1878 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 767

requiring the Clerk of said Court to furnish one copy of
such plats to the Commissioner of the Land Office and one
copy of such plats to the Supervisor of Assessments of said
County; and providing for the expenses in connection there
with.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That one new section be and the same is hereby added
to Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Allegany County", sub-title "Circuit Court", to be
known as Section 60 to follow immediately after Section 59
of said Article and to read as follows:

60. Whenever the owner or owners of lands in Allegany
County shall sub-divide their lands for town or villa sites,
streets, avenues, lanes or alleys, lots or for any other purpose,
and shall desire, for the purpose of description and identifi-
cation, a plat of said sub-division to be recorded among the
Land Records of said County, or whenever any street, avenue,
public road, lane or alley shall be acquired by condemnation
or otherwise by the County Commissioners of said County,
or by any other person or persons or body corporate, of which
a plat is now required by the Laws of the State to be rec-
orded, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Allegany County is
hereby directed to receive and record the same as hereinafter
described; but said Clerk shall not receive for record, nor allow
to be recorded in his office, any such plat, until the following
requirements hereinafter prescribed shall have been complied
with:

(1) Such plats shall be made or drawn upon a good quality
of blue print linen of the uniform size of twenty-four inches
by twenty-four inches containing a one and one-quarter inch
margin on the binding edge and a one-half inch margin on all
other edges thereof; shall be drawn accurately to scale; shall
contain the courses and distances of all the outline or perime-
ter of as much of the whole tract, proposed to be subdivided,
as is shown on the plat and on all roads, streets and avenues,
and/or shall contain references to at least two of the outlines
or perimeter of the whole tract proposed to be sub-divided.
Where the alleys and lot lines shown on the plat are not par-
allel with the adjacent roads, streets and avenues, the courses
and distances of such lines shall be shown on the plat by
courses and distances, and their tangent points located by the
co-ordinates hereinafter defined. The plat shall show a meri-
dian line drawn through one of the corners of the outline
or perimeter of the whole tract and another line drawn at
right angles to said meridian through the same point. The
meridian, so drawn, shall be either a true meridian or the