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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. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 405.

683. Whenever the owner of any lands of which a plat has been here-
tofore 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 certificate 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. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 406.

684. After such new plats 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 description of the same to a plat men-
tioned as being recorded among the land record books of said county, shall
be taken and deemed to refer to the place at which the said new plats
shall, by the said clerk's certificate, be stated to be recorded.

1914, ch. 92, sec. 406A.

685. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County is hereby
authorized and directed to have true and accurate copies made of all the
plats of subdivisions of land recorded among the Land Record Books of
said county prior to the sixth day of April, 1904. Said copies to be made
upon tracing-linen or parchment of the dimensions required by Section
678 of this Article, the scale upon which the original plats were drawn to
be so reduced as to allow the copy to be made of the size hereby required;
provided, however, that where it is deemed by said clerk to be expedient
so to do, the said copies may be made in sections as elsewhere in this
Article allowed, when and as such copies are made they shall be inserted
and recorded in a Plat Book or Books of the same kind and dimensions as