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months.

Sec. 84. Whenever the County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida shall levy
and collect a road and bridge tax for the purpose of keeping up the roads and bridges in
said County, one-half of the taxes so levied and collected on the property, both real and personal,
within the corporate limits of the Town of Fellsmere shall be turned over and paid annually by
the said County Commissioners to the Town of Fellsmere to be used by it in working, repairing,
improving and laying out the streets thereof.

Sec 85. The Commission shall have authority, when deemed necessary or advisable,
to levy in each year an extra street tax of not to exceed three dollars on each male resident of
said Town over the age of twenty-one years, and under the age of fifty-five years, and shall
have authority to enforce the collection of same.

Sec. 86. The Commission is hereby authorized, by ordinance, to provide for and ordain
the construction and repair of sewers, drains, street pavements, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and
foot pavements upon any street, park or other public place in said Town at the cost of the
owner of lots or parcels of land abutting thereon; or by ordinance to regulate require and ordain
such construction or repair by said owners, respectively, and if the owner or owners of any lot shall
fail to comply with the provisions of said ordinance, the Commission of said Town may have
such sewers, drains, street pavements, curbs, gutters, sidewalks or foot pavements constructed or
repaired along and in front of any such lot or parcel of land. The cost of such construction or
repairing, with interest thereon from the date of the completion of such work shall be a lien
superior to all other liens, excepting only liens for taxes, upon each lot or parcel of land along
and in front of which such improvements have been constructed or repaired, and the cost thereof,
bearing interest at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum, may be assessed as a special tax
against the lot or parcel of land along or in front of which such sewers, drains, street
pavements, foot pavements, curbs, gutters or sidewalks were constructed or repaired; or the lien
for the cost thereof, with interest as aforesaid may be enforced against the property by suit at