244 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 117

and after due publication thereof, shall have power to assess the
cost of said grading, paving, macadamizing, or improving
against the 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 installments, as nearly equal as may be, the first install-
ment thereof to become 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 the
first of the following September until paid at the rate of six per
centum per annum. Each installment of said assessment shall
become a lien against said abutting property, and any such in-
stallment 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 County
Commissioners, be paid over to the said Treasurer of said village
of North Chevy Chase, and the committee of said village 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 inter-
ested in said abutting property and an opportunity to be heard
given, such hearing to be had before the said committee of said
village, who shall decide the matters properly before them. Any
party affected by the final decision of said 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 the owners of
one-half of the frontage abutting on any street, road or land to
be graded, paved, macadamized, or otherwise to be improved
under the provisions of this section, requesting the grading, pav-
ing, macadamizing, or improving of any such street, road or
lane, it shall be the duty of the said committee to make the
assessment against the abutting property to provide the funds
for the necessary work or construction to be done in accordance
with the foregoing provisions.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That said Citizens' Com-
mittee of said North Chevy Chase shall not expend for material