ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 161

zens' Committee, subject to the approval of the Board of
County Commissioners and after petition of residents and hear-
ing, as hereinafter provided, shall have power to assess the cost,
or any part of the cost, of said grading, paving, macadamizing
or improving against 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 prop-
erty abutting upon any street, road or lane to be graded, paved,
macadamized or otherwise to be improved under the provisions
of this section requesting the grading, paving, macadamizing
or otherwise improving of such streets, roads or lanes, it shall
be the duty of the Drummond Citizens' Committee to make the
said assessment against the abutting1 property to provide the
funds for and cause to be performed the necessary work or
construction to be done in accordance with the provisions herein
provided; and provided further, that before any contract for
work shall be entered into, or any obligation with respect there-
to incurred, notice shall be given to the owners and others of
record interested in said abutting property of a hearing at
which they will be given an opportunity to be heard, such hear-
ing to be had before said Drummond Citizens' Committee,
which shall decide the matters properly brought before it; and
any party affected by the final decision of said Drummond
Citizens' Committee made after such hearing shall have the
right to appeal therefrom within ten days to the Circuit Court
of Montgomery County.

Any tax so assessed, as above provided in this section, shall
be payable to the County Treasurer in from four to ten semi-
annual installments, as nearly equal as may be, the first in-
stallment thereof to become due and payable within six months
after the levy of said special tax as above provided, and each
of the other said installments within six months after the
preceding one shall have become due; each installment of said
tax shall become a lien against said abutting1 property and shall
bear interest from the date of levy thereof at the rate of six per
centum per annum until paid; or said tax may he paid in full
without interest during the first installment period, and if any
of said installments thereof be riot paid within thirty days after
same shall have become due, the entire amount of said tax
assessed to the person or persons or corporation in default,
with interest, shall thereupon become due and payable, and
may be collected in the same manner provided in the Act for
the collection of unpaid taxes. And the said Drummond Citi-
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