The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-01-25

t6T0oteu III any CVhoidSs Luduo Uy the
board, and he will, and truly, assess all
benefits resulting from said improve
men.s, and all damages caused thereby.
Any commissioner failing to take the
oath within thirty days after his ap-
pointment shall be deemed to have de-
clined, and his place shall be filled by
the Board OF Supervisors, if in session,
and If not in session, by the president
of said board.
ALI vacancies on the board shall be
filled by the Board of Supervisors of
said county. But if majority in num-
ber of the owners of real property in
the district shall petition for the ap-
pointment of particular persons as com :
missioners, it shall be the duty of the
Board of Supervisors, or the president
thereof, to appoint the persons so desig-
mated. The commissioners shall elect
one Of their number as president, and
majority shall constitute quorum. The
Board of Supervisors shall rem owe any
of the board on petition of
a majority of the owners OF land within
the district, who shall also own a ma
jority of the assessed valuation of the
property therein. Upon qualifying, the
Board of Commissioners shall prepare
plans for the improvement within the
district, as prayed for in the petition,
and shall procure estimates from a
competent engineer, or engineers, of
the cost thereof. For this purpose the
Board of Commissioners may employ
such engineers and other agents as may
be needful, such engineers to give bond
payable to the district, in sum not
less than one thousand dollars, to be
fixed by the commissioners, for the
faithful discharge Of their duties, and
who shall be liable upon such bond for
negligence or incompetency, causing
loss to the county or district, and the
commissioners may provide for their
compensation, which, with all neces-
sary expenditures, including service Of
such attorneys an the commissioners
may employ, shall be taken as part oi
the cost OF the improvement. If, for
any cause, the Improvement shall not
be made, said cost shall be charged on
the real property in the district, in
cluding railroads, municipal property ,
property belonging to ecclesiastica
and eleemosynary institutions or corpo-
rations, and shall be raised and paid by
assessments in the manner hereinafter
prescribed. In the event said district
is not organized after the indebtedness
is incurred, the Board OF Supervisors
shall levy an ad valorem tax against the
land in the said proposed sea wall dis
trict, to pay such Indebtedness. The
plans and specifications shall show, not
merely the location, with the depth, i,
height, size and style of the sea wall,
but also the work to be donssin filing
in behind the sea wall, with all nee es-
sary bitches, culverts, ETC., for drains,
and the size and style thereof. In any
proceedings heretofore or hereafter ad
for the establishment of wall to pro-
tect caving banks, overhows, or the do
ing Of any other thing deemed neces-
sary, when any engineer is appointed,
and has completed surveys and reports
thereof, and for any reason the i'm
provement has been abandoned or de-
layed, or a part thereof, the engineers
reports, stakes, surveys, and monu-
ments made in said former proceed
ings, as far as practicable, or 80 much
thereof as may be applicable, and the
cost thereof in said former proceedings,
or such part thereof as used, shall be
paid for as part of the subsequent
proceedings, in which such reports,
surveys, stakes and monuments are a
part thereof as used.
Sec. 5. That the words 'sreal prop
erty", whenever used in this Act, shall
have the same meaning as when used in
the Law providing for State and county
revenues, and shall embrace all rail-
roads, all municipal property and all
real property belonging to ecclesiasti-
cal and eleemosynary institutions, or
corporations within the district.
Sec. 6. That as soon as said board
shall have formed its plans and shall
have ascertained the cost of the i'm
provements, it shall file the same with
the clerk of the Chancery Court; said
plans shall be accompanied by a map
showing the location of all sea walls and
shall be accompanied by specifications
describing the character of the improve
ments to be made, the height above and
the depth below the average water level;
the probable quantity of filing behind
the sea wall and all other work to be
done and the probable cost of protecting
said territory from caving banks, over
flows and other like dangers and drain
ing same.
Sec. Z. That said Commissioners
shall proceed to view the lands within
the district and shall inscribe In book
the description Of each tract of land
and shall assess the benefit to accrue C
each tract by reason Of such improve.
ment, and shall enter such assessment
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