ALBERT C. RITCITIE, GOVERNOR 1037

an assessment and return of their proceedings, in the manner
hereinbefore provided, which shall be subject to an order of
review as aforesaid.

81AII. The managers selected and chosen as aforesaid shall
proceed to cut, make, open, straighten, enlarge, clean out, and
repair and extend, as the case may be, said ditch or ditches, or
drains, or install drain tile located and laid out, or to he
located, laid out or extended as aforesaid and may employ such
contractors, ditchers or laborers, and may purchase, hire or
rent dredges, excavators, machines or explosives, and do such
other acts as may be necessary for the purpose. They shall
keep a regular account of their expenditures and report the
same to the yearly meeting of the taxables. All payments
shall be made by orders drawn by the managers on the treas-
urer. The treasurer shall give bonds in the name of the State
of Maryland as obligee, to be approved by the managers, in
double the amount of the assessment or taxes he may be au-
thorized to collect and receive, conditional for the faithful per-
formance of his trust and duty and the payment of any money,
and the delivery of all books, accounts and papers in his pos-
session belonging to the ditch company in his hands as treas-
urer over to his successor at the expiration of his term, and
such bond may be sued on by any person interested as public
bonds may. He shall collect all monies levied for the purpose
of cutting, making and opening or for cleaning and repairing
the ditch or ditches, or for the payment of damages and ex-
penses; and, in case of refusal or neglect of any person bound
to pay the same, shall proceed to collect and recover them in
the manner that county rates or levies are recoverable by law.
He shall settle with the taxables at their annual meeting in
March for all sums collected by him, and shall be entitled to
retain five per centum of his receipts as a compensation for his
services.

81AI. The treasurer of the ditch, in executing the power
conferred on him, 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 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