A Digest of the Ordinances of the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia: And of the Acts of Assembly Relating Thereto |
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... river , together with the wharfs and land- ing places properly appurtenant to the same , ] the leases for which , shall not be made to continue longer than one year respectively , without the consent of the select and common councils ...
... river , together with the wharfs and land- ing places properly appurtenant to the same , ] the leases for which , shall not be made to continue longer than one year respectively , without the consent of the select and common councils ...
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... river Delaware , on the west by the Schuylkill , on the north by the north side of Vine street , and on the south by the north side of Chesnut street : that the southern district shall extend and be bounded on the east by the Delaware ...
... river Delaware , on the west by the Schuylkill , on the north by the north side of Vine street , and on the south by the north side of Chesnut street : that the southern district shall extend and be bounded on the east by the Delaware ...
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... rivers Delaware and Schuylkill , be , and they and their successors forever , are hereby constituted a corporation and body politic , in fact and in law , by the name and style of " The mayor , dermen and citizens of Philadelphia ...
... rivers Delaware and Schuylkill , be , and they and their successors forever , are hereby constituted a corporation and body politic , in fact and in law , by the name and style of " The mayor , dermen and citizens of Philadelphia ...
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... passage or street on the east part of the city of Philadelphia , fronting the river Delaware , not less than twenty - one feet wide , and to be called Delaware Avenue ; extending from South or Cedar street , 82 CORPORATION .
... passage or street on the east part of the city of Philadelphia , fronting the river Delaware , not less than twenty - one feet wide , and to be called Delaware Avenue ; extending from South or Cedar street , 82 CORPORATION .
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... river Delaware , on piles or pillars . " " Second , To pull down and remove all wooden buildings , as well those made of wood and other combustible materials as those called brick - paned , or framed buildings , filled in with bricks ...
... river Delaware , on piles or pillars . " " Second , To pull down and remove all wooden buildings , as well those made of wood and other combustible materials as those called brick - paned , or framed buildings , filled in with bricks ...
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accounts ACT OF ASSEMBLY aforesaid aldermen and citizens alleys appoint building carriage cents certificates citizens of Philadelphia city clerk city commissioners city of Philadelphia city treasurer collector common councils constable corporation county of Philadelphia court day of January December 24 directed district of Southwark duty elect entitled An ordinance erected Fair Mount feet footway forfeit and pay fund further supplement Girard college guardians hereafter hereby authorized hereby repealed High street hundred dollars lanes loan lots manner market house mayor moiety Northern Liberties Obsolete offence ordinance directing ordinance providing paid passed April paving pay the sum penalty person or persons Phila pipes purposes quarter sessions recording surveyor recovered regulation respective river Delaware Schuylkill Second street SECT select and common square Stephen Girard sum of five superintendent supplied taxes thence therein thereof thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion wagon Water street watering committee width
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Page 330 - I enjoin and require that no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College ; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor, within .the premises appropriated to the purposes of the said college...
Page 331 - ... that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars the purest principles of morality, so that on their entrance into active life they may from inclination and habit evince benevolence towards their fellow-creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety, and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Page 188 - The legislature shall, as soon as conveniently may be, provide, by law, for the establishment of schools throughout the State, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis.
Page 273 - A supplement to the act, entitled an act for the relief and employment of the poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships, of the Northern Liberties, and Penn.
Page 127 - ... shall serve for one year, two for two years, and two for three...
Page 61 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 330 - They shall be instructed in the various branches of a sound education, comprehending reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, practical mathematics, astronomy; natural, chemical and experimental philosophy, the French and Spanish languages...
Page 346 - Philadelphia, the expectation of those, that are concerned in this province, is, at last, laid out, to the great content of those here, that are many ways interested therein.
Page 324 - Pennsylvania charged as aforesaid) unto "the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia, their successors and assigns, in trust, to and for the several uses, intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned and declared of and concerning the same, that is to say; so far as regards my real estate in Pennsylvania, in trust, that no part thereof shall be ever sold or alienated by the said Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia, or The excerpts are from the holograph will deposited at Girard College.
Page 143 - ... and in any such action the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon...