PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1455

for the purpose of adjourning; any two of them shall have
full power to do any act which the said court is or shall be
authorized by law to perform, and any two of them may hold a
court on any day not named in an adjournment, on the appli-
cation of any person having pressing business in said court;
provided notice thereof be given to all, and in such case the
register shall record that such notice has been given.

PLATS.
1894, ch. 622, sec. 60A.

399. Wherever the owner or owners of lands in Mont-
gomery county shall sub-divide their lands, for town or villa
sites, streets, lanes or alleys, or any other purpose, and shall
desire, for purposes of description and identification, a plat
of said sub-division to be recorded among the Land recordS
of said county, or whenever any street, avenue, public roads,
lane or alley shall be required by condemnation or otherwise
by the county commissioners of said county, or by any other
person or persons or body corporate, of which a plot is now
required by the laws of this State to be recorded the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Montgomery County is hereby directed
to receive and record same, as hereinafter directed; but said
clerk shall not receive for record, nor allow to be recorded in
his office, any such plot, until the requirements of the succeed-
ing sections of this act shall have been complied with.

Ibid. sec. 60b.

400. Such plots shall be made or drawn upon tracing linen
or parchment of the uniform size of eighteen inches by eigh-
teen inches, shall contain the directions and distance of all lines
drawn thereon or such of them as will enable each lot, block,
avenue, lane or alley thereof to be accurately described by
metes and bounds, courses and distances, calculated to the true
meridian; there shall be endorsed upon each of such plots, a
certificate of the surveyor making the same, that the lots or
blocks and squares therein indicated are a part of the whole
land conveyed to the maker of a plot by a deed or conveyance, of
which the date and place of record shall be given; and when
such a plot shall be of land acquired by more than one con-
veyance, the outlines of the line acquired by the .several con-
veyances shall be indicated by red lines drawn upon said plot,
and the surveyor's certificate shall assign the various lots, blocks,
etc., to the respective conveyances out of which the same shall
have been taken, and shall also certify that a monument stone
of not less than six inches diameter at the top has been planted,
two feet in the ground at each end of one of the principal