Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 16873. Power to order docks, etc., cleaned vested in board of wardens;  filing and effect of liens for cleaning docks, etc., by order of wardens

The powers vested in the councils, of Philadelphia,  1 by an act approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight,  2 entitled “a further supplement to the act incorporating the city of Philadelphia,” and by the twelfth section of an act approved May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled “a further supplement to the act consolidating the city of Philadelphia,”   3 be, and the same are hereby vested in the port wardens:   4  Provided, That all liens filed to collect the expenses of said work shall be filed by the city solicitor;  and the lien for said work shall have the same force and effect as liens for municipal work in the city of Philadelphia under existing laws, and the claims filed for the same shall be governed by the same rules of evidence as those filed in the city of Philadelphia for the removal of nuisances by the board of health.