GARRETT COUNTY. 2741

said town, to appoint three competent and disinterested examiners to lay
out, open, widen, straighten, extend or close any street or alley in said
town, or any proposed street or alley within said town, which, in their
judgment, the public welfare or convenience may require; and before said
examiners proceed to act, they shall qualify in the same manner as exam-
iners appointed by the county commissioners for laying out public roads,
and it shall be the duty of said examiners to give at least thirty days'
public notice in some newspaper published in Garrett county, of the time
and place when they propose to act in the premises, and to embrace in said
notice the names of the owners of property who are likely to be affected
by their proceedings, so far as may be known to them, they shall then
proceed to lay out, open, widen, straighten, extend or close any such street
or alley as they may determine is proper, in accordance with said applica-
tion; they shall then, within the period of sixty days from the comple-
tion of their work make a report of their proceedings, giving width of any
such street or alley to said mayor and common council, together with a
plot of said street or alley, and in their report they shall give their rea-
sons as to whether the public welfare or convenience requires the same or
not, and the amount of damages, if any, that shall be awarded to the par-
ties whose property or rights are affected thereby; and provided, further,
that it shall be the duty of said mayor and common council to cause a copy
of said report and plat to be retained and recorded among the proceedings
of said corporation, and said original report shall be forthwith sent to
the clerk of the circuit court for Garrett county, to be by him recorded
among the land records of said county, after confirmation by said mayor
and common council, as hereinafter provided; and they shall have the
right to confirm or reject the same at any time after sixty days from the
filing of said report; provided, further, that said mayor and common
council shall have power to assess either generally on the whole assessable
property in said town, or specially on the property of the persons bene-
fited, the whole or any part of the damages and expenses which will be
incurred in laying out, opening, widening, straightening, extending or
closing of any such street or alley, or grading the same, which grading
they shall have the right to do in their discretion, and they shall have
power to provide for collecting and paying for any such compensation or
expenses; and provided, further, that the compensation of said examiners,
or any two of them who shall see proper to act, shall be at the rate of
three dollars per day for their services, and they shall also have the right
to employ a surveyor, whose compensation shall be at the rate of four dol-
lars per day, which said expenses shall be assessed with the other expenses
of said proceedings, in the discretion of said mayor and common council.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12, sec, 82. 1886, ch. 201. 1888, ch. 7. 1890, ch. 621, sec. 82.

140. If any person shall feel aggrieved by the decision of said mayor

and common council, upon the report of said examiners, he or they may

appeal therefrom at any time within sixty days after said report shall

have been filed and ratified, or rejected by said mayor and common coun-