908 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 367

made, provided, however, that sidewalks, curbs and gutters,
when proposed to be laid or constructed for the first time,
shall be laid or constructed on both sides of the road, street
or lane at the same time. Any party affected by the final de-
cision of said meeting shall have thevright to appeal there-
from within ten days to the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland. 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 recon-
structed or that the sidewalk, curb, gutter and/or crossing
thereon shall be built, rebuilt, constructed or reconstructed,
the said Committee shall thereafter determine that said street,
road, lane, sidewalk, curb, gutter and/or crossing shall be
improved and proceed as in paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of
this section.

(c) If such proposition shall be so adopted it shall be certi-
fied by the Citizens Committee of Chevy Chase—Section 4 to
the County Council. Such certification shall include the list
or statement hereinbefore provided, together with any sup-
plemental estimate of cost which may be necessary, together
with a statement showing the abutting property owners, the
frontage of each property, and the respective proportions
which the frontage of each property bears to the total front-
age of the streets, roads, lanes, sidewalks, curbs, gutters
and/or crossings so to be improved, 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 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 provided in Section 104 hereof shall
be included as a part of such total cost so to be apportioned.

(d) If such proposition be approved and certified to the
County Council, said Council shall thereafter assess the total
cost of such improvements against the properties abutting
on the streets, roads, lanes, sidewalks, curbs, gutters and/or
crossings so to be improved in the respective proportions
which the frontage bears to the total frontage of the streets,
roads, lanes, sidewalks, curbs, gutters and/or crossings to be
so improved, and each assessment shall thereupon become a
lien upon such abutting property, and said Council shall
thereupon give ten days' notice of each such assessment and
opportunity to be heard thereon to the owner of such abut-
ting property who shall have a right to appeal therefrom
within ten days to the Circuit Court for Montgomery 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 payable the first day of