Notice of election. Publication of notice. Qualification of electors. Platted lots not agricultural land. Form of ballot. Vote for directors. 3443. Notice-Election.-Sec. 279. The board of county commissioners shall thereupon cause a notice embodying said orders in substance signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and the clerk of said board to be issued, given and published, giving public notice of said election, the time and places thereof, the matters submitted to the vote of the electors; said notice and order shall be published once a week for at least four weeks prior to such election in a newspaper of general circulation in said county, and if any portion of such proposed district lies within any other county or counties then such order and notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation published within each of said counties. At all elections held under the provisions of this act every owner of agricultural land within said district, over the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States, or has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and is a resident of the State of Colorado, and who shall have paid property taxes upon the property located within said district during the year preceding any such election, shall be entitled to vcte at such election in the precinct where he resides, or, if a nonresident of the precinct, then in the precinct, within which the greater portion of his land is located: and any such person so qualified to vote, and who shall reside in any county into which said district shall extend, shall be eligible to election as a director in and for the division in such district in which he is entitled to vote. All lands platted or subdivided into residence or business lots shall not be considered agricultural land. The ballots to be used and cast at such election for the formation of such district shall be substantially as follows: "Irrigation District-Yes," or "Irrigation District---No," or words equivalent thereto, and shall also contain the names of the persons to be voted for as members of the board of directors of said district; each elector may vote for three directors, one from each division, and shall indi cate his vote by placing a marginal cross upon the ballot for or against any question submitted or name voted CHAPTER 105. IRRIGATION IRRIGATION DISTRICTS-ANNUAL APPROPRIATION Act amended. Fiscal year. Directors fix and certify levy. (H. B. No. 33, by Mr. Green.) AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3457 OF THE REVISED STATUTES OF Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. That section 3457 of the Revised Statutes of Colorado of 1908, and relating to Irrigation Districts as amended by an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado approved March 24th, 1913, being Chapter 101 of the Session Laws of 1913 be so amended. as to read as follows: Sec. 3457. The fiscal year of each Irrigation District in this state shall commence on the first day of January in each year. It shall be the duty of the board of directors on or before the 15th day of each October in each year to determine the amount of money required to meet the maintenance, operating and current expenses for the ensuing fiscal year and to certify by resolution to the county commissioners of the county in which the office of the district is located said amount, together with such additional amount as may be necessary to meet any deficiency in the payment of said expenses theretofore in curred. Said resolution shall be termed the Annual Appropriation Resolution for the next fiscal year, and no expenditure to be paid out of such fund shall exceed in Annual apany one year the amounts fixed for such expenses in the resolution. Annual Appropriation Resolution except as hereinafter provided. Approved: April 12, 1915. propriation CHAPTER 106. IRRIGATION IRRIGATION DISTRICTS-ASSESSMENT OF LANDS. Act amended. Assessment of lands in irrigation district. Return of assessment. Valuation of lands, Lands exempt from taxa tion. (S. B. No. 323, by Senator Means.) AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 3458 OF THE RE- Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. That section 3458 of the Revised Statutes of Colorado of 1908 be amended so as to read as follows: 3458. ASSESSOR-ASSESSMENT.-Section 294. It shall be the duty of the county assessor of any county embracing the whole or a part of any irrigation district, to assess and enter upon his records as assessor in its appropriate column, the assessment of all real estate, exclusive of improvements, situate, lying and being within any irrigation district in whole or in part of such county. Immediately after said assessment shall have been extended as provided by law, the assessor shall make returns of the total amount of such assessment to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the office of said district is located. All lands within the district for the purposes of taxation under this act shall be valued by the assessor at the same rate per acre; Provided. That in no case shall any land be taxed, or subject to taxation, for irrigation district purposes under this act, or under any other or former law relative to irrigation districts, which, by reason of location or the broken or uneven surface, or unsuitable character or quality of the soil is un |