THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 637

(i) All special assessments levied by the Board of Managers
shall be certified by the Board of Managers to the County
Council of Montgomery County for collection. The County
Council is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to have
these special assessments so certified collected in the same
manner as are county taxes. Each installment shall become
a lien against the abutting property and any such installment
not paid within six months following its becoming due shall
be subject to the same interest and penalties and shall be col-
lected in the same manner as provided for the collection of
unpaid county taxes in Montgomery County. All such special
assessments collected shall be paid over by the county to the
Treasurer of Chevy Chase Village who shall devote such funds
to the exclusive purpose of paying for the improvements herein
provided for or any indebtedness which may be incurred
therefor.

(j) To carry out the provisions of this section the said Board
of Managers is hereby given power and authority to borrow
such sums from time to time as may be needed to make such
improvements, including the proportionate share thereof, if
any, to be assessed against Chevy Chase Village in accordance
with this section, and to issue certificates of indebtedness as
evidence thereof. All sums so borrowed shall be kept in a
separate account to be known as the "Special Improvement
Fund" and shall be borrowed for no longer period than shall
be sufficient to collect the special assessments provided for;
said certificates of indebtedness shall be full and complete
general obligations of Chevy Chase Village and shall be pay-
able first from the special assessments, levied under the pro-
visions of this section; and in the event of any deficiency occur
ring in the amount received from said special assessment, the
Board of Managers shall make up such deficiency from the
proceeds of ad valorem taxes which the Board of Managers is
hereby authorized and empowered to levy upon all property
within the present or future corporate limits of Chevy Chase
Village subject to assessment for full municipal taxation,
which taxes said Chevy Chase Village is authorized and em-
powered to levy in an amount sufficient to meet such deficiency
but without any limitation as to such rate or amount notwith-
standing any other statutory limitation upon the power of said
Chevy Chase Village to levy taxes. Certificates of indebtedness
herein authorized may be issued at the discretion of the Board
of Managers and without being submitted to a vote of the tax-
payers or qualified voters. Such certificates of indebtedness
are hereby specifically exempted from the provisions of Sec-
tions 33, 34, 35 and 36 of Article 31 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland (1939 Edition and 1947 Supplement
thereto) and may be sold at public or private sale as the Board