Pennsylvania Act 1849-80 — OBSTRUCTIONS TO PRIVATE ROADS TO BE A PUBLIC NUISANCE

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OBSTRUCTIONS TO PRIVATE ROADS TO BE A PUBLIC NUISANCE
                  Act of Feb. 27, 1849, P.L. 90, No. 80               Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Declaratory of the act of assembly, entitled "An Act declaring
        obstructions to private roads to be a public nuisance, and
        for other purposes," passed March sixteenth, one thousand
        eight hundred and forty-seven, relative to the appointment of
        viewers and reviewers of roads and bridges in Northumberland
        county, and relative to the vacating of roads.

        Section 3.  Land to revert to owners
        Whenever any highway, street, court, or alley, shall be
     vacated, or hath been vacated, by authority of law, the
     adjoining owner or owners shall be authorized to reclaim the
     same, to the centre thereof, unless the ground was originally
     taken in unequal proportions from the then owners thereof, and
     in such case, the adjoining owners shall reclaim, in the
     proportion contributed by such owners, or by those under whom
     they shall have derived their titles.  1849, Feb. 27, P.L. 90,
     Sec. 3.