A DIGEST OF LAWS RELATING to the CITY OF PHILADELPHIA FROM ITS Territorial Extension, by Act of Assembly, approved February 2d, 1854, WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE CHARTERS OF THE VARIOUS PASSENGER RAILWAYS, WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO THE CONTROL OF THE COUNCILS OF PHILADELPHIA, AND CF THE LAWS AND ORDINANCES THERETO. PREPARED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE Law Department of the City of Philadelphia. 1865. PHILADELPHIA: KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, 607 SANSOM STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by ROBERT P. KING, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFATORY NOTE. In every case in which there is italization in a section, the words italicised are inserted because such is the legal effect of the Act of March 21st, 1861, (P. L. 165,) usually known as the Act abolishing the Spring Election. INDEX. INCORPORATION OF THE CITY. Territorial extension of the City.......... Vesting of property and rights in the present City.. County of Philadelphia, continued... LEGISLATIVE POWERS OF THE CITY. SECTION 1 2, 3 4, 5 6 7 Duty of Sheriff in his proclamation to state the number of Common Coun- Organization of Councils...... Effect of organization of Councils in 1854.. Power to organize Police Department... # Power to appoint Heads of Departments... not to serve civil process................. .... Councilmen not to perform executive duty.... Power to fix duties of officers and to fill vacancies Councilmen to have no compensation, and salaries of elective officers not to be increased during term.......... Power to provide for the inspection of leaf tobacco...... 32 Power to aid the House of Correction. 33 Power to change the site of Chestnut Street Bridge. 34 Power to order streets on public plans to be opened... 35 Power of Councils in the payment of Road damages 36 Power of Councils relative to the award of Road Jurors........ ........................................................... 37 Power to organize a Home Guard.............. 38 Power to erect a bridge over the river Schuylkill at South street..... 44 Power to create a loan therefor...... 45 47 Power to culvert in the late District of Northern Liberties...... WARDS. Boundaries of all the Wards except the Twenty-fifth Boundary of the Twenty-fifth Ward... 48 49 Members of Council in Twenty-fifth Ward........................................................................... .................................... 50 School Directors of the Nineteenth and Twenty-third Wards. Assessor of the Twenty-fifth Ward............. 51 52 53 |