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vacancy through death, resignation or otherwise, the remaining Com-
mitteemen shall fill such vacancy by the appointment of a resident regis-
tered and qualified voter and property owner of said Section 4 of said
village, who shall hold office for such term or unexpired term. On the
second Tuesday in January, 1926, and on the same day every two years
thereafter, an election shall be held in said Section 4 of said Village of
Chevy Chase for the election of five members, each of whom shall be a
resident, registered qualified voter being an owner of any interest, joint or
several, in real property in said Section 4 to be and constitute said Chevy
Chase Citizens' Committee for said Section 4 for the ensuing two years
and each of whom shall take the oath above provided.

1924, ch. 317, sec. 4.

113. (a) Said Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee of Section 4 as herein
defined is empowered, with the approval of the Board of County Commis-
sioners, and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, to build, con-
struct, rebuild or reconstruct any existing or hereafter dedicated street,
road or lane or any county road, street or lane which has been or may be
acquired and opened for public use, and to lay sidewalks and curbs on any
of such streets, roads or lanes; and in furtherance of the powers so granted
to grade, pave, macadamize or otherwise to improve or change the existing
type of such streets, roads or lanes.

(b) Whenever the said Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee of Section 4
shall determine that any street, road or lane shall be built, constructed,
rebuilt or reconstructed as authorized in the preceding paragraph (a),
said Committee shall prepare a list or statement setting forth specifically
the street, road or lane to be so improved and the bounds of such improve-
ments, the general type thereof, and the estimated cost thereof, and shall
call a special meeting of the owners of property abutting on such improve-
ment and against whose property assessments for such improvement would
be levied hereunder, such meeting to be held after giving at least ten days''
notice thereof to each of such property owners by depositing said notice
which shall incorporate the text of the list or statement aforesaid in the
United States Postoffice addressed to such owner's last known address.
At such meeting the making of such proposed improvement and the levy
of such assessment shall be submitted to a vote of such owners, and such
improvement shall be undertaken only upon a ratification of such proposi-
tion by a majority vote of the owners present and voting at such meeting.
If the proposition submitted by the Citizens' Committee is so ratified, the
proposed improvements shall be made unless a protest signed by two-
thirds of the owners of the property abutting on said proposed improve-
ment and against whose property assessments for such improvement would
be levied hereunder shall be filed with the Citizens' Committee within
ten days after such meeting, in which case such improvement shall be
abandoned and shall not be again proposed by the Citizens' Committee
during a term of three months, and if two-thirds of the property owners on
any such street, road or lane shall petition that such street, road or lane