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    ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-19 Emergency Ordinance NO* 5U8 pended for the purpose of permitting the final passage and adoption of said Emergency Ordinance at this meeting. The question being upon the adoption of said motion and the suspension of the rules, the roll was called with the following result: Those voting "Aye": Commissioner Wendell Bunker Commissioner Rex A. Jarrett Commissioner William Peccole Commissioner Reed Whipple Mayor C.D. Baker Those voting "Nay": None Absent: None. The presiding officer declared said motion carried and the rules suspended. Commissioner Whipple moved that said ordinance heretofore introduced and read in full at this meeting be now placed upon its passage. Commissioner Bunker seconded the motion, and the ques­tion being upon the placing of said ordinance upon its passage, the roll was called with the fol­lowing result: Those voting "Aye": Commissioner Wendell Bunker Commissioner Rex A. Jarrett Commissioner William Peccole Commissioner Reed Whipple Mayor C.D. Baker Those voting "Nay": None. Absent: None. The presiding officer declared the motion carried and the ordinance placed upon its final pas­sage. Commissioner Whipple then moved that said ordinance be passed and adopted as read and as an emer­gency ordinance* Commissioner Bunker seconded the motion. The question being upon the passage and adoption of said ordinance, the roll was called with the following result: Those voting "Aye": Commissioner Wendell Bunker Commissioner Rex A. Jarrett Commissioner William Peccole Commissioner Reed Whipple Mayor C.D. Baker Those voting "Nay": None. Absents None. The presiding officer thereupon declared that all commissioners having voted in favor thereof, said motion was carried and said ordinance duly passed and adopted as an emergency ordinance. Commissioner Whipple moved this ordinance be numbered 547. Motion seconded by Commissioner Bunker and carried by the following votes Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Commissioner Whipple introduced and moved the adoption of the following emergency ordinance, which was thereupon read in full, and at length, and is as follows: EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 548 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 15 OF EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 542 ENTITLED: "AN EMER­GENCY ORDINANCE CREATING STREET IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-19; PROVIDING FOR THE IM­PROVEMENT OF DESIGNATED STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS THEREIN, PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS ACCORDING TO BENEFITS TO DEFRAY THE STATED ENTIRE COST THEREOF; DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF AN ASSESSMENT ROLL AND THE REPORTING OF THE SAME TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS; PROVIDING FOR FILING OF SAID ROLL WITH CITY CLERK; PROVIDING A TIME AND PLACE TO REVIEW SAID ASSESSMENTS AND NOTIFICATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE CORRECTION AND/OR CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF SAID ROLL THEREAT OR THEREAFTER; PROVIDING FOR THE INDORSEMENT ON SAID ROLL OF SAID CONFIRMATION AND APPRO­VAL; PROVIDING FOR THE DELIVERY OF SAID APPROVED ROLL TO THE EX-OFFICIO CITY ASSESSOR; PROVID­ING THAT SAID ASSESSMENTS SHALL CONSTITUTE A LIEN; PRESCRIBING THE METHOD OF PAYING SAID ASSESS­MENTS AND THE INTEREST THEREON; PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF SAID ASSESSMENTS; DIRECTING THE NOTIFICATION BY MAIL WHEN AND WHERE SAID ASSESSMENT IS DUE AND PAYABLE; RATIFYING, APPROV­ING AND CONFIRMING ALL ACTION HERETOFORE TAKEN TOWARD IMPROVING SAID STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS IN SAID DISTRICT, TOWARDS ITS CREATION AND TOWARD LEVYING AND EFFECTING SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY."; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 15 of Emergency Ordinance No. 542 is hereby amended to read as follows: That said assessments shall be due and payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Clark County, Nevada, acting Ex-Officio City Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, within ten days after said special assessment roll is confirmed and approved, with­out interest and without demand; provided, that all such assessments, or any part thereof, may, at the election of the owner, be paid in installments, with interest, as hereinafter provided. Failure to pay the whole assessment, or any part thereof, within said period of ten days shall be conclusively considered and held an election on the part of all persons interested, whether under disability or otherwise, to pay in such installments, In case of such election to pay in installments, the unpaid assessments shall be payable at the office of said Ex-Officio City Trea­surer in ten substantially equal annual installments of principal, the first of which install­ments of principal shall be due and payable on or before the 1st day of May, 1954, and the re­mainder of said installments shall be due and payable successively on or before the same day in each year thereafter until paid in full, with interest in all cases on the unpaid and deferred installments of principal from the 1st day of May, 1953, at the same rate of interest as that