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properly before them. Any party affected by the final decision of said
Northwest Park Citizens' Committee, made after such hearing, shall have
the right of appeal therefrom within ten days to the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County; and, provided further, that upon the petition of
two-thirds of the resident property owners residing upon any streets, roads,
or lanes, for the grading, paving, macadamizing, or other improvements
of such streets, roads or lanes, under the provisions of this section, it shall
be the duty of the said Northwest Park Citizens' Committee to make the
assessments against the property owners to provide the funds for the nec-
essary work of construction to be done, in accordance with the provisions
hereinbefore set forth. Any tax so assessed as above provided in this sec-
tion shall be payable to the County Treasurer as follows: in four equal
annual installments, the first installment thereof to become due and pay-
able within six months after the levy of said special tax as provided above,
and each of the other said installments within one year after the preced-
ing one shall have become due, each installment of said tax shall become
a lien against said property owners 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 sixty
days after the same shall have become due, the entire amount of said tax
assessed to the person or persons, or corporations in default, with interest,
shall thereupon become due and payable, and may be collected in the same
manner provided in the Act for the collection of unpaid taxes. And all
moneys so received by said county treasurer, shall, upon order of said
Board of County Commissioners, be paid over to said treasurer of said
village of Northwest Park, and the said Northwest Park Citizens' Com-
mittee shall apply said moneys to the purpose for which assessed.

1918, ch. 178, sec. 6.

659. For the purposes of making the improvements provided for in
Section 658 of this subtitle or for making improvements from time to time
other than maintenance and repairs, the said Citizens' Committee are
hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money and otherwise con-
tract indebtedness and obligate said Northwest Park village in amounts
not exceeding in total at any time ten per cent of the assessed valuation
of the real property within said village of Northwest Park.

1918, ch. 178, sec. 7.

660. Any member of the said Northwest Park Citizens' Committee
may be removed by the Board of County Commissioners upon the charge
of malfeasance or misfeasance in office, preferred in writing by a member
of said committee, or by petition of two-thirds of the qualified voters par-
ticipating at the last preceding election, after due notice of said charge
and opportunity has been given in defense thereof, and a hearing to be
fixed therefor. The said Treasurer and other officers of said village of
Northwest Park shall hold their offices or positions at the pleasure of said
Northwest Park Citizens' Committee or in conformity with contracts