WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1881

tained shall affect the rights of any person or persons owning
or claiming 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 pro-
vided further, that the maker of any such plat or plats, his
heirs or assigns, shall have the right to apply by petition in
Equity to the Circuit Court for said county, for leave to
abandon the sub-division of lands so made by him, and recon-
vert the same into one tract or parcel, or to amend or alter
said plat; and said court, if convinced upon such proof, and
after such notice by publication or otherwise, as it shall direct,
that no damage can be in any wise sustained by persons other
that the petitioners, shall have power to pass an order author-
izing and empowering such petitioner to abandon such sub-
division, either in whole or in part or to amend or alter the
same; 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 same fees, costs and charges as are charged for
like work; and when such orders are passed, the clerk of said
court shall endorse on the plat affected thereby the dates and
place of record of such orders.

(7) Whenever the owner of any lands, of which a plat has
been heretofore 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 ad-
mitted to record and filed as other plats; and the said clerk
shall thereupon endorse upon said original plat a reference to
the record book or place where the new plat 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 that said copy has been filed and recorded under the
provisions of this Act, which certificate shall give the refer-
ence where said original plat may be found; provided, that
before said new plat shall be entitled to record, as herein-
before provided, there shall be endorsed upon same, in addi-
tion to the other certificate required by this Act, the certifi-
cate of the County Engineer of Allegany 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.

(8) After such new plats shall have been recorded, and
said certificate endorsed upon the land record books, as here-
inbefore provided, all deeds, mortgages and other instruments