The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
published in The Topeka State Journal
April g. 1902
SENATE BILL NO. 4s4.

AN ACT to amend Sections and of
Chapter 215, Session Laws of Kansas.
1913, being an act entitled "An Act in
relation to natural watercourses, pro-
v1ding for the protection, control. deep
enlng, widening, removing distractions
FROM changing. regulating. establishing
and maintaining the channels thereof;
the construction, maintenance and re-
pair OF levees along the same to prevent
overflow and the raising or elevation of
railroad-tracks and public highways
that interfere with the construction and
maintenance of such 1evees; the con-
strucuon and regulation of drains and
other works conducive to the public
health, convenience and welfare in dis
tricts subject to overflow; and to these
ends providing for and authorizing the
known as drainage districts, and pre-
scribing the duties and defining the
and repeating o Said Pu orieinaI SECTIONS
and of Chapter 215 of the Session Laws
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
Section l. That Section of Chapter
2l5 Of the Laws OF 1905 be amended to
tition for the incorporation and organiza-
ton of a drainage district shall be ad-
sioners of the county in in which which the lands
district are situated; the petition shall de-
corporated by sections or subdivisions
of sections according to the government
survey or by metes and bounds and state
That the lands and property therein en-
braced are subject to injury and dam
age from the overflow of some natural
the improvement of the channel of such
watercourse. the construction and MAIN
tenance of levees, drains or other works
are necessary to prevent such overflow,
and that such improvements or works
will be conducive to the public health,
convenience or welfare; and such petition
shall contain a prayer that all of the
territory within the boundaries defined
IN the petition be Incorporated as drain
district a 70 To
be therein designated If any lands to be
included in said district lie within the
ficient to describe same by their appro-
Pirate number as lots or block or parts
of lots or blocks.
Section . That Section 6 of said Chap
ter 215 be amended so as to read fol-
lows: Section 6. That it shall be the duty
of the board of county commissioners in
the provisions of this act to cause en-
try to be made upon its records showing
and orders made pursuant to the preced-
ing sections, which entry shall define the
limits of the. drainage district to be so
Incorporated in conformity to the descrip-
ton contained in the petition, and such
entry shall fix the time and place of
officers of such drainage district as are
hereinafter required to be elected and
designate five taxpayers residing within
said district, three to act judges and
two to act as clerks of such election
and all declarations, determinations, find
of county commissioners so entered of rec
ord shall be conclusive on all persons. so
shall ever be disputed by any one, and
such record. or a properly authenticat-
ed copy thereof, shall be conclusive evil
in recited and of the corporate existence
of such drainage district: Provided that
the fact that the lands described in drain
age districts heretofore Incorporated I'M
der the provisions of said chapter 215 are
described by sections or subdivisions of
survey. or as lots or blocks or parts of
lots or blocks by their appropriate num-
Der shall not invalidate said petitions or
invalidate the orders of the board of
districts.
Section 8. That said original sections 8
and of chapter 215 are hereby repealed.
Section 4. This act shall take effect
and be. in force from and after its publ
1 hereby certify that the above bill orig
mated in the Senate, and passed that body
February &c, 1909.
w. ]. FITZGERALD,
President :. q +. the Wy Senate
Passed the House March 5, 1909.
Speaker of 4 the . L H9nse.
Approved March H., Isos -e -Ous''
STATE OF KANSAS.
Office of the Secretary of State.
1, c. E. DENTON, Secretary of State
of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify
that the above and foregoing is a correct
copy of the original enrolled bill now on
file in my office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have
hereunto subscribed my name and affixed
my official seal, this 18th day of March,
1909.
(SeaD c. E. DENTON,
Secretary of State.
BY J. T. BOTKIN,
Asst Secretary of State.