Maryland County Commissioners Section 142

      If the application be for opening or altering a road, they shall proceed to locate the same in such manner as will, in their judgment, best promote the public convenience, and shall cause a plot of the same, and also of the old road, where the application is to alter or close a road, to be made out, and shall return the same, together with a full report of their proceedings, under their hands, to the county commissioners, with the reasons on which their opinions are founded.