Commissioners for the Rural districts with- in the limits of their respective districts, to construct, lay, and maintain upon any land adjoining or near to a public Road any ditches, drains, water-courses, or other works for the drainage of such road, and for the purposes aforesaid, or any other purpose connected with the exercise of their powers under this Ordinance, to enter upon any such lands, and to authorise Surveyors, Workmen, or others, to enter thereupon, with or without carts or carriages, Pro- vided that it shall not be lawful for any of the purposes of this Ordinance to pull down or interfere with any House or Building, or to make use of any yard, garden, or orchard without the consent of the owner, and also of the occupier, if any. Provided also that the owners and occupiers of any lands taken, used or entered upon for the purposes afore- said shall be compensated for any damage sustained by them, by or in consequence of any exercise of the powers of this Ordinance. And in case of disagreement as to the amount of compensation the same shall be determined by two arbitrators, one to be chosen by the Board, and the other by the person claiming compensation, or by an Umpire to be chosen by such two arbitra- tors.

35. If any owner, occupier, or other per- son (without due authorisation) shall alter, obstruct, destroy, or in any manner inter- fere with any such ditches, drains, water- courses, or other works as last aforesaid, or (without due authorisation) shall alter, ob- struct, or in any manner interfere with any public Road, such person shall pay to the Treasurer of the Province for the use of the Board of Commissioners for the district all expenses which may be incurred in re- instating and making good the works so altered, obstructed, or interfered with, and shall also forfeit any sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

36. In case any tree or timber shall fall from adjacent Land so as to obstruct any public Road, it shall be lawful for the Board of Commissioners for the district, by notice in writing, to require the occupier or owner of such land to remove the same with- in a reasonable time to be specified in such notice; and such occupier or owner failing so to do, the Board shall be at liberty to remove the same, and the expense of so do- ing shall be paid by such occupier or owner to the Treasurer of the Province for the use of the Board.

37. All the powers of the respective Boards of Commissioners may be exer- cised by any two Members of the Board.

38. The business of every Board of Com- missioners shall be transacted at Meetings of the Board which shall be holden at such times and places, and shall be adjourned in such manner as the Board shall agree upon or appoint. Any two Commissioners shall have power to call a special Meeting of the Board by giving to the other Commissioner, or leaving at his place of abode, a notice or notices in writing, signed by the Commis- sioners calling the Meeting, and specifying the time and place thereof, which notice or notices shall be so given or left three clear days at least before the day appointed for such Meeting. No business shall be trans- acted unless two Commissioners be present. All questions at a Meeting of any Board of Commissioners shall be decided by the ma- jority of the Commissioners present and vo- ting. A minute of every Resolution adopt- ed at any such Meeting shall be entered in a book to be kept for the purpose, and shall be signed by the Commissioners who shall have agreed thereto.

39. Every Board of Commissioners shall in a book to be kept by them for that purpose, enter true and particular ac- counts of all sums of money by them re- ceived and expended, which book shall, at all reasonable times, be open to the inspec- tion of any Rate-payer. All such accounts with all Vouchers and papers relating there- to, together with a full Abstract or Balance sheet thereof, signed by two at least of the Commissioners, shall yearly at such Gene- ral Meeting as aforesaid, be submitted to such meeting, and shall (as soon thereafter as conveniently may be) be examined and audited by two or more persons to be ap- pointed for that purpose by such Meeting.

40. A copy of such Abstract or Balan-