Section 4

Section 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all streets, alleys, courts and lanes which have been heretofore laid out, opened and appropriated to public use by private persons within the city of Philadelphia, and all those streets, courts and other passages which shall be laid out and opened by order of the inspectors of the jail, on any of the city lots granted by the Commonwealth, by an act, entitled, an act to direct the sale of certain unimproved lots, the property of this Commonwealth, in the city of Philadelphia, and to appropriate the proceeds thereof towards the erection of a building for the purpose of more completely carrying into effect the penal laws of this state; and also all those streets, alleys, courts and lanes which shall hereafter be laid out, opened and appropriated to public use by private persons: Provided the same be not less than twenty feet wide, shall, to all intents and purposes, be held, deemed, taken and be highways, as fully and completely, according to their extent, as any highways laid out by order of the court of quarter-sessions of any county within this Commonwealth.