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Tit. XV, Ch. 2. LEVEES, DRAINS AND WATERCOURSES. § 4877.
48 bond issued shall show expressly upon its face that it is to be paid only
49 by a tax assessed, levied and collected on the lands within the district
50 so designated and numbered, and for the benefit of which district such
51 bond is issued ; nor shall any tax be levied or collected for the payment
52 of said bond or bonds, or the interest thereon, on any property outside
53 the district so numbered, designated and benefited. When the board
54 of supervisors shall provide for the issuance of drainage bonds, it shall
55 determine what part, if any, of the amount assessed for the benefits
56 to highways shall be included in such bond issue, and such part, with
57 interest, shall be paid out of the proper funds in the same yearly
58 proportion and at the same times as the assessments against the lands
59 of private owners.
[S., '13, § 1989-a27; 37 G. A., ch. 344, § 6; 38 G. A., ch. 64,
§ 2 ; 38 G. A., ch. 271, § 2 ; 39 G. A., ch. 39, § 1 ; 39 G. A.,
ch. 124, § 1.]
SEC. 4877. Establishment through, two or more counties—voting
powers of boards of supervisors equalized.
1 When the desired levee or drainage district extends into or
2 through two or more counties and embraces land in two or more coun-
3 ties, the petition of one or more owners of land to be affected or bene-
4 fited by such improvement shall be presented to the county auditor
5 of each county into or through which said levee or drainage district
6 will extend, accompanied by a bond to be filed with the county auditor
7 of each of the said counties at the time of filing such petition, con-
8 ditioned as provided when the district is wholly within one county,
9 in an amount and with sureties satisfactory to and approved by the
10 board of supervisors. Upon the presentation of such petition and the
11 approval of such bond, the board of supervisors of each of said coun-
12 ties shall appoint a commissioner, and the commissioners of the sev-
13 eral counties thus appointed shall meet within thirty days thereafter
14 and appoint a competent engineer, and such commissioners and engi-
15 neer shall together make a survey of the entire lands embraced in
16 the district, and shall determine what improvement or improvements
17 in the way of levees, drains, ditches or changing of natural water-
18 courses are necessary for the reclamation of the lands described in
19 the said petition ; the engineer shall make a plat of all of the lands of
20 said district, showing thereon the proposed improvements, the eleva-
21 tions and levels of said lands, so far as he may deem necessary, and
22 a profile of said levee, drains, ditches or changes in any natural water-
23 course and shall file a copy in the auditor's office of each of said
24 counties, together with a full return of said commissioners and engi-
25 neer explaining the situation, describing the lands, the improvements,
26 what effect said improvements will have upon the lands of said dis-
27 trict, the course and length of any levee, drain, ditch or change of any
28 natural watercourse through each tract of land, the estimated cost of
29 the same, the dimensions of safd improvement, together with the
30 names of the owners of all lands included within said district, as
31 shown by the transfer books in the auditor's office, and which in their
32 opinion w„ill be affected or benefited thereby, together with such other
33 facts and recommendations as to them shall seem advisable, and espe-
34 cially whether or not in their judgment such levee or drainage district
35 should be established. Immediately upon the filing of such return,
36 plat and profile, if such recommends the establishment of the levee or