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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.

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7,883 laws of the 1860s

Constitution of 1838

  1. Supplement to the act of April fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and tliirty-four; relating to the Fire Insurance Company of the county of Philadelphia.

    Act 92 of 1863 · P.L. 86 · March 2, 1863 · Scanned page

  2. Supplement to an act. entitled "An Act to create a loan, and to provide for arming the State, ' ' approved the fifteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

    Act 93 of 1863 · P.L. 87 · March 2, 1863 · Scanned page

  3. Authorizing the assessment of a tax in Meshoppen township, Wyoming county, for the payment of bounty to certain volunteers from said township.

    Act 94 of 1863 · P.L. 87 · March 2, 1863 · Scanned page

  4. To provide for repairing the side-walks in tlie borough of Coudersport.

    Act 95 of 1863 · P.L. 89 · March 2, 1863 · Scanned page

  5. Supplement to the act incorporating the Manheim, Petersburg and Lancaster Turnpike or Plank Road Company.

    Act 96 of 1863 · P.L. 90 · March 2, 1863 · Scanned page

  6. To correct the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Loan association of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 97 of 1863 · P.L. 91 · March 2, 1863 · Scanned page

  7. To correct an error in the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Mifflin County Bank," passed the twenty-sixth March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

    Act 99 of 1863 · P.L. 93 · March 3, 1863 · Scanned page

  8. Supplement to an act, entitled *'An Act ^ to incorporate the Mifflin County Bank, passed March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

    Act 98 of 1863 · P.L. 94 · March 6, 1863 · Scanned page

  9. To change the place of holding elections in Spring township, Crawford county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 100 of 1863 · P.L. 94 · March 3, 1863 · Scanned page

  10. Relative to the plat of water lots of the second section of the town of

    Act of 1863 · P.L. 95 · March 3, 1863 · Scanned page

  11. To annul the marriage contract between Thomas D. Nice and Adelaide W., his wife.

    Act 101 of 1863 · P.L. 95 · March 3, 1863 · Scanned page

  12. To enable tlie auditor general and state treasurer to adjust certain pult)H« accounts.

    Act of 1863 · P.L. 96 · March 4, 1863 · Scanned page

  13. To incorporate the Towanda Railroad Company.

    Act 104 of 1863 · P.L. 97 · March 4, 1863 · Scanned page

  14. To aoithorize ths Lehigli Coal and Navigation Company to extend their railroad from White Haven to Mauch Chunk.

    Act 105 of 1863 · P.L. 99 · March 4, 1863 · Scanned page

  15. To exempt from taxation the Philadelphia City Institute.

    Act 106 of 1863 · P.L. 101 · March 4, 1863 · Scanned page

  16. Supplementary to an act extending the powers of the corporation of Bristol borough, iu the county of Bucks.

    Act 107 of 1863 · P.L. 102 · March 4, 1863 · Scanned page

  17. Supplement to an act relative to certain annuities granted to tlie Catholic cliurch, in Haycock townsliip, Bucks county, passed April tliird, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

    Act 108 of 1863 · P.L. 105 · March 4, 1863 · Scanned page

  18. Supplement to an act revising the charter of the municipal corporation of the city of Beading, i)assed the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

    Act 109 of 1863 · P.L. 106 · March 4, 1863 · Scanned page

  19. Supplement to an act, entitled ' ' An Act to incorporate the Philadelpliia and Delaware River Railroad Company," approved April fourth, one thousand eight ■^undred and fifty-four.

    Act 110 of 1863 · P.L. 107 · March 4, 1863 · Scanned page

  20. Relative to roads in West Whiteland township, Chester county.

    Act 111 of 1863 · P.L. 107 · March 5, 1863 · Scanned page

  21. Extending the act relating to the selling of the repairing of the public roads in certain townships in Schuylkill county, to Mauch Chunk township, in Carhon county.

    Act 112 of 1863 · P.L. 108 · March 5, 1863 · Scanned page

  22. Authorizing the town council of the horough of Northumberland to vacate streets in said borough.

    Act 113 of 1863 · P.L. 109 · March 6, 1863 · Scanned page

  23. Relating to the election of street commissioners in the borough of LaWrenceville, Allegheny county.

    Act 114 of 1863 · P.L. 109 · March 6, 1863 · Scanned page

  24. Relating to assessments in Jefferson and Clearfield counties.

    Act 115 of 1863 · P.L. 110 · March 6, 1863 · Scanned page

  25. Declaring Forge run, in Centre county, a public highway.

    Act 116 of 1863 · P.L. 111 · March 6, 1863 · Scanned page

  26. Relative to Ten Mile creek, in Greene county.

    Act 117 of 1863 · P.L. 113 · March 6, 1863 · Scanned page

  27. To authorize Sarah Owen, wife of William Owen, an habitual drunkard^ to join William H. Hnbbert, committee of said William Owen, to borrow money on mortgage.

    Act of 1863 · P.L. 114 · February 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  28. the protection of squirrels in the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon.

    Act 121 of 1863 · P.L. 115 · March 9, 1863 · Scanned page

  29. To fix the place holding the general and township elections in the township of Lake, in the county of Luzerne.

    Act 122 of 1863 · P.L. 116 · March 9, 1863 · Scanned page

  30. To repeal an act changing the name of Jones township, Elk county.

    Act 123 of 1863 · P.L. 117 · March 9, 1863 · Scanned page

  31. Supplement to an act incorporating the borough of White Haven, in Luzerne county.

    Act 124 of 1863 · P.L. 117 · March 9, 1863 · Scanned page

  32. Relative to appropriations out of county funds, to agricultural societies.

    Act 125 of 1863 · P.L. 118 · March 9, 1863 · Scanned page

  33. Relative to the American Mechanics' Hall Association of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 126 of 1863 · P.L. 119 · March 10, 1863 · Scanned page

  34. Supplement to the act incorporating the Doylestown and Willow Grove Turnpike Road Company, passed February fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and tliirty-eight.

    Act 127 of 1863 · P.L. 120 · March 10, 1863 · Scanned page

  35. To incorporate the Richlandtown Turnpike Road Company.

    Act 128 of 1863 · P.L. 120 · March 10, 1863 · Scanned page

  36. To extend the time for tlie payment of the enrohnent tax on the charter of Green Lawn Cemetery Company, approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

    Act 129 of 1863 · P.L. 122 · March 10, 1863 · Scanned page

  37. To extend the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the school directors of Chester and Delaware counties to select sites for school houses," passed May eighth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfour, to the county of Susquehanna.

    Act 130 of 1863 · P.L. 122 · March 10, 1863 · Scanned page

  38. To incorporate the North- Western Navigation Company.

    Act 131 of 1863 · P.L. 123 · March 2, 1863 · Scanned page

  39. Supplementary to an act, entitled " An Act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad Company, ' ' approved March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

    Act 132 of 1863 · P.L. 125 · March 10, 1863 · Scanned page

  40. Extending to the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manchester Passenger Eailway Company, the privilege granted to the Citizens' Passenger Railway Company of the city of Pittsburg, by an act approved the fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

    Act 134 of 1863 · P.L. 126 · March 11, 1863 · Scanned page

  41. Relative to the Philadelphia and North Branch Railroad

    Act 136 of 1863 · P.L. 128 · March 11, 1863 · Scanned page

  42. Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act concerning the sale of railroads, canals, turnpikes, bridges and plank roads," approved the eighth of April, Aiuio Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

    Act 137 of 1863 · P.L. 129 · March 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  43. Supplement to an act making Front street and Peach Tree alley public highways.

    Act 138 of 1863 · P.L. 131 · March 16, 1863 · Scanned page

  44. Supplement to an act, entitled '-An Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

    Act 139 of 1863 · P.L. 132 · March 17, 1863 · Scanned page

  45. Supplement to an act to iucorporate the city of Carbondale.

    Act 141 of 1863 · P.L. 134 · March 17, 1863 · Scanned page

  46. To the charter of the borough of York.

    Act 142 of 1863 · P.L. 134 · March 17, 1863 · Scanned page

  47. Gin ^xt Authorizmg the election of additional supervisors in Elizabeth township, in the county of Allegheny.

    Act 143 of 1863 · P.L. 135 · March 17, 1863 · Scanned page

  48. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Marietta and Mount Joy Turnpike Road Com- '' pany.

    Act 144 of 1863 · P.L. 136 · March 17, 1863 · Scanned page

  49. Supplement to the act, entitled ' ' An Act to incorporate the White Hall Mutual Fire Insurance Association of parts of Bucks and Montgomery counties.

    Act 145 of 1863 · P.L. 136 · March 10, 1863 · Scanned page

  50. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Lancaster, Lebanon and Pine Grove Railroa Company.

    Act 146 of 1863 · P.L. 137 · March 17, 1863 · Scanned page

  51. Supplement to the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate tlie Cumberland Valley Mutual Protection Company of Dickinson township, Cumberland county.

    Act 147 of 1863 · P.L. 138 · March 10, 1863 · Scanned page

  52. To empower the trustees of the Fourth Presbyterian church of the city of Philadelphia to sell certain real estate.

    Act 148 of 1863 · P.L. 139 · March 10, 1863 · Scanned page

  53. To incorporate the Youghiogheny Coal Hollow Coal Company,

    Act 149 of 1863 · P.L. 140 · March 17, 1863 · Scanned page

  54. Supplement to the act incorporating the Grandom Institution, approved April twentythird, eighteen hundred and forty-one.

    Act 1 of 1863 · P.L. 143 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  55. Supplement to the act incorporating the city of Philadelphia, relative to certain offices.

    Act 150 of 1863 · P.L. 143 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  56. To change the time of holding the township elections and making the township settlements in the county of Clearfield.

    Act 152 of 1863 · P.L. 144 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  57. Relative to tax collectors in Butler county.

    Act 153 of 1863 · P.L. 145 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  58. To incorporate the Sumneytown and Gerysville Turnpike Road Company. Sectiot 1.

    Act 154 of 1863 · P.L. 145 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  59. Relating to the several courts of the county of Butler.

    Act 155 of 1863 · P.L. 147 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  60. Gin ^^t Entitled "An Act to incorporate the Mount Clare and Perki omen Turnpike Road Company, of Upper Providence township, Montgomerycounty.

    Act 157 of 1863 · P.L. 149 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  61. Legalizing the election of certain officers in the borough of Freeport^ Armstrong county.

    Act 158 of 1863 · P.L. 150 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  62. To lay out the balance of a State Road in Westmoreland county.

    Act 159 of 1863 · P.L. 151 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  63. To divide the borough of Pittston, in the coimty of Luzerue, into thre* election districts.

    Act 160 of 1863 · P.L. 152 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  64. Supplement to an act to incorporate and endow the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, approved the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.

    Act 161 of 1863 · P.L. 153 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  65. To view anrl lay out a State Road in the counties of Clarion and Forest.

    Act 164 of 1863 · P.L. 157 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  66. Supplementary to an act to incorporate the village of Bridgeport, in thp county of Montgomery, into a borough.

    Act 165 of 1863 · P.L. 158 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  67. To repeal the law and vacate a certain State Road in Fayette and Greene counties.

    Act 166 of 1863 · P.L. 159 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  68. Relating to the charter of the Jefferson Railroad Company.

    Act 167 of 1863 · P.L. 160 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  69. To incori^orate the Chester Rural Cemetery Association o Delaware county.

    Act 168 of 1863 · P.L. 161 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  70. To confirm the action of the Commissioners of Union county, and of the townships and boroughs in said county, in relation to the payment of bounties to volunteers.

    Act 170 of 1863 · P.L. 165 · March 19, 1863 · Scanned page

  71. Providing for the. levying and collecting a tax in several townships of Northampton county, for the relief of subscribers, and others, to the Volunteer bounty fund. * Preamble.

    Act 171 of 1863 · P.L. 166 · March 19, 1863 · Scanned page

  72. To repeal the special road laws in certain townsliips in Alleglieny county.

    Act 172 of 1863 · P.L. 168 · March 19, 1863 · Scanned page

  73. To enable trustees of Railroad Stocks, of the city of Pittsburg, to sell or assign said stocks.

    Act 173 of 1863 · P.L. 168 · March 19, 1863 · Scanned page

  74. Vacating Cherry street, in the Twenty fourth ward of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 174 of 1863 · P.L. 169 · March 19, 1863 · Scanned page

  75. To incorporate the Bedford Improvement Company.

    Act 175 of 1863 · P.L. 170 · March 19, 1863 · Scanned page

  76. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Hazleton Coal Company.

    Act 176 of 1863 · P.L. 170 · March 19, 1863 · Scanned page

  77. Supplement to an act to revive and continue in force the law graduating lands, upoia wliicli money is due tlie Commonwealth, and regulating the mode of charging interest thereon.

    Act 177 of 1863 · P.L. 171 · March 20, 1863 · Scanned page

  78. Authorizing the owners of land in Adftms county, bordering on public roads, or highways, to lay pavements, or make walks, along their said lands, and for the protection thereof.

    Act 178 of 1863 · P.L. 172 · March 20, 1863 · Scanned page

  79. To authorize Henry B. Masser and John H. Fisher to establish and maintain a ferry over the Susquehanna river at Selinsgrove.

    Act 180 of 1863 · P.L. 173 · March 20, 1863 · Scanned page

  80. To incorporate the La Salle College, in the city of

    Act 181 of 1863 · P.L. 174 · March 20, 1863 · Scanned page

  81. To extend to the cities of Lancaster, Harrisbnrg, Pittsburg and Alleghenjv Ui*" proTisions of an act to authorize the arrest of professional thieves, burglars, et cetera, in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 179 of 1863 · P.L. 175 · March 20, 1863 · Scanned page

  82. To empower the executors of Sarah Miles, late of Centre county, deceased, to sell certain real estate. Whehfas, Sarah Miles, late of Centre county, Pennsylvania, deceased, hj her last will and testament, dated September sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, did, among other things, direct her executors to pay certain legacies, and did bequeath the residue of her estate

    Act 182 of 1863 · P.L. 176 · March 19, 1863 · Scanned page

  83. To incorjiorate tlie Oil Creek Navigation Company.

    Act 183 of 1863 · P.L. 177 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  84. To extend the charter of the York County Mutual Insurance Company,

    Act 185 of 1863 · P.L. 179 · February 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  85. To incorporate tlie Nortli Philadelphia Association of Baptist Ciinrches,

    Act 186 of 1863 · P.L. 180 · March 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  86. To extend the charter of the Union Railroad and Mining Company,

    Act 187 of 1863 · P.L. 182 · March 31, 1863 · Scanned page

  87. For the raising of a bounty for the paynjent of voumteers in the township of Penn, and the boroiigli of Bernville, county of Berks.

    Act 188 of 1863 · P.L. 183 · March 31, 1863 · Scanned page

  88. To authorize tlie election of four supervisors for Rostraver townsliip, in the coujity of Westmoreland.

    Act 189 of 1863 · P.L. 184 · March 31, 1863 · Scanned page

  89. Autlioriziug the county commissioners of Fayette county to refund t& William Bradman, late treasurer of said county, certain moneys.

    Act 190 of 1863 · P.L. 184 · March 31, 1863 · Scanned page

  90. For the better preservation of game in the county of Cumberland.

    Act 191 of 1863 · P.L. 185 · March 31, 1863 · Scanned page

  91. tt ^(t Regufeting the fees of the sheriffs of Blair and Huntingdon counties.

    Act 192 of 1863 · P.L. 185 · March 31, 1863 · Scanned page

  92. To authorize the burgess and council of Oil City to levy an additional tax for street purposes.

    Act 193 of 1863 · P.L. 186 · March 31, 1863 · Scanned page

  93. To authorize the school directors of Downingtown school dif-trict, Chester county, to borrow money.

    Act 194 of 1863 · P.L. 187 · March 31, 1863 · Scanned page

  94. Supplement to the act, entitled "An Act relating to the sale and conveyance of real estate," passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight liundred and fifty-three.

    Act 195 of 1863 · P.L. 187 · April 1, 1863 · Scanned page

  95. Autliorizing the courts of common pleas to compel the recording of deedg and other instruments of writing.

    Act 196 of 1863 · P.L. 188 · April 1, 1863 · Scanned page

  96. Authorizing Samuel Small, guardian of the minor children of William Coleman, late of the county of Lebanon, deceased, to sell certain real estate.

    Act 197 of 1863 · P.L. 189 · April 1, 1863 · Scanned page

  97. To provide for the distribution of State documents among the diff«jrecit States of the Union.

    Act 199 of 1863 · P.L. 191 · April 1, 1863 · Scanned page

  98. To exempt from taxation the Moyamensing Institute.

    Act 201 of 1863 · P.L. 193 · April 1, 1863 · Scanned page

  99. Gin ^n Entitled "An Act relative to the Lorberry Creek Railroad Company.

    Act 202 of 1863 · P.L. 193 · April 1, 1863 · Scanned page

  100. Supplementary to an act, entitled ' 'An Act to incorporate the Ailentown Railroad Company, ' ' approved April nineteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

    Act 203 of 1863 · P.L. 194 · April 1, 1863 · Scanned page

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