740 ARTICLE 3.
be not less than thirty days from the date of such return by the examiners,
and copies of such advertisement shall be served or left upon the prem-
ises of the persons 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 return of said examiners, he, she
or it shall file objections thereto in writing with the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County on or before the date fixed by the notice last
aforesaid for the hearing of such objections; and the said Commission-
ers, on the day so fixed for said hearing, shall proceed to consider the
award, return, plat and proceedings of the examiners and all the pro-
ceedings in the case, and they 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 amend-
ments; provided, however, that said return or report after having been
altered, modified or amended as aforesaid, either by the County Com-
missioners 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 said County Commissioners or examiners shall
not make any change which requires the road petitioned for to pass
through or along the property of any person not originally notified of
the proceedings or whose name did not appear in the original advertise-
ment of the notice of intention to file petition for such road, without
giving such person at least five days' notice of such intended change and
an opportunity to be heard thereon, or unless such person shall waive
such notice. Any person interested may appeal to the Circuit Court for
Baltimore County from the final order of ratification or rejection of such
report or award by the County Commissioners of Baltimore County, the
parties to such appeal to be arranged in the record of proceedings as their
actual interests may require; said appeal to be taken within the time
and subject to the provisions hereinafter contained. If, after the pro-
ceedings aforesaid, it shall be finally determined that a road shall be
opened, altered, relocated or closed as aforesaid then the entire cost there-
of, including a sufficient amount to refund to the depositor the prelim-
inary cost and all damages to be paid persons found to be damaged by
such proposed work, shall be deemed due and payable by the persons or
district funds to whom or which the same was assessed as aforesaid, and
such assessment or award shall be considered a tax and lien upon the
property, real and personal, of the person or corporation assessed to the
same extent and as fully as State and county taxes and subject to the
same limitation as to time; if not paid within thirty days of the final
order of ratification of such award or return, may be collected by the
treasurer of the county by an action of debt or in the same manner as
other taxes are ordinarily collected or by a bill in equity at the instance:
of the treasurer for the enforcement of such lien. When all of such assess-
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