ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 395

provided, shall have power to assess the cost of said grading,
paving, macadamizing, lighting, or otherwise improving the
property abutting on said street, road or lane, or sidewalk, in
proportion to the frontage of said abutting property on the
same. PROVIDED FURTHER that upon the petition in
writing of two-thirds of the residents owning property abutting
upon any street, road or lane to be graded, paved, macadamized,
lighted or otherwise to be improved under the provisions of
this section requesting the grading, paving, macadamizing,
lighting or otherwise improving of such streets, roads or lanes
it shall be the duty of the Alta Vista 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 herein provided; PROVIDED FURTHER, 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 prop-
erty of a hearing at which they will be given an opportunity
to be heard, such hearing to be had before said Alta Vista
Citizens' Committee, which shall decide the matters properly
brought before it; any party affected by the final decision of
said Alta Vista Citizens' Committee made after such hearing,
shall the right to appeal therefrom within ten days to the
Circuit Court of Montgomery County.

All property acquired by the Alta Vista Citizens' Committee
under this section shall be held for the benefit of the citizens
of the said village of Alta Vista.

Any tax assessed as above provided in this section shall be
payable to the County Treasurer in ten annual installments,
as nearly equal as may be, the first installment thereof to be-
come due 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 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 section shall be paid
over by the treasurer of said county to the Treasurer of the