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the required notice has been given, shall be authorized and
are directed to appoint such managers.

58. The Board of Managers so elected or appointed
under Section 57 shall proceed to determine, by the drawing
of lots, which of their number shall serve until the date of
the first regular annual meeting, as hereinafter provided in
this sub-title, and for two years thereafter, which one shall
serve until the date of the first regular annual meeting and
for one year thereafter, and which one shall serve until the
date of the first regular annual meeting.

59. The Board of Managers so elected or appointed hav-
ing determined the length of term of the several members,
shall proceed at once to organize by electing from among
their number a chairman and a secretary.

60. The Board of County Commissioners shall deliver to
the Board of Managers one copy of the report and map of
the drainage viewers as confirmed by the Board of County
Commissioners. They shall retain one copy of the said
report and map in their official records and shall deliver
the third copy of the report and map to the State Drainage
Engineer.

61. The Board of Managers so elected or appointed, and
their successors, so annually thereafter call a meeting of the
taxables on the second Saturday in January. They shall
give ten days' previous notice of the meeting by notices
posted in four of the most public places in the vicinity of
the drainage project, stating the time, place and object of
the meeting. They may call a special meeting of the tax-
ables at any time, for which notice shall be given as afore-
said, and in addition a written or printed notice shall be
mailed to each of the taxables.

62. At such annual meetings the taxables shall elect
a successor to that manager whose term expires as of that
date and to any other or others whose death or resignation
may have occurred since the last regular meeting. They
shall receive the annual report of the Board of Managers,
and shall transact such other business as may properly
come before them..

68. Should the managers for the time being fail to
call an annual meeting of the taxables as aforesaid, or,
such meeting have been called, should a quorum fail to
be present, then in either case the Board of County Com-
missioners, upon proof being given, is authorized and