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

written VerlHeq femonSCrance, 1l) because
the petition is insufficient in form or sub
stance. (2) because it has not the re-
CURED number of signers, 60 because the
proposed work will not promote the pub
lie health or the public welfare Or be-
cause the benefits of the proposed work
will not exceed the cost of construction.
The same proofs of ownership may be ac-
copied as provided in section 1379-l4. If
the court or judge shall find said petition
insufficient in form or substance the same;
may be amended
3. Said hearing may be adjourned to
obtain other signers, serve notice on un:
served landowners or Tor other good
cause If the court shall find that the
petition including all copies thereof filed
prior to hearing thereon, has not the re-
Quired number of signers, or that the pub
lie health or public welfare Will not
be promoted or that the benefits
exceed the damages and costs of
construction, the petition shall be dis
missed and judgment for costs: entered
against the petitioners. But II the court
or Judge finds the tiOn is in substance
sufficient, or if it iss a1qfnded so that 1t
Is in substance sufficient, and also finds
that it has sufficient ssnumber of sign
ers, and it, thee court shall find
that the public health will be promoted or
that the public welfare twill be promoted
by the proposed work and that the bene-
fits will exceed the damages and cost of
construction, the court shall make writ
Ten innings OF CtlOSG IdCCS anu OIuSI llldI
said lands, or SO much thereof as the
court shall direct, be admitted to the
benefits of the original drainage district,
and it shall thereafter be part of the
original drainage district. and the LANDS
therein shall thereafter be chargeable
with assessments of reasonable and just
sum for the use of bitches constructed be-
fore it was brought into the district as
hereinafter provided, for the preservation,
repair and maintenance of the works in
said district in the same manner as are
the lands in the original district;
and the commissioners of said
district shall proceed with reference to
the new territory substantially pro-
vided in section 1878 with reference
to the original territory.
4. In fixing the first assessment for
construction on such new. territory the
commissioners shall, in addition to the
cost of whatever must necessarily be
done therein, to place such lands on the
same footing as to drainage facilities as
that enjoyed by the lands in the orig
tnal district, assess thereon such further
sum as will make the amount to be paid
on account Of each acre of said lands in
said new territory equal to- the amount
paid for the original drainage work of
the same kind on account of each acre
of the original drainage district similarly
situated. If no land in said district is
similarly situated, they shall assess there
on such further sum as shall be equit-
able, which shall be apportioned upon
the benefits to such lands in all cases.
The additional amount so received snail
be held by the commissioners for the ben
eft of the entire drainage district. Upon
filing the report assessing benefits, as
sessing for construction and awarding
damages in the matter of such addition,
the same notice shall be served and pro-
ceedings had as in case of the report in
an original district assessing benefits,
assessing for contraction and awarding
damages. The order confirming
said : report shall be final and
conclusive unless appealed from to the
supreme court within thirty days after
the rendering and entry thereof.
s. The provisions of this act shall APP
ply to proceedings now pending for the
addition of new territory to any drain
age district unless the court orders such
proceedings to proceed under section
1379-2S of the statutes until completed.
Section g. There are added to the stat
utes five new sections to read: Section
1379-22m. Between the 18th day of May
and the list day of June each year the
commissioners of every drainage district
shall make and file with the clerk of the
court true and particular verified ac-
count of the receipts and expenditures of
their district during the year ending May
1st of that year. The first report filed
under the provisions of this section shall
include the receipts and expenditures of
their district back to the last items on
their last financial report filed under the
sections by this act repealed. Said COM
missioners Shall file with such report all
of their vouchers for such expenditures.
Said account and vouchers shall be
checked over by the clerk of said court
and shall be carefully preserved among
the files of said district in said court
They shall at the same time report to
the court in detail the labor and other ex-
penses incidental and necessary to the
preservation and protection of the work
under their control, the places where re-
pairs are necessary and the estimated
n
against the lands, easements and corpo-
rations in said district therefor, the esti-
mated cost of such necessary repairs in
proportion to the sum of all benefits
heretofore assessed against said lands,
easements and corporations.
Said account and report shall be pub
Ished once in a newspaper in the county
where the court files of said district are
kept, and a printed copy of the same shall
be mailed to the last known address of
each owner of lands in the district If
within thirty days after the publication of
said account and report, the owners Of
one-tenth of the land in said district
shall in writing petition for a hearing on
said account and report, the court shall
fix time and place for said hearing and
notify the commissioners and petitioners
thereof. AT said time and place of hear
ing the court shall examine said account
and all previously filed accounts not
heretofore approved by the court, hear
all objections thereto, restate the account
If necessary, correct any and all errors
discovered theerin and correct any errors
In the assessments for repairs filed with
said account. The assessment for repairs
shall not in any one year exceed ten per
cent of the sum of all benefits heretofore
assessed against said lands, easements
and corporations. Assessments for re-
pairs shall become due the first Tuesday
of September each year.
Section 1379-30bm. Whenever it shall
be necessary to assess supplemental ben
etits against the lands of any drainage
district, such supplemental benefits shall
be so apportioned and assessed against
the lands of said district that the sum
total Of such supplemental benefits and
the total benefits already assessed
against said land shall be proportional to
the actual benefits accruing to the said
lands from the total drainage construct
ed under said benefits and supplemental
benefits, 1t being the purpose and intent
of this act to require the commissioners
to SO apportion said supplemental bene-
fits as to so far as practicable correct
any errors made in assessing the original
and all prior supplemental assessed bene-
fits for such drainage SO that all lands in
said district assessed benefits shall be re-
CURED to pay a sum total for the con-
struction of said work proportional to the
actual benefits received by said lands
from the total drainage.
Section 1379-30f. /. Whenever an Or
der has been made by the court confirm
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