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application 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. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 399.

677. Whenever the owner or owners of lands in Montgomery 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 com-
missioners of said county, or by any other person or persons or body cor-
porate, 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 succeeding sections of this act
shall have been complied with.

1894, oh. 622, sec. 60B. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 400.

678. Such plots shall be made or drawn upon tracing linen or parch-
ment of the uniform size of eighteen inches by eighteen inches, shall con-
tain 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 certifi-
cate 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
conveyance, the outlines of the line acquired by the several conveyances
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 con-
veyances out of which the same shall have been taken, and shall also cer-
tify that a monument stone of not less khan six inches diameter at the top
has been planted, two feet in the ground at each end of one of the princi-
pal lines of said plot, and that the location of said stones are properly in-
dicated on said plot; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall
prevent the maker of any of said plots from placing the same on record in
sections of the size hereinbefore provided.

1894, ch. 622, sec. 60C. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 401. 1914, ch. 134.

679. The maker of said plat or plats when the same shall be presented
for record shall furnish the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county two
copies of such plat, or plats, with a direction, endorsed thereon and signed
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