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• • • 2204 LAWS OF FLORIDA after, and all engineering and inspection costs, including a proper proportion of the compensation, salaries and expenses of engi- neering staff of the City properly chargeable to such improve- ments, and all costs and estimated costs, including attorney's fees, in the issuance of bonds shall be deemed and considered a part of the costs of such improvements. Section 71. Any informality or irregularity in the proceedings in connection with the levy of any special assessments for local improvements shall not affect the validity of the same where the assessment roll has been confirmed by the City Council, and the assessment roll as finally approved and confirmed shall be com- petent and sufficient evidence tio.at the assessment was duly levied, and that all other proceedings adequate to the adoption of the said assessment roll, were duly had, taken and performed as required by this Act, and no variance from the directions hereunder shall be held material unless it be clearly shown that the party objecting was materially injured thereby. Section 72. The City Council shall have power by ordinance to provide for a consolidation of all assessments which have here- tofore been made for local improvements in said City, so as to consolidate into one item the total amount of all assessments for local improvements now existing against each lot, tract or parcel of land in said City, provided that there shall be no change made in the total amount of said assessments that would cause said consolidated assessments to be in excess of the total amount of principal and interest at the time of such consolidation of the assessments as heretofore made, assessed and confirmed against said property. The City Council may also provide by ordinance that all assessments for street paving that have here- tofore been made, where the costs of paving street intersections have been included in special assessments against abutting prop- erty, shall be reduced in an amount not to exceed ten per cent of the total of the principal of such assessments against such property, and that the amount of such deduction shall be paid out of the general fund of said City, or otherwise, as may be lawfully provided by said City Council. The City Council shall also have the power by ordinance to provide that all assessments for street paving and sidewalks heretofore made in said City on corner lots where said lots have a greater depth than fifty feet shall be adjusted by assessing said lots on a basis of fifty feet frontage on the side street upon which said lots shall be located, but in no case shall the frontage assessed on the said