1916] OF THE SENATE. 551

Citizens' 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, Said committee shall select from their
members a chairman, secretary-treasurer and any other offi-
cers they may deem necessary.

'Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said Citizens'
Committee of said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the
village of Chevy Chase, is empowered to grade, pave, maca-
damize, 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, macadamiz-
ing, or improving against the property abutting on said street,
road, lane or sidewalk, in proportion to the frontage of said
abutting property on the" same. Said Citizens' Committee,
subject to the approval of said Board of County Commis-
sioners, is also further empowered, and after due public
notice thereof, to acquire by purchase, condemnation or other-
wise, according to law, property for sewerage disposal pur-
poses of said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the village
of Chevy Chase 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' Committee
under this section shall be held for the benefit of the citizens
of said Martin's Additions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to 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 an-
nual installments, as nearly equal as may be, the first install-
ment 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 6 per cent,
per annum. Each annual installment shall become a lien