EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 363

is necessary for the public health and convenience they shall
appoint three capable and upright citizens of Baltimore Coun-
ty, not residing in the area to be served by such proposed sys-
tem, and not owning property therein, who shall be known
as Sewerage Examiners and who shall investigate and deter-
mine the probable cost of constructing and establishing such
system, and the names of the property owners in the area
served by such proposed sewer and the amount to which each
will be actually benefited or damaged thereby, and shall return
such estimate of probable cost, damage and benefits to the said
County Commissioners. The said Commissioners shall then
assess the cost of constructing and establishing the proposed
system, upon the persons interested in proportion to the amount
to which they are benefited or damaged thereby. And the said
County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall then cause
notice to be given to all persons assessed of the -assessments
respectively so made on them by said County Commissioners
by publication once in each of two successive weeks in one or
more newspapers published in Baltimore County, and of the
date upon which objections to said assessments of benefits and
damages will be heard; such date to be not more than sixty
days from the date of the return of the examiners aforesaid,
and copies of said advertisement shall be served upon the per-
son interested, or. if they cannot be found, posted conspicu-
ously on the premises affected by some constable of said county,
who shall thereupon return to the said County Commissioners
the time and manner of such service, and for such service and
return said constable shall be allowed 'the fee allowed for the
service and return of writs of summons. If any person inter-
ested shall feel aggrieved by the assessment or award so made
he shall file in writing with the said County Commissioners on
or before the day set in said notice for hearing objection to
such assessments or awards, and the said County Commission-
ers on the day so fixed shall hear testimony and argument upon
such objections, and shall consider the same, and said objec-
tions, the awards and assessments and all the1 other proceed-
ings in the matter, and may then by their order confirm, alter,
amend or correct the said awards and assessments, or any of
them, and, if no appeal be prayed from the said order of said
County Commissioners so passed within ten days said order
shall become final and effective. Any person interested may
appeal to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County from the
order of the said County Commissioners passed upon such ob-