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county, or be otherwise unable to act, the County Commissioners, as soon.
as practicable thereafter, shall appoint another person in his stead, and
the order and report thereon shall be executed and received in the same
manner by the County Commissioners as if the person originally appointed
had acted.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 127. 1920, ch. 507, sec. 81AR.

128. Nothing contained in this sub-title shall be so construed as to
authorize the removal of any mill dam, or interference with the legal
water rights appertaining to mills, nor to divert the water so as to deprive
the owner over whose lands said water flows of the benefits and water rights
now enjoyed by him. In case of the property or interest of any minor not
having a guardian being affected by the draining of any swamp or low
grounds, as hereinbefore provided, the Orphans' Court of the county shall
appoint a guardian to protect the interest of such a minor.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 128. 1920, ch. 507, sec. 81AS.

129. If any owner of land or other property affected by any proceed-
ings hereinbefore authorized lives out of the State, a written notice of
thirty days served on the tenant or agent of such owner of the proceedings
of the Commissioners shall be as good and sufficient as if said owner re-
sided in the State. 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 parties to amend the petition, or any part of the
proceedings thereunder that may be defective or informal so as to bring
the merits of the case before said County Commissioners or jury of the
Circuit Court for trial, and may award costs in their discretion, according
to the right of the matter.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 129. 1920, ch. 507, sec. 81AT.

130. If any person feeling himself aggrieved by any determination of
the County Commissioners, or by any proceedings had under this sub-title
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 en-
titled 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 thereupon
shall be final between the parties thereto.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 130. 1920, ch. 507, sec. 81AU.

131. If any ditch shall cut across any public road, so as to incom-
modate.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