ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 845

the written approval first obtained of the District Council of
that portion of the said district.

14. That no plat or plan of any sub-division of land into
streets, avenues, alleys, lots and blocks in Montgomery and
Prince George's Counties within the District, shall be admitted
to the Land Records of either of said counties, or received or
recorded by the clerks of the courts of said counties until the
said plat or plan has been approved in writing by the Com-
mission. The Commission shall require payment from each
person or persons submitting a plat for its approval a fee in
an amount approximately equal to the cost of the services ren-
dered by it in connection with consideration of the plat and
work incident thereto, which fee, however, in no case shall be
less than $25. 00 and which shall be paid before said plat is
approved or disapproved, and carried into the administrative
fund of the Commission provided 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.

Every plat or plan of any sub-division of land into streets,
avenues, alleys, lots and blocks shall be prepared upon paper
or cloth of such size and character, with such notations, in-
formation and markings as the Commission may, by rule pre-
scribe and every sub-division 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 where-
in the land lies shall be furnished with copies of said plat
when approved.

Every sub-division of land within the District shall conform,
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, parking, 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 District,
including state highways, county roads and streets, alleys. and
sidewalks within incorporated towns. Until such grade is