35.8 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 177

line of Cypress Street on the north and the west boundary of
Section 4, as platted in said records, on the west. The area
so bounded shall be known for the purposes of this Act as Sec-
tion 4, Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Md.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Board of
County Commissioners of Montgomery County are authorized,
empowered and directed to levy and cause to be collected
from the property owners at the time of the County Tax Levy
for the year 1919 or any succeeding year within said described
area of Chevy Chase, as named or created in this Act, such
amounts, not exceeding fifty (50) cents on each one hundred
(100) dollars' worth of assessable property in said part of the
Village of Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, as may be re-
quested by a majority vote of the resident qualified voters
who are assessed as owners of real estate in such area, present
at a meeting called for such purpose by the Citizens' Com-
mittee hereinafter provided, notice of which meeting shall
have been mailed to all such registered voters at least two
weeks in advance of the meeting. Such taxes shall be col-
lected, as all other county taxes in said county are collected, to
be paid over by the Board of County Commissioners to the
Treasurer of said Section 4 of Chevy Chase to be selected
from among their number by a majority of the members of
the Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee of said Section 4 herein
named, or by their successors to be selected as herein pro-
vided. Upon said Treasurer having been duly selected by such
Committee and giving bond to said Board of County Com-
missioners, to be approved by the Judge of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County in a penal sum to be fixed by said
Judge, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties
of the said Treasurer, the said Board of County Commission-
ers shall also order and have paid over to said Treasurer the
proportion of the county road tax to be levied and collected
in the same manner as though said part of the Village of
Chevy Chase was an incorporated town, and said part of said
Village of Chevy Chase shall for that purpose be considered
by said Board of County Commissioners as an incorporated
town of said County; and said proportion of the county road
tax received by the Treasurer of Section 4, Chevy Chase, shall
be used by said Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee exclusively
for the maintaining and repairing the county roads, streets
and lanes, that may have been dedicated to the public or to
Montgomery County and whether accepted by said county or