776 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

At the time appointed the examiners or a majority of them shall
meet on the premises and proceed to examine and determine
whether the public convenience requires that the road should be
opened, altered, relocated or closed, as the case may be; and
said examiners shall have power to adjourn and meet again from
time to time as their duties in the premises may require. If
the application be for opening, altering or relocating a road,
and if the said examiners shall determine that the public con-
venience requires that such road should be opened, altered or
relocated, they shall proceed to locate the same in such manner
as will, in their judgment, best promote the public convenience,
and shall cause a plat of the same as so located and of the loca-
tion of the old road when the application is to alter or relocate
a road, to be made out by the County Surveyor under the direc-
tion of the Roads Engineer, and shall return the same,
together with a full report of their proceedings under their
hands, to the County Commissioners of Baltimore County,
with the reasons on which their opinions are founded;
said examiners shall have power to change the location of any
road petitioned for, and to change either of the termini thereof
as advertised, if they consider that the public convenience would
be best promoted by the making of such changes, but shall not
make any such change which requires said road to pass through,
or along the property of any person not originally notified or
whose name did not appear in the original advertisement of the
notice of intention to file a petition as aforesaid, without giving
such person at least five days' notice of such intended change
and an opportunity to be heard, or unless such person waives
such notice. If the application" be for the closing of a road or
portion of a road, and the examiners shall determine that it is
expedient that such road be closed, they shall return with their
report a description and plat of the road or portion of the
road so recommended to be closed. If said examiners decide
that it is expedient that such road shall be opened, altered or re-
located as aforesaid, they shall make an estimate of the cost of
making such road or alteration, including the cost of the pro-
ceedings and the amount of the preliminary deposit as afore-
said, and also of the damages, if any, to be paid; and shall assess
the cost of said road as aforesaid and damages and benefits
caused thereby upon the persons interested, and the district
respectively, in such proportions as they shall deem just and
proper, including in such assessments and estimate such dam-
ages as may be occasioned by any change of, or necessity for
fencing along the line of said proposed road; and if they shall