Chap. 317.—An ACT in relation to the recordation of plats subdividing tracts of
land situated in Arlington county. (S B 334]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any
owner or proprietor of a tract or tracts of land, situated in Arlington
county, desiring to sub-divide the same, or a part or parts thereof,
into villa sites, lots, streets and alleys, or in any manner whatever,
for the purpose of description or identification, shall cause a plat
of such sub-division with reference to known or permanent monu-
ments to be made, which shall accurately describe all the sub-
divisions of such tract or tracts of land, giving the dimensions and
courses and distances thereof in such manner as will enable each villa
site, lot, block, street or alley to be accurately described by metes
and bounds, courses and distances to be calculated to the time
meridian. There shall be endorsed upon each plat a certificate of
the surveyor making the same setting forth the source of title of
the owner of the tract or tracts, giving specifically the date and place
of record if by deed or will, and the place of record of the last instru-
ment in the chain of title if by descent. When the said plat shall
he of land acquired from more than one source of title the outlines
of the several tracts shall be indicated by red lines drawn upon said
plat and the respective tracts properly identified either upon said
plat or in the said certificate. A monument of stone, concrete, iron
or some other like durable substance shall be placed at least two
feet in the ground at each end of at least one of the outer lines of the
said sub-division and the said surveyor shall so certify upon the said
plat and accurately indicate the location of said monuments thereon;
and shall further certifv that all of the land included in the said
sub-division is within the boundaries of the original tracts of the
said owner.

2. The board of supervisors of Arlington county shall have the
power to pass reasonable regulations to promote uniformity in the
layout of streets and alleyways, including the right to fix the mint-
mum width thereof; to prevent duplication in the names of sub-
divisions or streets or alleyways; and to prevent the recording of
any plat that does not comply with said regulations.

3. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a resub-division
of lots in a duly recorded sub-division where no change is made in
the location of any streets or alleyways.

4. Descriptions of lots or parcels of land in such sub-divisions,
according to the number and designation thereof on said plat, con-
tained in conveyances, mortgages or other instruments or for the
purpose of taxation and copies of said plats or extracts therefrom,
properly attested by the clerk in whose office the same are recorded,
shall have the same force and effect as copies of deeds now have, and
shall be deemed proper descriptions and good and valid for all in-
tents and purposes.

5. Sections fifty-two hundred and eighteen, fifty-two hundred
and nineteen, fifty-two hundred and twenty, fifty-two hundred and
twenty-one and fifty-two hundred and twenty-two of the Code of
Virginia, as amended, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the plats
recorded under this act.