1386 ORD APPROVING AND ADOPTING WRITTEN STATEMENT AND REPORT OF DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS

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owners thereof; and the Director of Public Works has heretofore filed said estimates and a statement of other mattcars rel.ating thereto with said City Council, and the same has been received, examined and approved by said City Council. Section 2. The wxitten statement and report of the Director of Public Works heretofore filed with the City Council, showing the estimated total costs of all the improvenents on each of said streets within the limits above defined, showing the amounts per front foot proposed to be assessed against the abutting propaxty and the real and true owners there- of, on each of said streets, for said improvements, showing the total es- timated costs of said improvaments on each of said streets proposed to be assessed against and paid by the abutting property and the real and trta.e owners thereof, showing the total estimated costs of said impravEnents on each of said streets proposed to be paid by the City of Paris, Texas, hav- ing been received and examined by the City Council, said report and the estima.tes iherein shown are hereby in all things approved and adopted; and ifi is hereby found and deEermined by the City Conneil that the estimated axnounts of the sevexal respective itens of costs of said improvenents as above deseribed on each of said streets or units are as follows, to-wit: (1) Total costs of:improvenents to be chaxged against and paid by the abutting property and the real and true owners thereof 3 7,452.47 (2) Total costs of said improvcments to be paid by the City of Paris $ 2,759.51 (3) Costs per front foot for curbs and gutters, where required, Clark Lane ~ 1.35 (4) Costs pex front foot for curbs and gutters, where required, 25th S. E. and Culbertson Streets ~y 1.50 (5) Total front foot costs for paving to owners, Clark Lane ~ 1.13 (6) Total front foot costs for paving to owners, 25th S. E. and Culbertson Streets ~ 1.087 (7) Amount pex front foot paving to be paid by the City of Paris, C1ask Lane $ .565 (8) Amount per front foot paving to be paid by the City of Paris, 25th S. E. and Culbertson Streets ~ .542 Section 3. A portion of the costs of said improvesnents sha11 be pa d by and defrayed by the.City of Paxis, Texa.s, and a portion of the costs thexeof shall be assessed against and paid bp the property abutting upon said streets within the limits above defined, and the xeal and true ownexs thereof, in aceordance with and in the manner provided by Article 1105b, Revised Civil Statut es of Texa,s, 1925, as amended, and adopt ed by the Chart er of the Cittr of Paris, Texas; and the total costs of said improvements on each of said str:~eets as hereinabove described, sha11 be and the same are hereby apportioned between said parties and shall be paid and defrayed as fo].lows: (a) The City shall pay all of the costs of drainage installations, if any, all the costs of excavation, base prepa,ration and paving within street inter- sections, and not less than one-third of the costs of exaavation, base prepara- tion and paving of all other portions of the streets involved; in cases where the City Council may deen it just and proper, the City sha11 aZso pay all or any nart of the amount of any credited adjustment which may be allowed in the asseasment of abutting properties and the owner thexeof for the costs of exaa- vation, base preparation and paving and of installation of curbs and gutters. The reriaining costs of all such improve-ments shall be paid by the property abutting such portion of such streets and the owners thereof in accordance with the Charfer of the City of Paris and the statutes of Texas, hexeinabove referred to. (b) No assessrnent shall be made against any abutting propexty ox the real and true owners thereof for the costs in excess of the benefits to such property in enhanced value thercof by means of sueh improvenents. The amounts of such assessments shall constitute a first and prior lien upon all such properties and a personal liability of the true and real owners thexeof, whether correctly named.or not, and shall be payable in installments as follows: When the im-