ART. 28.] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 185

PUBLIC LANDINGS.

63. In all cases where the public convenience requires it, the
county commissioners shall have power to establish a public land-
ing upon any navigable river or canal.

64. Upon all applications to establish a public landing, the
same, proceedings shall be had as on applications to open a
public road.

DRAINING LANDS.

65. Whenever the owner or owners of any swamps or low
grounds shall deem it fit to have them drained, (if the owners
of said lands cannot agree, or should any be femes covert,
infants, non compos mentis, or non-residents of the county
where the lands are situated,) they, or any of them, may pe-
tition the county commisioners sitting in the county where such
swamp or low ground, or any part thereof, is situated, for the
appointment of commissioners to lay out a ditch or ditches for
that purpose, and the said commissioners shall thereupon appoint
three judicious and impartial freeholders of the neighborhood as
such commissioners.

66. The commissioners so appointed, being first duly sworn to
execute their duties faithfully and impartially, shall call to their
assistance a skilful surveyor, sworn in like manner, and shall go
upon, and view the swamps or low grounds mentioned in the
petition, and lay out by specified courses and distances, breadths
and depths, such ditch or ditches as shall be sufficient to drain
the said swamps or low grounds.

67. They shall estimate the probable cost or expenses, in-
cluding damages, if any, of cutting such ditch or ditches, and
the sum or proportion thereof which each owner or possessor or
person benefited shall be bound to pay.

68.They shall make out and return to the county commis-
sioners, at their next meeting thereafter to which it may be
practicable, a report in writing, under their, hands, with a plat
or map attached, containing a description by general delineation,
without survey, of the boundary lines of the swamp or low ground
mentioned in the petition, and also a delineation of each owner's
or possessor's lot or parcel, with the estimated quantity of acres
the same may contain, with the name of every person to whom