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Pleasant and to make all necessary contracts therefor as are
necessary and proper; provided, however, that no property
upon which a special assessment has been made for its pro-
portionate share of the costs of such public improvements shall
have been paid, shall again be assessable for said public im-
provement.

In all cases where the property to be assessed for public
improvements, under the provisions of this Act, is located at
the intersection of two streets, on what is known as a corner
lot, and in case the improvements are extended along the side
of said property, the Mayor and Common Council of Seat
Pleasant, in addition to the assessment made for such improve-
ments along the front of said property, shall make such further
assessment for the benefits and improvements along the side
of said property. In all cases in which the question shall arise
as to the street upon which the said property may front, the
decision of the Mayor and Common Council of Seat Pleasant
in regard thereto shall be final and conclusive. The said Mayor
and Common Council of Seat Pleasant are hereby authorized
to make reasonable adjustments and allowances in assessing
benefits which in their judgment are equitable, fair and just
in such cases, as may be necessary to prevent the working of
undue and unnecessary hardships.

The provisions of this section relating to the levy of special
assessments shall not apply to the maintenance of and repairs
to roads, streets, lanes, sidewalks, curbs, and gutters, nor
deprive the Mayor and Common Council of Seat Pleasant of
authority to maintain and repair roads, streets, lanes, side-
walks, curbs and gutters, and to pay therefor from the pro-
ceeds of general taxes without the formalities prescribed in
this section for the making of road and street improvements
for which special assessments are to be levied.

Any Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed, but nothing herein shall be taken to interfere with
existing law for the protection or enforcement of the collection
of said special assessments and the same shall be collected in
the same manner and to the same extent as taxes are now
collected.

SEC. 3. And be, it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health, morals, safety and wel-
fare, and well being, passed by a yea and nay vote supported
by three-fifths of all of the members elected to each of the two
houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 26, 1939.