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same, more than the number of pounds specified on said signboard, shall
pass or be drawn, driven, propelled or in any other manner taken over said
bridge or culvert, and that no such vehicle of any kind as above enumer-
ated shall pass or be drawn, driven, propelled or in any other manner
taken over said bridge or culvert at a greater rate of speed than that speci-
fied on said signboard; provided, however, that no such sign or signs shall
be posted as above without authority in writing from the chief engineer of
the State Roads Commission having first been had and obtained; and it is
hereby made the duty of said chief engineer of the State Roads Commis-
sion, upon receiving a request for such authority, to cause an investigation
of the carrying capacity of such bridge or culvert and to furnish to the
applicant his authority in writing to erect and maintain signboards as
aforesaid. Any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation or other per-
son, whether the owner of such vehicle, the person in charge and control
over the same, or employee or agent of any such, who shall draw, drive,
propel or in any other manner take or cause to be taken, drawn, driven
or propelled over any such bridge or culvert posted as aforesaid any wagon,
truck, road engine, road roller, traction engine, threshing machine or other
vehicle of any kind, weighing, with or without any load which may be in
or upon the same, more than the number of pounds specified on the sign-
board so erected at the entrances or approaches to such bridge or culvert,
or at a greater rate of speed than that specified on said signboard, without
a permit in writing from the owner or authorities in control of said bridge
or culvert, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars for each such offence, such fine to be paid to the owner of
or public body having control over said bridge or culvert; in addition to
which the owner or person in control of such vehicle shall be liable to the
owner or authorities in control of said bridge or culvert for all damages
which may be done the same by the violation of the regulation so pre-
scribed, and shall have no redress against the owner or authorities having
control over said bridge or culvert in the event of the breaking down or
giving away of the same and consequent injury to such vehicle. Any
owner of any such bridge or culvert, or public officer or board, or member
of such board, or employee or agent thereof, who shall cause any such sign-
board to be posted without the authority in writing from the chief engineer
of the Good Roads Commission as aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction be fined not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars. In any trial of any person charged
with a violation of any of the provisions of this section oral proof of the
existence of such signboard posted as herein provided, and its contents,
shall be accepted as prima facie evidence of the validity of the regulation
thereon prescribed.

Draining Lands.

An. Code, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 35. 1888, sec. 35. 1858, ch. 271, sec. 1. 1878, ch. 478.
38. Whenever the owner or owners of any swamp or low grounds shall
deem it fit to have them drained, if the owners of said lands cannot agree,