Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-05-29
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.
CHAPTER 90.

AN All to add additional Sections, to be
known as Sections 406-A, 406-B, 4O6-C,
406-D and 406-E, to the Code of Public
Local Laws. title Montgomery County
subtitle Plats. as said Code of Public
Local Laws was enacted by Chapter 700
of the Acts of 1912
Section /. And be it enacted by the
General Assembly Of Maryland, That the
following Sections TO be numbered Sec
tons 406-A. 406-B, 4O6.C, 406-D and 406E
be. and the same are, hereby added to
the Code of Public Local Laws. title Mont
gomery County. subtitle Plats. as enact
ed by Chapter 700 of the Acts of 1912,
said added Sections to follow Immediate
ly after Section 4O6 and to read as fol-
lows
Sec. 406-A. The Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County is hereby
authorized and directed to have true and
accurate copies made of all the plats of
subdivisions of land recorded among
the Land Record Books of said County
prior to the sixth day of April. 1904. Said
copies to be made upon tracing linen or
parchment of the dimensions required by
Section 400 of this Article. the scale upon
which the original plats were drawn to
be so reduced as to allow the copy to be
made Of the size hereby required; pro-
vided however, that where ii is deemed
by said Clerk to be expedient so to do.
the said copies may be made in Sections
| as elsewhere in this Article allowed;
when and as such copies are made they
shall be inserted and recorded in Plat
Book or Books of the same kind and di-
mansions as elsewhere herein directed
and shall become parts Of the official
Land Records of said County Upon the
insertion of said copy or copies in said
Plat Book or Books, the original plat or
plats shall be removed from the Land
Record Books. the Clerk noting upon the
margin of said record Books the name of
said subdivision of which the plat is so
removed aud the number and page of the
Plat Book where said copy is recorded,
and noting on the plat so inserted in said
Plat Book the Liber and folio of the Land
Records where said plat was originally
recorded. And all references in convey
ances of land or any other legal proceed
ing to said plat by the place of its origi-
nal record shall be held to apply and re-
fer to the copy Of said plat made and re-
corded in Plat Books as herein provided.
406-B. That the said Clerk shall employ
competent surveyor or craftsman who,
shall under the direction Of said Clerk.
make the copies of plats hereby required
and where necessary so reduce the scale
qurements herein contained; and where
such scale is so reduced the craftsman
making the same shall note on said copies
the scale upon which the original plat
was drawn. The compensation of the
person so employed to be fixed by said
Clerk and approved by one of the Judges
of the Circuit Court for said County.
4O6-C. That the County Commissioners
Of said County shall levy for and pay to
the person who may as aforesaid be Sc
lected to make copies of such plats such
sums Of money as may be shown to be
due him by the certificate Of the Clerk.
approved by the Judges as aforesaid
406-D. That before said copies shall
be substituted for the original plats as
herein provided, there shall be endorsed
upon each copy a certificate of the Coun-
ty Surveyor that it is true and accurate
copy of the original plat Of which it pur-
ports to be copy for each Of which en-
dorsements said County Surveyor shall
be entitled TO a fee Of one dollar, to be
paid by the County Commissioners. as
other fees are paid him for public work
406-E. That the Clerk of said Court be
entitled to charge and receive such com
pensation for the services hereby required
Of him as shall be allowed by any one of the
Judges Of the Circuit Court for said County
the sum so allowed to be added TO and
form a part of the Clerks annual account
against the County and shall be paid by
the County Commissioners as other fees
and charges due said Clerk are paid.
Sec. z. And be II further enacted That
this Act shall take effect from the date Of
its passage.
Approved. March II, 1914.