1512 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

in Harford County, when and where they may deem such re-
survey necessary and expedient.

449. Whenever they shall deem it expedient that any of the
public roads shall be resurveyed, they shall appoint three per-
sons not interested or holding lands through which said road
may pass; and the persons so appointed, after giving thirty
days' notice thereof, shall meet on the premises and resurvey
and mark and bound such public road according to the best
evidence they can obtain of the location thereof, either by
examination of witnesses, or by reference to former surveys,
or by personal inspection of such road; and in the absence of
other sufficient and satisfactory evidence, the examiners are
authorized to adopt the centre of such road as the centre there-
of according to its true location and mark and bound such road
accordingly, giving it the proper width to which it may be
entitled, being not less than thirty feet in any case; and they
shall make and return to the county commissioners a plat of
such road, with a full report of their proceedings, under their
hands.

450. The examiners, before they proceed to act, shall take
an oath to execute the trust reposed in them by the commission
issued to them, faithfully and without favor, affection or par-
tiality, which oath shall be endorsed on the commission and
returned therewith.

451. Upon the expiration of ten days from the return of
the examiners, the county commissioners, after hearing and
considering any objection that may be made, shall proceed to
pass judgment thereon, and affirm or reject the same, or order
it to be amended, in their discretion, and may continue over
their proceedings to their next meeting, and so from time to
time, so long as they shall, in their judgment, think such con-
tinuance necessary for the purpose of justice; and their final
judgment, in relation to such road, and the plat thereof, as con-
firmed by such judgment, shall be recorded among the land
records of the county by the clerk of the Circuit Court in a
separate book, to be by him provided for that purpose; and
for such recording, the clerk shall be entitled to charge and
be paid by the county commissioners, according to the rate for
recording such matters authorized by law; and the resurvey of
such road as established and confirmed by the judgment of
the county commissioners, or certified copies of the record
thereof, shall be taken and received as full and sufficient evi-
dence of the true location of such road.