ART. 3. ] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 487

the same time said Commission shall cause a duplicate descrip-
tion and plat to be prepared and recorded or filed among it!
records. And if the petition be for the closing of a road or por-
tion thereof, or for the relocation or alteration of a road which
will result in a closing of a portion of the same as formerly ex-
isting, and no objection be made thereto after notice by adver-
tisement as aforesaid, or if objection be made and overruled as
aforesaid, and no appeal be taken as hereinafter provided, or if
such an appeal be taken and dismissed, the action of said Com-
mission in directing said road or portion thereof to be closed
shall be final and forever preclude all persons affected thereby
from claiming compensation or suing the Commission therefor.
If on any such petition for opening, altering, relocating or
closing any road as aforesaid, the Commission shall determine
that it is expedient that examiners shall be appointed for the
purpose of viewing the grounds and assessing the benefits and
damages arising therefrom, it shall be the duty of the Commission
first to determine the amount of money to be deposited to cover
the cost of such examination, including advertising, per diem of
examiners, which shall be two dollars and fifty cents per day for
each examiner, except the Roads Engineer, who shall serve
as such without further compensation, surveys and platting
and all other expenses; and to require that the same be de-
posited with the treasurer of the county before further steps are
taken. Upon such deposit being made the Commission shall ap-
point three examiners, one of whom shall be the Roads Engi-
neer, one a resident of the district in which the proposed road
is located and who does not own property on the lines of the
same and is not directly affected thereby or interested therein
except as a resident of such district, and the third a disinter-
ested freeholder of the county, to go upon the grounds, examine
into the public need for the opening, altering, relocating or clos-
ing of the road as aforesaid, determine the probable cost thereof
and the names of the property owners who will be benefited or
damaged thereby, and the amount to which each will be so bene-
fited or damaged, and the amount which the district fund
should contribute; provided, that the total net assessments for
benefits imposed upon the petitioners for such road shall in no
event be less than twenty-five per cent, of the whole cost thereof,
including the cost of the proceedings. The examiners so ap-
pointed before they proceed to act as such shall take an oath to
execute the trust reposed in them faithfully and without favor,
affection or partiality, which oath shall be endorsed on the order
of appointment and returned therewith. Said examiners or a
majority of them shall give notice of the time and place of meet-
ing by personal notice to the petitioners, and by publishing a
notice of the same once a week for two successive weeks in some