MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3375

after such hearing shall have the right to appeal therefrom within ten
days to the Circuit Court of Montgomery County.

Any tax so assessed, as above provided in this section, shall be payable
to the County Treasurer in from four to' ten semi-annual installments, as
nearly equal as may be, the first installment thereof to become due and
payable within six months after the levy of said special tax as above pro-
vided, and each of the other said installments within six months after the
preceding one shall have become due; each installment of said tax shall
become a lien against said abutting property and shall bear interest from
the date of levy thereof at the rate of six per centum per annum until
paid; or said tax may be paid in full without interest during the first
installment period, and if any of said installments thereof be not paid
within thirty days after same shall have become due, the entire amount
of said tax assessed to the person or persons or corporation in default,
with interest, shall thereupon become due and payable, and may be col-
lected in the same manner provided in the Act for the collection of unpaid
taxes. And the said Drummond Citizens' Committee shall have the power
to prescribe the number of semi-annual installments in which the tax so
assessed, as above provided, shall be payable.

All moneys so received by said County Treasurer shall, upon order of
said Board of County Commissioners, be paid over to the Treasurer of
said Village of Drummond, and the said Drummond Citizens' Committee
shall become charged with the duty of paving, grading, macadamizing or
otherwise improving said streets, roads, lanes or sidewalks within said
village.

For the purpose of making the improvements provided for in this sec-
tion, the said Drummond Citizens' Committee is hereby authorized and
empowered to borrow money and otherwise contract indebtedness and
obligate said Village of Drummond in an amount not exceeding at any
time ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real property within
said village, and for this purpose said Village of Drummond shall be and
hereby is constituted a corporation, and the said Drummond Citizens'
Committee is empowered to act for said corporation; provided, that should
there be default on bonds or other indebtedness incurred by the said Citi-
zens' Committee of the said Village of Drummond for the said village,
it shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery
County to levy or have levied special general taxes against the real prop-
erty of said Village of Drummond to the extent only that such default
bonds or incurred indebtedness shall be liquidated.

1916, ch. 22, sec. 6.

296. Any member of the Drummond Citizens' Committee may be re-
moved by the Board of County Commissioners upon the charge of mal-
feasance or misfeasance in office, preferred by a member of said Com-
mittee, after due notice of said charge and opportunity has been given
in defence thereof, and a hearing to be fixed therefor. The said Treasurer
and other officers of said Village of Drummond shall hold their offices or