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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. Relating to the public roads and highways of Branch township, Schuylkill county.

    Act 378 of 1868 · P.L. 415 · March 23, 1868 · Scanned page

  2. To iMcorporate the Saint Paul's Orphans' Home, near Butler, Pennsyi- Preamble. Corporators. Name. Seal. Powers and authority of board of directors. Management, tenure of office, &c., how regulated.

    Act 379 of 1868 · P.L. 418 · 1868 · Scanned page

  3. Supplement to the act to erect Phoeni^ville, in Chester county, info a horough, sjpproved March sixth, one thousaind eight hundred and forty-nine.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 420 · 1868 · Scanned page

  4. To an &ei snpplemevatary to an act erecting the village of East Birmingham into a borough, approved the tenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, approved the twenty-seventh day of February, Anao Dotmni oaie thousand eight hundred and

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 421 · March 23, 1868 · Scanned page

  5. To exempt the Pan Handle Railway Company from the second proviso of the first section of an act, approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-flve, entitled "An Act supplementary to an act regulating railroad companies," approved February nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

    Act 383 of 1868 · P.L. 423 · March 23, 1868 · Scanned page

  6. Ko. 384. Kelating to the collection of Iwtinty taxes in the township of Perry, in the connty of Greene.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 424 · March 23, 1868 · Scanned page

  7. Relating to the ooUeoUon of bounty taxes In the township of PiBrry, in the county of Qreene.

    Act 384 of 1868 · P.L. 424 · March 23, 1868 · Scanned page

  8. To seoure farmers against lossea caused by railroads in Brie oooniy.

    Act 385 of 1868 · P.L. 424 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  9. In relation to Willow Grove avenue, in the Twenty-second ward, city of Pliiladelphia.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 426 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  10. To vacate an alley running eastward from Seventeenth street, between Spring Garden and Buttonwood streets, in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 427 · 1868 · Scanned page

  11. To anthorize the court of Erie county to appoint a discreet person to act in connection with the oommisaioners of Erie county, and the directors of tlie pof^r of said oounty, to sell the real estate of the poor hoDfle, and ase the proceeds In purchasing land and erecting boildingi for the use of the poor of said oounty.

    Act 389 of 1868 · P.L. 427 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  12. To incorporate the Delaware River and Lancaster Railroad Company,

    Act 330 of 1868 · P.L. 429 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  13. To incorporate the Pennsylvania Chaise Company,

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 430 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  14. To Inoorporaie the Pennsylvania Chaise Companyi SECTTOPf 1.

    Act 391 of 1868 · P.L. 430 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  15. Foi' the protection of wild turkeys in the counties of Union and

    Act 392 of 1868 · P.L. 432 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  16. Relating to the tax on dogs in the township of South Coventry, in the county of Chester.

    Act 393 of 1868 · P.L. 433 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  17. Authorizing the school directors of the borough of Pit-Hole City, Venango county, to use money levied for building purposes to ths paying of rent on school house or rooms used for school purposes.

    Act 394 of 1868 · P.L. 434 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  18. To incorporate the Standish Slate Company.

    Act 395 of 1868 · P.L. 434 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  19. Authorizing the commissioners of Leliigh coanty to sell certain real estate.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 436 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  20. Relative to the compensation of supervisors and persons working on the roads in Jefferson county, aud to regulate the fees of road viewers in Beaver county.

    Act 398 of 1868 · P.L. 437 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  21. To an aot, entitled "An Act relative to the draining of wet or spouty lands in certain counties," extending the provisions of the same to draining coal and other mines, and making the original and this supplement applicable to Westmoreland, Armstrong and Somerset counties. Sectiox 1.

    Act 399 of 1868 · P.L. 438 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  22. To incorporate the Oxford Gas and Water Company.

    Act 400 of 1868 · P.L. 439 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  23. Making dogs personal property in Venango county, provided the owners pay a tax thereon and have them registered by the prothonotary of said county.

    Act 401 of 1868 · P.L. 440 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  24. To authorize the school directors of the borough of Media to borrow money and purchase lands for school purposes.

    Act 402 of 1868 · P.L. 440 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  25. To require the school directors of Centre township, Butler county, to pay the bounty debts of said township, and levy a tax for paying the same.

    Act 403 of 1868 · P.L. 441 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  26. For the preservation of deer in the counties of Monroe and Pike.

    Act 404 of 1868 · P.L. 442 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  27. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to promote the more certain and equal assessment of taxes in Philadelphia," approved the fourteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, relative to assessments on agricultural and farm land, and the suburban portions of said city.

    Act 406 of 1868 · P.L. 443 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  28. Granting certain powers to the burgess and town council of the borough of Oil City, Venango county, and modifying certain former acts of assembly relating to their powers. Sy.cTioN 1.

    Act 401 of 1868 · P.L. 444 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  29. To authorize the burgess and town council of the borough of Eehigh'* ton, Carbon county, to borrow money.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 448 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  30. Tb eontiiiiie in fot^e ft>r one year the prtyviflflons of an act, entitled **An Act increasing the fees of justioes of the peace, aldermen and constables in certain oonnties of this commonwealth," approved the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and eictended to Mercer county, by act approved the fourth day of April, atud thousand eight hundred and-sixty-siz.

    Act 410 of 1868 · P.L. 449 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  31. To incorpoi'ate the Millville Co-operative Association.

    Act 411 of 1868 · P.L. 450 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  32. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Attleborough Railroad Company, approved the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

    Act 412 of 1868 · P.L. 451 · March 19, 1868 · Scanned page

  33. To facilitate the draining of farming lands in Erie and Ltizerne counties, Pennsylvania.

    Act 413 of 1868 · P.L. 452 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  34. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Spring Garden Plank Road Company, in the county of York.

    Act 414 of 1868 · P.L. 455 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  35. Authorizing and requiring the enpervison of Carroll township, Washington county. State of Pennsylyania, to leyy and ooUect a tax for bounty purposes, and to appropriate Burplns bounty

    Act 415 of 1868 · P.L. 456 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  36. To avithorize the appointment of a controller of public schools for the Twenty-eighth section of the First school district of Pennsylvania.

    Act 416 of 1868 · P.L. 457 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  37. Supplement to an act authorizing the commissioners of Montgomery county to borrow money, approved February third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

    Act 417 of 1868 · P.L. 458 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  38. Authorizing and requiring the auditors of Salem township, Luzerne county, to open and re-audit the account of Jeremiah Bombay, late treasurer (jf the school district of said township, and to enlarge the jurisdiction and powers of said auditors.

    Act 418 of 1868 · P.L. 459 · 1868 · Scanned page

  39. To incorporate the Lansdale and Gwynedd Square Turnpike Road Company.

    Act 420 of 1868 · P.L. 460 · March 19, 1868 · Scanned page

  40. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Easton Cemetery of Northampton county, approved the fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

    Act 421 of 1868 · P.L. 461 · February 14, 1868 · Scanned page

  41. Relative to road laws in Lycoming county.

    Act 42 of 1868 · P.L. 464 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  42. To prevent fishing with nets or seines in the streams, creeks and rivers of Beaver county.

    Act 424 of 1868 · P.L. 464 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  43. To incorporate the Doe Run and White Clay Creek Railroad Company.

    Act 425 of 1868 · P.L. 465 · March 24, 1868 · Scanned page

  44. To change the venue in the case of Francis P. Dewees and Emma Dewees and Sarah Loeser, by her guardian, Francis P. Dewees, versus Robert Hare Powell, Barnabus Haminett, Samuel R. Jackson, Joseph H. Yates, Richard Robinson, John C. Robinson, Emily Hewson, Jane B. Hewson, Albert P. Gould, Edwin Smith, Ambrose Snow, Joseph S. Burgess, Timothy D. Hotchkiss and Ella Hewson, from the court of

    Act 426 of 1868 · P.L. 467 · 1868 · Scanned page

  45. To vacate a part of Hackley street, in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 427 of 1868 · P.L. 468 · 1868 · Scanned page

  46. Extending the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to regulate proceedings in relation to the erection and repairing of bridges in Westmoreland county, " approved the eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and tifty-three, to the county of Perry, and repealing an act, entitled "An Act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An Act relative to roads, highwaj's and

    Act 428 of 1868 · P.L. 469 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  47. To exempt the German Hospital of the city of Philadelphia from certain taxes.

    Act 429 of 1868 · P.L. 469 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  48. To exempt the county of Allegheny from the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act compelling railroad and other corporations to pay counsel fees of plaintiffs in certain cas^s," approved the third day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 430 of 1868 · P.L. 470 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  49. Extending the time of the payment of the enrolment tax on a certain act, entitled "A supplement to an act to incorporate the the Ridge Avenue and Manayunk Passenger Railway Company, authorizing said company to extend their track on certain streets," approved November twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfive.

    Act 431 of 1868 · P.L. 471 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  50. To sell certain real estate and to vacate a burial lot included in said real estate, situated in the borough of Pha3nixville, and to make a distribution of the proceeds of said sale.

    Act 432 of 1868 · P.L. 471 · 1868 · Scanned page

  51. Authorizing the school directors of East Deer township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, to borrow money for school purposes.

    Act 433 of 1868 · P.L. 474 · 1868 · Scanned page

  52. Lu relation to the real estate of the managers for the relief and employment of the poor of the late township of Germantown, in the Twentysecond ward of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 434 of 1868 · P.L. 475 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  53. To incorporate the Baldwin Mining Company.

    Act 435 of 1868 · P.L. 476 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  54. Relating to the bounty fund of Jackson township, Snyder county.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 478 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  55. To confirm the title of Coffin Colket to a certain lot of ground in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 478 · 1868 · Scanned page

  56. Relating to the bounty ftind of Jackson township, Snyder county.

    Act 436 of 1868 · P.L. 478 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  57. To provide for the safe-keeping of the funds of the county of Lancaster, and to fix the salary of the county treasurer thereof.

    Act 438 of 1868 · P.L. 479 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  58. Toaathorize a Justice of the peace in the borough of littlestowH, in the county of Adams, to hold and exercise the office of notary

    Act 440 of 1868 · P.L. 481 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  59. Allowing notaries public in Allegheny county the same fees for taking acknowledgments as are allowed aldermen and justices of the peace for that service.

    Act 441 of 1868 · P.L. 482 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  60. To authorize the school directors of the borough of Weissport, in the county of Carbon, to borrow money for building purposes.

    Act 442 of 1868 · P.L. 482 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  61. To incorporate the Board of Missions to the Freedmen of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 483 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  62. To authorize the making of a schute in the dam of the Susquehanna Boom Company. WherEx^s, The legislature, at its session of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, authorized the Susquehanna Boom Company to erect and maintain a new dam across the West Branch of the Susquehanna riA'er, as appears by the provisions of the said act, approved December eleventh, one thousand eight hundred

    Act 444 of 1868 · P.L. 485 · March 25, 1868 · Scanned page

  63. Authorizing tlie Connecting Railway Company to borrow money antl secure the same by moi-tgage.

    Act 445 of 1868 · P.L. 486 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  64. To establish and fix the width of the carriage way and pavements, and to provide for an ornamental lawn on Sixth street, in the city of Erie.

    Act 446 of 1868 · P.L. 486 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  65. To hold bonds as sinking fund for extinguishment of railroad bo'ided indebtedness. Fund, &c, not to be used for other objects. Councils may lesry a tax tor more speedily absorbing said indebtedness. :So. 447. Creating a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the railroad couiproinise bonded indebtedness of the city of Pittsburg, and appointing a board of commissioners to take charge thereof,

    Act 447 of 1868 · P.L. 488 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  66. Supplementary to an act, entitled "Au Act for the better protection of person, property and life in the mining regions of this Commonwealth," approved April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 448 of 1868 · P.L. 489 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  67. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Ben, Franklin Insurance Company of the city of Allegheny, approved the ninth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 4 of 1868 · P.L. 491 · 1868 · Scanned page

  68. Extending an act relating to hawkers and pedlers or traveling merchante in [ the counties 6t Lebanon and Wyoming, approved the tvrenty-ninth day of Maroh, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, to the counties of Reaver and Erie.

    Act 450 of 1868 · P.L. 491 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  69. To ao act to incorporate the Ben. Franklin Insurance Company of the city of Allegheny, approved the ninth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 451 of 1868 · P.L. 491 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  70. Supplement to an act relative to the levying of a tax in Fairview township, York county, for bounty purjioses, approved the eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 452 of 1868 · P.L. 492 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  71. To enable the board of school directors of the township of Windsor, in the county of York, to levy and collect at one assessment a sum sufficient to liquidate the remaining indebtedness of said township for bounty purposes, and to provide for the disposal of the residue of said assessment.

    Act 453 of 1868 · P.L. 493 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  72. Relative to contractors on public roads in Schuylkill county.

    Act 454 of 1868 · P.L. 493 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  73. To vacate a decree of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia county, for the adoption of a child named Clarence Gordon Millard.

    Act 455 of 1868 · P.L. 494 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  74. In relation to the fees of the coroner of Sohnylkill county.

    Act 456 of 1868 · P.L. 495 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  75. To regulate appeals from Judgments of justices of the peace in the county of Cameron, and to give them power to impose pay ment of costs in certain criminal cases.

    Act 457 of 1868 · P.L. 495 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  76. To vacate a portion of North street, In front of the Presbyterian church, in the borough of Apollo, and county of Armstrong, and to vest the title of the same in the trustees of said church.

    Act 458 of 1868 · P.L. 496 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  77. OF THB SBSSIOir OF 1868. 497 No. 459- Submittiog the qnoBlion of negotiating a loan of ten thonfiand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing two steam fire engines for the borough of York, in the oounty of Yorli:, to a vote of the qualified electors of said borough.

    Act 459 of 1868 · P.L. 497 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  78. Anthorizing the supervisors of Lamar township, in the connty of OMnton, to levy, assess and collect a special road tax for the purpose of completing a new road recently laid out through said township.

    Act 460 of 1868 · P.L. 498 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  79. To encourage the destruction of noxious animals in the counties vi' Lycoming and Cameron.

    Act 461 of 1868 · P.L. 498 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  80. For the opening of Locust street, in the city of Pittsburg.

    Act 462 of 1868 · P.L. 499 · 1868 · Scanned page

  81. Betative to roads in the coulity of Franklin, and submitting the qnestion to a vote of the poople.

    Act 463 of 1868 · P.L. 501 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  82. To change the venue in the case of James M. Pettit versus Charles E. Smith, from the court of common pleas of Schuylkill county to the court of common pleas of Lancaster county.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 502 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  83. change the venue in the case of James M. Pettlt 00r«iM Charles E. Smith, from the oourt of common pleas of Schuylkill oounty to the court of common pleas of Lancaster county.

    Act 464 of 1868 · P.L. 502 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  84. Establishing the fee bill for justices and constables created by the act, entitled "An Act increasing the fees of justices of the peace and aldermen and constables in certain counties in this Commonwealth," approved the thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, permanently for the county of Perry.

    Act 465 of 1868 · P.L. 503 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  85. To change the venue in the case of George Minnich versus Charles E. Smith, from the court of common pleas of Schuylkill county to the court of common pleas of Lancaster county.

    Act 466 of 1868 · P.L. 503 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  86. To authorize the court of common pleas of Luzerne county to appoint auditors to audit bounty accounts in Kingston township, in said county.

    Act 467 of 1868 · P.L. 504 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  87. Further to increase the capital of the Columbia Water Company.

    Act 468 of 1868 · P.L. 505 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  88. To authorize the directors of the poor of Lebanon county to sell certain real estate.

    Act 469 of 1868 · P.L. 506 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  89. To the local bountyact for Union township, Lawrence county, approved the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 507 · March 27, 1868 · Scanned page

  90. the local bounty act for Union township, Lawrence county, approved the twenty-flixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and

    Act 470 of 1868 · P.L. 507 · March 27, 1868 · Scanned page

  91. Supplement to an act to divide the borough of Sunbury into two wards, approved April second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 508 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  92. Supplement to an act to divide the borough of Sanburj Into two wards, approTed April seoond, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 471 of 1868 · P.L. 508 · March 26, 1868 · Scanned page

  93. Supplement to an act to divide the boron^h of Sunbury Into two wards, approved April second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 471 of 1868 · P.L. 508 · March 27, 1868 · Scanned page

  94. To the charter of the Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania, enabling the company to consohdate their bonds and stocks and borrow money.

    Act 472 of 1868 · P.L. 508 · March 27, 1868 · Scanned page

  95. Granting an ancuity to Daniel Fullef.

    Act 473 of 1868 · P.L. 511 · March 27, 1868 · Scanned page

  96. For the relief of James L. Crawford, late second lieutenant company C, Second battalion, Pennsylvania volunteers.

    Act 474 of 1868 · P.L. 512 · March 27, 1868 · Scanned page

  97. To change the time of holding the election in the borough of Frankfort Springs, in Beaver county.

    Act 475 of 1868 · P.L. 513 · March 28, 1868 · Scanned page

  98. For the protection of farmers and owners of cattle, horses, sheep and swine along the line of railroads in the county of Warren.

    Act 476 of 1868 · P.L. 514 · March 28, 1868 · Scanned page

  99. To an aet, entitled <*An Aol to incorporate the Fame Hoee Cotnpaoy of Philadelphia,'* approved May Ibai^, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and aixty-foun

    Act 477 of 1868 · P.L. 515 · March 30, 1868 · Scanned page

  100. To incorporate the proprietors of the Sprogle Burial Ground of Pottstown.

    Act 478 of 1868 · P.L. 515 · 1868 · Scanned page

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