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in favor of the Board of Drainage Commissioners. They shall fix his
compensation, and may terminate the contract whenever they consider
his services no longer necessary.

1912, ch. 656, sec. 15.

810. After the classification of lands and the ratio of assessment
of the different classes to be made thereon has been confirmed by the
Board of County Commissioners at the time of the final hearing, and
any appeal that may have been made to the Circuit Court has been
adjudicated, the Board of Drainage Commissioners shall ascertain the
total cost of the improvement, including damages awarded to be paid
owners of land. AJ1 costs and incidental expenses, compensation of
engineer, viewers and assistants, and also including an amount sufficient
to pay the superintendent of construction, and expenses of the commis-
sioners, and the necessary expenses of maintaining the improvement for
a period of three years after the completion of the work of construction,
and for the payment of the interest on the drainage bonds for a period
of three years, and thereupon the Board of Drainage Commissioners,
under the hand of the chairman and the secretary of the board, shall
certify to the clerk of the Board of County Commissioners the said
total estimated cost, and the said certificate shall be recorded in the
drainage record, and be open to the inspection of any landowner.

1912, ch. 656, sec. 16.

8lP. When the Board of Drainage Commissioners for a district
shall have made their estimate of the total cost of the improvement
according to section 810 it shall be their duty to immediately prepare,
in duplicate, ten assessment rolls, or drainage tax lists, to cover the
period of the bond issue, giving thereon the names of the owners of land
in the district, so far as can, be ascertained from the public records, a
brief description of the several tracts of land assessed, and the amount
of the assessment against each tract of land. The first of these assess
ment rolls shall provide assessments sufficient for the payment of inter
est on the bond issue to accrue the third year after their issue and the
instalment of principal to fall due at the expiration of the third year
after the date of issue, together with such amounts as shall have to be
paid for collection and handling of the same. The second assessment
roll shall make like provisions for the fourth year; the third for the fifth
year; the fourth for the sixth year; the fifth for the seventh year; the
sixth for the eighth year; the seventh for the ninth year; the eighth for
the tenth year; the ninth for the eleventh year; the tenth for the twelfth
year. Each of said assessment rolls shall specify the time when col-
lectible and be numbered in their order, and the amounts assessed
against the several tracts of land shall be in accordance with the benefits
repeived, as shown by the classification and ratio of assessments made by
the viewers. These assessment rolls shall be signed by the chairman of
the Board of Drainage Commissioners and by the secretary of the board.