Section 1

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all damages which shall be suffered or sustained by any owner or tenant of lands, property, or materials, in any borough of this Commonwealth, whether incorporated under general or special law, abutting on, or through which pass, roads, streets, lanes or alleys injured by the laying out, opening, widening, vacating, extending or grading of such roads, streets, lanes, or alleys, or the changing of the grades or lines thereof, whereby private lands, property, or materials may or shall be injured, taken, or destroyed by any borough, and all benefits in connection therewith, where such damages and benefits shall be ascertained by viewers, shall be ascertained and assessed as provided in chapter six, article two of the act approved the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act providing a system of government for boroughs, and revising, amending, and consolidating the law relating to boroughs," and known as the General Borough Act.