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now by law required to be kept, and shall transmit the same, with the said!
substance record, to the commissioners of the Land Office as now by law
directed; and the said clerk shall receive for each plat or section of a plat
so filed with him the sum of two dollars; the maker of said plat or plats1
at the same time shall furnish to the county surveyor of said county a
copy of such plat or plats, which shall be by said county surveyor placed
in and attached to the plat book in this Act required by him to be kept,
and county surveyor shall receive a fee of one dollar for each plat so filed
with him.

Secs. 213-216 repealed hy ch. 118, 1922, as to Washington Suburban Sanitary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

1908, ch. 619, sec. 85E. 1912 Code, sec. 157.

217. The clerk of the said Circuit Court and the county surveyor of
said county shall provide, and the county commissioners of said county
shall pay for suitable books to be designated Plat Book No., etc., in which
such plats shall be affixed.

1908, ch. 619, sec. 85F. 1912 Code, sec. 158.

218. Such plats when filed for record as in this Act provided, shall
constitute a part of the land records of said county, and shall have the
same force and effect as to notice as is now given the properly recorded
deeds.

1908, ch. 619, sec 85G. 1912 Code, sec. 159.

219. When said, plats are so recorded, those portions of said land desig-
nated on said plats as streets, roads, avenues, lanes, alleys and public parks
or squares, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be forever dedi-
cated to public use and shall not thereafter, on any pretext whatsoever, be
altered or taken for private use; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall effect the right of any person or persons owning or claim-
ing any interest in said land derived by, from or under any persons other
than the maker of such plat, or by, from or under such maker prior to such
sub-division; and provided further, 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 authorizing 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
just costs and charges for like work, and when such orders are passed
the clerk of said Court shall endorse on the plat affected hereby, the dates
and place of record of such orders.