The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-09-01
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shall desire to improve any road to an extent
beyond that contemplated by the Board of Road
Commissioners of the district where located.
they may make application to the County Com
missloners. by petition, setting forth the loca-
tion of the road to be improved, the extent and
character of the Improvement. and the probable
cost thereof, and the said Commissioners shall
thereupon order the Road Commissioners of the
district or districts, and the Baltimore County
Roads Engineer to meet upon the premises and
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public interest will be promoted thereby, they
shall report their determination to the County
| Commissioners. setting forth an estimate of the
| money required, and their reasons for such de-
termination, and If the County Commissioners
missioners and said Engineer, they shall direct
| the expenditure of an amount not exceeding
nve hundred dollars per mile. to be paid out of
| petitioners for such improvements shall first
| pay into the treasury of the county an amount
County Commissioners, all of said money to be
expended under the direction of the Road Com
SEC: 2O2. Whenever any owner of property
in baltimore county shall have opened. laid out
or graded any avenue or road for thepublic con-
venience and is willing to dedicate the same to
public uses, by good and sufficient deed duly
recorded, the County Commissioners are au-
tnor1zed to accept the same If in their opinion.
the same be necessary and convenient for public
use, and upon such acceptance the said avenue
or road SO dedicated shall be kept in good order
and repair by the Road Commissioners of the
district in which it may be situated provided
however, that previous to such acceptance said
road shall not be less than thirty feet in width,
and duly and properly graded In the Judgment
OF the County Commissioners.
SEC. 203. Whenever any road shall have been
IN use 10r twenty years. though the same may
not have been condemned or granted as q public
highway, the County Commissioners, if they
tbe S e s requires hne ad3ptoa OF
be public highway. with full power to relocate
and straighten the same, in their discretion, and
shall publish notice to that effect once q week
IOr Two successive weeks. in g.
papers published in Baltimore county; pro-
vided said road shall not be less than thirty feet
IN width, and such road so declared to be a pub
lie highway. shall be kept in good order and re-
pair by the Road Commissioners of the district
IN which such road is situated, as other public
SEC. 20i. Whenever any doubt exists as to the
proper location or width of road, the Road
commissioners OF the district, under the direc-
tion of the County Commissioners, may cause
the same to be surveyed. and make such altera-
tlons as the public convenience may require,
subject to the rights of any person Of the
provision contained in this Act, for the opening
Sec 2O5. All applications for OPENING. altering
OF Closing roads shall be by petition to the Coun-
inhabitants of Baltimore county intend TO pc
tition the Commissioners for opening altering
or closing any road, he shall give thirty days
published in Baltimore county, setting forth as
near as may be the length and location of said
road.
SEC. 207. Counter petitions may be presented
to the County Commissioners at a time within
ss, ad.een gays aIter the expiration of the thirty
Gays notice, provided for in Section 208 of this
Act, and when any counter petitions are so pre-
sented the County Commissioners shall appoint
shall be heard, and shall consider the same and
such other testimony as may come before them, |
ana determine the case as in their opinion shall
SEC. 2Os Whenever the County Commissioners |
shall decide that it is expedient that road be |
that they may tract with TIE ownes or aw
ers OF the land through which the road is in |
tenoed TO run for the right of way necessary |
Tor SAID road, II he, she or they be competent to
contract; and in case the said County Commis-
siOnerS shall so contract, they shall cause plat
G o. sne sa,o pTs roaa to be made by the Baltimore
In the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court |
for baltimore county. which said plat shall be
deeds, and the lands so conveyed shall be and |
become thenceforth the property of the county /
n n Tn, the same manner and to the same extent as
the public right of way over the same and il |
shall be lawful for the said County Commis-
, SS6S uss or uses, 50 Mch iH sad and
shall be the property Of said county, subject to
Commissioners shall deem it expedient that ex-
aminers should be appointed to view the
grounds for the purpose of opening, altering or
as Examiners, who shall be freeholders in the
county, and not interested in or holding lands
through which the road is proposed to be opened.
altered or closed but the appointment of ex-
aminers shall not prevent the said County Com
mssioners at any time thereafter from con-
vided, and the County Commissioners of said
county are authorized, when the county roads
the said U County rosds to make the same upon
the property outside the limits thereof, and they
shall contract for the land that may be required |
may proceed to condemn the lands that may be |
necessary for the purpose under the the pro- |
visions % 81 f 1aS tG Seo Dd Dodn
ments thereto.
SEC zoo. The Examiners before they proceed
trust reposed in them faithfully and without |
favor. affection or Partially, which oath shall
be endorsed on the order OF appointment and
SEC 2lO. Said Examiners, or a majority of
them, shall give notice of the time and place OF
meeting by publishing the same once week
for two successive weeks in some newspaper
or newspapers published in Baltimore county,
apd by causing copy OF the same TO De de-
property the proposed road will pass, or be pub
ficly posted on said property. in case the owner
cannot be found, at least f1ve days before the
day of meeting, and in case the owner be an in
fant or cOnsp0s nentts, then q copy OF said
of said infant, or with the committee or person
having charge of the person alleged to be non
c0nspOs 1aentis, and, at the time appointed, the
Examiners, or majority of them, shall meet
termne whether the public convenience re-
quires that the road should be opened, altered
or closed, as the case may be; but they shall
have power to adjourn from time to time.
SEC 211. If the application be for opening,
closing or altering road, and IL the said ex-
aminer shall determine that the public conven-
ience requires that the road should be opened,
closed or altered, they shall proceed to locate
the same in such manner as will, in their judg
ment, best promote the public convenience.
and shall cause plat of the same and also of
close a road, to be made out under the direction
of the Baltimore County Roads Engineer, and
shall return the same, together with full re-
port of their proceedings under their hands, to
the County Commissioners, with the reason on
which their opinions are founded.
SEC. PIP. If the said Examiners shall be of the
opinion that the road ought not to be opened,
altered or shut up, they shall report their opn-
ion to the County Commissioners together with
the reason on which it was founded.
SEC. 2l3. Whenever any road shall be located
and surveyed as public road. the Board OF
Examiners shall make an estimate of the cost
of makinQ said road and also of the damages il
any, to be paid, and shall assess the damages
and benefits caused thereby upon the persons
interested, and the districts, respectively, in
such proportions as they may deem just and
proper, and shall cause notice to be given to all
by publication in one or more newspapers of
Baltimore county once week for two success
sive weeks and that objections thereto may be
thirty days from the first publication of said
notice, and shall furnish to the County Commits
sioners report of such assessment; and If any
person or body corporate or district acting
through its Road Commissioners shall feel ag-
grieeyed Dy tee swarH, report or & ppoc;eeoag on
thirty days after said report is filed in the Office
of the County Commissioners. shall file his, her
or its objection in writing, and the County Com
missioners after five days notice to each side
interested, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
shall proceed to consider the award. return of
report, plat and proceedings of said Examiners,
| and all the proceedings in said case, and they
| may modify and confirm, reject, reverse. alter,
| amend or Correct the award, return the report,
plat and proceedings in said case, may in their
| discretion send back to said Examiners the
award, return of report, plat and proceedings
| for alterations, corrections or amendments OF
| any person interested in said proceedings may
appeal from the final order of ratification or re-
| lection of the County Commissioners of said
| county to the Circuit Court for said county
provided, said appeal is taken within thirty days
from the passage or said final order of ratitica-