Every law Pennsylvania has passed

7,883 laws of the 1860s

Constitution of 1838

1. To provide for the collection of arrears of bounty due to volunteerfrom the township of Mehoopany, Wyoming county.

   Act 592 of 1869 · P.L. 608 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

2. To incorporate the North-East Turnpike Road Company.

   Act 594 of 1869 · P.L. 610 · 1869 · Scanned page

3. Ta an act authorizing the court of quarter sessions of M'Kean county to appoint commissioners to take exclusive charge of a portion of the road leading from Smethport, in M'Kean county, to Wilcox, in Elk county, and to appropriate taxes far the repair and changingthe same, approved the twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty

   Act 595 of 1869 · P.L. 612 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

4. Portion of t'ornier act repfidled. Commissioner township-. Moneys arisiu;^ from taxes, liow expended. Settlement ul' accounts of crvmmi si oners. Repeal. No. r>96. To incorporate the Farmers' and Mechanics' Co-operative Association * of Greenville, Mercer county.

   Act 596 of 1869 · P.L. 612 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

5. To repeal an act, entitled "An Acr relative to roads in West Brandywine town&hip, Chester county,"' approved the first day of Aprils Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

   Act 597 of 1869 · P.L. 614 · 1869 · Scanned page

6. For the prevention of the mutilation and destruction of show bills, placards, posters, programmes, anuoun cements, et cetera, and for the protection of the proprietors of places of amusement, merchants, manufacturers and others in the city of Philadelphia and county of Centre.

   Act 598 of 1869 · P.L. 615 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

7. Authorizing tlie school directors of the borough of Waynesboro^ Franklin county, to borrow money for school purposes.

   Act 599 of 1869 · P.L. 616 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

8. To regulate the number of school directors for the wards in the city of Erie.

   Act 600 of 1869 · P.L. 616 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

9. Supplementary to the act incorporating the borough of Easton. improvement of borougli, relative Authorized to bor row money.

   Act 602 of 1869 · P.L. 618 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

10. For the better prosecution of disorderly persons in the boroughs of Millvalle and Ormsby, county of Allegheny.

    Act 603 of 1869 · P.L. 618 · 1869 · Scanned page

11. To incorporate the Lehigh County Turnpike and Plank Road Company.

    Act 604 of 1869 · P.L. 619 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

12. Authorising the Governor to incorporate the People's Turni ike ot* Plank Road Company, Allegheny county.

    Act 605 of 1869 · P.L. 622 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

13. Validating certain bonds and a mortgage of the Freedom Iron and Steel Company.

    Act 608 of 1869 · P.L. 624 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

14. To provide for the construction and maintenance of foot-walks in Chartiers, Scott, Union and Robinson townships, Allegheny county.

    Act 609 of 1869 · P.L. 625 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

15. Authorizing and requiring the school board of Antrim township Franklin county, to pay certain bounty money to Joseph Snively and Jacob

    Act 610 of 1869 · P.L. 626 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

16. authorize the school directors of East Brandywine township, Chester county, to levy a tax and build a second story on the GuthnesviUe school house, now about to be built by them, for election and other township purposes.

    Act 611 of 1869 · P.L. 627 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

17. Extending the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act relating to roads in Worth township, Butler county," to Buffalo and Slippery Rock townships, said county.

    Act 612 of 1869 · P.L. 628 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

18. No. G13. I'd empower Right Reverend Miohiiel Domenec, Roman Catholic bishop of Pittsburp;, to sell certain real estate in Mifflin township, in the county of Allegheny.

    Act 613 of 1869 · P.L. 629 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

19. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Oley Turnpike Road Company, approved the fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

    Act 614 of 1869 · P.L. 631 · 1869 · Scanned page

20. To incorporate the Tunkhannock Law and Library Association, in Wyoming county.

    Act 615 of 1869 · P.L. 632 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

21. To incorporate the Americus Club of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 616 of 1869 · P.L. 633 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

22. Relative to grading and paving streets and constructing sewers in the borougli of Temperanceville, Allegheny count}', and to change the terms of the burgess and members of council.

    Act 617 of 1869 · P.L. 634 · 1869 · Scanned page

23. Relating to the election of certain county officers in the county of Mercer.

    Act 618 of 1869 · P.L. 637 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

24. To oh;\na;e the place of holding elections in the township of Sharon, in the countj'' of Potter.

    Act 619 of 1869 · P.L. 638 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

25. To vacate a part of Front alley, in the borovigh of Greenville, Mercer county.

    Act 621 of 1869 · P.L. 640 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

26. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act relating to roads and bridges in the county of Chester," approved Februtry thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

    Act 622 of 1869 · P.L. 640 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

27. and empowering the various Hebrew benevolent and charitable societies and associations of the city of Philadelphia to consolidate into one organizaticm.

    Act 623 of 1869 · P.L. 641 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

28. Extending the road laws of Venango county over the county of Forest, and fixing the wages of road commissioners and laborers on public roads.

    Act 624 of 1869 · P.L. 642 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

29. To extend the limits of the borough of Butler.

    Act 625 of 1869 · P.L. 643 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

30. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Erie County Live Stock Insurance Company," approve(f the fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 647 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

31. Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act to reg^ulate the taking of fish from the ponds and lakes in Benton township, in Luzerne county," approved March second, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty

    Act 628 of 1869 · P.L. 648 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

32. To increase the compensation of road surveyors in the county of Potter.

    Act 629 of 1869 · P.L. 649 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

33. To enable the burgess and council of the borough of North-East to supply said borough with water.

    Act 630 of 1869 · P.L. 649 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

34. To incorporate the Preachers' Mutual Aid Society of the Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church.

    Act 631 of 1869 · P.L. 650 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

35. To incorporate the Pennsj'lvauia Industrial Home for Blind Women.

    Act 632 of 1869 · P.L. 654 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

36. establish and fix the width of carriage-way and side-walks, and to provide for an ornamental lawn on West Tenth street, in the township of Mill Creek, county of Erie, Pennsylvania.

    Act 633 of 1869 · P.L. 655 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

37. To extend the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act pro\ iding for changes in the state road in Plymouth township, hetwee ■ 'he westerly boundary of Plymouth borough and Harvey's creo'c, in Plymouth township, Luzerne county," approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 634 of 1869 · P.L. 657 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

38. Authorizing the school directors of the borough of Birmingham, in the county of Allegheny, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor, for the erection of school buildings, and to levy a tax for the lifiuidation of tbe debt so contracted.

    Act 635 of 1869 · P.L. 657 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

39. To merge and consolidate the Hahnemann Medical College of Phila-i delphia and^ the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvaniaj into one corporation.

    Act 636 of 1869 · P.L. 658 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

40. LAWS OK PENNSTLVAIiflA, Rector, church ■wardens aud vestrymen authorized to sell real estate. Authorized to convey sufficient title 10 purchasers. Authorized to pur ct)aHii ol)i«r lots. Who entitled to vote at elections for vestrymen. Failure to elect Vacancies No. 63T. Supplementary' to an act cliartering Saint James church, in the city of Philadelphia, approA-ed the fifth day of

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 660 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

41. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to provide for the election of auditors for the borough of Bellefonte, in Centre county, and for the auditing of former accounts of said borough.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 661 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

42. For the better protection and maintenance of the poor in Erie county, and to equalize the burden of taxation for said purpose.

    Act 639 of 1869 · P.L. 662 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

43. Tncreasing the pay of township auditors in the county of Westmoreland.

    Act 640 of 1869 · P.L. 663 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

44. Supplement to the act establishing an academy in the borough of Somerset, approved March nineteenth. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ten.

    Act 642 of 1869 · P.L. 664 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

45. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the borough of Towanda to increase the taxation for borough purposes," approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty

    Act 643 of 1869 · P.L. 666 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

46. Supplement to an act to authorize and empower the school directors of Rome township, Bradford county, to erect buildings within the limits of Rome borough for school purposes, approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

    Act 644 of 1869 · P.L. 666 · 1869 · Scanned page

47. Supplement to the act incorporating the city of Franklin, relative to water works, defining certain boundaries, authorizing the mayor and councils of said city to issue bonds to the creditors of the borough of Franklin, legalizing certain bonds heretofore issued, and relative to halls or public rooms in said city.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 667 · 1869 · Scanned page

48. To be Bworn, &c. CompenBatioa. No. fi46. Revising the road laws in the township of Clinton, in tlie county of Butler.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 668 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

49. To prevent cattle, horses, sheep and swine from running at large il| Cranberry and Butler townships, Butler county.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 670 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

50. Relating to the fees of constables and deputy constables and tax collectors in the county of Mercer.

    Act 649 of 1869 · P.L. 671 · 1869 · Scanned page

51. To prevent horses and cattle from running at large in the townships of Derry, Londonderry, Swatar, Lower Swatara, Middletown and Susquehanna, in the county of Dauphin.

    Act 650 of 1869 · P.L. 672 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

52. Supplement to an act incorporating the borough of Marietta, in the county of Lancaster, approved February fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, granting power to vacate part of a certain street for school purposes.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 673 · April 2, 1869 · Scanned page

53. To authorize the trustees of the Scots Presbyterian church, in the city of Philadelphia, to sell and encumber real estate.

    Act 651 of 1869 · P.L. 673 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

54. Supplement to an act authorizing the school directors of the borough of Oil City, in Venango county, to borrow money, approved the fourteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtyseven.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 675 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

55. To prevent the destruction of fish in Lawrence county.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 675 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

56. To repeal the sixth section of an act for the protection of wild tarkeys and squirrels, and for other purposes, in the county of Huntingdon, approved the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 676 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

57. To repeal a supplement, approved the twenty-secc»d day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, to an act regulating boroughs, approved the third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, so far as the same applies to the borough of Selinsgrove, in the county of Snyder, and instead thereof changing the manner of assessing and collecting damages

    Act 656 of 1869 · P.L. 677 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

58. To incorporate the Elizabeth Township- Bridge Company. Corporators first board of directoi's Gonatructiou of Vridge, relative I Capital

    Act 657 of 1869 · P.L. 678 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

59. Regulating auctions and auctioneers in the borough of Tyrone, Blair county.

    Act 658 of 1869 · P.L. 680 · 1869 · Scanned page

60. To incorporate the Spring Brook Horse Railway Company.

    Act 659 of 1869 · P.L. 680 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

61. Supplement to an act to amend the charter of the borough of Bristol, in the county of Bucks, approved the fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and for other purposes.

    Act 660 of 1869 · P.L. 682 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

62. To increase the compensation of assessors, auditors, supervisors, road viewers and artists in the county of Indiana.

    Act 661 of 1869 · P.L. 683 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

63. To prevent the growth of noxious weeds in the township of Wrightstown, Bucks county.

    Act 662 of 1869 · P.L. 684 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

64. To re-run and revive the northern boundary of Clinton county, between Clinton and Potter.

    Act 663 of 1869 · P.L. 685 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

65. To incbl'porate the Pickering Valley Railroad Company.;

    Act 605 of 1869 · P.L. 686 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

66. 0 incorporate the Union Club and Opera House Company of Pittsburg.

    Act 666 of 1869 · P.L. 687 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

67. To authorize the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania to borrow money, at a rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent, per annum.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 688 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

68. To authorize the board of school directors of the West ward, in the city of Erie, to borrow money for building purposes, et cetera.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 693 · 1869 · Scanned page

69. Relating to the storage of gunpowder within certain limits in the county of Lancaster.

    Act 673 of 1869 · P.L. 693 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

70. To change the time of holding the courts in the Fourth judicial dis-i] trict.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 694 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

71. Gin '^n Extendinf? the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in certain criminal proceedings, and in cases of surety of the peace, to certain districts in the county of Cambria.

    Act 615 of 1869 · P.L. 695 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

72. To revive a certain tax duplicate.

    Act 676 of 1869 · P.L. 696 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

73. Supplement to an act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the West Chester and rhiladelphia Railroad Company, changing the fiscal year of said company.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 697 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

74. Supplement Supplemental to an act providing for the construction of lateral railroads, and for other purposes, approved the tifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fortj^-nine, extending the same to Northumberland county.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 697 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

75. To provide for the maintenance of William H. Burns, a lunatic.

    Act 679 of 1869 · P.L. 698 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

76. To authorize the State Treasurer to pay a gratuity and annuity tr> Stephen Wilcox and Pentecost Sweet, soldiers of the war of one thousand eight hundred and twelve.

    Act 680 of 1869 · P.L. 699 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

77. Supplement to an act to authorize tiie Governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the West Branch of the Susquehanna, et cetera, approved April sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

    Act 681 of 1869 · P.L. 699 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

78. To create a board of water commissioners in the borough of Towancla, Bradford county, and to authorize the erection of water works in said borough.

    Act 682 of 1869 · P.L. 700 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

79. To change the road law of Amwell township, Washington county.

    Act 685 of 1869 · P.L. 704 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

80. certain powers on the Chester Building Association, in the county of Delaware.

    Act 686 of 1869 · P.L. 705 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

81. Erecting the south part of Eulalia township, in the county of Potterj into a separate road district.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 706 · April 3, 1869 · Scanned page

82. To authorize the town council of the borough of Leechburg, in the county of A.rmstrong, to extend and open certain streets and highways in said borough to the Kiskiminetas river.

    Act 690 of 1869 · P.L. 709 · April 5, 1869 · Scanned page

83. Relative to the borough of Milton, in Northumberland county.

    Act 691 of 1869 · P.L. 710 · April 5, 1869 · Scanned page

84. To incorporate the East End Gas Company, in the city of Pittsburg.

    Act 692 of 1869 · P.L. 711 · April 5, 1869 · Scanned page

85. To incorporate the People's Savings Bank of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 69 of 1869 · P.L. 712 · April 5, 1869 · Scanned page

86. For the regulation and government of the Lehigh county prison.

    Act 695 of 1869 · P.L. 716 · April 6, 1869 · Scanned page

87. Authorizing the macadamizing of Fassyunk road, in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 696 of 1869 · P.L. 724 · April 6, 1869 · Scanned page

88. To provide for the payment of damages awarded to F. Ladner, proprietor of the Northern Military hall of the city of Philadelphia, by reason of the occupation of the said Military hall by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under the act of May fifteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An Act to create a loan and provide for arming the State, et cetera.

    Act 697 of 1869 · P.L. 725 · April 6, 1869 · Scanned page

89. To provide for the payment of damages caused by the construction, repair and use of the North Branch canal, in the county of Wyoming, to lands of James Bunnell. WuEREAs, When the state of Penns^^lvania sold the North Preamiue. Branch of the E'eunsylvania canal to the North Branch Canal Company, she enjoined upon the purchasers thereof the payment of all damages caused by the construction,

    Act 699 of 1869 · P.L. 727 · April 6, 1869 · Scanned page

90. Supplement to the act to incorporate the Erie City Passenger Railway Company, approved March first, one thousand eight hundred and

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 728 · March 26, 1869 · Scanned page

91. To vacate certain portions of Water street and Commercial street, in the harbor of Erie, in the city of Erie.

    Act 702 of 1869 · P.L. 729 · April 6, 1869 · Scanned page

92. To secure the construction of low grade railway to connect the waters of the Ohio and Allegheny valleys with the Susquehanna, and thereby to secure the ultimate payment of three million five hundred thousand dollars to the State of Pennsylvania, and to apply the same, with interest thereon, to the payment of the public debt.

    Act 703 of 1869 · P.L. 730 · March 30, 1869 · Scanned page

93. To repeal an act, entitled "An Act authorizing the auditors of Washington township, in the county of Schuylkill, to audit the accounts of Daniel Kutz, John A. Reed and others, for moneys expended for bounty purposes," approved the eleventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

    Act 704 of 1869 · P.L. 732 · April 7, 1869 · Scanned page

94. To authorize the board of school directors of Kittannhig borough to sell real estate.

    Act 705 of 1869 · P.L. 733 · April 7, 1869 · Scanned page

95. Supplement to an act, ent tied "An Act to incorporate the city of Scranton," ap* proved April twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty' six.

    Act 706 of 1869 · P.L. 733 · April 7, 1869 · Scanned page

96. No. TOT. Fn regard to a private sewer in the city of Erie, making the same a public sewer.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 734 · April 7, 1869 · Scanned page

97. To Vacate a part of Water street and Boundary alley, in the borough of Saltsburg, Indiana county.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 735 · April 7, 1869 · Scanned page

98. Supplement to the act incorporating the Beneficial Saving Fund Society of Philadelphia, approved April twenty, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

    Act of 1869 · P.L. 736 · 1869 · Scanned page

99. To annul the marriage contract between Edward D. Hammond and Hettie Hammond, his wife.

    Act 710 of 1869 · P.L. 736 · April 7, 1869 · Scanned page

100. For the making of a state road in the counties of Schuylkill and Dauphin.

     Act 712 of 1869 · P.L. 738 · April 7, 1869 · Scanned page