170 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the majority of
the said "Friendship Heights Citizens Committee" decide the
sum hereinbefore authorized to be taxed and levied is an in-
sufficient amount for the ensuing year, or any succeeding year,
then and in that event the said Committee, or resident, tax-
payers of said villages affected by this Act, may, on or before
April 15, 1914, or any succeeding year, petition in writing the
County Commissioners of Montgomery County to make an ad-
ditional special levy and tax of not more than ten cents on
each One Hundred ($100) Dollars of the assessable value of
said real and personal property in said villages, such petition
to be signed by the majority of said Committee, or such num-
ber of resident taxpayers as may satisfy said County Commis-
sioners of the fact that there is a general public demand on
the part of the residents, citizens and taxpayers of said villages
for such additional special levy and such special tax for such
purposes as hereinbefore mentioned, but no such special levy of
such additional special tax shall be made on such property, unless
notice of the intention of said County Commissioners to make
such additional special levy, the purpose or purposes thereof
and the amount thereof and approximate effect of such addi-
tional special levy on the tax rate of said villages shall be
published in one or more newspapers of said County for two
consecutive weeks, designating the date upon which said County
Commissioners shall meet for the purpose of hearing objections
to said additional special levy; and upon the date fixed for
such hearing, said Commissioners shall hear the advocates and
opponents of such additional special levy and thereafter de-
termine the amount, if any, of such additional special levy for
said villages, but in no case shall said additional special levy
be greater than ten cents on each One Hundred ($100) Dollars
of the assessable value of real and personal property, as afore-
said, in any one year.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the
passage of this Act until the first Monday in May, 1915, the said
Committee for said Villages shall be constituted as follows:
Henry W. Offutt, John William Bogley, John A. Garrett,
Charles E. Roach, William Tyler Page, Walter C. Balderston.
and Emory H. Bogley. The first named shall, until otherwise
directed by said Committee, be and constitute the Chairman
thereof, each of whom shall qualify as such Committeeman by
taking oath to diligently and faithfully discharge the duties of
the office, but that upon the failure of any one or more of
said Committeemen named in this Act to qualify within ten