122 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



SEC. 4526. [Ditch to be divided into sections.] The trustees, in 

 locating and establishing a ditch, shall divide the same into suitable sec- 

 tions, not less in number than the number of owners of the land through 

 which the same may be located, and apportion the sections equitably to 

 the parties benefited, according to the benefits derived therefrom, and 

 shall pi ascribe the time within which the work shall be completed, and 

 by whom done, and order that each working section, beginning at the 

 mouth of the ditch, shall be completed at least two days earlier than 

 the one next above it; and the day upon which the trustees conclude 

 their proceedings on the petition, shall be deemed the date of their 

 decision thereon. 



SEC. 4527, [Fees of officers and others.] The following fees 

 shall be considered lawful allowances for locating and establishing ditches 

 urder this chapter: Township trustees, one dollar and fifty cents per 

 day each ; township clerk, for recording proceedings of trustees, ten 

 cents per hundred words ; for apportioning cost of locating and recording 

 the same, twenty-five cents; for each notice or statement, ten cents per 

 hundred words ; chainmen and axmen, each one dollar per day ; engineer, 

 four dollars per day for locating, and three dollars per day for making 

 plat, profile and specifications. 



SEC. 4528. [Report of trustees to clerk.] Within five days after 

 their decision on the petition, the trustees shall make a full and com- 

 plete report of their proceedings had thereon to the township clerk, 

 and they shall designate therein the amount of costs made in locating 

 such ditch, and shall prescribe the time when such costs shall be paid, 

 together with the width, depth, and flare of the ditch determined upon. 



SEC. 4529. [Duties of the clerk thereon.] The clerk shall record 

 the report in the ditch journal of the township, and apportion the 

 payment of the costs of location to the parties interested in such ditch, 

 in the same manner as is herein provided for the apportionment of the 

 labor of construction ; and the clerk shall prepare for the use of each 

 person having costs to pay and labor to perform, a brief statement in 

 writing, or by printed blank filled out, describing the apportionment of 

 such ditch, together with the length, depth, width, and flare of the same, 

 the amount of costs assessed against such person, when to be paid, and 

 by what time work must be completed. 



SEC. 4530. [Time to complete work may be extended.] The 

 trustees, at the expiration of the time specified for the completion of 

 such work, may, if they deem it necessary and proper, extend the time 

 for the completion of the same to a time not exceeding four months 

 from the time previously specified, and the clerk shall record such 

 extension of time on the ditch journal. 



SEC. 4531. [Flood-gates may be ordered.] When the trustees 

 have located and established any such ditch, they may, if they deem it 

 necessary, make an order requiring flood-gates or water-ways to be 

 erected along the line thereof at all places where the owners of land 

 along such ditch may desire to build or place any fence over the same; 

 and the trustees may prescribe in their order the length, height, and 

 kind of flood-gates or water-ways to be erected at all such fence crossings, 

 and the persons owning the land upon which the same may be erected 

 shall thereafter keep the same in good repair. 



