MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3317

shall be built, rebuilt, constructed or reconstructed, the said Committee
shall thereafter determine that said street, road or lane shall be improved as
stated in the said petition and proceed as in this section provided.

(c) If such proposition shall be so adopted it shall be certified by the
Citizens' Committee of Section 4 to the Board of County Commissioners
for approval. Such certification shall include the list or statement here-
inbefore provided, together with any supplemental estimate of cost which
may be necessary, together with a statement showing the abutting prop-
erty owners, the frontage of each property, and the respective proportions
which the frontage of each property bears to the total frontage of the
streets, roads or lanes so to be improved, and allocating the total cost of
the improvement among such properties in proportion to said frontage;
provided, that in computing said total cost of any such improvement the
cost of improving intersections or crossings of streets, roads or lanes and
all proper incidental expenses, including expenses incident to the issuance
of bonds for such improvement as provided in Section 116 hereof shall be
included as a part of such total cost so to be apportioned.

(d) If such proposition be approved by the Board of County Commis-
sioners, said Board shall thereafter assess the total cost of such improve-
ment against the properties abutting on the streets, roads or lanes so to be
improved in the respective proportions which the frontage bears to the
total frontage of the streets, roads or lanes to be so improved, and each
assessment shall thereupon become a lien upon such abutting property,
and said Board shall thereupon give 10 days' notice of each such assess-
ment and opportunity to be heard thereon to the owner of such abutting
property who shall have a right to appeal therefrom within 10 days to the
Circuit Court of Montgomery County. Such assessments shall be due and
payable 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
hereinbefore provided, and shall be collected in the same manner provided
by law for the collection of county taxes in said county, and shall be sub-
ject to interest from the first day of the following September until paid at
the rate of six per cent, per annum. Any person shall have the right to
anticipate the payment of any or all installments not then due. Any assess-
ment or part thereof remaining due and unpaid shall be collected in the
same manner provided by law for the collection of delinquent taxes.

(e) All money so received by the County Treasurer on account of such
special assessments and interest thereon shall upon order of the said Board
of County Commissioners be paid over to the said Treasurer of Section 4,
Chevy Chase, and shall be treated as a special fund, which said fund shall
be kept as a separate account and fund, together with the moneys received
from the sale of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued for the
road and street improvement as provided in Section 116 a (1) and
116 b (1). And said Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee of Section 4 shall
become charged with the duty to build, construct, rebuild or reconstruct
such streets, roads, lanes or sidewalks within the said Chevy Chase Section