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feited, and the contractor or his bondsmen shall have no
claim upon the same; and whenever application is made to
the Highways Commission as hereinbefore provided in this
sub-title of this article, it shall be the duty of the Highways
Commission to appoint one examiner or three examiners,
as the applicants may prefer; the one examiner to be chosen
by agreement between the Highways Commission and the
applicants, or in case of non-agreement, to appoint three exami-
ners, two to be chosen by the Highways Commission and
one to be named by the applicants; but no person shall be
appointed as an examiner nor as one of the examiners, who
shall be related to any of the parties making the application,
nor who may be the owner of or be in any way interested in
the ground bounding and fronting on the line of any street,
avenue, alley or proposed thoroughfare for which applica-
tion is made to be condemned, opened, graded and constructed,
or to be widened, opened, graded and constructed, or on the
line of any street or avenue for which application is made for
the extension of the same, or on the line of any street or avenue
for which application is made for the laying off of the same;
and if one examiner be appointed his pay shall be five dollars
per day, and if three examiners be appointed, their pay shall
be four dollars each per day, for every day actually and neces-
sarily engaged in the matter of his or their appointment;
and such examiner or examiners shall keep an accurate item-
ized account of all moneys received and disbursed by him or
them, and shall file an accurate statement of such account,
with vouchers, with the Highways Commissioners at such time
or times as the Highways Commissioners shall require; and
such account shall be subject to the approval and ratification of
the Highways Commission.

395. Whenever any examiner or examiners shall be ap-
pointed by the Highways Commissioners as hereinbefore pro-
vided for in this sub-title of this article, he or they, after
taking the oath required by the provisions of this sub-title of
this article, before proceeding to collect any assessments made
for benefits by him or them, shall file a bond with at least
two sureties in double the amount of the sums of money col-
lectible, being the difference between the damages and the
benefits assessed by him or them, to be approved by the High-
ways Commission, conditioned for the true and faithful
performance of his or their duty as examiner or examiners,
which bond shall be to the State of Maryland, and made to
the benefit of any person or persons aggrieved, injured or
damaged in any manner by the proceedings of said examiner
or examiners.