3780 ARTICLE 17.

1908, ch. 619, sec. 85H. 1912 Code, sec. 160.

220. 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 clerks shall endorse upon the record book at the folio where
said original 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 Prince George's 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, provided, however, that any maker of a plat of a
farm heretofore recorded or to be recorded under this law, shall not be
compelled to comply with the section 214, in respect to the size of said
plat.

190», ch. 619, sec. 85-1. 1912 Code, sec. 161.

221. After such new plat shall have been recorded, and said certificate
indorsed upon the land records books, as hereinbefore provided, all deeds,
mortgages and other instruments of writing conveying any interest in any
land, referring for a part of the description of the same, to a plat men-
tioned as being among the land records of said county, shall be taken and

deemed to refer to the place at which the said new plats shall by the said
clerks certificate be stated to be recorded.

1924, ch 506, sec. 1.

222. Every deed of any lot or lots or parts of a lot or lots of any
recorded subdivisions must be accompanied by a plat or sketch of such
lot or lots, or parts of a lot or lots so changed whenever the lines of such
recorded subdivisions are changed in any particular, and the Clerk of the
Court shall, upon receipt of such plat or sketch, deliver the same to the
supervisor of assessments.

1924, ch 506, sec. 2.

223. Whenever any person, firm or corporation acually subdivides or
develops or promotes any tract of land in Prince George's County into
lots of five acres or less, such person, firm or corporation shall file a plat
of the same with the Clerk of the Circuit Court in the manner now pro-
vided by law. Unrecorded plats of three or more deeds of record or con-
tracts of sale for lots as described herein shall be prima facie evidence that