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PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 773

said County Commissioners shall cause a description and plat
of said road to be made and recorded or filed among their rec-
ords, and thereafter such road so declared to be a public high-
way shall be kept in good order and repair as other County
roads.

353. Whenever any doubt exists as to the proper
location or width of a County road, the said County
Commissioners may cause the same to be surveyed by
the County Surveyor, and a description and plat made thereof
and recorded or filed among their records, which said de-
scription and plat shall be deemed official and prima facie
correct by said County Commissioners and in the Courts of
this State until and unless the contrary is proven. Whenever
possible, such description shall be made by reference to the
original description of said road when the same was acquired by
grant or condemnation, if such description can be found, but if
the same cannot be found then such description and plat shall
be made of said road as actually laid out and existing.

354. All applications for opening, altering, relocating or
closing roads shall be by petition to the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County, and whenever any
freeholder of the County shall desire to have opened a
new road for the public benefit or an old one altered, relo-
cated or closed, he shall give notice of his intention to apply
therefor by publication in one or more of the County news-
papers for three successive weeks, setting forth as near as
may be the length, location and termini thereof, the names
of the abutting property owners, and the date on which
he will appear before the said County Commissioners
and ask for the order on such petition. In addition to such
notice by publication he shall cause a copy of said advertise-
ment to be served upon such abutting property owners where
personal service is practicable, and where not practicable to
be left on the premises with the person in charge thereof.
Within ten days after the last publication of such notice
he shall file his petition with the County Commissioners,
together with a certificate of publication of the notice
aforesaid, and a certificate of the person serving such
notices as to the service of the same. Counter petitions
or objections to the opening, altering or closing of such road
may be filed by any one interested at any time before the
date fixed for the hearing on such petition, and whether
there be objections or not to the granting of such pe-