Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-02-07

power and is hereby authorized by
resolution in meeting to make such
provisions, rules and regulations, as to
it may seem best for the levying and
collecting of such assessments and to
confirm such mode, manner and
means, more closely and more fully to
the provisions of Article VII, of this
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ARTICLE VII. AK
OF STREETS, THEIR GRADE AND M
PROvEMENT. H#
SEC. |. The Common Council shall
have power and is authorized, when
ever it deems it expedient, by resolu-
ton In writing, to establish or alter
the grade and to improve any street
or part thereof, now or hereafter laid
out or established within the corpor-
ate limits of the City, and to make
such improvement in such manner as
they may think best. The power and
authority to improve street includes
the power and authority tosimprove
the sidewalks and pavements, and to
determine and provide for everything
convenient and necessary concerning
such improvements.
SEC. 9. No grade or Improvement
mentioned in Section l, can be under
taken or made without ten days
notice thereof being first given by
publication in some daily newspaper
published in the City, or by posting,
rs NAV be prescribed by the order or
resolution of the Common Council.
SEC. 8. Such notice must be given
by the Clerk of the Common Council
by order of the Council, and must
specify, with convenient certainty, the
street or part thereof proposed to be
improved, or of which the grade is pro.
posed to be established or altered, and
the kind of improvement which is pro-
posed to be made. 4.
SEC. 4. That in ten days from the
first completion of such notice, the
owners of property fronting on such
street or part thereof, as the case may
be, amounting to two-thirds OF the
frontage on such street or part thereof
may make and file with the Clerk OF
the Common Council written re-
monstrance against the proposed I'M
provement, grade or alteration thereof,
and thereupon the same shall not then
be further proceeded in or made.
SEC. 5. If no such remonstrance be
50 made and filed, the Council, at it's
earliest convenience thereafter and
within six months from the first pub
LEGATION of such notice, may establish
the proposed grade or alteration there
of, or commence to make the proposed
improvements as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 6. In the case of a notice to
establish grade or alteration thereof,
the Council within the time limited
by Sec. 5, may establish the same as
proposed in the notice.
SEC. I. In case the notice be for
the improvement of a street or part
thereof, the Council may, through its
Surveyor or other officers ana employ
ees, proceed to ascertain and deter
mine the probable cost of making such
improvement, and assess upon each
lot or part thereof, fronting thereon
and liable therefor, its proportionate
share of such cost.
SEC. s. When the probable cost OF
the improvement has been ascertain
ed and determined, and the proper.
tionate share thereof of each lot OF
part thereof has beeh assessed as pro.
vided in Sec. Z, the Council must de-
clare the same, and direct its Clerk tt
enter q statement thereofin the docket
of the City liens as provided in the
next Section.
SEC. 8. The docket of City liens i:
a book in which must be entered il
pursuance of Section s, the following
the improvement of streets.
lst, The number or letter of the LOT
assessed, and the number or letter O.
the block in which it is situated, OF
any other valid description of the prop
erty, and if separate assessment IL
made upen part of a lot, particular
designation of such part.
I'd, The name of the owner thereof
or that the owner is unknown.
Sd, The sum assessed upon such lo1
or part thereof, and the date of the
entry.
SEC. 10. The docket of the City
liens is a public writing, and imparts
notice to all the world of the matters
and things therein recorded, and thu
original or certified copies of any mat
ter authorized TO be entered therein
are EMIT ed to the force and effec
thereof, and from the date of an entry
therein of an assessment upon a lot o.
part thereof, the sum so entered is tt
he deemed tax levied and lien
thereon, which lien shall have priority
over all other liens or incumbrance,
whatever. ~ W
SEC. IL. A sum of money assessed
for the improvement of street canno
be collected until, by order of the Com
mon Council ten days notice thereo
il given by the Clerk of the Common
Council by publication in a daily
newspaper published in said City, O
by posting in three public places il
said City; such notice must substanti
ally contain the matters required to b,
entered iif the docket of City liens
concerning such assessment.
Sec. II. If within five days from
the first publication Of the notice pre-
scribed In Section 2, the sum assesst
upon any lot or part thereof, is MOI
wholly paid to the City Treasurer anc
duplicate receipt thereof filed with
the Clerk of the Common Council, the
Council may thereafter order a war
rant for the collection of the same, tc