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on the superintendent or other agent of such railroad company in
said county, that the said county commissioners will, thirty days
thereafter, consider the necessity of further protection against
danger at said crossing; and if, after the expiration of said thirty
days, said county commissioners, or a majority of them, shall
determine that such protection is necessary, they shall notify said
railroad company through its superintendent or ticket agent
in said county, that within sixty days thereafter, said railroad
company shall either place a flagman at said crossing, whose duty
it shall be to give timely notice to all persons using said crossing,
of the approach of all locomotives or trains, or a system of
electric alarm bells, to give such notice at the approach of trains,
or shall erect safety-gates at said crossing, which shall be closed
not less than one-half minute before the passage and during the
passage of every railroad train or locomotive across said highway;
or shall change the said grade crossing, so as to pass said highway
with an under or over grade crossing, in which case neither a,
flagman nor safety-gate shall be required.

1886, ch 294, sec 2.

195. If any railroad company shall neglect or refuse to
comply with the requirements of the said county commissioners,
as provided for by section 194, said railroad company shall be
liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars per day for each and every
day it shall neglect or refuse so to do.

Ibid. sec. 3.

196. It shall be the duty of said county commissioners,
to enforce the payment of fines imposed by the preceding sec-
tion, as other fines are collected, before the circuit court for said
county; and the State's attorney thereof shall attend to the prose-
cution of all such suits, when directed so to do by the said county
commissioners.

1886, ch. 107.

197. Every railroad company of this State, heretofore or here-
after incorporated, wherever it shall find it necessary, in the con-
struction of its railroad or any lateral branch, is hereby authorized
to cross at, under or over grade, any railroad now or hereafter
constructed ; and if the said railroad company cannot agree with