissioners 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 by the parties interested to be heard
on such change; and provided, further, that the said commis-
sioners or examiners shall not make any change which requires
the road or right to be condemned to pass through or along or
injuriously affect the property of any person not originally
notified of the proceedings, or whose name did not appear in
such original advertisement, without giving such person at least
five days' notice of such intended change, and an opportunity