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(4584-5) SEC. 5. [Upon notice, duty of owner, etc., to clean out 

 said section so apportioned.] When the apportionment of any ditch 

 provided for in sections 3 and 4 of this [act] is completed, the ditch 

 supervisor shall notify each of the lot and landowners, corporate roads, 

 railroads, township and county, assessed thereon, of the portion assigned 

 to them, and it shall be the duty of each lot and landowner, corporate 

 road, railroad, township and county, so notified, to clean out said por- 

 tion, or section, of the said ditch or watercourse, to the full deplh Und 

 capacity heretofore required by the authorities constructing the same, 

 and annually thereafter to reclean the same without further notice. It 

 shall also be the duty of all parties assessed in this section to mark 

 the terminus of their respective working section, by planting a post or 

 marker, on which shall be cut or painted the number of the section. 



(4584-6) SEC. 6. [When parties assessed fail to clean out the 

 same, supervisor may sell the work to the lowest bidder, in certain 



cases.] If there were assessed to any tract of land, road, railroad, 

 township, or county, for the construction or for the deepening and widen- 

 ing thereof as the case may be, of any ditch or watercourse, a sum less 

 than three (3) dollars, the township ditch supervisor may group these 

 small sections together as conveniently as possible, and if the parties to 

 whom they are assessed, neglect or refuse to clean out the same, and 

 keep the same in repair, the ditch supervisor is hereby authorized to 

 sell the work of cleaning out said sections to the lowest responsible bid- 

 der, and take a bond with approved surety for the faithful completion 

 of the work, and certify the cost of said work to the county auditor, 



[Costs to be taxed against land so assessed.] Who shall place 

 the same upon the tax duplicate, against the lands so assessed, pro rata, 

 and the same shall become a lien upon the land and be collected as other 

 ditch taxes. 



(4584-7) SEC. 7. [Sale of work or cleaning ditch, etc.] If any 

 landowner, corporate road, railroad, township or county, notified to 

 clean out the ditch or watercourse under the provisions of this act, 

 shall neglect or refuse to comply with the same before the i5th day of 

 October in each year, the ditch supervisor shall, after giving ten (10) 

 days' notice by posting notices in three conspicuous places in said town- 

 ship, sell the work of cleaning said section or sections to the lowest 

 responsible bidder, and take a bond as provided in section six (6) and 

 certify the cost thereof to the county auditor, as provided in section six 

 (6) of this act. And the ditch supervisor shall certify the amount due 

 the contractor, or contractors, for the work done, according to the pio- 

 visions of this act, to the township trustees, who shall order the same 

 paid out of the township ditch fund. 



(4584-8) SEC. 8. [All costs to be collected by county treasurer.] 



All costs certified to the county auditor under the provisions of this act 

 shall be collected by the county treasurer and be paid over to the treas- 

 urer of the township whence the certificate came, as township ditch funds. 



(4584-9) SEC. 9. [Township ditch fund.] The township trus- 

 tees of any township to which this act applies are hereby authorized and 

 empowered to levy a tax upon all the taxable property of said township 

 not to exceed five-tenths (5-10) of one mill upon each dollar valuation, 

 to be known as the township ditch fund for the purpose of carrying out 

 the provisions of this act. 



