1040 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 507

able compensation as shall be agreed upon between the parties,
and the Clerk of the County Commissioners, who is hereby
required to keep a record of the order and report, shall be
entitled to receive for every order made and certified under
his seal of office fifty cents; for recording the report, endorsing
the confirmation thereon, and filing the same on record,
twenty-five cents. If any Drain Commissioner appointed in
any order, original or of review shall die, or remove from
the county, or be otherwise unable to act, the County Com-
missioners, as soon as practicable thereafter, shall appoint
another person in his stead, and the order and report thereon
shall be executed and received in the same manner by the
County Commissioners as if the person originally appointed
had acted.

81AR. Nothing contained in this Act shall be so construed
as to authorize the removal of any mill dam, or interference
with the legal water rights appertaining to mills, nor to divert
the water so as to deprive the owner over whose lands said
water flows of the benefits and water rights now enjoyed by
him. In case of the property or interest of any minor not
having a guardian being affected by the draining of any
swamp or low grounds, as hereinbefore provided, the Orphans'
Court of the county shall appoint a guardian to protect the
interest of such a minor.

81AS. If any owner of land or other property affected by
any proceedings hereinbefore authorized lives out of the State.
a written notice of thirty days served on the tenant or agent
of such owner of the proceedings of the Commissioners shall be
as good and sufficient as if said owner resided in the State.
The County Commissioners or Circuit Court for the county in
which proceedings may be pending, at any time before a final
decision is made, may upon application of any party thereto,
grant leave, in their discretion to said parties to amend the
petition, or any part of the proceedings thereunder that may
be defective or informal so as to bring the merits of the case
before said County Commissioners or jury of the Circuit
Court for trial, and may award costs in their discretion, ac-
cording to the right of the matter.

81AT. If any person feeling himself aggrieved by any
determination of the County Commissioners, or by any pro-
ceedings had under this Act relating to drains, may appeal
to the Circuit Court of the county in which such determination