EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 361

said Section 4 of said Village of Chevy Chase, and said Chevy
Chase Citizens' Committee of said Section 4 shall become
charged with the duty to pave, grade, macadamize, or other-
wise improve said streets, roads, or lanes or sidewalks within
said village, or have such sewerage constructed as the case
may be; provided, that before any contract for work shall be
entered into, or any obligation with respect thereto incurred,
notice shall be given to the owners and others of record inter-
ested in said abutting property and an opportunity to be heard,
such hearing to be had before said Chevy Chase Citizens' Com-
mittee of said Section 4, who shall decide the matters prop-
erly before them. Any party affected by the final decision of
said Citizens' Committee, 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 own-
ers residing upon any streets, roads or lanes to be graded,
paved, macadamized or to have sewerage placed thereon, or
otherwise to be improved under the provisions of this section
requesting the grading, paving, macadamizing, placing sewers
or otherwise, improving of any such streets, roads or lanes, it
shall be the duty of the said Citizens' Committee to make the
assessment against the abutting property owners, to provide
the funds for the necessary work or construction to be done in
accordance with the provisions hereinafter provided; and pro-
vided, further, that this Section shall not apply to repairs to
macadamized streets, sidewalks, crossings and gutters; and pro-
vided, further, that Connecticut Avenue shall for all purposes
of repair, improvement, grading or paving be considered as
two streets lying parallel to one another on either side of the
center line of said avenue.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That said Chevy Chase
Citizens' Committee of said Section 4 shall not expend for
material or work a sum exceeding three hundred (300) dol-
lars without having first advertised the specifications therefor
and inviting bids for the same, after which said Committee
may purchase such material or make contract for such work or
have such work done by employed labor, or otherwise, as it
may deem best; and provided, further, that said Committee
may make contracts after due advertisement for lighting or
supplying said Section 4 of said village with water for periods
of five years, but no longer period at a time; and provided,
further, that no member of said Citizens' Committee shall fur-