1772 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1016

Office to furnish, copies of such plats to the Supervisors of
Assessments and to make copies of all plats heretofore filed
with Clerks of Court and providing for the expenses in con-
nection therewith.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That four new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 17 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition),
title "Clerks of Courts", sub-title "Clerks of the Circuit
Courts", said new sections to be known as Sections 72A, 72B,
72C and 72D, inclusive, to follow immediately after Section 72

of said Article and to read as follows:

72A. Whenever the owner or owners of land in the State of
Maryland shall sub-divide their lands, for town or villa sites,
streets, avenues, lanes or alleys and lots, and shall desire, for
the purpose of description and identification, a plat of said
sub-division to be made to be recorded among the Land Records
of the county or city in which the land is situate, the Clerk of
the Circuit Court of the county or city, is hereby directed to
receive and record the same as hereinafter directed, but the
said clerk shall not receive for record, nor allow to be recorded
in his office, any such plat, until the requirements hereinafter
prescribed shall have been complied with.

72B. Such plats must be drawn accurately to scale and may
be made on a good quality of tracing linen or be blue prints on
linen; shall contain the courses and distances of all the outline
or perimeter of as much of the whole tract, proposed to be sub-
divided, as is shown on the plat and on all roads, streets and
avenues. Where the alleys and lot lines shown on the plat are
not parallel with the roads, streets and avenues, the courses
and distances of such lines shall be put on the plat. The radii
and chords of all curved lines shall be shown on the plat by
courses and distances and their tangent points located by. the
co-ordinates hereinafter defined. The plat shall show a me-
ridian line drawn through one of the corners of the outline or
perimeter of the whole tract and another line drawn at right
angles to said meridian through the same point. The meridian,
so drawn, shall be either a true meridian or the magnetic me-
ridian of the date of the plat and so marked on the plat. From
the said meridian and right angle line all the courses and dis-
tances and co-ordinates shown on the plat shall be calculated.
The co-ordinates shall be the distances of a point from each of
the two lines drawn through the corner of the outline, as above
directed, measured on lines parallel with said meridian and
said right angle line North or South, East or West of said
corner, and these distances shall be marked on the plat at the
points where co-ordinates are required by this Act. The plat