fifty cents annually for each lot or without a cellar, drained as aforesaid sewer, and such sums as may be fixed for all establishments requiring an u amount of drainage, drained as afor collected shall constitute the sewer fun exclusively for the repair and constru collection of the charges to individuals tion provided, shall be enforced in such council may by ordinance direct. Sec. 9. Whenever the common coun to be assess- the whole or any part of the expense be benented ment not requiring the taking of any be defrayed by an assessment on th of houses and lands to be benefited the the same by an entry in their minutes, as they may think proper, the estimate Council to provement, they shall declare by an judge what is benefited whether the whole or what portion ther such owners and occupants, specifying t and the portion of the city which they d such improvement; the costs and expen mates, plans and assessments incidenta cluded in the estimated expenses of suc Sec. 10. The common council shall t the assess. der reciting the public improvement so to be made, the amount of expense to be and the portion or part of the city on To appoint be assessed, designating and directing to make the holders of said city not interested in so benefitted, nor of kin to any person an assessment upon all the owners or and houses within the portion or part amount of expense in proportion as nearly vantage which each shall be deemed to a such improvements, which order shall be tify, order map or pro commis be sworn. ties of clerk of the city, and delivered to one of said commissioners, to- Clerk to cergether with a map or profile of the proposed improvement in and furnish cases where the same is practicable. Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of said commissioners so desig- Said special nated and appointed by the common council, to meet together at sioners to such time and place as the common council shall appoint, or in case said council do not so appoint, as said commissioners shall themselves agree upon, and thereupon said commissioners shall severally take and subscribe an oath before some officer, by law authorized to administer the same, that they are not interested in the premises described in said order, and not of kin to any person so interested, and that they will faithfully and impartially discharge the duty imposed upon them by said order, which said oath shall forthwith be returned and filed with the city clerk. In case any such commissioner shall not be able to Further du take such oath, the city clerk shall forthwith return that fact and council. to the common council, and the said council shall thereupon appoint one or more commissioners not interested and not of kin as aforesaid, to make the number three, and proceed in like manner until three commissioners are sworn as aforesaid. Sec. 12. The commissioners thus sworn shall proceed to Daties of make an assessment according to the said order, and shall commismake out an assessment roll, in which shall be entered the names of the persons assessed, the value of the property for which they are assessed, the amount assessed to each of them respectively, and in case any lots or parts of lots shall be un- occupied, belonging to any person residing in the said city, such person shall be assessed for the same, and his name entered accordingly; and in case such lots or parts of lots shall belong to a non-resident or owner or owners unknown, the same shall be entered accordingly, with a description of such lots or premises, as is required by law in assessment rolls made by supervisors of townships, with the value thereof and the amount assessed thereon, which assessment shall be subscribed by them, or a majority of them, who acted in the premises, and returned as speedily as may be to the common council of the said city. said special sioners. |