380 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 190

committeeman whose term has expired, and at which committee-
men shall be elected to fill such vacancies as may exist, but the
committeemen so elected to fill such vacancies shall serve only
for the remainder of the unexpired term. Election, shall be by
ballot in a manner prescribed by the said Citizens' Committee.
Only those residents who have been property holders and tax-
payers in said Oakmont subdivision shall be entitled to vote or
hold the office of Committeeman. Following each election each
newly elected member of the said Citizens' Committee shall
qualify by taking an oath before any officer of said Montgomery
County, authorized by law to administer oaths, to diligently and
faithfully discharge all duties of office. Said committee shall
select from their numbers a chairman, secretary-treasurer and
any other officers they may deem necessary.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted. That said Oakmont
Citizens' Committee is empowered to grade, pave, macadamize
or otherwise improve any existing dedicated street, road or
lane, or any 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 sidewalks and curbs there-
on; provided, that said Citizens' Committee, subject to the
approval of the Board of County Commissioners and after
due publication thereof, 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. Such lots platted as fronting on already existing im-
proved roads, lanes or streets, but which abut on such streets
or lanes as are to be improved under the provisions of this
Act, shall be assessed in accordance to benefits accruing from
such new improvements as are herein provided for, such bene-
fits to be determined by one member of the Board of County
Commissioners, one member of the Oakmont Citizens' Com-
mittee and one resident of Montgomery County to be chosen
by aforesaid member of Board of County Commissioners and
member of Oakmont Citizens' Committee. All property ac-
quired by. the Citizens' Committee under this section shall be
held for the benefit of the citizens of the said Oakmont sub-
division.

Any tax so assessed as above provided in this section shall be
payable to the county treasurer in not less than eight annual
installments nor more than fifteen as nearly equal as may be,
the first installment thereof to become due and payable the