1394 ORD CLOSING HEARING GIVEN TO REAL AND TRUE OWNERS OF PROPERTY ABUTTING ON CERTAIN STREET IN COP

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SECTION 5, The assessments levied in Section 4 above are fur a portion of the costs of said improvements in the street and units therein set out, which are included in said ordinance enacted September 25, 1956, and the assessrnents for the im- pro vernents in said unit5 are in nowise related to, or connected with the improvements or assessments in any other of the street or units described in said ordinance; and in levying said assessments the amount so assessed for the improvements in said units have been in nowise affected by any fact or thing in any way connected with the improvements or the assessments therefor in any other of said units. The omission of the im- provements in any of said street or units as a whole shall in no wise affect nor impair the validity of the asse5sments in any other of said units and the omission of the irnprovement in any particular street or unit in front of any parcel of pro- perty exempt from the lien of such assessments, or against which a valid property assessment cannot be levied, shall in nowise affect nor impair the validity of the assessments against the other properties in such unit. SECTION 6. The costs of said improvements shall be paid as follows, to-wit: (a) The City shall pay all of the costs of drainage installations, wherever located, if any, all the costs of excavation, base preparation and paving within street intersections, and not less than one-third of the costs of excavation, base pre- paration and paving of a11 other portions of the street involved, In cases where the City Couneil may desm it just and proper, the City shall also pay a11 or any part of the amount of any eredited adjustment which may be allowed in the assessment of abutting properties and the owner thereof, as herein provided, for the cost of excavation, base preparation and paving, and of installation of curbs and gutters. The remaining costs of all such im- provements shall be paid by the property abutting such portion of said street and the owners thereof. (b) The remainder of the costs of such improvements sha11 be assessed against the respective abutting properties and the real and true owners thereof in accordance with the statutes of Texas and the Charter of the City of Paris herein referred to. No assess- ment shall be made against any abutting property or the real and true owner thereof for costs in excess of the benefits to such property in enhance value thereof by means of such improvement. 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 thereof, whether correctly narned or not, and shall be payable in installments as follows: When the improvements herein ordered for the street designated above and portions thereof have been completed and accepted by the City of Paris, the amount of the assessment against each property abutting thereon and the real and true owner thereof shall be and become payable in five (5) equal annual installments, due respeetively thirty (30) days after one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4) , and five (5) years from the date of aceeptance by the City, together with intere5t on each installment from said date of acceptance until paid at the rate of six per cent (b%) per annum, payable annually; provided, however that the owner