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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. To authorize the board of controllers of the Allegheny City school district to levy and apportion the school taxes within thirty days of the first Tuesday of February.

    Act 591 of 1868 · P.L. 632 · April 3, 1868 · Scanned page

  2. Supplement to the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Williamsport Gas Company," passed the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fiftj'-six. Sect: UN 1.

    Act 593 of 1868 · P.L. 634 · April 3, 1868 · Scanned page

  3. To extend the time for tlie coinmencement and completion of the Philadelphia and Montgomery County railroad.

    Act 594 of 1868 · P.L. 635 · April 3, 1868 · Scanned page

  4. Providing for additional terms of court in the county of York.

    Act 595 of 1868 · P.L. 636 · April 3, 1868 · Scanned page

  5. To extend tlie charter of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and to enable said comi3any to hold lands.

    Act 596 of 1868 · P.L. 636 · April 3, 1868 · Scanned page

  6. To authorize the school directors of the township of Fairview, in the county of York, to levy and collect additional bounty tax.

    Act 597 of 1868 · P.L. 637 · 1868 · Scanned page

  7. To provide for the distribution of surplus bounty funds between the township of Canton and the boroughs of Alba and Canton, in the county of Bradford. Preamble,

    Act 598 of 1868 · P.L. 638 · April 3, 1868 · Scanned page

  8. Relating to the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Passenger Railway Company of the city of Philadelphia, autliorizing the issue of bonds.

    Act 600 of 1868 · P.L. 640 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  9. To authorize the council of the borotigh of Columbia to apply to borough purposes the surplus of tax assessed for bounty

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 646 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  10. To authorize the commissioners of Centre county to sell and convey certain real estate.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 646 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  11. To authorize the commissioners of Centre county to sell and a certain real estate.

    Act 605 of 1868 · P.L. 646 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  12. To prolong and continue the charter of the Hermann Building Association of Philadelphia.

    Act 608 of 1868 · P.L. 649 · 1868 · Scanned page

  13. Belative to the claim of James Digmim, of Allegheny county.

    Act 610 of 1868 · P.L. 651 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  14. To annex parts of Fox township, Clearfield county, to Elk and Jefferson counties.

    Act 611 of 1868 · P.L. 651 · 1868 · Scanned page

  15. Tu authorize and empower the school directors of Rome township, Bradford county, to erect buildings within the limits of Rome IwroQgh for school purposes.

    Act 612 of 1868 · P.L. 653 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  16. To incorporate the Tyrone and Spruce Creek Turnpike

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 654 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  17. To incorporate the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

    Act 615 of 1868 · P.L. 655 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  18. To authorize tlie sale of the real estate of Mary Riter, late of the district of Spring Garden, county of Philadelphia, state of Pennsylvania, deceased.

    Act 616 of 1868 · P.L. 657 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  19. To restore to South Coventry township, Chester county, the general road laws, and to repeal an act, entitled *'An Act to change the road laws of South Coventry, Chester county." SErriov 1.

    Act 617 of 1868 · P.L. 659 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  20. Authorizing the erection of a poor house by the townships of North Abington, South Abingtou and Newton, in the county of Luzerne. SECTia>f 1.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 660 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  21. For the laying out of a road from Corsica, in the county of J< by way of Greenville, to the borough of CurllsviUe, in the o Clarion.

    Act 620 of 1868 · P.L. 668 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  22. To authorize the school directors of the borough of Manheim to bori'ow money to erect a public school house in said borough.

    Act 622 of 1868 · P.L. 672 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  23. To authorize tlie school board of Straban township, Adams county, to appropriate the surplus of the bounty fund in their hands to school purposes, and to refund certain taxes erroneously paid.

    Act 624 of 1868 · P.L. 673 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  24. To validate certain assessments of bounty taxes, and to authorize the school directors in Oliver township, Perry county, to appropriate the surplus thereof to school purposes.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 674 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  25. No. GS6. ^\X ^tX Preamble, Autliorizing the Cliurch Council of the German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Easton to sell the burial ground, and to remove the dead buried therein, and to build or purchase another church edifice.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 675 · 1868 · Scanned page

  26. To antborize an exammation iaito the military ser^-ices of A. F.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 678 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  27. Authorizing the appointment of a wood nieasurer and inspector in the borough of M'Connellsburg, county of Fulton.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 679 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  28. the appointment of a wood measurer and inspector in the borough of SfTGonnellsburg, county of Fulton. Sectiojt 1.

    Act 629 of 1868 · P.L. 679 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  29. To prevent and punish the adulteration of milk and cheese in Mercer county.

    Act 630 of 1868 · P.L. 679 · 1868 · Scanned page

  30. To extend the provisions of an act, entitled **An Act relative ohanics' Uens in the counties of Luzerne and SchuylkiU/' a February seventeenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight ] and fifty-eight, to the county of Carbon.

    Act 631 of 1868 · P.L. 680 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  31. To incorporate the Erie County Live Stock Inauranoe Compa

    Act 635 of 1868 · P.L. 684 · 1868 · Scanned page

  32. Authorizing the borough of Millvale, Allegheny county, Pennsylv to borrow money for school purposes.

    Act 636 of 1868 · P.L. 686 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  33. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to enable joint tenants, tenants in common, and adjoining owners of mineral lands in the commonwealth to manage and develop the same," approved April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and the same supplements thereto, authorizing the Warrior Run Mining Company to increase their capital stock.

    Act 637 of 1868 · P.L. 687 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  34. To incorporate the Shawnee Coal and Iron Company.

    Act 638 of 1868 · P.L. 688 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  35. To authorize the school clireetor.s of the borough of Bloomtield, in the county of Perry, to levy and collect an an annual tax, not exceeding two per centum, for school and building purposes.

    Act 639 of 1868 · P.L. 690 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  36. Supplement to an act, entitled "A supplement to an act for the better manaj^ement of the Allegheny county prison," approved the first day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 640 of 1868 · P.L. 691 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  37. To authorize the school district of the borough of Connellsville, Fayette county, to borrow moneyc

    Act 641 of 1868 · P.L. 692 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  38. To incorporate the city of Franklin.

    Act 642 of 1868 · P.L. 693 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  39. To enable the school directors of the borough of Conshohooken, Montgomery county, to borrow money for the erection of school buildings. Sectiox 1.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 697 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  40. To eoable the school directors of the borough of Conshohockjan, Montgomery county, to borrow money for the erection of school buildings.

    Act 643 of 1868 · P.L. 697 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  41. For the vacation and sale of the burial ground of the Associ formed Churcli of Pittsburg, and for ttie removal of the boi terred tbereiu.

    Act 644 of 1868 · P.L. 698 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  42. For the protection and preservation of trout in the streams of Elk creek, Pine creek, Penn's creek, and other streams in the counties of Centre, Clearfield and Forest.

    Act 645 of 1868 · P.L. 700 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  43. Ko. 64?. Hdiative to rcFad taxes and damages In the islands situate in the Siisquehanna river, in the township of Londonderry^ in the county of Dauphin,

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 701 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  44. Atathorizing the burgess and town council of the borough of Wayne, in the county of Wayne, to levy and collect a special tax for road purposes.

    Act 046 of 1868 · P.L. 701 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  45. To prevent cattle, horses, males, sheep and hogs from rnnnin^ in Upper and Lower Merion townships, Montgomery oounty townships of Upper and Lower Nazareth, In the county of N< ton.

    Act 648 of 1868 · P.L. 702 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  46. Relative to the assessment and collection of taxes on unseated lands in Hills Grove township, Sullivan county.

    Act 650 of 1868 · P.L. 704 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  47. To incorporate the Stone Creek Railroad Company.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 705 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  48. Relative to the fees of notaries public in the county of

    Act 653 of 1868 · P.L. 706 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  49. To prevent cattle from running at large in the townships of Whitpain, Worcester and Gwynedd, in the county of Montgomery.

    Act 654 of 1868 · P.L. 707 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  50. Supplement to the act incorporating the Reform Hospital of Pennsylvania.

    Act 655 of 1868 · P.L. 707 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  51. To anthorize the burgess and town council of the borough of North- East to increase taxation for borough

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 708 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  52. To aatfaorize the burgen and town council of the boroagh < East to increase taxation for )x>rough porpoees.

    Act 656 of 1868 · P.L. 708 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  53. To authorize the minister, church wjirdens and vestrymen of the African Episcopal Ohurch of Saint Thomas, in the city of Philadelphia, to sell certain real estate, and conlirniLiig the title to the same.

    Act 058 of 1868 · P.L. 711 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  54. Authorizing the school rlirectors of the borough of Duumore, in Luzerne county, and the school directors of the borough of Bellefonte, in Centre county, to borrow money.

    Act 660 of 1868 · P.L. 713 · 1868 · Scanned page

  55. To incorporate the Fittston Gas Light Company.

    Act 662 of 1868 · P.L. 715 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  56. To incorporate the American Publishing Company of Philadelphia.

    Act 665 of 1868 · P.L. 718 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  57. To authorize the removal of the ruins of the dams and locks of the Youghiogheny Slack-water Company.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 720 · 1868 · Scanned page

  58. Supplement to the act consolidating the city of Philadelphia, in order to promote the supply of water to said city.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 721 · April 4, 1868 · Scanned page

  59. To iucorporate the Miners" and Mechanics' Co-operative Association of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania.

    Act 669 of 1868 · P.L. 722 · April 6, 1868 · Scanned page

  60. To incorporate the Union Grocery, Produce and Variety Co-operative Association of Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 724 · 1868 · Scanned page

  61. Providing for the hearing and determinatiozi of a writ of error to the court of common pleas of Cambria county, and returnable to the Western district of the supreme court, in the Middle district of said court.

    Act 670 of 1868 · P.L. 724 · April 6, 1868 · Scanned page

  62. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Monongahela Valley Railroad Compan^v approved April eight, one thousand eight hundred and

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 726 · 1868 · Scanned page

  63. To prevent the destruction of fish in the stream known as the Middle Fork of Ten Mile creek, as far as it runs through Morris and Amwell townships, Washington county.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 727 · April 6, 1868 · Scanned page

  64. Repealing an act to annex additional territory to the borough of Brownsville for school purposes, approved the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 073 of 1868 · P.L. 727 · April 6, 1868 · Scanned page

  65. Ig an act to annex additional territory to the borough of isville for school purposes, approved the eighth day of April, ousand eight hundred and slxty-seyen. REA8, Dissatisfaction exists in consequence of the pasan act, entitled "An Act to annex additional territorj' forough of Brownsville for school purposes," approved ith da}' of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hund sixty-seven; therefore, ON 1.

    Act 673 of 1868 · P.L. 727 · April 6, 1868 · Scanned page

  66. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act regulating the mode of voting at all elections in the several counties of this commonwealth," approved the thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, so far as relates to the counties of Luzerne and Wyoming.

    Act 676 of 1868 · P.L. 729 · April 6, 1868 · Scanned page

  67. Supplement to the act consolidating the city of Philadelphia, relative to obstructing the streets or highways thereof. Sectiox 1.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 730 · April 6, 1868 · Scanned page

  68. Supplement to an act to confer additional powers upon the burgess and to cil of the borough of Wilkesbarre, approved the fifth d:iy Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seveu.

    Act 678 of 1868 · P.L. 730 · April 6, 1868 · Scanned page

  69. Supplementary to an act appointing commissioners to lay out and open a state road from Ridgway, via.Tohosonburg and Wilcox, in Elk county, to the borough of Kane, in M'Kean county, increasing and modifying powers of commissioners. Section' 1.

    Act 679 of 1868 · P.L. 732 · April 6, 1868 · Scanned page

  70. repeal the tenth section of an act, entitled "A supplement to an act, entitled 'An Act to incorpoi'ate the Norrietownand Freemansbnrg Railroad Company.'

    Act 680 of 1868 · P.L. 733 · April 7, 1868 · Scanned page

  71. LAWS OF PEKXSYLYANIA, No. B8L Authoi'iziug the commissioners of Venango county to exonerate the Ijorough of Oil City from the payment of a certain judgment.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 734 · April 7, 1868 · Scanned page

  72. Authorisdng the Auditor General and State Treasurer to revi re-settle the account of the treasurer of the city of Erie with tl monwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Act 682 of 1868 · P.L. 734 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  73. Relating to the public buildings in the county of Northampton.

    Act 684 of 1868 · P.L. 739 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  74. To protect wild tiirkeys and other game in the counties of Bedford and Fulton.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 743 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  75. The Bchonl directors of Saint Clair township, in tlie county Ireland, to borrow money for bailding purposes, and to Dnal school tax. I.

    Act 686 of 1868 · P.L. 743 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  76. 688. Toiucrease the pay of supervisors of roads of the township of Catawissa, in the county of Columbia.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 744 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  77. Entitled "An Act to authorize the sale of the poor house and krm in Mi£91n county," approved the second day of April, Anno Oomini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 689 of 1868 · P.L. 745 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  78. To incorporate the Philadelphia, New York and Boston Steamship Company.

    Act 690 of 1868 · P.L. 746 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  79. To authorize the appointment of additional notaries public for the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 691 of 1868 · P.L. 747 · 1868 · Scanned page

  80. To authorize the coiriinissioners of Mercer county to borrow money.

    Act 693 of 1868 · P.L. 749 · 1868 · Scanned page

  81. Lorize the oommissioners of Mercer county to borrow money. ON 1.

    Act 698 of 1868 · P.L. 749 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  82. To aiTthorize the sale of a certain ground rent belonging to the escheated estate of Jonathan Chapman, late of the city of Philadelphia, deceased.

    Act 695 of 1868 · P.L. 750 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  83. To authorize Marshall Hays and William D. Reno to establish a warp at White's Rijiple.

    Act 696 of 1868 · P.L. 751 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  84. To repeal a supplement to an act relative to landlords and tenants, which supplement became a law on fourteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, so far as the counties of Allegheny, Cambria, Fayette and Lawrenceare concerned.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 757 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  85. To allow the school directors of Union Mills, Eric covmty, to levy additional taxes.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 757 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  86. To authorize the eommissioMers of Montour county to borrow money.

    Act 703 of 1868 · P.L. 760 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  87. To repeal an act establishing a puljhc law library in the county of Warren, approved Ajjril eleventh, one thousand eiglit hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 761 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  88. To repeal an aet establishing a public law library in the county.of Warren, approved April eleventh, one tliousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 705 of 1868 · P.L. 761 · 1868 · Scanned page

  89. To authorize the school directors of Porter township, Lycoming co\inty, to borrow money.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 762 · 1868 · Scanned page

  90. To authorize the school directors of Porter township, Lycoi ty, to borrow

    Act 706 of 1868 · P.L. 762 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  91. To incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Ohio river from West Pittsburgand Teinperaneeville, at or near the mouth of Saw Mill run, Allegheny county, to the city of Allegheny.

    Act 708 of 1868 · P.L. 764 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  92. To incorporate the Madison College.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 768 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  93. Ko. no. Jjegalizing the assessment of a tax to pay bounties to Volunteers in Allegheny township, Westmoreland county.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 769 · April 8, 1868 · Scanned page

  94. Regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors within the county of Wyoming.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 770 · April 9, 1868 · Scanned page

  95. Regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors within the conn oming.

    Act 711 of 1868 · P.L. 770 · April 9, 1868 · Scanned page

  96. To authorize the opening of Mount Airy avenue, in the Twenty-second ward, city of Philadelphia.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 771 · April 9, 1868 · Scanned page

  97. To vacate part of the Township line road, In the Twenty-eighth ward of the city of Phihulelphia.

    Act 712 of 1868 · P.L. 771 · 1868 · Scanned page

  98. Supplement to an act to vacate a part of Buck road, in the Twenty-sixth ward of the city of Philadelphia, approved April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 773 · April 9, 1868 · Scanned page

  99. Vacating a portion of Monument road, in the Twenty-fourth ward of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 773 · April 9, 1868 · Scanned page

  100. For the opening of Fifth street from Germantown road or avenue to Berks street, late Chatham street, in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 718 of 1868 · P.L. 775 · April 9, 1868 · Scanned page

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