The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-09-12

the petition, and any other lands that
will be benefited by said improvements,
or necessary in carrying out such i'm
proyements. and survey and locate such
drains, bitches, levees and improvements
as may be practicable and best calculat-
ed to carry out the purposes of the petit
ton, and that will be OF public benefit
or utility, or conducive TO the public
health or welfare; that said engineer be
ordered to make return OF and file his
proceedings with the Clerk of the Coun-
ty Court OF Obion County, Tennessee,
said proceedings and returns to set forth
the starting point or points, the route OF
routes, the terminus or termini of the
bitches, drains, levees and other pro-
posed improvements, OF every nature,
together with plat and profile, show
ing the bitches, drains, levees and
other improvements, the course and
length OF same approximately through
each tract Of land, as far as may
be practicable, and the total length,
and course, and elevation, as near
as may be practicable, of all lakes,
ponds and deep depressions in said dis
trict, or proposed district, the fall OBJ
tainable across said district, as we'll as
the boundaries Of the proposed district,
and the description Of the realty and
each tract OF land therein, as shown by
the tax books OF Obion County, Tenn,
and any other source Of reliable infor-
nation, together with the probable costs
OF the proposed Improvements, and also
such other facts and recommendations
as said engineer may deem best, or ma
terial; that upon the filing Of the returns
of said engineer the Court examine same,
and If said plan seems to be expedient
and meets the approval of the Court
that the Court order the Clerk to cause
notice to be given by writ or summons
to be issued by the Clerk, and to be
served upon all resident-owners of tracts
OF land or realty, who are not petition
ers within the proposed drainage dis
trict, las shown by the tax books Of Obion
County, Tenn, or by affidavits duly
filed, and upon the parties in actual
occupancy of any part Of said proposed
district, and upon any resident lien
holders or encumbrancers of any real
estate within said proposed district, as
shown by the records of Obiop County.
Tenn, and notifying them, and each OF
them, Of the tendency OF said petition,
and the prayer thereof; that said writs
or summons be issued to the Sheriff
of Obion County, Tenn, and to the
Sheriff OF any other county in Tonnes
see, that may be necessary, command
ing the Sheriffs respectively to sum-
mons the persons named in their re-
spective writs or summons to appear
before the Court on the day set by the
Court for the hearing OF the petition;
that publication be made as required
by said Act OF 1909 aforementioned
for all nonresident owners of land and
realty, lien-holders or encumbrancers
on same, and such OF those whose names
and residence can not be ascertained
after diligent inquiry, when said facts
are made to appear as prescribed by said
Act; that the Court appoint guardian
ad Item for any and all infants and per-
sons who are non compos mentis, as
prescribed and required by said Drain
age Act aforementioned; that any and
all things expedient, proper, necessary
and required by the said Drainage Act
be ordered and done under suitable or
ders and DEGREES of the Court, to the
end that said territory in the petition
mentioned, or such territory as the Court
may deem best and proper, be organ
lied into a drainage district, and with all
such lateral drains, bitches and leyees,
as may be best and necessary under all
OF the facts and circumstances, and with
all the rights and privileges mentioned
and provided in said Drainage Act itself;
that If desired drainage bonds as pro-
vided in said Drainage Act afore-men-
toned may be issued under suitable or
ders and DEGREES of the Court; that as
a part OF the expense incident to the
formation and organization OF said dis
trict all reasonable and proper attorneys
fees be allowed; and petitioners in said
petition also pray for such other, further
and general relief as they may be enti-
tied to at the hearing and under the facts.
and you, the Defendants above named,
are hereby notified that such is the
prayer of the petition in this cause.
And you are further notified that w. G.
Kelly, the engineer heretofore regularly
appointed by the Court in this cause,
has done all things by said decree and
the law required, and has on the End
day Of August, 1918, filed his
return, proceedings and report with G.
s. Talley, Clerk of the County Court of
Obion County, Tennessee, agreeable to
and in compliance with the law and said
decree so appointing him as such en-
gineer, and that said return, proceed
ings and report OF w. G. Kelly, en-
gineer, as we'll as said petition Of G. ].
Pierce, ct al, afore- mentioned, recon-
mend for organization into Drainage
District, the following de-
scribed territory situate in the First
and Sixteenth Civil Districts of Obion
County, Tennessee, and bounded and
described as follows, viz: Beginning at
a stake in the west boundary line of
the Illinois Central Railroad right of
way in the 10th Civil District OF Obion
Tenn, (t being in the right OF