MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3521

On the first Monday in April, 1925, two members of the said Citizens'
Committee shall be elected to serve for one year, and three members to
serve for two years. On the first Monday in April, 1926, and on the first
Monday in April of each succeeding year an election shall be held at
which committeemen shall be elected for two years to succeed those whose
terms expire and which committeemen shall be elected to fill any vacan-
cies which may exist, but the committeemen so elected to fill such vacancies
shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term only. The election
shall be by ballot in a manner to be prescribed by said committee. Only
residents of legal age of said village who shall have resided therein for
not less than six months next preceding said election, shall be entitled to
vote for or hold the office of committeemen in said village. Following
each election each newly elected member of said committee shall qualify
by taking the oath prescribed as aforesaid. Said committee shall select
from their members a chairman, secretary, treasurer and any other officers
they may deem necessary.

1924, ch. 117, sec. 4.

649. Said Committee of said North Chevy Chase is empowered to
grade, pave, macadamize, or otherwise improve any existing dedicated
street, road or lane, or any county road, street or lane which has been or
which may be acquired and opened for public use which is ungraded,
unpaved or unimproved, and to lay sidewalks and curbs thereon, pro-
vided that said improvements are petitioned for by the owners of one-half
of the frontage abutting on said street, road, lane or sidewalk; provided
further that said committee, subject to the approval of the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners, and after due publication thereof, shall have power
to assess the cost of said grading, paving, macadamizing, or improving
against the property abutting on said street, road, lane or sidewalk, in
proportion to the frontage of said abutting property on the same. Any
tax so assessed as above provided in this section shall be payable 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 assess-
ment 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 centum 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 penal-
ties and shall be collected in the same manner as provided for the collec-
tion of unpaid county taxes in said county. And all money so received
by said county Treasurer shall, upon order of the said County Commis-
gioners, be paid over to the said Treasurer of said village of North Chevy
Chase, and the committee of said village shall become charged with the
duty to pave, grade, macadamize, or otherwise improve said streets, roads,
lanes and sidewalks within said village; provided that before any contract