760 ARTICLE 3.

ground bounding and fronting thereon should desire the same to be opened,
graded and constructed of a less width they may set forth that fact in
their application to the County Commissioners and designate the width
which they may desire the same to be opened, graded and constructed, but
the roadbed of any street or avenue, or part thereof, shall not be less than
thirty feet in width at any point, except where it may connect with bridges
and culverts of a less width; and after any street or avenue, or part thereof,
shall have been condemned of the full width and opened, graded and con-
structed of a less width than condemned and the owners of a majority of
front feet of ground bounding and fronting on such street or avenue, or
any portion thereof, shall desire to widen, open, grade and construct the
same of the full width as condemned, they may make application to the
County Commissioners in writing, setting forth the fact and designating
the street or avenue, or portion of the same, which they may desire to be
widened, opened, graded and constructed; and when said application is
presented the County Commissioners shall appoint one examiner or three
examiners in the manner hereinafter provided for, whose duty it shall be
to widen, open, grade and construct said street or avenue, or portion
thereof, in accordance with said application and the provisions of this
subtitle of this Article; and all proceedings which can be had and taken
for the condemnation, opening, grading and construction of any street or
avenue, or portion thereof, under the provisions of this subtitle of this
Article, can and shall be had and taken, so far as the same may be prac-
ticable, for the widening, opening, grading and construction of such street
or avenue, or any portion thereof.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 3, sec. 231. 1876, ch. 399. 1914, ch. 517. B. Co. C. (1908),
sec. 392. 1916, sec. 535. 1928, sec. 631.

631. Whenever the owners of a majority of front feet of ground
bounding and fronting on any street, avenue or alley, or part thereof,
which may be condemned, opened, graded and constructed under the pro-
visions of this subtitle of this Article or which may have been heretofore
condemned, opened, graded and constructed according to law, may desire
to have the same macadamized, graveled, shelled, paved or curbed, they
may make application to the County Commissioners in writing, setting
forth what portion of said street, avenue or alley they want macadamized,
graveled, shelled, paved or curbed, and they may designate in said appli-
cation the nature and character of the material that they want used for
that purpose; and when the application is presented to the County Com-
missioners they shall appoint one examiner or three examiners in the
manner hereinafter provided for, whose duty it shall be to have such
street, avenue or alley, or portion thereof applied for, macadamized, grav-
eled, shelled, paved or curbed in accordance with said application and the
provisions of this subtitle of this Article; and before any examiner or
examiners shall proceed to act in the premises the examiner or examiners
shall take an oath or affirmation before some justice of the peace of the
State of Maryland, in and for Baltimore County, that he or they will
well and truly tax and assess the benefits for macadamizing, graveling,