3324 ARTICLE 16.

same. Any tax so assessed as above provided in this Section shall be pay-
able 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
the first of the following September until paid at the rate of six per cent,
per annum. Each installment of said assessment 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. And all money so
received by said County Treasurer shall, upon order of the said Board of
County Commissioners, be paid over to the said Treasurer of said Section
5 of said Village of Chevy Chase, and said Citizens' Committee of said
Section 5 shall become charged with the duty to pave, grade, macadam-
ize, or otherwise improve said streets, roads, lanes, and sidewalks within
,said village; 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 given, such hearing to be had before the
said Citizens' Committee of said Section 5, who shall decide the matters
properly before them. Any party affected by the final decision of said
Citizens' Committee, made after such hearing, shall have the right to ap-
peal therefrom within ten days to the Circuit Court of Montgomery
County; and provided, further, that upon the petition of two-thirds of
the resident real property owners residing upon any streets, roads, or lanes
to be graded, paved, macadamized, or otherwise to be improved under the
provisions of this Section, requesting the grading, paving, macadamizing,
or 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 the necessary work or construc-
tion to be done in accordance with the provisions hereinabove provided;
and, provided, further, that Connecticut Avenue shall, for all purposes
of repair, improvement, grading, or paving, be considered as two streets
lying parallel to one another on either side of the center line of said
Avenue.

1922, ch. 434, sec. 5.

123. Said Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee of said Section 5 shall
not expend for material or work a sum exceeding five hundred (500) dol-
lars without having first advertised the specifications therefor and invited
bids for the same, after which said Committee may purchase such mate-
rial or make contract for such work, or have such work done by employed
labor, or otherwise, as it may deem best; and provided, further, that said
Committee may make contracts, after due advertisement, for lighting said
Section 5 of said village for periods of five years, but no longer period at