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writing, under their hands, with a plat or map attached, containing a
description by general delineation, without survey, of the boundary lines
of the swamp or low ground mentioned in the petition, and also a delin-
eation of each owner's or possessor's lot or parcel, with the estimated quan-
tity of acres the same contain, with the name of every person to whom
they may award damages, and the amount thereof, and the sum or amount
each owner or possessor, or person benefited, shall be bound to pay as his
proportion of the cost or expense of cutting such ditch or ditches and of
the damages, if any shall be awarded; and a majority of said commission-
ers may determine any matter.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 6.

122. They shall, if they consider that the making of such a ditch or
ditches will injure any person through or upon whose land the same be
laid out, award to such person such damages as they may think just, to
be paid by the persons chargeable with the costs and expenses of making
such ditch or ditches, and to be paid or tendered before cutting the ditch
or ditches.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 7.

123. All persons through whose lands such ditches shall be laid out, or
whose lands are in the neighborhood of and drain into same, and who will
derive benefit therefrom, shall contribute to the cost and expense of mak-
ing the same; and the said commissioners shall adjudge thereof, and shall
assess by way of tax upon such persons, respectively, a sum proportional
to the advantages they may receive.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 8.

124. The sum so levied shall be appropriated to the making of such
ditches, and to the payment of the damages awarded (if any), and the
costs of said commission.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 9.

125. The said commissioners may adopt in the whole or as a part of
the ditch or ditches to be located and laid out under this article any ditch
or ditches already made, cut or laid out, and shall in such case provide
by assessment as aforesaid, for their extension, straightening, enlargement
and repair, and shall allow the owners thereof a fair compensation for the
work already done on such ditch or ditches, to be paid by those benefited;
provided, that the said owners of such ditch, so adopted in whole or in
part shall be taxed their just proportion of the cost of the whole ditch, or
of the new and additional work.

1918, oh. 161, sec. 10.

126. Any person who may be injured by the making of any ditch laid
out aforesaid or who shall be assessed for any part of the cost thereof may
apply to the county commissioners at any time before the confirmation of
the return for an order of review, and the county commissioners may, in