FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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time meridian; there shall be endorsed upon each of such
plots, a certificate of the surveyor making the same, that the
lots or blocks and squares therein indicated are a part of the
whole land conveyed to the maker of a plot by a deed or con-
veyance, of which the date and place of record shall be given ;
and when such a plot shall be of land acquired by more than
one conveyance, the outlines of the line acquired by the
several conveyances shall be indicated by red lines drawn upon
said plot, and the surveyor's certificate shall assign the
various lots, blocks, &c., 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 planted, two feet in the ground at each end
of one of the principal lines of said plot, and that the location
of said stones are properly indicated on said plot; provided,
however, that nothing in this section shall prevent the maker
of any of said plots from placing the same on record in
sections of the size hereinbefore provided.

Certificate of
surveyor.

60 C. The maker of said plat or plats, when the same shall
be presented for record, shall furnish the clerk of the Circuit
Court for said county, two copies of such plat or plats, one of
which shall be, by said clerk, placed ini and attached to the
book hereinafter provided for, and other shall, by said clerk,
be attached to and made a part of the "substance record," now
by law required to be kept, and shall transmit the same, with
the said "substance record," to the commissioner of the land
office, as now by law directed; and the said clerk shall receive
for each plat or section of a plat so filed with him, the sum of
one dollar; the maker of said plat or plats shall, at the same
time, furnish to the county surveyor of said county, a copy of
such plat or plats, which shall be by said county surveyor
placed in and attached to the plat book in this act required by
him to be kept, and said county surveyor shall receive a fee
of one dollar for each plat so tiled with him.

To furnish
two copies
of plat.

60 D. The clerk of the said Circuit Court and the county
surveyor of said county shall provide, and the County Com-
missioners of said county shall pay for, suitable books, to be
designated "Plat Book No., &c., in which such plats shall be
affixed.

Books to toe
provided.

60 E. 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.

Plats to be
part of land
records.