956 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said County Commissioners as a part of their return, and the
said County Commissioners shall thereupon cause notice to be
given to all persons assessed of their respective assessments for
damages and benefits so returned by the examiners, by publica-
tion in one or more of the newspapers published in Montgom-
ery county once a wek for two successive weeks, and of the date
on which objections to such returns and award will be heard
by the said County Commissioners, the date of such hearing to
be not less than twenty days from the date of such return by
the examiners, and copies of such advertisement shall be served
personally where practicable, or left upon the premises of the
persons so assessed.

If any person or body corporate or taxpayer of any district
interested in the opening, altering, relocating or closing of any
road, as aforesaid, or the condemnation of any such property
or property right, shall feel aggrieved by the award, report or
return of said examiners, he, she or it shall file objections
thereto in writing with the said County Commissioners on or
before the date fixed by the notice last aforesaid for the hear-
ing of such objections, and the said Commissioners, on the day
so fixed for said hearing, shall proceed to consider the award,
return and proceedings of the examiners, and all the proceed-
ings in the case, and they may modify or confirm, reject, re-
verse, alter, amend or correct the award, return of report or
proceedings, or return the same to the examiners for altera-
tions, recorrections or amendments; provided, however, that
said return or report, after having been altered, modified or
amended as aforesaid, either by the said Commissioners or ex-
aminers, shall not be finally ratified and confirmed until after
the expiration of ten days from the date of such change, and
an opportunity given by the parties interested to be heard on
such change; and provided, further, that the said Commission-
ers or examiners shall not make any change which requires the
road or right to be condemned to pass through or along or
injuriously affect the property of any person not originally no-
tified of the proceedings, or whose name did not appear in such
original, advertisement, without giving such person at least
five days' notice of such intended change, and an opportunity
to be heard thereon, or unless such person shall waive such
notice. Any person interested may appeal to the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County from the final order of ratification or
rejection of such report or award by the said County Commis-
sioners, the parties to such appeal to be arranged in the record
of proceedings as their actual interest may require, said appeal
to be taken within the time and subject to the provisions here-
inafter contained. If after any of the proceedings aforesaid it
shall be finally determined that private or corporate property