The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-15

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On motion the following resolu-
tion was adopted
Be It Resolved by the Board of
Supervisors of Lee County, Iowa:
LIST. That the petition and amend
ed petition filed in the Green Bay
Levee and Drainage District are suf-
ticient in form and substance and the
said Board of Supervisors have full
and complete jurisdiction of the mat
tiers involved.
End. That Edmund T. Perkins of
Chicago, Cook county, Illinois. was
duly appointed engineer for the pur-
pose of locating said levee and Drain
age District and establishing the same
and he, as such engineer, having
made and properly filed report of
his preliminary survey establishing
said Drainage and Levee District and
locating the same, and the said board
of Supervisors having by resolution
passed and adopted on the 7th day OF
April. 1916. requested the said Ed
mund T. Perkins, as such engineer. to
submit an amended report and plan
to the board as to the feasibility OF
changing the proposed levee and the
said Edmund T. Perkins, having this
day filed an amendment to said re-
port, return and plan changing the
route and boundaries thereof at GER
tain points, as suggested in said reso-
luton of the board, and the hearing
of said report, return and plan as
amended coming on before this board,
the board having duly examined said
amended report, return and plan,
finds the same to be expedfent and
feasible and the board hereby APP
proves and adopts his report, return
and plan as amended and filed June
20, 1916.
Bird. That full, due, complete and
proper notice, as required by law,
has been served upon the owner OF
each tract of land or lot within said
proposed drainage district, as shown
by the transfer books in the auditors
Office of said county. and also upon
all persons in actual occupancy OF
said land or lots and upon each land
holder or encumbrancer Of any land
through which or upon which the
said proposed Improvement extends.
as shown by the county records, the
same being notice of the tendency
and prayer Of said petition and the
favorable report thereon by the en-
gineer, and that said report might
be amended at any time before final
action and the day set for the hear
ing of said petition before the board
OF supervisors, which has been adj
journed from time to time until to-
day, and that all persons interested
in said proceedings have been duly
and legally served with notice of the
hearing on said petition as provided
by law. That a contract, duly signed.
executed and acknowledged by the
owners of lands within said proposed
district, has been this day filed and
made a part of this proceeding.
4th. That Edmund T. Perkins.
the engineer appointed by the board
of supervisors for that purpose, has
surveyed said improvement and has
filed his report and return and
amendment thereto in the office OF
the auditor of Lee county, Iowa, con-
tanning all the provisions required by
law to be made and contained in
such report.
9Th. That a petition for a pumping
station as a part of said drainage
system has been filed as required by
law; that said petitions is sufficient
in form and substance and was sign
ed by over one-third Of the owners
of the lands benefited thereby; that
pumping station is necessary to
secure a proper outlet for the drain
age of the land comprising the said
district and that the land benefited
by such pumping station are found
and declared to be such lands as
are listed and set out in amended
exhibit "J' attached to the amended
report and return OF the engineer,
filed June 20, 1916, and it is found
and declared that such lands will be
benefited by said pumping station.
9Th. That the said improvement
petitioned for is conducive to the
public health, convenience and vel
fare and 10 for the p,rbltc benefit and