Pennsylvania Act 1782-971 (session 2) — PHILADELPHIA - PARTY WALLS - STREETS DECLARED HIGHWAYS

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PHILADELPHIA - PARTY WALLS - STREETS DECLARED HIGHWAYS
                       Act of 1782, 2 Sm.L. No. 971                   Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     To amend and render effectual an act, entitled "An act for
        regulating party walls and partition fences in the city of
        Philadelphia," to declare divers new streets and ways opened
        and to be opened and laid out within the said city, to be
        highways, and also to declare nuisances by buildings within
        the said streets removeable, and for other purposes therein
        mentioned.
        Section 4.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That if any person shall lay the foundation, or begin
     to lay the foundation of any party wall, or of any wall
     adjoining or upon the line of any public street, lane or alley,
     within the said city, before the line and boundaries of the lot
     or piece of land whereon the said foundation shall be so laid,
     or begun to be laid, shall be adjusted and marked out by the
     said regulators, or two of them, every such person, as well
     employer as master builder, shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds,
     one half part thereof to the street commissioners for the time
     being, to be laid out towards making or amending the pavements
     of the public streets, and the other half thereof to the use of
     the informer, together with costs: Provided, The prosecution be
     commenced in the city of Philadelphia, and within twelve
     calendar months after the offense shall be committed.
        Section 10.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That the streets, lanes and alleys within the said
     city of Philadelphia, heretofore opened for and dedicated to
     public use by private persons, and that all streets, lanes and
     alleys, which have been directed and laid out by the supreme
     executive council, for the accommodation of the purchasers of
     the public lots within the said city, that have been or shall be
     sold, so far as the same are laid out through the said public
     lots, for the redemption of the bills of credit of this
     commonwealth, dated the twenty-ninth day of April, 1780, shall
     be considered and deemed highways, according to the records
     thereof remaining in the Surveyor-General's office, as fully to
     all intents and purposes, as any highways laid out by order of
     the court of quarter sessions of any county within this state.