EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 299

gomery County, authorized by law to administer oaths, to dili-
gently and faithfully discharge all duties of the office. Said
Committee shall select from their members a chairman, secre-
tary-treasurer, and any other officers they may deem necessary.

Section 4. And be it further enacted, That said Chevy
Chase Citizens' Committee of said Section 3, 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 unim-
proved, and to lay sidewalks and curbs thereon; 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 front-
age of said abutting property on the same. Said Citizens'
Committee subject to the approval of said Board of County
Commissioners is also further empowered, and after due pub-
lic notice thereof, to acquire by purchase, condemnation or
otherwise, according to law, property for sewerage disposal
purposes of said Section 3 of said village and to assess the cost
of such property as it may be; acquire for sewerage disposal
purposes, and the cost of the construction of sewers and sew-
erage system but not the maintenance thereof, against the real
estate using the same, or benefiting thereby, in proportion to
the frontage of said real estate abutting on a street or streets,
road or roads, lane or lanes, containing the said sewerage sys-
tem or any part thereof. All property acquired by said Citi-
zens' Committee under this section shall be held for the benefit
of the citizens of said Section 3 of said village of Chevy Chase.

Any tax so assessed as above provided in this section shall
be payable to the County Treasurer in not more than
six annual instalments, 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 assess-
ment as herein elsewhere provided and to be collected as Coun-
ty 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. Each annual instalment shall become a
lien against said abutting property and any such instalment
not paid by the first day of January following its becoming
due shall be subject to the same penalties and shall be collected