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Objections.

Notice.

Review of appraisement.

Assessment levy.

Payments.

Installments.

Louisville Street Improvements.

land abutting on said street, alley, lane, avenue, or other public place so improved, with the Clerk of Council of said City, in the manner and on the basis herein provided. When such report shall have been returned and filed, the Mayor and Council shall appoint a time for the holding of a session of Council, or shall designate a regular meeting of Council for the hearing of any complaints or objections that may be made concerning said appraisement, apportionment, and assessment as to any such tracts or lots of land abutting on said improvement; and notice of the said session for the said hearing shall be published by the said Clerk of Council once a week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Lousville, and said notice shall provide for an inspection of such report by any property owner or other party interested in such report. The time fixed for said hearing shall not be less than seven days nor more than fifteen days from the last publication. The said Mayor and Council at said session shall have the power to review and correct said appraisement, apportionment, and assessment, and to hear objections to the same and to confirm the same, either as made by the said Board or as corrected by said Mayor and Council.

Sec. 3. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Mayor and Council shall by written resolution levy an assessment against the lots or parcels of land abutting on said improvement, in accordance with said appraisement, apportionment, and assessment, as confirmed by the said Mayor and Council, and such assessments shall be due and payable fifteen days after the date of the ordinance levying said assessments, without interest; but each and every owner of property against which such an assessment has been levied shall have the privilege of electing to pay the same in ten equal annual installments, one of said installments being payable on the first day of December next succeeding the date of the levy of such assessment, or

Louisville Street Improvements.

at such other date or dates as the Mayor and Council
may in their discretion fix, and one annual installment,
together with annual or semi-annual interest as fixed
by said Mayor and Council upon the amount remaining
unpaid, shall become due and payable on the first day
of December each succeeding year, by giving to the City
of Lousville his promissory notes in a form approved Notes.
by said Mayor and Council for such deferred payments,
with proper interest coupons attached thereto, for in-
terest from the date of the ordinance levying said as-
sessments, and payable annually or semi-annually and
on such dates as are fixed in said ordinance, which said
notes shall not be in satisfaction and extinguishment
of said assessments and the lien thereof, but shall be
secured by said assessments and the lien thereof on the
property against which they have been levied, and said
assessments and liens shall be enforced for the payment
thereof. Any property owner, by electing to pay said
assessment in ten equal annual installments by giving
promissory notes for said installments, shall be con-
clusively and forever held to have agreed, admitted,
and declared that the said assessment is in every respect
a valid lien against his property in accordance with the
terms of the ordinance levying said assessments, and
shall be forever stopped from contesting the same on any
ground whatsoever.

Estoppel.

New Sec. 16.

Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that said Act approved July 10th, 1925, is hereby amended by adding thereto a Section to be known as Section 16, and reading as follows, to wit: Sec. 16. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no suit shall be sustained to set aside any such assessment or to enjoin. the said Mayor and Council from making any such assessment or levying or collecting any such assessment, of action. or from issuing bonds as hereinafter provided, or providing for their payment as herein authorized, or to contest the validity thereof on any ground or for any reason, unless such suit shall be commenced within

Limitation

Marietta Business-License Tax.

New assessment.

sixty days after the passage of the ordinance making such assessment final; provided, that in the event any special assessment shall be found to be invalid or insufficient, either in whole or in part, for any reason whatsoever, the said Mayor and Council may at any time, in the manner provided for the levying of the original assessment, proceed to cause a new assessment to be made and levied, which shall have like force and effect as an original assessment.

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved April 2, 1926.

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MARIETTA BUSINESS-LICENSE TAX.

No. 7, FIRST SESSION.

An Act to amend the Act approved August 18, 1925, Acts of 1925, pages 1176-1178, entitled: "An Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Marietta, in the County of Cobb, and to consoli-date and declare the rights and powers of said corporation, and for other purposes, passed by the General Assembly of 1904, and approved August 15th, 1904, by providing a permanent registration of the voters of said city in municipal elections; to provide a maximum business license of $100.00 and a minimum business license of $25.00, and providing further that the sum of $5,000.00 of the first money received from the sale of licenses be paid over to the school funds of the city for use of the Board of Education, provided there is a city board of Education, for educational purposes and providing further that any money derived from this source, in addition thereto, to go into the general fund of the city, and for other purposes," so as

Marietta Business-License Tax.

to provide that $75.00 shall be the maximim and $5.00 shall be the minimum, amount of annual business tax from any individual, firm, or corporation engaged in business in said city, that said Mayor and Council shall be authorized to levy and collect; and by repealing that portion of said Act which provides that: "Five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars of the first money received from the sale of licenses shall be paid into the school funds of the city for use of the Board of Education of said city, provided there is a Board of Education in said city, for educational purposes in said city, and any money derived from this source in addition thereto to go into the general fund of the city," and for other purposes.

amended.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authori- Act of 1925 ty of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the Act of the General Assembly approved August 18, 1925, amending the Act of the General Assembly of 1904, creating a new charter for the City of Marietta, be and the same is hereby amended by striking from Sec. 2 of said Amendatory Act the second paragraph of said section and all of said Sec. 2 that occurs after the word "following," in the ninth line of said Sec. 2, and the third and last word thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Seventy-five ($75.00) dollars to be the maximum amount to be levied and five ($5.00) dollars to be the minimum amount to be levied against any business under this clause," so that said section, when amended, with the line 35 and part of line 36 stricken as above, shall read as follows: "Seventyfive ($75.00) dollars to be the maximum amount to be levied and five ($5.00) dollars the minimum amount to be levied against any business under this clause," so that said Sec. 2 of said Amendatory Act, when so amended, shall be as follows:

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority afore- To be read. said, that from and after the passage of this Act the Act

Marietta Public Schools; Local Tax.

Maximum

business-li

cense taxes.

of the General Assembly of Georgia approved August 15th, 1904, creating a new charter for the City of Marietta, be and the same is hereby amended by striking from Sec. 26, lines 35 and 36, as printed in the Acts of 1904, beginning with the words 'twenty-five dollars' and minimum and ending with the word 'clause,' and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Seventy-five ($75.00) dollars to be the maximum amount to be levied and five ($5.00) dollars to be the minimum amount to be levied against any business under this clause, so that said section when amended, with the line 35 and part of line 36 stricken as above, shall read as follows: 'Seventy-five ($75.00) dollars to be the maximum amount to be levied and five ($5.00) dollars to be the mimimum amount to be levied against any business under this clause,'

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Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved March 18, 1926.

MARIETTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS; LOCAL TAX.

No. 6, FIRST SESSION.

An Act to amend the Act approved August 7, 1920, Acts of 1920, pages 1233-1235, entitled: "An Act to amend an Act to create a system of public schools for the City of Marietta, in the County of Cobb; to levy a tax and provide a support for the same; to create a Board of Education, and define their powers and duties; to authorize a bonded indebtedness for said city, and other purposes, approved December 29, 1890, as amended by an Act approved September 26, 1891, so as to increase the tax levy provided for in Sec. 2 of said amended Act from five twentieths of

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