1024 ARTICLE 25

An. Code, 1924, sec. 76. 1912, sec. 74. 1904, sec. 73. 1888, sec. 72. 1858, ch. 271, sec. 20.

77. If any ditch shall be cut across any public road, so as to incom-
mode 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 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 said
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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 77. 1912, sec. 75. 1904, sec. 74. 1888, sec. 73. 1867, ch. 127, sec. 102.

1906, ch. 137.

78. The commissioners appointed by the county commissioners to locate,
lay off, open, enlarge, straighten, clean out, repair or extend any ditch, or to
make any assessment for the use and maintenance of any ditch, before pro-
ceeding to do so, shall give at least ten days' previous notice of their inten-
tion to proceed with the execution of their commission, by notice set up
at four public places in the neighborhood of said ditch, and by notice
inserted in a newspaper published in each county in which lands taxed for
the said ditch are situated.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 78. 1912, sec. 76. 1904, sec. 75. 1888, sec. 74. 1867, ch. 127, sec. 103.

1906, ch. 137.

79. The county commissioners shall, at their first meeting after receiv-
ing 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 days' previous notice
of the time and place of such hearing in a newspaper published in each
county in which lands taxed for the said ditch are situated, and by written
or printed notice mailed to each taxable named in such report or return.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 79. 1912, sec. 77. 1904, sec. 76. 1888, sec. 75. 1867, ch. 127, sec. 104.

1900, ch. 635.

80. The treasurer of the ditch, in executing the power conferred on
him by section 61 of this article, shall proceed as follows: he shall leave with
the person taxable and neglecting to pay, at his house, and if he have no
house shall put the same in the mail, addressed to him at his usual postoffice,
a notice of the amount due from him; and if the person taxable shall neglect
to pay for the space of one month from the date of said notice, then the said
treasurer shall proceed in person to levy the amount due and to sell the
property levied upon, in the same way and after the same notice that a
collector may levy and sell for non-payment of taxes. This section not to
apply to Dorchester County.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 80. 1912, sec. 78. 1904, sec. 77. 1904, ch. 391, sec. 75A.

81. All assessments and taxes levied or made for ditches made pur-
suant to the preceding sections thereof shall be liens on the real estate of the
person indebted therefor from the time the same are levied or made;
and all such assessments and taxes shall be due and in arrear thirty days
after the date of making or levying the same.
See art. 81, sec. 72.