Pennsylvania Act 1870-526 — WIDENING AND STRAIGHTENING OF STREET IN PHILADELPHIA

Act text

WIDENING AND STRAIGHTENING OF STREET IN PHILADELPHIA
                  Act of May 24, 1870, P.L. 547, No. 526              Cl. 11
                           A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

     To the act consolidating the city of Philadelphia, relative to
        the widening and straightening of streets.

        Section 1.  Widening or altering of streets
        It shall be lawful for the City of Philadelphia to widen,
     straighten or change the course of any of the streets of the
     City of Philadelphia, that may be upon the confirmed plans of
     the city, when a petition signed by a majority of the owners of
     property fronting thereon shall be submitted to councils, and a
     plan of the same duly prepared and approved by the board of
     surveyors shall have been confirmed by the court of quarter
     sessions, as now provided in law, under which the late district
     of Spring Garden was surveyed; and any owner whose ground may be
     taken for such purpose shall be compensated under existing laws,
     as in case of ground or property taken for the opening of
     streets in the City of Philadelphia.  1870, March 24, P.L. 547,
     Sec. 1.