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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.

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7,883 laws of the 1860s

Constitution of 1838

  1. Concurrent with an act passed by the Legislature of Ohio, on the twentieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in relation to the Ohio and Pennsylvania Canal Company.

    Act 1060 of 1867 · P.L. 1119 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  2. To atithoriz;e the stockholders of the I'cnnsj'lvania and Ohio Catial Company to abandon, lease, or sell, ai,y portion, or portions, of said canal.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1120 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  3. to ccmtested elections in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 1063 of 1867 · P.L. 1123 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  4. Atithorizing the president and managers of the Limekiln Turupdlfc* Company, and the president and managers of the Jarrettstown an(3 Horsham Turnpike Company, t<y change certain rates of tolls.

    Act 1064 of 1867 · P.L. 1124 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  5. Supplement to an act relating to auctioneers in the city and county of Erie.

    Act 1065 of 1867 · P.L. 1125 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  6. 1126 liAWa OF PENZ!irSTIjTASlA^ iS^o. 1066. Kelating to the compeasation of the treasurer of Berks

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1126 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  7. To incorporate th& Crystal Gas and Water

    Act 1087 of 1867 · P.L. 1126 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  8. To vacate part of the Township Line road, in the Twenty-first ward of the city of Pliiladelphia.

    Act 1068 of 1867 · P.L. 1127 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  9. To prevent cattle from running at large on the flat of Jack's mountain, in Menno and Union townships, in the county of Mifflin.

    Act 1069 of 1867 · P.L. 1128 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  10. To change the venue in a certain case, from Schuylkill county to Berks county.

    Act 1071 of 1867 · P.L. 1129 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  11. To authorize the removal of certain cases from the court of common pleas of Cambria county, to the court of common pleas of Centre county.

    Act 1072 of 1867 · P.L. 1130 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  12. To change the venue in the case of G. W. Scofield vs. Martin Brunges, from the court of common pleas of Wyoming county, to the court of common pleas of Bradford county.

    Act 1073 of 1867 · P.L. 1131 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  13. To protect the validity of certain liens, in Venango county.

    Act 1074 of 1867 · P.L. 1132 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  14. To provide for the enforcement of the inspection laws, in I'egard to the inspection of whisky, in the county of Pliiladelphia.

    Act 1075 of 1867 · P.L. 1133 · April 10, 1867 · Scanned page

  15. To incorporate the Conetnaugh and Allegheny Transportation Company.

    Act 1076 of 1867 · P.L. 1134 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  16. Supplement to an act incorporating the Wilkesbarre and Pittston Railroad Company, approved April the fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, to increase the capital stock, make branches and hold lands.

    Act 1078 of 1867 · P.L. 1137 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  17. To incorporate the Vulcan Iron Works.

    Act 1079 of 1867 · P.L. 1138 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  18. To consolidate the Steuben Coal Company and the Scranton Goal Company.

    Act 1080 of 1867 · P.L. 1141 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  19. To protect game and fish in liuzerne county.

    Act 1082 of 1867 · P.L. 1145 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  20. To incorporate the Edge Hill Iron Company.

    Act 1083 of 1867 · P.L. 1147 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  21. Supplementary to an act to incorporate the town of Pine Grove, in the county of Schuylkill, into a borough, approved the twenty-seventh day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hu.ndred and tiiirtytwo.

    Act 1084 of 1867 · P.L. 1149 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  22. For the relief of Captain.John Moore, Junior, late of the Elderton Guards.

    Act 1085 of 1867 · P.L. 1150 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  23. To repeal an act, entitled "An Actio secure a stricter accountability of certain public officers in Schuylkill county," approved February seventeenth, Anno Domini one thovisand eight hundred and fiftynine, so far as relates to the township of Eldred, in said county.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1152 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  24. To authorize the Board of Military Claims to re-examine the claim of the legal representatives of Colonel John W. M'Lain, deceased, of Erie county.

    Act 1087 of 1867 · P.L. 1152 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  25. To repeal an act to incorporate the Citizens' Turnpike and Macadamized Road Company, approved April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 1090 of 1867 · P.L. 1154 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  26. To authorize the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company to issue additional stock and bonds, and to repeal the act, entitled "An Act to authorize the Allegheny Yalley Railroad to mortgage its road and branches, to complete the same," and approved the eighth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 1091 of 1867 · P.L. 1154 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  27. Ko. 1091 Tx) ivico'jfpos'ale the Quarryville and Christiana Turnpike Road Company.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1155 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  28. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Susquehanna and Dela-ware Railroad Company," authorizing the issue of seven per cent. lOonds; authorizing otlier corporations to issue and guarantee bonds In aid of said company; allowing niaj'ority of directors to reside out of the State; extending time for completion of the road, and rej)eal' ing clause requiring said company to

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1156 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page

  29. To incorporate the Grocers' and Provision Dealers' Association.

    Act 1094 of 1867 · P.L. 1157 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  30. To authorize the school directors of Freedom township, Adams county, to appropriate the surplus of bounty funds, in their hands, to school purposes.

    Act 1095 of 1867 · P.L. 1159 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  31. To incorporate the Nautical and Engineering College of Philadelphia.

    Act 1096 of 1867 · P.L. 1159 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  32. To incorpoi'ate the United States Plate Glass Insurance Company of Philadelphia.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1165 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  33. Legalizing certain acts of the school directors of the township of K.elly, county of Union, and authorizing them to levy an additional tax for building purposes.

    Act 1099 of 1867 · P.L. 1167 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  34. the relief of Wm. Brennan and Bernard M'Tighe, first and second clerks of the mayor's coiirt of the city of Carbondale.

    Act 1101 of 1867 · P.L. 1168 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  35. Changing the time of holding the election of officers of the Trevortoii Coal Company.

    Act 1102 of 1867 · P.L. 1169 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  36. To au act appoihtitig commissioners to lay out and open a State road, in the counties of Potter and Clinton, approved March twenty-first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

    Act 1103 of 1867 · P.L. 1169 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  37. To incorporate the Monongahela Inclined Plane Company.

    Act 1104 of 1867 · P.L. 1170 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  38. 1172 LAWS OF PBNS'SYLVAJflA,. lo. no&."fciiooi directors to levy a tax to re-imburse the sum of tliree hundred dollars to certain person?. Proviso. Provisions of this an(i former act extend. ed to Cumberland townsbip. ^ Mvv\mmt To an act, entitled *'An Act authorizing the school directors of Latimore township, Adams county, to levy a tax and issue bonds to pay money raised to pay bounties

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1172 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  39. To authorize a change in the location of a portion of the State road from Harrisburg to Gettysburg.

    Act 1108 of 1867 · P.L. 1175 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  40. To incoi-porate the Xorthumbeiiand and Sunbury Street Railway Company of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1176 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  41. To prohibit the issuing of licenses within two miles of the Normal school at Mansfield, Tioga county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 1111 of 1867 · P.L. 1178 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  42. Relative to foot-walks in Oakland township, in the county of Allegheny.

    Act 1112 of 1867 · P.L. 1179 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  43. To secure san.e iiy mortarage. May stipulate tor payment of taxes on bonds. To an act to authorize the Governor to incorporate the West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad Company, approved April the eleventh, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

    Act 1113 of 1867 · P.L. 1180 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  44. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the village of Saint Clair, in the county of Schuylkill, into a borough, to be called Saint Clair," approved the si:Sth day of A pril. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty. Sectiox 1.

    Act 1115 of 1867 · P.L. 1181 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  45. Authorising the court of quarter sessions of M'Kean county to appoint commissioners, to take exclusive charge of a portion of the road leading from Smethport, in M'Kean county, to Wilcox, in Elk county, and to appropriate taxes for the repair and changing of the same.

    Act 1118 of 1867 · P.L. 1185 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  46. OF THE SESSIO:^ OF 1867. 1187 ?fo. 1119. '*ik» authorize the State Treasurer to pay Mrs. S. Richards Boyle, widow of Captain John A. Boyle, who fell at Lookout mountain, the expenses incurred by her in obtaining the remains of her

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1187 · 1867 · Scanned page

  47. Authorizing an increase of taxes in the borough of Tarehlum, counly of Alleghenyi.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1187 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  48. Supplement to an act to incorpoi'ate the Mineral Spring Coal Company, approved' the third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and and

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1187 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  49. To incorporate the Fame Mining Company,

    Act 1123 of 1867 · P.L. 1190 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  50. To incorporate the Dimes Saving Fund of Slatington.

    Act 1124 of 1867 · P.L. 1191 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  51. Incorporating the Savings Institution of the city of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming.

    Act 1125 of 1867 · P.L. 1192 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  52. No. 1121 5*0 incorporate the Dime Saving Institution of Ashiands

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1197 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  53. No 112a ^upplfm^iit '5'o the act to incorporate the Union School and Children's Home Asylum; to provide for the taxation of non-resident venders of merchandize in the city and county of Philadelphia, and for the relief of Edward Hutcbinson, approved April twelve, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1200 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  54. To incorporate the Ca^rnavon Coal

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1201 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  55. Supplement to an act incorporating ttie town of Lawrenceville into a borough, approved February thirteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, being an act authorizing said borough to borrow money and t9.ke real estate, not exceeding, in value, a certain amount.

    Act 1130 of 1867 · P.L. 1203 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  56. Anuexing the farm of John Hamilton, in Sandy Lake township, Mercer county, to Worth township, in said county, for school purposes, and the farms of certain persons, in the township of Troy, in the <-ounty of Crawford, and the township of Plum, in Venango county, to the township of Cherry-Tree, Venango county, for school purposes.

    Act 1132 of 1867 · P.L. 1205 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  57. To incorporate the Asbuiy Life Insurance and Trust Company of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 1133 of 1867 · P.L. 1206 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  58. To take the sense of the voters of Royne township, Indiana county, or. the question of authorizing the school directors of Royne school district to erect a public hall at the village of Kintersburg, in said township.

    Act 1134 of 1867 · P.L. 1207 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  59. To authorize the Benzinger Coal and Iron Company to increase the Tvidth of their railroad, and providing for the assessment of damages.

    Act 1135 of 1867 · P.L. 1208 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  60. To authorize the board of school directors of Fawn township, Alleghey county, to borrow money.

    Act 1136 of 1867 · P.L. 1208 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  61. Authorizing the burgess and town council of the borough of Jamestown, Mercer county, to levy and collect tax, not to exceed one per centum, for borough purposes.

    Act 1137 of 1867 · P.L. 1209 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  62. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Turners' Association, approved April thirteentii, Anno Domini one tliousand eigtit hiundred and fifty-nine, authorizing said corporation to hold real estate, and issue bonds.

    Act 1138 of 1867 · P.L. 1210 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  63. Supplement To an act for the summary conviction of professional thieves in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 1139 of 1867 · P.L. 1210 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  64. To incorporate the Philadelphia Iron and. Steel Company.

    Act 1140 of 1867 · P.L. 1211 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  65. To authorize the burgess and town council of the borough of Duquesne to borrow money, and issue bonds for the improvement of certain streets, jn said borough.

    Act 1143 of 1867 · P.L. 1215 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page

  66. To repeal an act to view and lay out a State road in the counties of Clarion and Forest, approved the eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

    Act 1144 of 1867 · P.L. 1216 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  67. Supplement to an act to change the mode of criminal proceedings in ISrie and Union counties, extending the same to the county of Forest.

    Act 1146 of 1867 · P.L. 1217 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  68. To change]the lineof fbe Mercef Union school district in Mercer

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1220 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  69. Authorizing the Saucon Iron Company to construct branch railroads to certain ore beds.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1221 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  70. Supplement to an act relative to the courts in Lehigh county.

    Act 1151 of 1867 · P.L. 1222 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  71. To empower the supervisors of the township of Peach Bottom, in the county of York, to collect, in money, all taxes levied in said township for road

    Act 1152 of 1867 · P.L. 1222 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  72. Supplement to an act to authorize the construction of a sidewalk, in the valley of Sheshequin, in the county of Bradford.

    Act 1153 of 1867 · P.L. 1223 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  73. To repeal an act to prevent horses, cattle, sheep and hogs from running at large, in Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, and Kelly toAvnship, Union county, and certain townships in liuzeme county, approved March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, so far as relates to Kelly township, Uiaion county, and the several townships in Luzerne county.

    Act 1154 of 1867 · P.L. 1224 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  74. To incorjjorate the South Pittsburg Co-operative Association of Allegheny county.

    Act 1155 of 1867 · P.L. 1224 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  75. Persons contributing to im provement of ran entitled to charge certain toUsr Proviso. Proviso. Certain provisions made applicable hereto. Repeal. To an act declaring Forge run, in Centre county, a public highway.

    Act 1156 of 1867 · P.L. 1226 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  76. No. 1157 Ta incorporate the Fort Allen Iron Company, in the county of Carbon.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1227 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  77. Increasing the pay of supervisors in Porter tow^nship, Huntingdon county.

    Act 1159 of 1867 · P.L. 1230 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  78. Supplement to an act incorporating the Spring Garden Soup Society, approved April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

    Act 1160 of 1867 · P.L. 1231 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  79. Repealing an act, entitled "An Act to perpetuate the testimony of Richard S' Coxe, deceased.

    Act 1161 of 1867 · P.L. 1231 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  80. Relative to the juHsdiction of justices of the peace, mayor and burgesses, in Erie county, and relative to appeals therefrom.

    Act 1162 of 1867 · P.L. 1232 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  81. To auEiex that part of the farm of William Nickle, Which is situate in South Mahoning township, Indiana county, to East Mahoning to\^^lship, in said county.

    Act 1163 of 1867 · P.L. 1233 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  82. For the vacation and sale of the Methodist burial ground, in the city of Pittsburg, and for removing the bodies therefrom. Preamble. WHEaEAS, The Methodist Episcopal church of the city of Pittsburg, in its corporate capacity, purchased from John Keating, for a burial ground, a lot of ground, then in Pitt township, Allegheny county, but now in the corporate limits of said city, containing

    Act 1164 of 1867 · P.L. 1234 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  83. To repeal the third section of an act, approved March, one thousand eiglit hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "A supplement to an act to promote the more certain and equal assessment of taxes in Philadelphia.

    Act 1165 of 1867 · P.L. 1234 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  84. To authorize the b^irgess and town council of the boiotigh of Wilkesbarre to borrow money, to purchase grounds for a public cemetery, and to prevent further interments in the old grave yardj

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1236 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  85. For the establishment of a public law library in the county of Warren.

    Act 1168 of 1867 · P.L. 1238 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  86. To authorize the directors of the Kaska William Coal Company to sell, or mortgage, any portion of their real estate, to decrease the amount of capital stock, and to fix the location of their office, and the residence of the president and a majority of the directors.

    Act 1169 of 1867 · P.L. 1240 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  87. To vacate a certain portion of ground on Sixth street, in the city of Harrisburg.

    Act 1170 of 1867 · P.L. 1241 · April 13, 1867 · Scanned page

  88. To authorize the Lake Shore Seminary to borrow money, and to grant literary degrees.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1242 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  89. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act creating a board for the erection of a city hall in the city of Pittsburg," approved the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 1173 of 1867 · P.L. 1243 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  90. To authorize an increase of taxes, for borough puri^oses, in the borough of Temperanceville, in the county of Allegheny.

    Act 1174 of 1867 · P.L. 1244 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  91. for the relief of John Sensonbach, by the commissioners of Northampton county.

    Act 1175 of 1867 · P.L. 1245 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  92. incorporate the Lincoln Monument Association of Philadelphia.

    Act 1177 of 1867 · P.L. 1248 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  93. Repealing an act, entitled "An Act extending the provisions of the act for the protection of sheep and taxing of dogs in the county of Blair," approved May twentieth. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, to the county of Monroe.

    Act 1178 of 1867 · P.L. 1249 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  94. For the relief of John Caughey, of Be<1,ver county.

    Act 1179 of 1867 · P.L. 1249 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  95. Authorizing the triistees of the estate of John Means, deceased, to pay certain moneys.

    Act of 1867 · P.L. 1250 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  96. Supplement to an act providing for the purchase, erection and construction, of public water works, for the borough of Easton, Northampton county, by the corporate authorities of said borough.

    Act 1183 of 1867 · P.L. 1253 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  97. Supplement to an act to incorporate the city of Meaclville, approved the fifteentfe day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 1184 of 1867 · P.L. 1254 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  98. Authorizing the burgess and town council of the borough of Latrobe. in Westmoreland county, to borrow money, and levy a special tax for borough purposes.

    Act 1185 of 1867 · P.L. 1256 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  99. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act for the better management of the Allegheny county prison," approved twenty-third of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

    Act 1186 of 1867 · P.L. 1256 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

  100. To authorize the school directors of Perry township, Fayette county, to levy and collect a bounty tax.

    Act 1187 of 1867 · P.L. 1257 · April 15, 1867 · Scanned page

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