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SECTION 5. The assessments levied in Section 4, above, are <br />for a portion of the costs of said improvements in the street and <br />units therein set out, whi ch are included in said ordinance enacted on <br />October 14, 1974, and the assessments for the improvements in said <br />units are in no wise related to or connected with the improvements or <br />assessments in any other street or unit described in said ordinance, <br />if any; and in levying said assessments the amounts so assessed for <br />the improvements in said units have been in no wise affected by any <br />fact or thing in any way connected with the improvements or by the <br />assessments therefor in any other of said unit s. The omission of <br />the improvements in any of said streets or units as a whole shall in <br />no wise affect or impair the validity of the assessments in any other <br />of said units and the omission of the improvement in any particular <br />street or i.nit in front of any parcel of property exempt from the lien <br />of such assessments, or against which a valid property assessment <br />cannot be levied, shall in no wise affect or impair the validity of the <br />assessments against the other properties in such unit. <br />SECTION 6. The costs of said improvements shall be paid as <br />follows, t0-W1t: <br />(a) The City shall pay all of the costs of drainage installa- <br />tions, wherever located, if any, all the costs of excavation, base <br />preparation and paving within street intersections, and not less than <br />one-third of the costs of excavation, base preparation and paving all <br />other portions of the street involved. In cases where the City <br />Council may deem it j ust and proper, the City shall also pay all or any <br />part of the amount of any credited adjustment which may be allowed <br />in the assessment of abutting properties and the owner thereof, as <br />herein provided, for the cost of excavation, base preparation and <br />paving, and of installation of curbs and gutters. The remaining <br />costs of all such improvements shall be paid by the property abutting <br />such partions of said street and the owners thereof. <br />(b) The remainder of the costs of such improvements shall <br />be assessed against the respective abutting properties and the real <br />and true owners thereof in accordance with the statutes of Texas and <br />the Charter of the City of Paris herein referred to. No assessments <br />shall be made against any abutting property or the real and true <br />owner thereof for costs in excess of the benefits to such property in <br />enhanced value thereof by means of such improvements. The amounts <br />of such assessments shall constitute a first and prior lien upon all <br />such properties and a personal liability of the real and true owners <br />thereof, whether correctly named or not, and shall be payable in in- <br />stallments as follows: When the improvements herein ordered for the <br />street designated above and portions thereof have been completed and <br />accepted by the City of Paris, the amount of the assessment against <br />each property abutting thereon and the real and true owner thereof <br />shall be and become payable in five (5) equal annual principal install- <br />ments, due respectively thirty (30) days after one (1), two (2), three <br />(3), four (4) and five (5) years from the date of acceptance by the City, <br />together with interest on each installment from said date of acceptance <br />until paid at the rate of six per cent (670) per annum, payable annually; <br />provided, however, that the owner of any of said property shall have <br />the privilege of paying all or any of said installments at any time be - <br />fore maturity thereof by paying the total amount of the principal of <br />such installments, together with the interest accrue d thereon to the <br />date of payment. Further, if default be made in the payment of any <br />of said installments or principal or interest promptly as the same <br />