HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

the violation of any by-law; to open and close
streets, roads, lanes and alleys, and establish
foot-ways, and for these purposes the said
Commissioners may appoint three persons as
examiners, who shall be freeholders in said

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town not interested in or holding any lands
through which any streets, lane, alley or foot-
way is to be opened, altered, closed or estab-
lished; and the said examiners shall be quali-
fied and proceed in all respects in the same
manner as is provided in the sixteenth, seven-
teenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twenty-
second sections of article twenty-eight of the
Code of Public General Laws, in regard to
the opening, altering and closing of roads, so
far as the same may be applicable, excepting
that the returns of said examiners shall be
made to and ratified or rejected by the Com-
missioners of said town, instead of the Com-
missioners for said county; and in case said
Commissioners of Catonsville shall order the
return made by said examiners, or a majority
of them, to be ratified and confirmed, the said
Commissioners of Catonsville shall pay the
said damages to the respective parties, or their
executors or administrators, or their guardians,
agents or attoneys before the said street, road,

Examiners.

lane or alley shall be opened, altered, closed
or established; and any person aggrieved by
said decision, may at any time within sixty
days, appeal to the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county, which shall hear and determine the
same as in appeals from County Commis-
sioners; to grade, gravel, pave or macadamize
any of the streets, roads, lanes or alleys in
said town, and to regrade, repave or repair
the same, and the entire expense of paving
and repaving any of the streets, roads, lanes
and alleys of said town shall be paid out of
the general treasury, and be provided for in the
general levy of said town, and shall not be
specially assessed upon the owners of property
abutting thereon; and also to grade, regrade,
gravel, pave, curb or repair any of the foot-
ways in the said town, and shall assess the

Appeal.