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shall be given; that the lines of said subdivision do not con-
flict with the lines of any subdivision heretofore made and
recorded, among the said land records, and when such a plat
shall be of land acquired by more than one conveyance, the
outlines of the land acquired by the several conveyances shall
be indicated by red lines drawn upon said plat, and the
surveyor's certificate shall assign the various lots, blocks, etc.,
to the respective conveyances out of which the same shall
have been taken, and shall also certify that a monument stone
of not less than six inches diameter at the top has been plant-
ed, two feet in the ground at each end of one of the principal
lines of said plat, and that the location of said stones are
properly indicated on said plat, and stating the exact acreage
of the land actually within the subdivision; provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this section shall prevent the maker of
any of said plats from placing the same on record in sections
of the size hereinbefore provided; and provided further, that
whenever an approved system of water supply or sewage or
both, serving the public, is not directly available to any lots
in a subdivision, under this law a plat of such a subdivision
can not be so recorded until the size of the lots thereon has
been approved for the local Board of Health of said County
by its duly authorized agent, and said Board is authorized to
withhold its approval unless the size of each of the proposed
lots is such that the public welfare and well-being is protected,
having regard to soil drainage, water pollution and other
matters affecting the public interest.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 262.
(House Bill 369)

AN ACT authorizing and directing the Board of County Com-
missioners of Prince George's County to issue general obli-
gation bonds of the County in a sum not exceeding Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) for the purpose
of making general improvements in the metropolitan dis-
trict of said County, to complement the provisions of Chap-
ter 662 of the Acts of 1945; to provide for the repayment of
said bonds and the interest thereon by a general tax levy
against all of the taxable property within said metropolitan
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