894 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 317

improved as stated in the said petition and proceed as in this
section provided.

(c) If such proposition shall be so adopted it shall be cer-
tified by the Citizens' Committee of Section 4 to the Board
of County Commissioners for approval. Such certification
shall include the list or statement hereinbefore provided, to-
gether with any supplemental estimate of cost which may be
necessary, together with a statement showing the abutting
property owners, the frontage of each property, and the re-
spective proportions which the frontage of each property bears
to the total frontage of the streets, roads or lanes so to be im-
proved, and allocating the total cost of the improvement among
such properties in proportion to said frontage; provided, that
in computing said total cost of any such improvement the cost
of improving intersections or crossings of streets, roads or
lanes and all proper incidental expenses, including expenses
incident to the issuance of bonds for such improvement as pro-
vided in Section 7 hereof shall be included as a part of such
total cost so to be apportioned.

(d) If such proposition be approved by the Board of County
Commissioners, said Board shall thereafter assess the total cost
of such improvement against the properties abutting on the
streets, roads or lanes so to be improved in the respective pro-
portions which the frontage bears to the total frontage of the
streets, roads or lanes to be so improved, and each assessment
shall thereupon become a lien upon such abutting property,
and said Board shall thereupon give 10 days' notice of each
such assessment and opportunity to be heard thereon to the
owner of such abutting property who shall have a right to ap-
peal therefrom within 10 days to the Circuit Court of Mont-
gomery County. Such assessments shall be due and payable
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 hereinbefore provided, and shall be col-
lected in the same manner provided by law for the collection
of county taxes in said county, and shall be subject to interest
from the first day of the following September until paid at
the rate of six per cent, per annum. Any person shall have
the right to anticipate the payment of any or all installments
not then due. Any assessment or part thereof remaining due
and unpaid shall be collected in the same manner provided by
law for the collection of delinquent taxes.