86 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



SEC. 4455. [Engineer must report an assessment, etc., of cost 

 of ditches.] The commissioners shall, also by their order, direct the 

 county surveyor or engineer to make and return a schedule of all the 

 lots and lands, and public or corporate roads or railroads that will be 

 benefited, with an apportionment of the cost of location, and the labor 

 of constructing the improvement, in money, according to the benefits 

 which will result to each, and in apportioning the costs of such im- 

 provement the benefits to any lots or lands by diking the same in whole 

 or in part shall be considered with other benefits, and a specification of 

 the manner in which the improvement shall be made and completed, the 

 number of flood-gates, waterways, farm crossings and bridges neces- 

 sary, including kinds and dimensions thereof, and all county and town- 

 ship lines and railway crossings. 



SEC. 4456. [What the plat shall show.] The plat provided for 

 in section forty-four hundred and fifty-four shall be drawn upon a 

 scale sufficiently large to represent all the meandering^ of the proposed 

 improvement, and shall distinctly show r the boundary line of each lot 

 or tract of land, and of each road or railroad, to be benefited thereby, the 

 name of the owner of each lot or tract of land as the same appears upon 

 the tax duplicate at the time, the authority or company having in charge 

 or owning or controlling each public or corporate road or railroad, the 

 distance in feet through each tract or parcel of land, together with such 

 other matters as the county surveyor deems material ; the profile shall 

 show the surface, the grade line and the gradient fixed, and the county 

 surveyor shall make and file with his report an itemized bill of all costs 

 made in the proper discharge of his duties under this and the preceding 

 two sections, and shall file his report with the county auditor within 

 thirty days after making the survey and level. 



SEC. 4459. [Commissioners may change apportionment. [ If the 



commissioners find that the apportionment, reported by the county sur- 

 veyor, is unfair and unjust, and ought not to be confirmed, they shall so 

 amend it as to make it fair and just, in proportion to benefits, and if neces- 

 sary, in their opinion, they may adjourn the further hearing not exceed- 

 ing twenty days, unless for good cause, further time is necessary, to a 

 day to be fixed by them and go upon the premises, and view the same and 

 apportion the entire cost of location, and construction or any part thereof, 

 as may seem just and proper, but if parties, not included in the county 

 surveyor's apportionment, or [are] found to be benefited, and are as- 

 sessed by the commissioners, such parties shall be notified as provided 

 in section four thousand four hundred and fifty-seven, ' and the com- 

 missioners shall, on the day fixed in said notice, again meet at the aud- 

 itor's office and determine the apportionment. 



SEC. 445Qtf. [Apportionment of assessment by auditor in case of 

 subdivision, etc., of lands.] If at any time after the determination of 

 the apportionment as provided for by section four thousand four hundred 

 fifty-nine, any lot of land upon which such assessment is made be sub- 

 divided or any part thereof be sold and transferred upon the duplicates, 

 it shall be the duty of the auditor at the time he makes such transfer to 

 apportion the amount of the assessment between the owners of such lot 

 or lands pro rata, according to the nunibei of feet or acres thereof, that 

 each may own, and certify the same to the treasurer, whose duty it shall 

 be to collect such -assessment from each of such owners as so certified. 



