MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3299

fail to qualify within ten days after the passage of this Act, or any one of
their successors shall fail to so qualify within ten days after his election
as a Committeeman as hereinafter provided, or in case of any vacancy
through death, resignation, removal from said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3
and 4 to the Village of Chevy Chase, or otherwise, the remaining Com-
mitteemen shall fill such vacancy by the appointment of a resident, regis-
tered and qualified voter of said Martin's Additions. 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the
Village of Chevy Chase who shall hold office until the next regular election
as hereinafter provided.

On the second Tuesday in April, 1917, two members of the said Citi-
zens' Committee shall be elected to serve for one year and three members
to serve for two years. On the second Tuesday in April, 1918, and on
the second Tuesday in April of each following year, an election shall be
held at which Committeemen shall be elected for two years to succeed
those whose terms expire, and at which Committeemen shall be elected to
fill any vacancies which may exist, but the Committeemen so elected to
fill such vacancies shall serve only for the remainder of the unexpired
term. Election shall be by ballot in a manner to be prescribed by said
Citizens' Committee. Only registered and qualified voters of Montgomery
County residing within said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the
Village of Chevy Chase, Maryland, shall be entitled to vote for, or hold
the office of, Committeeman. Following each election each newly elected
member of said Citizens' Committee shall qualify by taking an oath before
any officer in said Montgomery County, authorized by law to administer
oaths, to diligently and faithfully discharge all duties of the office. Said
Committee shall select from their members a Chairman, Secretary-Treas-
urer, and any other officers they may deem necessary.

1916, ch. 239, sec. 4.

80. Said Citizens' Committee of said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and
4 to the Village of Chevy Chase, is empowered to grade, pave, macadamize,
or otherwise improve any existing dedicated street, road or lane, or any
county road, street or lane, which has been, or which may be acquired and
opened for public use, but which is ungraded, unpaved, or unimproved, and
to lay sidewalks and curbs thereon provided, that said Citizens' Committee,
subject to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners and after
due publication thereof, shall have power to assess the cost of said grad-
ing, paving, macadamizing, or improving against the property abutting
on said street, road, lane or sidewalk, in proportion to the frontage of said
abutting property on the same. Said Citizens' Committee, subject to the
approval of said Board of County Commissioners, is also further em-
powered, and after due public notice thereof, to acquire by purchase, con-
demnation or otherwise, according to law, property for sewerage disposal
purposes of said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the Village of Chevy
Chase and to assess the cost of such property as it may so acquire for
sewerage disposal purposes, and the cost of construction of sewers and
sewerage system, but not the maintenance thereof, against the real estate