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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
Authorizing the board o( school directors of Greenwood townshtp, rn the county of Perry, to levy an additional bounty tax.
Act of 1865 · P.L. 625 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To prevent horses, cattle, sheep and hogs from running at large, in Chillit:quaque township, Northumberland county, and Kellj township, Union county, and certain townships in Luaerne county.
Act 624 of 1865 · P.L. 628 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, approved the first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone, entitled "A supplement to an act relating to corporations, passed the twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive," and to extend the benefit of the said act to purchases, or sales, of real estate, for, or by, aliens, before that date.
Act 626 of 1865 · P.L. 631 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To constrne and restrict the operation of an act of assembly, approved the twenty-third day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixt -five, entitled "A supplement to an act, approved the first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone, entitled 'A supplement to an act relating to corporations, passed the twentysixth day of April, Anno Domini one
Act 627 of 1865 · P.L. 632 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act relating to the payment of bounties, approved twentyfifth day ot March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, so far as it relates to Indiana, "Washington, Greene, Berks, Franklin, Northampton, Clearfield, Lehigh and Wayne counties.
Act 628 of 1865 · P.L. 633 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Increasing the compensation of assessors and supervisors, in Lancaster and Cumberland counties.
Act 620 of 1865 · P.L. 634 · March 19, 1865 · Scanned page
Relating to the compensation of the county treasurers of Montgomery and Beiks counties.
Act 630 of 1865 · P.L. 634 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To increase the pay of the assessors and supervisors of Armstrong, York and Westmoreland counties.
Act 631 of 1865 · P.L. 635 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Spanisli Gold and Silver Mining Company.
Act 632 of 1865 · P.L. 636 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Union Park Skating Association of Allegheny city.
Act 633 of 1865 · P.L. 637 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To divide the borough of Mahoney, in the county of Schuylkill, into twr wards.
Act 635 of 1865 · P.L. 639 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Relating to the curbing and paving of streets, in the borough of Williamsport.
Act 636 of 1865 · P.L. 640 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Middle Creek Railroad Company.
Act 637 of 1865 · P.L. 641 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement To an act to increase the revenue* and diminish the legislative expense! of the commonwealtU, approved the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty five, and supplements thereto, relating to theatres, or theatrical exhibitions.
Act 636 of 1865 · P.L. 642 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize a change of the grade of Bridge street, iu the Twenty-fourth ward, Philadelphia, at the crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Act 639 of 1865 · P.L. 643 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To l-galize and make binding a certain ordinance, in the borough of West Elizabeth, and county of Allegheny, granting a right of way ovrtr and across certain streets, in said borough, for coal railroad purposes
Act 640 of 1865 · P.L. 644 · 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Eastern Mining Companj.
Act 642 of 1865 · P.L. 646 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act for incorporating the Trustees of the Ministers and Elders constituting the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, in the United States of America, passed March twenty-eighth, one thousand -seven hundred and ninety-nine.
Act 644 of 1865 · P.L. 648 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Eclectic Club.
Act 645 of 1865 · P.L. 649 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Providing for a free bridge over the Lackawaxen river, at lock number ten, on the Delaware and Hudson canal.
Act 646 of 1865 · P.L. 650 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To appoint a road commissioner, to take charge of a portion of the Warren and Brookville, and of the Warren and Strattonville, State roads.
Act 647 of 1865 · P.L. 651 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Relating to super 7isors' and auditors' fees, in AUeglieny township, Blaiir county.
Act 649 of 1865 · P.L. 654 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the burgess and town council of the borough of Susquehanna Depot, Susquehanna county, to levy and collect a higher rate of taxes.
Act 651 of 1865 · P.L. 655 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of the borough of West Greenville, in ^, Mercer county, to borrow money, to erect a public school house, in said borough.
Act 653 of 1865 · P.L. 656 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act for the incorporation of several bridge companies, and for other purposes, approved the fourth, day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight.
Act 654 of 1865 · P.L. 657 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To repeal an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate tho Erie and Wattsburg- Plank Road Company," approved February twenty-seventh, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
Act 655 of 1865 · P.L. 658 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the Mifflin and Centre County Railroad Company, >, appi'oved the second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight '. ' ■ -> ■ hundred and sixty, authorizing said company to issue preferred stock, • ^ and to borrow money.
Act 657 of 1865 · P.L. 659 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the Cambria Iron Company and the Johnstown Manufacturing Company to construct a railway, between their respective works.
Act 658 of 1865 · P.L. 660 · March 22, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Titusville Water Company.
Act 659 of 1865 · P.L. 661 · March 21, 1865 · Scanned page
Coimpeliing the owners of dams, along the Susquehanca river, to erect schutes, so as to allow the passage of shad, and other fish, up the said stream.
Act 660 of 1865 · P.L. 663 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To provide for the erection of a poor liouse, in the townships of Milford, Turbett, Spruce Hill, Tuscarora, Lack and Beale, and the boroughs of Perryville and Patterson, in the county of Juniata.
Act 662 of 1865 · P.L. 665 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Cash Insurance Company.
Act 663 of 1865 · P.L. 673 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To amend an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Montgomery County Eailroad Company," approved the second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and to extend the time for the commencement and completion of said railroad.
Act 664 of 1865 · P.L. 674 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the French Creek Bridge Company.
Act 666 of 1865 · P.L. 675 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of the township of Upper Milford, in the county of Lehigh, to levy and collect a special tax.
Act 667 of 1865 · P.L. 677 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To allow mileage to the county commissioners of Luzerne connty.
Act 668 of 1865 · P.L. 678 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To vacate parts of Ash lane and Beejh lane, in the city of Erie, and township of Mill Creek, in the county of Erie, and grant the same to the adjacent owners.
Act 669 of 1865 · P.L. 678 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of the township of Shamokin, the countj of Northumberland, to levy and collect a special tax.
Act 670 of 1865 · P.L. 679 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act relative to the Tioga Railroad Company, approved May third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Act 671 of 1865 · P.L. 680 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Gin gict EstablisliiDg a ferry on the Allegheny river, at the borough of Lawrenceville, in the county of Allegheny.
Act 674 of 1865 · P.L. 682 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To legalize the appointment made of overseers, in the borough of Williamsport.
Act 675 of 1865 · P.L. 683 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Authorizing the erection of a poor house by the borough of White Haven, the townships of Denis on and Wright, in Luzerne county.
Act 676 of 1865 · P.L. 683 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To make valid, and extend the time for assessing and collecting, unseated land tax, in the township of Armstrong, county of Lycoming.
Act 678 of 1865 · P.L. 685 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To fix tlie compensation of the directors of the poor, of the county of Cambria.
Act 680 of 1865 · P.L. 687 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To declare Mill run, in Lycoming county, a public highway.
Act 681 of 1865 · P.L. 687 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authoriae the appointment of an additional notary public, in Fayette county.
Act 682 of 1865 · P.L. 688 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Amending the thirtieth section of the act, entitled "An Act relating to Allegheny county," approved the first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, relative to the annual sum, to he paid the mayor of Allegheny city, out of the treasury of the county of Allegheny,
Act 684 of 1865 · P.L. 689 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To repeal a portion of an aot, relative to the sherifis of this commonwealtt, approved April eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, 30 far as the same relates to the counties of Blair and Washington.
Act 685 of 1865 · P.L. 690 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the collection of an additional tax, for bounty purposes, in the township of Menno, in the county of Miiflin.
Act 689 of 1865 · P.L. 692 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Relating to bounties, in the township of Delaware, in the county of Pike.
Act 690 of 1865 · P.L. 693 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate tlie Dauphin and Colorado Gold Mining C!ompany, approved the thirtieth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and siscty-four.
Act 691 of 1865 · P.L. 694 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Eagle Gold MiniBg Company.
Act 695 of 1865 · P.L. 697 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act incorporating the Lewisburg, Centre and Spruo© Creek Railroad Company, passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Act 696 of 1865 · P.L. 698 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To annex Clinton, Elk and Lycoming counties to the Eastern district of the Supreme Court.
Act 697 of 1865 · P.L. 699 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the committee, appointed by the citizens of Union township, • in the county of Mifflin, to levy and collect an additional bounty tax.
Act 698 of 1865 · P.L. 699 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
as to the rat4^ of the regular tax- Court may, upon application, direct an additional tax to he leried. How to be collected. Constables to return, to commiasioners, transcripts of taxes not collectable by them. Taxes upon on seated lands, relative to. Relating to the collection of road taxes, in the county of
Act 699 of 1865 · P.L. 700 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To be kept iu repair, &c. Charges. Subject to. To authorize Hiram Young to establish and maintain a ferry over the West Branch of the Susquehanna river, at Northumberland.
Act of 1865 · P.L. 702 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To establish a ferry, over the Susquehanna river, at, or near, Milton, in the county of Northumberland.
Act 703 of 1865 · P.L. 705 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the raising of money and payment of bounties to volunteers, in the borough of Scranton, in the county of Luzerne.
Act 704 of 1865 · P.L. 707 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate tlie Union Pacific Mining Company.
Act 705 of 1865 · P.L. 708 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To secure to veteran volunteers a local bounty, in the county of Susquehanna.
Act 706 of 1865 · P.L. 709 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To require the school directors of Newberry township, York county, to levy and assess a bounty tax.
Act 707 of 1865 · P.L. 710 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To legalize the assessment and collection of bounty tax, in Bell and South Huntingdon townships, Westmoreland county.
Act 708 of 1865 · P.L. 711 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of Unity township, Westmoreland couuty, to levy and collect a bounty tax, to pay each veteran volunteer, who has been accredited to said township, a bounty of one hundred and fifty dollars; and to legalize the proceedings of the school directors of Unity, Mount Pleasant and Penn townships, in said county, in relation to the levying of taxes, to pay bounties
Act 710 of 1865 · P.L. 712 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act to erect Shirleysburg, in the county of Huntingdon, New Hope, in the county of Bucks, and Hamburg, in the county of Berks, into boroughs, and for other purposes, approved April third, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirtyseven.
Act 711 of 1865 · P.L. 713 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
jurors. Intreaaed pay, heretofore, al- Relatingto the pay of jurors, in the counties of Lehigh and Berks.
Act 712 of 1865 · P.L. 714 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of Norriton township, in the county of Montgomery, to assess and collect a per capita tax, for the payment of the bounty debt of said township.
Act of 1865 · P.L. 715 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize executors, guardians, or trustees, to invest trust funds, in the loan of the county of Chester.
Act 715 of 1865 · P.L. 716 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize path-master?, in Mead township, Crawford county, to collect certain taxes.
Act 716 of 1865 · P.L. 717 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To change the time of holding the auditors' settlements, in the Bevefal townships and boroughs, in Jefferson county.
Act 717 of 1865 · P.L. 718 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Relating to the streets, in the borouph of Chester, county of Delaware.
Act 718 of 1865 · P.L. 718 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to provide for the payment of bounties to volunteers, in the county of Butler.
Act of 1865 · P.L. 719 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To extend the provisions of an act, relating to the fees of constables, in the counties of Fayette and Northampton, to the counties of Chester and Cambria.
Act 721 of 1865 · P.L. 721 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Relating to sherifl''s sales, in the county of Lawrence.
Act 722 of 1865 · P.L. 722 · 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the construction of an artificial side walk, in Wilkesbarr© township, Luzorne county.
Act 723 of 1865 · P.L. 722 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the election of an additional justice of the peace, for the borough of Wilniore, in the county of Cambria.
Act 725 of 1865 · P.L. 724 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To amend an act to incorporate the North American Transit Insurance Company, approved March thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and the supplement thereto.
Act 726 of 1865 · P.L. 725 · March 9, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the construction of a bridge over Oil creek, in the borough of Oil City, in the county of Venango.
Act of 1865 · P.L. 729 · March 22, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act authorizing the construction of a bridge over Oil creek, in the borough of Oil City, in the county of Venango, passed February, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfive.
Act 731 of 1865 · P.L. 731 · March 10, 1865 · Scanned page
To legalize certain acts of the deputy sheriff of Forest county.
Act 732 of 1865 · P.L. 732 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Sewickley Library Institute.
Act 734 of 1865 · P.L. 733 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Relating to a certain road, in East Buffalo township. Union county.
Act 735 of 1865 · P.L. 734 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the president and managers of the Franklin and Allegheny Bridge Company, for erecting a bridge over the Allegheny river, at, or near, the borough of Franklin, in the county of Venango, to borrow money. Whsbeas, The president and managers of the Franklin and Allegheny Bridge Company, for erecting a bridge over the Allegheny river, at, or near, the borough of Franklin, in the county
Act 736 of 1865 · P.L. 735 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Authorizing the laying out of a State road, in Pike and Monroe counties.
Act 737 of 1865 · P.L. 736 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Mill Creek Railroad Company.
Act 738 of 1865 · P.L. 737 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To appoint supervisors of the Loyalsock creek.
Act 740 of 1865 · P.L. 739 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Relating to the fees of constable?, in the counties of Cambria and Huntingdon. Sectio»n 1.
Act 742 of 1865 · P.L. 742 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Incorporating the Moselem Railroad Company.
Act 744 of 1865 · P.L. 744 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of Robinson township, Washington county, to levy and collect a special bounty tax.
Act 745 of 1865 · P.L. 746 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act regulating the standard weight of grain, in so far as it appUes to the county of Northampton.
Act 746 of 1865 · P.L. 746 · March 24, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act for the better security of the city of Philadelphia, from dangers incident to the refining, or improper and negligent storage, of petroleum, benzine, benzole, or naptha, approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfive.
Act 748 of 1865 · P.L. 749 · March 24, 1865 · Scanned page
Directing that, in proceedings, in the city of Philadelphia, by landlopds, to recover posses^sinn of demised property, the certiorari issued shall be a supersedeas.,
Act of 1865 · P.L. 750 · March 24, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Sewickley Skating Association.
Act 751 of 1865 · P.L. 753 · March 24, 1865 · Scanned page
To repeal the act, entitled "An Act to appoint commissioners to run and eetahlish the county line, between Westmoreland and Somerset counties," approved April twentyeighth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and to appoint new commissioners, to run said line.
Act 753 of 1865 · P.L. 755 · March 24, 1865 · Scanned page
To authori2e the construction of a bridge, over an arm of the AUeghenj river, from the north bank of said river, to Herr's island, in the bor-, cmgh of Duquesne.
Act 755 of 1865 · P.L. 757 · March 24, 1865 · Scanned page
Authorizing the governor to appoint additional notaries public, for the city of Philadelphia, and in the counties of Northumberland and
Act 756 of 1865 · P.L. 758 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the Mahoning and Susquehanna Railroad Company, approved the nineteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfour.
Act 759 of 1865 · P.L. 761 · March 24, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Delaware River Telegraph Company.
Act 760 of 1865 · P.L. 761 · March 23, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Greene County Railroad Company.
Act 762 of 1865 · P.L. 766 · March 24, 1865 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Lycoming Gas and Water Company.
Act 763 of 1865 · P.L. 767 · March 24, 1865 · 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.