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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
To authorize the erection of bridges over the Clarion river and Red Bank creek.
Act 768 of 1866 · P.L. 777 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
For the relief of John Scott, late brigade inspector of the Second brigade, Fourth division, Fennsylvania militia.
Act 770 of 1866 · P.L. 779 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Authorizing persons, whose wives, or husbands, are non compos mentis, to sell, mortgage, lease for years and convey, upon ground rent, real estate held in their own right.
Act 771 of 1866 · P.L. 780 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To change the width of Camac street, in the city of Philadelphia.
Act 772 of 1866 · P.L. 781 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Certain provisions amended and construed. Repeal. City divided into wards. Election districts. Elections. Election of ward officerd. First election. Subsequent elections. Notice. Returns. Mayor and select council to declare election of officers. Certificate. To an act to incorporate the city of Corry.
Act 773 of 1866 · P.L. 782 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the 'Weccacoe Legion of Philadelphia.
Act 774 of 1866 · P.L. 786 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, approved the fourteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, relating to the borough of Franklin.
Act 775 of 1866 · P.L. 787 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the M'Neal Coal and Iron Company.
Act 776 of 1866 · P.L. 788 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To alter Race street, in Greenville, county of Mercer.
Act 777 of 1866 · P.L. 788 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To autliorize lie town council of the borough of Milton to sell certaia real estate.
Act 778 of 1866 · P.L. 789 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Relative to the aelling of ehurcb property, in Upper Paxton to\7nsbip, Dauphin county.
Act 779 of 1866 · P.L. 790 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize James F. Wood, bishop of Philadelphia, to sell certain real estate, situate in the city of Carbondale, Luzerne county.
Act 780 of 1866 · P.L. 791 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Relating to bounty taxes, in the township of Clifford, Susquehanna county.
Act 781 of 1866 · P.L. 791 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act for establishing and building a bridge across the rirer Lehigh, at Bethlehem, approved April third, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
Act 782 of 1866 · P.L. 792 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Authori'iing the commissioners of Perry county to pay the supervisors of Madison tov, nship, five hundred dollars to make a Mountain road.
Act 783 of 1866 · P.L. 793 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Lehigh Mountain Springs "Water-Cure and Hotel Company.
Act 785 of 1866 · P.L. 795 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Authorizing the town council of the borough of Ashland to borrow money.
Act 786 of 1866 · P.L. 797 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Authorizing the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Harrisburg, PortBmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company, and the Reading and Columbia Railroad Company, to construct and build a bridge, for public convenience, over their respective railroad traciss, at the crossing of the public road, leading from the Lancaster and Litiz turnpike road to the Lancaster and Harrisburg turnpike road,
Act 787 of 1866 · P.L. 798 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Perry "Warm Springs Hotel Company.
Act 788 of 1866 · P.L. 798 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
Changing and fixing the time of electing the directors and oflBcers of the Meadville Telegraph Company.
Act 789 of 1866 · P.L. 800 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To enable the administrators of the Hon. James T. Hale, late of Centre county, deceased, to sell real estate.
Act of 1866 · P.L. 801 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Garnet League of Harrisburg.
Act 791 of 1866 · P.L. 803 · March 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the superintendent of common schools of York and Lancaster counties to draw funds from the county treasury, to defray the expenses of teachers' county institutes therein," extending the same to the counties of Perry and Indiana.
Act 792 of 1866 · P.L. 805 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act appointing commissioners to run and establish the line between the counties of Warren and M'Kean, and for other purposes," approved the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
Act 793 of 1866 · P.L. 805 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
OF THE SESSION OP 1866. 807 No. 794-. Entitled "An Act repealing existing laws relating to killing beasts of prey, so far as related to the county of Venango.
Act of 1866 · P.L. 807 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To enable the county commissioners of Indiana county to appropriate relief funds of said county to pay arrearages of state taxes, and to the county fund.
Act of 1866 · P.L. 808 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Relating to the improvement of the Youghiogheny Lock Navigation Company.
Act 797 of 1866 · P.L. 809 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of the township of Codorus, in the county of York, to levy and collect the whole amount of bounty tax of said township in one year.
Act 798 of 1866 · P.L. 810 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To establish a ferry over the Ohio river, at the borough of Rochester, in Beaver county.
Act 801 of 1866 · P.L. 813 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of Osceola to levy an additional tax for building purposes.
Act 802 of 1866 · P.L. 814 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To repeal an act, approved the twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, entitled "An Act authorizing the election of one citizen of the United States, who may be a nonresident of Pennsylvania, as a director of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, and to ratify such election.
Act 803 of 1866 · P.L. 815 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To re-aadit the account of William Acre, late treasurer of Keating township, in M'Kean county.
Act 804 of 1866 · P.L. 816 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Authorizing the auditors of Canton township, Bradford county, to hold their annual meeting on the first Monday of May, instead of the fourth Monday in February.
Act 806 of 1866 · P.L. 817 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the school di»ector3 of Greenwood township, in the county of Perry, to collect certain moneys, subscribed by citizens of said township, to pay bounty to volunteers.
Act 807 of 1866 · P.L. 818 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Authorizing Sylvania borough, Bradford county, to levy taxes for bounty purposes.
Act 808 of 1866 · P.L. 819 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To extend the time of the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to appoint an auctioneer, in the county of Bedford," approved May first. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred an?l siaty-one.
Act 809 of 1866 · P.L. 820 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Reform Hospital of Pennsylvania. Bfeamble,
Act 810 of 1866 · P.L. 820 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To legalize the election of the municipal officers of the borough of WasbingtoQ, and supervisors in the township of North Strabane and Union.
Act 812 of 1866 · P.L. 823 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
For the relief of Michael Foley.
Act 814 of 1866 · P.L. 825 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, approved May fourth. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An Act to authorize the sale of the real estate, in the borough of Indiana, of the Indiana Academy.
Act 815 of 1866 · P.L. 825 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Relative to the publication of legal adveitisements, in the county of Bedford.
Act 816 of 1866 · P.L. 827 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act, entitled "An Act authorizing the governor to Incorporate the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation Company," passed the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Act 818 of 1866 · P.L. 828 · March 27, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act in relation to the Mercer Iron and Coal Company, in the county of Mercer, approved the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Act 819 of 1866 · P.L. 829 · April 11, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian Congregation of the Upper West CoDOcocheague to sell certain real estate. Preamble.
Act 821 of 1866 · P.L. 832 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Relating to the collection of bounty taxes, in Penns township, Snyder county.
Act 822 of 1866 · P.L. 833 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Autborizing the school directors of the township of Antis, in the county of Blair, to levy and a tax for bounty purposes.
Act 823 of 1866 · P.L. 834 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplementary to an act to incorporate the Harrisburg Gas Company.
Act 824 of 1866 · P.L. 835 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To change the venne of certain suits from Butler to ArmstroHg county.
Act 825 of 1866 · P.L. 836 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To prevent fishing with seines, in French creek and Conneaut lake, in the county of Crawford.
Act 826 of 1866 · P.L. 836 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of Springhill township, Fayette county, to pay certain moneys.
Act 827 of 1866 · P.L. 837 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Relating to roads, in Mount Garmel township, Northumberland
Act 829 of 1866 · P.L. 838 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Relating to the fees of the county treasurer of Lycoming county.
Act 830 of 1866 · P.L. 839 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Swiftsure Transportation Companj.
Act 831 of 1866 · P.L. 840 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To vacate Edline street, in the city of Philadelphia.
Act 832 of 1866 · P.L. 842 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Authorizing and requiring the controller of Allegheny county to issue a county bond to Wright A. Bringhnrst, of Montgomery county, in lieu of a certain bond lost, or stolen.
Act 833 of 1866 · P.L. 842 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Wissahickon, Roxborough and Plymouth railroad company, approved the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixtytwo.
Act 834 of 1866 · P.L. 843 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the appointment of phonographic reporters for the district court for the city and county of Philadelphia.
Act 835 of 1866 · P.L. 844 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Relative to the Johnstown Manufacturing Company. BuGTiOfi I.
Act 836 of 1866 · P.L. 845 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the village of Hyde Park, into a borough, passed the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty -two, supplement passed twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Act of 1866 · P.L. 846 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Bright Oil Company.
Act of 1866 · P.L. 847 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To perpetuate the testimony of Richard S. Goxe, deceased.
Act of 1866 · P.L. 848 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To change the venue in the case of John Lennox, from the county of "Washington to the county of Beaver.
Act 842 of 1866 · P.L. 852 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the Erie and Allegheny Railroad Company to purchase the Erie and "Waterford Plank Road, to repeal a portion of the first section of an act, approved March twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, to fix the number of directors, and to borrow money, and to erect and operate telegraph lines.
Act 843 of 1866 · P.L. 853 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to establish a health office, and to eecure the city and port of Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases, passed January twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Act 844 of 1866 · P.L. 854 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the Scranton Gas and Water Company, approved March sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Act 845 of 1866 · P.L. 855 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the borough of Mount "Washington, in Allegheny county.
Act 847 of 1866 · P.L. 857 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the Van Dusen CHI Company to borrow money.
Act 848 of 1866 · P.L. 859 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
For the better prosecution of disorderly persons, in the borough of Duqnesne.
Act 849 of 1866 · P.L. 860 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate ths Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of North America.
Act 850 of 1866 · P.L. 861 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Liacoln Gold Mining Company of Colorado.
Act 852 of 1866 · P.L. 863 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Legalizing acknowledgments taken in the territories of the United States, in certain cases, and confirming acknowledgments heretofore made.
Act 853 of 1866 · P.L. 864 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Authorizing the school directors of Madison township, in the conniy of Perry, to collect certain moneys, subscribed by citizens of said township, to pay bounty to volunteers.
Act 855 of 1866 · P.L. 865 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To repeal the eleventh section of "An Act to change the venue in a certain action now pending in the court of common pleas of Clarion county, and for other purposes," approved the seventeenth day of March, ohe thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
Act 856 of 1866 · P.L. 866 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to improve the navigation of the Delaware river, for the running of lumber.
Act 858 of 1866 · P.L. 868 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Concerning shade trees and side-walks, in the borough of Sewickley.
Act 859 of 1866 · P.L. 869 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the town of Haley, in the county of Perry, intoa
Act 860 of 1866 · P.L. 870 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To repeal a portion of an act relative to the destruction of certain animals, in the connty of Juniata, approved the first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Act 862 of 1866 · P.L. 872 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To change the venue in the case of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. David W. Horner, Charles S. Horner, George J. Hankey, Isaiah K. Hankey, Theodore B. Horner and John Horner, from the court of quarter sessions of the peace of Adams county, to the court of quarter sessions of the peace of Franklin county.
Act 865 of 1866 · P.L. 877 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Pittsburg and Connellsville Mining and Manufacturing Railroad Company.
Act 866 of 1866 · P.L. 878 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Lurgan Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Franklin county.
Act 869 of 1866 · P.L. 883 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the board of directora of the Washington County Eureka Oil Company to lay and collect assesaioents upf^n tho original «haro3 of said company.
Act 870 of 1866 · P.L. 885 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Tiger Gold Mining Company of Colorado.
Act 871 of 1866 · P.L. 886 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
To prevent the hunting of deer with dogs, in the township of Charleston, in the county of Tioga.
Act 872 of 1866 · P.L. 887 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act relating to "William M'Kee's ferry, in Allegheny connty, approved the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Act 873 of 1866 · P.L. 887 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act revising the charter of the municipal corporation of the city of Reading," passed April twenty-sixth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Act 874 of 1866 · P.L. 888 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Gray's Ferry Passenger Railway Company, approved April ninth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Act 876 of 1866 · P.L. 891 · April 13, 1866 · Scanned page
For the relief of Mary P. Gardner, widow of W. A. Gardner, deceased, late surgeon of the Eighty-first, Pennsylvania volunteers. Wheeeas, W. a. Gardner served as surgeon of the Eightyfirst regiment, Pennsylvania, served as surgeon of said regiment from the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, to the nineteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and
Act 877 of 1866 · P.L. 891 · April 13, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Ophir Ridge Gold Mining Company.
Act 879 of 1866 · P.L. 893 · April 13, 1866 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Hawley Coal and Transportation Company.
Act 880 of 1866 · P.L. 894 · April 13, 1866 · Scanned page
Relative to restaurant licenses, in Butler, Lawrence, Adams, Beaver and Franklin counties.
Act 881 of 1866 · P.L. 896 · April 13, 1866 · Scanned page
To reduce the capital stock, and supplementary to the act incorporating the Oil Creek, Lake and Titusville Mining and Transportation Company, and authorizing said company to secure its bonds by mortgage, and to Qx and define the liability of subscribers to its capital stock, and to regulate its operations.
Act 882 of 1866 · P.L. 897 · April 14, 1866 · Scanned page
Fixing the rate of interest apon the bonds, and relative to the election and term of office of directors and officers of the Oil Creek, Lake and Titusville Mining and Transporation Company, and to reduce the capital stock; and supplementary to the act incorporating said company, approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and authorizing said company's name to be
Act 883 of 1866 · P.L. 898 · April 14, 1866 · Scanned page
To authorize the sale of certain real estate in Moon township, Beaver ^ county, for the benefit of the common schools of said township.
Act 884 of 1866 · P.L. 899 · April 16, 1866 · Scanned page
Authorizing the laying out of a state road, in Wayne and Monroe connties.
Act 885 of 1866 · P.L. 901 · April 16, 1866 · Scanned page
Relative to the draining of wet, or sponty, lands, in the county of Lawrence.
Act 886 of 1866 · P.L. 902 · April 16, 1866 · Scanned page
For tbe protection of sheep and taxing dogs, in the county of Lycomingo
Act 887 of 1866 · P.L. 903 · April 14, 1866 · Scanned page
Relating to the supervisors of Carbondale township, Luzerne county.
Act 888 of 1866 · P.L. 905 · April 16, 1866 · Scanned page
To amend an act, approved the twenty-seventh day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, entitled "An Act relating to bonds and recognizances of bail, in the court of quarter sessions of Erie county.
Act 889 of 1866 · P.L. 906 · April 16, 1866 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act erecting parts of Clinton, Elk, M'Kean and Potter counties, into a county, to be called Cameron, approved the twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Act of 1866 · P.L. 907 · April 16, 1866 · Scanned page
Relative to bounty tax, in Gonnoquenessing and Adams townships, Butler county.
Act 892 of 1866 · P.L. 908 · April 16, 1866 · 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.