136 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



(4584-10) SEC. 10. [Compensation to ditch supervisor.] The 

 township ditch supervisor shall be allowed one dollar and fifty cents 

 per diem, for the time actually engaged in performing the duties of his 

 office, said compensation to be paid by the township trustees, out of 

 the township ditch fund, upon presentation of an itemized account, veri- 

 fied upon oath by the township ditch supervisor. 



[Assistant.] The township ditch supervisor shall be allowed 

 one assistant, when actually engaged in measuring a ditch or ditches. 

 Said assistant shall receive one dollar per day for the time actually em- 

 ployed, and shall be paid by the trustees out of the township ditch fund, 

 upon the certificate of the ditch supervisor. 



(4584-11) SEC. ii. [Act not to apply to tiled ditch.] Where 

 any county or township ditch, or any part thereof, has been tiled, or 

 may hereafter be tiled, said ditch, or the part thereof which has been 

 tiled, shall not be affected by the provisions of this act. Provided said 

 tile is of sufficient capacity to carry all the water drainage through said 

 ditch or watercourse so as not to flood the adjacent lands above; but 

 if said tile is small and insufficient to provide the necessary drainage, 

 the surface ditch shall be kept open by the provisions of this act. 



(4584-12) SEC. 12. [Owner must keep ditch free of fallen tim- 

 ber, logs, etc.; penalty for failure.] Every person or corporation 

 through whose lands any ditch improvement is constructed, must keep 

 it free, and clear of fallen timber, tree-tops, logs and such like obstruc- 

 tions, upon his or its premises ; and in case of a failure to do so, any 

 person or corporation aggrieved by any such obstructions may notify 

 the township ditch supervisor of the fact, in writing, who must at once 

 examine the premises and inquire into the truth of the statement, and, 

 if he find the statement to be true, he must immediately notify the owner 

 of the land on which such obstruction exists, to remove it within a 

 reasonable time, not exceeding twenty days. If the owner so notified 

 fail to remove the obstructions, the ditch supervisor must at once cause 

 the same to be removed at the expense of such owner, and certify such 

 expense to the auditor, who must place the same upon the tax duplicate, 

 as an assessment upon the lands of such person or corporation. This 

 assessment will be a lien upon such lands and must be collected as other 

 ditch taxes, and be paid over to the township treasurer as provided in 

 section 8 of this act. And the ditch supervisor shall certify any cx^ 

 pense accruing under this section to the township trustees for pavment 

 as provided in section 7. 



Cleaning and repairing ditch located in more than one county, see (451011) 

 Cleaning and repairing on petition in Lucas county, see (451017) 

 Smkho es, fissures, breaks, etc., protection and treatment of, see (451018) 



LEVEES. 



SEC 4585. [Probate court may order construction of levees.] 

 The probate court of any county, may whenever found to be conducive 

 to the public health, convenience or welfare, cause to be located estab- 

 lished and constructed as hereinafter provided, a levee within the county 

 along any stream, watercourse, lake or body of water, or near any stream' 

 watercourse, lake or body of water of any kind, for the protection of 

 land from overflow. 



