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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.

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7,883 laws of the 1860s

Constitution of 1838

  1. To incorporate the Youngwoman's Creek Navigation Company.

    Act 814 of 1868 · P.L. 871 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  2. To incorporate the Franklin Silver Mining Company of Colorado.

    Act 815 of 1868 · P.L. 873 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  3. Authorizing the appointment of three additional notaries public for the county of Allegheny.

    Act 816 of 1868 · P.L. 875 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  4. To exempt the property of the Boarding Home for Young Women from taxation.

    Act 817 of 1868 · P.L. 875 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  5. Relating to livery stable keepers in Indiana county.

    Act 818 of 1868 · P.L. 876 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  6. Relative to vagrants and disorderly persons, et cetera, in the city of Lancaster, in the eoujrity of Lancaster.

    Act 819 of 1868 · P.L. 876 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  7. To authorize the election of four supervisors in Conemavigh tOTvnship. Indiana county.

    Act 821 of 1868 · P.L. 878 · 1868 · Scanned page

  8. In relation to aitctioneers in the city of Williamsport.

    Act 822 of 1868 · P.L. 878 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  9. To extend the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to restrict sales by auction in the counties of Northampton, Dauphin and Lehigh,' to the borough of Phcenixville, in the county of Chester.

    Act 823 of 1868 · P.L. 879 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  10. Regulating the compensation of assessors and assistant assessoi'S in Allegheny county.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 880 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  11. To repeal an act, entitled "An Act authorizing the school directors of Lower Providence tovi-nship, in the county of Montgomery, to levy and collect tax for the payment of bounties to volunteers.

    Act 824 of 1868 · P.L. 880 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  12. Regulating the compensation of assesaora and aaaiatant Allegheny county.

    Act 825 of 1868 · P.L. 880 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  13. To require the register of wills in and for Luzerne county to record all bonds given by executors or administrators.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 881 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  14. To regnlate the sale of goods, wares and merchandise hy puhlio outcry, in the county of Luaeme, in what is known as the cheap John style. Section I. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Represeniaiives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly mei, and U is hereby enacted by the avJthority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for

    Act 826 of 1868 · P.L. 881 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  15. To incorporate the Continental Improvement Company.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 882 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  16. the Continental Improvement CdmpaDy. Sbctiok

    Act 828 of 1868 · P.L. 882 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  17. To incorporate the Peiitisylvania Protection Insurance Company.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 884 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  18. To incorporate the Pennsylvania Protection Insurance Company.

    Act 829 of 1868 · P.L. 884 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  19. To incorpor-ate the Trustees of the I'ire Association of the City of Harrisburg as an insurance company.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 886 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  20. To incorporate the Tmstees of the Fire A8SOciatk>n of the City of Harrisburg as an insurance company.

    Act 830 of 1868 · P.L. 886 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  21. To increase the pay of the supervisors of Cunimings township, in Lycoming county.

    Act 831 of 1868 · P.L. 892 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  22. To Incorporate the Lutheran Observer Association of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 893 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  23. To prevent the sale of Intoziaatmg liquors In the horongh of Believer' non, Fayette oonnty.

    Act 832 of 1868 · P.L. 893 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  24. To authorize the board of managers of the House of Refuge at Philadelphia to compensate their solicitor,

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 895 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  25. To anthorisEe the board of. managers of the House of Kefuge at Philadelphia to compensate their solicitor.

    Act 834 of 1868 · P.L. 895 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  26. To incorporate the Susquehanna Steamboat Company.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 896 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  27. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Brady Coal and Oil Company, approved January thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 837 of 1868 · P.L. 898 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  28. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to extend the privileges of the Bonnet's Branch Improvement Company," approved the twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, correcting an error therein.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 902 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  29. To restrain unlicensed peddling in the borough of Tarentum, Allegheny county.

    Act 840 of 1868 · P.L. 903 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  30. Extendinu; the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act in relation to huckstering in the counties of Bedford, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton and York," approved the eighteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtj'-six, to the county of Perry.

    Act 842 of 1868 · P.L. 905 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  31. Granting a pension to Henry Little, of Adams county.

    Act 843 of 1868 · P.L. 905 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  32. Granting a pension to Joha L. Burns, a soldier of the war of one tliousand eiglit hundred and twelve, from Adams county.

    Act 844 of 1868 · P.L. 906 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  33. To extend and amend the charter of the Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Company.

    Act 845 of 1868 · P.L. 906 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  34. To authorize the directors of the independent school district of Collins township, Allegheny county, to borrow money and levy a special tax for building purposes.

    Act 846 of 1868 · P.L. 907 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  35. To repeal an act, entitled "An Act relating to the drainage of roads by supervisors in the county of Delaware," passed ith^ seventeenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtyseven.

    Act 847 of 1868 · P.L. 908 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  36. Provldhag for the alteration of the grades of certain streets and aUcy^ in the borough of Easton, and recording the sameu

    Act 860 of 1868 · P.L. 908 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  37. Authorizing the school directors of Liberty school district, M'Keaii county, to borrow money to enable them to build a house for a graded school at Port Allegheny, in said township.

    Act 849 of 1868 · P.L. 910 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  38. Providing for the alteration of the grades of certain streets and alleys in the borough of Easton, and recording the same.

    Act 850 of 1868 · P.L. 910 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  39. Relating to the collection of tax in Loyalsock township, Lycoming county.

    Act 851 of 1868 · P.L. 911 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  40. Repealing an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the school board of North Heidelberg township, iu the county of Berks, to levy and collect an additional bounty tax," approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 852 of 1868 · P.L. 912 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  41. To open Twenty -fourth street from Poplar street to North College avenue, in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 853 of 1868 · P.L. 912 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  42. To au act to improve th^ navigation of the river Lackawaxen, approveii the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, and the supplements thereto, amending the title of a supplement to said act, approved the twentieth day of September, one thousand eight h/at>dred and sixty-six, and re-enacting, ratifying and confinning tho provisional thorfof relating to assessmeijt

    Act 855 of 1868 · P.L. 914 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  43. To authorize the laying of certain water pipes in Londonderry township, Lebanon county.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 915 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  44. To exempt the property of the National Guards of the city of Philadelphia from taxation.

    Act 858 of 1868 · P.L. 916 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  45. Relative to the pay of township auditors in Rcservo township, Allejftieny county. Section i. Jie it enacted by the Senate and House of Hepreseniatives of the CommonuvaUh of Fennaijlvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same^ That the law of this commonwealth requiring township auditors to be }xii(l out of the township treasury, be and the •same is

    Act 859 of 1868 · P.L. 917 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  46. To authorize justices of the peace in the borough of Pittston, county of Xiuzeme, to hold and exercise the office of notary public

    Act 862 of 1868 · P.L. 925 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  47. To authorize the burgess and town council of the borough of West Pittston, in the county of Luzerne, to levy and collect an additional

    Act 863 of 1868 · P.L. 925 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  48. In relation to the assessment and collection of taxes in the city of Williamsport, for city purposes. Section 1.

    Act 861 of 1868 · P.L. 926 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  49. To conilsr additional power upon the burgess and town council of the borough of Pittston.

    Act 864 of 1868 · P.L. 926 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  50. Gin ^t\ Entitled "An Act to permit cripjjles to peddle by procuring a license therefor, in the county of Luzerne.

    Act 865 of 1868 · P.L. 929 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  51. To authorize the board of school director.s of Butler district, in Adams county, to pay the connnittee appointed to procure volunteers to fill quota, and to levy and collect a tax for that purpose, to the amount that may be found due to them on;?ettlement of their accounts by auditors.

    Act 866 of 1868 · P.L. 930 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  52. To appoint an auctioneer in the county of Somerset.

    Act 867 of 1868 · P.L. 931 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  53. Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Petroleo Calciuin Gas Light Company of Pennsylvania," approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred sixty-eight.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 932 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  54. Supplement to an act, entitled "A supplement to an act incorporating the M'Connell Mineral Company," etcetera, approved the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-^even, authorizing said company to sell property.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 932 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  55. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Miners' Savings Bank of Wilkesbarre, approved tlie thirteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, reducing the par value of the sh^tres of stock, correcting the second section of said original act, and authorizing said bank to accept the appointment of certain trusts.

    Act 870 of 1868 · P.L. 933 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  56. To incorpoi*ate the Union Workman's Association of Honesdale.

    Act 871 of 1868 · P.L. 934 · February 28, 1868 · Scanned page

  57. Declaring Mill creek, in Sullivan county, a public highway.

    Act 872 of 1868 · P.L. 935 · 1868 · Scanned page

  58. Supplement to the act incorporating the Plymouth Railroad Company, authorizinji,them to borrow money and issue additional stock.

    Act 873 of 1868 · P.L. 936 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  59. Authorizing the school directors of Colley township, Sullivan county, to make appropriations for the supjjort of the poor in said township.

    Act 874 of 1868 · P.L. 937 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  60. To incorpoiMto the Lower Bridge Company.

    Act 875 of 1868 · P.L. 938 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  61. Authorizing the merger and oonsolidation of ooal companies, ood And iron oompanies and other mining companies, abd of companies having mining privileges in the coanties of Schuylkill and Loserne.

    Act 878 of 1868 · P.L. 938 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  62. To authorize the issue of bonds of the Freedom Iron and Steel Company.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 939 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  63. To exempt the Adams County Soldiers' Monument Association from the payment of enrolment tax on an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Adams County Soldiers' Monument Association," approved April first, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and the supplement thereto, approved April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 939 · 1868 · Scanned page

  64. Authorizing the merger and consolidation of coal companies, ooal and iron companies and otlier iniiiing companies, and of companies having mining privileges in the counties of Schuylliill and Luzerne.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 940 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  65. To confirm titles acquired under certain proceedings in partition in the district court for the city and county of Philadelphia, in the case of Abell versus Swain and others.

    Act 879 of 1868 · P.L. 941 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  66. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Darby Railroad Company, approved twenty-eighth Aj^ril, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven, authorizing them to extend their road, and re-locate and reconstruct their present road.

    Act 880 of 1868 · P.L. 942 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  67. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Darby Railroad Company, approved twenty-eighth April, one thousand eigj^t hundred and tifty-seven, declaratory of the meaning of a certain supplement to the act of incorporation of said company.

    Act 881 of 1868 · P.L. 943 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  68. To authorize and require the court of common pleas of York county to appoint auditors on the bounty accounts of the school directors of Newberry township, in said county.

    Act 882 of 1868 · P.L. 944 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  69. To prevent the destruction of fish in M'Miphael's creek, Monroe county.

    Act 883 of 1868 · P.L. 945 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  70. Extending the provisions of aa act, entitled "A supplement to an act relating to the lien of mechanics and others upon buildings, approved the sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirtysix, extending it to the counties of Blair and Armstrong," approved the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, to the county of Monroe.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 946 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  71. In relation to the collecting of bounty taxes for payment of volunteers in "Washington township, Lycoming county.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 947 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  72. To authorize the commissioners of Crawford county, as overseers and directors of the poor and house of employment, to purchase real estate to enlarge the poor house farm.

    Act 886 of 1868 · P.L. 947 · 1868 · Scanned page

  73. For the relief of Catharine Reed, of Mereer county, a widow of a floldier of the war of one thousand eight hundred and twelve.

    Act 889 of 1868 · P.L. 947 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  74. To vacate portions of Franklin street and Third street, in the borotigb of Saint Clair.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 950 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  75. To authorize the board of school directors of Menallen district, in Adams county, to pay the amount required to procure volunteers to fill quota, and to levy and collect tax for that purpose to the amount that may be found due on settlement of their account by auditors.

    Act 891 of 1868 · P.L. 950 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  76. To exempt certain persons from the payment of toll for crossing the Youghiogheny bridge, between Connellsville and New Haven, in the county of Fayette.

    Act 892 of 1868 · P.L. 951 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  77. Supplement to the act to incorporate the city of Corry, approved March eighth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 893 of 1868 · P.L. 952 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  78. To avithorize the president and directors of the Hollidaysburgand Alto )na Plank Koad Company to borrow inoney, and for other purposes.

    Act 894 of 1868 · P.L. 953 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  79. Authorizing the Fort Pitt Coal Company to sell certain real estate.

    Act 895 of 1868 · P.L. 954 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  80. To incorporate the North Wales and Montgomery Turnpike Road Company.

    Act 896 of 1868 · P.L. 954 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  81. Supplement to the act incorporating the boroagh of South Erie, approved Febraaiy twenty-third, one thou8:ind eight hundred and sixty-aix, with its supplement, approved March sixth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and with a farther supplement, approved March eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-oight.

    Act 898 of 1868 · P.L. 955 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  82. To lay out a state road in Allegheny and Butler counties.

    Act 897 of 1868 · P.L. 956 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  83. To prevent fishing in Sandy lake, in the county of Mercer, except by hook and line.

    Act 899 of 1868 · P.L. 958 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  84. Authorizing the Attorney General to examine the claim of Edvvard Pickett, of Bucks county, and directing the State Treasurer to pay the same if found to be correct.

    Act 900 of 1868 · P.L. 958 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  85. In relation to the taxation of lands of persons resident in one school district, annexed to another scliool district, in the county of Adams, for scliool purposes.

    Act 902 of 1868 · P.L. 960 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  86. Relative to the eollection of stale, dog and other taxes and military lines, within the bounds of the city of

    Act 903 of 1868 · P.L. 961 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  87. To incorporate the Luzerne Asylum for the care of disabled miners and their families.

    Act 904 of 1868 · P.L. 961 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  88. Relating to party walls npon Lackawanna avenue, in the city of

    Act 906 of 1868 · P.L. 963 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  89. Relating to party walls upon Lackawanna avenue, in the city of

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 965 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  90. To authorize the appointment of two magistrates in the boroughs south of the Monongahela and Ohio, in Alleglieny county, to hear and determine cases of drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and to regulate thp compensation therefor.

    Act 908 of 1868 · P.L. 971 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  91. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incoriDorate the Girard College Passeni;er Railway Company of Philadelphia," approved April fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

    Act 909 of 1868 · P.L. 973 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  92. To incorporate the Reading Brewing Company.

    Act 910 of 1868 · P.L. 973 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  93. To autliorize the burgess and council of the borough of Warren to convey certain real estate.

    Act 911 of 1868 · P.L. 975 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  94. To incorporate the Harmonic Literary and Social Association of Philadelphia.

    Act 912 of 1868 · P.L. 975 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  95. To authorize the school directors of Hartley township. Union county, Pennsylvania, to levy and collect a tax for boanty parposes.

    Act 913 of 1868 · P.L. 975 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  96. In §d Tn relation to the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Streets Passenger Railway Company of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 914 of 1868 · P.L. 977 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  97. for the apiMlntment of inspectors of salt in the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny, and fixing the standard weight of a barrel of salt.

    Act 917 of 1868 · P.L. 978 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  98. To legalize the action of the borough of Jamestown, in Mercer county.

    Act 916 of 1868 · P.L. 979 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  99. Supplement to an act to change the mode of criminal proceedings in Erie and Union counties, extending the same to the county of Wyoming.

    Act 918 of 1868 · P.L. 979 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

  100. Supplement to an act lo ebange the mode of criminal proceedings in Erie and Union counties, extending the same to the county of Wyoming.

    Act of 1868 · P.L. 981 · April 13, 1868 · Scanned page

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