1982 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 812

property as it may so acquire for sewerage disposal purposes,
and the cost of construction of sewers and sewerage system,
but not the maintenance thereof, against the real estate using
the same, or benefitting thereby, in proportion to the frontage
of said real estate abutting on a street or streets, road or
roads, lane or lanes, containing the said sewerage system or
any part thereof. All property acquired by said Board of
Managers under this section shall be held for the benefit of
the citizens of said Chevy Chase Village.

(b) 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 said first day of July until paid, at the rate
of six per cent per annum. Each annual installment 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 penalties and
shall be collected in the same manner as provided for the
collection of unpaid county taxes in said county. All taxes
assessed as provided in this section shall be paid over by the
Treasurer of said county to the Treasurer of said Chevy Chase
Village, who shall devote such funds to the exclusive purpose
of paying for the special improvements herein provided for
or any indebtedness which may be incurred therefor.

(c) The said Board of Managers of said Chevy Chase Village
shall have the power to grade, pave, macadamize, or otherwise
improve said streets, roads or lanes or sidewalks within said
Chevy Chase Village, or have such sewerage constructed as the
case may be; provided, that before any contract for work
shall be entered into, or any obligations with respect thereto
incurred, notice shall be given to the owners and others of
record interested in said abutting property and an oppor-
tunity to be heard, such hearings to be had before said Board
of Managers, who shall decide the matters properly brought
before them. Any party affected by the final decision of said
Board of Managers, made after such hearing, shall have the
right to appeal therefrom within ten days, to the Circuit Court
of Montgomery County, and provided further, that upon the
petition of two-thirds of the resident property owners resid-
ing upon any streets, roads or lanes to be graded, paved,
macadamized or to have sewerage placed thereon, or other-
wise to be improved under the provisions of this section, re-
questing the grading, paving, macadamizing, placing sewers