ART. 25] . DRAINING LANDS. 281
1912. ch. 656 sec. 8.
81H. The engineer and viewers appointed under sections 81A-
81AA shall at all times keep an accurate account and report to the
Board of County Commissioners the name and number of days such
person was employed on the survey and the kind of work he was doing
and any expenses that may have been incurred in going to and from
the work, and the cost of any supplies or material that may have been
used in making the survey.
1912, ch. 656, sec. 9.
81I. When the final report is completed and filed it shall be exam-
ined by the Board of County Commissioners, and if it is found to be
in due form and in accordance with the law it shall be accepted, and if
not in due form it may be referred back to the engineer and viewers,
with instructions to secure further information, to be reported at a sub-
sequent date to be fixed by the board. When the report is fully com-
pleted and accepted by the board a date not less than thirty days there-
after shall be fixed by the board for the final hearing upon the report,
and notice thereof shall be given by publication in a newspaper of
general circulation in the county and by posting a written or .printed
notice on the door of the courthouse and at five conspicuous places
throughout the district, such publication to be made for at least two
weeks before the final hearing. During this time a copy of the report
shall be on file in the office of the Clerk of the County Commissioners,
and shall be open to the inspection of any landowner or other person
interested within the district.
1912, ch. 656, sec. 10.
81J. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the Board of County Com-
missioners to summon or cause to be summoned all defendant land-
owners, who have not signed the petition, when they are known to him
or to the viewers, and if it shall appear to the clerk by affidavit or other-
wise that the owner or owners of the whole or any share of any tract
or tracts of land whose names are unknown and cannot after due dili-
gence be ascertained by the petitioners, the clerk shall give notice in
the nature of a summons to be given to all such persons by publication
of the petition or of the substance thereof, and describing generally the
tract or tracts of land as to which the owner or owners are unknown,
with, the order of the commissioners thereon, in some newspaper pub-
lished in the county wherein the land is located. Such notice shall name
the day upon which the Board of County Commissioners will hold their
final hearing before declaring the drainage district established. This
notice shall be printed for four consecutive weeks prior to the date of
the hearing.
1912, ch. 656, sec. 11.
81K. At the date set for hearing any landowner may appear in
person or by counsel and file his objection in writing to the report of
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