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the court referring said proceedings to the board, to all of which proceedings, judgments, reports and orders of court reference is now made. Now, it having been ascertained by this board from an inspection of the report of assessed benefits by the appraisers, as certified to this board by the clerk, that the total aggregate of benefits to all of the lands, railroads, highways and other property in said district is $. and we have ascertained that the costs of doing the work and making the improvements provided for in the "Plans for reclamation" and the costs of said proceedings in establishing and organizing said district up to this time is $........ to which sum we have as provided by law added ten per centum thereof for the purpose of defraying future expenses and to create an emergency fund making the total aggregate minimum district assessment of $.. which we now hereby levy and assess against said district, it is ordered by this board that a district bond issue be and the same is now hereby authorized to the amount of ninety per centum of the aforesaid minimum district assessment of $.. to consist of 15 series

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of equal amount each, bearing interest at six per cent. per annum which interest shall be payable semi-annually. One fifteenth of said total issue of bonds shall mature and be payable annually. The first series shall become due and payable five years from the date of issue, and the last series shall become due and payable twenty years from the date of issue.

It is now ascertained that the total amount of interest which will accumulate on said authorized issue of bonds from the date of issue until maturity is and will be $.. and it is therefore ordered by this board that there be and there is now hereby

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levied upon the lands, railroads, public highways and other property in said district interest assessment amounting to the sum of $.

We have and do hereby apportion both the minimum District Assessment and the District Interest Assessment to each parcel or tract of land, railroad, public highway and other property located in said district, ratably according to the assessment of benefits as the same appears in the Board of Appraisers' assessment of benefits as the same was amended, modified and corrected by the court and certified to this board by the clerk of said court, which apportionment is shown in the following tables.

TABLE OF DISTRICT ASSESSMENTS.

Name of owner of land

Postoffice address

No. of acres of land assessed as benefited

In what county located

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$.

Total maximum assessment

The assessment against the railroads, public highways and other property in said district is as follows:

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Maximum total assessment amount of $
Name of public highway

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Number of miles of road benefited and in what coun

ty located

Total amount of assessed benefits.

Total minimum district assessment

amount of

Total district interest

Assessment, amount of

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The Board of Drainage Commissioners hereby submit the above and foregoing as a true and correct assessment roll upon the lands, railroads, public highways and other property subject to assessment in the (Drainage) (Levee) (Reclamation) District, which shows the true and correct assessment that should be paid on each respective piece of property upon which benefits have heretofore been assessed, and pray the court to confirm

same.

All of which is respectfully submitted.
Board of Drainage Commissioners of..

Attest:

By

Secretary.

County, President.

Space for correction by clerk upon order of court

The above is a correct assessment.
Attest:

Clerk.

$23. As soon as said Drainage Assessment Record is prepared and completed, the Board of Drainage Commissioners shall deliver to and file with the clerk of the court wherein said proceeding is pending the several copies thereof. The clerk shall receive same, and within five days thereafter he shall cause notice of such filing in his office to be published once each week for two weeks in one newspaper published in each county in which any part of said dis

trict is located. The notice shall be in substantially

the following form:

"State of Kentucky,

County of

In the matter of the

day of

Court.

(drainage)

19.

(levee) (reclamation) district, pending in this court.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested, that
the Board of Drainage Commissioners of
County, did on the
file in my office
copies of the 'Drainage
Assessment Record' for the above district in which
they show the aggregate costs of the improvements
to be made according to the 'Plans for Reclama-
tion'; also the aggregate of all benefits to property
and in which they have made the 'minimum district
assessment' and the apportionment thereof to each
separate tract or parcel of land, railroad, public
highway, and other property, together with the total
of such assessments which are to be paid for and
on behalf of each separate piece of property.

All persons interested are hereby notified that
they may inspect same at any time, and are given
until the first day of the next
term of this

court to file exceptions to said final assessments. Said term of court will convene on the

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19.

day of
..... Unless you file exceptions
thereto on or before said date, it will be taken for
granted and confessed by the court that said assess-
ments are correct, and that same is correctly ap-
portioned to each separate piece of property, and
same will be confirmed by the court, and thereby
be and become the fixed assessments upon each sep-
arate piece of property as therein set out.

Given under my hand as Clerk of the

Court, on this the

19..............

day of Clerk."

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Exceptions may be filed by any owner of land, railroad, public highway or other property assessed up to and including the first day of the next succeeding term of court wherein the proceeding is pending, which convenes after the week in which the notice by the clerk has been published the second time in the newspapers as herein provided, but not thereafter. If exceptions are filed, the same shall be heard and tried by the court in a summary way, upon the files and records of said proceedings and other competent evidence, and if errors are found by the court same shall be by proper orders corrected, and the order of the court shall direct the clerk to show such corrections on the several copies of the assessment record, same to be done in red ink, and when all, errors in said assessment are ordered corrected by the court, the court shall then approve said assessment record, which final order of approval and confirmation by the court shall be final and conclusive upon all lands, railroads, public highways and other property within said district; and said assessment record, when corrected by the clerk under orders of the court, shall be endorsed by the judge of the court, as the assessment record of said district, and no question shall thereafter be permitted to be raised by any person at any time concerning the correctness of any assessment shown in said record, but shall be final and conclusive upon all persons whatsoever, and said assessment shall be and remain a lien upon all property and the several par cels and tracts of land and other property in said district, superior to all other liens, except state, county, school and municipal taxes.

One of the several copies of the assessment record, properly corrected, and endorsed by the judge, shall remain in the office of the clerk of said court

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