116 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



hereby authorized and granted the privilege of entering upon lands or 

 causing the same to be done in this state, along any portion of said located 

 ditch or its tributaries, to perform any work which may be assigned them 

 to do by the joint-board when in session, as provided for in this act. 



(4510-59) SEC. 21. [Division of costs among lands affected.] 



The commissioners of the county or counties in Ohio affected by such 

 improvement, shall proceed to order some competent engineer to make 

 a division of said costs of location and construction so apportioned to 

 Ohio, among the lands so affected as named in the list of lands affected, 

 submitted by report of engineers of joint-board. 



(4510-60) SEC. 22. [Further proceedings; assessment of lands 

 not contained in engineers' report.] The further proceedings shall 

 be in conformity with the existing statutes for the location of county or 

 joint county ditches taken at this stage of the proceedings. The com- 

 missioners, at their hearing on the apportionment made, as provided in 

 section twenty [(4510-58)] of this act, shall have authority to assess 

 any other lands not mentioned in first report of engineers, provided for 

 in section sixteen [(4510-54)] of this act, as they may deem to be bene- 

 fited thereby ; provided, that the owners of said lands shall have due 

 notice thereof. 



(4510-61) SEC. 23. [Work beyond state limits.] The commis- 

 sioners of any county or counties in this state, in which are located lands 

 affected and charged for the improvement or construction of any ditch, 

 drain, or watercourse, under the provisions of this act, are instructed to 

 cause to be performed any work which may be assigned to them outside 

 of the limits of this state, in the same manner as under the existing stat- 

 utes for similar duties; provided, that the necessary privilege to do so 

 has been granted by the state legislature of the state where said lands 

 are located through which the said work is to be constructed. 



(4510-62) SEC. 24. [Fees.] The fees of all officials and assist- 

 ants under this act, shall be the same as for like services in county ditch 

 work. 



(4510-63) SEC. 25. [Claims for compensation, damages, etc.] 

 All claims for compensation and damages shall be filed with the county 

 auditor on or before the day of hearing on the apportionment. And all 

 such claims allowed, together with costs of location actually incurred,, 

 shall be paid out of the county fund. 



JOINT INTERSTATE COUNTY DITCHES. 



(4510-64) SEC. i. [Joint interstate county ditches; commis- 

 sioners may enter into agreement for construction.] The commission- 

 ers of any county in this state, when a petition is filed with the auditor 

 of the county praying for the location or improvement of any ditch, drain 

 or watercourse in such county, the waters from which flow into or 

 through an adjoining county in another state, are of the opinion that 

 the outlet for such proposed improvement is insufficient, may, and they are 

 hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the commissioners, 

 or other proper officials of such adjoining county, for the construction 

 or improvement of the outlet for such ditch, drain or watercourse by 

 such lower county, and the payment by such upper county to the lower 

 county of such sum of money as may be agreed upon between said com- 

 missioners and the proper officials of the lower countv for the construe- 



