70 INDEX. 
Page. 
Special assessments, principles and legality 5-6 
Soil fertility- 
relation to drainage benefits 12 
valuation in drainage benefits 18 
Soils, porosity as a factor in drainage 18 
South Carolina, law — 
for assessments method, note 56 
on railroad benefits 33 
State property, drainage assessment, liability 9 
Stock, water, assessment of drainage damages 50 
Subdistricts — 
assessments, court decisions 26-28 
need for, assessments, etc 26-28 
Surface water — 
laws affecting special benefits 14-16 
removal by drainage, benefit to railroad 40 
Surface waters. See Waters. 
Swamp lands, relation to drainage 53, 55 
Tax, relation to assessment 5 
Taxation, principles, comparison with assessment 6 
Tenant farmer, exemption from assessment 9 
Tennessee, laws on drainage assessments 47 
Terms, definitions and use 61 
Textbooks, drainage, lack information on assessments 2 
Timber lands, assessment of drainage 49 
Town lots, special benefit assessments 30-31 
Towns — 
assessments, court decision 31 
incorporated benefit assessments 30-32 
Traffic security, drainage benefit to railroad 14 
Trestles, railroad, element of benefit by drainage 41 
Utah, assessment of drainage damage to railroads 44 
Viewers, need of legal knowledge 23 
Virginia — 
assessment of drainage damages to railroads 44 
law — 
for assessments method, note 56 
on railroad benefits 33 
Washington, State, decision on railroad assessments 39 
Waterc >urse, definition 14 
Watercourses — 
assessments for bridges, etc., in drainage cases 45 
laws regarding 14-15 
Watering places — 
drainage damage assessments 50 
stock, damage by drainage plant, liability 50 
Waters, surface — 
definition 14 
laws regarding 14-15 
West Virginia — 
law on railroad benefits 33 
laws on drainage assessments 47 
Wetness, Land, factor on drainage benefits 17 
Wisconsin — 
assessment of drainage damage to railroads 44 
drainage — 
assessment form 60-61 
law on reassessments 25 
laws 28 
form for assessment of actual value benefits 60-61, 62 
Wyoming, assessment of drainage damage to railroads 44 
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