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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 35

drains or other improvements on a map, drawings or aerial
photograph to a suitable scale.

(2)    A general delineation of the boundary of
the area affected, with the general location in the county
indicated.

(3)    A general delineation of the boundaries of
the lands within the area owned by each individual assessed,
with an estimate of the acreage which each contains.

(4)    The dimensions and profiles of the proposed
ditches or drains or other improvements.

61.

The county commissioners shall at their first
meeting[,] after receiving such report from the drainage
viewers, examine it, and if it is found not to be in due
form and in accordance with the law it shall be referred
back to the drainage viewers to be corrected and returned to
the county commissioners at a subsequent meeting. If the
report is found to be in due form and in accordance with the
law the county commissioners shall appoint a day for a
public hearing upon the report and petition and shall give
not less than thirty days' previous notice of the time and
place of the hearing, by notice published in a newspaper or
newspapers published in the county or counties in which the
lands affected are located, and by a written or printed
notice mailed to each person named in the report. A COPY OF
THE REPORT SHALL BE SENT TO THE STATE SECRETARY OF
AGRICULTURE AND TO THE STATE SOIL CONSERVATION COMMITTEE.
During this time a copy of the report shall be on file in
the office of the clerk of the county commissioners, and
shall be open to the inspection of any landowner or other
person interested, and the notices shall so state.

74.

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] SOIL CONSERVATION COMMITTEE.

75.

The board of managers [so elected or appointed, and
their successors, so annually thereafter] SHALL call a
meeting of the taxables on the second Saturday in January OF
EACH YEAR. 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 taxables at any time, for which
notice shall be given as aforesaid, and in addition a