292 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 175

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That, five new sections be and the same are hereby
added to Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Prince George's County, " sub-title "Clerk, "
subject "Recording of Flats, " and to read as follows:

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted., That, the Clerk of the
Circuit Court of said County is hereby authorized and directed
to have "Copies" made, without any change of scale, or size,
or dimension, of all old and indistinct, damaged or mutilated
plats of sub-divisions of Towns or Villa Sites heretofore re-
corded among the Land Records of said County, prior to the
operation of Chapter 619 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1908.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, the said copies
of plats shall be made under the supervision and direction of
the said Clerk of Court, by a competent surveyor or engineer to
be selected by the said Clerk, as the lowest responsible bidder
for the work of making said copies, after competitive bidding
therefor; provided the said Clerk shall have the right to reject
any and all bids. And in addition to such other notice as he
may give, the said Clerk is directed to invite bids for said work
by advertisement in at least two successive issues of a news-
paper of said County.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, the said copies of
plats shall be made or drawn by said surveyor or engineer on
substantial tracing linen or parchment, and shall be, by him,
fastened, attached and recorded, under supervision of said
Clerk, in a substantial book to be furnished by said Clerk and
to be known and designated as Plat Book "A, " which book shall
be kept in the Clerk's Office of said County, as other Plat
Books and Land Records are now kept. And the said Clerk
shall endorse upon the record book at the folio where said
original has been filed, a certificate that the plat heretofore
filed in said record book has been copied and recorded under
the provisions of this Act, which certificate shall give the liber
and folio where said new plat may be found; provided that be-
fore said new plat or copy shall be entitled to record, as herein-
before provided, there shall be endorsed upon same in addition
to the other certificate required by this act, the certificate of
the said surveyor or engineer, who made the copy, that the
same is an exact copy of said original plat.