and filling public slips, or any other improvement directed by an ordinance of the Common Council.

§ 192. The assessors shall, on the completion of an assessment, publish for ten days in the Corporation papers, a notice that the same is completed, and will remain in their office thirty days for examination by all parties interested therein, and that, at the end of that time, it will be presented to the Common Council for confirmation. The notice shall also contain a general description of the limits within which property is affected by the assessment.

§ 193. If objections be presented to the assessors within the time mentioned in the notice, upon which they shall refuse to alter their assessment list, or if notwithstanding its alteration, objections still be made, they shall present the assessment list, with such objections, to the Common Council.

194. The assessors shall describe in the assessment list the several houses and lots assessed, by the known street number, and the ward number, and shall also state therein the names of the

owner or owners, and occupant or occupants thereof respectively.

§ 195. In making their assessment, the assessors shall in no case assess upon a house or lot, or upon land whether improved or unimproved, more than one-third of the value thereof as fixed by the assessors of the ward in which the same shall be situated.

§ 196. The assessors shall include in every assessment list an amount as nearly equal as possible to a just proportion of their salaries and expenses, based upon the estimated aggregate of assessments for the current year, which shall be furnished to them for that purpose by the Street Commissioner.

§ 197. They shall also, in every assessment list, fix the compensation to be allowed to the deputy collectors of assessments, not exceeding five per cent. on the amount of the assessment, and which, together with an equal proportion of the salary of the collector of assessments, to be ascertained as

provided in the last section, shall be included in the assessment list.

§ 198. They shall enter in books to be provided for that purpose, a full and complete record in detail, of all assessments confirmed by the Supreme Court or by the Common Council, which shall at all convenient times be open to public inspection.

CHAPTER II.

THE BUREAU OF THE COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS.

§ 199. This bureau, the chief officer of which shall be called the Collector of Assessments, is charged with the duty of collecting all assessments which are confirmed according to law, for opening, widening and altering streets, building wells, erecting pumps, pitching, paving, and repairing streets, constructing sewers, fencing lots, and filling public slips, or any other improvement directed by an ordinance of the Common Council.

§ 200. The Collector of Assessments shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond to the Corporation, with at least two

sureties to be approved by the Comptroller, in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.

§201. There shall be in this bureau, three assistants to the Collector of Assessments, who shall be called Deputy Collectors.

§ 202. Each of the deputy collectors shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond to the Corporation, with at least two sureties to be approved by the Comptroller, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.

§ 203. Upon the confirmation of an assessment, the warrant or ordinance for the collection thereof shall require that the same be collected by the

Collector of Assessments, who

shall deliver the

same for collection to one of the deputy collectors, in such manner as that each deputy shall receive an equal number of assessment lists for collection.

§ 204. Immediately upon receiving an assessment list for collection, the Collector of Assessments shall prepare a condensed recapitulation thereof, containing the name of the street on which each lot assessed is situated, with the farm, street, ward and assessment number of each lot; the name of the person to whom it is assessed; the dimensions of the lot; the amount of the assessment, and the time of its confirmation.

§ 205. Upon receiving the assessment list, the deputy collector shall forthwith demand the payment of the assessments therein contained, from the persons who are required by law to pay the

same.

§ 206. If an assessment confirmed by the Common Council, or any part thereof, remain unpaid for sixty days after its confirmation, the deputy collector shall make application for a warrant, to levy the same according to law.

§ 207. If an assessment for opening, widening or altering a street, confirmed by the Supreme Court, or any part thereof, remain unpaid for sixty