PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 775

for the purpose of viewing the grounds and assessing the benefits
and damages arising therefrom, it shall be the duty of
the said County Commissioners first to determine the amount
of money to be deposited to cover the cost of such examination, in-
cluding advertising, per diem of examiners, which shall be two
dollars and fifty cents per day for each examiner, except the
Roads Engineer, who shall serve as such without further compen-
sation, surveys and platting and all other expenses; and to require
that the same be deposited with the treasurer of the County before
further steps are taken. Upon such deposit being made the
said County Commissioners shall appoint three examiners,
one of whom shall be the Roads Engineer, one a resident of the
district in which the proposed road is located and who does not
own property on the line of the same and is not directly affected
thereby or interested therein except as a resident of such district,
and the third a disinterested freeholder of the County, to go upon
the grounds, examine into the public need for the opening, alter-
ing, relocating or closing of the road as aforesaid, determine the
probable cost thereof and the names of the property owners
who will be benefited or damaged thereby, and the amount to
which each will be so benefited or damaged, and the amount
which the district fund should contribute; provided, that the to-
tal net assessments for benefits imposed upon the petitioners for
such road shall in no event be less than twenty-five per cent,
of the whole cost thereof, including the cost of the proceed-
ings. The examiners so appointed before they proceed to act
as such shall take an oath to execute the trust reposed in them
faithfully and without favor, affection or partiality, which oath
shall be endorsed on the order of appointment and returned
therewith. Said examiners or a majority of them shall give
notice of the time and place of meeting by personal notice to
the petitioners, and by publishing a notice of the same once a
week for two successive weeks in some newspaper or newspapers
published in Baltimore County, and by causing a copy of the
same to be delivered to every owner through or along whose
property the proposed road passes when the petition involves
the closing of a road, or through or along whose property the
proposed road will pass when the petition involves the opening
or change of a road, or be publicly posted on said property in
case the owner cannot be found at least five days before the day
of meeting, and in case the owner be an infant or non compos
mentis, then a copy of said notice shall be left with the parent
or guardian of said infant or with the committee or person
having, charge of the person alleged to be non compos mentis.