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    cording to benefits against the owners and the assessable lots, premises and property specially benefited by such improvements and included within said district; and WHEREAS, there is not included within said district any public or other property against which a valid special assessment cannot be levied by said City; and WHEREAS, in no case does the estimated amount of any special assessment upon any lot or pre­mises for said improvements exceed fifty percent of the value of such lot or premises as shown upon the latest tax list or assessment roll for state and county taxation; and WHEREAS, in the judgment of the Board of Commissioners of said City of Las Vegas, it is fair and equitable that no portion of said cost and expense be borne by the City from its general funds; and WHEREAS, said Board by Emergency Ordinance No. 535* passed, adopted and approved the 25th day of March, 1953, declared its determination to make certain public improvements as herein pro­vided, to create Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-19 for the purpose of making said improvements, to defray the entire cost and expense thereof by special assessments made accord­ing to benefits, and fixed a time in which protests against the proposed improvements or the creation of such District might be heard and considered by said Board, and directed notice there­of to be given; and WHEREAS, said Board determined that said notice was given in the manner prescribed by Sec­tion 7 of said Emergency Ordinance No. 534 and by Section 57, Chapter 11, Charter of the City of Las Vegas; and WHEREAS, the owners of more than one-half the frontage to be assessed have not filed written objections concerning the making of said improvements, the creation of said District, or the defraying of the entire cost and expense by special assessments; and WHEREAS, no objections, suggestions, comments nor questions were made or raised at said protest hearing; and WHEREAS, said Board has done all things necessary and preliminary to the creation of said Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-19, and now desires to create said District; NOW, THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. There shall be and there hereby is created a special assessment district in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, to be called and designated Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-19* which shall include all the lots, premises and property within said improvement dis­trict to their full depth; and the boundaries of said district, all within the City of Las Veg­as, are described as follows, to-wit: Starting at the southerly corner of Lot 8, Block 12, of the Wradie Addition to the City of Las Vegas, thence Westerly parallel with Garces Avenue to the center line of Main Street South; thence Northerly along the center line of Main Street South to the North line of Lot 9, Block 5 of the South Addition to the City of Las Vegas, thence Easterly parallel to Bridger Avenue to the center of the alley between Main Street South and First Street South, thence Northerly along the center line of said alley to the center line of Bridger Avenue, thence Easterly along the said center line to the center line of Fifth Street Wouth thence Southerly along said center line to the Southern line of Lot 8, Block 2 of Hawkins Addition to the City of Las Vegas, thence Easterly parallel to Lewis Avenue to the center line of the alley of Block 5 Hawkins Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence southerly to the center line of Clark Avenue; thence Easterly along the said center line to the center line of the alley between 7th and 8th Streets South; thence Southerly to the Southerly comer of Lot 8, Block 12 of the Wardie Addition to the City of Las Vegas, the point of beginning also starting at the Southerly corner of Lot 15, Block 21, of the Wardie Ad­dition to the City of Las Vegas; thence Westerly parallel with Gass Avenue to the center line of the alley between 8th and 9th Streets South; thence Northerly with said center line to the center line of Bonneville Avenue; thence Easterly along said center line to the center line of the al­ley between 9th and 10th Streets; South, thence Southerly along said center line (PROJECTED) to the point of beginning, also, starting at the Southerly comer of Lot 16, Block 5 of the Pioneer Heights Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence Westerly parallel with Bridger Avenue to the center line of the alley between 7th and 8th Streets South; thence Northerly to the center line of Carson Avenue; thence Westerly along said center line to the center line of the alley between 6th and 7th Streets; thence Northerly along said center line (PROJECTED) to the center line of Fremont Street; thence Westerly along said center line to the center line (PROJECTED) of the alley between 5th and 6th Streets North; thence northerly along said center line to the Southerly comer of lots 25, Block 2 of Hawkins Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence westerly parallel with Fremont Street to 5th Street and North; thence northerly along 5th Street north to the South-westerly comer of Lot 4, Block 1 of Buck’s Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence Easterly parallel with Mesquite Avenue to the center line of the alley between 5th and 6th Streets North; thence northerly to the North boundary of Buck's Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence East­erly along the North boundary of Buck's Addition to the City of Las Vegas to the center line of the alley between 7th and 9th Streets North; thence Southerly along said center line to the South-westerly comer of Lot 13, Block 9 of Buck's Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence Easterly parallel with Mesquite Avenue to 9th Street North; thence Southerly parallel with 9th Street North to the center line of Mesquite Avenue; thence Easterly with said center line to the center line of the alley between 8th and 9th Streets North; thence Southerly along said center line to the Southwesterly corner of Lot 13 Block 17 of Buck's Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence East­erly parallel with Stewart Avenue to the center line of the alley between 9th and 10th Streets North; thence Southerly along said alley to the center line of Fremont Street; thence Westerly along said center line to the center line of the alley between 8th and 9th Streets South; thence Southerly along said center line to the point of beginning. Section 2. That the streets and parts of streets hereinafter described shall be improved by constructing and reconstructing drainage, making minor repairs, installing seal coat and chips on certain streets and parts of streets, wherever said improvements are missing, together with such appurtenances as may be required, as more particularly shown by the plats, diagrams and plans of the work and locality to be improved now on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Las Vegas. Section 3. That the streets and parts of streets which are to be so improved, wherever said improvements are missing, are the following: FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH STREETS, from the South right-of-way line of Garces Avenue to