134 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



SEC. 4583. [Payment for work done.] As soon as the work is 

 completed in conformity with such sale, and to the satisfaction of the 

 commissioners, they shall certify the amount due each person to the 

 auditor of the proper county, and the auditor shall draw orders for the 

 payment of such amount out of the county treasury; but any person 

 interested may pay the amount of the purchase money to the commis- 

 sioners, at any time before the same is charged on the duplicate, to be 

 paid by them to the purchasers of such section or sections respectively. 



SEC. 4584. [Commissioners may keep channel clear.] County 

 commissioners have the same power to keep the channel of any stream of 

 living water in any county free and clear of all drifts, timber, or other 

 obstructions, in the same manner as is provided in this chapter for 

 clearing the same. 



CLEANING AND REPAIR OF DRAINS AND WATERCOURSES. 



(4584-1) SEC. i. [Township ditch supervisor.] That in any 

 township in which there have been located and established county or 

 township ditches, or in which county or township ditches may here- 

 after be located and established, there may at the time and in the manner 

 provided by law for the election of township officers, be elected a town- 

 ship ditch supervisor, who shall serve for a term of three years, and 

 until his successor is elected and qualified. In case a vacancy occurs 

 in this office, by resignation or otherwise, the township trustees shall 

 fill said vacancy by appointment, until the next annual election. 



(4584-2) SEC. 2. [Oath, bond, etc.] Before entering upon the 

 duties of his office the township ditch supervisor shall take an oath of 

 office, and shall give bond, with sureties approved by the trustees, in 

 such sum as they determine, payable to them, and conditioned for the 

 faithful performance of his duties as such ditch supervisor, and said 

 bond shall be recorded by the township clerk, and filed with him, and 

 be carefully preserved. 



(4584-3) SEC. 3. [Supervisor to redivide all ditches into the 

 original working sections assessed to owners for construction, wid- 

 ening or deepening.] It shall be the duty of the township ditch super- 

 visor to divide all township ditches into the working sections assessed 

 to the lot and landowners, corporate roads, railroads, township and 

 county, for the construction thereof, or for the deepening and widening 

 thereof; and to divide all county ditches into working sections propor- 

 tionate to the assessment upon lot and landowners, corporate roads, rail- 

 roads^ township and county, for the construction, or for the deepening and 

 widening of the same. In all of said divisions into working sections, 

 the latest apportionment made under petition shall be taken as the basis 

 of said division. Provided, however, that in case the record of any 

 ditch proceedings has been lost or destroyed, the township trustees shall 

 reapportion same according to section 4551 R. S., and furnish a copy 

 thereof to the township ditch supervisor. 



(4584-4) SEC. 4. [When ditch located in two or more town- 

 ships.] When an established ditch or water-course is located in two 

 or more townships, the township ditch supervisors of the townships in 

 which the said improvement is located, shall together make the appor- 

 tionment provided for in section 3 of this act. 



