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MUNICIPAL LAW. 119

liable for assessment and of those exempt from assessment, for tlie cost
thereof, and at least ten days before its Hnal decision to undertake the said
work, keep a statement of the same open for inspection in the office of the
Clerk. The Council shall also cause to be inserted once a week for two
consecutive weeks in a public newspaper published within the municipality
or in the county town, tlie following notice
" Take Notice, that the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the
intends to (describing the work) on street,
between (name the points between which the work is to be done), and to
assess the final cost thereof upon the pi'operty abutting thereon and to bo
benefited thereby, and that a statement showing the lands liable to pay the
said assessment, and the names of the owners thereof, .so far as they can be
ascertained from the last revised A.ssessment Roll, is now filed in the office
of the Clerk of the Municipality, and is open for inspection during office
hours.
"The e.stimated co.st of the work is $ , of which § is
to be provifled out of the general funds of the municipality.
" A Court of Revision will be held on at
for the purpose of hearing complaints against the proposed assessment, or
accuracy of the frontage measurements, or any other complaint which
persons interested may desire to make, and which is by law cognizable by
the Court.
" Dated,

There is a right of appeal from the assessment to the Court of Re\ ision,
and from the Court of Revision to the County Judge.
In towns and cities the Judge, without an appeal, may determine what
other lands will be benefited by such improvement and may add such lands
to be asses.sed; but not until notice has been given the owners of such
property of the time and place when the matter will be considered, and
for that reason he may adjourn the hearing from time to time.
If the by-law has specially provided for ascertaining and determining »«':'>
what real property is innnediately benefited by such work, the Judge shall %-
then not have power to interfere with the statement, if the assossment is
made in accordance with the by-law, uidess
U]ion the eviilence he finds that they have been incorrectly measured,
or that other lands than those fronting upon the street are alleged to be
benefite<l and are brought into the scheme, or that the assessment upon
corner k)ts, or irregular lots at intersections of streets, has to be modified,
or that in his judgment the share to be borne b^' the municipality should
be changed, or that certain property, from its location, cannot be benefited
by said work.
SOIJ. Power to Borrow funds for the cost of local improvtMuents
from a bank, by temporary loans, until the work is completed and the
(roper assessment levied, and then to issue debentures to pay the tenjporary
toans is given to all municipalities.