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Citizens' Committee directly or through said Committee exclu-
sively for maintaining, repairing and lighting the streets, roads,
including those upon which said Section 5 abuts, alleys, side-
walks, parking, drainage, sewerage, sanitation and other village
maintenance and upkeep of the existing improvements, clerical
and other public service, for furnishing police protection and
public service, including the removal of ashes, garbage and other
refuse, and disposal thereof; for the employment of a building
inspector to enforce the requirements of all deeds of conveyance
for properties situated in said Village, for enforcing such build-
ing, sanitary and other regulations as said Citizens' Committee
subject to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners
may prescribe for said village, or for any part of said Section
thereof.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Chevy Chase
Citizens' Committee of Section 5 shall be constituted as follows:
Fielder M. M. Beall, Matthew T. Moomaw, J. Andrew Gries-
bauer; Eugene W. Wells and George S. Demuth, who shall serve
until the qualifications 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 named shall, until otherwise directed by said Com-
mittee, be and constitute the Chairman thereof, each of whom
shall qualify as such Committeemen by taking an oath before
any officer in said Montgomery County, authorized by law to ad-
minister oaths, to diligently and faithfully discharge all duties
of the office. In case any of such persons shall fail to so qualify
within thirty days after the passage of this Act, or any of their
successors shall fail to so qualify within thirty days after his
election as a Committeeman as hereinafter provided, or in case
of any vacancy through death, resignation, removal from said
Section 5, or otherwise, the remaining Committeemen shall fill
such vacancies by the appointment of a resident, registered and
qualified voter of said Section 5 of said village, who shall hold
office until the next regular election as hereinafter provided.

On the second Tuesday in April, 1919, two members of the
said Citizens' Committee shall be elected to serve for one year
and three members to serve for two years. On the second Tues-
day in April, 1920, and on the second Tuesday in April for
each following year an election shall be held at which Com-
mitteemen shall be elected for two years to succeed those whose
terms expire, and at which Committeemen shall be elected to
fill any vacancies which may exist, but the Committeemen so