ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 893

SEC. 4. (a) And be it further enacted, That said Chevy
Chase Citizens' Committee of Section 4 as herein defined is
empowered, with the approval of the Board of County Com-
missioners, and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth,
to build, construct, rebuild or reconstruct any existing or here-
after dedicated street, road or lane or any county road, street
or lane which has been or may be acquired and opened for
public use, and to lay sidewalks and curbs on any of such
streets, roads or lanes; and in furtherance of the powers so
granted to grade, pave, macadamize or otherwise to improve
or change the existing type of such streets, roads or lanes.

(b) Whenever the said Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee of
Section 4 shall determine that any street, road or lane shall
be built, constructed, rebuilt or reconstructed as authorized in
the preceding paragraph (a), said Committee shall prepare
a list or statement setting forth specifically the street, road
or lane to be so improved and the bounds of such improvements,
the general type thereof, and the estimated cost thereof, and
shall call a special meeting of the owners of property abutting
on such improvement and against whose property assessments
for such improvement would be levied hereunder, such meeting
to be held after giving at least ten days' notice thereof to each
of such property owners by depositing said notice which shall
incorporate the text of the list or statement aforesaid in the
United States Postoffice addressed to such owner's last known
address. At such meeting the making of such proposed im-
provement and the levy of such assessment shall be submitted
to a vote of such owners, and such improvement shall be un-
dertaken only upon a ratification of such proposition by a ma-
jority vote of the owners present and voting at such meeting.
If the proposition submitted by the 'Citizens' Committee is so
ratified, the proposed improvements shall be made unless a
protest signed by two-thirds of the owners of the property
abutting on said proposed improvement and against whose
property assessments for such improvement would be levied
hereunder shall be filed with the Citizens' Committee within
ten days after such meeting, in which case such improvement
shall be abandoned and shall not be again proposed by the
Citizens' Committee during a term of three months, and if
two-thirds of the property owners on any such street, road or
lane shall petition that such street, road or lane shall be built,
rebuilt, constructed or reconstructed,, the said Committee shall
thereafter determine that said street, road or lane shall be