770 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 319

are, the County Commissioners shall take into consideration the
reasons contained in the counter petition and such other testi-
mony as may be given before them, and determine the case as
in their opinion shall seem proper. All applications for open-
ing roads herein mentioned shall be by petition to the County
Commissioners.

Section 206B. Whenever the County Commissioners shall
decide that it is expedient that a road be opened as provided in
the preceding section they may contract with the owner or
owners of the land through which said road is intended to run
for the right of way over the land necessary for said road, if
the said owners thereof be competent to contract, and the said
County Commissioners shall obtain a deed therefor, and the
same shall thenceforth be the property of the county, in the
same manner, to the same extent as other county roads and no
further, subject to the public right of way over the same. And
whenever the County Commissioners shall deem it expedient
that examiners shall be appointed to view the ground for the
purpose of opening such roads they shall appoint three persons
as examiners who shall be freeholders of the county and not
interested in or holding lands through which the said road is
proposed to be opened, or they may proceed to condemn the
land which may be necessary for the purpose under the pro-
visions of Sections 339 to 404, both inclusive, of Art. 23 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland.

Section 206C. The said examiners before they proceed to
act as such, shall take an oath to execute the trust reposed in
them under the Commission executed by the said County Com-
missioners to them, faithfully and without favor, affection or
partiality, which said oath shall be endorsed on the commis-
sion and returned therewith.

Section 206D. The said examiners or a majority of them
after giving thirty days' notice shall in the same manner
as prescribed by Sections 94, 95, 96 and 98 of Art. 25 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland proceed to exam-
ine and determine whether the public convenience requires
that the said road shall be so opened.

Section 206E. All roads so opened under the provisions of
this chapter shall be at least twenty feet wide and when
ojfened and sufficiently cleared shall be public roads.

Section 206F. If no objection be made to the return of the
examiners at the meeting of the County Commissioners next
succeeding the meeting at which said return shall be made,