1340 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 541

said grading, paving, macadamizing, or improving against the
respective property abutting on said street, road, lane or side-
walk, in proportion to the frontage of said abutting property
on the same.

Any tax so assessed as above provided in this section shall be
payable to the County Treasurer in not more than six annual in-
stallments, as nearly equal as may be, the first installment there-
or to become due and payable the first day of July next succeed-
ing 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 day of
September until paid at the rate of six per cent, per annum.
Each annual installment shall become a lien against said abut-
ting 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 pro-
vided for the collection of unpaid county taxes in said county.
All taxes assessed as provided in this section shall be paid over
by the Treasurer of said County to the Treasurer of said Chevy
Chase View, who shall devote such funds to the exclusive pur-
pose of paying for the special improvements herein provided
for or any indebtedness which may be incurred therefor.

The said Citizens' Committee of said Chevy Chase View shall
have the power to pave, grade, macadamize, or otherwise improve
said streets, roads, or lanes or sidewalks within said Chevy Chase
View; provided, that before any contract for work shall be en-
tered into, or any obligation with respect thereto incurred, no-
tice shall be given to the owners, and others of record interested
in said abutting property and an opportunity to be heard, such
hearing to be had before said Citizens' Committee of said Chevy
Chase View who shall decide the matters properly brought be-
fore them. Any party affected by the final decision of said Citi-
zens' 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 peti-
tion of a majority of the resident property owners, said petition
to have not less than three signatures thereto of the said resi-
dent property owners, owning property abutting upon any
streets, roads or lanes within said Chevy Chase View, to be
graded, paved, macadamized or otherwise to be improved under
the provisions of this Section, requesting the grading, paving,
macadamizing, otherwise improving of any such streets, roads
or lanes, it shall be the duty of the said Citiens' Committee to