The Council, by a lawful majority thereof, may order any street, cross-street, alley or road, or any portion thereof, to be paved in a permanent manner, with cobblestone, brick, Belgian blocks, asphaltum or any other suitable material. One-third of the total cost of such paving shall be borne by the City, and the remaining two-thirds of such total cost shall be paid by the owners of the land abutting on said street, cross-street, alley, road or portion thereof, on the following basis, that is to say, payment is to be made by each landowner in such proportion of two-thirds of the cost of such paving as the frontage in feet of his land so abutting, bears to the total frontage of all land so abutting upon such street, cross-street, alley or road, or portion thereof so paved. Such cost, however, shall not include the grading of such street, cross-street, alley, road, or portion thereof, nor the curbing, which in all cases shall be done by the City.
Before commencing such paving the Council shall cause a copy of the order requiring the same to be published for four successive weeks in one or more newspapers published in the City. After the completion of such work, the Council shall apportion two-thirds of the cost thereof to the abutting landowners, on the basis aforesaid, and assess the same severally against said abutting landowners. Such apportionment shall be entered upon the records of the Council and published for four successive weeks in one or more newspapers published in the City, and any person feeling himself aggrieved by such assessment may, on or before the completion of such publication, apply to the Council for correction thereof.
Said assessments shall constitute liens upon said abutting lands from the commencement of the work, and bear interest from the date of the apportionment of the cost as aforesaid; which liens may be enforced by suits in equity in the name of the City, in the Circuit Court of Mason County, or the amount thereof recovered by the City in actions against said abutting landowners in said Court, or before any justice having jurisdiction.