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COUNTIES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 22.

to determine by
whom damages
to be paid

tioning for the road or levied on the county, or may direct that the
same be paid by the petitioners and the county, in such proportion
as they may deem just.

Id s 24
185 j, c 220, s 9
Damages, to
whom to be
paid

29. The damages shall in all cases be paid to the respective,
parties or their guardians, agents or attorneys, before the road shall
be opened, and in case of the death of any of the parties concerned
after the valuation made by the examiners, or a majority of them,
the damages finally adjudged to him or them shall be paid to his or
their executors.

Id s 25
1853, c 220, s 9
Signing petition
for road, not to
render liable for
damages

30. The signing any petition presented to the county commis-
sioners for opening, altering or changing a public road, shall not
make any petitioner liable for the payment of the damages adjudged
by the county commissioners, or any part thereof, but the commis-
sioners may in their discretion give judgment against the petitioners

Costs

for the costs incurred by any person defending against the claim of
the petitioners, where the case shall be decided in favor of such de-
fendant.

Id s 26
1853, c 220, s 6
Proceedings of,
commissioners
on return

31. If no objection be made to the return of the examiners at
the meeting of the county commissioners next succeeding the meet-
ing at which said return shall be made, the county commissioners
may proceed to pass judgment thereon, and affirm or reject the same
or order it to be amended, in their discretion, or may continue over
the proceedings to their next meeting, and so on from time to time,
so long as they may think proper.

Id s 27
1853, c 220, s 12
Pay of
examiners

32. The examiners shall be entitled to a compensation for their
services and attendance not exceeding two dollars a day, to be as-
certained by the county commissioners, which, with all charges
arising from the survey or attendance of witnesses or other ex-
penses, shall in the discretion of the county commissioners be paid
by the petitioners, or levied, collected, and paid by the county, or
apportioned between the petitioners and the county as heretofore
directed.

Id s 28
1853, c 220, s 10
Commissioners
to levy for
expense and
damages

33. In all cases where the county commissioners shall adjudge
that a road be opened or altered, they shall at the usual time for
levying taxes, levy on the assessable property of the county a sum
sufficient to open or alter said road, and also sufficient to pa}' the
damages awarded, if it shall have been adjudged that the damages
be paid by the county, or such, proportion of the said sums as shall
have been adjudged to be paid by the county, and it shall be the
duty of the county commissioners to open or alter the road as soon
as it can conveniently be done.

PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO CALVERT, PRINCE GEORGE'S,
SOMERSET, TALBOT, AND WORCESTER COUNTIES.

1888, c 299, s 2.
Road districts
36 Md. 229

34. The county commissioners of the several counties shall have
the power to subdivide each or any of the election districts of their
respective counties into road districts, and to appoint a supervisor
for each of the said road districts.