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bank elsewhere paying such interest, to the credit of the person
entitled to such damages.

(14) All benefits assessed under this Section, less damages
awarded, shall be liens on the respective lots or parcels benefited
by the improvement from the time of the passage of the ordi-
nance required in sub-division two of this Section; provided,
that if the proceedings are discontinued for any reason the lien
of such assessment shall be void ab initio. Such assessments,
may be collected as taxes are collected or by action at law.

(15) Upon payment, or tender and deposit in proper case,
of all the damages awarded, the title to the lands condemned,
shall pass to the Mayor and Council of Salisbury to have and
to hold as other lands are held for public purposes.

(16) If the Council shall fail to determine to proceed with
the proposed improvement within the six months mentioned in.
sub-division twelve (12) of this Section then the proceedings,
shall be null and void ab initio. But if the Council shall deter-
mine to proceed with the proposed improvement within the said
time, then the proceedings shall be valid and binding, in spite
of irregularities, defects and errors therein, upon all persons
and corporations mentioned in the notice required by sub-
division nine (9) of this Section who have not filed an appeal
as provided in sub-division eleven (11) of this Section and upon
all property of such persons or corporations damaged, taken or
benefited by virtue of such proceedings, it being the intention
of this sub-division to cure all defects in such proceeding as;
to all persons and corporations, except appellants, mentioned
in the said notice and as against all attack except by appeal as
provided, and in case the proceedings shall be held invalid as
to an appellant they shall not be considered as invalid except
as to that appellant; provided, that, whenever any proceed-
ings shall be held invalid as to any person, the Mayor and
Council of Salisbury shall, as soon after such holding as conve-
niently may be, proceed to institute, as to such person, new
proceedings, or to do whatever else may be necessary, for the
purpose of properly and fully carrying into effect the plan of
the improvement as laid out in the ordinance required by sub-
division two (2) of this Section.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not affect or
impair any right vested or acquired and existing at the time
of the passage of this Act; provided, that this Section shall
not be construed to make irrepealable or irrevocable any right