784: COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 25

1904, art. 25, sec. 75. 1888, art. 25, sec. 74. 1867, ch. 127, sec. 103.
1906, ch. 137.

76. The county commissioners shall, at their first meeting after
receiving any report or return of any such ditch commissioners, appoint
a day to hear objections to such report or return, and to correct, ratify
and confirm, or reject the same; and they shall give at least twenty days'
previous notice of the time and place of such hearing in a newspaper
published in each county in which lands taxed for the said ditch are
situated, and by written or printed notice mailed to each taxable named
in such report or return.

Ibid. sec. 76. 1888, art. 25, sec. 75. 1867, ch. 127, sec. 104. 1900, ch. 635.

77. The treasurer of the ditch, in executing the power conferred on
him by section 58 of this article, shall proceed as follows: he shall leave
with the person taxable and neglecting to pay, at his house, and if he
have no house shall put the same in the mail, addressed to him at his
usual postoffice, 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 property levied upon, in the same way
and after the same notice that a collector may levy and sell for non-
payment of taxes. This section not to apply to Dorchester county.

Ibid. sec. 77. 1904, ch. 391, sec. 75 A.

78. All assessments and taxes levied or made for ditches made pur-
suant to the preceding sections thereof 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.
See art. 81, sec. 49.

Ibid. sec. 78. 1904, ch. 391, sec. 75 B.

79. In addition to the manner of collecting money levied for the
purpose of cutting, making and opening, or for cleaning out and repair-
ing any ditch or ditches, or the payment of any damages or expenses,
provided by sections 58 and 77 of this article, the treasurer of any ditch,
in case of the refusal or neglect of any person bound to pay the same
for thirty days after demand for payment thereof by said treasurer,
may enter suit in his name as treasurer for any such money due for
taxes or assessment for ditches made pursuant to this article before
a justice of the peace where the amount due does not exceed one hundred
dollars, and before the circuit court, where the amount due exceeds one
hundred dollars, and obtain judgment therefor as in cases of assumpsit,
all such suits to be entered in the county in which the debtor resides
at the time of bringing the suit. But nothing in this section shall be
construed to abridge or affect the right and power of the treasurer to
collect such money in the manner authorized by said section 77 of this
article, if he elect to proceed thereunder.