acted upon all petitions as hereinafter provided. Any person owning any such lot or any interest therein, or having a lien thereon, shall have the right, at any time within thirty days after the filing with the City Recorder of the tax assessor's estimate of the amount of the lien which the city will claim for such work and until the time fixed in the notice for the meeting of the City Council to consider petitions, to present to the City Recorder a sworn petition to the City Council, stating his interest in the property and alleging that in the opinion of the petitioner the estimated amount of such lien upon such lot is incorrect, and wherein it is incorrect or will exceed the special benefits accruing from the work to such lot. If such petition is within such time presented to the City Recorder, the City Council shall hear and consider the petition, and make due and proper inquiry into the question involved. And if it shall appear to their satisfaction that the estimated amount of said lien is incorrectly estimated or will exceed the special benefits accruing to such lot, then the City Council shall by resolution so declare, and shall make the necessary correction and fix the amount to be charged up against such lot at an amount not exceeding the special benefits to such lot, and the amount so fixed shall stand as the amount of such lien, and any amount in excess thereof shall be paid by the city. In all cases where no petition shall be filed within the time as hereinbefore provided, the amount of the lien, as estimated by the tax assessor, unless changed for cause by the City Council, shall stand fixed as the amount of the city's lien. The City Council, after giving all persons who have filed their petitions an opportunity to be heard, and having made all corrections in their judgment necessary to equalize the assessments in proportion to benefits, shall approve and ratify the said estimates by resolution, after which the said estimate shall stand as true and correct. 1911 for work. Sec. 19. The Board of Bond Trustees, after not less Contracts than thirty days' notice, published once each week for four weeks, and not less than sixty days after the first publication of the ordinance, shall let to the lowest and best responsible bidder or bidders a contract or contracts for the doing of the work required to be done, and for furnishing the materials required to be furnished, but the total cost, including all necessary cost of engineering 1911 Previous existing liens held by private parties. "Sewer Lien Book." Proviso. and inspecting, shall not exceed the estimate thereof presented to the City Council with the resolution declaring the necessity for the work, and if it shall be found im practicable to do the work within the estimated cost thereof, the Board of Bond Trustees shall have the right to submit another resolution and estimate to the City Council, and the City Council may, by ordinance, repeal the existing ordinance, and require the work to be done under the second estimate in the same way as if the second resolution and estimate were an original proceeding. Sec. 20. Any person owning or interested in, or having a lien upon any property so asssessed by the city, shall have the right, upon proper showing, satisfactory to a Chancery Court, to enjoin the legal letting or carrying out of any contract illegally let for any work to be done under any provision of this Act, upon a proper bill in chancery filed prior to the letting of any such contract, or within thirty days after the letting of such contract, but no such injunctional order shall be granted without reasonable opportunity to the city authorities to be first heard, and no person shall be heard to question the legality of the charge against the city or against any property assessed for such work in or by any proceeding instituted more than thirty days after the letting of such contract. Sec. 21. As soon as practicable and within thirty days after the completion of the entire work required by ordinance to be done, the Board of Bond Trustees shall have prepared and entered up in a book, which shall be prepared and kept for that purpose, and kept open to public inspection, during reasonable office hours, in the office of the City Recorder, labelled "Sewer Lien Book," the amount of such cost chargeable to each lot, the date of the completion of the work, and such other information as the board may deem advisable; Provided, That no lot shall be charged with a lien greater in amount than the tax assessor's estimate of such liens as ap proved and ratified by resolution of the City Council; and if the actual cost of such work is found to be less than the estimated cost, in that event the amount of the lien against each lot shall be proportionately reduced from the estimate of said lien as approved and ratified by the City Council; and said amounts, with interest and costs of collection, shall be liens against the property so assessed, superior to all other liens except liens for taxes, from the date of completion of such work. As soon as practicable after said entry shall have been made in said sewer lien book, the Board of Bond Trustees shall cause to be published a notice of the completion of such work and the fact that said liens have been entered in the sewer lien book; and shall publish in two newspapers published in the City of Jacksonville, weekly for four consecutive weeks, the liens held by the city against each piece of property, by lot and block number or other proper description. If the face of said lien is tendered to the city within thirty days after the publication of said notice, no interest thereon shall be charged, but otherwise there shall be collected interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum, from the date of the completion of the work. 1911 Sec. 22. Any person desiring to pay proportionate cost Liens. of such work, within interest and cost of collection, upon any lot or part of lot, shall have the right to do so, and to have such lot or part of lot relieved from such lien, the city retaining its lien upon the remaining property for the balance of such costs. Sec. 23. That the Mayor and City Council shall have Drainage. the power by ordinance to lay out and prescribe drainage districts in said city and to provide for the construction and maintenance of drains and other works therein for the drainage thereof; and in said ordinance the amount or proportion of the cost of such drains and drainage works to be sustained and paid for by said city shall be fixed and determined, and the remainder of said cost shall be paid by and assessed and be a lien upon the lands in said drainage district and any street railway or railways having a track or tracks in any street or streets in said drainage district in such proportions and under such method of assessment and collection as shall be provided in said ordinance; said ordinance shall provide an opportunity for all persons to be heard and their complaints, if any, to be acted upon, prior to the time when the amount or amounts to be assessed as aforesaid shall be finally fixed. 1911 Lien for cost of water connection. Contracts, Proviso. Collection of liens. Tax on poles for wires. Sec. 24. Whenever any premises in the city are connected within any sewer, water main or pipe in any street of which such premises front or abut, the cost of such connection shall be assessed against such premises and shall be a lien thereon from the date of completion of such work, superior to all other liens excepting only liens for taxes. Sec. 25. That all improvements, materials, supplies and work of all kinds and for any purpose done, rendered, supplied or performed for said city, amounting to more than $300.00, shall be let by contract to the lowest and best bidder, according to written specifications previously prescribed therefor, and after publication in a daily newspaper of a notice calling for such bids once each week for not less than two weeks, and not otherwise; and any contract made in violation of this section shall be invalid and unenforcible; Provided, That if the Board of Bond Trustees shall, after the time for receiving bids as aforesaid, adopt and transmit to the City Council a resolution at any time certifying either (1) that there shall be no bids from competent bidders or (2) that all bids submitted shall in the opinion of said board be excessive and unreasonably increase the cost of such work, labor or materials over the actual cost thereof if done or supplied by said city itself, or (3) that there is reasonable ground for suspecting or believing that there exists a combination of bidders to unduly increase the cost of said work, labor or materials or prevent free competition among said bidders, then the Mayor and City Council by ordinance may authorize the work, labor or materials covered by said resolution to be done, furnished or performed by said city in any manner prescribed by such ordinance, but such ordinance shall be confined solely to the particular work, labor or materials covered and described by said resolution. Sec. 26. All liens under this Act shall be collected in the same manner as city taxes and street improvement liens are now collected. Sec. 27. The Mayor and City Council may, by ordinance, impose a license tax not to exceed twenty-five cents per pole on all companies erecting poles in the streets of the city on which wires are placed and may re quire the removal of poles from streets and the placing 1911 Sec. 28. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 29. This Act shall go into effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved June 5, 1911. CHAPTER 6358-(No. 239). "AN ACT to Legalize the Election Held in the City of |