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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. To iucorporate tlie York aoad Dover Turnpike and Plank Road Company, in York county.

    Act 426 of 1863 · P.L. 427 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  2. To the charter of the Spring Garden Plank Road Company, in the coxmty of York.

    Act of 1863 · P.L. 430 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  3. Supplement to an act supplementary to the acts relating to hawkers and pedlers, and regulating auctions in the county of Schuylkill.

    Act 429 of 1863 · P.L. 431 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  4. Supplementary to an act to authorise the governor to incorporate the Salem and Djberry Turnpike Road Comi>an7; the Athens and Troy Turnpike Road Company; the Spring House and Sunmeytown Turnpike Road Company; the Pittsburg Farmers' and Mechanics' Turnpike Road Company, and to reyiye the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Pitts- Imrg and Beaver Turnpike Road Company," approved the

    Act 430 of 1863 · P.L. 431 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  5. Relating to taxes, levied for school purposes, in tbe Allegheny city scbool district, of the county of Allegheny.

    Act 432 of 1863 · P.L. 434 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  6. To incorporate the Inn-keepers' and Bottlers' Association of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 433 of 1863 · P.L. 436 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  7. To incorporate the American Tea Company.

    Act 434 of 1863 · P.L. 437 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  8. To amend the act relating to the Susquehanna River, North and West Branch, Atlantic, Ohio and Wilkesbarre Telegraph Company.

    Act 435 of 1863 · P.L. 438 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  9. To incorporate the Greenshnrg and Mount Pleasant Turnpike Road Company.

    Act 436 of 1863 · P.L. 439 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  10. For the relief of George D. Boyer, late treasurer of Schuylkill county.

    Act 437 of 1863 · P.L. 440 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  11. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Siinbury Bridge Company.

    Act 438 of 1863 · P.L. 441 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  12. Authorizing and requiring the supervisors of North Annville township, Lebanon county, to assess a tax sufficient to macadamize a certain road in said township.

    Act 439 of 1863 · P.L. 442 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  13. For the relief of the Westmoreland Coal Company.

    Act 440 of 1863 · P.L. 442 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  14. Relating to the payment of bounties to volunteers.

    Act 441 of 1863 · P.L. 443 · 1863 · Scanned page

  15. To authorize the Harmony Fire Company, of Philadelphia, to dispose of their right, title and interest in the Fire Association of said city.

    Act 442 of 1863 · P.L. 446 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  16. In relation to the accounts of Allen M'Kean, late Prothouotary of Bradford county.

    Act 443 of 1863 · P.L. 447 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  17. For the relief of Francis Watts, treasurer of Bradford county, and W. 0. Black, treasurer of Erie county.

    Act 444 of 1863 · P.L. 448 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  18. To exempt the property of the Franklin Institute from taxation.

    Act 445 of 1863 · P.L. 449 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  19. To incorporate the Kutztown and Lyons Turnpike Road Company.

    Act 446 of 1863 · P.L. 449 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  20. Eelating to bonds and recognizances of bail in the court of quarter sessions, in the county of Allegheny.

    Act 448 of 1863 · P.L. 451 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  21. To extend tlie tune for the payment of the enrolment tax on the act to incorporate the New Hope Cemetery Company.

    Act 449 of 1863 · P.L. 452 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  22. Supplement to an act providing for the levying and collecting a tax in several townships of Northampton county, for the relief of subscribers, and others, to the volunteers bounty fund, approved March eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

    Act 450 of 1863 · P.L. 452 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  23. To prevent cattle from running at large in Cheltenham township, Mont gomery county.

    Act 451 of 1863 · P.L. 453 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  24. Relative to the Eastern Pennsylvania Bible House.

    Act 452 of 1863 · P.L. 454 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  25. Supplement to an act to change the venue, in a certain case, from Beaver to Washington county, approved February eighteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

    Act 454 of 1863 · P.L. 455 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  26. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to extend the width of Chatham street, and open part of Tioga street, in the city of Philadelphia," approved the twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred aud fifty-five.

    Act 456 of 1863 · P.L. 458 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  27. Relating to recording inventories of appraisements of decedents' estates, in the county of Cumberland.

    Act 457 of 1863 · P.L. 459 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  28. For the payment of troops of the Reserve brigade, first division, Pennsylvania militia, in service during the riots in the county of Schuylkill, in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixtytwo.

    Act 458 of 1863 · P.L. 459 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  29. Relative to the claim of James Dignam, of Allegheny county.

    Act 460 of 1863 · P.L. 462 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  30. Supplement to the act to incorporate the East Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

    Act 461 of 1863 · P.L. 462 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  31. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Plymouth and Wilkesbarre Raih-oad and Bridge Company, approved the twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine.

    Act 462 of 1863 · P.L. 463 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  32. To fix the location of the farm of John Lantz, in relation to certain township lines, in Greene county.

    Act 465 of 1863 · P.L. 466 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  33. To authorize the auditor general to settle the claim of John Kennedy, deceased, late of Mifflin county, for damages sustained by him as a transporter, by reason of the sale of the main line of the Pennsylvania canal.

    Act 467 of 1863 · P.L. 468 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  34. Ko. 468. ^M ^tt Selating to the publication of legal advertisements in the county of Franklin.

    Act 468 of 1863 · P.L. 469 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  35. For the relief of Henry Welsh.

    Act 469 of 1863 · P.L. 470 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  36. Aathorizing the Norris City Cemetery Company, of Norriton township, Montgomery county, and the trustees of the First M. E. Church of Norristown, to remove the dead in the Suplee burial ground.

    Act 470 of 1863 · P.L. 471 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  37. Supplement to an act to erect the town of Montrose, in the county of Susquehanna, into a borough, approved March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.

    Act 471 of 1863 · P.L. 471 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  38. Relative to the township elections in Davidson township, Sullivan county.

    Act 472 of 1863 · P.L. 472 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  39. Supplementary to an act to incorporate the Springhouse and Penllyn Turnpike Road Company.

    Act 473 of 1863 · P.L. 473 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  40. To authorize the re-examination of the account between the Commonwealth and the county of Centre.

    Act 475 of 1863 · P.L. 475 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  41. To authorize the sale of the real estate of the Swatara Collegiate Institute, at, or near, Middletown, in the county of Dauphin.

    Act 476 of 1863 · P.L. 475 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  42. Relating to the payment of stamp duties.

    Act 477 of 1863 · P.L. 477 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  43. Relating to supervisors, in certain townships in Schuylkill county.

    Act 478 of 1863 · P.L. 478 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  44. Supplement to an act to incorporate tlie Roxborough and Manaynnk Water Company, approved one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

    Act 479 of 1863 · P.L. 479 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  45. Relating to the inspection of domestic distilled spirits.

    Act 481 of 1863 · P.L. 480 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  46. To appoint commissioners to lay out a State Road, in the county of Delaware and city of Philadelphia.

    Act 482 of 1863 · P.L. 481 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  47. To authorize the road commissioners of the township of Washington, in the county of Erie, to provide a place for holding elections in said township.

    Act 485 of 1863 · P.L. 483 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  48. Itelsfcfaig to tlM dMkete of oerUin deoeased jiutioeB of the peace in the towxiship of Monioe, in the ooontj of Bradford.

    Act 486 of 1863 · P.L. 484 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  49. Declaring Burned Dam run, in the county of Cambria, a public highway.

    Act 487 of 1863 · P.L. 485 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  50. Explanatory of an act, entitled "An Act to regulate the militia of this eonimonwealth, " approved the twenty-first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, so far as relates to the county of Lycoming.

    Act 488 of 1863 · P.L. 486 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  51. To iBcorporate the Strasburg and Big Spring Turnpike Road Companr.

    Act 489 of 1863 · P.L. 487 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  52. To provide a place for holding elections in the borough of Edinboro', in the county of Erie.

    Act 490 of 1863 · P.L. 488 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  53. To divide Cornplanter and Allegheny townships, Venango county, into two election districts.

    Act 491 of 1863 · P.L. 489 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  54. To enable and authorize the brigade inspectors of Luzerne and Wayne counties to make returns.

    Act 492 of 1863 · P.L. 490 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  55. Supplement to an act, entitled ' ' An Act to prevent the forcibly and fraudulently crossing of bridges without payment of toll," approved the tenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

    Act 493 of 1863 · P.L. 491 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  56. Supplement to an act to lay out a State road in Chester and Montgomery counties, approved the twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty

    Act 494 of 1863 · P.L. 492 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  57. To authorize the erection of a poor house by the township of Coal, in the county of Northumberland.

    Act 495 of 1863 · P.L. 492 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  58. Extending to Allegheny county the provisions of an act to give jurisdiction, in equity, to the Supreme Court, and the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Philadelphia, in cases of disputed boundaries.

    Act 496 of 1863 · P.L. 499 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  59. Fo an act to incorporate the town of New Castle, in the county of Mercer, and the town of Blairsville, in the county of Indiana, and for other purposes, passed the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

    Act 497 of 1863 · P.L. 499 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  60. To restore tlie farm of Augustine Byrne, or so mucli thereof as is included in Chest Springs borough, to Allegheny township, in the county of Cambria.

    Act 498 of 1863 · P.L. 500 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  61. prevent cattle, horses, sheep and swine from running at large in the county of Susquehanna.

    Act 499 of 1863 · P.L. 501 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  62. Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Coopertown Turnpike Road Company.

    Act 500 of 1863 · P.L. 501 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  63. To authorize George T. Hummel, of Hummelstown, te sell certain ground rents.

    Act 502 of 1863 · P.L. 504 · April 15, 1863 · Scanned page

  64. To incorporate tlic Venango Oil Company.

    Act 503 of 1863 · P.L. 505 · April 14, 1863 · Scanned page

  65. Relating to William M'Kee's ferry, in Allegheny county.

    Act 504 of 1863 · P.L. 507 · April 16, 1863 · Scanned page

  66. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Pittsburg and Birmingham Passenger Railway Company, approved the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

    Act 505 of 1863 · P.L. 508 · April 16, 1863 · Scanned page

  67. To enable the district court, of the city and county of Philadelphia, to quash the writ of sequestration now existing against the Hestonville, Mantua, and Fairmount Passenger Railroad Company.

    Act 506 of 1863 · P.L. 509 · April 17, 1863 · Scanned page

  68. To vacate a portion of Kingsessing avenue, in the Twenty- Fourth ward oi the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 507 of 1863 · P.L. 510 · April 17, 1863 · Scanned page

  69. To incorporate the Philadelphia Dental College.

    Act 508 of 1863 · P.L. 511 · April 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  70. Relative to the payment of the Enrolment Tax of the Pioneer Iron Company.

    Act 509 of 1863 · P.L. 512 · April 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  71. Relative to taking certain ground, in the city of Pittsburg, bj' the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

    Act 510 of 1863 · P.L. 512 · April 18, 1863 · Scanned page

  72. Supplement to the act of incorporation of the Lehigh and Delaware Water Gap Railroad Company.

    Act 511 of 1863 · P.L. 513 · April 21, 1863 · Scanned page

  73. To consolidate and fond the debt of theborougli of

    Act 512 of 1863 · P.L. 514 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  74. To incorporate the Grain Elevator Comi^any of Pittsburg.

    Act 513 of 1863 · P.L. 518 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  75. Relating to proceedings in cases of partition in equity.

    Act 514 of 1863 · P.L. 519 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  76. Providing for the military board of claims.

    Act 515 of 1863 · P.L. 520 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  77. Relative to the term of office of School Dii-ectors.

    Act 517 of 1863 · P.L. 523 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  78. To incorporate the Garment Cutters' Association of Philadelphia.

    Act 518 of 1863 · P.L. 523 · 1863 · Scanned page

  79. To change the place of holding the elections in certain townships, in D&isphin county.

    Act 519 of 1863 · P.L. 525 · 1863 · Scanned page

  80. To release the county of Potter, from the payment of a certain judgment, in favor of the Commonwealth.

    Act 520 of 1863 · P.L. 526 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  81. To prevent vexatious attachments, and to regulate the costs thereof.

    Act 522 of 1863 · P.L. 527 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  82. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act relating to Allegheny couut3\" approved the first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone, and the supplement thereto, approved the eight day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tvro.

    Act 523 of 1863 · P.L. 528 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  83. Supplement to an act relating to the liens of nieclianics, and others, upon buildingp. approved the sixteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirtysix.

    Act 524 of 1863 · P.L. 529 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  84. To provide for the adjudication and payment of claims arising from tlir loss of horses, and other property, taken, or destroyed, in the bordeicounties by the rebels, in October, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and for property and horses impressed for the use of the military of the State, in September, one thousand eight hundi"ed and sixty-two.

    Act 525 of 1863 · P.L. 529 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  85. To tlie act to consolidate, revise, and amend, the penal laws of tliis Commonwealth, approved the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

    Act 526 of 1863 · P.L. 531 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  86. Relating to returns by collectors of taxes upon unseated lands, in the county of Potter.

    Act 527 of 1863 · P.L. 531 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  87. To encourage the extension of lateral railroads.

    Act 528 of 1863 · P.L. 532 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  88. To validate certain conveyances made by married women, since the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

    Act 529 of 1863 · P.L. 533 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  89. To regulate railroad gauges.

    Act 530 of 1863 · P.L. 534 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  90. Regulating license* to eating houses in Warren borough.

    Act 531 of 1863 · P.L. 534 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  91. Relative to borough elections in the county of Carbon.

    Act 532 of 1863 · P.L. 535 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  92. To repeal an act, approved the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An Act to secure a stricter accountability of certain public officers in Schuylkill county.

    Act 533 of 1863 · P.L. 536 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  93. To enable the commissioners of Clinton county to borrow money, and for other purposes.

    Act 534 of 1863 · P.L. 536 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  94. Supplementary to an act incorporating the Western Pennsylvania Hospital.

    Act 535 of 1863 · P.L. 539 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  95. Preamble. lu relation to a certain road in the county of Clinton.

    Act 536 of 1863 · P.L. 546 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  96. Authorizing Notaries Public in this State, and in any State or Territory in the United States, to take acknorrledgments of deeds, and letters of attorney, and to confirm acknowledgments heretofore made.

    Act 537 of 1863 · P.L. 548 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  97. To extend the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace to certain crimina proceediiigs, in tlie county of Venango.

    Act 539 of 1863 · P.L. 551 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  98. Eepea'iing an act to appoint commissioners to keej) in repair the East and West State road, in M'Kean county.

    Act 540 of 1863 · P.L. 551 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  99. To authorize the treasurer of Greene county to pay the salary of the brigade inspector of the Fourteenth brigade, of the Seventeenth division, Pennsylvania militia.

    Act 541 of 1863 · P.L. 552 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

  100. Creating two additional assessors for the Twentieth ward of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 542 of 1863 · P.L. 552 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page

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