Section 8. Widening of roads; powers of courts
In addition to the powers now given to the courts of quarter sessions by the act of June 13, 1836, it may be lawful for them on petition under the same rules and restrictions regulating proceedings for laying out and vacating public roads, to grant the orders for widening all such roads as are now, or hereafter may be laid out, reserving to those persons who may consider themselves damnified, the rights of submitting their claims to a board of viewers, as is now provided in cases of laying out roads: provided, that no road shall in any case exceed fifty feet in width. 1850, May 8, P.L. 713, Sec. 8.