BALTIMORE COUNTY. 739

or a majority of them, shall meet on the premises and proceed to examine
and determine whether the public convenience requires that the road
should be opened, altered, relocated or closed, as the case may be; and
said examiners shall have power to adjourn and meet again from time to
time as their duties in the premises may require. If the application be
for opening, altering or relocating a road and if the said examiners shall
determine that the public convenience requires that such road should be
opened, altered or relocated they shall proceed to locate the same in sitch
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 application is to alter or relocate a road, to be
made out by the county surveyor under the direction of the Roads Engi-
neer, and shall return the same, together with a full report of their pro-
ceedings under their hands, to the County Commissioners of Baltimore
County, with the reasons on which their opinions are founded; said exam-
iners 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 days' notice of such intended change and an oppor-
tunity to be heard, or unless such person waives such notice. If the appli-
cation be for the closing of a road or portion of a road and the examiners
shall determine that it is expedient that such road be closed, they shall,
return 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 afore-
said, 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 interested and the district, re-
spectively, in such proportions as they shall deem just and proper, includ-
ing in such assessments and estimate 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 a portion of a road be closed
they shall likewise make an estimate of the damages and assess the bene-
fits occasioned thereby. The examiners shall return such estimate and
assessment to the County Commissioners of Baltimore County as a part
of their return and the said County Commissioners shall thereupon cause
notice to be given to all persons asssessed of their respective assessments
so returned by the examiners by publication in one or more of the news-
papers published in Baltimore County once a week for two successive
weeks and of the date on which objections to such return and award will
be heard by the said County Commissioners, the date of such hearing to