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1918, ch. 161, sec. 41.

157. The county commissioners or circuit court for the county in
which proceedings may be pending, at any time before a final decision
is made, may upon application of any party thereto, grant leave, in their
discretion, to said party to amend the petition, or any part of the proceed-
ings thereunder that may be defective or informal so as to bring the
merits of the case before said county commissioners or circuit court or
jury for trial, and may award costs, in their discretion, according to the
right of the matter.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 42.

158. If any person feeling himself aggrieved by any determination of
the county commissioners, or by any proceedings had under this article
relating to drains, may appeal to the circuit court of the county in,
which such determination was made or proceedings were had, and shall
be entitled to trial by jury, at the election of either party; provided, such
appeal shall be taken within thirty days from the day such determination
was made or such proceedings were had; and the judgment rendered there-
upon shall be final between the parties thereto.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 43.

159. 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 neglct so to do,
the supervisor 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
from 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.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 44.

160. The commissioners appointed by the county commissioners to
locate, lay off, open, straighten, clean out, repair or extend any ditch,
or to make any assessment for the use and maintenance of any ditch,
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 of the neighborhood of said ditch, and
by notice inserted in a newspaper published in the county in which lands
taxed for the said ditch are situated.

1918, ch. 161, sec. 45.

161. The county commissioners shall, at their first meeting after
receiving any report or return of any such ditch 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