Form of court’s order.

Miss. Code Ann. § 51-31-39
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If, after hearing all objections, if any, to the report of the commissioners and all applications, if any, to annex other lands to the proposed district by the owners of such lands, the court or chancellor finds that a drainage district should be organized, the map of the same shall be recorded and the order may be entered according to the findings of the court or chancellor, substantially as follows: “The State of Mississippi County of Term, A.D. 20. In the matter of the petition to organize drainage district in the county of and State of Mississippi. This day the report of the drainage commissioners of said county, filed in this cause, having been heard, and it appearing to the court or chancellor that due notice has been given “to all persons interested” for the length of time and in the manner required by law of the application to this court for the confirmation of said report, and the court or chancellor having duly examined said report and considered all objections to the same, it is ordered by the court that the report of said commissioners (or if modified by the court, say as modified by the court) be, and the same is, hereby confirmed; and the court further finds that the work proposed in said petition to be done will be beneficial for agricultural and sanitary purposes to the owners of the lands within said proposed district. And the court also finds that the persons who have signed said petition are of lawful age and owners of land in number and quantity as required by law. And it is further hereby ordered and decreed by the court that said district be, and the same is, hereby duly organized as a body politic and corporate by the name and style of drainage district in the county of and the State of Mississippi.” Click to view But if the court, after hearing said report and objections, finds that the work proposed in said petition and the report with estimated costs by the drainage commissioners will not be sufficiently beneficial and justifiable for agricultural and sanitary purposes to the owners of the lands within said proposed drainage district, then an order shall be entered on the minutes of the court dismissing the petition and disallowing the organization of the proposed drainage district; and all costs and expenses shall be adjudged against the petitioners for the proposed drainage district.

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