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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, calcu-
lated to the time meridian, there shall be endorsed upon each of such plats,
a certificate of the surveyor making the same, that the lots or block and
squares therein indicated are a part of the whole lands conveyed to the
maker of a plat by a deed or conveyance, of which the date and place of
record shall be given; that the lines of said subdivision do not conflict
with the lines of any subdivision heretofore made and recorded, among
the said land records, and when such a plat shall be of land acquired by
more than one conveyance, the outlines of the land acquired by the several
conveyances shall be indicated by red lines drawn upon said plat, and the
surveyor's certificate shall assign the various lots, blocks, etc., to the re-
spective conveyances out of which the same shall have been taken, and

shall also certify that a monument stone of not less than six inches diam-

eter at the top has been planted, two feet in the ground at each end of one
of the principal lines of said plat, and that the location of said stones are
properly indicated on said plat; provided, however that nothing in this
section shall prevent the maker of any of said plats from placing the same
on record in sections of the size hereinbefore provided.

Secs. 213-216 repealed by ch. 118, 1922, as to Washington Suburban Sanitary
District. See secs. 1013-103Y of this Article.

1908, ch. 619, sec. 85C. 1912 Code, sec. 155.

215. That before said plat shall be received of record, the party desir-
ing to record same shall file in the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County a petition setting forth under oath the tract or tracts of which said
sub-division is made up, together with reference to the deed or deeds
conveying same to him, that the land included in said plat or owned by
said party applying for same does not conflict with the established lines
of any other sub-division entered on record, and that the name given same
to the best of his knowledge is not synonymous and does not conflict with
the name of any other sub-division heretofore filed; and upon filing of
such application, the clerk shall cause a notice to be published in one of
the newspapers published in Prince George's county, setting forth that
application has been made for the recording of a plat of said sub-division
giving the name, the election district in which same is located, requiring

cause to be shown within five days from the date of giving such notice
why such plat should not be recorded.

Secs. 213-216 repealed by ch. 118, 1922, as to Washington Suburban Sanitary
District. See secs. 1013-1037 of this Article.

1908, ch. 619, sec. 85D. 1912 Code, sec. 156.

216. 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, one of which shall be, by said clerk,
placed in and attached to the book hereinafter provided for, and other
:shall, by said clerk, be attached to and made a part of the substance record