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such installments is postponed. Ail assessments and interest thereon shall be collected and paid over in the same manner as other municipal taxes. The owner of any property so assessed may, at any time prior to certification of the assessment or the first installment thereof to the County Auditor, pay the whole of the assessment on such property, with interest accrued to the date of payment, to the City Treasurer, except that no interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within thirty days from the adoption thereof; and except as hereinafter provided, he may at any time prior to November 15 of any year, prepay to the Treasurer of the City, the whole assessmemt remaining due with interest accrued to December 31 of the year in which said prepayment is made. If the assessment roll is retained by the City Clerk, the installment and interest in process of collection on the current tax list shall be paid to the County Treasurer and the remaining principal balance of the assessment, if paid, shall be paid to the City Treasurer. The Council may by ordinance authorize the partial prepayment of assessments in suchmanner as the ordinance may provide, prior to certification of the assessment or the first installment thereof to the County Auditor. Subdivision 4. Collection. Tax Exempt Property. On the confirmation of any assessment, the Clerk shall mail to the County Auditor a notice specifying the amount payable by any county, to the Clerk or recorder of any other political subdivision of a notice specifying the amount payable by the political subdivision and to the owner of any right-of-way. The amount payable on account of any right-of-way or public property shall be payable to the City Treasurer and shall be payable in like installments and with like interest and penalties as provided for in reference to the installments payable on account of assessable real property, except that interest accruing shall not begin to run until the notice provided in this subdivision has been properly given and thirty days thereafter have elapsed. The governing body of any such political subdivision shall provide for the payment of these amounts and shall take appropriate action to that end. If the assessment is not paid in a single installment, the City Treasurer shall annually mail to the owner of any right-of-way and, as long as the property is publicly owned, to the owner of any public property a notice stating that an installment is due and should be paid to the City Treasurer. The City may collect the amount due on account of the right-of-way of any railroad or privately owned public utility by distress and sale of personal property in the manner provided by law in case of taxes levied upon personal property or by suit brought to enforce the collection of this indebtedness unless a different method of collecting such amounts is provided for by any contract between the owner of any right-of-way and the City. SUPPLEMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; RE-ASSESSMENT Subdivision 1. SuoDlemental Assessments. The Council may make supplemental assessments to correct omissions, errors or mistakes