Pennsylvania Act 1721-242 (session 1) — PHILADELPHIA - PARTY WILLS REGULATED

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PHILADELPHIA - PARTY WILLS REGULATED
                       Act of 1721, 1 Sm.L. No. 242                   Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     For regulating party walls, buildings, and partition fences, in
        the city of Philadelphia.
        Section 2.  And be it further enacted, That the said
     surveyors or regulators, upon application to them made, shall
     have full power and authority to enter upon the land of any
     person or persons, in order to set out the foundations and
     regulate the walls to be built between party and party, as to
     the breadth or thickness thereof: which foundation shall be laid
     equally upon the lands of the persons between whom such party
     wall is to be made; and the first builder shall be reimbursed
     one moiety of the charge of such party wall, or for so much
     thereof as the next builder shall have occasion to make use of,
     before such next builder shall any ways use or break into the
     said wall.  The charge or value thereof to be set by the said
     regulators.