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Every claim against the City for damages or injury alleged to have been caused by the defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition of any street, alley, crosswalk, sidewalk, culvert or bridge of the City, or from the negligence of the City authorities in respect to any such street, alley, crosswalk, culvert or bridge, within thirty days after the happening of such injury or damage shall be presented to the City Council in writing, signed by the claimant or by some person authorized by the claimant to sign the same, and properly verified, stating the particular time at which the injury happened, designating and describing the particular place in which it occurred, particularly describing the cause and circumstances of such injury and stating the nature and probable extent of such injury and the amount of damages claimed on account of the same. Such notice shall be sufficient in the particularly specified in this section to enable the officers of the City to find the place and cause of such injury from the description thereof given in the notice itself without extraneous inquiry, and no action shall be maintained against the City for damages or injury to person or property unless it appears that the claim for which the action was brought was presented to the City Council as set out in this section, and that the City Council did not within ninety days thereafter audit and allow the same. Every claim against the City, other than claims above mentioned, shall be presented, properly itemized or described and verified as to correctness by the claimant or his agent, to the City Council within one year after the last item of such account or claim accrued, and if such account or claim is not properly or sufficiently itemized, or described or verified, the City Council may require the same to be made more specific as to the itemization or description or to be corrected as to the verification thereof. (Prior code § 8-7)