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an insufficient amount for the ensuing year, or any succeeding year, then
and in that event the said Committee, or resident, taxpayers of said villages
affected by this Act, may, on or before April 15, 1914, or any succeeding
year, petition in writing the County Commissioners of Montgomery County
to make an additional special levy and tax of not more than ten cents on
each one hundred ($100) dollars of the assessable value of said real and
personal property in said villages, such petition to be signed by the major-
ity of said Committee, or such number of resident taxpayers as may satisfy
said County Commissioners of the fact that there is a general public
demand on the part of the residents, citizens and taxpayers of said villages
for such additional special levy and such special tax for such purposes as
hereinbefore mentioned, but no such special levy of such additional spe-
cial tax shall be made on such property, unless notice of the intention of
said County Commissioners to make such additional special levy, the
purpose or purposes thereof and the amount thereof and approximate

effect of such additional special levy on the tax rate of said villages shall
be published in one or more newspapers of said County for two consecu-
tive weeks, designating the date upon which said County Commissioners
shall meet for the purpose of hearing objections to said additional special
levy; and upon the date fixed for such hearing, said Commissioners shall
hear the advocates and opponents of such additional special levy and there-
after determine the amount, if any, of such additional special levy for
said villages, but in no case shall said additional special levy be greater
than ten cents on each one hundred ($100) dollars of the assessable value

of real and personal property, as aforesaid, in any one year.

1914, ch. 131, sec. 4. 1922, ch. 343, sec. 4.

334. From and after the passage of this Act until the second Monday
in May, 1923, the "Friendship Heights Citizens' Committee" for the Vil-
lages of "Friendship Heights" and "The Hills" shall be constituted as
follows: Claude W. Woodward, Henry W. Offutt, Charles E. Roach,
Charles W. Rippey, John A. P. Farnham, George W. Offutt, Jr., and
Emory H. Bogley. The first named shall, until otherwise directed by
said Committee, be and constitute the Chairman thereof, each of whom
shall qualify as such Committeemen by taking oath to diligently and
faithfully discharge the duties of the office, but that upon the failure of
any one or more of said Committeemen named in this Act to qualify on
or before the 20th day of May, 1922, such position shall be taken and
regarded as vacant, and shall be filled by appointment by the Board of
County Commissioners of Montgomery County within ten days after the
20th day of May, 1922. On the second Monday in May in the year 1923,
and on the same date in every second year thereafter, an election shall
be held in the said Villages for the election of seven members, each of
whom shall be a resident taxpayer upon real or personal property situate
in said Villages, to be and constitute the "Friendship Heights Citizens'
Committee" for the next succeeding two years, and until their successors
duly qualify, each of whom shall qualify on or before the fourth Monday in