JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 787

Commissioners shall not exceed the sum of two
hundred dollars per annum, as elsewhere provided
by law.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall	In force.
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 478.
AN ACT to repeal sections sixty-five, seventy, sev-
enty-two, seventy-four, seventy-nine and eighty of
article twenty-eight, of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, title " County Commissioners," sub-title
"Draining Lands," and re-enact the same with
amendments.
SECTION 1. And be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That sections sixty-five, sev-	Repealed,
enty, seventy-two, seventy-four, seventy-nine and eighty of article twenty-eight of the Code of Public	amended and re-enacted.
General Laws, title "Commissioners," sub-title
"Draining Land," be repealed, amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows :
SEC. 65. And be it enacted, Whenever the owner
or owners of any swamp or low grounds shall deem it fit to have them drained, if the owners of said	Drainage of low grounds.
lands cannot agree, or should any be "femes covert,
infants, non compos mentis" or non-residents of the
county or counties where the awamp or low lands
are situated, they, or any of them, may petition the
County Commissioners sitting in the county where
such swamps or low lands or any part thereof are
situated for the appointment of commissioners to
locate or lay out a ditch or ditches for the purpose ;
and when such swamp or low lands are situated in
two or more adjoining counties, the County Com-
missioners of the county to which applications shall