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Every law Pennsylvania has passed
55,382 acts of the General Assembly, from William Penn’s first assembly in 1682 to 2026. Until 1874 much of the Assembly’s work was “special” legislation for a single person, company or town: a divorce, a road, a tavern license. That year’s constitution barred local and special laws on most subjects, and the yearly count fell; lately it is about 150.
Not yet complete · The state has not yet digitized its session laws act by act for most years between 1851 and 1949. We filled what we could from scans of the printed volumes: every year from 1851 to 1875 and most sessions from 1877 to 1907. A computer read those titles, so they can contain misspellings, and a few acts in each year were missed. Most years from 1909 to 1949 are still thin (marked below). Every other year is complete, from 1682 through 1850 and from 1950 to today.
5,371 laws of the 1850s
Constitution of 1838
Act to Protect Fruit, and Punish Trespass - amend - extend to the counties of York, Bedford, Adams and Franklin
Act 427 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act to incorporate the Farmers' Union Insurance Company of Pennsylvania, legitimating Clara Jane Brock - amend - use of capital stock
Act 428 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To authorize the Commissioners and Inhabitants of the District of Kensington to lay down and open a certain street
Act 429 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Alder Run Plank Road Company, in Morris Township , Clearfield county
Act 430 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act to incorporate the Kensington Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Company - amend - capital stock
Act 431 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Doylestown and New Britian Plank Road Company
Act 432 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Mohulbuctitum and Sugar Creek Turnpike and Plank Road Company, in the county of Armstrong
Act 433 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To enable Joint Tenants, Tenants in Common, and adjoining owners of Mineral Lands in this Commonwealth, to manage and develop the same
Act 434 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
For the relief of the estate of William Bingham, deceased
Act 435 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act regulating boroughs - amend - extended to the borough of Providence, Luzerne county
Act 436 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act authorizing School Directors to administer oaths, et cetera - amend - commissioners; power to alter location
Act 437 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act incorporating the Providence and Abington Turnpike and Plank Road Company - amend - construction of road; powers of viewer
Act 438 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To authorize the Supervisors of Whitpain township, Montgomery county, to borrow money
Act 439 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate the Wissahickon Turnpike Road Company - amend - issue bonds
Act 440 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Authorizing the School Directors of Upper Salford, in Montgomery county, to sell certain School Houses
Act 441 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act regulating Banks - amend - extend to the Bank of Chambersburg
Act 442 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Regulating certain Election Districts
Act 443 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Mattson's Ford and Township Line Turnpike Road Company
Act 444 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to the terms of the Courts of Berks and Butler counties
Act 445 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To prevent the sale of liquor at the Sand Patch Tunnel in the county of Somerset
Act 446 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to the Allegheny Railroad and Coal Company
Act 447 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to the Waynesboro' and Maryland State Line Turnpike Road Company
Act 448 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To establish a public Ferry on the Allegheny River at Thomas Moran's, in Cornplanter township, Venango county
Act 449 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the East Mahanoy Railroad Company
Act 450 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Further supplement to an act incorporating the Pennsylvania Railroad Company - repeal
Act 451 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To authorize the Borough of West Chester to borrow money
Act 452 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
For the relief of Susan A. Kelley and Elizabeth Smith
Act 453 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Millsboro' and Jefferson Turnpike or Plank Road Company
Act 454 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Training School for Idiotic and Feeble Minded children - amend - sum shall be paid by the State Treasurer for the erection of buildings
Act 455 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Appointing commissioners to review and lay out a State road from Waynesburg, Greene county, to the west end of Washington county, in a direction of West Union, in the State of Virginia
Act 456 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act authorizing the laying out of a state road from Tunkhannock, in Wyoming county, to Towanda, in Bradford county - amend - time to make out and file reports
Act 457 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Vacating part of Bingaman street, in the city of Reading
Act 458 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Authorizing the incorporation of a Company to erect a bridge over the Clarion river near Stratonville, Clarion county
Act 459 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act to incorporate the York Gas Company - amend - borrow money
Act 460 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To extend Chancery Jurisdiction to the Courts of certain counties in the Commonwealth
Act 461 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To authorize the Elders of the First Moravian church to sell and convey certain real estate
Act 462 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to certain streets and Alleys in the borough of Lock Haven
Act 463 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To authorize the President and Managers of the Birmingham and Pittsburgh Bridge Company, to borrow money
Act 464 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
For the relief of William S. Torr, and Henry and Mrs. Smith
Act 465 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to the claim of Reeves, Abbott and Company
Act 466 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Authorizing the appointment of High Constable in the borough of Saltsburg, Indiana county
Act 467 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Allegheny Railroad and Coal Company
Act 468 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act regulating Banks - amend - total liabilities; duties of auditor general
Act 469 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to the Estate of Leavin Cornish
Act 470 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to the Supervisors of the township of Haycock, in the county of Bucks
Act 471 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act to authorize the laying out of a State road from the Allegheny and Perrysville Plank Road, to the village of Rochester, in Beaver county - amend - appointment of commissioners and viewers
Act 472 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To erect the borough of Pittston into a separate election district, also to erect said borough into a separate school district
Act 473 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Kittatinny Summer Retreat Association
Act 474 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to Supervisors in Mount Pleasant township, Westmoreland county
Act 475 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Shenango Insurance Company
Act 476 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To change the venue in certain cases from Union to Lycoming county
Act 477 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act relative to the Estate of John Eckel, deceased - amend - authorize executor to sell real estate
Act 478 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
For the protection of Mechanics and Laborers
Act 479 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Pennsylvania Mutual Horse Thief Detecting and Insurance Company
Act 480 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Authorizing the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company to increase their capital stock, and issue bonds
Act 481 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Authorizing the Burgess and Town Council of the borough of Washington, Washington county, to subscribe Five Thousand Dollars to the stock of the Upper Ten Mile Plank Road Company
Act 482 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act relative to the district of Belmont, in the county of Philadelphia
Act 483 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act relating to the County Prisons, et cetera - amend - owners of adjoining property on the river front authorized to enter an appeal
Act 484 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To relieve the property of the Philadelphia Society for the establishment and support of Charity Schools, the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine Arts, the Union Benevolent Society of Philadelphia, and the Friends' Asylum for the Insane near Frankford,
Act 485 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To consolidate the Treverton, Mahanoy and Susquehanna Railroad Company, and Susquehanna and Union Bridge Company
Act 486 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act incorporating the Mount Carbon and Port Carbon Railroad Company - amend - construct branch railroad; increase capital stock
Act 487 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act incorporating the town of Port Clinton into a borough, et cetera - amend - extended for two years
Act 488 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act relating to counties and townships, and county and township officers - amend - case of proceedings to have a second commission
Act 489 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act to provide for the erection of a house of employment and support of the poor in the county of Westmoreland - amend - erection of a barn
Act 490 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to the Greenwich Land and Building Association
Act 491 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Welhella and Susquehanna Plank Road Company
Act 492 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act to incorporate the Altoona and Tyrone City Plank Road Company - amend - may construct turnpike road; connection with the Altoona and Clearfield Plank Road Company
Act 493 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act to incorporate the Easton Gas Company - amend - extended to the township of Williams and borough of South Easton
Act 495 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
For the relief of Alice Williams, Jane Jones and Mrs. Echoff
Act 497 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
For the relief of Lydia Tanner, widow of a soldier of the Indian War
Act 498 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act incorporating the Mountain Coal Company - amend - borrow money
Act 499 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Cambridge Plank Road Company
Act 500 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act authorizing George Arcularius to convey certain Real Estate, et cetera - amend - authority of trustees to sell lands
Act 501 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act incorporating the Scranton Gas and Water Company - amend - tender bond when cannot agree upon damages
Act 502 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relating to Releases
Act 504 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To narrow a part of Ninth street, in the district of Penn, in the County of Philadelphia
Act 505 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
For the relief of Jacob Peters, and others, trading under the name of the Phoenix Line Company
Act 506 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act incorporating the Pittsburgh and Connelsville Railroad Company - amend - subscription to stock extended to M'Keesport and Birmingham boroughs
Act 507 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Authorizing the Commissioners of Washington county to subscribe fifty thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Pittsburgh and Steubenville Railroad Company
Act 508 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relative to Culverts, in the District of Penn, Philadelphia county
Act 509 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To provide for the establishment and government of a House of Correction and Employment for the City of Philadelphia
Act 510 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Several acts relative to the Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania - amend - exchange of stock
Act 511 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act incorporating the City of Carbondale - amend - appointment of treasurer
Act 512 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Authorizing the Burgess and Town Council of Conemaugh to extend the limits of said Borough
Act 513 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Relating to Licenses in certain townships, and in the borough of Lawrenceville, in Tioga county
Act 514 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Providing for Recording the Ordinances of the Borough of Birmingham, in the county of Allegheny
Act 515 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act relative to the Spring Garden Health Insurance Company of Philadelphia county - amend - name changed to Consolidated Insurance Company of the city of Philadelphia; vacancies; powers
Act 516 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Authorizing Francis Hoops and Harrison Mendenhall, trustees of the New Brighton House Company, to make a deed of conveyance
Act 517 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Further supplement to the act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia - amend - city corporation not to tear down market houses; relief
Act 518 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To legitimate George Humphrey Stump and Abraham Harrison Stump
Act 519 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Shamokin Collegiate Institute
Act 520 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To lay out a State road, from Manayunk Bridge, in Montgomery county, to Belmont Avenue, in Philadelphia county
Act 521 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Providing for the Sale of the Main Line of the Public Works from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh
Act 522 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Act incorporating the Chester Valley Railroad Company - amend - election of directors
Act 523 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Incorporating the Cannonsburg Saving Fund Society
Act 524 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To incorporate the Ashmun Institute
Act 525 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
Authorizing Jacob Huber, executor of the last will and testament of Michael Huber, deceased, to sell certain real estate
Act 526 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To authorize the Larry's Creek Plank Road Company to borrow money
Act 527 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To confirm the Title to certain Real Estate in the City of Philadelphia
Act 528 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
To exempt certain loans and bonds from tax
Act 529 of 1854 · 1854 · Original text
By decade
Constitution of 18741874–1967
Constitution of 17761776–1789
- 1780s 567
1682–1801: the Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania. 1802–1974: the Pamphlet Laws (Laws of the General Assembly). Both from the scans published by the Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau, which link to each original page. 1975 onward: the General Assembly’s own record of legislation enacted, which adds approval dates and bill numbers. Years the Bureau hasn’t indexed act by act come from the annual Laws of the General Assembly as scanned by the Internet Archive and Google Books: we split each volume into acts by their approval lines, and each one links to its scanned page. Before 1975 each year’s appropriation acts were scanned as one bundle, so they aren’t listed one by one. Proposed constitutional amendments, vetoed bills and reorganization plans are left out. Subject lines are the Bureau’s and the General Assembly’s, not the laws’ full titles.