After organizing, the board of supervisors shall appoint a chief engineer for the
district, who may be an individual, copartnership, or corporation, and who shall engage
such assistants as the board of supervisors may approve. Such chief engineer shall
enter into a bond with good and sufficient surety in a sum to be fixed by said board,
which bond and surety shall be approved by said board, conditioned that he will faithfully
and honestly perform all duties required of him by said board of supervisors, and
deliver to his successor all instruments, papers, maps, documents and other things
that may have come into his hands by virtue of his employment. The chief engineer
shall have control of the engineering work in said district, and he may, whenever
he deems it necessary, confer with the chief engineer of this state, or the board
of drainage commissioners, and he may, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors,
consult any eminent engineer or engineers, and obtain his or their opinion and advice
concerning the reclamation of lands in said district. The said engineer or engineers
shall make all necessary surveys of lands within the boundary lines of said district
as hereinabove described, and of lands adjacent thereto that will be improved or reclaimed,
in part or in whole, by any system of drainage that may be outlined and adopted, and
said engineer or engineers shall make a report in writing to the board of supervisors,
with maps and profiles of such surveys, which report shall contain a full and complete
plan for draining and reclaiming the lands within the boundaries of said district
from overflow or damage by water, with length, width and depth of such canals, ditches,
drains, dikes, dams, locks, levees, holding basins, reservoirs, or other works, including
roads or highways and bridges, that may be necessary or convenient in conjunction
with said canals, ditches, drains, dikes, dams, locks, levees, holding basins, reservoirs,
or other works, including roads or highways, heretofore constructed or built by the
trustees of the internal improvement fund, or any other person or persons, or corporation,
public or private, or that may be in process of construction, or which may be hereafter
built by them, or anything that may be necessary, which can be advantageously used
in such plan for drainage and reclamation, and also an estimate of the cost of carrying
out and completing the plan of reclamation, including the cost of superintending the
same and all incidental expense connected therewith; said maps and profiles shall
also indicate so far as necessary, the physical characteristics of the lands and the
location of any public roads, railroads and other rights of way, roadways and other
property or improvement located on such lands, or in their vicinity; and in making
such plans the said engineer shall consider and recommend plans for irrigation of
the lands reclaimed should necessity therefor develop or be anticipated in the general
plan.
