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23 making of more than one improvement, a single preliminary assessment roll for all of the improvements authorized by such resolution shall be sufficient, but the cost of each improvement to each lot affected shall be shown separately. The city council may choose not to levy assessments against property owned by the city, in which case, the amount assessable against city property shall be omitted from the preliminary assessment roll and shall not be assessed against the remaining property owners. The city council shall count city-owned property for the purpose of determining the sufficiency of a petition submitted pursuant to subsection (7) of this section notwithstanding the decision of the city council not to levy an assessment againstsuch property. (16) After such preliminary assessment roll has been completed, the city council shall cause it to be filed in the office of the city clerk for inspection by parties interested, and shall cause to be published one time, in some newspaper published in the city, or if there be no such newspaper the council shall cause to be posted in three (3) public places in the city, a notice of the completion of the assessment roll, setting forth a description in general terms of the local improvement or improvements, and stating the time fixed for the meeting of the council for the hearing of objections to the special. assessments, such meeting to be not earlier than ten (10) days after the first publication or from the date of posting of such notice. Any number of assessment rolls may be included in one notice. The council shall publish in the notice the amount of each assessment. (17) At the time appointed for that purpose or at some other time to which it may adjourn, the city council shall hear the objections to the preliminary assessment roll of all persons interested, who may appear and offer proof in relation thereto. Then or thereafter, the council shall either annul or sustain or modify in whole or in part the prima facie assessment as indicated on the roll, either by confirming the prima facie assessment against any or all lots or parcels described therein, or by canceling, increasing or reducing the same according to the special benefits which the council decides each of the lots or parcels has received or will receive on account of such improvement, except that assessments against railroads made because of contract or franchise obligations to pay a portion of cost shall be in accordance with such obligations. If any property which may be chargeable under this section shall have been omitted from the preliminary roll or if the prima facie assessment has not been made against it, the council may place on the roll an apportionment to such property. The council may thereupon confirm the roll, but shall not confirm any assessment in excess of the special, benefits to the property„assessed and the assessments so confirmed shall be in proportion to the special benefits, except as hereinabove provided in the case of franchise obligations of railroads. Whenever the council shall confirm an assessment for a local improvement, the city clerk shall enter on the minutes and on the assessment roll, the date, hour, and minute of such confirmation, and from the time of such confirmation the assessments embraced in the assessment roll shall be a lien on the property against which the same are assessed of the same nature and to the same extent as county and city taxes and superior to all other liens and encumbrances. After the assessment roll is confirmed a copy of the same shall be delivered to the collector of revenue of the city. (18) If the owner of, or any person interested in, any lot or parcel of land against which an assessment is made is dissatisfied with the amount of such assessment, he shall within fifteen (15) days after the confirmation of the