The drainage district shall not cease to exist upon the completion of its drainage system, but shall continue to exist as a body corporate for the purpose of preserving the system of drainage, keeping the ditch clear from obstruction, extending, widening, or deepening the ditches from time to time, and for doing such other things and acts in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter and of the drainage system so established, as may be found advantageous to the district. For those purposes, the board of commissioners may borrow money and issue its bonds in such sums and in the manner provided in this chapter, and may from time to time apply to the chancery court, or chancellor in vacation, for the levying of additional assessments upon the benefits for the payment of said work or said bonds. Upon the filing of such application or petition with the clerk of the chancery court, he shall give notice by publication by two insertions in a newspaper published in each of the counties in which the district embraces land. Any property owner seeking to resist such additional levy may appear at the next term of the chancery court, or the chancellor in vacation, not less than ten days after the last insertion of said notice and urge his objections to such levy. In case he fails to appear, such levy shall stand with the force of a final judgment, but either the property owners or the commissioners may appeal to the supreme court not later than twenty days after the date of such levy.