MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3311

1916, ch. 172, sec. 4.

103. Said Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee of said Section 3, is em-
powered 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 grading, 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 empowered, and after due public
notice thereof, to acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, accord-
ing to law, property for sewerage disposal purposes of said Section 3 of
said village and to assess the cost of such property as it may so acquire for
sewerage disposal purposes, and the cost of the construction of sewers and
sewerage system but not the maintenance thereof, against the real estate'
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, con-
taining the said sewerage system or any part thereof. All property ac-
quired by said Citizens' Committee under this section shall be held for the-
benefit of the citizens of said Section 3 of said 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 instalments, as
nearly equal as may be, the first instalment 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 instalment shall become a lien against said abutting property and
any such instalment 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 Section 3,
Chevy Chase, Maryland, who shall devote such funds to the exclusive
purpose of paying for the special improvements herein provided for or
any indebtedness which may be incurred therefor.

Said Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee of said Section 3 shall have the
power to pave, grade, macadamize, or otherwise improve said streets, roads,
or lanes or sidewalks within said village, 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 Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee of said Section 3, who shall decide