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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.
7,883 laws of the 1860s
Constitution of 1838
Relative to the pay of the Board of Revenue Commissioners.
Resolution 10 of 1863 · P.L. 609 · April 1, 1863 · Scanned page
loittt f cssolut$0u Auttorizing the G-overnor to purchase grounds sufficient for the erection and construction of a new magazine, and also for the proper repair and security of the present magazine.
Resolution 12 of 1863 · P.L. 611 · April 11, 1863 · Scanned page
In relation to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Shenanga Valley Coal and Transportation Company," approved April eleventh, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Resolution 14 of 1863 · P.L. 612 · April 22, 1863 · Scanned page
To correct two errors in the act, entitled ' ' An Act to provide for the ordinary expenses of the Government, and other general and specific appropriations," approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred ■and sixty-three.
Resolution 15 of 1863 · P.L. 613 · May 12, 1863 · Scanned page
To punish the Recruiting of men for the Volunteer Service of other States.
Act 5 of 1864 · P.L. 6 · March 11, 1864 · Scanned page
Regulating the elections in the city of Reading.
Act 6 of 1864 · P.L. 7 · March 11, 1864 · Scanned page
To change tlie place of holding the general, special, and borough, elections in the borongh of "West Greenville, in the county of Mercer.
Act 7 of 1864 · P.L. 9 · March 11, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the city of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, approved March nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Act 8 of 1864 · P.L. 9 · March 11, 1864 · Scanned page
Providing for the election of a State Treasurer.
Act 9 of 1864 · P.L. 10 · March 16, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to atithorize the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company to extend their Railroad from White Haven to Mauch Chunk," approved the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty
Act of 1864 · P.L. 11 · March 16, 1864 · Scanned page
For the relief of Daniel Fuller, a disabled soldier.
Act 12 of 1864 · P.L. 13 · March 16, 1864 · Scanned page
Ta oompel the Erie Canal Company to construct, and keep in repair, the bridges made necessary by the construction of their canal.
Act 13 of 1864 · P.L. 13 · March 16, 1864 · Scanned page
Authorizing the Commis-ioners of Perry county to appropriate a certai* sum of money for making a Mountain Road in said county.
Act of 1864 · P.L. 14 · March 16, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Act of 1864 · P.L. 15 · March 16, 1864 · Scanned page
Authorizing the Commissioners of Erie county, and the authorities of the city of Erie, and the several boroughs and townships in said county, to pay Bounties to Volunteers for the Army of the United States, and to levy and collect taxes therefor.
Act 17 of 1864 · P.L. 16 · March 16, 1864 · Scanned page
To provide for the payment of the expenses of the Transportation xtA Telegraph Department.
Act 18 of 1864 · P.L. 18 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to divide the borough of Scranton into two
Act 19 of 1864 · P.L. 19 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Relating to the Coroner of Chester countj.
Act 20 of 1864 · P.L. 21 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To change the place of holding the elections of Chewy township, in th« county of Butler.
Act 21 of 1864 · P.L. 22 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To repeal so much of section twenty-ninth of the act to provide for the ordinary expenses of the CTOvernment, and other general and specific appropriations, approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, as makes the number of Pupils attending the schools the basis of the distribution of the ajrpropriation for Common School purposes.
Act 23 of 1864 · P.L. 23 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Relating to the Orplians' Court of Berks county.
Act 24 of 1864 · P.L. 24 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Preston Improvement Company.
Act 27 of 1864 · P.L. 26 · March 16, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad Company, approved the fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Act 28 of 1864 · P.L. 28 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To change the venue from Schuylkill county to Northampton couuty.
Act 29 of 1864 · P.L. 29 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To change the width of York street, in the city of Philadelphia.
Act 30 of 1864 · P.L. 31 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act of third of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, entitled "An Act authorizing the commissioners of Montgomery county to borrow money.''
Act 31 of 1864 · P.L. 31 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Extending the time for paying the Enrolment Tax on an act incorporating the Masonic Hall Association of East Liberty, Allegheny county, approved the twentieth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Act 34 of 1864 · P.L. 33 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To pay the Clerk of the Committee raised to investigate the authorship of certain newspaper articles.
Act 35 of 1864 · P.L. 34 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To fix the time for holding the Elections for borough officers in the borough of Ligonier, in the county of Westmoreland.
Act 37 of 1864 · P.L. 36 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To repeal certain portions of the ninth section of an act to provide for the Regulation and Inspection of Buildings in the city of Philadelphia, approved May seventh, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Act 38 of 1864 · P.L. 37 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Home and Foreign Bible Society of Western Pennsylvania, approved April fourteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Act 39 of 1864 · P.L. 37 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Authorizing the Burgess and Town Council of the borough of Saint Marys, Elk county, to borrow money.
Act 40 of 1864 · P.L. 38 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To cliange the place of lioMing the general, special and township elections, in the township of Pike, in the county of Bradford.
Act 41 of 1864 · P.L. 39 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Relating to the Pittsburg Farmers' and Mechanics' Turnpike Road Company, in the county of Allegheny.
Act 42 of 1864 · P.L. 39 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the West Chester Kailroad Company, approved the eighteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Act 43 of 1864 · P.L. 41 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
For the Election of Auditors for the borough of Titusville, in the county of Crawford, and for other puposes.
Act 45 of 1864 · P.L. 44 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To establish a Ferry over the Allegheny river, at Franklin, in the county of Venango. i Section
Act 46 of 1864 · P.L. 47 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act authorizing the Treasurer of Washington county to pay Thomas S. Irwin, Brigade Inspector of the Third brigade, Seventeenth division, Pennsylvania militia, his salaries, approved the twentysecond day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Act 47 of 1864 · P.L. 49 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To lay out a State Road in Fayette and Westmoreland counties.
Act 48 of 1864 · P.L. 50 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act to create the Cochranville School District out of parts of West Fallowfield and Highland townships, in the county of Cheater, approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sisty-three.
Act 49 of 1864 · P.L. 51 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To authorize the appointment of four additional Notaries Public in th» city of Philadelphia.
Act 51 of 1864 · P.L. 53 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To declare Beaver Dam run, in Clearfield county, a navigable highway.
Act 53 of 1864 · P.L. 54 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
To extend tlie provisions of an act relative to the Sheriff of Washington county, to Erie county.
Act 56 of 1864 · P.L. 57 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
To authorize the borough of Manchester, in the county of Allegheny, to borrow money.
Act 57 of 1864 · P.L. 57 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
Relative to,Post Mortem Examinations in the county of Butler.
Act 59 of 1864 · P.L. 60 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the city of Philadelphia.
Act 60 of 1864 · P.L. 60 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
To authorize the Commissioners of Centre county to levy a special tax for relief purposes.
Act 61 of 1864 · P.L. 61 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
To authorize the Commissioners of Centre county to torrow fifty thousand dollars, for the erection of a new jail.
Act 63 of 1864 · P.L. 62 · 1864 · Scanned page
Declaring Oyster run, in Elk county, a public liighway.
Act 64 of 1864 · P.L. 63 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
To anfhorize the School Directors of Sylvarda borough, to borrow money.
Act 65 of 1864 · P.L. 64 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
Ilelating to the House of Employment, and support of tlie Poor, in the county of Greene.
Act 66 of 1864 · P.L. 65 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplementary to an act incorporating the borough of South Pittsburg, in Allegheny county.
Act 67 of 1864 · P.L. 66 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
Relative to Tax Collectors in tlie county of Butler.
Act 68 of 1864 · P.L. 67 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
Relative to an act authorizing a re-view o^a State road from New Castle, Lawrence county, to Emlenton, "Venango county.
Act 69 of 1864 · P.L. 68 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act relating to roads, highways, and bridges, approved June thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
Act 70 of 1864 · P.L. 68 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
"To authGrize tlae appointment of Bridge Viewers in the county of Wyoming.
Act 71 of 1864 · P.L. 69 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Western Insurance and Transportation Company, approved April the twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Act 72 of 1864 · P.L. 70 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Wissahickon, Roxborough and Plymouth.
Act 73 of 1864 · P.L. 70 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
To incorporate tlie Farmers' and Mercliants' Insurance Company.
Act 74 of 1864 · P.L. 71 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
1 1 Kelating to the occupancy of certain sqnares, and Mgliways, in fhe city of Philadelphia, for the Great Central Fair, in aid of the Sanitary Commission.
Act 75 of 1864 · P.L. 72 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
Relating to certain powers of the County Commissioners of Venang© county.
Act 76 of 1864 · P.L. 72 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
To repeal the fourth section of an act to provide for the relief of the families of drafted men, and volunteers, in the county of Erie, and to extend the provisions of the remaining sections of said act to the city of Erie.
Act 77 of 1864 · P.L. 73 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
To increase the compensation of the Supervisors of the township of Broad Top, in the county of Bedford.
Act 78 of 1864 · P.L. 74 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
To vacate a part of West street, in the borough, of Bedford.
Act 79 of 1864 · P.L. 75 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
Relating to the payment of bounties to volunteers, in the county of Lebanon.
Act 84 of 1864 · P.L. 79 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
Fo authorize the School Directors of Richhill township, Greene county, to borrow money, and levy a tax, for the payment of bounties to volunteers.
Act 86 of 1864 · P.L. 83 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act, entitled " An Act to incorporate tlie village of Hyde Park intoa borough," passed the fourth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Act 87 of 1864 · P.L. 84 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
Relating to the payment of Bounties to Volunteers.
Act 88 of 1864 · P.L. 85 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act relative to the collection of State and County Taxes in the townships of Greenwich and Maxatawny, Berks county, approved the twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftyone.
Act 90 of 1864 · P.L. 92 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
To authorize the borough of Manheim to borrow money.
Act 94 of 1864 · P.L. 95 · March 25, 1864 · Scanned page
To change the name of the Pennsylvania Fiscal Agency.
Act 96 of 1864 · P.L. 97 · March 26, 1864 · Scanned page
To incorporate tlie Union Hali Association of Pottsville.
Act 97 of 1864 · P.L. 98 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To mcorporate flie Hickorytown BenefieiaJ. Society, of Plymouth, township, Montgomery county.
Act 98 of 1864 · P.L. 101 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Soldiers' National Cemetery.
Act 99 of 1864 · P.L. 102 · March 28, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act consolidating the wards of the city of Pittsburg, for educational purposes, approved February ninth, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive, and the, supplement thereto, approved the eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty
Act 101 of 1864 · P.L. 107 · March 28, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Keystone Zinc Company, passed May ninth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
Act 102 of 1864 · P.L. 107 · March 28, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act incorporating the Donaldson Improvement and Railroad Company, formerly the Eagle Iron Company, approved the fifth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
Act 103 of 1864 · P.L. 108 · March 29, 1864 · Scanned page
To authorize the burgess and town council of the borough of PittstOD, to levy, and collect, a tax to pay bounties to volunteers.
Act of 1864 · P.L. 110 · March 29, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia.
Act 106 of 1864 · P.L. 111 · March 29, 1864 · Scanned page
For the relief of La Salle College, Philadelphia.
Act 107 of 1864 · P.L. 113 · March 16, 1864 · Scanned page
To legalize tlie action of Samuel Small, guardian of the cliildren of William Coleman, deceased.
Act of 1864 · P.L. 119 · March 17, 1864 · Scanned page
To authorize David Small to assign, and pay over, certain trust property.
Act of 1864 · P.L. 119 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
To ciiange the name of the Northampton Iron Company.
Act 113 of 1864 · P.L. 120 · March 18, 1864 · Scanned page
To incorporate the " Cliestuut Hill House.
Act 114 of 1864 · P.L. 121 · March 26, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Frankford and Holmesburg Railroad Company, approved July eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Act 116 of 1864 · P.L. 124 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
To incorporate Emory Female College.
Act 117 of 1864 · P.L. 124 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
To extend the time of paying the enrolment tax, on an act to incorporate the village of Linesville, county of Crawford, into a borougli.
Act 118 of 1864 · P.L. 126 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
Relative to the taxing of dogs in the township of Lower Oxford, in the county of Chester.
Act 119 of 1864 · P.L. 126 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company, approved the lifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
Act 120 of 1864 · P.L. 127 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
To pay Lewis Gulp, of Dauphin county, a pension. Section 1. Be. it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen IcUives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the state treasurer be and is hereljy authorized, and required, to pay to Lewis Gulp, of Dauphin county, a soldier in the war of one thousand eight hundred
Act of 1864 · P.L. 128 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
To change the name of a certain street in Pitt township, Allegheny connty.
Act 123 of 1864 · P.L. 129 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the West Chester and Wilmington Plank Road Company.
Act 124 of 1864 · P.L. 129 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
To authorize the appointment of a Notary Public in Mill Creek township, Erie county.
Act 125 of 1864 · P.L. 130 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
To prevent the destruction of Trout in the counties of Lycoming and Clinton.
Act 126 of 1864 · P.L. 130 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to enable the Commissioners of Clinton county to borrow money, and for other purposes, approved the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Act 127 of 1864 · P.L. 131 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
To prohibit the taking or killing of Pickerel in Lathrop's lakes, in Din>ock township, Susquehanna countj.
Act 128 of 1864 · P.L. 132 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
To authorize the election of four supervisors, in the township of Wharton, county of Fayette.
Act 129 of 1864 · P.L. 133 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
a company to construct a turnpike road from tlie ©xford plank road, over the road known as the Milltown road, to Milltown, in the Twentythird ward of the city of Philadelphia.
Act 130 of 1864 · P.L. 133 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to extend Fifteenth and Green streets, in the city of Philadelphia, approved the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Act of 1864 · P.L. 135 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
To regulate the killing of wild ducks on the Susquehanna river, and to prevent their destruction.
Act of 1864 · P.L. 135 · March 30, 1864 · Scanned page
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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.