Section 1

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the inhabitants of the borough of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny, as the same extends and is incorporated between the rivers Allegheny and Monongahela, and also to the middle of each of the said rivers, and as far down the river Ohio, to such point in the same, at which two lines, one running down the middle of each of the said two first mentioned rivers, shall intersect, which is hereby added to and incorporated with the original boundaries of said borough, are hereby constituted a corporation and body politic, by the name and style of "The Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Pittsburg," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and they and their successors, by such name, shall, at all times forever, be able and capable, in law, to have, purchase, receive, possess and enjoy lands, tenements and hereditaments, liberties, franchises and jurisdictions, goods, chattles and effects, to them and their successors for ever, or for any other or less estate, and the same lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, by such name, to grant, bargain, sell, alien, convey, mortgage, pledge, charge and encumber, or demise and dispose of at their will and pleasure, and by the said name shall be able and capable, in law, to sue or be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts of record and elsewhere, in all manner of suits, actions, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and things that to the said city, as a body politic and corporate, in law and in fact, shall and may appertain, and for that purpose shall have and use one common seal, and the same from time to time may change, alter, deface and make a new.