424 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 25.

ratified and the ditch opened, when the same shall be charged
against the fund provided for such ditch purposes.

1867, ch 127, sec. 104.

75. The treasurer of the ditch, in executing the power con-
ferred on him by section 56 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.

1870, ch 382.

76. The provisions of the preceding sections of this article
relating to draining lands, shall apply to all lands requiring
drainage.

Meridian Line.

1870, ch. 359, sec. 1.

77. It shall be lawful for the county commissioners of each
county in the State, if they shall deem it expedient, to cause to
be erected at some public spot adjacent to the court-house of each
county, two good and substantial stone pillars, one hundred feet
distant apart, the one from the other, and upon the same true
meridian line. And upon the summit of one of the said pillars
there shall be placed a distinctly visible needle-point; and upon
the summit of the other there shall be erected a hair-sight, in
such a manner that a straight line passing through the centre
thereof and continued until the same shall strike the centre of
the needle-point upon the other, shall be in and upon the line of
the true meridian running north and south, and they shall enclose
and protect the same properly; the said pillars and enclosures to
be subject to the custody of the county clerk, to be free to the
access of any surveyor of lands or civil engineer residing in said
county, or engaged in surveying therein, for the purpose of test-
ing the variation of the compass for the time being, and to cause