Pennsylvania Act 1857-545 — CONSOLIDATING PHILADELPHIA - SUPPLEMENT

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CONSOLIDATING PHILADELPHIA - SUPPLEMENT
                  Act of May 13, 1857, P.L. 489, No. 545              Cl. 11
                           A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

     To the act Consolidating the city of Philadelphia.

        Section 2.  Limitation of publication
        All laws or parts of laws now in force requiring the receiver
     of taxes in the City of Philadelphia to publish the names of all
     delinquent taxpayers, shall be so construed as to apply to the
     taxes upon real estate in the said City of Philadelphia, and
     upon personal property only when the assessed valuation of the
     latter shall amount to or exceed one hundred dollars.  1857, May
     13, P.L. 489, Sec. 2.
        Section 4.  Acquisition of property; assessment of damages
        The councils of said city, whenever they shall select any
     square or other area of ground to be laid out and maintained
     forever as an open public place or park, for the health and
     enjoyment of the people, shall have the power, if they cannot
     agree with the owner or owners thereof as to price, to cause a
     petition to be filed in the Court of quarter Sessions of the
     City and County of Philadelphia, on behalf of said city, setting
     forth by proper metes and bounds the ground so selected, and
     that by ordinance the said councils have appropriated the same
     for said purpose; whereupon the said court shall appoint a jury
     to assess the damages in the manner now provided by law, and the
     proceedings thereupon shall be the same and with the like effect
     as upon the assessment of damages for the opening of streets in
     said city.  1857, May 13, P.L. 489, Sec. 4.