Whenever any city, town, or village, or addition thereto, shall be laid out, the proprietor thereof shall cause a true map or plat thereof to be made by a civil engineer, surveyor, or other competent person.Codes, 1892, § 4399; 1906, § 4964; Hemingway's 1917, § 7747; 1930, § 7149; 1942, § 4278.
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