Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-06

Board Of Regents and the Commits
sion Of Administration and Finance
In the respective amounts allocated
to each item as hereinbefore speci-
fled and provided.
Section 10. The State Board of
Investment is hereby authorized to
invest the state trust funds in the
tax levy certificates authorized by
this act, and Is hereby authorized
to purchase said certificates at the
rate Of interest specified herein as
from time to time the board has
available funds for such purpose.
Approved April "a, 1887.
CHAPTER 3S6-H. F. No. 1722
A BILL
FOR AN ACT relating to drainage
bitches heretofore or hereafter
established by the county board
of any county of this State hav-
ing an assessed valuation of not
less than $4,000, 900 nor more than
S11,000,000, and having a popula-
ton, according to the 1880 fed
eral census, of not less than 27,-
900 nor more than $4,000 in
habitants, and containing not less
than p and not more than %
full and fractional congressional
townships, and providing that in
cases where portions of such
ditch have been constructed and
other portions cannot be con-
structed by reason of physical
conditions of the soil, the county
board, may upon the petition of
an interested party and a due
hearing re-assess the benefits and
damages, and abandon the pOr-
tiOns of such ditch that cannot
be constructed, and modify or
abandon the contract or con-
tracts for the construction of
such portions, and providing fur
Their that in case such re-assess-
ment shall reduce the amount
realized from such assessments
below the amounts expended or
to be expended in such proceed
ing, the county board, shall order
the deficiency to be paid out of
the general revenue fund of the
county.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State Of Minnesota:
Section 1. Whenever any person
whose lands have been assessed for
the construction of county ditch
in any county Of the state having
an assessed valuation of not less
than 100000 nor more than SILL
100000, and having a population,
according to the 1880 federal census,
Of not less than $1,000 nor more
than $4,000 inhabitants, and con-
tanning not less than 81 and not
more than % full and fractional
congressional townships, or any
contractor for the construction of
the same or of any part thereof,
shall file a petition with the county
auditor of any county, setting forth
that certain portions. of a county
ditch which has been duly estab-
lished in said county and the con-
tracts for construction thereof duly
let, and the construction of part
thereof has been completed, are
impossible of construc-
ton because of certain physical
conditions to be specified in said
petition, encountered, or which will
be encountered in the course of
construction thereof, and specifying
by station numbers such said parts,
and separately, such further parts
likewise specifically designated, the
utility of which will be impaired or
destroyed by an abandonment of
construction Of any parts, and pray
ing that the construction of such
said parts practically impossible of
shall be abandoned,
and the construction of the parts
the utility of which will be impair
ed or destroyed by such said aban-
Comment Of construction, be also
abandoned or the plans and speci-
fications and contracts for the con-
struction thereof be modified, and
that the contract for all such parts
a5 shall be abandoned shall be
cancelled and compensation there
under be adjusted, and assessments
Of benefits and damages of all lands
affected by said ditch and said
abandonments and notifications be
re-assessed; the county auditor of
such county shall thereupon desig-
nate day for hearing on said petit
ton before the county board of
such county, and give like notice of
such meeting as on the final hear
ing for the establishment of a coun-
ty ditch.
Section 2. Upon such hearing. If
the county board shall find that
such county ditch has been in part
constructed, that certain parts are
impossible of construc-
ton because of physical conditions
or which will be en-
countered in the course of further
construction thereof, and that the
construction of such parts should be
abandoned; and if the board shall
further find that such abandon
ment Of such said parts will impair
or destroy the utility of other parts
not constructed, and if the con-
tractor for the construction of the
parts so found advisable to be
abandoned shall file with said board
consent to such abandonment and
the board and such contractor shall
agree upon the further abandon
ment or modification of the con-
tract as to such parts the utility
of which will be impaired or de-
stroyed as aforesaid, and shall
agree upon terms of adjusted COM
pensation with said contractor for
such abandonment and modifica-
ton, If any, the board may make
its formal findings as aforesaid,
and its order, particularly specifying