Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-08

been organized shall be filled by the
remaining member or members; but
! if all the Faces on thA board shall
become vacant, or those appointed
SHALL after qualification, refuse or
neglect to act, new members shall be
appointed by the council, as in the
first instance. The members of the
| board shall receive no compensation
for their services.
"a majority of said board shall con.
,titute quorum for the transaction
of business, and the performance of
the duties enjoined by this act.
Immediately after their qualifica
tion the board shall form plans for
the Improvement within their district
as prayed in the petition, and shall
procure estimates for the cost thereof,
but all such improvements shall be
made with reference to the grades of
p, streets and alleys as fixed, or may be
| fixed, by the ordinances of said city.
For this purpose said board may en-
ploy such engineers and other agents
| as may be needful, and may provide
| for their compensation, which, with
| all necessary expenditures, shall be
| taken as a part of the cost of the i'm
provement. II, for any cause the i'm
provement shall not be made, said cost
shall be charge on the real property
| in the district, and shall be raised and
hereinafter prescribed
The words, real property, when
ever used in this act, shall have the
! same meaning and signifcation as are
attached to said words in the act pro-
viding for the collection of state, cOun
ty and city revenues.
"As soon as said board shall have
formed said plan and shall have ascer-
tanned the cost of the Improvement,
it shall report the same to the city
council, which shall at once by ordin
ance assess said cGst upon the real
property in said city or district, as the
case may be, assessing each parcel Of
property according to it's value as
shown by the last county assessment
ON file in the office of the county
clerk; and subsequent assessments on
| y .1oll no in 10 ,,nn
with the periodical assessments of the
real estate of said city Or town as
may be made from time to time.
"lf the estimated cost of the i'm
provement shall exceed one per cent
um of the assessed value of the real
property aforesaid, then it shall be
provided by ordinance that the assess
ment shall be paid in successive an
nual installments, SO that no assess
men shall in any one year exceed one
per centum of the assessed value of
the real property for such particular
Improvement The ordinance shall fix
the day in each year when the assess
ment for the year shall be paid, and
the day fixed for the payment of the
first instalment shall not be later
than sixty days form the date of the
ordinance making the assessment.
Provided. no single improvement shall
be undertaken which alone will exceed
in cost twenty per centum of the value
of such real property in such dis
trict.
within five days after the passage
of the ordinance mentioned tn the
last section of this act the clerk shall
publish a copy of it in some news
paper published in the city, one time;
and anyone who may feel aggrieved
thereby may object to the assessment;
and such person shall commence legal
proceeding for the purpose of trying
the validity Of said assessment within
twenty days after the date of said
publication or else he shall be for
ever barred in all courts of law or
equity from questioning the validity
of the assessment and the lien created
thereby.
Immediately after the passage OF
the ordinance the city clerk shall
procure, at the expense of the district
copy of so much of the last assess
ment of said city made by the county
assessor as contains the description
and valuation of the real property sit
uated in the district. and shall extend
against each parcel of real property
thereon the assessment so made, ant
shall deliver It, with his warrant at
tached, to the collector Of the district
within thirty days after the passage
of the ordinance"
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