New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-24

cultural purposes, and where the same
are located. and what bitches and drains
should be constructed to drain the said
land. In the execution of this act. the
said commission is hereby authorized and
directed to cause to be made a complete
and accurate survey of the location size,
route, beginning and termination of a
comprehensive system of bitches or
drains sufficient in number and size and
length, and SO located as to drain in the
most practicable manner such low wet
or swamp lands owned by the state as IN
the opinion of the commission should be
included within such system. And to ac-
complish said purpose, said commission
is directed to employ within a reasonable
time after the approval of this act, one or
more competent civil, hydraulic, or topo-
graphical engineers and such other
agents and assistants as it may find nee
essary to comply with the provisions of
this act, and to fix their salary or COM
pensation.
Such engineer, or engineers, shall upon
appointment at once, under the direction
of said commission, make the necessary
surveys and take the necessary levels of
such low, wet or swamp lands owned by
the state. and shall, as soon as practic-
able, lay out complete plan Of a system
most practlcable way when completed,
drain such lands and fit them for the
purpose, to which they are by nature
adaptable.
Sec. 2. Such engineers shall keep an
accurate and complete set of field notes
and snail make a complete map and re-
pOLL VI LIE Sctiu system OIL uIdlHS ueLeT-
mined and found to be the most feasible,
practicable and best calculated to accom-
pllsh the desired end, which map shall
show the location, length, width and
depth, the beginning, course and termina-
ton of each proposed drain or ditch in
the system, and which report shall show
the legal description of each tract of
land according to government subdivi-
Stons, necessary to be taken or interfered
within order to construct said system of
drainage, and shall show the estimated
cost of construction of each drain, and
of the entire system SO laid out by them,
according to their best judgment.
Sec. 3. Upon the completion of his
work said engineer shall place in the
hands of said commission not later than
Nov. first QsD, nineteen hundred six
Q9O6), all his field notes, maps
elusive property. of the State of Mime
sofa. Said commission shall at once cause
said maps field notes and reports to be
filed in the office of the state auditor,
and shall make complete report Of the
doings of the commission under this act,
with an itemized account of it's eXpendi-
lures, and containing a statement of the
ownership whether by the state or by
private owners, OF all lands which will
require to be taken or interfered with,
according to the report of the engineers,
in order to establish said system Of drains,
which report shall embody the maps and
report of the engineer or sufficient there
of to enable the Legislature to obtain
an intelligent idea of the subject, together
with such suggestions and recommended
tons as the commission may think
proper A sufficient number of copies of
the report of said commission shall be
printed and supplied to the members of
the year nineteen hundred seven Q9OO,
and the various officers and boards Of the
state.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April 13, 1905.