HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1471

wise, according to law, property for sewerage disposal pur-
poses of part of said Village and to assess the cost of such
property as it may so acquire for sewerage disposal purposes,
and the cost of construction of sewers and sewerage system,
but not the maintenance thereof, against the real estate using
the same, or benefiting thereby, in proportion to the frontage
of said real estate abutting on a street or streets, road or roads,
lane or lanes, containing the said sewerage system or any
part thereof. All property acquired by said Citizens' Com-
mittee under this Section shall be held for the benefit of the
citizens of said part of the Village of Chevy Chase.

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 in-
stallment 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 said first of July until paid, at the rate of six per cent
per annum. Each annual installment shall become a lien
against said abutting 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 Section of the Village of Chevy Chase,
who shall devote such funds to the exclusive purpose of paying
for the special improvements herein provided for or any in-
debtedness which may be incurred therefor.

The said Citizens' Committee of said Sections of the Village
of Chevy Chase shall have the power to grade, pave mac-
adamize, or otherwise improve said streets, roads, or lanes
or sidewalks with said Sections of said Village of Chevy
Chase, or have such sewerage constructed as the case may be;
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 interested in
said abutting property and an opportunity to be heard, such
hearing to be had before said Chevy Chase Citizens' Committee,
who shall decide the matters properly brought before them.
Any party affected by the final decision of said Citizens' Com-
mittee, made after such hearing, shall have the right to appeal
therefrom within ten days, to the Circuit Court of Mont-
gomery County, and provided further, that upon the pe-
tition of two-thirds of the resident property owners resid-
ing upon any streets, roads or lanes to be graded, paved,
macadamized or to have sewerage placed thereon, or