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assessment roll. All parties interested may appear before said assessors, 

 and may be heard touching any matter connected with the assessment. 

 When the same shall be completed, it shall be signed by the assessors, and 

 returned to the said circuit court, and shall be filed by the clerk thereof. 

 The assessors shall thereupon give at least ten days' notice, in one of the 

 said daily papers, of the filing of said assessment roll, and that they will, on 

 a day therein named, apply to the said circuit court for confirmation of the 

 same, which said notice shall be published at least ten days before the time 

 fixed for such application. Said circuit court shall have power to revise, 

 correct, amend or confirm said assessment, in whole or in part, and may 

 make or order a new assessment, in whole or in part, and the same revise 

 and confirm, upon like notice. All parties interested may appear before 

 said circuit court, either in person or by attorney, when such application 

 shall be made, and may object to said assessment, either in whole or in part, 

 provided all objections shall be in writing, and shall be filed at least three 

 days before the time fixed for the application, and shall specify the lot, 

 block, or parcels of land on behalf of which objection is made. After the 

 confirmation of said assessment, the clerk of said circuit court shall file a 

 copy thereof, under the seal of his said court, with the clerk of the county 

 court of Cook county, and such assessment shall be a lien upon the several 

 lots, blocks, or parcels of land assessed for benefits as aforesaid. Ten per 

 cent, of the amount so ascertained shall be due and payable annually, and 

 the clerk of said Cook county court shall include in the general tax 

 warrants of each j'ear, until the whole sum shall be paid, for the collection 

 of State and county taxes in the said towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park 

 and Lake, ten per cent, of the said assessments, in an appropriate column, 

 to be termed " South Park Assessment," with the amount to be collected 

 opposite the several lots, blocks, or parcels of land assessed as aforesaid; 

 and like proceedings, in all respects, shall be had for enforcing the collection 

 of the same as is now provided by law for the collection of state and county 

 taxes. The money collected under the provision of this section shall be 

 paid to the treasurer of Cook county, for which he and his sureties shall be 

 responsible, as fully as for any other moneys by him received as treasurer of 

 Cook county, and be held by him in the same manner, and be subject to the 

 same control and direction, as provided in this act for other moneys 

 belonging to said corporation ; and the treasurer of Cook county shall be 

 entitled to receive one-half of one per cent., and no more, of said moneys, 

 as a full compensation for receiving and disbursing the same. 



Sec. 8. For any deficiency arising through acquiring title to said park, 

 and for the payment of the expenses of enclosing, maintaining and improving 

 the park herein provided for, and the expenses, disbursements and charges 

 in the premises, the said commissioners shall have power to loan or borrow, 

 from time to time, for such time as they shall deem expedient, a sum of 

 money not exceeding two millions of dollars, and shall have authority to 

 issue bonds, secured upon the said park and improvements, which bonds 

 shall issue under the seal of said commissioners, and shall be signed by said 

 commissioners, and countersigned by the secretary of said board, and bear 



