752 ARTICLE 3.

notice it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to ratify and
confirm the same, but if objections shall be filed within the time specified
the County Commissioners are authorized and directed to hear and deter-
mine said objections, and they may change the location of such street or
avenue as in their judgment shall seem right and proper; and if they
should make alteration, they shall have said street or avenue, as changed,
remarked with so many and such durable landmarks as they may think
necessary, and cause the plat filed to be altered, or a new plat to be made,
so as to show such alteration and change, and any person or persons who
may be interested may appeal from the decision or order of the County
Commissioners to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County at any time
within thirty days after time of such decision and order of ratification and
confirmation; and whenever it may be desirable to have any street or
avenue laid off in any portion of the territory of Baltimore County within
two miles of the limits of Baltimore City and in which streets and avenues
have not been already laid off, the owners of a majority of front feet of
ground bounding and fronting on the line of such proposed street or ave-
nue may make application to the County Commissioners of Baltimore
County, in writing, setting forth as near as practicable the location and
line and the beginning and termination of such proposed street or avenue,
and when the application is presented the County Commissioners shall
appoint one examiner or three examiners in the manner hereafter provided
for, whose duty it shall be to lay off such street or avenue in accordance
with such application and the provisions of this subtitle of this Article;
but such street or avenue shall be laid off in conformity with the streets
and avenues of Baltimore City and with the streets and avenues already
laid off in Baltimore County, so far as practicable, and such other and
further proceedings shall be had and taken in the matter of laying off
such street or avenue as is provided in this section for the extension of
any street or avenue. All charges and expenses incurred in any proceed-
ings under this section shall be taxed proportionately upon the persons
making the application, according to the number of front feet of ground
represented in said application; and the amount of such charges and ex-
penses shall be paid to the examiner or examiners before the plat of the
street or avenue, with proper explanations, is returned and filed with the
County Commissioners; provided, that in case of an appeal to the Circuit
Court, the court may determine whether the costs of the appeal shall be
paid by the appellant or appellee.

P. L. L. (1888). Art. 3, sec. 226. 1876, ch. 299. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 387.
1914, ch. 517. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 530. 1928, see. 626.

626. Whenever the owners of s majority of front feet of ground bound-
ing and fronting on any street, avenue or alley, or any part thereof, re-
ferred to in the preceding section of this subtitle of this Article, may
desire to have said street, avenue or alley, or part thereof, condemned,
opened, graded and constructed, they may make application to the County
Commissioners, in writing, setting forth what proportion of said street,