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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 establish a ferry over the Allegheny river, at Siggins landing, Harmony township, in the county of Venango.
Act 1326 of 1867 · P.L. 1415 · April 4, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Sumneytown and Gerysville Turnpike Road Company, approved March eighteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. Section^ 1.
Act 1328 of 1867 · P.L. 1417 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the General Assembly of the Church of Christ in America.
Act 1329 of 1867 · P.L. 1418 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Bethlehem Zinc Company.
Act 13 of 1867 · P.L. 1420 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad Company to change its name.
Act 1333 of 1867 · P.L. 1424 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
Relating to the Pittsburg Fafmers' and Mechanics' turnpike Road Company, in the county of Allegheny, increasing the capital and regulating the tolls thereof. WuEREAs, Under tbe act of assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in relation to said turnpike road, approved the seventeenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, the sheriff of Allegheny county did,
Act 1336 of 1867 · P.L. 1427 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorijorate the Wayne Manufacturing Company.
Act 1338 of 1867 · P.L. 1430 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Conneautville Detective Horse Company, of the county of Crawford, for the recovery of stolen horses and other property, and the detection of the thieves.
Act 1339 of 1867 · P.L. 1432 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Lock Haven Hall and Market Company.
Act 1340 of 1867 · P.L. 1434 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Berks and Lehigh Counties Horse Thief Detecting Company.
Act 1341 of 1867 · P.L. 1436 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the president and secretary of the Crawford County Central Agricultural Society to sell and purchase real estate.
Act 1343 of 1867 · P.L. 1439 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incol'porate the Mechanicsville and East HafloVer Horse Thief Detecting and Insurance Companyi
Act 1344 of 1867 · P.L. 1439 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To change the location of the general lousiness ofiice of the Warren County Mutual Insurance Conniany.
Act 1345 of 1867 · P.L. 1440 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian church, in Tunkhannock, Wyoming county, to sell and convey real estate.
Act 1346 of 1867 · P.L. 1441 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incofporate the Independent Fire Company of the city of Williamsport. SECTiOiSr 1.
Act 1347 of 1867 · P.L. 1442 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Mehoopany Bridge Company.
Act 1349 of 1867 · P.L. 1443 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To annul the marriage contract between Charles H. Shippey and Rosaltha A., his wife.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1445 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate West Pennsylvania Eldership of the Church of God.
Act 1352 of 1867 · P.L. 1446 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To empower the trustees, and their successors, of the Presbytelrian Church of Tarentum, Allegheny county, to lease, or sell, a certain lot of ground.
Act 1354 of 1867 · P.L. 1450 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize the West Philadelphia Institute to sell certain real estate, in the twenty-fourth ward, Philadelphia.
Act 1355 of 1867 · P.L. 1450 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Woodland Presbyterian church, in the city of Philadelphia.
Act 1356 of 1867 · P.L. 1451 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Republic Life Insurance Company, approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, authorizing an increase of capital stock.
Act 1357 of 1867 · P.L. 1455 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled " An Act to enable the Governor of this Common^ wealth to incorporate a company, to make an artificial road from the Susquehanna river, at, or near, Wright's ferry, to the borough of York, approved the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four.
Act 1358 of 1867 · P.L. 1456 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Allegheny Widows' Home Associationi
Act 1359 of 1867 · P.L. 1456 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To authorize tlie American Wood Paper Company to Iiold real estate, ill the county of Chester.
Act 1361 of 1867 · P.L. 1459 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act authorizing tlie Governor to incorporate a company to erect & bridge over the Susquehanna river, at, or near, York furnace, in the county of York, approved February fifteenth, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-one, extending the time for cari-ying out the provisions of said act.
Act 2362 of 1867 · P.L. 1459 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Glen Alden Coal Company.
Act 1364 of 1867 · P.L. 1461 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the East Pennsylvania Annual Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ,
Act 1365 of 1867 · P.L. 1463 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Hazel Hall Association of the borough of Hazleton.
Act 1367 of 1867 · P.L. 1465 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page
To legitimate Louisa Elizabeth Debolt, child of Charles A.
Act 1370 of 1867 · P.L. 1470 · April 16, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Woodrutf Mining Company of
Act 1371 of 1867 · P.L. 1470 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Silver Mountain Mining Company.
Act 1373 of 1867 · P.L. 1473 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Gaston and Simpson Gold and Silver INIining Company of Montana.
Act 1374 of 1867 · P.L. 1474 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Mill Creek Gold and Silver Mining Company of Colorado.
Act 1375 of 1867 · P.L. 1476 · March 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Sheriden
Act 1376 of 1867 · P.L. 1477 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate tlie Pactolus Exploring and Mining Company.
Act 1377 of 1867 · P.L. 1478 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate Jackson Mining Company.
Act 1378 of 1867 · P.L. 1480 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Great Basin Mining Company.
Act 1379 of 1867 · P.L. 1481 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Territory Gold and Silver Mining Company.
Act 1381 of 1867 · P.L. 1484 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Mammoth Gold and Silver Mining CJompany of Colorado.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1487 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To iticorporate the Silver Star Mining Company.
Act 1384 of 1867 · P.L. 1488 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To extend ah. act incorporating the Warren and Pinegrove Railroad Company, approved March fourteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
Act 1385 of 1867 · P.L. 1489 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Attleborougli railroad, approved April second, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Act 1386 of 1867 · P.L. 1490 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
1866. 1491 No. 138^. Ti'> incorpo'rate the Warren Improvement and Railroad
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1491 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act incorporating the Perkiomen Railroad Company, passed the twenty-third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Act 1389 of 1867 · P.L. 1493 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To i)rovide for the extension of the Plymouth railroad to the North Pennsylvania railroad, at a point near Fort Washington station, in Montgomery county.
Act 1390 of 1867 · P.L. 1493 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Farmers' Coal and Iron Company.
Act 1391 of 1867 · P.L. 1494 · April 17, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Philadelphia Transportation and Freight Company.
Act 1392 of 1867 · P.L. 1496 · April 18, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Union Fire Company of the city of Philadelphia.
Act 1393 of 1867 · P.L. 1497 · April 20, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate ttie Potter County Lumber, Coal and Petroleum Company," approved the twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Act 1394 of 1867 · P.L. 1499 · April 20, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the City and Country Cottage Company.
Act 1395 of 1867 · P.L. 1499 · May 1, 1867 · Scanned page
To incdfpoi*ate the Union Co-operative Assodiatioil of Beaver !E*allSj number one, in thfe county of Beaver, Pennsylvania.
Act 1396 of 1867 · P.L. 1501 · May 1, 1867 · Scanned page
To iiicorporate the Germantown Cottage
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1502 · May 1, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Bradford County Railroad
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1504 · May 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to enable the Governor to appoint notaries public, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Act 1399 of 1867 · P.L. 1506 · 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the American ^Mineral, Land and Mining Company. Sr.cTioN 1.
Act 1400 of 1867 · P.L. 1506 · June 26, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Mount Camel Locust ilountaiu Coal Company.
Act 1403 of 1867 · P.L. 1510 · June 28, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Wyoming Coal and Transportation Company," approved the twenty-seventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Act 1404 of 1867 · P.L. 1512 · July 9, 1867 · Scanned page
Appointing commissioners to lay out and open a State road, from Marsh's Corners, M'Kean county, to the Philadelphia and Erie railroad.
Act 1405 of 1867 · P.L. 1512 · 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the Pennsylvania Siate Company, approved June twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1514 · July 10, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Paddy's Run Navigation Company.
Act 1408 of 1867 · P.L. 1517 · July 19, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Big Run of Beach Creek Navigation Company.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1519 · July 19, 1867 · Scanned page
For the relief of William Himrodi
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1520 · 1867 · Scanned page
To allow Isaac Bowets and W. W. M'Cormickto return certain unseated lands, in Jefferson county.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1521 · August 13, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the Real Estate Savings Institution of Pittsburg, approved the twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Act 1412 of 1867 · P.L. 1522 · August 22, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Reno Shipping Company.
Act 1413 of 1867 · P.L. 1523 · September 1, 1867 · Scanned page
To afl act to improve the navigation of the river LackaAvaxen, aiTpfOvfec? the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. Section 1, pe it enacted by the Senate and I{ouse of Representatirea of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General ^.s-schjbly met, and it is hereby enacted by tJte authority of the name, Dataages, how That the damages which the president,
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1524 · October 15, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Keystone Coal and Manufacturing Company of Somerset county.
Act 1416 of 1867 · P.L. 1525 · October 22, 1867 · Scanned page
To increase the boundaries of Forest county.
Act 1417 of 1867 · P.L. 1527 · November 17, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing the executor of Charles Sheafter, deceased, to sell real estate.
Act 1420 of 1867 · P.L. 1531 · November 24, 1867 · Scanned page
To enable the State Treasurer and Auditor General to adjust certain pubUc accounts.
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1532 · November 24, 1867 · Scanned page
No. H2'2. 'To vaiidaie the last will and testament of Alexander Jeffries, late of Allegheny county, deceased;
Act of 1867 · P.L. 1533 · November 28, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Gap Mining Company.
Act 1423 of 1867 · P.L. 1534 · December 4, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act incorporating the Susquehanna Boom Company, authorizing the erection of a dam, and allowing increase of tolls.
Act 1425 of 1867 · P.L. 1535 · December 11, 1867 · Scanned page
Repealing an act, approved the twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, entitled "An Act to legalize the bonds, issued by the election officers of Ayr township, in the county of Fulton, for the payment of bounties to volunteers and drafted men, under the calls of the President of the United States, prior to the nineteenth of December, Anno Domini
Act 1426 of 1867 · P.L. 1537 · January 4, 1867 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Chiiicleclamonche Lumber and Boom Company.
Act 1430 of 1867 · P.L. 1541 · January 7, 1867 · Scanned page
Repealing an act supplementary to an act for the more effectual preservation of the Cumberland road, approved the eighth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
Act 1431 of 1867 · P.L. 1543 · January 7, 1867 · Scanned page
Etbrarg Imufrattg of ptttsburgti Darlington Memorial Library (Clafla /I IBank- /a 67 I-iJL'WS ^ ^//- / OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA PASSED AT THE SESSIOIST OF 1867, In the Ninety-first Tear of Independence. §ij §^Mthayitu. HARRISBURG: SINGERLT & MYERS, STATE PRINTER! 1.S67. K je67 /B9'i> LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLYANIA. Xo. 1. To provide for the ordinary
Act of 1867 · April 11, 1867 · Scanned page
Relative to revising, collating and digesting the tax laws of Pennsylvania.
Resolution 3 of 1867 · P.L. 1337 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page
Relative to the Executive Mansion.
Resolution 5 of 1867 · P.L. 1338 · January 22, 1867 · Scanned page
To pay William H. Jenkins, for services as clerk of the committee in the matter of the petition of the electors of the Thirteenth Representative district, of the city of Philadelphia, complaining of an undue election and false return of Michael Mullen, as a member from said city.
Resolution 8 of 1867 · P.L. 1340 · March 1, 1867 · Scanned page
To pay the expenses of the inauguration of Governor Geary,
Resolution 10 of 1867 · P.L. 1342 · March 14, 1867 · Scanned page
Authorizing the Governor to dispose of certain perishable military stores in the State Arsenal.
Resolution 11 of 1867 · P.L. 1342 · March 15, 1867 · Scanned page
Providing for tiie final adjournment of tlie Legislature.
Resolution of 1867 · P.L. 1344 · March 23, 1867 · Scanned page
To pay the expenses of the committee appointed at the last session of the Legislature, to investigate the truth of certain newspaper articles, in reference to the passage of an act relating to licenses in the county of Allegheny. Sectiojj 1.
Resolution of 1867 · P.L. 1344 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page
Relative to the purchase of a railroad map, to accompany the Auditor General's report.
Resolution 17 of 1867 · P.L. 1346 · April 12, 1867 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act relating to the Elections of this Commonwealth.
Act 3 of 1868 · P.L. 30 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act relating to certain corporations," approved March thirteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, authorizing the governor' to appoint directors for certain corporations in certain cases.
Act 4 of 1868 · P.L. 40 · 1868 · Scanned page
Extending the provisions of an act relating to corporations for mechanical, manufacturing, mining and quarrying purposes, approved July eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and the supplements thereto, to the county of Bucks.
Act 5 of 1868 · P.L. 40 · February 14, 1868 · Scanned page
To authorize the Secretary of the Commonwealth to record official bonds. Section' 1.
Act 6 of 1868 · P.L. 41 · 1868 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "A further supplement to the act relating to limited partnerships," approved March twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, authorizing a special partner to make contribution in goods, and defining the manner in which said partnerships may be conducted, approved March thirtieth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Act 7 of 1868 · P.L. 42 · February 21, 1868 · Scanned page
To provide for the deficit for December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and for the seventeen months from the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, to the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, accruing in the support of the soldiers' orphans under the care of the State.
Act 8 of 1868 · P.L. 42 · 1868 · Scanned page
To declare the true intent and meaning of the eleventh section of au act to provide for the reduction of the public debt, approved April twenty-second, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fortysix.
Act 9 of 1868 · P.L. 43 · February 27, 1868 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to provide for the appointment of a reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Act 12 of 1868 · P.L. 46 · March 16, 1868 · Scanned page
To provide for the payment of gratuities and annuities to the soldiers of the war of one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and to their widows.
Act of 1868 · P.L. 47 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page
Supplement To an act, entitled " An Act to provide means for the establishing of a Soldiers' orphans' school in each state normal school district in this commonwealth now destitute thereof.
Act 16 of 1868 · P.L. 49 · March 28, 1868 · Scanned page
To authorize incorporated companies to invest and re-invest surplus funds in mortgages, stocks and other securities, and fixing the time for holding elections for directors.
Act of 1868 · P.L. 50 · March 31, 1868 · Scanned page
To authorize incorporated companies to invest and re-invest surplus* Ainds in mortgages, stoclcs and other securities, and fixing the time for holding elections for directors.
Act 17 of 1868 · P.L. 50 · April 2, 1868 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act increasing the fees of the several coTinty officers of this commonwealth, except in the city of Philadelphia and the counties of Allegheny, Bradford, Susquehanna and Sullivan, approved the thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Act 19 of 1868 · P.L. 52 · April 1, 1868 · Scanned page
Eelating to the consolidation of railroad companies.
Act 20 of 1868 · P.L. 53 · April 2, 1868 · 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.