Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

hearing from time to time and upon
the hearing may, i demanded,
frame issues and empanel Q jury
and try the questions Of benefits
issues shall be tried by the court. The
court may order all necessary amend
ments Of the proceedings and all amend
ments of said former assessments Of BEN
Gifts by the jury found necessary and
make an order validating said former as
SessmentS of benefits or said assessments
of benefits SO amended.
4. Said order of valuation shall direct
all necessary amendments shall cure all
defects in said former proceedings, shall
render valid and binding the former or
der of confirmation or said order of con-
firmation as amended by the court, and
shall be final and conclusive upon all in
terested parties, unless appealed from
within thirty days from the entry Of said
order. Notice of the entry Of said order
shall be given as provided in section
1379-24 of the statutes.
5. This section shall be retroactive
and apply to all orders of confirmation
of assessments heretofore made in drain
age proceedings.
Section t379-32c. /. No person or pri-
waite corporation shall without the written
consent of the commissioners of drain
age district, cut through or dig away or
remove the spoil bank of any district
ditch and no person or corporation shall
connect any ditch with drainage district
ditch or canal except such connection be
made either by means Of tile or metal
tubes SO placed as to defect the water
downstream in said ditch or canal, or by
means of properly constructed apron
and drop with raised sides and wings con-
able material, so made as to prevent the
water of such lateral bitches cutting
away or into the banks of the drainage
district ditch or canal. Such lateral
ditch shall not have sleeper grade for
two hundred feet from it's junction with
the drainage district ditch Or canal with
which it connects than the grade of the
bottom of the ditch or canal with which
the lateral connects Immediately below
the connection.
2. Any person or corporation violating
the provisions of this section shall be
punished by fine of not less than five
dollars nor more than twenty-five dol
lars and shall be liable to the drainage
his or it's ditch connects, for the cost of
removing the soil washed into the drain
age district ditch from the lateral
ditch, such damages to be collected in
an action by said district.
3. 1t is hereby made the duty of the
dean of the college of agriculture of the
University Of Wisconsin to furnish speci-
fcatiOns for materials for such connec-
laterals with such drainage district
bitches or canals as are well adapted to
prevent soil washing from such laterals
into such drainage district bitches or
canals, upon request of the commissioners
of any drainage district
Section 1870. 1. Whenever con-
dition shall arise out of the relationship of
two or more adjacent drainage districts,
for which no provision is made by any
other subsection of the drainage district
laws of Wisconsin, special commission
er shall be appointed for each of said
districts by the court or courts having
jurisdiction thereof to adjust all mat
tiers in controversy arising out of said
condition, and if there be an even num-
Der of districts affected the special COM
missioners shall choose another disnter-
ested commissioner. All special COM
missioners shall take an oath to support
the constitution of the United States and
that of the state and faithfully discharge
their duties to the best of their ability.
The special commissioners shall employ
such help as is necessary to investigate
the problem at hand, and shall report
their findings and the necessary order
based thereon to said court or courts. No
tice of filing said order shall be given as
provided in section 1379-24, and unless
said order is appealed from TO the SUI
preme court by the commissioners of any
district affected within thirty days of said
confirmation, the commissioners of all dis
tricts affected shall enforce said order.
The special commissioners shall receive
five dollars a day and necessary travel
ing expenses while actually engaged in
said work. All expenses connected with
said work shall be assessed to all dis
tricts affected on a pro rata acreage
basis.
Section 4. Any drainage district in pro-
cess of organization under the parts of
the law hereby repealed may complete
it's organization under said repealed sec
lions and thereafter shall come under the
provisions Of this act
Section 5. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's passage
and publication.
Approved July 16, 1918. Copy Law.