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under this article relating to drains, may appeal, to the circuit
court for the county, and shall be entitled, at the election of
either party, to a trial by jury; and the judgment thereupon
rendered shall be final between the parties.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 28, sec. 101. 1858, ch 271, sec. 20

72. If any ditch shall be cut across any public road, so as to
incommode 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.

1867, ch. 127, sec. 102.

73. The commissioners appointed by the county commis-
sioners to lay off any ditch, before proceeding to do so, shall give
at least ten days' notice of their intention to proceed with the
execution of their commission, by advertisement set up at four
of the most public places in the neighborhood of the proposed
ditch; and no report shall be confirmed by the county commis-
sioners unless such notice shall be shown to have been given.

Ibid. sec. 103.

74. The county commissioners shall, on their first meeting
after receiving any return of proceedings of such ditch commis-
sioners, appoint a day to hear objections to such return, and to
ratify or reject the same; and they shall give at least twenty days'
notice by publication in some newspaper published in the county,
and if no paper be published in the county, by advertisement set
up in at least four of the most public places in the neighborhood
of such proposed ditch, of the time for such hearing; and the
cost of such advertisement shall be taxed by them against the
petitioner or petitioners for such ditch, unless the return shall be