Marvin Mandel, Governor                          1019

avenues, lanes or alleys and lots, and shall desire, for the purpose of
description and identification, a plat of said subdivision to be made
to be recorded among the land records of the county in which the
land is situate, the clerk of the court 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.

Such plats must be drawn accurately to scale and may be made
on a good quality of tracing linen or be blueprints or blue or black
line 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 subdivided, 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 dis-
tances 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 dis-
tances and their tangent points located by the coordinates herein-
after defined. The plat shall show a meridian 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 meridian of the date of the plat and so
marked on the plat. From the said meridian and right angle line
all the courses and distances and coordinates shown on the plat
shall be calculated. The coordinates shall be the distance 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 meri-
dian and said right angle north or south, east or west of said corner,
and these distances shall be marked on the plat as the points where
coordinates are required. The plat shall show the coordinates for
each corner of each avenue, road or street intersection and the tan-
gent point of all curved lines shown on said plat, and shall show
accurately the dimensions of each lot. No distance on the plat shall
be marked, more or less, except on lines which begin or terminate
or bind on a marsh, stream or any body of water. The plat shall
show the position by coordinates of not less than four markers set
in convenient places on the subdivision in such manner that from
the position of one marker the position of one other marker will be
visible. These markers shall be made of hard durable stone or of con-
crete three feet of which shall be planted into the ground. From
these markers, commonly called "traverse points" all corners and
lines can be readily calculated and marked on the ground. If the
subdivision lies in an area where a traverse or coordinate system
is already established and the traverse points of said system can
be found and used, such points so used and the coordinate values
thereof shall be marked on the plat, then the meridian courses
and distances and coordinates required shall be shown on the plat
in accordance with those of the already established traverse or co-
ordinate system, and no markers will be required, but all other re-
quirements shall be complied with. A certificate stating that the
requirement of subsection 3-108(a), as far as it concerns the mak-
ing of the plat and setting of the markers, shall be put on the
plat and signed by the owner of the land shown thereon.

(b) Number of copies; fee. The clerk shall be furnished three
copies of such plat. The fee shall be five dollars for each set of plats