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shall be conclusive of the fact. The certificate herein mentioned shall be 

 signed by the chairman of the drainage district commissioners. 



Section 10. To meet any expense incurred by a board of county 

 commissioners under this act, said county is hereby authorized to issue 

 scrip or a certificate of indebtedness to an amount not exceeding the entire 

 cost. Such scrip or certificate of indebtedness shall be issued as regis- 

 tered bonds payable in not more than twenty years from the date of issue, 

 and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, 

 payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July of each year. 



Section 11. If any person or corporation shall obtain an additional 

 water power or water supply in consequence of the doing of the work herein 

 contemplated, such person or corporation shall not gain any prescriptive 

 right to the use of such additional water power or water supply, or be 

 entitled to any compensation therefor if such additional water power or 

 water supply shall hereafter be taken for public use; and no person or 

 corporation in the event of any such taking of any water power or water 

 supply, or the removal of any dam or flashboards, or the reducing or the 

 lowering of the height of any dam, or changing the dimensions thereof, 

 within the limits aforesaid, shall be entitled to any compensation for such 

 additional water power or water supply; and no person or corporation 

 shall be allowed hereafter compensation for any increased value to his or 

 its land or property, in case the said land or other property shall be taken 

 for public use, if the increased value was derived directly from work done 

 under this act. 



Section 12. The said drainage district commissioners may take in 

 the name of the drainage district, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, 

 and hold all land easements and rights in land that may be necessary to 

 effect the improvements in hand. Within thirty days after the taking 

 of any land easement or rights in land the drainage district commissioners 

 shall cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county in which 

 the land easement or rights in land lie a certificate thereof sufficiently 

 accurate for identification; and thereupon title to the same shall vest in 

 the said drainage district. 



Section 13. The said drainage district commissioners shall make 

 return to the county commissioners of the county in which the greater 

 part of the land improved lies of the number of acres of land benefited by 

 the work done or changes made under this act. The return to the assessors 

 shall also contain the names of the owners or occupants of the lands bene- 

 fited, so that they can be ascertained, and the number of acres belonging 

 to and occupied by said owners or occupants; but the return to the asses- 

 sors of any town or city need only contain the number of acres and names 

 of owners or occupants of said land in that town or city. 



Section 14. The drainage district commissioners shall make returns 

 to the county commissioners of their doings and expenditures as such 

 drainage district commissioners, and, after the approval by the county 

 commissioners of such expenditures, shall have authority to draw upon 



