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ment of another, qualified under this Act to hold such office, who shall
hold office for such term or unexpired term. On the first Monday in May
in the year 1917 and on the same day in each year thereafter, an election
shall be held in the said Village of Drummond for the election of three
committeemen, each of whom shall have been a resident of said Village of
Drummond for six months previous to said election, and over the age of
twenty-one years, the three said committeemen to be and constitute the
Drummond Citizens' Committee for the ensuing year, each of whom shall
qualify within twenty days after said election by taking the oath pre-
scribed by the Constitution of Maryland, before an officer of the law duly
commissioned to administer same. That the annual election of said Com-
mitteeman, as herein provided shall be held under and in accordance with
the laws of the State of Maryland, but the returns thereof shall be made to
the Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery County; all residents
of said Village of Drummond for six months previous to said election, and
over the age of twenty-one years, shall be eligible to vote at such elections;
said elections shall be conducted by three judges of election and two clerks,
to be appointed by said committee, who shall serve without pay; and the
polls of said election shall be open from seven o'clock P. M. to nine o'clock
P. M. on the first Monday in May as hereinbefore provided.

1916, ch. 22, sec. 5. 1924, ch. 80.

295. Said Drummond Citizens' Committee is empowered to grade,
pave, macadamize, or otherwise improve any existing street, road or lane,
or any street, road or lane which has been or may be acquired and opened
for public use, and to lay sidewalks and curbs thereon; provided, that said
Drummond Citizens' Committee, subject to the approval of the Board of
County Commissioners and after petition of residents and hearing, as
hereinafter provided, shall have power to assess the cost, or any part of

the coat, of said grading, paving, macadamizing or improving against the

property abutting on said street, road or lane, or sidewalk, in proportion
to the frontage of said abutting property on the same; provided, further,
that upon the petition in writing of two-thirds of the residents owning
property abutting upon any street, road or lane to be graded, paved, mac-
adamized or otherwise to be improved under the provisions of this section
requesting the grading, paving, macadamizing or otherwise improving of
such streets, roads or lanes, it shall be the duty of the Drummond Citi-

zens' Committee to make the said assessment against the abutting prop-
erty to provide the funds for and cause to be performed the necessary work

or construction to be done in accordance with the provisions herein pro-
vided; and provided, further, 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 of a hearing at which they will be given an opportunity to be
heard, such hearing to be had before said Drummond Citizens' Committee,

which shall decide the matters properly brought before it; and any party
effected bv the final decision of said Drummond Citizens' Committee made