248 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

ment, plat and profile, by the county commissioners, or by the
decision and order of the circuit court, as the case may be, the
said examiner or examiners shall at such time as he or they may
deem advisable, advertise for proposals for opening, grading and
constructing such street, avenue or alley, or portion thereof ap-
plied for, by publication once a week in one or more newspapers
published in Baltimore county, and twice a week in one or more
newspapers of general circulation published in Baltimore city, for
two successive weeks; and after examining such proposals, said
examiner or examiners shall, at such time as may be deemed
proper to do so, award the contract to the lowest responsible bid-
der, and upon such terms and conditions as may be deemed
proper and judicious; and the said examiner or examiners are
hereby empowered to take and receive a bond of any contractor,
with a penalty to the county commissioners, for the prompt and
faithful performance of the work to be done, and of the contract
entered into.

1876, ch. 399.

227. Whenever it shall be necessary in order to effect the
object proposed, that a house or improvement of any kind, or any
part thereof, should be taken, used, destroyed or removed, the
examiner or examiners shall examine the matter, and if in their
opinion it should be practicable to remove such house or improve-
ment to any other part of the grounds of the owner thereof, and
to put the same in as good condition and repair as it was in before
such removal, the said examiner or examiners shall make an esti-
mate of the probable cost of such removal and repairs, and if
the owner should agree in writing to such removal and repairs,
then the cost of such removal and repairs shall be paid out of the
benefits assessed, and the payment of the cost for such removal
and repairs shall be recognized and taken in lieu of, and as a full
payment and discharge for any damages for such house or im-
provement ; but if it should not be deemed practicable by the
examiner or examiners to remove and repair such house or im-
provement, or if the owner thereof should not agree in writing
to such removal, then damages should be assessed and awarded
for the whole of such house or improvement, and when the bene-
fits assessed shall be credited with the damages awarded, or the
damages awarded shall be credited with the benefits assessed and