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/19-/} together with accrued interest, shall be and become Immediately due and payable, together with reasonable attorney's fees and costs of collection, if incurred. I No assessment shali in any case be made against any abutting property or the real and true owner or owners thereof in excess of the special benefits to accrue to such property In the enhanced value thereof resulting from said improvements. If the appl ication of the front foot rule or plan will, in the opinion of the City Council, in particular cases result in injustice or inequal ity, such costs shall be apportioned and assessed in a just and equitable manner as determined by the City Council, having in view the special benefits in enhanced value to be received by such parcels of property and the owners thereof and the equities of such owners and the adjustment of such apportionment so as to produce a substantial equal ity of benefits received and burdens imposed. In the levying and making of said assessments, if the name of any owner be unknown, it shall be sufficient to so state the fact; and if any property be owned by an estate, or by any firm or corporation, it shall be sufficient to so state, and it shall not be necessary to give the correct name of any owner, but the real and true owners of the property assessed shall be liable and the assessment against the property shall be valid, whether such owner is correctly named or not. Assessments against several parcels of property may be made in one assessment when owned by the same person, firm, corporation or estate, and property owned jointly by one or more persons, firms, or corporations may be assessed jointly. SECTION 7. The construction and installation of the improvements herein ordered in each street unit or portion of street herein designated and described shall be separate and independent of the construction and installation of such improvements in each and every other street unit or portion of street. The assessments to be levied for the improvements in each such street unit shall be separate and distinct from the assessments to be levied in every other street unit; and in making and levying assessments against property for the improvements in one unit or portion of street, no matter or circumstance in connection with any other unit or portion of street shall be considered, all as fully and to the same extent as if separate contracts were executed and separate proceedings had with reference to each such street unit or portion of street. I SECTION 8. The City Secretary is directed to cause to be prepared a notice of the enactment of this ordinance and to file said notice with the County Clerk of Hays County for recording in this records of Mortgages or Deeds of Trust in said County. SECTION 9. The fact that the streets and portions thereof to be improved as herein provided for are in bad and dangerous condition, and should be improved with- out delay, creates an emergency and an imperative pub] ic necessity for the immediate preservation of the publ ic peace, health, safety and general welfare, requiring that the provisions of the Charter of the City of San Marcos, Texas, which ordinarily require ordinances to be read on three (3) several days, and that no ordinance shall become effective until the expiration of ten (10) days following the date of its final passage, be and the same are hereby suspended; and this ordinance shall be passed and take effect as an emergency measure and be in full force from and after its passage as provided by law, and it is so ordained. 29th day of May , 1973. PASSED AND APPROVED this the , ?~$1f(/ A-~ ^,.e/,~y Edd A. Ethe redge Mayor I I I ^"aeu+~ ,~~Q, Albert M. Walker City Attorney l -3-