902. ARTICLE 25.

by the act or negligence of the owner of any land through which such
improvement is constructed or by the act or negligence of His agent or em-
ployee, or if the same is caused by the cattle, hogs or other stock of said
owner, employee or agent, then the cost thereof shall be assessed and
levied against the lands of said owner alone, to be collected by proper suit
instituted by the Drainage Commissioners. It shall be unlawful for any
person to injure or damage or obstruct or build any bridge, fence or flood-
gate in such a way as to injure or damage any levee, ditch, drain or water
course constructed or improved under the provisions of sections 84-110,
and any person causing such injury shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof may be fined in any sum not exceeding twice the
damage or injury done or caused.

An. Code, sec. 81Y. 1912, ch. 656, sec. 25.

108. The engineers employed under the provisions of sections 84-110
shall receive such compensation per diem as shall be agreed upon by the
Board of County Commissioners. The viewers, other than the engineer,
shall receive three dollars per day; the rodmen, axmen, chainmen and other
laborers shall receive not to exceed two dollars per day each. The Drainage
Commissioners shall have all their actual expenses paid when actually
engaged upon the work of the drainage district, but shall receive no per
diem. All other fees and costs incurred under the provisions of sections
84-110 shall be the same as provided by law for like services in other cases.

An. Code, sec. 81Z. 1912, ch. 656, sec. 26. 1920, ch. 301.

109. In the event that the United States Government makes provisions
for loans to prosecute drainage and reclamation work, or provides for such
work to be done in whole or in part, under the supervision of its officials,
the drainage districts to be created under Sections 84-110 are empowered
to avail themselves of such provisions at any time. Provided that in order
to facilitate the .carrying out of any co-operative construction plan which
may be agreed to by the United States and any district organized under the
provisions of the aforesaid sections, the Board of Drainage Commissioners
of such district shall have the authority to issue the bonds of such district
in such form and of such maturities as may be required by the United
States, but no such contract or agreement between the district and the
United States for such co-operative construction work shall be valid until a
majority of the land owners of such district shall have given such contract
their written approval. That it shall be the duty of the officials of this
State to solicit the co-operation of the various bureaus of the United States
Government in prosecuting drainage and the reclamation of agriculture
lands.

An. Code, sec. 81AA. 1912, ch. 656, sec. 27.

110. The provisions of sections 84-110 shall be liberally construed to
promote the ditching, draining, leveeing and reclamation of wet and over-
flowed lands which may be made available for agriculture, and to encourage