ARTICLE 9 Laws Repealed; When to Take Effect Section 140. Laws repealed. 141. When to take effect. § 140. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed. § 141. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect immediately. SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. Revised Statutes.... Part 2, chapter 1, title 1, sections 5-7 Revised Statutes.... Part 2, chapter 8.... .. All DRAINAGE LAW Laws 1909, Chap. 20. AN ACT relating to drainage, constituting chapter fifteen of the consolidated laws. Became a law February 17, 1909, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: CHAPTER 15 OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS DRAINAGE LAW Article 1. Short title (§ 1). 2. Drainage for protection of public health (§§ 2-19). 6. Drainage of agricultural lands (§§ 90-94). 7. Laws repealed; when to take effect (§§ 100, 101). Section 1. Short title. § 1. Short title. "Drainage Law." ARTICLE 1 Short Title This chapter shall be known as the ARTICLE 2 Drainage for Protection of Public Health Section 2. Petition for drainage; who may make, and to what court. 3. Consolidation of applications for drainage. 4. Proceedings on presentation of petition; appointment of commissioners. 5. Vacancies, how filled. 6. Commissioners to take and file oath of office. 7. Majority of commissioners to constitute quorum. 554 § 2 a '10 c 624 Section 10. Commissioners to determine whether drainage necessary; to file their determination, and give notice thereof. 11. Appeal from determination of commissioners; wit nesses. 12. Survey to be made and map prepared in case drainage found necessary 13. Map or duplicate thereof to be filed. 14. Compensation and expenses of commissioners. 16. Bonds to be issued and sold to repay moneys so bor rowed. 17. Compensation for land taken or damages inflicted. 18. Condemnation of land. 19. Provisions of this article to apply to proceedings for deepening outlets of ponds. § 2. Petition for drainage; who may make, and to what court. Any person owning or possessing any swamp, bog, meadow, or other low or wet lands within this state, who shall be desirous to drain the same and who shall deem it necessary in order thereto, that a ditch or ditches or other channels for the free passage of water should be opened through lands belonging to another person and any person who shall deem it necessary for the public health that any such swamp, bog, meadow or low or wet lands should be drained, or that the outlet of any pond should be deepened or cleared out so as to permit the free passage of the waters of such pond through such outlet, may present a petition, duly verified, to the county court of the county in which such lands lie, or in case the same are situated in more than one county, to the supreme court, setting forth the fact and the names of the owners of all lands to be affected by the proceedings, so far as the same can with reasonable diligence be ascertained, and praying for the appointment of three commissioners for the purposes and with the powers hereinafter set forth. The application provided for by this section may be made by the supervisor of any town on behalf of the town, or by the president of the board of trustees of any incorporated village on behalf of said village. § 3. Consolidation of applications for drainage. Two or more applications under this section respecting different lands or parcels within the same town or incorporated village, may be made by one proceeding or petition, or two or more such proceedings or petitions may, in the discretion of the court, upon the |