COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 1035

States, but no such contract or agreement between the district and the
United States for such co-operative construction work shall be valid until a
majority of the land owners of such district shall have given such contract
their written approval. That it shall be the duty of the officials of this
State to solicit the co-operation of the various bureaus of the United States
Government in prosecuting drainage and the reclamation of agriculture
lands.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 110. 1912, sec. 81AA. 1912, ch. 656, sec. 27.

111. The provisions of sections 85-111 shall be liberally construed to
promote the ditching, draining, leveeing and reclamation of wet and over-
flowed lands which may be made available for agriculture, and to encourage
the starting of such enterprises there is hereby established a fund to be
known as the "Drainage District Fund," and the sum of ten thousand
dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money that may be in the State
Treasury and not otherwise appropriated, to be placed to the credit of that
fund, from which loans can be made in sums not to exceed a total of more
than two thousand dollars to any one drainage project for the payment of
the expenses of the surveys, engineer, viewers, advertising and all other
incidental fees and expenses connected with the project up to time of the
establishment of the drainage district, and the turning over of the work to
the Board of Drainage Commissioners. The money thus loaned shall be paid
out by the Treasurer, when there is money to the credit of this fund, on
warrant of the State Comptroller upon the receipt of an itemized statement
or statements so requesting endorsed by the president and clerk of the Board
of County Commissioners of the county in which the original petition of the
particular district was filed. The funds loaned by the State shall be
returned to the treasury again through the Board of County Commissioners,
who shall collect the amount loaned under a petition filed with them from
the petitioner or their bondsmen in case the petition is not allowed, but
should the drainage district be established, then from the Board of Drainage
Commissioners out of the first proceeds of the sale of the bonds of that
district charged with the loan.

No greater sum shall be loaned to one district than is absolutely neces-
sary for its use, in order that the fund may be in circulation and be avail-
able for other projects.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 111. 1920, ch. 507, sec. 81AB.

112. Whenever the owner or owners of any swamp or low grounds
shall deem it fit to have then drained, if the owners of said lands cannot
agree, or should any be married women, infants, non compos mentis, or
non-residents of the county where swamp or low lands are situated, they
or any of them may petition the County Commissioners, sitting in the
county where such swamp or low lands or any part thereof are situated,
for the appointment of commissioners to locate or lay out a ditch or ditches
or drains for the purpose; and the County Commissioners shall thereupon
appoint a board of three or more Drain Commissioners, to be composed of
judicious and impartial freeholders, to be taken from the neighborhood, or
vicinity of said swamp or low lands.

The Drain Commissioners so appointed being first duly sworn to execute
their duties faithfully and impartially, shall call to their assistance a skill-
ful surveyor or engineer, sworn in like manner, and shall go upon and view