MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3529

road tax to be levied and collected in the same manner as though said sub-
division of Oakmont was an incorporated town, and said subdivision of
Oakmont shall for that purpose be considered by said Board of County
Commissioners as an incorporated town of said county; and said propor-
tion of the county road tax received by the Treasurer of the Oakmont sub-
division shall be used by the Oakmont Citizens' Committee exclusively
for the maintaining and repairing of streets and lanes within said Oak-
mont subdivision that may have been dedicated to the public or to Mont-
gomery County and whether accepted by said county or not; all other
funds to be used by the said Oakmont Citizens' Committee directly or
through said Committee exclusively for maintaining, repairing, lighting
the streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks, parking, sanitation and other main-
tenance and upkeep of existing improvements, and for enforcing such regu-
lations as said Citizens' Committee may prescribe for said Oakmont sub-

division, or any part of said section thereof.

1918, ch. 190, sec. 3.

669. The said Oakmont Citizens' Committee shall be constituted as
follows: Oliver Owen Kuhn, Charles A. Read and James C. Adkins, who
shall serve until the qualification of the committeemen to be elected in
April, 1919, as herein provided, and vacancies therein shall be filled by
the remaining committeemen as hereinafter provided, the first shall, until
otherwise directed by said committee, be and constitute the chairman
thereof, each of whom shall qualify as such Committeeman by taking an
oath before any officer of said Montgomery County authorized by law to
administer oaths to diligently and faithfully discharge all duties of the

office. In case any such persons shall fail to qualify within ten days after
the passage of this Act, or any of their successors shall fail to qualify
within ten days after his election as Committeeman as hereinafter pro-
vided, or in case of any vacancy through death, resignation, removal from

said Oakmont subdivision, or otherwise, the remaining committeemen
shall fill such vacancy by appointment of a bona fide property holder and
taxpayer, who shall hold office until the next election as hereinafter pro-
vided.

On the second Tuesday in April, 1919, three members of the said Citi-
zens' Committee shall be elected, one to serve one year, one to serve for
two years and one member to serve three years. On the second Tuesday
in April, 1920, and on the second Tuesday in April of each following
year, an election shall be held at which a Committeeman shall be elected
to succeed the Committeeman whose term has expired, and at which com-
mitteemen shall be elected to fill such vacancies as may exist, but the

committeemen so elected to fill such vacancies shall serve only for the
remainder of the unexpired term. Election shall be by ballot in a manner
prescribed by the said Citizens' Committee. Only those residents who
have been property holders and taxpayers in said Oakmont subdivision

shall be entitled to vote or hold the office of Committeeman. Following
each election each newly elected member of the said Citizens' Committee