374 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 189

elected to fill such vacancies shall serve for the remainder of
the unexpired term only. Election shall be by ballot in a man-
ner to be prescribed by said Citizens' Committee.

Only residents of legal age of said Section 5, who shall have
resided therein for not less than six months next preceding said
election, shall be entitled to vote for or hold the office of Com-
mitteeman. Following each election each newly elected member
of said Citizens' Committee shall qualify by taking an oath be
fore any officer in said Montgomery County, authorized by law
to administer oaths, to diligently and faithfully discharge all
duties of the office. Said Committee shall select from their
members a chairman, secretary-treasurer, and any other officers
they may deem necessary.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said Chevy Chase
Citizens' Committee of said Section 5, is empowered to grade,
pave, macadamize, or otherwise improve any existing dedicated
street, road or lane, or any county road, street or lane, which
has been, or which may be acquired and opened for public use,
but which is ungraded, unpaved, or unimproved, and to lay side-
walks and curbs thereon; provided, that said Citizens' Com-
mittee subject to the approval of the Board of County Commis-
sioners and after due publication thereof, and after hearing on
the written protest of a majority of the owners of prop-
erty abutting on said street, road, lane, or sidewalk, shall have
power to assess the cost of said grading, paving, macadamizing,
or improving against the property abutting on said street, road,
lane or sidewalk, in proportion to the frontage of said abutting
property on the same. Said Citizens' Committee subject to the
approval of said Board of County Commissioners, is also further
empowered, after due public notice thereof, to construct sewers
and to assess the cost of construction, but not the maintenance
thereof, against the real estate using the same, or benefiting
thereby, in proportion to the frontage of said real estate abut-
ting on a street or streets, road or roads, lane or lanes, where
the said sewer has been laid.

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 instalment
thereof to become due and payable the first day of July next
succeeding the making of such special assessment as herein else-
where provided and to be collected as County taxes in said
County are collected and shall be subject to interest from said
first of July until paid at the rate of six per cent, per annum.