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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 391.

AN ACT to repeal and rc-cnact, with amendments, Sections 53

and Go of Article 25 of the Code of Public General Laws of

Maryland, title "County Commissioners," sub-title "Drain-

ing Lands," and to add four new sections to said Article and

sub-title, to be known respectively as "Sections 44A, 75A,

73B and 75C."

Draining

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

lands.

land, That Sections 55 and Go, both inclusive, of Article 25 of

the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "County

Commissioners," sub-title "Draining Lands," be and the same

are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and that

four new sections be and the same are hereby added to said

Article, title and sub-title, to be known respectively as "Sec-

tions 44A, 75A, 73B and 75C" of said Article, title and sub-

title, and to read as to said several sections herein so re-enacted

and enacted as follows :

Treasurer to

33. The Treasurer shall give bond in the name of the State

give bond.

of Maryland as obligee, to be approved by the managers, in

double the amount of the assessments or taxes he may be au-

thorized to collect and receive, conditioned for the faithful per-

formance of his trust and duty and the payment of any money,

and all books, accounts and papers in his possession belonging

to the Ditch Company in his hands as Treasurer over to his

successor at the expiration of his term ; and such bond may be

sued on by any person interested as public bonds may.

Obstructing

63. Any person who shall stop up, or in any way obstruct

duties a

misde-

any ditch made in pursuance hereof, so as to impede

meanor.

the free flow of water therein, shall be deemed guilty

of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof by any justice of the

peace shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars for each of-

fense and the costs of prosecution, and, in the discretion of the

said justice, may be committed to jail until such line and costs

are paid. All such fines when collected shall be paid to the

Treasurer of the ditch on which the offense was committed, for

the use of such ditch, provided, properly constructed swinging

water gales may be placed across any such ditch on the fence

lines to prevent stock from trespassing through said ditch.

Treasurer.

44A. Any person may be elected or appointed Treasurer of

any ditch made pursuant to this Article, whether he be a tax-

able of said ditch or not.

Taxes are

75A. All assesments and taxes levied or made for ditches

liens on real
estate.

made pursuant to the preceding sections hereof shall

be liens on the real estate of the person indebted

therefor from the time the same are levied or made ; and all

such assessments and taxes shall be due and in arrear thirty

days after the date of making or levying the same.