1058 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 613
CHAPTER 613.
(House Bill 688)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 214
of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Prince George's County", sub-title "Plats", to provide
that surveyor's certificate show exact acreage of land
platted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 214 of Article 17 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Prince George's County", sub-
title "Plats", be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

214. Such plats shall be made or drawn upon tracing linen
or parchment of the uniform size of eighteen inches by twenty-
four inches, shall contain the directions and distance of all
lines drawn thereon or such of them as will enable each lot,
block, avenue, lane or alley thereof, to be accurately described
by metes and bounds, courses and distances, calculated to the
time meridian, there shall be endorsed upon each of such plats,
a certificate of the surveyor making the same, that the lots or
block and squares therein indicated are a part of the whole
lands conveyed to the maker of a plat by a deed or conveyance,
of which the date and place of record shall be given; that
the lines of said subdivision do not conflict with the lines of
any subdivision heretofore made and recorded, among the said
lands records, and when such a plat shall be of land acquired
by more than one conveyance, the outlines of the land acquired
by the several conveyances shall be indicated by red lines
drawn upon said plat, and the surveyor's certificate shall
assign the various lots, blocks, etc., to the respective convey-
ances 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 plat, and
that the location of said stones are properly indicated on said
plat, and stating the exact acreage of the land actually within
the (subdivision; provided, however, that nothing in this sec-
tion shall prevent the maker of any of said plats from placing
the same on record in sections of the size hereinbefore pro-
vided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1941.

Approved May 2, 1941.