ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIREE, GOVERNOR.

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interested tax-payers of the district or districts through which

the road is to be laid out, altered or closed, directing them to

meet upon the premises at the time appointed in said notice, and

after making examination to determine if the public convenience

requires the granting of such application; and if the examiners

so appointed, or a majority of them, shall determine that the

public convenience requires the granting of such application,

they shall employ a competent surveyor who shall under their

direction, survey said road and make a plat of the land.

SEC. 203. That when no objection shall have been filed within

the time hereinbefore designated, or if objection shall have been

filed and the road petitioned for confirmed by the county commis-

sioners of said county, or if in case of appeal the order of the

comity commissioners is affirmed by the circuit court for said

county, the county commissioners shall record, or cause to be re-

corded, such, road as a public road of Baltimore county, and the

award, if for damages, shall be paid by the county commissioners

To pay

to the person or persons or body corporate entitled to receive the

same within ninety days from the ratification of said award ar,d

report, and the award, if for benefits, shall be considered a tax

and lieu upon the property assessed, and shall be paid to the

county commissioners or the treasurer of said county, upon the

order of said commissioners within sixty days from the time the

award and report are finally ratified and confirmed as aforesaid,

if not then paid shall be collected as other taxes are collected ;

provided, thirty days' notice is given to the owner or owners of

the property taken for such road or to his, her or its agent or at-

torney, or left upon the premises in case the owner is unknown ;

Pro rata.

provided, that in case the damages allowed by said examiners to

any person or persons or body corporate shall be increased cither

by order of the county commissioners of said county, or by the

circuit court for said county upon an appeal from the decision of

said county commissioners, or in case the amount of benefits as-

sossed against any person or persons or body corporate by said ex-

aminers be decreased either by order of the county commissioners

or by the decision of the circuit court for Baltimore county upon

appeal from the county commissioners, then the parties petitioning

for said road shall pay pro rata according to their assessments,

the deficit caused by said increase of damages or decrease of said

benefits, the same to be collected the same as are assessments for

benefits as hereinbefore provided; and, provided further, that no

work shall be done on any road so ratified and confirmed until all

the assessments for the construction of said road shall have been

Sealed

paid, or in the event of a reduction of any assessment for benefits

proposals

or increase of any damages upon appeal or otherwise as above

provided, until the amount of the deficit thereby caused shall have

been made up and paid by the petitioners; the county commis-

sioners of said county shall then advertise for sealed proposals for