The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-30
LEGAL.
Published in The Topeka State Journal
January 30, 1911
HOUSE BILL NO. IS

HOUSE BILL NO. 3S1.
AN ACT relating to navigable streams
and holding of lands necessary for the
Improvement thereof to prevent over
Be dramatically the Legislature of the.
State of Kansas:
Sectione1. When harbor lines have been
established by Federal authority along
naVlgable streams running through drain
age districts, now or hereafter organized
under Chapter 215 Laws of 1905, and acts
amendatory or supplemental thereto, the
appropriation of lands for making the inn
provementS provided for in said act is
hereby declared to be necessary for the
protection of the health, life and property
of the people of, the district.
Sec. 2. The land so necessary to be ap-
propriated snail consist of all land lying
between such harbor lines, together with
strip forty feet wide on the land side
of, and contiguous to such harbor lines.
Sec. g. That whenever private parties
or corporations claim to own any part of
the land so to be appropriated in any
such drainage district, having taxable
property to the amount of not less than
lorty million dollars as shown by the
assessment roll of the preceding year and
which shall have deposited with the
Treasurer of the county wherein such
land is situated. money to compensate for
the appropriation of land necessary for
the making of such improvements, the
Governor when satisfied that the money
SO deposited, is amply sufficient to make
full and adequate compensation for such
property so to be appropriated, shall
thereupon issue a proclamation declaring
that the State of kansas has taken and
appropriated such land, describing the
same, and proclaiming that from and
after the date of publication of such
proclamation said property and the right
to the possession thereof vests in the state
of Kansas. Such proclamation shall be pub
lished in the official paper of the county
wherein the land SO appropriated is sit
uated, and shall be notice to all parties
interested that the State of Kansas has
taken and appropriated the land therein
described, and thereupon the Governor
sail take and hold possession of said
land in the name and on behalf of the
STATE. Provided however, the Governor
may appoint and designate the Board Of
Directors of the Drainage District in
Which such lands are situated, as agents
of the State to take and hold such possess
sion for and on behalf of and in the name
of the State, and the possession of such
be possession by the state; and the
Sheriff of the county wherein such land
it situated shall upon the request of the
Governor or such agent, put them in
possession of such property.
Sec. a. That from and after the issuing
and publishing of such proclamation, any
person interfering with the possession of
such property by the State or its agent,
shall be deemed guilty of a n1isdemeanor
in a sum of not less than 800 more
that $1,000. or by imprisonment not less
than thirty nor more than ninety days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment;
and the sheriff of the county wherein
such land is situated upon request by the
Governor, shall remove all persons inter-
fering with the possession of the state or