Section 1

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the mayor, aldermen and citizens of Philadelphia, by ordinance lawfully enacted, or the intervention and act of authorized officers or agents, to lay out, regulate, curb, light, and pave a passage or street, not less than twenty-one feet in width, on the east part of the city of Philadelphia, fronting the river Delaware, at such distance or distances in the several parts thereof from the eastern line of Water street as they shall judge proper, extending from Vine to Cedar street, to be called the Delaware Avenue; and that, having laid out such street, they shall cause a record of the same to be made in the court of Quarter Sessions for the county of Philadelphia.