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chargeable, and if known, the name of the owner thereof, the mayor
and city council may proceed to levy said expenses upon the interest
of such non-resident in said property, without any previous suit
to determine their right to the same.

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 4, sec. 802.

383. Such non-resident may, at any time within three months
after said expenses have been levied and collected, institute an
action against the mayor and city council for the recovery of the
same; and if it shall appear in such action that public notice was
not given as hereinbefore directed, or that no such nuisance ex-
isted, or that the paving of said street, lane or alley was not neces-
sary to the removal or abatement thereof, or that the same was
caused by an act or ordinance of the city, or by its officers in the
execution of their duty, such non-resident shall recover the ex-
penses of paving and collection so levied upon his property.

Ibid sec. 803.

384. Whenever any nuisance dangerous to the health of the
city shall be found upon any vacant lot within the city, the mayor
and city council may remove or abate the same, and shall have
the same remedy against the owner of such lot, for the expense of
so doing, as is given in the five preceding sections against the
owners of lots fronting on streets paved, to remove a nuisance;
and the owner of such vacant lot shall have the same rights and
remedies therein given to the owners of lots fronting on streets
so paved.

Ibid. sec. 854.

385. Whenever the commissioner of health shall certify in writ-
ing to the mayor that it is necessary for the health of the city to
alter the grade of any street, lane or alley on low or made ground,
the mayor shall proceed to act in the manner specified in sub-title;
"Streets," of this article.

Ibid. sec. 863.

386. The mayor and city council shall have power to clean
the streets and remove the dirt and filth therefrom, and to pro-
hibit and punish by ordinance the placing of any dirt, filth or
other matter therein.