Petition of Conshohocken Borough

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

The Borough of Conshohocken, Montgomery County, was incorporated by special act of assembly approved May 15,1850, P. L. 1051.

Section 17 of the Act provided for the appointment of six designated persons as commissioners with “full power and authority to lay out any and all streets in said borough, which they shall think proper for the improvement thereof, or necessary for the convenience of its citizens or the public, and [they] shall have also full power and authority to vacate, alter and extend such streets, lanes and alleys as are already laid out, talcing care in the…