ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 947

for in Section 5 of this Act. After such approval and upon
receipt of such plat by the Clerk of the Circuit Court every
such plat shall be firmly fixed in a well bound book to be
kept by the Clerk of the Court for the purpose of recording
plats and for the recording of which the clerk shall receive
such fee as he shall determine to be fair and reasonable.

Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any
land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells any
land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a
plat of a subdivision, before such plat has been approved
by the Commission and recorded or filed in the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County in which the prop-
erty is located, shall forfeit and pay to the District Coun-
cil a penalty of $100 for each lot or parcel so transferred or
sold; and the description of such lot or parcel by metes
and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other docu-
ment used in the process of selling or transferring shall
not exempt the transaction from such penalties or from
the remedies herein provided. The District Council may
enjoin such transfer of sale or agreement by action for
injunction brought in any court of equity jurisdiction or
may recover the said penalty by a civil action in any court
of competent jurisdiction.

Every plat or plan of any subdivision of land into streets,
avenues, alleys, lots and blocks shall be prepared upon
paper or cloth of such size and character, with such nota-
tions, information and markings as the Commission may,
by rule, prescribe, and every subdivision of land as above
set forth shall have such permanent markers, bound stones
or stations as the said Commission shall by general or
special rule prescribe, which shall be shown and designated
on the plat thereof. The said Commission and the County
Surveyor of the county wherein the land lies shall be fur-
nished with copies of said plat when approved.

Every subdivision of land within the District shall con-
form, as nearly as may by said Commission be deemed
practicable, to the general plan for the development of the
District. The said Commission is authorized to require to
be preserved on any plat a continuity of width, name, park-
ing, building line with relation to its general plan.

The Commission is hereby given authority to establish
grades for all streets, roads and sidewalks within the Dis-
trict, including state highways, county roads and streets,
alleys and sidewalks within incorporated towns. Until
such grade is established by said Commission, no grading
of a permanent nature shall be made, and any such unau-
thorized grading by any state, municipal or county officer