PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 777

decide that a road or a portion of a road be closed, they
shall likewise make an estimate of the damages and assess
the benefits occasioned thereby. The examiners shall re-
turn such estimate and assessment to the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County as a part of their re-
turn, and the said County Commissioners shall there-
upon cause notice to be given to all persons assessed of
their respective assessments so returned by the examiners, by
publication in one or more of the newspapers published in
Baltimore County once a week, for two successive weeks, and
of the date on which objections to such return and award
will be heard by the said County Commissioners, the

date of such hearing to be not less than thirty days
irom the date of such return by the examiners, and copies of
such advertisement shall be served or left upon the premises of
the persons assessed for damages so far as may be practicable,
as provided for in the case of the original notice by the ex-
aminers. If any person or body corporate or taxpayer of any

district interested in the opening, altering, relocating, or closing
of any road as aforesaid, shall feel aggrieved by the award,
report or return of said examiners, he, she, or it shall
file objections thereto in writing with the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County on or before the date
fixed by the notice last aforesaid for the hearing of such

objections, and the said Commissioners, on the day so
fixed for said hearing, shall proceed to consider the award,
return, plat and proceedings of the examiners, and all the
proceedings in the case, and they may modify or confirm, re-
ject, reverse, alter, amend or correct the award, return of re-
port, plat and proceedings, or return the same to the examiners
for alterations, corrections or amendments; provided, however,
that said return, or report after having been altered, modi-
fied or amended as aforesaid, either by the County Com-
missioners or examiners, shall not be finally ratified and
confirmed until after the expiration of ten days from the date
of such change, and an opportunity given the parties interested
to be heard on such change; and provided further, that
the said County Commissioners or examiners shall not
make any change which requires the road petitioned for to
pass through or along the property of any person not originally
notified of the proceedings, or whose name did not appear in the

original advertisement of the notice of intention to file petition
for such road, without giving such person at least five days'
notice of such intended change, and an opportunity to be heard