ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 377

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 clue and payable the
first day of July next succeeding the making of such special
assessment as herein elsewhere provided, and to be collected as
county taxes in said county are collected, and any tax so as-
sessed as provided in this section shall be subject to interest
from said first of July until paid, at the rate of six per cent,
per annum. Each annual installment shall become a lien
against said abutting property and any such installment not
paid by the first of January following its becoming due shall
be subject to the same penalties and shall be collected in the
same manner as provided for the collection of unpaid taxes
in the said county. All taxes assessed as provided in this sec-
tion shall be paid over by the treasurer of said county to the
treasurer of the Oakmont sub-division, who shall devote such
funds to the exclusive purpose of paying for the special im-
provements herein provided for or any indebtedness which may
be incurred therefor.

Said Oakmont Citizens' Committee shall have the power to
pave, grade, macadamize or otherwise improve said streets,
roads or lanes or sidewalks within said Oakmont sub-division;
provided, that before any contract for work shall be entered
into, or any obligation with respect thereto incurred, notice
shall be given to the owners and others of record interested in
said abutting property an opportunity to be heard, such hear-
ing to be had before said Oakmont Citizens' Committee, which
shall decide the matters properly brought before it. Any
party affected by the final decision of said Citizens' Commit-
tee made after such hearing, shall have the right to appeal
therefrom within ten days to the Circuit Court of Montgomery
County; and provided further, that upon the petition of a
majority of the resident property owners owning property
abutting upon any street, road or lanes to be graded, paved,
macadamized or otherwise to be improved under the provi-
sions of this section requesting the grading, paving, macadam-
izing or otherwise improving of any such streets, roads or
lanes, it shall be the duty of the said Citizens' Committee to
make the assessment against the abutting; property owners, to
provide the funds for and cause to be performed the necessary
work or construction to be done in accordance with the pro-
visions hereinabove provided.