488 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

newspaper or newspapers published in Baltimore county, and
by causing a copy of the same to be delivered to every owner
through or along whose property the proposed road passes
when the petition involves the closing of a road, or through or
along whose property the proposed road will pass when the
petition involves the opening or change of a road, or be pub-
licly posted on said property in case the owner cannot be found
at least five days before the day of meeting, and in case the
owner be an infant or non compos mentis, then a copy of said
notice shall be left with the parent or guardian of said infant
or with the committee or person having charge of the person
alleged to be non compos mentis. At the time appointed the ex-
aminers or a majority of them shall meet on the premises and
proceed to examine and determine whether the public conveni-
ence requires that the road should be opened, altered, relocated
or closed, as the case may be; and said examiners shall have
power to adjourn and meet again from time to time as their
duties in the premises may require. If the application be for
opening, altering or relocating a road, and if the said examiners
shall determine that the public convenience requires that such
road should be opened, altered or relocated, they shall proceed
to locate the same in such manner as will, in their judgment,
best promote the public convenience, and shall cause a plat of
the same as so located and of the location of the old road when
the application is to alter or relocate a road, to be made out by
the County Surveyor under the direction of the Roads Engi-
neer, and shall return the same, together with a full report of
their proceedings under their hands, to the Highways Commis-
sion, with the reasons on which their opinions are founded;
said examiners shall have power to change the location of any
road petitioned for, and to change either of the termini thereof
as advertised, if they consider that the public convenience
would be best promoted by the making of such damages, but
shall not make any such change which requires said road to
pass through or along the property of any person not originally
notified or whose name did not appear in the original advertise-
ment of the notice of intention to file a petition as aforesaid,
without giving such person at least five days' notice of such in-
tended change and an opportunity to be heard, or unless such
person waives such notice. If the application be for the clos-
ing of a road or portion of a road, and the examiners shall
determine that it is expedient that such road be closed, they
shall return with their report a description and plat of the road
or portion of the road so recommended to be closed. If said ex-
aminers decide that it is expedient that such road shall be
opened, altered or relocated as aforesaid, they shall make an
estimate of the cost of making such road or alteration, includ-