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boundaries ofthe lot or piece of land whereon the said
Foundation shall be so laid, or begun to be laid, shall
be adjured and marked out by the said regulators, or
two of them, every such person, as well employer as
fnafter 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 oramend
ing the pavements of the public fireets, and the other
half thereof to the use of the informer, together with
cofls: provided the prosecution be commenced in the
city of Philadelphia, and within twelve kalender months
afrr the offence shall be committed.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That as foon,as conveniently may be, the northern
Jine of Vine street, and southern line of Cedar street
shall be ascertained, regulated and marked out by the
regulators of the city of Philadelphia, affifled by the re
gulators of the diftria of the Nothern Liberties, so far
3s said diflrifl, that they are appointed for, is bound
ed on the said city ; and assisted by the regulators of
the diflriff of Southwark, so far as the said diftria is
bounded on said city. And tlie rest of the nothern
line of Vint-ftreet, and the rest of the Southern line of
Cedar-Greet, refpeßively shall be afeertained, adjusted
and. marked out by the regulators of the said city, which
regulating and , marking out of Vine and Cedar-Greets
shall be performed and done at the joint proportiona
ble expence of the said city, and diftrias, to be paid by
the commissioners for paving and cleaning the Greets,
and by the regulators of the said diftrifts, refpeßively,
upon the certificate of the regulators of the said city
and diGriHs, who are hereby impowered to proportion
the said expence.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the regulators so to be appointed as aforefaid for
the said city, shall enter into a book all directions, or
'ders and awards by them made in pursuance of said aft,
and of this aft, concerning the boundaries of any lot
er land, situated within tlie said city, such book to be
provided for them by the commissioners for paving and
cleansing the fireets of the said city, and every such or
der and award, if made with reafonabie notice before
hand, to the parties interefled therein, shall conclude
compos mentis, covert, imprisoned, or beyond sea,
or any person who shall not have reasonable notice as
aforefaid, shall be injured or affeAed by any proceed
ing, order, direaion or award of the said regulators,
so as the party and parties so disabled or not noticed
'enter and prosecute his, her and their appeal as afore
and bind all persons, unless the fame be set aside upon
appeal as aforefaid ; and the said regulators of the said
city, shall in like manner enter in thefame book, ali
regulations made by the laid justices and themselves,
of decents, water courses, common sewers, and all o
ther their proceedings and adings in their office as re
-gulators.
Provided always, That no person under ages, non
An ACT to afoend and render effeaual an aa, entitu
led '' An a& for regulating party walls and partition
fences in tlie city of Philadelphia'' to declare di
vers new' fireets and ways, opened and to be opened
. and laid out within the said city, to be highways;
and also to declare ouifahces by buildings within
tlie fik 4 Greets removable, and for other purposes
thereii) mentioned.
W 'HERBAS an aA of ffembly, passed on the 24th
day of February, which Was in the year of our
Lord (according to the new stile) one thousand seven
hundred twenty and one, entitled " An act for regu
lating party walls and partition fences in the city of
Philadelphia" has upon experience been found to be
an ufeful law, by preventing contentions concerning
the boundaries of landed property within the said ci
ty, and by preserving Ihe breadth and dirednefs of the
fireets and alleys of the said city.
And whereas, ever since the late revolution, the said
aft, though revived with divers other laws of the late
province of Pennsylvania, has been wholly dormant
and inoperative, because of the defoliation of the late
corporation of the mayor and commonalty of the said
city, which corporation, in and by the said ad, was
authorifed to appoint thd surveyors and regulators in
the said aft mentioned, and to receive and determine
appeals, from the said surveyors or regulators:
And whereas divers amendments to the said aft may
be ufefully made :
Be it therefore enaded by the representatives of the
freemenof the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in gene
ral assembly me, and by the authority of the fame,That
any four or more of the justices of the peace,who are or
th II be commissioned for the city and county of Phila
delphia, refiling in said city, together with four or
more of the commissioners for paving and citanfing the
fireets of the fail city, shall appoint the surveyors or
regulators aforefaid, as fully, to all intents and purpof-
W reboot Otherwise: whereupon thelaid court(uponfecu
rity being entered by the party appealing for the pay
ment of cofls, as well his own as those of the, party
appellate, in case he or she prevail not in his or her
suit) shall direct a venire to the fheriff of the county,
commanding him to summon a jury to try the matter
in dispute, and shall proceed therein according to the
course of the common law.
And be it further ena&ed by the authority aforefaid,
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 ahy public street,
lane or alley within the said city, before the line and
es, as they were formerly appointed by the mayor and
commonalty of the la d city, in common council assem
bled; and in case of the death removal, refufal to
serve, or milbehaviour of any of the persons appointed
by virtue of this aft, the said justices and commiflion
ers to appoint another or others in his or their room
and ftead.'-
And be it further emaded by the authority as refaid,
That all appeals hereafter made, from the order, direc
tion and award of the said regulators, in pursuance of
the said aft and of this aft, shall be taken and made,
and fil'dl lie to the next court of common pleas, to be
ficlden for the county of Philadelphia, after theexpira
ticn of one kalender month from the time of making the
order, direction or award appealed from, but not after-
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Be it therefore enaded by the authority aforefaid,
That all trees now growing, or which {hall hereafter
grow or be planted within the Greets, lanes and alleys
of this city, shall be removed out of the fame by the
said commissioners, and that if any person or persons
shall obGruH or hinder the removal of any trees, as a
forefaid, every person so offending, shall refpe&ively
forfeit the sum of ten pounds, to be recovered on in
dictment, with coGs, in the city court, if the prosecu
tion be commenced within fix months after the offence,
to the use of the said commissioners, to be by them ap
plied to the paving and cleaning the fireets of the said
city.
And whereas, the grates in the public streets of the
city of Philadelphia, over vaults, are become very dan
gerous, by the manner of tire r confiruaion^, and
the owners neglecting to keep them in proper repar ;
for remedy whereof:
Be it enabled by the authority aforefaid, That within
three kalender months after the puffing this a&, every
owner or owners of vaults, over which a grate or grates
are placed, shall cause the said grate or grates to be
made of good iron bars of one inch square ; if
eighteen inches long; and so io proportion to the
length of the bar; the said bar to be laid crofswaysof
the street ; and the space between the bars not to ex
ceed one inch and a quarter of an inch; and the said,
grate or grates shall be fixed in a frame of Gone or
good red cedar, the fcantling of which to beat leaf! fix
inches square for a bar of eighteen inches long, and so
in proportion for the length of the bar, the frame to
be laid solid on the wall of the openrogof thefaid vault,
and the upper fide of the frame nearly level with the
pavement; the wall of the opening, with the arch of
the vault and the grate or grates always to be kept
in good repair. And every owner, if a reticent within
the said city, or tenant of a non resident owner, who
has or may have vaults under any of the public streets,
is hereby directed and enjoined to comply with the a
bove regulations, under the penalty of thirty (hillings,
to be paid to the commissioners for pitching, paving
and cleansing the streets, and by them to be applied
towards making, amending and cle nfing the fame; and
the said commissioners are hereby directed to make and
amend such vaults or grates which the owners neglect
to-repair agreeable to this aft, out of the public money,
and recover the expence thereof with the forfeiture of
such resident owner,±or tenant of such non resident ow
ner refpedively, as the case may require in a summary
way, as debtsunder five pounds are usually recovered.
And be it enabled by the authority aforefaid, I bat
if any tenant of a non-resident owner, shall make or
repair the vault, grate or grates, agreeable to this aft,
it shall be allowed to him by the owner or landlord, out
of the rent then due, or thereafter to become due:
Provided nevefthelefs, That any grate or grates which
may at present appear fafe and substantial, in the judg
inent of ally two or more of the justices of the peace for
the city, with the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, may be indulged therewith until they want re
said, within three years after coring to full age, found
memory, difcoverture, return from beyond sea, or if
within the united states, within one year after notice in
writing shall be given of the order and award of the
said regulators.
And be it further' enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the said regulators, for their trouble in re
gulating and setting out the lines of any lot or piece of
land, in pursuance of the said a&, and of this aa, and
for entering their order and award concerning the fame
as aforefaid, shall be paid by the parties intereGed
therein, five (hillings each, and no more; and forfur
veying, regulating and laying out any Greets, water
Courses common fewt r„ trefum of ten Killings to each
of them who shall be employed therein, for every day so
employed, to be paid by the commissioners for paving
and cleaning the fireets of said city, by an order on
the treasurer.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the regulators of said city, together with their
necessary assistants, may, at all seasonable hours, en
ter into or upon any lot or land within the said city,
and survey and measure the fame,in order to perform the
ferviceand duty required of them by virtue of this ad.
And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the streets, lanes and alleys within the (aid
city, heretofore opened for and dedicated to public use
by private persons, and that all Greets, lanes and al
leys, which have been directed and laid out by the su
preme executive council, for the accomodation of the
purchasers of the public lots within the said city, that
have been or thall be fold, so far as the fame are laid
out through the said public lots, for the redemption
of the bills of credit of this commonwealth, dated the
2.9 th day of April, one thousand seven hundred and
eighty, fliill be considered and deemed highways, ac
cording to the records thereof remaining in the survey
or general's office, as fully, to all intents and purposes,
as any highways laid out by order cf the court of
quarter f ffions of any county within this Bate.
And whereas in time pad, from inattention and o
therwise, divers buildings and fences have been ereaed
within the said city, in such manner as to fland part
ly on the public streets and alleys thereof; and these
nuisances, from tenderness to th e possessors or owners
of the adjoning freeholds, have been fuffered to conti
nue for many years, with design that when such build
ings should decay, the public ways which were so ob
ftruaed might be properly opened and extended
Be it therefore ena&ed by the authority aforefaid.
That no length of possession whatever, of any part of
any public street or way within tlie said city so en
croached upon, shall be available to bar or prevent
the corredion and removal of any nuisance by build
ings, enclosure or otherwise, wiich have been or here
after may be eroded or made within or upon any street,
lane or alley, in the said city.
And whereas, trees growing in the public fireets,
lanes and alleys of the said city of Philadelphia, do ob-
GruA the propped and passage through the fame, and
also disturb and difor-der the water courses and foot
ways, by the extending and increase of the roots there
of, and must tend to spread fires when any break out
within the said city:
At the Coffee-Houfe, on the First day of the Sixth
month (June) next, at Six o'clock in the afternoon,
All that certain BricK Meffuage
or Tenement and Lot of Ground thereunto belonging,
Situate on the south fide of S iffafras-ftreet, containing
in breadth, eaA and weft, 20 feet, and in length or
depth 76 feet, bounded northward by said Greet, eaff
ward by Nicholas Caflel's ground; southward by
ground late in the tenure of Richard Hill, decea fed,
and westward by Samuel Cooper's ground; fubjeft to
a grauud-rent of two pounds ten shillings per annum,
payable to the heirs and assigns of James Parrock,
deceased.
Also, at the time and place aforefaid, will be Sold,
A GROUND RENT of two pounds ten /hidings per
annum, issuing out of 2 house and lot in Arch- street,
lately in the possession of Drdrick Reese, deceased. The
whole being part df theeftate of ISAAC ANDREWS,
deceased, and to be fold in pursuance of his lad will
and teflament, by MARK MILLER, \ Execu-
THOMAS REDMAN,/ tors.
Philadelphia, 4th month, 24'h, 1782.
pairing, er by said justices and commissioners ordered
otherwise.
Eleven Acres cf Land in ditto, said to belong to
Captain Thomas Reed.
A vacant Lat in ditto, on the wed fide of Second
ft eet and north fide of Green-Greet; ow er unknown.
A vacant dit o, in ditto, on th? raft fide of Third
ftr^et and north fide of Green freer , owner unknown.
Twenty-five Acres of L<rd, firnate in Biockley
township. known by the name of Wilson's land.
One hundred Acres of Land and Dwelling, situate in
Lower Dublin township, belonging to Jo n Dungan.
And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, Th*
no person or persons shall hereafter dig or cause to be
dug, any vault or vaults under any of the streets of the
said city, without firft obtaining liberty of four of the
justices of the pea e for the city, with a majority of the
regulators appointed by this aft, who are hereby au
thorifed to judge and determine on the necessity thereof,
and the distance to be dug under any of the streets,
provided the fame does not exceed fifteen feet from the
front wall of the dwelling before which such vault is in
tended to be dug.
Signed by order of the house,
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker.
Enacted into a law at Philadelphia, on Monday,
the fifteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand seven hundred eighty and
two.
PETER Z. LLOYD, Clerk of the General Assembly.
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To be Sold at the City- Audion, in Front-
To be Sold by Public Vendue,
On SATURDAY, the 2,th instant, April, at Twa
o'clock in the Afternoon, on the Premises, A
Valuable Plantation, situate in
Upper Makefield township, Bucks county, containing
'221 acres of land, about two-thirds cleared, near 20
acres of meadow, well watered by a dream running
through the whole; there is on the premises a good
Gone house, two fto/ies high, three rooms on a floor,
with a Gone kitchen adjoining the house, a never fail
ing fprihg of good water near the door, a log barn,
liable, cow-house and other out buildings, an orchard
of near 180 apple-trees ; three of rhe fields are supplied
with constant water; the whole in good repair. The
conditions of (ale will be made known at the time and
place, by JOHN KEITH.
street,
On FRIDAY Next,
Elegant Sterling PLATE;
ALSO, A
Tent and Marquee.
Whereas complaint hath been
made to the Commissioners for the city and county of
P> adelpwa, by the Colkaors, that they cannot ob
tain the Tax $ due on sundry Efta[es, viz.
A Lot of Ground, situate in North ward, belonging
to Pet<r Gifkdl'a eh?te. °
Tw nty seven Acres of Land, fixate in Germantown
township, belonging to Abraham Jonrs.
NOTICE is hereby given, That unless the said
owners, their attornies or agents diftharge and pay the
t^xes justly due on said estates, on or before the 27th
day of July, next ensuing the date hereof, the premises,
or such parts thereof refpe& vely, will he fold, as may
be (uflicient to pay all taxes due and reasonable charges.
GUNNING BEDFORD,-),
April 12, 1782. JOHN BAKER. ( Commif-
NATHAN GIBSON. > toners.
A Woman in the country, with
a good Breast of Milk, would take a Child to . Nurse.
Enquire of the Printer,
Sunday Lots of Ground, fixate in Dock ward (south
p^t) belonging to Pefer Gafkdj's estate.
A Lot of Ground, lituate in Upper Delaware ward
said to belong to Gibb Jones and others.
Ten Acres of Land, titrate in Weft Northern-Li
berties, belonging to Caleb Folk's estate.
Ooe and a halt Acre of ditto, in ditto, on German
town road, belonging to persons unknown.
Nmete n Acres of Land in ditto, belonging to George
Croughan's estate
To be Sold by Public Vendue,
(The Twenty sixth ftant, April )
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