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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Neglect or
non-user

SEC. 33. That neglect or non-user shall not work a forfeiture
of this charter.

Effective.

SEC. 34. That this act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 622.

AN ACT to add certain new sections to Article 16 of the
Code of Public Local Laws, title " Montgomery County,"
sub-title " Clerk," to follow Section 60, to be designated as
Sections 60 A, 60 B, 60 C, 60 D, 60 E, 60 F, 60 G and 60 H.

New sections

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That certain new sections be and the same are
hereby added to article 16 of the Code of Public Local Laws,
title " Montgomery County," sub-title " Clerk," to follow sec-
tion 60, to be designated as sections 60 A, 60 B, 60 C, 60 D,
60 E, 60 F, 60 G and 60 H, and to read as follows :

Sub-division
of land into
town sites.

60 A. Wherever the owner or owners of lands in Mont-
gomery county shall sub-divide their lands for town or villa
sites, streets, lanes or alleys, or any other purpose, and shall
desire, for purposes of description and identification, a plat of
said sub-division to be recorded among the land records of said
county, or whenever any street, avenue, public roads, 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 plot is now required

Recording of
plats.

by the laws of this State to be recorded, the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County is hereby directed to
receive and record same, as hereinafter directed; but said clerk
shall not receive for record, nor allow to be recorded in his
office, any such plot, until the requirements of the succeeding
sections of this act shall have been complied with.

How plats
shall be
drawn.

60 B. Such plots shall be made or drawn upon tracing linen
or parchment of the uniform size of eighteen inches by
eighteen inches, shall contain the directions and distance of all
lines drawn thereon or such of them as will enable each lot,
block, avenue, lane or alley thereof to be accurately described
by metes and bounds, courses and distances, calculated to the