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"95 D. Whenever the County Commissioners, after
having determined that the public convenience re-
quires the opening, altering or closing of a public
road, and after having determined upon the location
which, in their opinion will best promote the public
.convenience, shall fail for any cause to contact with
the owner or owners of the lands necessary for each
road, or if such owner or owners is or are non compos
ments or under age, they shall appoint three person
as examiners, who shall be freeholders in the county,
and not interested in or holding lands through which
the road is proposed to be opened or altered, to ap-
praise the damages which the owner or owners.of the
lands required for said road will sustain by the open-
ing altering or closing of the same; but the appoint-
ment of examiners shall not prevent the said County
Commissioners at any time thereafter from contract-
ing with the owner as before provided.

"95 E The said examiners, before they proceed to
act as such, shall take an oath to execute the trusi.
reposed in them by the commission to them .issued
faithfully and without favor, affection or partiality;
which oath shall be endorsed on the commission and
returned therewith; ajnd after taking such oath, the
or a majority of them, after giving thirty days notice
to the owner or owners of the lands through which,
such proposed road is to run, in the manner prescribe
in section eighty four, of Article 25, of the Code of
Public General Laws of the State of Maryland. shall
any order or determination of the pounty Commis-

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