3300 ARTICLE 16.

using the same, or benefiting thereby, in proportion to the frontage of
said real estate abutting on a street or streets, road or roads, lane or lanes,
containing the said sewerage system or any part thereof. All property
acquired by said Citizens' Committee under this section shall be held for
the benefit of the Citizens of said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the
Village of Chevy Chase.

Any tax so assessed as above provided in this section shall be payable
to the County Treasurer in not more than six annual installments, as
nearly equal as may be, the first installment thereof to become due and
payable the first day of July next succeeding the making of such special

assessment as herein elsewhere provided and to be collected as county taxes
in said county are collected and shall be subject to interest from said

first of July until paid at the rate of six per cent, per annum. Each

annual installment shall become a lien against said abutting property and
any such installment not paid by the first day of January following its
becoming due shall be subject to the same penalties and shall be collected
in the same manner as provided for the collection of unpaid county taxes
in said county. All taxes assessed as provided in this section shall be

paid over by the Treasurer of said County to the Treasurer of said Mar-
tin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the Village of Chevy Chase, who shall

devote such funds to the exclusive purpose of paying for the special im-
provements herein provided for or any indebtedness which may be in-

curred therefor.

The said Citizens' Committee of said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4
to the Village of Chevy Chase shall have the power to pave, grade, mac-
adamize, or otherwise improve said streets, roads, or lanes or sidewalks
within said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the Village of Chevy
Chase, or have such sewerage constructed as the case may be; provided,
that before any contract for work shall be entered into, or any obligation
with respect thereto incurred, notice shall be given to the owners and

others of record interested in said abutting property and an opportunity
to be heard, such hearing to be had before said Citizens' Committee of
said Martins' Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the Village of Chevy Chase who
shall decide the matters properly brought before them. Any party affected
by the final decision of said Citizens' Committee, made after such hear-
ing, shall have the right to appeal therefrom within ten days, to the
Circuit Court of Montgomery County, and provided further, that upon
the petition of two-thirds of the resident property owners owning prop-
erty abutting upon any streets, roads or lanes within said Martin's Addi-
tions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the Village of Chevy Chase to be graded, paved,
macadamized or to have sewerage placed thereon, or otherwise to be im-
proved under the provisions of this Section, requesting the grading, pav-
ing, macadamizing, placing sewers or otherwise improving of any such
streets, roads or lanes, it shall be the duty of the said Citizens' Committee
to make the assessment against the abutting property owners, to provide
the funds for and cause to be performed the necessary work or construc-

-tion to be done in accordance with the provisions hereinabove provided.