1880 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 767

shown thereon. The plat shall be signed and sealed by a
registered Land Surveyor, or a registered Professional Engi-
neer.

(2) All plats shall be submitted to the County Engineer
for Allegany County, who shall check said plats and approve
the same if in conformity with this section; the County En-
gineer shall place a certificate on the reverse side of said plats
setting forth that the requirements of this section have been
complied with; the County Engineer is hereby authorized
and directed to reject all plats the streets, avenues or alleys
of which do not conform with the same general plan of de-
velopment as shown on plats of adjacent sub-divisions.

(3) The maker of said plat or plats, when the same shall
be presented for record, shall furnish the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Allegany County three copies of such plat or plats
and shall pay to said Clerk a fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) for
the recordation of each plat so offered. One copy of said
plat or plats shall be by said Clerk securely fastened in the
book hereafter provided for. One copy shall be promptly
sent by said Clerk, together with one half of said tiling fee,
to the Commissioner of the Land Office, who shall number
and file the same as a part of the substance records of his
Office and notify the Clerk of the number so given. Upon re-
ceiving the notice of the number as aforesaid from the Com-
missioner of the Land Office, the Clerk shall enter said num-
ber on the plat recorded among the Land Records of Allegany
County. One copy shall be sent by said Clerk to the Super-
visor of Assessments for Allegany County, which shall be
by said Supervisor of Assessments, placed in and attached
to the Plat Book in this Act required by him to be kept.

(4)The Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Supervisor of
Assessments 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.

(5) Such plats, when filed for record as in this Act pro-
vided, 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 to properly recorded deeds.

(6) When said plats are so recorded, those portions of said
land designated 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 dedicated to public use, and shall
not thereafter, on any pretext whatsoever, be altered or taken
for private use; provided, however, that nothing herein con-