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missioners shall appoint three persons who are freeholders, who shall be
designated as the Board of Drainage Commissioners for that district. These
commissioners shall be; appointed subject to the written approval of a
majority of the landowners in the district, and any vacancy occurring shall
be filled in like manner.

The three drainage commissioners when appointed shall be and shall
organize as a corporate body under the name and style of "The Board
of Drainage Commission of.......................District," with the

right to hold property, and convey the same, to sue and be sued, and shall
possess corporate powers. They shall organize by .electing from among
their number a chairman and a vice-chairman. They shall elect a secretary
either within or without their body. The treasurer of the county in which
the proceeding was instituted shall be ex officio of such drainage commis-
sioners. Such board of drainage commissioners shall adopt a seal, which
they may alter at pleasure.

An. Code, 1924, sec, 97. 1912, sec. 81N. 1912, ch. 656, sec. 14..

98. The Board of Drainage Commissioners shall appoint a competent
person as superintendent of construction. Such person shall furnish a bond
to be fixed and approved by the commissioners, conditioned upon the honest
and faithful performance of his duties, such bond to be 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 98. 1912, sec. 81-0. 1912, ch. 656, sec. 15.

99. 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. All
costs and incidental expenses, compensation of engineer, viewers and assis-
tants, and also including an amount sufficient to pay'the superintendent of
construction, and expenses of the commissioners, 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 secre-
tary of the board, shall certify to the clerk of the Board of County Com-
missioners 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 99. 1912, sec. 81P. 1912, ch. 656, sec. 16.

100. When the Board of Drainage Commissioners for a district shall
have made their estimate of the total cost of the improvement according to
section 99 it shall be their duty to immediately prepare, in duplicate, ten
assessment rolls, or drainage tax lists, to coyer 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