Section 2. Proceedings in case of lost or destroyed plan
After notice has been served upon any owner, or the legal representative thereof, to record any plan of subdivision of any tract of land, as aforesaid, said owner, or legal representatives thereof, may, within sixty days prescribed in said notice, present a petition to the court of common pleas of the proper county, setting forth, under oath, that the plan of subdivision of the land required to be recorded as described in said notice is lost or destroyed; whereupon said court shall order said petition filed and that no proceedings shall be begun to collect any penalty under the provisions of this act, and at the same time the said court shall further order that a plan of the subdivision described in said notice shall be made and filed in said court within a reasonable time to be fixed by said court. Upon the filing of said plan, said court shall refer the same to an examiner, who will ascertain and report whether or not the plan of the subdivision of the said tract of land agrees in lines, course and distance with the descriptions contained in the deeds, or agreements, conveying title to parts of said tract of land conveyed previous to the petition being filed. If it appears from the examiner's report that such plan of subdivision and the description of the conveyances made from said tract of land agree, the court shall order the plan of the subdivision recorded in the recorder's office; if it shall appear that there are discrepancies between the lines, courses and distances appearing upon said plan of subdivision in the deeds conveying parts of the tract of land described, such discrepancies shall be marked upon plan as submitted, and said plan with the discrepancies marked upon the same shall be ordered recorded in the recorder's office, as aforesaid. 1899, April 28, P.L. 123, Sec. 2.