...purposes across the lands of others, and provides for the organization of drainage districts, and vests the corporate authorities thereof with power to construct and maintain levees, drains and ditches, and keep in repair all drains, ditches and levees heretofore constructed under the laws of this State,...

...to construct drains, ditches and levees for agricultural and sanitary purposes, across the hinds of others, and provide for the organization of drainage districts and vest the corporate authority thereof with power to construct and maintain levees, drains and ditches, arid to keep in...

...construct drains, ditches and levees for agricultural, sanitary or mining purposes, across the lands of others, and provide for the organization of drainage...special assessments upon the property benefited thereby. [Section 31, as adopted and ratified in the constitution of 1870, reads as follows: t 31. The general...

...construct drains, ditches and levees for agricultural, sanitary or mining purposes, across the lands of others, and provide for the organization of drainage...the laws of this state by special assessments upon property benefited thereby." Now, be it known, if the foregoing proposed amendment to article 4, section...

...districts, und vest the corporate authorities thereof with power to construct and maintain levées, drains and ditches, and to keep in repair all drains, ditches and levees heretofore constructed uuder the laws of this state by special assessments upon property benefited thereby." Now, be it known,...

...organization of drainige districts, and vest the corporate authorities thereof, with power to construct or maintain levees, drains and ditches, and to keep in repair all drains, levees and ditches heretofore constructed under the laws of this state, etc., respectfully beg leave...

...construct drains, ditches and levees for agricultural, sanitary or mining purposes, across the lands of others, and provide for the organization of drainage...with power to construct and maintain levees, drains and'ditches. and to keep in repair all drains, ditches and levees heretofore constructed under the...

...construct drains, ditches and levees for agricultural, sanitary, or mining purposes, across the lands of others, and provide for the organization of drainage...special assessments upon the property benefited thereby. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. [Wentintooperationontheflrst Wednesday in March, 1789-1 PREAMBLE....

...tli« corporate authority tnereof with power to construct and maintain levees, drains, and ditched, and to keep in repair all drains, ditches, and levees...heretofore constructed under the laws of this state by a special assessment upon the property benefited thereby.' 1 Starr & C. Anno. Suit. (111.) p. 122....

...Constitution (section 31, art. 4) adopted in November, 1S7S, the Legislature is expressly empowered 'to provide for the organization of drainage districts,...construct and maintain levees, drains and ditches,' etc. This general grant of power, being unrestricted in terms, carries with it, by necessary implication,...