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come 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. 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 exclusive purpose of paying for
the special improvements herein provided for or any indebted-
ness which may be incurred therefor.

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 interested in said abutting property and an oppor-
tunity to be heard, such hearing to be had before said Citizens'
Committee of said Chevy Chase View who shall decide the mat-
ters properly brought before them. Any party affected by the
final decision of said Citizens' Committee, made after such
hearing, shall have the right to appeal therefrom within ten
days, to the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, and pro-
vided further, that upon the petition of a majority of the resi-
dent property owners, said petition to have not less than three
signatures thereto of the said resident property owners, own-
ing property abutting upon any streets, roads or lanes within
said Chevy Chase View, to be graded, paved, macadamized
or otherwise to be improved under the provisions of this sec-
tion, requesting the grading, paving, macadamizing, other-
wise improving of any such streets, roads or lanes, it shall be
the duty of the said Citizens' Committee to make the assess-
ment against the abutting property owners, to provide the
funds for and cause to be performed the provisions herein-
after provided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 155.

(House Bill 272)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 74
and 82 of Article 7 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Carroll County", sub-title