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142 MUNICIPAL LAW.
4MiO. Draining to a Road. Liuuls adjoining u nmil or highway
where tlie nutiniil course of tlie water i.s towards this road may he drained
therein, and the municipality is required to provide an outli't tor the
.surface and other water wliicli naturally flow to such road.
Ill case no such outlet is provided, the numicipality is liable for an}-
damai,fe that may he thereby occasioned other property that may be
flooded.
<»<>!. Natural Watercourses. A stream or creek flowinjf throui^h
tlie lands of various person.s cannot be diverted to another cour.se without
the con.sent of all the parties who are beneficially affected by such stream
passing- throuj,di tlieir lands.
Surface or other water naturally flowing from the property of one
neiglibor across the lands of others, and a ditch or watercourse, either b}'
artificial or natural wear of the water having been formed, such ditcli
cannot be closed u]) Viy the owner (jf any of the lands through which it
passes, aiul thereby do injury to other lands by the water backing up and
flooding such lands.
Hut procei'dings should be taken under the " Ditches and Water-
courses Act " to have a ditch constructed, to which the owiuTs of all the
lands afl'ected .shall contriljute as their interest appears
^MW. The Municipal Drainage Act is not given in full in this
volume, as individuals are not so particularly interested in the provisions or
intention of that Act as they are in the Ditches and Watercourses. It is
enough to say that upon a petition of a majority in numl)er of the resident
and non-re.sident ])ersoiis (exclu.sive of farmers' sons who are not actual
owners), as shown by the last revised Assessment Roll to be owners of lands
to be benefited in any describeil area in a township, incorporated village,
town or city, to the Council thereof, for the drainage of the area described
in the petition, the Council will order an e.\amination and report l)y the
engineer.
iiiili. By-Laws. Should the Council, after considering the engineer's
report ami the petition, be of the opinion ihat the drainage work proposed
in siiid petition, or a portion thereof, would be desirable, the Council may
pass a by-law :
1. For pi-<jviding for the proposed drainage work or a portion thereof
being done.
2. For borrowir, on the credit of the municipality the funds necessary
or the portions to be contributed by the initiating, wlien the same is to be
constructed at the expense of two oi" more municipalities, and for i.ssuing
debentures to the I'equisiti* amount, in sums of not less than 1?50 each, aiul
payable within twenty years from date, with interest at the rate of not
less than four per cent, per annum. In ca.se of ))uinping and embanking
drainage work the debentures ma^' be payable within thirty ^-ears.
4M»4. Travelling on Highways. 1. Carriages meeting on the high-
way .shall turn out to the right, giving one-half the road.
It is the same when meeting a bicycle or tricycle, the carriage must
turn out to the right far enough to allow the cycle sufficient room on the
traxi'lled portion of the road to pass.