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ARTICLE XXV.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

Draining Lands. 49. Collection of taxes for draining lands. Public Landings. 118. Establishment of public land- ings.

Schools. 120. County Commissioners are au- thorized to receive and control money given in trust by will or deed for purposes of education. 121. State's attorneys are charged with the duty of seeing to the proper execution of such trusts.

Draining Lands.

1892, ch. 649.

49. The said commissioners shall deliver to the treasurer a
statement of the taxes levied for making said ditches with the
sums which each person is bound to pay; and such tax or assess-
ment made and returned to and confirmed by the county com-
missioners shall remain in full force for the term of ten years
from such confirmation and shall be the proportion or basis upon
which other and further taxes may be levied by the managers
for all necessary purposes for cutting and making or for cleansing
and repairing such ditches.

Public Landings.

1890, ch. 438.

118. In all cases where the public convenience requires it, the
county commissioners shall have power to establish a public
landing upon any navigable river, canal, bay, sound or other nav-
igable waters.

Schools.

1894, ch. 41.

120. The County Commissioners of each county in this State,
in their capacity of corporations, are invested with full power to
receive in trust and to hold and control, for the purposes of such
trusts, all money or other property of whatsoever description
which may hereafter be bestowed upon such corporations by