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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
Extending the pfovisions of an act repealing existing laws relating to killing beasts of prey, so far as related to the county of Venango, approved the twelfth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Act 794 of 1867 · P.L. 877 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Repealing an act relative to the purchase of a law library, in the county of Butler.
Act 795 of 1867 · P.L. 878 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Ohioville Railroad Company," approved the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Act 796 of 1867 · P.L. 878 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement To an act regulating the mode of voting at all elections in the several counties of this Commonwealth, and to regulate the mode of voting, where boroughs and townships vote together, in the county of Washington.
Act 797 of 1867 · P.L. 879 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Tldioute Railroad Company.
Act 798 of 1867 · P.L. 879 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the supervisors of Cook township, in the county of Westmoreland, to levy taxes for the construction of a bridge.
Act 799 of 1867 · P.L. 881 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To repeal an act to authorize and require the school directors of West Cain township, Chester county, to levy and collect taxes, for the purpose of paying three hundred dollars each, to persons who were drafted, and furnished substitutes, under the call of the President, of July eighteen, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, approved the twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini one
Act 800 of 1867 · P.L. 882 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Extending the provisions of an act relating to dogs, in Allegheny, Chester, Northampton, Schuylkill and Lancaster counties, approved the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, to the county of Berks.
Act 801 of 1867 · P.L. 882 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the board of supervisors of Industry township, Beaver county, to levy a bounty tax.
Act 802 of 1867 · P.L. 883 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Relating to tavern licenses in Greene countyc
Act 803 of 1867 · P.L. 884 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To exempt tlie property of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, situated in the Ninth ward, city of Philadelphia, from taxation,
Act 805 of 1867 · P.L. 885 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the board O'f school directoi'S of the township of BrooklyB, Susquehanna county, to levy and collect a tax to pay oustanding, Ixinds, and for other purposes.
Act 806 of 1867 · P.L. 886 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the hoard of school directors of the borough of Irwin, in the county of Westmoreland, to borrow money for building purposes, and to levy additional school tax.
Act 807 of 1867 · P.L. 886 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Relative to a certain highway in the town of Coatesville, Chester county.
Act 808 of 1867 · P.L. 887 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To annex additional territory to the borough of Brownsville, Mercer county, for school purposes.
Act 809 of 1867 · P.L. 888 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to legalize bounties paid volunteers and the bonds issued therefor, in certain townships in the county of Franklin, approved the fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, extending the provisions of said act and the supplement thereto, to the township of Hamilton, in said county.
Act 810 of 1867 · P.L. 889 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To prevent the destruction of fish in Breeche's pond, or lake, in Overfield township, Wyoming county, and Chartiers creek, Washington county.
Act 811 of 1867 · P.L. 890 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
an act relative to the opening and making of new roads, and building of bridges, in thetownshipof West Marlboro', in the county of Chester, to the township of Sadsbury, said county.
Act 812 of 1867 · P.L. 891 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To j)rovi(le for the payment of expenses incurred in guarding the jail of Washington county.
Act 814 of 1867 · P.L. 892 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
No. 8lD. |i ixnilm 3xiw\n\xmt T6 ail act to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors, approved the thirty-first day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-sis, so far as relates to the county of Mercer.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 893 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the road supervisors of the township of Collins, Allegheny county, to make sideAvalks along the public roads, in said township and to increase the pay of supervisors and auditors in said township
Act 818 of 1867 · P.L. 896 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the School directors of Conestoga township, Lancaster county, to levy and collect a tax to liquidate the delit on said township, created to pay bounties to volunteers.
Act 819 of 1867 · P.L. 896 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Monongahela Valley Railroad Company.
Act 820 of 1867 · P.L. 897 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To declare Mill run, in the county of Lycoming, a public highway.
Act 821 of 1867 · P.L. 898 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To repeal the second section of an act authorizing the collection of a tax in Jackson township, Dauphin county, and Jefferson township, Berks county, to refund money advanced to pay bounties to volunteers.
Act 822 of 1867 · P.L. 899 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To declare Lake Pleasant and its out4et to French creek, a public highway.
Act 823 of 1867 · P.L. 899 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
LATTS OF FMlSnSSYJjrAmA^ fo. 824. ^ W ^t' ComniissioaerE Pnrciiase of tive to. Ta atitiwrize tite pxircliase of real estate' and the erection of a' poorfiOts'Sie? in A'alley township, Montour eounty.
Act 824 of 1867 · P.L. 900 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To legalize certain loans made by the city of Titusville.
Act 825 of 1867 · P.L. 904 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to secure bounty taxes in certain wards of the city of Lancaster, approved April four, one thousand eight hundred and sixtysix.
Act 826 of 1867 · P.L. 905 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To legalize the levy and collection of certain bounty tax, to provide for a settlement, and authorize the school directors to lay an additional bounty tax, in the borough of Gratztown, in the county of Dauphin.
Act 827 of 1867 · P.L. 906 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To prevent the injury, or destruction, of fruit, ornamental, or other trees, and to protect the owners thereof, in the counties of Clinton, Centre, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer.
Act 828 of 1867 · P.L. 907 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To sell same, &c. Certain persons authorized to purchase real estate for support of poor. To an act, approved March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-live, entitled "An Act to provide for the erection of a poor house, in the townships of Milford, Turbut, Spruce Hill, Tuscarora, Lack and Beale, and the boroughs of Perry ville and Patterson, in the county of Juniata.
Act 831 of 1867 · P.L. 910 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Volcanic Mining Company.
Act 832 of 1867 · P.L. 911 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Relating to taxes in Gfeenfiekl township, in Luzerne countyj
Act 833 of 1867 · P.L. 912 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Paros Coal, Mining and Lumber Company of Pennsylvania.
Act 834 of 1867 · P.L. 913 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To attach the farms of James M'Kean, William Nichols, David Long and John Long, Junior, of Otter Creek township, in the county of Mercer, to Salem school district, for school purposes.
Act 835 of 1867 · P.L. 915 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
916 LAWS OF p:ex>tsylva>tia. May hold on trust, grants, etc. Application of revenue derived therefrom. Trusts, how secured. Receipts and expenditures. Administrators &c., authorized to keep in order fences, &c. Paving or curbing roads. Property execapt from taa- No. 836, To an act to incorporate the Charles Eyaus Cemetery Company.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 916 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Conferring additional powers upon the councils of the city of Pittsburg,
Act 838 of 1867 · P.L. 918 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
For the protection of wild turkeys and squirrels, and for other purposes, in the county of Huntingdon.
Act 839 of 1867 · P.L. 920 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To exempt from taxation the property of the Ladies' Soldiers' Aid of Weldon.
Act 840 of 1867 · P.L. 922 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To reduce the compensation, and change the manner of election, of supervisors, in the township of Newberry, in the county of York.
Act 843 of 1867 · P.L. 924 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To take the sense of the i^eople of Beaver county, upon the question of a prohibitory liquor law.
Act 844 of 1867 · P.L. 924 · 1867 · Scanned page
To annex the farm of Daniel Sell, of Germany township, Adams county, to the borough of Littlestown, for school purposes.
Act 845 of 1867 · P.L. 925 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Repealing so much of the act, entitled "An Act in relation to original writs and executions, in the county of Franklin," approved the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, as relates to executions.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 926 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
No. 8i% ^\% ^tx 'i'o establish a lerry ovei* the West Branch of the Susquehanna liver, at, or near, the residence of George W. Sour, in the township of Wmjme, in the county of Clinton.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 926 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To regulate the collection of local taxes in the township of Edgmont, Delaware county.
Act 848 of 1867 · P.L. 928 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To lay out a State road in Venango and Butler counties.
Act 849 of 1867 · P.L. 929 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To empower the court of quarter sessions of the peace of Adams county to appoint auditors to audit bounty accou.nts in the several boroughs and townships, in said county, and in relation to re-auditing the bounty accounts of Cumberland township, in said county.
Act 850 of 1867 · P.L. 930 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing and empowering A. Clark, of Meadville, to have his dock' ets returned to him.
Act 851 of 1867 · P.L. 931 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To increase the pay of the county comnKissioners of Northumberland
Act of 1867 · P.L. 932 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the payment to Nicholas Simon, a soldier in the war to suppress the rebellion, a gratuity on accout of the loss of one of his hands.
Act 854 of 1867 · P.L. 933 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing the school directors of the borough of Tarentum, Allegheny county, to assess and collect taxes for school purposes.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 935 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the city of Erie.
Act 857 of 1867 · P.L. 936 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To legitimate John Horning, of Mifflin county, and confer on him the rights and privileges of a child born in wedlock.
Act 858 of 1867 · P.L. 936 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To exempt firom taxation certain real estate in Philadelphia, belonging to the Jewish Hospital Association of Philadelphia.
Act 859 of 1867 · P.L. 937 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act for the better securing the payment of the wages of labor in certain counties of this Commonwealth, approved the thirtieth March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Act 860 of 1867 · P.L. 938 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To the constitution and charter of the Bustleton Methodist Episcopal church, enrolled, by order of the Governor, in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, on the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, (1834,) authorizing the trustees of said corporation to remove certain bodies to enable them to extend their church edifice.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 939 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Extending the provisions of an act, approved the seventh day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An Act to prevent cattle, horses, sheep, or hogs, from running at large in Bethlehem township, Northampton county," to Lower Nazareth, East Allen and Saucon townships, in said county.
Act 864 of 1867 · P.L. 940 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Pennsylvania and North Carolina Gold Miniflg Coirtpany. SECTIO^f I.
Act 865 of 1867 · P.L. 941 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Relative to the election of constables, in the township of Blakely, county of Luzerne.
Act 866 of 1867 · P.L. 942 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Chester Passenger I'iailroad Company.
Act 870 of 1867 · P.L. 945 · April 8, 1867 · Scanned page
Explanatory of the provisions of the fifth section of the act to incorporate the Bennett Branch Improvement Company.
Act 871 of 1867 · P.L. 947 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Limestone Turnpike and Plant Road Company c4 Warren county.
Act 872 of 1867 · P.L. 948 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
To legalize and mate valid an assessment, made by the board of school directors of Strasburg township, Lancaster county, of one-half of oneper centum, on the sixteenth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, for baunty pui-poses.
Act 873 of 1867 · P.L. 950 · 1867 · Scanned page
Regulating certain sheriff's fees, in the county of Luzerne.
Act 874 of 1867 · P.L. 950 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Delaware Valley Railroad Company.
Act 876 of 1867 · P.L. 953 · April 5, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, approved the ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "A supplement to an act to incorporate the Lykens Valley Coal Company, in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and to authorize the opening of a road, in Honesdale, Wayne ciounty," authorizing them to dispose of the stoclv of said company.
Act 877 of 1867 · P.L. 955 · March 26, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act incorporating the Lackawanna and Bloonisburg Railroad Company," aipproved April the fifth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Act 878 of 1867 · P.L. 956 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the American Dredging Company.
Act 879 of 1867 · P.L. 956 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing the school directors of Curwensville, Clearfield county, to borrow money and sell a school building.
Act 880 of 1867 · P.L. 958 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act granting a pension to Lewis Hagenman," approved April seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtysix.
Act 881 of 1867 · P.L. 959 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act relating to the directors of the poor of Lancaster county, approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, regulating the fees of constables. Sectiox 1.
Act 882 of 1867 · P.L. 960 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Relative to the assessment and collection of taxes on unseated lands in Cherry towTiship, Sullivan county.
Act 883 of 1867 · P.L. 960 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
the State Treasurer to allow a credit to the treasurer of < Adams county, for money paid John Scott.
Act 885 of 1867 · P.L. 961 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Autliorizing the revision of a portion of the wharf lines on the rivers Delaware and Schuylkill.
Act 886 of 1867 · P.L. 962 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
To fill act approved April tvvelfth', one thousand eigiit liiundr'eci ati(S lifty-six, to lay out a state road from Tarentumy Allegheny co'J&ntytto George Gochee's-, in Butler
Act of 1867 · P.L. 964 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
To establish & ferry over the Allegheny river, at, or below, the Big Rock, in the county of Venango.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 965 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing the erection of a house for school and township purposes, in Millvillage, Le Boeuf township, Erie county, and empowering the school directors to levy and collect additional tax.
Act 891 of 1867 · P.L. 967 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
To vacate part of Manayunk avenue, in the Twenty-first ward of Philadelphia.
Act 892 of 1867 · P.L. 968 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing the supervisors and auditors of Jones township, Elk county, to receive the sum of two dollars per day.
Act 893 of 1867 · P.L. 968 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
the election of corporate officers of the borough of Dushore, in Sullivan county.
Act 896 of 1867 · P.L. 970 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Extending the time for laying out a State road in Wayne and MonroG counties.
Act 899 of 1867 · P.L. 974 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorized to borrow money and issue bonds, Proviso. No. POO. 1\> authorize the school directors of the borough of Se wickley to borrow money and levy an additional school tax.
Act 900 of 1867 · P.L. 974 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing the trustees, secretary and treasurer of the Proprietors' Fund of Plymouth township, to appropriate said fund tow^ards the erection of school houses and for school purposes.
Act 901 of 1867 · P.L. 975 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act for the better regulation of billiard roonifi, bowling saloons and ten pin alleys, in the counties of Chester and Delaware, approved April thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and supplement thereto, approved March sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, extending the same to the counties of Lawrence, Butler and Armstrong.
Act 902 of 1867 · P.L. 976 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate tlie Scranton Gas and Water Company," approved March sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Act 903 of 1867 · P.L. 977 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Sandusky and Irwin Street Bridge
Act 904 of 1867 · P.L. 978 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act annexing the borough of Manchester to Allegheny city, apjjroved March twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyseven.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 979 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
For the better improvement of the front of the river Delaware.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 980 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act, entitled "An Act authorizing the Columbia Water Company to hold real estate, and so forth," approved tenth February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Act 908 of 1867 · P.L. 981 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Relating to bounties in the borough of Dillsburg, in the county of York, and State of Pennsylvania, validating and legalizing the assessment, duplicate and warrant to collect bounty tax, assessed in June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in said borough.
Act 909 of 1867 · P.L. 982 · 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Bear Creek Railroad Company," approved the twentieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hvmdred and sixty-five, changing the name of the same, regulating the rates of fare and fixing the termini.
Act 911 of 1867 · P.L. 984 · April 9, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Citizens' Turnpike and Macadamized Road Company.
Act 812 of 1867 · P.L. 985 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page
To anthorize the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company to borrow monej'and issue bonds.
Act 913 of 1867 · P.L. 986 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page
To extend the time for the commencement of the Chestnut Hill and Cheltenham Kailway Company.
Act 915 of 1867 · P.L. 988 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page
Relative to the leasing of the Kersey Oil and Mineral Company's Railroad, by the Farmers' Railroad Company, of Venango county.
Act 916 of 1867 · P.L. 988 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing the commissioners of Mercer county to appropriate money suflScient to pay one-half tlie expense of erecting a bridge over the Pymatuning creelc, at the state line of Pennsylvania and Ohio, in the village of Orangeville.
Act 917 of 1867 · P.L. 989 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Cardington Industrial Co-operative Association.
Act 918 of 1867 · P.L. 989 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to authorize the erection of a poor house by the township of Jenkins, borough of Pittston, and to-uaiship of Pittston, in the county of Luzerne, approved May eighth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and
Act 919 of 1867 · P.L. 991 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, approved April thirteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-.six, authorizing the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to construct additional railroad tracks, sidings, depots, work-shops and other appurtenances, along, adjoining, or contiguous to, their own line of railroad, and the railroads now owned and leased,
Act 920 of 1867 · P.L. 993 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page
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