82                               LAWS OF MARYLAND.                     [CH. 51

CHAPTER 51.

AN ACT to add one new section to Article 22 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Washington County, " sub-title "Hagerstown, " sub-para-
graph "Mayor and Council, " said new section to follow im-
mediately after Section 344 of said Article and to be known
as Section 344A, to give the Mayor and Council of Hagers-
town power to regulate all subdivisions of land within the
corporate limits of said town.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be and it is hereby added to
Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Washington County, " sub-title "Hagers^
town, " sub-paragraph "Mayor and Council, " said new section
to follow immediately after Section 344 of said Article, to be
known as Section 344A and to read as follows:

344A. The Mayor and Council of Hagerstown shall have
the power to regulate all subdivisions of land within the corpo-
rate limits of the City of Hagerstown, and for the purpose of
carrying into effect this sub-section no plat or plan of any
such subdivision upon which any street, alley, lane, avenue,
thoroughfare or public highway shall have been laid out, shall
be received by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington
County for record among the Land Records of said Washing-
ton County until the said plat or plan has been approved in
writing by the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, and said
approval stamped thereon. The Mayor and Council of Hagers-
town shall have power to prescribe rules and regulations gov-
erning the filing of plats or plans for such subdivision and re-
quiring all properties so subdivided to have permanent markers
or boundary stones placed at all street intersections, and to
regulate and establish the width, grades and building lines for
all streets, alleys, lanes, avenues, thoroughfares, public high-
ways or sidewalks so laid out in any subdivision.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1931.

Approved April 6, 1931.