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8. The name of the proposed organization, which shall
be styled uThe........................ -. -........ -.... ---.. -.. --. Public Drainage
Association. "
They shall file with their report maps and profiles, like-
wise in triplicate, which shall show:
1. The location of the proposed ditches or drains or
other improvements by courses and distances.
2. A general delineation of the boundary of the area
affected, with the general location in the county
indicated.
3. A general delineation of the boundaries of the lands
within the area owned by each individual assessed,
with an estimate of the acreage which each contains.
4. The dimensions and profiles of the proposed ditches
or drains or other improvements.
48. The county commissioners shall at their first meet-
ing, after receiving such report from the drainage viewers,
examine it, and if it is found not to be in due form and
in accordance with the law it shall be referred back to
the drainage viewers to be corrected and returned to the
county commissioners at a subsequent meeting. If the
report is found to be in due form and in accordance with
the law the county commissioners shall appoint a day for
a public hearing upon the report and petition and shall
give not less than thirty days' previous notice of the time
and place of the hearing, by notice published in a news-
paper or newspapers published in the county or counties
in which the lands affected are located, and by a written
or printed notice mailed to each person named in the report.
During this time a copy of the report shall be on file in
the office of the Clerk of the County Commissioners, and
shall be open to the inspection of any landowner or other
person interested, and the notices shall so state.
49. The Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners
shall maintain a drainage file, in which shall be kept such
petitions, motions, orders, reports, and other exhibits nec-
essary for a complete and continuous record of the estab-
lishment of every Public Drainage Association organization
within the county.
50. If any owner of land or other property affected by
any proceedings hereinbefore authorized lives out of the
State, a written notice of thirty days served on the tenant
or agent of such owner of the proceedings of the county
commissioners shall be as good and sufficient as if said
owner resided in the State.
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