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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

Lawful to con-

over the same, and it shall be lawful for the said

tract.

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 should be appointed

to view the grounds for the purpose of opening,

Appoint exami-
ners.

altering or closing a road, they shall appoint three
persons 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, altered or

closed, but the appointment of examiners shall not

prevent the said county commissioners, at any time

thereafter, from contracting with the owner or owners

as above provided, and the county commissioners of

any county are authorized, when the county roads

cannot be conveniently drained by drains along the

said county roads, to make the same upon the property
out-side the limits thereof, and they shall contract for

the lands that may be required for that purpose as

Proceed to con-
demn.

above provided, or they may proceed to condemn the

lands that may be necessary for the purpose under the

act of assembly of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,

chapter four hundred and seventy-one, from section

one hundred and seventy to one hundred and seventy-

five, inclusive, relating to the condemnation of

property by corporations.

Approved April 8, 1884.