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    shall include the cost of surveys, plans, assessment, cost of construction and all fees and compensation properly chargeable in the work of making such special assessment. In case the amount of special assessment upon any lot or premises shall exceed twenty (20) per cent of the value of such lot or premises as shown upon the latest tax list or assessment roll for state and county taxation, such cost exceeding said twenty (20) per cent shall be paid from the general fund of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada Section 3. The assessment district for said improvement shall include the lots and premises within the following boundaries, to-wit: Commencing at the intersection of Main Street with Carson Street, and running thence northerly along the east side of Main Street to its intersection with Ogden Street; thence easterly along Ogden Street to its intersection with the alley in Block No. Two (2); thence southerly along said alley through Blocks Nos. Two (2) and Three (3) to its intersection with Carson Street; thence westerly along Carson Street to the place of beginning, excepting from said district Lots One (1), four (4) Five (5), Sixteen (16) and the south fifteen (15) feet of Lot Fifteen (15) in Block No. Two (2), and Lots One (1), Two (2) Three (3), Four (4) and Five (5), in Block No. Three (3) Section 4. The said work shall be done under contract to be let by this Board to the lowest responsible bidder and upon such conditions as the Board of City Commissioners prescribe in letting such contract. Section 5. A special assessment is hereby required to be made pro rata in the above described special assessment district, according to frontage; and the City Assessor is hereby directed immediately upon the passage of this Ordinance to make such special assessment according to frontage, and he is hereby directed to assess the sum of Eight Hundred and Twelve ($812) Dollars as being the amount determined necessary to cover the cost of such improvement. From the date of the approval of the assessment roll the special assessment shall constitute a lien upon the respective lots or parcels of land assessed. Section 6. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication for one week (one issue) in the Clark County Review. I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was read for the first time at a regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners held on the first day of March, 1916, and read for the second time and passed at its regular meeting on the 8th day of April, 1916, by the following vote, to-wit; Commissioners Elwell aye, Ball aye, Hicks aye, and his honor, the Mayor, W. E. Hawkins, voting aye. ____________W. E. HAWKINS .______________________ Mayor. Attest:- Harley A. Harmon. City Clerk. AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION. Chas. C. Corkhill, being first duly sworn, deposes and says; That he is a citizen of the United States, over the age of eighteen years; that he is the publisher of the Clark County Review, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed and published at Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, and that the Ordinance No. 65 of the City of Las Vegas, of which the attached is a true and correct copy, was published in said paper one issue, on the following dates, to-wit: April 8, 1916. __________Chas. C. Corkhill._______________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of April, A. D). 1916. __________Harley A. Harmon.______ City Clerk in and for the City of Las Vegas. ORDINANCE NO. 66. An Ordinance Regulating Travel and Traffic Upon the Public Streets of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, do ordain: Section 1. The following terms whenever used in this Ordinance, except as otherwise specifically indicated, shall be deemed to have and shall be held, to include each of the meanings, respectively set forth in this section, and any such terms used in the singular number shall be held to include