Section 7. Port warden to determine extent to which wharves may be built into River Schuylkill
The wardens of the Port of Philadelphia Jurisdiction now vested in the department of wharves, docks and ferries shall be authorized and empowered to fix and determine the extent of distance which any person or persons or body or bodies, politic or corporate, who are the owner or owners of lots of ground extending to the said River Schuylkill, on either of its shores, from the lower falls thereof to its junction with the River Delaware, may build wharves therein. 1805, March 25, P.L. 160, 4 sm. L. 232, sec. 7.