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they may make application to the Highways Commission
in writing, setting forth what portion of said street, avenue
or alley they want macadamized, graveled, shelled, paved or
curbed, and they may designate in said application the nature
and character of the material that they want used for that
purpose; and when the application is presented to the High-
ways Commission, they shall appoint one examiner or threer
examiners, in the manner hereinafter provide^ for, whose
duty it shall be to have such street, avenue or alley, or portion
thereof applied for, macadamized, graveled, shelled, paved or
curbed, in accordance with said application and the provisions
of this sub-title of this article; and before any examiner or
examiners shall proceed to act in the premises, the examiner or
examiners shall take an oath or affirmation before some justice
of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for Baltimore
county, that he or they will well and truly tax and assess
the benefits for macadamizing, graveling, shelling, paving or
curbing, fairly and equitably upon the grounds bounding and
fronting on such street, avenue or alley, or portion thereof,
applied for, and will act in all respects without prejudice or
partiality in said matter; after taking such oath or affirma-
tion, the examiner or examiners shall give at least ten days'
notice in one or more newspapers published in Baltimore
county, and one newspaper of general circulation published in
Baltimore city, that said application has been made; and after
giving such notice the examiner or examiners shall make an
estimate of the probable amount of work to be done and of
the probable cost of same, and an estimate of the probable
cost and expenses of the proceedings in the matter, including
the per diem of the examiner or examiners, and make a state-
ment of the gross amount thereof, and shall cause to be made
a plat of said street, avenue or alley, or part thereof, upon
which the work is to be done, and of the ground bounding and
fronting on the same; and after said statement and plat is
completed, the said examiner or examiners shall tax and assess
the gross amount of the probable cost of the work, and of the
cost and expenses of the proceedings in the matter, fairly and
equitably, on the ground bounding and fronting on such street,
avenue or alley, or portion thereof, on which the work is to
be done, and such tax and assessment shall be a lien on said
property, and shall be collected, deposited, paid out and
disbursed in the same manner as assessments for benefits for
condemning, opening, grading and constructing any street,
avenue or alley, or part thereof, are collected, deposited, paid
out and disbursed; and all proceedings which can be had and
taken -for the condemnation, opening, grading and construc-
tion of any street, avenue or alley, or portion thereof, under