242 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

established shall be conformed to in the grading and construction
of the same; and whenever the grade has not been established of
any street, avenue or alley, or such part thereof as may be applied
for to be condemned, opened, graded and constructed, it shall be
the duty of the examiner or of the examiners, to have the grade
established on such street, avenue or alley, or portion thereof,
and the same shall be graded and constructed in accordance with
such grade; and in establishing any grade, the location of the
streets, avenues or alleys already laid off and adjacent thereto,
and the general topography of the surrounding grounds must be
taken into consideration.

1876, ch. 399.

225. Whenever it may be desirable to have any street or
avenue, which may have been already laid off, extended beyond
its present terminus, the owners of a majority of front feet of
ground, bounding and fronting on any portion of said street or
avenue, as laid off, and including the line of the proposed exten-
sion, may make application to the county commissioners, in writ-
ing, setting forth the street or avenue that they desire to have
extended, and the line, approximate distance, and point of termin-
ation of such proposed extension; 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 lay off and extend said streets or avenue in
accordance with said application, and the provisions of this sub-
title of this article; but said street or avenue shall be laid off and
extended 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 before any examiner or exam-
iners shall proceed to act in the premises, he or they shall take
an oath or affirmation before some justice of the peace of the
State, in and for Baltimore county, that he or they will well and
truly lay off and extend the said street or avenue, and will, in all
respects, act without prejudice or partiality in the matter; and
after having made such oath or affirmation, the examiner or exam-
iners, shall give at least ten days' notice, by publication in one or
more newspapers published in Baltimore county, and one news-
paper of general circulation, published in Baltimore city, that said
application has been made; and after such notice the said exam-