The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-11
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN
REGULAR MONTHLY SESSION

which such proposed bitches
drains or canals shall run, and al
so by a majority of those owning
the lands, and by those owning the
greater part of the lands contigu-
GUS thereto that are to be benefit
ed by such bitches, drains or ca
mails.
Thereupon the chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners
inquired if there was anyone pres
ent who was interested in the es-
tablishment or the rejection Of
this drainage district who desired
to be heard, and no one Directing
to the establishment of said drain
age district as prayed for in said
petition, the board then took up
the question of whether or not
said drainage system as prayed
for in said petition should be es-
tablished, and thereupon it was
found upon investigation as afore-
said that the notice for three
weeks of the hearing of said petit
ton, required by section $50 OF
the General Statutes as amended
by chapter CAST of the Acts of
1918, had been duly given, and
upon investigation of said petition
it was found by the Board of
County Commissioners that each
and every allegation or statement
thereof or therein contained was
true and that said lands therein
described and heretofore describ-
ed, are low, wet and submerged
and that it is necessary and ex-
pedient for the benefit of said
lands and the public generally
that said drains, bitches and ca
nails in and through the lands de-
scribed in the plat attached to
said petition be established.
There being no objection to the
establishment of the same, upon
motion by w. G. Welles, second
ed by John Hagan, duly put to a
vote and unanimously carried, it
was ordered that the public ditch
es, drains and canals prayed for
in said petition be established and
that said drainage district be es-
tablished, and that the said petit
ton in all respects and i'll every
detail be- granted, upon motion
made and seconded, put to a vote
and carried, it was ordered that
the name of said district shall be
Arcadia Drainage District.
After the establishment OF the
district as aforesaid, the question
of the appointment Of committee
of three disinterested freeholders,
citizens of DeSoto County, Flori-
da, as required by section 952 of
the General Statutes as amended
by chapter CAST of the Acts of
1918, was taken up by the Board
of County Commissioners, discuss
ed and considered, and upon mo-
ton made by w. G. Welles, sec
onded by John Hagan, put and
carried, A. Roe, j. f Stonebreaker.
and D. IL, Scott, citizens of the
County Of DeSoto, and who are
freeholders Of said county, but in
no way interested in the establish
ment of said drains or canals, or
the lands through which the same
should run, were appointed
committee of three, with all the
powers prescribed by sections 952,
954 and 955 of the General Statu-
ties of Florida, as amended by
chapter CAST of the Acts of 1913,
and said committee by said Board
of County Commissioners was di-
Irected to employ a surveyor to
cause an accurate survey to be
made of the proposed bitches,
drains or canals, and to establish
a commencement, route and ter
minus of said bitches, drains or
canals, the width, length and
depth thereof, and to make and
present to this board at their next
regular meeting, or at a meeting
as soon thereafter as practical, the
plans, specifications and profles
of such construction, together
with an estimate of the approx
mate cost of such construction
and the annual cost of mainten-
ance, and said committee was
| further instructed to view the
lands described in the plat at
tached to said petition, which is
therefore described in these min
Iutes, to be benefited by such ditch
es, drains or canals, and after the
cost is ascertained, to assess each
parcel according to and in pro-
portion as it shall be benfted by