ART. 3. ] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 501

said plat and explanations are completed, shall return and file
the same with the Highways Commission; and said examiner or
examiners shall, within ten days after such return and filing,
give notice in at least one newspaper published in Baltimore
county, and one newspaper of general circulation published in
Baltimore city, once a week for three successive weeks, that
said plat with explanations has been filed in the office of the
Highways Commission, and if no objections are filed to said
plat and return within thirty days after the first day of pub-
lication of said notice, it shall be the duty of the Highways
Commission to ratify and confirm the same, but if objections
shall be filed within the time specified, the County Commis-
sioners are authorized and directed to hear and determine said
objections, and they may change the location of such street or
avenue as in their judgment shall seem right and proper; and
if they should make alteration, they shall have said street or
avenue as changed remarked with so many and such durable
landmarks as they may think necessary, and cause the plat filed
to be altered, or a new plat to be made, so as to show such alter-
ation and change; and any person or persons who may be in-
terested, may appeal from the decision or order of the High-
ways Commission to the Circuit Court for Baltimore county
at any time within thirty days after the time of such decision
and order of ratification and confirmation; and whenever it
may be desirable to have any street or avenue laid off in any
portion of the territory of Baltimore county, within two miles
of the limits of Baltimore city, and in which streets and ave-
nues have not been already laid off, the owners of a majority of
front feet of ground bounding and fronting on the line of such
proposed street or avenue, may make application to the High-
ways Commission in writing, setting forth as near as prac-
ticable the location and line, and the beginning and termination
of such proposed street or avenue; and when the application is
presented, the Highways Commission shall appoint one ex-
aminer or three examiners, in the manner hereafter provided
for, whose duty it shall be to lay off such street or avenue in
accordance with such application and the provisions of this
sub-title of this article; but such street or avenue shall be laid
off in conformity with the streets and avenues of Baltimore
city, and with the streets and avenues already laid off in Balti-
more county, so far as practicable, and such other and further
proceedings shall be had and taken in the matter of laying off
such street or avenue as is provided in the this section for the
extension of any street or avenue; all charges and expenses in-
curred in any proceedings under this section, shall be taxed pro-
portionately upon the persons making application, according to
the number of front feet of ground represented in said applica-