910 ARTICLE 25.

1920, ch. 507, sec. 81AU.

130. If any ditch shall cut across any public road, so as to incommo-
date travel, the managers shall erect good and sufficient bridges, not less
than twelve feet wide, over the. same, where it crosses the road, and shall
keep the same in good repair; and if they refuse or neglect so to do the
supervisor or engineer having charge of said road, or in case of a State
road, the State roads official having charge of said road, shall erect or repair
such bridge and return an account of the expenses thereof, under oath to
the County Commissioners, who shall place the same in the hands of the
Sheriff of the county, and the said sheriff shall proceed to collect the same
for the managers, in the same manner as other county charges are collected,
and pay the same to the said County Commissioners for the use of the
county, or in case of a State road, to the State Roads Commission. The
Drain Commissioners appointed by the County Commissioners to locate,
lay off, open, straighten, clean out, repair or extend any ditch, or drain, or
to make any assessments for the use and maintenance of any ditch or drain,
before proceeding to do so, shall give at least ten days' previous notice of
their intention to proceed with the execution of their commission, by notice
set up at four public places in the neighborhood of said ditch or drain,
and by notice inserted in a newspaper published in the county in which
land taxes for the said ditch are situated.

1920, ch. 507, sec. 81AV.

131. The County Commissioners shall at their first meeting, after
receiving any report or return of any such Drain 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' previ-
ous notice of the time and place of such hearing in a newspaper published
in the county in which the lands taxed for the said ditch are situated,
and by written or printed notice mailed to each taxable named in such
report or return.

1920, ch. 507, sec. 81AW.

132. Partition or line ditches or drains between the adjoining lands
of different proprietors, now existing, or which may hereafter be estab-
lished by mutual consent in any county, shall be made, cleaned out and re-
paired by the parties respectively owning or occupying the said adjoining
lands, at their joint and equal expense; and upon failure of either of said
parties to make, cut, dig, clean out and keep in good order his portion of
said line, ditch or drain, or to pay his equal share of the costs thereof, he
shall be answerable to the other party making the expenditure therefor in
an action of debt. If either one of the two adjoining proprietors of lands
desires to construct, make, dig out or repair such partition drain or line
ditch or drain as a boundary line between his own lands and those of the ad-
joining proprietor (in case the same cannot be done by agreement) he shall
proceed to give at least thirty days' notice to the owner of the adjoining
lands, or to his tenant or agent, of such partition, drain or line ditch or
of repairs thereon being necessary, and of his intention to proceed to make