ART. 25] DRAINING LANDS. 731

1888, art. 25, sec. 72. 1860, art. 28, sec. 101. 1858, ch. 271, sec. 20.

73t If any ditch shall be cut across any public road, so as
to incommode travel, the managers shall erect good and suffi-
cient 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.

Ibid. sec. 73. 1867, ch. 127, sec. 102.

74i 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 pro-
posed ditch; and no report shall be confirmed by the county
commissioners unless such notice shall be shown to have been
given.

Ibid. sec. 74. 1867, ch. 127, sec. 103.

75. The county commissioners shall, on their first meeting
after receiving any return of proceedings of such ditch com-
missioners, 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 ratified and the ditch opened,
when the same shall be charged against the fund provided for
such ditch purposes.

Ibid. sec. 75. 1867, ch. 127, sec. 104. 1900, ch. 635

76. The treasurer of the ditch, in executing the power con-
ferred on him by section 57 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