Section 1

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the right to damages against cities, counties, boroughs, or townships, within this Commonwealth, is hereby given to all owners or tenants of lands, property, or material abutting on, or through which pass, roads, streets, lanes, or alleys, injured by the laying out, opening, widening, vacating, extending or grading of said roads, streets, lanes, or alleys, or the changing of grades or lines thereof, by said cities, counties, boroughs or townships; the construction and the vacating by said cities, counties, boroughs or townships of bridges, and the piers, abutments, approaches, embankments, slopes, or causeways therefor, or leading thereto; and the construction of sewers by said cities, counties, boroughs, or townships in, over, upon, along, or through said lands, property, or material.