The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-21
Gle alexander Road Law

the amount Of assessed benefits per
benefits assessed against said rail
mile, and the total amount of the
benefits assessed against said rail
road or tramrcad, and no error in
the name Of owners, or description of
property shall invalidate said as
sesEment, If sufficient description
is given to identify same, and any
error or mistake in making said
assessment may be corrected at the
hearing hereinafter provided for.
Section u The assessors shall al
SO assess the damages accruing to
any owner of real property, if amy,
In the same book in which the as
sessment of benefits is made, and
SAID damages may be paid out of
the funds OF the district, or by a re-
duction in the assessment of bene-
fits in proportion to the amount of
the damages sustained by reason
To- right-of-way taken, or other dam
age sustained
Section -. AS soon as the as
SCISSORS have completed the work of
assessment for the district, they
shall certify 70 same and deliver it
ID the Board OF Commissioners. The
commissioners shall Immediately file
same in the office of the County
Clerk, and the County Clerk of said
county shall give public notice by
two consecutive insertions in a pub
LEGATION having a general circulation
in said county. Said notice shall
give description of all lands en-
braced in said district in the larg-
est subdivision practicable and shall
state that said assessment of bene-
fits and damages has been filed in
said office and shall call upon any
person, firm or corporation aggriev-
ed by reason of any assessment to
appear before the County Court on
some date to be fixed by the court
not less than five days after the last
Va
having any errors adjusted, or any
wrongful or grieyous assessment cor
reeted, and all grievances or objec-
tons to said assessment shall be
presented to said court in writing.
Any person who is damaged by rea-
son of said improvement may APP
pear before said court at the same
time, for the purpose of having the
assessment of damages adjusted.
The County Court shall hear and
determine The business Of any assess
ment OF benefits, or damages, and
Is hereby authorized to equaliZe,
lower or raise any asses sment upon
a proper showing to the court.
Section IA At the hearing pro
yided for in the preceding sec
ton and after the County Court shall
have considered the assessment OF
benefits, it shall enter its findings
thereon, either confirming the as
sessment of benefits against said
property, increasing or diminishing
same, and the order made by the
County Court shall have all the force
and effect Of judgment against all
real property in said district. and it
shall be deemed final, conclusive,
binding and incontestable except by
diraat attack on appeal.
Any owner of real property within
tie district may appeal from the
judgment fixing the assessment of
benefits or damages within ten days
by filing an affidavit for appeal and
stating therein the special matter
appealed from, but such appeal shall
affect only the particular tract OF
land or other real property concern
ing which said appeal is taken, and
on appeal only the special matters
set up in said affidavit shall be
considered by the Circuit Court.
If no appeal is taken within that
time such judgment shall be deemed
final, conclusive and binding upon
all real property in the district, and
the owners thereof, and said as
sessment of benefits shall not be
subject to collateral attack.
The Board of Commissioners on
behalf of the district, or any owner
q reIl properly therein may like
wise appeal from any order of the
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