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297. Grievances. The law usually makes abundant 

 provision for the satisfying of aggrieved parties. An 

 owner of land who thinks that he is not offered proper 

 compensation for right of way privileges, or other damages 

 resulting from the passage of a drain through his property, 

 or who may think that the taxes apportioned to him are 

 unjust, will find provision in the law by which he may 

 appeal from the first decisions. In some cases appraisers 

 are appointed to pass upon the question of damages. In 

 some cases provision is made for taking the matter before 

 a court and jury. When assessment and apportionment 

 of taxes are questioned, the matter is sometimes decided 

 by a board of review. It is probably usually true that 

 when, in cases of appeals of this kind, the damages are 

 not increased, or the taxes are not reduced, the party so 

 appealing must stand the expense resulting therefrom. 

 It is true in some states at least. 



298. Time a factor. Time seems always to be rec- 

 ognized as an important factor in the proceedings leading 

 to the establishment of a drainage district. The law 

 prescribes a minimum, and frequently a maximum period 

 of time that must elapse in the calling of meetings, in the 

 sending or publishing of notices, in the execution of work 

 of committees, commissions, or engineers, in the filing 

 of claims for damages, and in the time that must elapse 

 from the time of the dismissal of one petition until an- 

 other petition for a similar enterprise may be filed. 



299. Records. The law recognizes the importance 

 of accurate and complete records. It is probably true 

 that in all cases, petitions, with all supplemental informa- 

 tion and data required with them, must be filed or re- 

 corded. The same thing is true of the minutes of meetings, 

 hearings, protests, claims, estimates, maps, and the like. 



