ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 969

vided in this Section shall be payable to the County Treasurer
in not more than six annual installments, as nearly equal as
may be, the first installment thereof to become due and pay-
able 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 the first of the following
September until paid at the rate of six per cent, per annum.
Each installment of said assessment shall become a lien against
said abutting property, and any such installment not paid by
the first day 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 County
taxes in said County. And all money so received by said
County Treasurer shall, upon order of the said Board of
County Commissioners, be paid over to the said Treasurer of
said Section 5 of said Village of Chevy Chase, and said Citi-
zens ' Committee of said said Section 5 shall become charged with
the duty to pave, grade, macadamize, or otherwise improve
said streets, roads, lanes, and sidewalks within said village;
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 and an opportunity to be heard
given, such hearing to be had before the said Citizens' Com-
mittee of said Section 5, who shall decide the matters properly
before them. Any party affected by the final decision of said
Citizens' Committee, 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 two-thirds of the resident real property owners
residing upon any streets, roads, or lanes to be graded, paved,
macadamized, or otherwise to be improved under the provi-
sions of this Section, requesting the grading, paving, macad-
amizing, or 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 the necessary work or construction to be done
in accordance with the provisions hereinabove provided; and,
provided, further, that Connecticut Avenue shall, for all pur-
poses of repair, improvement, grading, or paving, be considered
as two streets lying parallel to one another on either side of
the center line of said Avenue.