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Rivers, Creeks, and CoastalWaters.
Article 1.
Commissioners for Openingand Clearing Streams.
§ 77‑1. Countycommissioners to appoint commissioners.
Where any inland river orstream runs through the county, or is a line of their county, the boards ofcommissioners of the several counties may appoint commissioners to view suchriver or stream, and make out a scale of the expense of labor with which theopening and clearing thereof will be attended; and if the same is deemed withinthe ability of the county, and to be expedient, they may appoint and authorizethe commissioners to proceed in the most expeditious manner in opening andclearing the same. (Code, s. 3706; 1887, c. 370; Rev., s. 5297; C.S., s.7363.)
