ART. 3.] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 505

be taken within the time designated, or if the appeal or appeals
should be dismissed, it shall be the duty of the Highways Com-
missioners to ratify and confirm the statement, plat and profile
as returned and deposited by the said examiner or examiners;
and after the ratification and confirmation of such statement,
plat and profile by the Highways Commissioners, or by the deci-
sion and order of the Circuit Court, as the case may be, the
said examiner or examiners shall at such time as he or they
may deem advisable, advertise for proposals for opening, grad-
ing and constructing such street, avenue or alley, or portion
thereof applied for, by publication once a week in one or more
newspapers published in Baltimore county, and twice a week in
one or more newspapers of general circulation, published in
Baltimore city, for two successive weeks; and after examining
such proposals said examiner or examiners shall, at such time
as may be deemed proper to do so, award the contract to the
lowest responsible bidder, and upon such terms and conditions
as may be deemed proper and judicious; and the said examiner
or examiners are hereby empowered to take and receive a bond
of any contractor, with a penalty to the Highways Commis-
sioners, for the prompt and faithful performance of the work to
be done, and of the contract entered into.

388. Whenever it shall be necessary in order to effect the
object proposed, that a house or improvement of any kind, or
any part thereof, should be taken, used, destroyed or removed,
the examiner or examiners shall examine the matter, and if in
their opinion it should be practicable to remove such house or
improvement to any other part of the grounds of the owner
thereof, and to put the same in as good condition and repair as
it was in before such removal, the said examiner or examiners
shall make an estimate of the probable cost of such removal and
repairs, and if the owner should agree in writmg to such re-
moval and repairs, then the cost of such removal and repairs
shall be paid out of the benefits assessed, and the payment of
the cost for such removal and repairs shall be recognized and
taken in lieu of, and as a full payment and discharge for any
damages to such house or improvement; but if it should be
deemed practicable by the examiner or examiners to remove and
repair such house or improvement, or if the owner thereof
should not agree in writing to such removal, then damages
should be assessed and awarded for the whole of said house or
improvement, and when the benefits assessed shall be credited
with the damages awarded, or the damages awarded shall be
credited with the benefits assessed and paid, as provided for by
the succeeding section, and the proceeding of the examiner or
examiners shall be fully ratified and confirmed as provided for
by this sub-title of this article, the examiner or examiners, after