364 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 178

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Board of County
Commissioners of Montgomery County are hereby 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 commencing July 1, 1918, and ending June 30, 1919, and
each succeeding year, within the said village known as North-
west Park, as named and created by this Act, thirty-five cents
on each one hundred (100) dollars of the assessable value of
the real and personal property in said village, to be collected
as all other county taxes in said county are collected; to be
paid over by said Board of County Commissioners to the Treas-
urer of the village of Northwest Park, herein authorized to be
created, or his successors selected by the majority of the mem-
bers of said committee, upon said Treasurer having been duly
selected by a majority of said committee, and giving bond to
said Board of County Commissioners 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 said Treasurer; the said Board of
County Commissioners 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 the said village of
Northwest Park was an incorporated town, and the said village
shall, for that purpose, be considered by said Board of County
Commissioners as an incorporated town in said County; all of
said funds to be used directly by or through said committee,
exclusively for opening, improving, widening, maintaining, re-
pairing, and lighting the streets, roads, lanes, approaches, al-
leys, sidewalks, parking, drainage, sewerage, sanitation and
other village improvements, and for furnishing police and fire
protection, clerical and other public service, including the re-
moval of ashes, garbage, and other refuse, and the disposal
thereof, and for the enforcement of the requirements of all
conveyances for properties situated in said village, and for en-
forcing such building, sanitary and other regulations as said
committee, subject to the approval of the Board of County
Commissioners, may prescribe for said village, or for any part
thereof.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if in any year the
majority of the said Northwest Park Citizens' Committee shall
dtcide the sum hereinbefore authorized to be taxed and levied
is in excess of the amount required for the ensuing year, then
and in that event, the said committee may, on or before April