On or before the first day of October, or on or before the first Monday of June in each year where the council have decided to have the taxes levied and collected in 2 installments, the city clerk shall certify to the supervisors of each ward for the assessment therein, all amounts which the council require to be assessed or re-assessed in any street district, main or special sewer district, or other special assessment district, or upon any parcel of land, or against any particular person as a special assessment or otherwise within his district, together with a designation of the district, or description of the land or person upon whom or within which the several sums are to be assessed or re-assessed, with such further descriptions and directions as will enable such supervisor to assess the several amounts upon the property and person chargeable therewith.