McKinsey v. Bowman

-.Biddle, C. J:

Petition by the appellee, to the hoard of-commissioners of' Clinton county, ■ filed at their special térm, March, 1875, to establish a drain. From the date when the proceedings were commenced, they must have been based upon the act of March 11th, 1867, 3 Ind. Stat., p. 228. By the act of March 9th, 1875, 1 R. S. 1876, p. 428, the whole subject was reenacted. The later act, however, does not repeal the former, but enacts, that “ The provisions of this act ’ shall not be so construed as to repeal any law of this State now in force to encourage the construction of levees, dikes…