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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
Authorizing the burgess and council of the borough of Pleasantville, in Venango county, to increase their borough tax.
Act 136 of 1869 · P.L. 165 · February 13, 1869 · Scanned page
To incorporate tlie City Mutual Life and Health Insurance Company of Lehigh county.
Act of 1869 · P.L. 166 · February 13, 1869 · Scanned page
To authorize the Crawford Coal Company, organized under the law of the commonwealth, by charter dated April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty -Ave, to issue bonds, and authorizing the manufacture of iron and steel.
Act 1 of 1869 · P.L. 167 · 1869 · Scanned page
To exempt from taxation a bequest made to the poor of Hanover township, Beaver county.
Act 139 of 1869 · P.L. 168 · February 13, 1869 · Scanned page
Relative to the purchase of a law library in Fayette and Northumberland counties.
Act 140 of 1869 · P.L. 169 · 1869 · Scanned page
For the better protection of lands against injury from water in Bradford county.
Act 141 of 1869 · P.L. 170 · February 13, 1869 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of Elizabetli townsliip, in the county of Allegheny, to examine and pay the claims of certain persons for bounty money.
Act 142 of 1869 · P.L. 171 · 1869 · Scanned page
Authorizing the township treasurer of Spring Creek township, Warren county, to pay certain costs and expenses out of bounty money in his hands.
Act 143 of 1869 · P.L. 172 · 1869 · Scanned page
Relating to roads and bridges in the county of Chester.
Act 144 of 1869 · P.L. 173 · February 13, 1869 · Scanned page
Confirming the plan of a part of Sixtieth and Sixty-first streets, in the Twenty-seventh ward of the city of Philadelphia.
Act 145 of 1869 · P.L. 175 · February 13, 1869 · Scanned page
the borough authorities of South Erie to borrow money.
Act 146 of 1869 · P.L. 175 · February 13, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate tlie Lehigh County Mutual Fire Insurance Company," approved March twenty-eight, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
Act 147 of 1869 · P.L. 176 · February 15, 1869 · Scanned page
Authorizing the commissioners of Washington county to lease certain public ground to the burgess and council of Washington borough.
Act 148 of 1869 · P.L. 177 · February 16, 1869 · Scanned page
Empowering tho court of common pleas of Venango county to open judgment against W. A. Hull, collector of taxes of Cornplanter township, in said county, and to authorize the county auditors to regulate the same, and extending the same privileges to H. B. Hixon, so far as he requires, and also to Benjamin Foust.
Act 149 of 1869 · P.L. 178 · February 16, 1869 · Scanned page
Authorizing the burgess and council of the borough of Washington to borrow money to be applied to the erection of a town hall.
Act of 1869 · P.L. 179 · 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Union Passenger Railway Company of Philadelphia, approved the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty
Act 152 of 1869 · P.L. 181 · February 17, 1869 · Scanned page
To fix the place of holding elections in the township of Fox, in the county of
Act 153 of 1869 · P.L. 181 · 1869 · Scanned page
To authorize the Allegheny Gas Company to increase its capital stock.
Act 154 of 1869 · P.L. 182 · 1869 · Scanned page
Relating to the appointment of auditors in tlie courts of the county of Montgomery.
Act 155 of 1869 · P.L. 183 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
Authorizing the trustees of the First Reformed Presbyterian Congregation of Pittsburg to remove the dead bodies from the burjang ground attatched to tlieir church building, and to sell their property.
Act 156 of 1869 · P.L. 183 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To repeal an act, entitled "An Act relating to the payment of certain bounties by the township of Eldred, Monroe county," approved the sixtii day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Act 1 of 1869 · P.L. 185 · 1869 · Scanned page
To repeal an act for the preservation of deer in the counties of Monroe and Pike, approved the twenty -fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Act 157 of 1869 · P.L. 185 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To repeal an act, entitled "An Act to prohibit the taking of fish with nets in any of the streams of Monroe county," approved the twentyninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, so far as the same relates to streams in the township of Stroud, in said county of Monroe.
Act 159 of 1869 · P.L. 186 · 1869 · Scanned page
Relative to tlie purchase of a law library in Clearfield county.
Act 160 of 1869 · P.L. 186 · 1869 · Scanned page
Authorizing the school directors of Coatesville school district, in the county of Chester, to borrow money.
Act 161 of 1869 · P.L. 187 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To repeal part of a certain act relative to party walls in the late borough of West Philadelphia, approved the tv,renty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
Act 162 of 1869 · P.L. 188 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To authorize the appointment of auctioneers in the borough of Danville, Montour county.
Act 163 of 1869 · P.L. 188 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Equinunk Bridge Company.
Act 164 of 1869 · P.L. 189 · 1869 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Central Passenger Railway Company of Pittsburg.
Act 165 of 1869 · P.L. 190 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To authorize John Lehraaier to sell and convey certain real estate.
Act 166 of 1869 · P.L. 192 · 1869 · Scanned page
To empower the Governor to appoint an additional notary public to reside in the borough of Sharon, Mercer county, Pennsylvania.
Act 167 of 1869 · P.L. 193 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To authorize the Buffalo and Washington Railway Company to borrow money, and to mortgage its property and franchises to secure the payment thereof.
Act 168 of 1869 · P.L. 193 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia, requiring the profits arising from life insurance business to be divided amongst the policy holders.
Act of 1869 · P.L. 194 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Philadelphia, Reading and Pottsville Telegraph Company, approved the fifteenth daj^ of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
Act 109 of 1869 · P.L. 194 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To aa act, entitled "An Act to ascertain and appoint the fees to be received by the several officers of this Commonwealth,"' approved the second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty -eight, relating to Berks county.
Act of 1869 · P.L. 196 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To change the corporate name of the Pittsburg Ale and Malt Manu. facturing Company, and authorizing said company to reduce their capital stock.
Act of 1869 · P.L. 196 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To repeal so much of the second section of an act authorizing the burgess and town council of the borongh of Sharpsburg, Allegheny county, to levy and collect a tax, not exceeding fifteen mills on the dollar on the assessed county valuation for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty -eight, and annually thereafter, and changing the manner of collecting the taxes in said borough,
Act of 1869 · P.L. 197 · 1869 · Scanned page
To regulate and restrict sales at auction in the borough of St. Mary's, and the township of Benzinger, in the county of Elk.
Act 175 of 1869 · P.L. 198 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To establish the office of interpreter and translator of foreign languages for the city of Philadelphia.
Act 176 of 1869 · P.L. 198 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
Lo an act relative to licenses on vehicles in the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny, in the boroughs of Birmingham, East Birmingham, South Pittsburg and Manchester.
Act 177 of 1869 · P.L. 199 · 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to authorize James Hubler to sell and convey certain real estate in Northampton county," approved the eleventh day o/ April, Anno Domini one thousand eiglit hundred and sixty-eight, correcting an error in tlie christian name of the trustee mentioned in said act.
Act 118 of 1869 · P.L. 200 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To the acts relating to building and loan associations, conferring additional powers upon the court of common pleas of the county of Philadelphia.
Act 179 of 1869 · P.L. 201 · 1869 · Scanned page
To extend the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to prevent hunting of deer with dogs in Wyoming countj^," to the townsliip of Harmony, in the county of Forest, and to the counties of Cumberland, Adams and Perry.
Act 180 of 1869 · P.L. 202 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To define and extend the equity jurisdiction of the district court for the county of Allegheny, and to validate certain iiroceedings in partition in said court.
Act 181 of 1869 · P.L. 202 · 1869 · Scanned page
To fix the return day of writs in the county of Lycoming.
Act 182 of 1869 · P.L. 203 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To authorize the school directors of Redstone township, Fayette county, to levy and collect a bounty tax.
Act 183 of 1869 · P.L. 204 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
Relative to the assessment of poor taxes in the county of Potter.
Act 184 of 1869 · P.L. 204 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act, entitled ''An Act to lay out Mount Airy avenue, in the Twentj^-second ward, city of Philadelphia."'
Act 186 of 1869 · P.L. 206 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
For the relief of the children of William Marlin, deceased.
Act 187 of 1869 · P.L. 206 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
In relation to the collection of taxes in New Castle township, Sahuylkill county.
Act 188 of 1869 · P.L. 207 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To enlarge the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Erie.
Act 189 of 1869 · P.L. 208 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
To exempt the property of the German Society of Philadelphia from taxation.
Act of 1869 · P.L. 210 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
Imposing the duty of maintaining a certain bridge crossing Mill creek, in the townships of Wilkesbarre and Plains, and also a bridge crossing Toby's creek, upon the county of Luzerne.
Act 190 of 1869 · P.L. 210 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
For the protection of livery stable keepers in the counties of Lawrence and Clearfield.
Act of 1869 · P.L. 212 · February 18, 1869 · Scanned page
Relating to roads in the county of Bradford.
Act 195 of 1869 · P.L. 213 · February 19, 1869 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Honesdale Law and Library Association, in Wayne county.
Act 196 of 1869 · P.L. 215 · February 19, 1869 · Scanned page
Extending certain portions of an act, entitled "An Act to increase the number of officers in Red Bank township, Armstrong county, and make other changes in tlie officers of said township," approved February twenty-seventli, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyeight, to M'Intyre township, Lycoming county.
Act 197 of 1869 · P.L. 217 · February 19, 1869 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Iron City Mutual Life Insurance Company of Pennsylvania.
Act 198 of 1869 · P.L. 218 · 1869 · Scanned page
To consolidate tho offices of assessor and constable in the township of Brecknock, in the county of Lancaster, and Easttown and South Coventry townships, Chester county.
Act 199 of 1869 · P.L. 219 · February 19, 1869 · Scanned page
To incorporate the African College.
Act 200 of 1869 · P.L. 220 · February 19, 1869 · Scanned page
Relating to the preservation of trout in the counties of Potter, Lycoming and Tioga.
Act 201 of 1869 · P.L. 222 · February 19, 1869 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Columbia National Fire Insurance Company.
Act 202 of 1869 · P.L. 223 · February 19, 1869 · Scanned page
To change the time of holding the borough and township elections in the county of Lebanpu, and Moon and Finley townships, Allegheny county. Time for holding i borough elections in Lebanon borough, changed. Qualifications of voters. Tax to be levied ^ upon persons removing into borough after first April.
Act 203 of 1869 · P.L. 226 · February 19, 1869 · Scanned page
To repeal an act, entitled "An Act to prevent the hunting of deer with dogs in the county of Wyoming.
Act 204 of 1869 · P.L. 227 · February 19, 1869 · Scanned page
To exempt from taxation the grounds of the Lake Shore Seminarj', at North-East, in the county of Erie, and directing the payment of certain fines to said seminary by the courts of Erie county, and repealing the first section of an act relative to a law library in Erie county, approved April seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty
Act 205 of 1869 · P.L. 228 · February 20, 1869 · Scanned page
Increasing the pay of jurors and witnesses in the county of Elk.
Act 206 of 1869 · P.L. 229 · February 20, 1869 · Scanned page
Relative to the election-of supervisors in Hanover township, Beaver county.
Act 207 of 1869 · P.L. 229 · February 20, 1869 · Scanned page
To repeal an act, entitled "An Act to increase the number of supervisors of roads in Cowanshannock township, Armstrong county," approved the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one tlionsand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Act 208 of 1869 · P.L. 230 · February 20, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the Caledonia Iron, Land and Railroad Company.
Act 209 of 1869 · P.L. 230 · 1869 · Scanned page
To legalize and make valid tbe official acts of Ethan B. Minier, as a justice of the peace in and for the county of Bradford.
Act 210 of 1869 · P.L. 232 · 1869 · Scanned page
Relating to the appointment of notaries public in the counties Cai eron and Elk.
Act 211 of 1869 · P.L. 232 · February 23, 1869 · Scanned page
To establish an independent' school district out of parts of Wj'oming and Susquehanna counties.
Act 212 of 1869 · P.L. 233 · 1869 · Scanned page
To change the name of the Pittston Railroad and Coal Company, and to reduce the number of its directors.
Act 213 of 1869 · P.L. 235 · February 24, 1869 · Scanned page
To extend the provisions of the act approved the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, to the county of Clarion.
Act 214 of 1869 · P.L. 235 · 1869 · Scanned page
Relative to a certain lot or piece of ground in the city of Reading, commonly known as the German Reformed buri,1 ground. Preamble. Wherbas, By the increase of population and growth of the city of Reading the burial ground of the German Reformed tJongregation, situate at the north-east corner of Washington and Sixth streets, in said cit}^ of Reading, is now in a central part of said town
Act 215 of 1869 · P.L. 236 · February 24, 1869 · Scanned page
To amend the charter of the trustees of the Fire Association of Pbila« delphia.
Act 218 of 1869 · P.L. 239 · February 24, 1869 · Scanned page
Reviving the charter of the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Company, approved twenty-fourth March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
Act 219 of 1869 · P.L. 240 · February 25, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act incorporating the borough of Leechburg, in the county of Armstrong.
Act 220 of 1869 · P.L. 241 · February 25, 1869 · Scanned page
Relating to the school district of the boi-ough of Greencastle, in the county of Franklin.
Act 221 of 1869 · P.L. 243 · February 25, 1869 · Scanned page
To authorize the conimisionersof Wyoming county to borrow money, to be used in repairing the court house and public grounds.
Act 22 of 1869 · P.L. 245 · February 25, 1869 · Scanned page
To change and establish the dividing line between the borough Beaver and the borough of Bridgewater, and the school district line between the borough of Beaver and the school district of Borough township, in the county of Beaver.
Act 224 of 1869 · P.L. 246 · 1869 · Scanned page
Incorporating the city of New Castle, in the county of Lawrence.
Act 226 of 1869 · P.L. 249 · February 25, 1869 · Scanned page
No. 22t. Toan act relating to landlords and tenants, approved the fourteenth day of December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, relating to the borough of Easton, in the county o Northampton.
Act 227 of 1869 · P.L. 263 · February 25, 1869 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Preachers' Aid Society of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Act 228 of 1869 · P.L. 264 · February 25, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to incorporate the Jamestown and Franklin Railroad Company, approved the fifth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Act 229 of 1869 · P.L. 266 · February 25, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to the act incorporating the borough of Plia3nixville, in the county of Chester, into a borough, relating to the election of school directors. South ward.
Act 231 of 1869 · P.L. 268 · 1869 · Scanned page
To exempt certain real estate of the Susquehanna Female College from taxation.
Act 232 of 1869 · P.L. 269 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to exempt the property of the German Society of Philadelphia from taxation." Section
Act 233 of 1869 · P.L. 269 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act incorporating the Pittsburg Fruit House Association, approved the twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty
Act 234 of 1869 · P.L. 270 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Susquehanna and Lehigh turnpike road," approved the twenty-sixth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight liundred and four, entitled "An Act to enable the Governor of this Commonwealth to incorporate a company for making an artificial road, by the best and nearest route, from the North-Eastern Branch of the Susquehanna river,
Act 235 of 1869 · P.L. 271 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
To incorporate the Fountain House Hotel Company of the city of Allentown.
Act 236 of 1869 · P.L. 272 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
To conlirm the title of David B. Paul to a certain lot of grovmd in the Twenty -fourth ward, city of Philadelphia.
Act 237 of 1869 · P.L. 274 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to establish a ferry over the Allegheny river, at or near the mouth of Big Scrubgrass, in Venango eounty, approved the elev enth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Act 238 of 1869 · P.L. 275 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
To empower the trustees of the Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in the city of Philadelphia, to sell or occupy certain real estate.
Act 239 of 1869 · P.L. 275 · 1869 · Scanned page
To incori^orate the Worki^iguien's Co-operative Baildiug Association of Philadelphia.
Act 240 of 1869 · P.L. 277 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
Relative to roads in Washington and Beaver counties.
Act 241 of 1869 · P.L. 279 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
For the protection of fish in Wayne county.
Act 243 of 1869 · P.L. 280 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplementary to an act incorporating the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Pittsburg.
Act 244 of 1869 · P.L. 281 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Middle Pennsylvania," approved the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Act 245 of 1869 · P.L. 282 · February 26, 1869 · Scanned page
Supplement to an act to unite the colleges of JelFerson and Washington, in the county of Washington, and to erect the same into one corporation, under the name of Washington and Jetferson College, approved the fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tive.
Act 240 of 1869 · P.L. 283 · 1869 · Scanned page
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Constitution of 18741874–1967
Constitution of 17761776–1789
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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.