Section 1

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all annexations of lots or outlots, or extensions of the limits, of any borough or incorporated town in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, made by ordinance by the burgess and town council of said borough or incorporated town prior to April twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred and three, are hereby validated and made good in law, although the said borough authorities have not filed a plot or plan of such extension or annexation in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, or otherwise complied with the act or acts of Assembly governing the annexation of territory or extension of the limits of boroughs in force at the time of said annexation or extension: Provided, nevertheless, That such annexation or extension has been recognized by the authorities of such borough or incorporated town, by the assessment and collection of taxes on the annexed or extended territory, for a period of not less than ten years from the date of said annexation or extension.