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and the money arising therefrom shall be used for no other purpose- 

 than the construction and expense of said improvement. 



(4510-35) SEC. 18. [Proceedings when ditch, drain, etc., is 

 situated in more than one county.] If the ditch, drain or water- 

 course, the outlet of which is such sink-hole, fissure, break or opening 

 in the earth or rock thereof, is situated in more than one county, the 

 application shall be made to the commissioners of each of such counties, 

 and the surveyors or engineers of each county shall make a report for 

 each county. A majority of the commissioners of each county, when 

 in joint session, shall be competent to find in favor of or against said 

 improvement, and to do anything authorized by this act, but no com- 

 missioner or trustee shall serve in any case in which he is personally 

 interested, and any two commissioners or any two trustees, as the case 

 may be, may form a quorum for the transaction of business under this 

 act for their respective county or township. 



(4510-36) SEC. 19. [Penalty for failure to perform duty.] If 



an engineer, or auditor, clerk, trustee, or commissioner or probate judge 

 neglect or refuse to perform any duty imposed upon him by the pro- 

 visions of this act, he shall forfeit and pay a fine of twenty-five dollars 

 for every such neglect, to be recovered before any officer having juris- 

 diction, in the name of the state, for the benefit of the common schools 

 of the county, at the suit of the party aggrieved thereby. 



(4510-37) SEC. 20. [May provide for cleaning ditch, drain, or 

 water-course. j The commissioners of the county or the trustees of 

 the township, as the case may be, may hear and determine under the 

 same petition, the necessity of cleaning out any ditch, drain or water- 

 course, the outlet of which is such sink-hole, fissure, break or opening 

 in the earth or rock thereof, sought to be improved, as the necessity 

 of the case requires, and shall order such entry to be made in their jour- 

 nal as in their judgment is required. All estimates, either by the sur- 

 veyor or engineer, or commissioners or trustees, shall be made in the 

 manner provided in this act. 



(4510-38) SEC. 21. [Fees for services, etc.] The fees for ser- 

 vices rendered by county or township officers under this act shall be 

 the same as those allowed by statute for like services in ditch cases, and 

 the auditor or clerk, as the case may be, shall keep a complete record, 

 in a journal to be provided for that purpose, -of all proceedings under 

 this act before their respective board of commissioners or trustees. 



JOINT COUNTY DITCHES BETWEEN COUNTIES OF OHIO AND THOSE OF 

 OTHER BORDERING STATES. 



(4510-39) SEC. i. [Joint inter-state county ditches; petition; 

 bond; notice from official of other state; order for consultation and 

 meeting to view line.] Whenever the commissioners of any county 

 of this state shall find on file with the auditor of the county, a petition, 

 or copy of one, signed by one or more landowners, whose lands would 

 be assessed for the construction of the improvement prayed for, setting 

 forth the necessity of the location, deepening or -widening of any ditch, 

 drain or water-course, for the reasons that the same will be of benefit 

 to the public health, welfare or convenience, and describing the point 

 of beginning, route 'and terminus thereof, together with a bond, with 

 two sureties, approved by the county auditor, in the amount of two 



