SURVEYING, PLATTING, AND RECORDING.
CHAPTER 84.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SURVEYING, PLATTING, AND RECORDING TOWNS AND CITIES.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. When any person wishes to lay out a town in this territory, or an addition or subdivision of out lots, such person shall cause the same to be surveyed and a plat thereof made, which shall particularly describe and set forth all the streets, alleys, commons, or public grounds, and all in and out lots or fractional lots, within or adjoining to said town, giving the names, width, courses, boundaries, and extent of all such streets and alleys.
Sect. 2. All the in lots intended for sale shall be numbered in progressive numbers or by squares in which they are situated, and their precise length and width shall be stated on said map or plat; and out lots shall not exceed ten acres in size, and shall, in like manner, be surveyed and numbered, and their precise length and width stated on the plat or map, together with any streets, alleys, or roads which shall divide or border the same.
Sect. 3. The proprietor or proprietors of the town, addition or subdivision of out lots, by themselves or agents, shall, at the time of surveying and laying the same, cause to be planted and firmly fixed in the ground on the line of the main streets of said town, two good and sufficient stones of such size and dimension as the surveyor shall direct. Said stones to be at least two hundred and fifty yards apart, and the lines thus formed shall be a base line from which to make future surveys; and the point or points where the same may be found, shall be distinguished on the plat or map.
Sect. 4. The plat or map, after having been completed,