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<br /> apply to the colleation of swab costs and expenses of removing such
<br /> ma trial, filth or substance. All the provisions of this section,
<br /> however, shall only apply to the portions of such rivers, streams
<br /> and watss as are within or along park lands and boulevards now
<br /> or hereafter under the control of such board of park commissioners•
<br /> 12, the board of park commissioners of any such city shall
<br /> have the right and power solely in a proceeding separate from the
<br /> acquisition by purchase, or apuropriation of land, to order the
<br /> improvement of$any parkway, pleasure driveway or boulevard, or part
<br /> thereof, under the control of such board, by surface grading, and
<br /> paving the same, curbing and constructing sidewalks thereon or
<br /> either paving, curbing or constructing sidewalks thereon, to the same ,
<br /> extent, in the same manner and subject to the same limitations
<br /> as to form and procedure as is, or may be in the future, conferred
<br /> upon the board of public works of any city of the first class under
<br /> an tact connrning municipal corporations,x approved March 6, 1905,
<br /> and acts amendatory and supolemental thereto to improve any street,
<br /> alley or sidewalks within such City, and the powers, rights, and
<br /> duties of said board of park commissioners of such park district in
<br /> the>carrying on of such work shall be identical withnthe rights
<br /> pavers and duties of the board of public works of first-class shies
<br /> in the performance of similar work under said act; the rights, duties
<br /> and powers of the persons to be assessed thereof shall be identical
<br /> with those provided in said act in the doing of similar work by
<br /> boar 4s of public- works of first—class cities; the cost of such iS
<br /> provement of each boulevard, or pleasure drifeway shall be assessed to the
<br /> same extant as property is assessed, and when so assessed shall become a
<br /> lieu upon the property to the sans extent enforcible in the ems manner,
<br /> with the same rights as to ptrement$ by insailments cad appeal as
<br /> are or may hereafter be provided for in case of street and sidewalk
<br /> improvements ordered by the board of public works of first-class cities
<br /> under said act; and all Previsions in said act and all acts amendatory and
<br /> supplementary thereto, applicable to street and sidewalk improvements
<br /> ordered by the board of public works of first—class cities are hereby
<br /> extended to the improvement of any such parkway, pleasure driveway or
<br /> bouilevard by said board of park commissioners of any such city of the
<br /> first class: provided. however, That said board shall have exclusive authors*
<br /> ity to determine the kind of pavement to be used, and in the event
<br /> of a majority of thenresident freeholders, upon each proposed improve-
<br /> ment, remonstrate in writing against such improvement, said board may,
<br /> / upon giving ten (10) days' notice to such remonstrators, petition the
<br /> circuit court to specifically Eder the improvement, and if, upon hearing
<br /> had on such petition, said board establish the public necessity of the
<br /> proposed improvement, and that the benefits will equal the assessments
<br /> against the separate lets or parcels of land of the remonstrators such
<br /> order shall be made* and, Provided, also, That whenever the land along one
<br /> sile of a parkway, pleasure driveway or boulevard is owned by any such
<br /> of such
<br /> city or used by it for park purposes, oneahalf o© thencostthe other
<br /> itpprenment under this Section as well as any portion
<br /> one✓hal.fof the cost of such improvement that cannot be met by special
<br /> assessments against abutting property, shall be deemed and is hereby ''
<br /> desisted to be and constitute benefits resulting to all of the property,
<br /> real Ind personal, not exempt from taxation under this act, located
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