LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



set forth the amount of tax transferred and bonds sold, as provided 

 in this section. 



SEC. 4481. [Assessments when county bonds are to be issued.] 

 If the commissioners determine to issue bonds of the county for the money 

 necessary to meet the expense of construction of any ditch, they shall make 

 an assessment upon all the lots, lands, public or corporate, roads or rail- 

 roads, benefited by the improvement in proportion to the apportionment 

 hereinbefore provided for, sufficient to pay the costs of location and the 

 first year's interest, and including the fees of the surveyor or engineer 

 made after locating, in superintending the construction of the improve- 

 ment, and order the same to be placed upon the duplicate for collection ; 

 and they shall, thereafter, make such assessments as may be required to 

 raise the money for the prompt payment of such bonds. 



SEC. 4482. [The form of such bonds.] The county commission- 

 ers shall issue such bonds of the county in amounts as determined by 

 them, payable out of the funds arising from such assessments, and bearing 

 interest as hereinbefore provided ; said bonds shall be signed by the county 

 commissioners and countersigned by the county auditor, who shall affix 

 his seal thereto ; such bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value, 

 and the money arising from such sale shall be used for no other purpose 

 than the construction and expense of said improvement. 



SEC. 4483. [A municipal corporation may present a petition.] 



The council of a municipal corporation may, by resolution, authorize 

 the mayor to present a petition, signed by him officially, and a bond, to 

 the county commissioners, to locate and construct a ditch described in 

 the resolution, or such council may authorize the mayor to sign officially 

 a petition and bond for a ditch, to be presented by parties interested 

 whose lands are without the limits of the corporation, whenever the 

 improvement will be conducive to the public health, convenience, or wel- 

 fare, of the whole or any portion of the inhabitants of the corporation ; 

 in such case the commissioners shall count the municipal corporation as 

 an individual petitioner, and may direct the surveyor or engineer to locate 

 the improvement in accordance with the petition, whether wholly within 

 or wholly without, or partly within and partly without, the limits of 

 the corporation ; and the surveyor or engineer, in making his schedule of 

 lots and lands benefited, may enumerate such lots and lands within or 

 without the corporate limits as are especially benefited, and also the munic- 

 ipal corporation for benefits to the health and welfare of its inhabitants. 



SEC. 4484. [The whole or a part of a municipality may be con- 

 sidered a single tract.] When the improvement equally drains or 

 otherwise benefits the whole of the territory within the limits of a munici- 

 pal corporation, or any part thereof, the surveyor or engineer, or the 

 commissioners, or the jury, if a jury be called, may consider and 

 treat such territory as a single parcel of land; and any sum appor- 

 tioned thereto shall be apportioned by the county auditor to the lots or 

 lands included therein, according to the valuation thereof for taxation. 



SEC. 4485. [Notice to municipal authorities, and proceedings 

 thereafter.] If the proposed improvement passes through or into a 

 municipal corporation the mayor of which has not signed the petition 

 therefor as provided in the preceding section, the mayor shall be notified 

 of the pendency of the petition in the same manner and at the same time 

 that the commissioners are required by section forty-four hundred and 



