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(15.) Section 71.02, Chapter 1, Title VII, is amended to read as follows : SECTION 71.02 . PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS. In all cases providedinn this Act for the paving, grading, laying out, opening, resurfacing or otherwise im- proving of any street, alley or highway of the city; or for the construction or improvement of any sewer, drainage pipe or passage; or for the laying or construction of any sidewalk or curbing, in front of any lot, parcel or tract of land within the city and abutting any street, alley or highway, whenever the contract for same shall have been approved and prior to the commencement of construction, the City Council shall cause to be published a Notice of the letting of said con- tract which notice shall contain a statement show- ing the portion of street, alley, highway, side- walk, sewer, drainage pipe to be constructed or improved and the cost of same. Said notice to also contain an estimated cost to property owners owning land adjoining said construction or improve- ments ; but in said notice the names of the owner or owners of, or other persons interest in such lot, parcel or tract need not appear; but a sufficient description of the lot, parcel or tract to be asses- sed, to make it capable of identification, shall be given; and the said notice shall name a day not less than ten (10) days from the date of first publication when the City Council will meet for the hearing complaints which the owner or owners of or other persons interested_..in ._the lot, parcel or tract may desire to make against the construction or improvements described in said notice. If at said public hearing the City Council finds that no sufficient reason is shown why said con- struction or improvements should not be made and the cost assessed against the abutting property, as indicated in said notice, the City Council shall by resolution or otherwise, assess the cost of new construction against the abutting property, one-third (1/3) to each with one- third (1/3) of such costs to be paid by the City. Provided, however, that any improvement or resurfacing of any street, alley, sidewalk, or curbing may be performed by city work crews, and the cost of same paid from' the -general fund. (16. ) Section 71.07 , Chapter 1, Title VII, is amended to read as follows : SECTION 71.07 . LIEN: INSTALLMENTS • INTEREST RATE. Eac certi• icate s•FiaIl e a lien against the .sand therein described, and shall be payable in not more than ten (10) dqual annual installments as to princi- pal, as the Council may decide, with interest to be fixed by the City Council at the rate not greater than nine (9%) per centum per annum, payable annually from the date of the issuance thereof. 6.