Every law Pennsylvania has passed

7,883 laws of the 1860s

Constitution of 1838

1. Relative to the payment of the committee appointed at the session of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, to investigate the alleged corruption connected with the passage of House bill, number thirteen hundred and forty-nine.

   Resolution 7 of 1866 · P.L. 1121 · March 30, 1866 · Scanned page

2. In reference to the claim of William Q. "Wallace, late chief clerk in the auditor general's office.

   Resolution 10 of 1866 · P.L. 1124 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page

3. Authorizing the governor 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 11 of 1866 · P.L. 1124 · April 12, 1866 · Scanned page

4. Relative to the payment of expenses incurred in reception of the flags of Pennsylvania regiments.

   Resolution 13 of 1866 · P.L. 1126 · April 16, 1866 · Scanned page

5. Relative to the payment of the expenses of the investigation of certain charges contained in the Sunday Dispatch.

   Resolution of 1866 · P.L. 1127 · April 16, 1866 · Scanned page

6. To define the time and regulate the manner of electing Senators, to represent this state in the Senate of the United States.

   Act 2 of 1867 · P.L. 18 · January 11, 1867 · Scanned page

7. To regulate the salary of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

   Act 3 of 1867 · P.L. 20 · January 29, 1867 · Scanned page

8. To provide for the contimiance of the education and maintenance ef the destitute orphans, of the deceased soldiers and sailors, and the destitut<3 children of permanently disabled soldiers and sailors of the state.

   Act 4 of 1867 · P.L. 21 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page

9. To create a loan for the redemption of the over due bonds of the commonwealth.

   Act 5 of 1867 · P.L. 25 · February 2, 1867 · Scanned page

10. Supplement to an act authorizing appeals from interlocutory orders or decrees, granting special injunctions, approved the fourteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, extending the provisions of said act to special injunctions granted by the court of nisi prius, at Philadelphia. S7i;cTioN 1.

    Act 6 of 1867 · P.L. 26 · February 16, 1867 · Scanned page

11. To extend the provisions of tlie act concerning the sale of railroads, canals, turnpikes, bridges and plank roads, to sales made, or to be made under, or by virtue of a power of sale, in mortgage or deed of trust, without judicial process or decree.

    Act 8 of 1867 · P.L. 28 · February 19, 1867 · Scanned page

12. Relating to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, and to the establishment of experimental farms in connection therewith.

    Act 9 of 1867 · P.L. 28 · February 19, 1867 · Scanned page

13. Supplement to an act relative to landlords and tenants, approved December fourteeu_ one thousand eiglit hundred and sixty-three, extending the provisions thereof to cases of descent and purchase.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 30 · February 20, 1867 · Scanned page

14. Supplement to an act increasing the fees of the several county officers of this Commonwealth, except in the city of Philadelphia, and the counties of Allegheny, Bradford, Susquehanna and Sullivan, approved March thirtieth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

    Act 12 of 1867 · P.L. 31 · February 27, 1867 · Scanned page

15. Sstending the pvovisions of the act relating to corporations for mechanical, manufacturing and quarrying purposes, approved July eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, and the supplements thereto, to the county of Northumberland.

    Act 14 of 1867 · P.L. 33 · February 27, 1867 · Scanned page

16. regulate the terms of the several courts in the Sixth judicial district.

    Act 15 of 1867 · P.L. 33 · March 12, 1867 · Scanned page

17. Supplement to an act to entitle the stockholders of any railroad company, ineorpo rated by the la'S's of this commonwealth, accepting this act, to one vote for each share ef stock, approved the twentieth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty five, extending the same to bridge companies and hall associations.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 36 · March 16, 1867 · Scanned page

18. Making it an offeuce for railroad corporations, within this CommonwealirL. to make any distinction with their passengers, on account of race or color, and punishing said corporations, and their agents and employees., for the commission of such offence.

    Act 21 of 1867 · P.L. 38 · March 22, 1867 · Scanned page

19. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to provide for the ordinary espouses of tliegovernment, and other general and specific appropriations," approved April eleven, one thousand eight hundred and sixtj^&is, relative to tiie Keystone State Normal School. Wheseas, It was understood and intended, at the time of the passage of the appropriation bill of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,

    Act 23 of 1867 · P.L. 40 · March 22, 1867 · Scanned page

20. To increase the Revenues of the Commonwealtli.

    Act 25 of 1867 · P.L. 42 · March 22, 1867 · Scanned page

21. Relating to judicial sales, and the preservation of the lien of mortgages.

    Act 26 of 1867 · P.L. 43 · March 23, 1867 · Scanned page

22. To enlarge the jurisdiction of the courts of common pleas of this Commonwealth, relative to granting charters of incorporation, and confirming those heretofore granted.

    Act 27 of 1867 · P.L. 44 · March 27, 1867 · Scanned page

23. Relating to evidence in actions of ejectment.

    Act 30 of 1867 · P.L. 47 · March 28, 1867 · Scanned page

24. Relative to certain foreign insurance companies.

    Act 33 of 1867 · P.L. 49 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page

25. Supplement to an act for tlie regulation and continuance of a system of education by common schools, approved tlie eiglitti day of May, Anno Domini one tliousand eight hundred and fiftyfour. ^ I. — The Selection o^ Sites for School Houses.

    Act 35 of 1867 · P.L. 51 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page

26. Regulating interest on public accounts.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 58 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page

27. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act amending the law of evidence in Pennsylvania," approved the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

    Act 38 of 1867 · P.L. 60 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

28. Supplement to an act relating to corporations for mechanical, manufacturing, mining and quarrying purposes, approved the eighteenth day of.July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, repealing section thirty -three of the same, so far as it affects certain counties.

    Act 39 of 1867 · P.L. 60 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

29. For tlie better and more impartial selection of persons to serve as jnrors, in each of the counties of this

    Act 41 of 1867 · P.L. 62 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

30. Supplement to an act to provide for the adjudication and payment of certain military eJaims, approved April sixteeeuth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 65 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

31. Supplement to an act to entitle the stockholders of any railroad company, incorporated by the laws of this Commonwealth, accepting this act, to one Tote for each share of stock, approved the twentieth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, extending the same to turnpike road companies.

    Act 43 of 1867 · P.L. 65 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

32. an act to validate certain conveyances'made by married women, since the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, approved twentysecond April, one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, restraining conveyances in cases in which the instrument, vesting title, withholds such power.

    Act 46 of 1867 · P.L. 67 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

33. Authorizing courts to receive certified copies of military records in

    Act 48 of 1867 · P.L. 68 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

34. To regulate the carriage of baggage by railroad companies, and to prescribe the duties and obligations of carriers and passengers in relation thereto.

    Act 49 of 1867 · P.L. 69 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

35. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act relating to orphans' courts, and for other purposes," passed the thirteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty, empowering said courts to incorporate saving fund associations.

    Act 50 of 1867 · P.L. 70 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

36. Supplement to the act, entitled "An Act regulating banks," approved April sixteenth one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 71 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

37. Supplement to an act regulating the measurement of corn and salt imported into the port of Philadelphia, approved the twentysecond day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 74 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

38. To increase the Revenue of the Commonwealth, by taxation of the shares, or stock, of the National Banks.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 74 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

39. For the better protection of person, property and life, in the mining regions of this Commonwealth.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 76 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

40. For the relief of wives and children, deserted by their husbands and fathers, within this Commonwealth.

    Act 56 of 1867 · P.L. 78 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

41. Supplement to the act relating to the passage of fish in the Susquehanna, and certain of its tributaries.

    Act 57 of 1867 · P.L. 79 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

42. To confer upon the courts of quarter sessions of this Coramoriwealth power to annex the land, or parts thereof, of persons resideut in one district, to another district, for school purposes.

    Act 58 of 1867 · P.L. 80 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

43. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act relating to the payment of bounties to veteran volunteers," approved May first, one thousand eight hundred and sixtysix.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 81 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

44. Supplement to an act relating to corporations for mechaniGal, manufacturing, mining and quarrying purposes, approved the eigliteentli day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, authorizing com-» panies to sell and lease real estate, and to issue coupon bonds.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 82 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

45. THE SESSION OF 1867. 83 Ho. 62. ^0 antiiorize tlie appointment cf phcnograpHc reporters for the several courts of comaion pleas of this Commonwealth,

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 83 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

46. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act regulating railroad companies," approTecT February nineteentb, Anno Dorcini one tiionsand eight hundred sn5i forty-nine.

    Act 63 of 1867 · P.L. 84 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

47. Supplement to the act of the fifteenth of March, Anno Domini one thousand eighi hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An Act relating to registers andi registers' courts.

    Act 67 of 1867 · P.L. 86 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

48. To authorize the Governor to appoint a person to visit prisons and almshouses.

    Act 68 of 1867 · P.L. 87 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page

49. To authorize the completion of the military history of the Pennsylvania volunteers.

    Act 69 of 1867 · P.L. 88 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page

50. Authorizing the merger, or consolidation, of oil and other mining companies.

    Act 71 of 1867 · P.L. 90 · April 18, 1867 · Scanned page

51. To establish criminal courts for Dauphin, Lebanon and Schuylkill counties.

    Act 72 of 1867 · P.L. 91 · April 18, 1867 · Scanned page

52. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday," approved February twenty-six, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive.

    Act 73 of 1867 · P.L. 95 · April 29, 1867 · Scanned page

53. To pay tlie retiring officers of the Senate and House of

    Act 74 of 1867 · P.L. 96 · January 3, 1867 · Scanned page

54. Relating to bounty taxes in Bradford county, legalizing the action of the burgess and town council in Troy borough, relative to bounties, and to require the payment of the same.

    Act 75 of 1867 · P.L. 96 · January 9, 1867 · Scanned page

55. Relative to the receiver of taxes in the city of Philadelphia^ repealing sc much of the act of April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyonBj as authorizes him to charge five per cent, commission for collecting taxes from delinquent taxpayers.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 98 · January 9, 1867 · Scanned page

56. an act anthoTising tlie 'boreugt of Hollidaysburg to erect water works, approved Majrch sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 79 of 1867 · P.L. 99 · January 11, 1867 · Scanned page

57. To authorize the Freedom Iron and Steel Company to issue and dispose of bonds of th3 said company, convertible into capital stock, and to secure them by a mortgage; granting certain powers to facilitate the mining, manufacturing, transporting and vending business of said company, and extending their charter, as hereby

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 103 · January 11, 1867 · Scanned page

58. To incorporate the Germantown Swimming and Skating Park Assooia-' tion. CorporatorK. Purpose. Location. Title. Rights and privileges. To hold real estate. Seal. By-la-ws. Constrnction. Capital stock.

    Act 85 of 1867 · P.L. 104 · January 12, 1867 · Scanned page

59. 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, so as to autliorize said company to insure persons against death, or disability, whether from natural diseases, acoidentj or otherwise, and to issue policies therefor, in the usual manner, under the name, style and title of

    Act 86 of 1867 · P.L. 105 · January 12, 1867 · Scanned page

60. Authorizing an additional justice of the peace in the borougli of Towanda, in the county of Bradford.

    Act 87 of 1867 · P.L. 106 · January 14, 1867 · Scanned page

61. Authorizing the appointments of additional notaries public, for the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny.

    Act 88 of 1867 · P.L. 106 · January 17, 1867 · Scanned page

62. Repealing an act appointing commissioners to lay out and open a State road from Marsh's Corners, M'Kean county, to the Philadelphia and Erie railroad.

    Act 89 of 1867 · P.L. 107 · January 17, 1867 · Scanned page

63. Autlioriziag tlie Governor to appoint one additional notary public for tlie county of Lycoming.

    Act 90 of 1867 · P.L. 108 · January 17, 1867 · Scanned page

64. To an alct, entitled ''An Act to incorporate the Valley C'oal Cofflpafiy,^" approved the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty* five.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 109 · January 24, 1867 · Scanned page

65. To Incorporate the Littlestown Savings Institution

    Act 96 of 1867 · P.L. 112 · January 25, 1867 · Scanned page

66. LAWS OF PENKSYLVAIS'IA, Cemetery* Burial lots. No. 100. ExemptiBg tlie MorFls eemetery, in the county of Chester, from the payment of tax, and the lots sold therein from an attachment for debt.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 120 · January 25, 1867 · Scanned page

67. Changing the venue of certain cases from the county of Juniata to the county of Snyder.

    Act 102 of 1867 · P.L. 121 · January 29, 1867 · Scanned page

68. To incorporate the Danphin County Soldiers' Monument Association.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 122 · January 30, 1867 · Scanned page

69. To incorporate the Brady's Bend Bridge Company.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 123 · January 30, 1867 · Scanned page

70. To incorporate the Eureka Life and Accident tnstlfance Company.

    Act 105 of 1867 · P.L. 125 · January 30, 1867 · Scanned page

71. To enable the school directors of West Manheim township, in the county of York, to levy and collect at once the bounty tax remaining unpaid.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 129 · January 30, 1867 · Scanned page

72. To incorporate the German Savings Institution of Erie.

    Act 108 of 1867 · P.L. 130 · February 1, 1867 · Scanned page

73. lit Is'efatife Co o&e settlement of boiiuty sceou-nts, in tlie eoutiiy of

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 132 · February 2, 1867 · Scanned page

74. Supplement to an act relative to the fees of district attorneys, in certain counties iu: this Commonwealth.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 134 · February 2, 1867 · Scanned page

75. Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional notary public for the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 115 of 1867 · P.L. 135 · February 2, 1867 · Scanned page

76. Supplement to an act increasing the fees of the jurors and witnesses in and for tbe eounty of Armstrong, Franklin, Schuylkill and Westmoreland, approved the twentyseventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtysix, changing the fees to be paid witnesses Id the courts of Franklin county.

    Act 116 of 1867 · P.L. 136 · February 2, 1867 · Scanned page

77. To authorize the scliool directors of the borough of PhaMiixville to borrow money, for the purj^ose of purchasing lands and building school houses.

    Act 117 of 1867 · P.L. 136 · February 2, 1867 · Scanned page

78. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to promote the more certain and equal assessment of taxes in Philadelphia," approved March fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-fiye.

    Act 118 of 1867 · P.L. 137 · February 2, 1867 · Scanned page

79. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Eagle Mining Company, passed the eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfive, and authorizing said company to borrow money, issue bonds and to increase the number of directors.

    Act 119 of 1867 · P.L. 139 · February 6, 1867 · Scanned page

80. Creating the office and defining the duties of Assistant District Attorney for the county of Allegheny.

    Act 120 of 1867 · P.L. 140 · February 6, 1867 · Scanned page

81. To repeal a part of an act, approved March second, Anno Domini cmc thousand eight hundred and sixtysix^ in reference to fees of officers and jurymen in Warren county.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 141 · February 6, 1867 · Scanned page

82. To validate and eonfirlcA a certain mortgage, or deed of trilsl, eseeuted under the corporate seal of tlie Phillips'bnrg Coal, Iron and Oil Company, and to anthorize tlie transfer of the railroa.d of the said company to any other railroad x;ompany, owning a railroad connecting therewith, and to inc^i-ease tlie number in the board of

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 142 · 1867 · Scanned page

83. To l-epeal tlie act to fcliange tlie venue in the case of John LentLoJE, fi-olO the county of Washington to the county of Beaver, approved April ttvelfth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and siity sis.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 144 · February 7, 1867 · Scanned page

84. Supplement to an act, approved February twenty-seventh, Antio Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate ttie Oakland Railway Company.

    Act 126 of 1867 · P.L. 145 · February 7, 1867 · Scanned page

85. Of fare. Sale of tickets. Fare of children under certain age. Baskets, &c. Penalty. Repeal. 'No. 127. Anthorizing a special election in the borougllof

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 146 · February 7, 1867 · Scanned page

86. to an act, entitled "An Act providing for tlie erectioJf" of a poor honse in tije county of Lawrence,

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 148 · February 7, 1867 · Scanned page

87. To exempt from "taxation certain propei'ty devoted to Masonic uses, in the city of Reading.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 150 · February 11, 1867 · Scanned page

88. To incorporate the Qittiiteri-o Mining Company. Corporators. Title. Rights and privileges. Real estate. Mining privileges. Suildings. Proviso. By-laws. Proviso. Seal. Certificates of stock.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 152 · February 12, 1867 · Scanned page

89. Appropriating part of the moneys arising from fines and forfeitures, in tlie county of Schuylkill, for a law library, for the use of the courts, et cetera.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 154 · February 12, 1867 · Scanned page

90. In relation to the sale of certain real estate owned by the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of AUentown, in the county of Lehigh.

    Act 136 of 1867 · P.L. 155 · February 12, 1867 · Scanned page

91. Bounty commissioners required to account to auditors tor all moneys received., Failure to account, relative to. Auditoris to notify bounty commissioners to appear before ithem. Bounty tax not to be collected until account is.audited, &c. 1^0. 137. Reciulriug the bounty commissioners of Forks townsiiip, Northampton county, to render an account to the auditors of

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 156 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page

92. Relative to thei road livws in certajihtdw-nships in Sullivan county.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 170 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page

93. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Brady's Bend Iron Company, approved the ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, authorizing the conveyance of real estate in the several counties of the Commonwealth, on the recording of the resolutions of board of directors of said

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 184 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page

94. Supplement to an act to authorize Woodland street, in tlie Twenty-fourth ward of the city of Philadelphia, to be graded, curbed and paved, approved the twenty-seventh day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, repealing the proviso to the tirst section of the supplement thereto, approved the seventeenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 185 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page

95. To repeal an act, entitled "An Act relative to bounties in Brady townsliip, Butler county," which became a law on the fourth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 152 of 1867 · P.L. 185 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page

96. Authorizing the school directors of the borough of SoM^ickley to collect the balance of bounty tax, in said borough.

    Act 153 of 1867 · P.L. 186 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page

97. Relative to roads in Valley township, Chester county.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 187 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page

98. To exempt the property of the Beaver Cemetery Association from taxation.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 188 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page

99. Supplement to an act fixing the terms of the courts of common pleas, oyer and ter-' miner and general jail delivery, quarter sessions of the peace and orphans' collrt, in the county of Alleghenj^, and regulating proceedings tlierein, approved the twenty-second day of March, Anno DominS one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, repealing sections fifth and sixth of said act.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 189 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page

100. Relating to the granting of ta^nern licenses, in Washington

     Act 159 of 1867 · P.L. 190 · February 14, 1867 · Scanned page