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118 MUNICIPAL LAW.
SSU. Council may Initiate Local Improvements, and levy lor
the cost thereof upon the properties benetited thereby, unless u
majority of the owners of such real property, representinfj at least one-half
iii value thereof, petition the Council against the same within one month
after the last publication of a notice of the intension of the Council to
undcilake the said work, such notice to be inserted once in each week for
two weeks in at least two newspapers published in the municipality, if
there are two ; and if not, then in a newspaper published nearest to the
proposed work.
Such work successfully petitioned against shall not be luidertakeii
again by the Council within two years.
If a work of local improvement is not petitioned against by a sufficient
number of property owners, the Council may undertake it during that or
the succeeding year, and shall complete tht! same before making tln'
assessuient.
Owners of real projicrty wliose names are not on the last revised
Assessment lloU may sign the petition for or against the local improvement
work, by satisfying the Clerk of the Municipality, by statutory declaration
or otherwise, that he is the owner of the propi'rty instead of the person
whose name is on such Assessment Roll.
54>0. By-Law Forms. It is optional with the Council whether
to use the short form of local improvement by-laws provided by statute or
the full form.
501. Notices in Lieu of Advertisement. 1. Notices either written
or printed, or partly of both, of the sitting of the t'ourt of RivLsioii
for the confirmation of .such spt!cial asse.'isments may be given to the
owners and lessees having the right to petition, in lieu of the advertisement
in the newspapers previously mentioned.
2. Such noiice shall contain a description of the property in respect
to which it is given, the nature of the jiroposed imjirovement, total cost,
amount of assessment on the particular piece of property, time and manner
of payment, and signed by the Clerk, assessment commissioner or oth<u'
officer appointed by the Council for the purpose, and shall, at least fifteen
days befon^ the time appointed for the Court of Revision, lie mailed to th(.>
address of the persons entitle<i to receive them.
Ten days' notice of the time and place of meeting of the Court of
Revision shall be given in some newspajier having a general circulation,
which shall specify generally what sucl. a,ssessment is for and the total
amount to be levied.
Hii'i- What Notice Required. When notice of the intention of
the Council to undertake a local improvement work under the provisions
of their general by-law, which provides tlmt th(! special rate to be levied
shall bo an annual rate, according to frontage, upon the real property
abutting upon such street or place wherein the work is to l)e done, a gen-
eral description is .sufficient, stating the points between which it is to be
made.
In such case the Council shall, by a measurement of the frontages

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