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manner and with the same qualifications as prescribed in Section 298 of
this Article, to fill said office for the residue of the period of four years for
which the person so dying or resigning or so removed from office was ap-
pointed.

1910, ch. 403 (p. 920), sec. 167K.

306. Whenever the County Road Engineer shall find it necessary to
open an outlet or watercourse through private property in Kent County to
secure proper drainage of any public road therein, he shall forthwith so
inform the County Commissioners of said county, and if the owners of
such property consent to the opening of such outlet or water-courses, and
if such owners and the said County Commissioners shall agree upon the
value and price to be paid for the same, then such consent and agreement
shall be entered on the books of the Commissioners, and such outlet or
water-course shall be opened by the said County Road Engineer, but if the
owners and the County Commissioners shall fail to agree, then the said
County Commissioners shall have such power and authority to condemn
the land for such outlet or water-course as is now or hereafter may be con-
ferred by the Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland for

condemning public highways, and shall appoint three examiners to go over
such proposed outlet or water-course for such drainage, who, or a majority
of whom shall estimate the damage to the owner or owners of the land
through which said outlet or water-course may be opened, and the County
Commissioners shall tender to the owner or owners of said land the amount
of damages so estimated or ascertained by said examiners or a majority of
them, and so soon as the same is tendered to the owner or owners of said
property, the said County Road Engineer shall immediately cause such
outlet or water-course to be opened, said County Road Engineer shall fur-
nish said examiners with a plat showing the proposed location and profile
of such outlet or water-course, and for the purpose of making such plat

and profile the said County Road Engineer is authorize to go upon any
private property through which said proposed outlet or water-course shall
pass, and to make whatever survey or surveys that he may deem necessary
for such purpose; provided, that any such outlet or water-course shall not
be opened so as to pass through the buildings, gardens, yard or burial
grounds of any person without the consent of the owner in writing.

1910, ch. 403 (p. 920), sec. 167L.

307. Any person or corporation placing any obstructions of any kind
whatsoever upon the public highways or bridges, roads, lanes, streets, ave-
nues or alleys of Kent County, or interfering with or obstructing any of
the ditches or drains thereof, or encroaching upon the same with fences
or other obstructions, or any person or corporation, its agents or employees,

exercising the business of a common carrier, permitting his or its vehicles,
steam or other engines or cars to obstruct any crossing for more than five
minutes for any one time, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be
liable to prosecution at the instance of any taxpayer of said county, and