378 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 190

of County Commissioners, to adopt regulations with respect
to garbage, sanitation, erection of buildings, tearing up of
streets, speed regulations, care of property, removal of snow,
ice or other police and health regulations, to provide penal-
ties for the violation thereof; to authorize Justices of the
Peace in said County to try and punish violators of said
regulations and the sheriff of said county to execute writs;
also authorize said Citizens' Committee to borrow money
and otherwise contract indebtedness and obligate said spe-
cial taxation area of Oakmont in an initial amount not ex-
ceeding four thousand dollars ($4,000), and in subsequent
amounts not exceeding in total in any calendar year two per
cent, of the assessed valuation for such purposes and au-
thorizing said Citizens' Committee to act therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That for the purpose of this Act the subdivision of Oak-
mont, of Montgomery County, Maryland, bounded as per plat
recorded among the Land Records of said Montgomery County,
shall constitute a special tax area or district.

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 1918, and each succeeding year within said area of Oak-
mont as created by this Act, amounts to be fixed by them not
less than ten (10) cents nor more than fifty (50) cents on
each one hundred (100) dollars' worth of assessable property
in said subdivision of Oakmont, Montgomery County, to be
collected as all other county taxes in said county are collected;
to be paid over by the said Board of County Commissioners
to the Treasurer of said Oakmont subdivision to be selected
from among their number by a majority of the members of the
Oakmont Citizens' Committee of said Oakmont subdivision, or
by their successors to be selected as herein provided. Upon
said Treasurer having been duly selected by such 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 b© fixed by the said Judge, condi-
tioned upon faithful discharge of the duties of said Treasurer,
the said Board of County Commissioners shall also order and
have paid over to the said Treasurer the proportion of the
county road tax to be levied and collected in the same manner