ART. 25] PUBLIC ROADS. 735

1888, art. 25, sec. 84. 1860, art. 28, sec 13. 1853, ch. 220, sec. 2.

88. Whenever any citizen of any county intends to petition
the county commissioners for opening, altering or closing any
road, he shall give thirty days' notice thereof in one or more
of the newspapers published in the county; and if no news-
paper be published in the county he shall give public notice
of such intention by setting up a notice at the court house
door, and at three public places in the election district in
which it is proposed to open, close or alter the road, for at
least thirty days.

Gist v. Owens, 95 Md. 305.

Ibid. sec. 85. 1860, art. 28, sec. 14. 1853, ch. 220, sec. 2.

89. Counter petitions may be presented to the county com-
missioners, and when they are, the county commissioners shall
take into consideration the reasons contained in the counter
petition, and such other testimony as may come before them,
and determine the case as in their opinion shall seem right
and proper.

Ibid.

Ibid, sec 86. 1860, art 28, sec. 15. 1853, ch. 220, sec. 3 1884, ch. 364
90. Whenever the county commissioners shall decide that
it is expedient that a road be opened as provided in the pre-
ceding section they may contract with the owner or owners of
the land through which the said road is intended to run for
the right of way over the land necessary for said road, if he,
she or they be competent to contract; and in case the said
county commissioners shall so contract they shall cause a plat
of the said road to be made by a competent surveyor and filed
and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for
the county in which the deed or deeds conveying the said
lands are required to be recorded, which said plat shall be
referred to in, and shall be a part of said deed or deeds, and
the lands so conveyed shall be and become thenceforth the
property of the county, in the same manner and to the same
extent as other county roads, and no further, subject to the
public rights of way over the same; and it shall be lawful for
the said county commissioners of any county so to contract
for land for a public wharf, drains for county roads or other
public,use or uses, which said land shall be the property of
said county, subject to said use or uses; and whenever the
county commissioners shall deem it expedient that examiners