774 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tition, the said County Commissioners shall on the day
fixed in such notice hear such evidence as may be offered, and
pass on said petition or sustain or overrule such objections,
or, in their discretion, withhold their decision until they
have had an opportunity to investigate the matter,
or until a final hearing of the matter after the report
of examiners appointed .as hereinafter provided, if they
shall decide that it is expedient to appoint such examiners.
If the petition be for the opening, altering, or relocating of
a road and there be no objection to the granting of
the same, or if there be such objection and the said County
Commissioners decide that it is expedient that such petition
shall be granted, and no appeal be taken from such decision
as hereinafter provided, or if such appeal be taken
and dismissed, said County Commissioners shall have the
power to contract with the owner or owners of land through
which the road is intended to run for the right of way
necessary for said road, if he, she or they be competent to
contract, and in case the said County Commissioners shall
so contract, they shall cause a plat of the said road to be
made by the County Surveyor under the direction of the Roads
Engineer, and filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, which said plat shall
be referred to in and shall be a part of said deed or deeds,
and the lands so conveyed shall be and become thenceforth the
property of the County in the same manner and to the same
extent as other County roads, and shall be kept in repair
as such; and at the same time said County Commis-
sioners shall cause a duplicate description and plat to be pre-
pared and recorded or filed among their records. And if
the petition be for the closing of a road or portion thereof, or
for the relocation or alteration of a road which will result in a
closing of a portion of the same as formerly existing, and no
objection be made thereto after notice by advertisement as
aforesaid, or if objection be made and overruled as aforesaid,
and no appeal be taken as hereinafter provided, or if
such an appeal be taken and dismissed, the action of said
County Commissioners in directing said road or portion there-
of to be closed shall be final and forever preclude all persons
affected thereby from claiming compensation or suing the
said County Commissioners therefore. If on any such
petition for opening, altering, relocating or closing any
road as aforesaid, the said County Commissioners shall
determine that it is expedient that examiners shall be appointed