ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                 1079

Montgomery County residing within said Chevy Chase View, or
resident property owners of legal age, shall be entitled to vote
for, or hold the office of committeeman. Following each election
each newly elected member of said Citizens7 Committee shall
qualify by taking an oath before any officer in said Montgomery
County, authorized by law to administer oaths, to diligently and
faithfully discharge all duties of the office.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said Citizens' Com-
mittee of said Chevy Chase View, is empowered to grade, pave7.
macadamize, or otherwise improve any existing dedicated street.,
road or lane, or any county road, street or lane, which has been,
or which may be acquired and opened for public use. but which
is ungraded, unpaved or unimproved, and to lay sidewalks and
curbs thereon provided, that said Citizens' Committee, subject
to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners and
after due publication thereof, shall have power to assess the
cost of said grading, paving, macadamizing, or improving against
the respective property abutting on said street, road, lane or
sidewalk, 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 installment
thereof to become due and payable the first day of July next
succeeding the making of such special assessment as herein else-
where 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 peer cent, per annum.
Bach 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
provided 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 ex-
clusive purpose of paying for the special improvements herein
provided for or any indebtedness which may be incurred there-
for.

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
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,
such hearing to be had before said Citizens' Committee of said