ART. 3.] STREETS. 243
iner or examiners, shall cause said street or avenue to be laid off
and extended, and properly marked with so many and such dura-
ble landmarks as the examiner or examiners may think necessary,
and cause to be made a plat of the extension of said street or
avenue, with proper explanations; and when said plat and explan-
ations are completed, shall return and file the same with the
county commissioners; and said examiner or examiners shall,
within ten days after such return and filing, give notice in at least
one newspaper published in Baltimore county, and one newspaper
of general circulation published in Baltimore city, once a week
for three successive weeks, that said plat with explanations has
been filed in the office of the county commissioners, and if no
objections are filed to said plat and return within thirty days
after the first day of publication of said 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
determine 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 any alteration, they shall have
said street or avenues as changed re-marked with so many and
such durable land marks 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 the 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 avenue, may make application to the county commissioners 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 com-
missioners shall appoint one examiner or three examiners, in the
manner hereafter provided for, whose duty it shall be to lay off
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