PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ.. GOVERNOR. 1457

ther, that the maker of any such plat or plats, his heirs or
assigns, shall have the. right to apply by petition to the Circuit
Court for said county, for leave to abandon the sub-division of
lands so made by him, and reconvert the same into one tract or
parcel; and said court, if convinced upon such proof, and after
such notice by publication or otherwise, or as it shall direct,
that no damage can be in any wise sustained by persons other
than the petitioners, shall have power to pass an ordeR author-
izing and empowering such petitioner to abandon such sub-
division, either in whole or in part; and the proceedings had
under such petition shall be docketed in the equity dockets and
recorded in the equity or judgment records of said court, the
petitioners in all cases paying the fees, costs and charges for
like work; and when such orders are passed, the clerk of said
court shall endorse on the plat affected thereby the dates and
place of record in such orders.

1894, ch. 622, sec. 60g.

405. Whenever the owner of any lands of which a plat has
been heretofore made and placed in the land record books of
said county, shall cause to be made an exact copy of said plat
(except as to necessary change of scale and the addition of such
matter as may be necessary to make the same conform to the
requirements of the preceding sections), and shall comply with
the requirements of the preceding sections as applied to plats
of new sub-divisions, the same may be admitted to record and
filed as other plats, and the said clerk shall thereupon remove
said original plat from the record books, place or places where
the same shall have been filed, and endorse upon said record
book or place where the same has been filed, a certificate that
the plat heretofore filed in said record book has been copied and
made to conform to the provisions of this act, and' has been filed
and recorded under the provisions of this act, which certificate
shall give the liber and folio where said new plat may be found;
provided, that before said new plat shall be entitled to record,
as hereinbefore provided, there shall be endorsed upon same, in
addition to the other certificate, required by this act, the certifi-
cate of the county surveyor of Montgomery county, that the
same is an exact copy of said original plat, except as to those
changes made necessary by the provisions of this act.

1894, ch. 622, sec. 60h.

406. After such new plat shall have been recorded, and said
certificate indorsed upon the land record books, as hereinbefore
provided, all deeds, mortgages and other instruments of writing
conveying any interest in any lands, referring for a part of the