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LAWS OF FLORIDA 2201 as an equalizing board to hear and consider any and all complaints as to such special assessments and shall adjust and equalize said assessments on a basis of justice and right, and when so equalized and approved such assessments shall stand confirmed and be and remain legal, valid and binding liens upon the property against which said assessments are made until paid, in accordance with the provisions of this Act; provided, however, that upon the completion of the improvement the said City shall rebate to the owner of any property which shall have been specially assessed for any improve- ment the difference in the assessment as originally made, approved and confirmed and the proportionate part of the actual cost of said improvement to be paid by special assessments as finally determined upon the completion of said improvement; the amount of said rebate to be deduced from said assessments proratably over the entire assessment period. Section 65. Special assessments for local improvements in said City shall be payable by the owners of the property assessed for said improvements at the time and in the manner stipulated in the ordi- nance providing for said improvements and said special assessments shall be and remain liens supdrior in dignity to all other liens, except liens for taxes, until paid, from the date of the assessment upon the respective lots and parcels of land assessed, and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding eight per cent per annum, and may be by ordinance aforesaid made payable in equal yearly install- ments, not exceeding twenty, with accrued interest on all deferred payments, unless paid within thirty days after said assessments shall stand approved and confirmed. Section 66. Each annual installmant provided for in the pre- ceding section shall be paid upon the date provided in said ordi- nance, with interest on all deferred payments, until the entire amount of said assessment has been paid; and upon the failure of any property owner to pay any annual installment due, or any part thereof, or any interest on deferred payments, the City Council of said City shall cause to be brought the necessary legal proceedings by a bill in chancery to enforce payment thereof, with all accrued interest, together with all legal costs incurred, including a reason- able solicitor's fees, to be assessed as part of the costs; and in the event of default in the payment of any installment of an assess- ment, or any accrued interest on said assessment, the whole assess- ment with interest thereon shall immediately become dae and pay- able and subject to foreclosure. In the foreclosure of any special assessment service of process against unknown or non-resident de- a Iia