HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1273

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the promotion or
negotiation of the sale or the agreement to sell or lease
or the conveyance or the lease or other disposition of
any land within the District by reference to or exhibition of
or by other use of a plat of a subdivision before such plat has
been approved by the Commission and thereafter recorded or
filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the
County is hereby declared a misdemeanor and punishable as
other misdemeanors are punishable under Section 30 of this
Act, and the description of such lands by metes and bounds
in the instrument of conveyance or other document used in
the process of selling, leasing, conveying or other disposition
shall not exempt the transaction from such penalties or from
the remedies provided in this Act. The Commission may en-
join such sale, conveyance, agreement, lease or other disposi-
tion by action for injunction brought in any court of equity
jurisdiction.

That the acceptance by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
the County for filing or recording or the filing or recording
by such Clerk of any deed of land within the District, in
which deed the description of the property or any part thereof
contains any reference to an unrecorded subdivision or which
deed shows upon its face that it conveys a lot or lots or part
thereof in an unrecorded subdivision, is hereby prohibited and
declared a misdemeanor punishable under Section 30 of this
Act.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the receipt for
filing or recording or the recording by any Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court of the County of any plat of a subdivision of land
within the District which shall not have received the approval
of the Commission duly indorsed on the plat is hereby de-
clared a misdemeanor and punishable as other misdemeanors
are punishable under Section 30 of this Act.

SEC 13. And be it further enacted, That for the purposes
of this Act the members of the Board of County Commis-
sioners of the County and the Mayor, Counselor and Alder-
men of the City of Annapolis sitting together as one body
are hereby designated as the District Council of the District.
A majority of the membership of said Board of County Com-
missioners together with a majority of the membership of
said Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen shall be a quorum of
the District Council to do business.

The District Council shall keep a journal of its proceedings,
which shall be a public record. The vote upon any ordinance,
resolution, or other action shall be taken by yeas and nays and
entered upon the journal. No ordinance shall be passed, no