FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

895

CHAPTER 679.

AN ACT to repeal sectiou two hundred and one of chapter

forty-nine of an act passed at January session, 1892,

entitled "An act to repeal sections 182 to 217 inclusive,

of article 3 of Public Local Laws, title ' Baltimore County,'

sub-title 'Roads,'" and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments as follows :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Amend-

Maryland, That section two hundred and one of chapter

ment.

forty -nine, of an act passed at the present session and ap-

proved March 4th, 1892, be repealed and re-enacted with

amendments as follows :

SEC. 201. And be it enacted, That section eighty -three to

ninety-two inclusive, of article twenty-five of Code of Public ,

Bridges
and roads.

Local Laws on the subject of bridges and opening, altering

and closing public roads be and the same are hereby declared

to be in force iu Baltimore County with the additions and

amendments following:

201 A. And be it enacted, Whenever any road shall

be located and surveyed as a public road, the board of

examiners shall make an estimate of the cost of said

Estimate
of

road, and shall assess the damages and benefits of

lamages.

the same upon the individuals interested, and the dis-

trict, respectively, in such proportions as they may deem

just and proper, and shall furnish to the county commis-

sioners a report of such assessment ; and if any person or

body corporate, or district, shall feel aggrieved by the award,

report, return or proceedings of said board of examiners,

he or it, within thirty days after said report is filed in the

office of the county commissioners, shall file his or its objec-

tions, in writing ; and the county commissioners, after five

days' notice to each side interested, or as soon thereafter as

practicable, shall proceed to consider the award, return,

report, plat and proceedings of said examiners, and all the

proceedings in said case; and they may ratify and confirm,

reject, reverse, alter, amen dr correct, award, return, report

plat and proceedings, iu said case or may, in their discre-

tion send back to said examiners the award, return, report,

plat and proceedings, for alteration, correction or amend-

ment; and any person interested in said proceedings may

appeal from the final 6rder of ratification or rejection of the

county commissioners of said county to the Circuit Court ;

provided, said appeal is taken within thirty days from the

passage of said final order of ratification or rejection ; and

provided further, that the cost of the record in case of