Pennsylvania Act 1853-71 — BOARD OF WARDENS PORT OF PHILADELPHIA REGULATION OF PILOTS AND PILOTAGE

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BOARD OF WARDENS PORT OF PHILADELPHIA REGULATION OF PILOTS AND PILOTAGE
                  Act of Feb. 18, 1853, P.L. 88, No. 71               Cl. 11
                           A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

     To an act entitled "An Act to establish a board of wardens for
        the port of Philadelphia, and for the regulation of pilots
        and pilotages, and for other purposes therein mentioned,"
        approved the twenty-ninth of March, one thousand eight
        hundred and three.

        Section 2.  Fee for filing application, action thereon and
     issuance of license
        That the board of wardens of and for the Port of
     Philadelphia, shall have power to assess and collect from every
     applicant for a license to build or extend a wharf at any point
     within the tide-way of the River Delaware or Schuylkill, for
     filing applications, examining the premises, and subsequent
     action of the board, any sum not exceeding ten dollars, and for
     granting, furnishing, and recording a license to build or extend
     a wharf, any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, to be paid
     to the master warden for the time being, which sums, together
     with all other revenue of the board, after paying expenses of
     collection, shall be appropriated by them as they shall deem
     most conducive to the best interests of the Port of
     Philadelphia: Provided always, that the said Board of Wardens be
     fully authorized to determine and establish the compensation and
     fees of all the officers of the board who now are, or who may be
     hereafter appointed.  1853, Feb. 18, P.L. 88, Sec.22.
        Section 3.  Plans filed preliminary to granting license
        That no district, borough, or township, bordering on either
     the River Delaware or Schuylkill, within the bounds of the City
     or County of Philadelphia, shall be entitled to or receive a
     license to erect or extend a wharf or wharves into the tide-way
     of either such streams, without having filed in the office of
     the board of wardens (board of wardens abolished by act 1907,
     June 8, P.L. 502, Sec. 1  for the Port of Philadelphia a full
     and correct plan of the river front bordering on such district,
     which draft or plan shall embrace the soundings or points not
     more than seven hundred feet distant from each other, along the
     water front, at intervals of not more than fifty feet from low-
     water mark, and extending to the channel of the river, which
     draft or plan shall be attested by the surveyor of such
     district, borough, or township, and remain on record in said
     warden's office, and free for the inspection of all parties
     interested.  1853, Feb. 18, P.L. 88, Sec. 3.