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amount so ascertained upon the property by them deemed benefited by 

 reason of the improvement occasioned by the location of said boulevard 

 and parks, with their appurtenances, as near as may be in proportion to the 

 benefits resulting thereto, and also the damages, if any, occasioned by the 

 taking, or condemnation of any land, right or easement as aforesaid; and 

 in general the form and particulars of the assessment shall be as near as may 

 be the same required by the city charter of Chicago in the condemnation of 

 land for, and the laying out of streets. From the funds derived from said 

 assessment, and from the other funds of said board applicable to such 

 purposes, the said board shall pay to the parties entitled thereto the amounts 

 respectively due them, and thereupon the title of the said lands, ways, 

 boundary lines, easements and parks, or that portion thereof paid for as 

 aforesaid, shall become fixed and vested in said board and their successors 

 in the manner, to the extent, for the purposes, and subject to the limitations, 

 hereinbefore provided. Upon entering upon the duties of their office, the 

 said assessors shall make oath before the clerk of the circuit court faithfully 

 and impartially to discharge the duties of their office; they shall give at least 

 ten days' notice, in three of the said daily papers, and by posting notices as 

 aforesaid, of the time and place of their meeting for the purpose of making 

 said assessment, and may adjourn said meeting from time to time, until the 

 same shall be completed. In making said assessment, the said assessors 

 • shall estimate the value of the several lots, blocks or parcels of land deemed 

 benefited by them as aforesaid, and shall include the same, together with the 

 amount assessed as benefits, in the assessment roll. All parties interested 

 may appear before said assessors, and be heard touching any matter con- 

 nected with the assessment. When the same shall be completed, it shall be 

 signed by the assessor, 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 three of the said daily newspapers, and by posting notices 

 as aforesaid, of the filing of said assessment roll, and that they will, on a 

 day therein named, apply to the 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 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 court shall file a copy thereof, under the seal of said court, with 

 the clerk of the county court of Cook county, and said assessment shall be 

 a lien upon the several lots, blocks or parcels of land assessed for benefits as 

 aforesaid. The clerk of the said Cook county court shall include in the 

 general warrants for each year, until the assessments for the purposes 

 authorized by this act shall have been completed, and until the whole 



