added to the twenty-eighth Article of the Code of
Public General Laws to be numbered, one hundred
and two, one hundred and three and one hundred
and four.

Sec. 102. The Commissioners appointed by the
County Commissioners to lay off any ditch, before
proceeding to do so, shall give at least ten days
notice of their intention to proceed with the execu-
tion of their Commission, by advertisement set up
at four of the most public places in the neighbor-
hood of the proposed ditch, and no report shall be
confirmed by the County Commissioners without
such notice shall be shown to have been given.

Notice to be
given.

Sec. 103. The County Commissioners shall on
their first meeting after receiving any return of
proceedings of such ditch Commissioners, appoint
a day to hear objections to such return and to ratify
or reject the same, and they shall give at least
twenty days notice by publication in some news
paper published in the county, and if no paper be
published in the county, by advertisement set up
in at least four of the most public places in the
neighborhood of such proposed ditch, of the time
for such hearing, and the cost of such advertise-
ment shall be taxed by them against the petitioner
or petitioners for such ditch, unless the return
shall be ratified and the ditch opened, when the
same shall be charged against the fund provided
for such ditch purposes.

Day to be
appointed to
hear objec-
tions.

Sec. 104. The Treasurer of the ditch in execut-
ing the power confered on him by the eighty-fifth
Section of this Article, shall proceed as follows, lie
shall leave with the person taxable and neglecting
to pay, at his house, and if lie have no house, shall
pat the same in the mail addressed to him at his
usual post office, a notice of the amount due from
him, and if the person taxable shall neglect to pay
for the space of one month from the date of said
notice, then the said Treasurer shall proceed in
person to levy the amount due and to sell the pro-
perty levied upon, in the same way, and after the
same notice that a Collector may for taxes.

Treasurer to
levy upon and
sell property.