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but that such convenience would be better served by
the adoption of a different location than that men-
tioned in the petition, they shall so determine and
shall cause a survey and plat of the proposed new road
or alteration to be made by a competent surveyor upon
such location or 'route as In their judgment will best
promote the public convenience.

"95 B. Whenever the County Commissioners shall
decide that it is expedient that a road be opened or-
altered. as provided in the preceding 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 required the opening or altering
of said road, If he, she or they be competent to con-
tract ; and in case the raid County Commissioners
shall so contract, they shall cause said survey and plat
to be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for said county, which said survey and plat
shall be referred to in, and shall be n, part of said deed
or deeds ; and the lands so conveyed shall be and be-
come thenceforth the property of the county, in the
same manner and to the seme extent as the lands of
other county roads, and no farther, subject to the
public's right-of-way over the same; and the said
County Commissioners shall also cause such survey
and plat to be filed and recorded in their own office,
with their other proceedings In connection with such
public road.

"95 C. It shall be lawful for the said County Com-
missioners of said county 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 the said
County Commissioners are authorized when the county
roads cannot be conveniently drained by drains along
the said county roads, to make the same upon the
property outside the limits there of; and they shall
contract for the lauds that may be required for that
purpose, as before provided; or they may proceed to
condemn the lands that may be neceesary for the
purpose under the provisions of section two hundred
and forty-eight to two hundred and fifty three, both
inclusive, of Article twenty-three, of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Corporations."