The provisions of section 83 of the General City Law here involved constitute a limitation on the general legislative powers of the common council and must be strictly construed. Concededly, the protest was not acknowledged. "The court may not exercise a dispensing power based on the principles of abstract justice fitting the particular case. It may only see that the requirements of the law are...
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