Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-09-18
AS TO THE DRAINAGE OF Low LANDS.
The Irede|I County Law Amended and Made
Applicable to Rowan.

Among the important measure
passed by the last legislature wa
one affecting the county of Rewal
in regard to the drainage of lo1
lands and creeks. It is the sam
as the Iredell law of 1887, except
ing some amendment in regard
to penalties imposed, which ha
made applicable to Rowan.
Senator Whitehead Kluttz, tn,
only true representative the citi
zens of Rowan had IN the las
Legislature, was responsible 70:
it's passage and justly takes so MT
pride in said responsibility. The
law is a good one, and if heedee
will do much toward the illimina
tion of mosquitoes, diseases and
the improvement of swamp lands
The following is a copy of the
Iredell law, amended SO as to ap'
ply to Rowan:
AN ACT TO DRAIN THE LANDS IN
ROWAN COUNTY.
The General \ Assembly of North
| Carolina do enact:
SECTION l. That. whenever a
majority of the land owners on
any one of the streams lying in
the county of Rowan between GER
tain points or upon any part of
any one Of said streams shall petit
tt On the board of commissioners of
said county, it shall be the duty
of said board of commissioners to
appoint five creek commissioners
from the land owners of said
stream. Said creek commission
ers may employ a competent epgi-
neer to lay off said streams into
sections of convenient length, To-
cate the best channel for the
stream and measure the amount
of bottom. land sobbed or liable
to overflow belonging to each in
dividual owing land on said
streams between the points laid
above.
Sec 2. That a majority of said
creek commissioners shall have
power to elect one of their num-
ber chairman and may fill vacan-
cies in their own number and
shall appoint overseers from the
land owners of the different sec
tions, and in case they shall fail
or neglect TO fill vacancies occa-
stoned by death or otherwise the
said board of equity commission
ers shall upon application being
made appoint commissioners and
overseers for the purpose herein
mentioned.
SEC. 3 1t shall be the duty of
the creek ccm missioners to fur
nish the overseers appointed for
each section copy of the esti.
mated number of acres embraced
in his section, and upon notice of
ten days by said oyerseer each of
said owners of land shall furnish
one ahle-bodied hand with appro-
pirate tools as required by the
overseer for every ten acres of
land sobbed or ovarf1owed and one
such hand for every twenty acres
of low land not sobbed, and in
that proportion for any number
of acres for said number o. acres
less than ten and twenty acres in
the meaning of this act, and on
failure 80 to do shall forfeit and
pay one dollar ($1.0O) per day for
failure on each hand. which shall
be an assessment against the land
of such owner.and which may be
recovered by acti'.n before justice
of the peace of the cou.,ty III the
name of the chairman of sal!
creek commissioners, and if any
such land owner, after ten days
notice to him by said oversaer as
aforesaid shall tail, neglect ,r re-
fuse to furnish one able hodi d
hand with appropriate tools as
required by SAID o,eFseer as afore-
said, for the purpose of perform
ing labor and carrying out the
provisions of this act, he shall
be guilty of misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined not exceeding five dollars
for each day he shall have failed
to furnish said hands asafo1esaid ,
or imprisoned not exceeding hve
days for each day he shall have
failed to furnish said hand as
aforesaid.
SEC 4. 1t shall the duty Of the
creek commissioners in laying off
the streams and sections as pro-
vided for in section one of this
act to distribute the labor among
the land owners in proportion to
the number of acres of sobbed or
overfowed land and other low
land owned by them within the
estimate provided for in section
three of this act as equal y as may
be, and allot to the overseers OF
each section the hands required
of the owners of the land embrao.
ed in this section.
Sec. 5. It shall the duty OF
each overseer, with the hands sc
provided, to work each and every
year within the bounds of theil
respective sections not less than
four nor more than thirty days.
at tho discratinn of the crnak com,