Ordinance Concerning Public Parks in City of South Bend

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• subsequently questioned bY any person except in a suit to enjoin the perfermasios of scab eentraet instituted within fifteen days from the execution thereof, and after fifteen days frost the execution of such coatract and all proceedings and orders of said board of park comaiseioners preliminary and prior to said contract shall be deemed valid, sioaclusivs and binding upon ell pelotas whomsoever and shall not thereafter be subject to attack fie r any causes The e amount of the benefits resulting to all preperty in any such city and said special tax shall tm levied only for such balance. 16, Upon final action of said board of park commissioners oonfirming said resolution in its original form, all property, real and personal located withinthe territorial limits of any such city shall be subject to a special tax for the purpose of providing funds to pay the total cost of acquiring said lands or of said work of construction, or both, including all necessary incidental expenses as hereinafter specified, which said special tax ts hereby declared to be and constitute the amount of benefits resulting to all of said property from such proceedings" and shall be levied as hereinafter provided.: Provided, however, That if said board shall determine that any lots or parcels of landetexclusive of improvements thereon, lying within two thousand (2,000) feet on either side of property to be acquired for such stork of construction or both, will incur a partic- ular benefit by reason of their proximity to said property to be aequind or such work of construction in addition to the benefits received by them in common with all ether property located in any snob city, such lots and parcels of land shall be subject to a special aseessment for such benefits, which special assessment shall be made and determined in accordance with following provisions of this act, but the total amount of such additional benefits assessed shall not in any case exceed twenty-five per cents (25%) of the total cost of Itequiring aid land or of said work of construction or both, and the total asecinxt of such additional benefits so assessed and finally confirmed or adjudged against lots end parcels of land, exclusive of improvements, lying within said two thousand (2,000) feet rie aforesaid, shall be deducted from the total cost of acquiring said new park laud or of said work of construction or both, and the balande of eath total cost as above defined shall thereupon be deemed. to be and constitute the amount of the benefits resulting to all property isnany such city and said special tax shell be levied only for such balance* II, When said resolution shall have been finally confirmed by said board, as hereinabove provided, said boards all cause to be ,prepared a list or roll of all the owners or holder/ of property sought it be taken, or which will be injuriously affected either by the appro- priation of such land or the construction of such work, and also all of the owners or holders of lots or parcels of land lying within two thousand (2,000) feet en either side of such land so as to be acquired for park or boulevard purposes or of such work of construction, or both, which will lama a particular benefit, as provided in section 16 by the acquiring, location, establishment, construction or improvement of any such park, plasgroend, parkway, pleasure driveway', boulevard, imrpovement pr structittes'as provided for in said resolution. In addition to such list or roll of names the sane shall show with renewable certainty a leseription of such property to be appropriated or affected either -13-