Every law Pennsylvania has passed

5,365 laws of the 1870s

Constitution of 1838

1. To incorporate the Farmers' Northern Market Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

   Act 85 of 1872 · P.L. 93 · February 7, 1872 · Scanned page

2. Confirming title to property in the Park Place Homestead Association, incorporated by the court of common pleas of the cnunty of Allegheny, and empowering said association to sell and convey said property'.

   Act 88 of 1872 · P.L. 96 · February 7, 1872 · Scanned page

3. Relative to the election of township officers in the township of Butler, and county of Schuylkill.

   Act 89 of 1872 · P.L. 98 · February 9, 1872 · Scanned page

4. To incof porate tke Boarding Home for Young Wcrkiug Women.

   Act 90 of 1872 · P.L. 98 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

5. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the People's Railway Company," approved the fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and to enable said company to cancel a certain mortgage, and make in lieu thereof another, as security for a loan it is authorized to make.

   Act 91 of 1872 · P.L. 99 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

6. To" the act, entitled «'An Act to establish a school among the Cornplanter Indians, in Warren county.

   Act 92 of 1872 · P.L. 100 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

7. To extend the provisions of an act relating to roads in Cumberland, Franklin and Centre townships, in Greene county, to Washington township, in said county.

   Act 93 of 1872 · P.L. 101 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

8. To authorize the appropriation of money to the Reading Dispensary by the directors of the poor of Berks county.

   Act 94 of 1872 · P.L. 101 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

9. Extending the provisions of an act for the better securing of the payment of the wages of labor in certain counties of this commonwealth, approved the thirtieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, to the county of Huntingdon.

   Act 95 of 1872 · P.L. 102 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

10. Supplement to an act supplemental to an act to incorporate the trustees of the synod of the Reformed Presbyterian church of North A.merica, correcting a clerical error, also correcting a clerical

    Act 96 of 1872 · P.L. 103 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

11. Relating to dogs within the county of Washington.

    Act 97 of 1872 · P.L. 103 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

12. To extend the provisions of an act relating to the county of Wayne empowering the commissioners to levy additional tax.

    Act 98 of 1872 · P.L. 104 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

13. Authorizing the burgess and town council of the borough of South Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny, to provide for the purchase or erection of a hose house, and to purchase a hose carriage with the necessary equipments.

    Act 99 of 1872 · P.L. 104 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

14. Gill ^t% Extendhig the provisions of an act approved March fifteenth, one thousand eight liundred and seventy-one, relative to livery stable keepers, and others, in the counties of Lebanon and Adams.

    Act 100 of 1872 · P.L. 105 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

15. Entitled "A further supplement to an act to incorporate the Lancaster cemetery," approved the twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

    Act 102 of 1872 · P.L. 107 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

16. Authorizing and requiring the supervisors of Union township, Snyder count}', to erect and maintain a bridge in said township.

    Act 103 of 1872 · P.L. 108 · February 10, 1872 · Scanned page

17. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to prevent unnecessary litigation in the city of Philadelphia," approved February 7th, A. D.

    Act 104 of 1872 · P.L. 109 · 1872 · Scanned page

18. To repeal part of an act, entitled "An Act relative to the purchase of a law library in the county of Centre," approved February fourteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 106 of 1872 · P.L. 110 · February 15, 1872 · Scanned page

19. To extend the charter of the New York and Middle Coal Field Railroad and Coal Company.

    Act 108 of 1872 · P.L. 111 · 1872 · Scanned page

20. Extending provisions of certain acta for the boroughs of Indiana and Brookville, in Indiana and Clarion counties, to the borough of Renovo, in the county of Clinton.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 113 · 1872 · Scanned page

21. To incorporate the Gar,elle Club of tbe city of Philadelphia.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 114 · February 17, 1872 · Scanned page

22. To legalize the. action of the burgess and council of the borough of Tioga, and authorizing the levying and collection of a borough tax.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 115 · February 17, 1872 · Scanned page

23. No. US. ii cf upplcms^nt Name changed. Stockholders may vote byproxy. Number of directors increased. Wliat deemed sufficient meeting to accept act, &c. Proviso. Proviso. Rights, privileges, &c. To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Manufacturers' Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania," approved the thirtieth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftj'-five.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 116 · February 20, 1872 · Scanned page

24. To authorize the town council of the borough of Port Carbon, in the county of Schuylkill, to borrow money.

    Act 115 of 1872 · P.L. 119 · February 20, 1872 · Scanned page

25. Providing for an equitable division of funds and property between the school district of Chester township, and the school district of the borough of South Chester, in the county of Delaware.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 120 · 1872 · Scanned page

26. To repeal an act, entitled '-An Act to abolish the office of sealer of v.'eightsand measures in certain counties of this commonwealth." approved the twenty-second day of jSIarch, one thonsand eight hundred and fifty-nine, so far as the same relates to the county of Dauphin, and to authorize the appointment of weigh-masters in said

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 121 · February 20, 1872 · Scanned page

27. Supplement to an act authorizing the borough council of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to purchase the water works, real estate and iniprovetnenta, of the Bethleliem Water Companj', approved thirtieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 118 of 1872 · P.L. 122 · 1872 · Scanned page

28. To tix the places of holding the election for senator for the unexpired term of Henry S. Evans, deceased, in certain townships in the counties of Chester, Delaware and Montgomery.

    Act 119 of 1872 · P.L. 123 · February 20, 1872 · Scanned page

29. Making the borough of Glasgow, in the county of Beaver, and certain adjacent farms a separate election district.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 127 · February 21, 1872 · Scanned page

30. To extend to Beaver county the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to chancre the mode of criminal proceedings in Erie and Union counties," approved the -first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 129 · 1872 · Scanned page

31. To repeal so much of the act, entitled "An Act relative to the election of supervisors in the townships of North and South Bafialoand Kittanning, in the county of Armstrong, and defining their duties," approved the twenty-fourth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, as relates to Kittanning township.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 129 · 1872 · Scanned page

32. Relative to the cornpeusation of the commissioners of Delaware county.

    Act 126 of 1872 · P.L. 130 · February 21, 1872 · Scanned page

33. Relative to notaries public, and justices of the peace, in the cr.unty ot Tioga.

    Act 128 of 1872 · P.L. 132 · 1872 · Scanned page

34. Authorizing tlie aunitor general to exannne tiie claim of Catharine Calhoun, of Alleglieny city, -widow of Jamr-.s Calhoun, deceased, for said James Calhoun recruiting a company oi volunteer infantry, et cetera.

    Act 129 of 1872 · P.L. 132 · February 21, 1872 · Scanned page

35. To the charter of the Duquesne Graj-s, of the city of Pittsburg.

    Act 132 of 1872 · P.L. 135 · February 21, 1872 · Scanned page

36. Authorizing the German United Evangelical church of Saint Paul's congregation, of the city of Allegheny, to remove the dead from their old burial ground, and sell the same.

    Act 134 of 1872 · P.L. 138 · 1872 · Scanned page

37. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate tlie Honesdale Law and Library Association, in Wayne county," approved the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

    Act 135 of 1872 · P.L. 139 · February 21, 1872 · Scanned page

38. To extend the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to empower the sheriff and pi-othonotary of Schuylkill countjto sue for their fees, to the coiinty of Clinton.

    Act 136 of 1872 · P.L. 140 · February 21, 1872 · Scanned page

39. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act providing for the election of supervisors in Upper iSIouiit Bethel township, Northanii:)ton county, and for the erection of a board of supervisors of highways in said township, and limiting the assessment of taxes for road purposes," approved April twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and

    Act 137 of 1872 · P.L. 141 · 1872 · Scanned page

40. To repeal an a"t, entitled "An Actatuhorizhig ihelevj-iug and collection of a tax in the township of Jackson, Monroe county, for re-payment of money advarueil to pay the commutation of persons drafted into the i\iilit iry service of tlie United States,'' approved April fifth. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and

    Act 141 of 1872 · P.L. 144 · 1872 · Scanned page

41. Creating the borough of Wheatland, in the county of Mercer.

    Act 142 of 1872 · P.L. 145 · February 21, 1872 · Scanned page

42. Supplement to an act authorizing the city cf Altoona to provide a supply of water and to borrow money, approved the ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, amending the sixth and seventh sections thereof.

    Act 143 of 1872 · P.L. 148 · February 23, 1872 · Scanned page

43. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Marine Hospital of Philadelphia," approved the second day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-oue, correcting a clerical error.

    Act 144 of 1872 · P.L. 149 · 1872 · Scanned page

44. Authorizing tbe board of control of the coninion schools of the city of Allegheny to make rules and regulations, and appropriate funds to maintain a library'' for the benefit of the jiublic schools and citizens of Allegheny.

    Act 145 of 1872 · P.L. 150 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

45. Validating certain conveyances of real estate to the county of Erie, and authorizing the commissioners of Erie county to sell and convey the same.

    Act 146 of 1872 · P.L. 150 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

46. To enforce the payment of poor taxes on unseated lands, in the county of Centre.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 152 · 1872 · Scanned page

47. Increasing pay of referees and witnesses before justices of the peace in Armstrong

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 152 · 1872 · Scanned page

48. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to empower the sheriff and prothonotary of Schuylkill county to sue for fees," approved March twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, extending the provisions of the same to the county of Tioga.

    Act 149 of 1872 · P.L. 153 · 1872 · Scanned page

49. To regulate the practice of medicine in the county of Tioga.

    Act 150 of 1872 · P.L. 153 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

50. Relating to sberilTs' deeds in Washington county.

    Act 151 of 1872 · P.L. 155 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

51. Relating to the constables of Delaware counts'.

    Act 152 of 1872 · P.L. 155 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

52. To authorize the Lehigh Hydraulic Cement Company to borrow money.

    Act 153 of 1872 · P.L. 156 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

53. To increase the capital stock of the EastonGas Company, incorporated by act fourteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and

    Act 154 of 1872 · P.L. 157 · 1872 · Scanned page

54. To extend the provisions of an act supplementar}' to an act approved the twenty-lirst day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixtynine, autiiorizing United States commissioners, in Bradford county, to take acknowledgments of deeds, et cetera, approved the first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy, to the county of Lycoming.

    Act 155 of 1872 · P.L. 157 · 1872 · Scanned page

55. To Increase the compensation of election officers in the county of Allegheny.

    Act 156 of 1872 · P.L. 158 · 1872 · Scanned page

56. Relative to public roads in "Upper Saint Clair township, Allegheny county.

    Act 157 of 1872 · P.L. 158 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

57. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad Company, approved the thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini one ^ thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, increasing the capital stock of said company, and authorizing it to construct additional branches and to borrow money.

    Act 158 of 1872 · P.L. 161 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

58. To authorize the Oley Turnpike Company to borrow money.

    Act 159 of 1872 · P.L. 162 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

59. To establish a ferry over the Ohio river, at; the village of Shippingport, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 160 of 1872 · P.L. 163 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

60. Relating to the administration of justice in Cumberland county.

    Act 161 of 1872 · P.L. 164 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

61. act, entitled "A farther supplement to an act incorporating the Fanners' Mutual Fire Insurance Company at York, Pennsylvania.

    Act 162 of 1872 · P.L. 166 · February 26, 1872 · Scanned page

62. Supplement to the act of assembly incorporating the city of Lock Haven, approved the twentj'-eighth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and

    Act 163 of 1872 · P.L. 166 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

63. To amend an act supplementary to an act to establish a board of health and to secure the city and port of Pittsburg from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases, and relative to the granting of tavern licenses in Butler county, approved the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and

    Act 166 of 1872 · P.L. 168 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

64. To incorporate the Beaver Valley Turnpike Road Company.

    Act 167 of 1872 · P.L. 169 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

65. For the relief of Alexander Dale.

    Act 168 of 1872 · P.L. 170 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

66. Supplement to an act to incorporate the Conshohocken Mills Company, approved May third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, to repeal that portion of the ninth section of said act so far as it relates to the term of twenty years, and to make the same perpetual.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 172 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

67. Relative to the translation of last wills and testaments in the county of Berks.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 173 · 1872 · Scanned page

68. To provide a safe crossing over the Pliiladelphia and Reading railroad.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 174 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

69. For the appointment of an additional notary public for the county of Allegheny, to be located at Sharpsburg, and one for the county of Centre, located at Phillipsburg.

    Act 174 of 1872 · P.L. 175 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

70. To prevent fishing in Mud lake, in the county of Susquehanna.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 176 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

71. For tbe protection of fish iu Chartiers creek, in Allegheny and Wash^ ington counties, and Couuoquenessiag creek^in Butler county.

    Act of 1872 · P.L. 177 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

72. To enable the school directors of the borough of Mount Washington, in the county of Allegheny, to sell real estate and borrow money.

    Act 178 of 1872 · P.L. 177 · February 27, 1872 · Scanned page

73. To provide for the more economical collecting of state, county, poor and military taxes in the county' of Huntingdon.

    Act 179 of 1872 · P.L. 179 · 1872 · Scanned page

74. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the village of Port Carbon, in the county of Schuylkill, into a borough,"approved April twentythird. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

    Act 180 of 1872 · P.L. 179 · February 28, 1872 · Scanned page

75. To incorporate the Pittsburg and Norwood Railway Company, with power, inter alia, to hold, sell and improve real estate and mine minerals.

    Act 181 of 1872 · P.L. 180 · February 28, 1872 · Scanned page

76. To enable the borough of Newport, in the county of Perry, to increase the rate of assessment for borough purposes.

    Act 182 of 1872 · P.L. 183 · February 28, 1872 · Scanned page

77. Extending to the borough of Freedom, in the county of Beaver, the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the burgess and town council of the borough of Beaver, Beaver county, to levy and collect an additional tax.

    Act 183 of 1872 · P.L. 184 · February 28, 1872 · Scanned page

78. To repeal a supplement to an act laying a tax on dogs in the borough of West Chester and certain townships in the county of Chester, approved the twenty-fifth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fift3^-eight, so far as the same relates to the townships of Bart, Colerain and Sadsbury, in the county of Lancaster.

    Act 184 of 1872 · P.L. 184 · February 28, 1872 · Scanned page

79. To incorporate the Rochester Insvirance Company of Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 185 of 1872 · P.L. 185 · February 28, 1872 · Scanned page

80. To authorize the minister, trustees, elders aud deacons of the German Reformed congregation, in the borough (now city) of Lancaster, in the state of Pennsylvania, to sell certain real estate.

    Act 186 of 1872 · P.L. 186 · February 29, 1872 · Scanned page

81. Supplement to an act to incorporate the borough of Baden, in the county of Beaver, approved April first. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

    Act 187 of 1872 · P.L. 186 · February 29, 1872 · Scanned page

82. To incorporate the Lykens Valley Bank.

    Act 188 of 1872 · P.L. 187 · February 29, 1872 · Scanned page

83. Supplement to the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Pittsburg Life Insurance Company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania," approved March eighth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

    Act 189 of 1872 · P.L. 190 · February 29, 1872 · Scanned page

84. To enlarge the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the county of Warren.

    Act 190 of 1872 · P.L. 190 · February 29, 1872 · Scanned page

85. To incorporate the Iron and Glass Dollar Savings Bank of Birmingham.

    Act 191 of 1872 · P.L. 191 · February 29, 1872 · Scanned page

86. To change the time of holding the borough and township elections in Lebanon and Dauphin counties, approved February nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and to extend the provisions of an act approved June twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to said counties.

    Act 192 of 1872 · P.L. 194 · March 1, 1872 · Scanned page

87. Creating the borough of Parkesburg, in the county of Chester.

    Act 193 of 1872 · P.L. 195 · March 1, 1872 · Scanned page

88. Supplement to the act incorporating the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society.

    Act 194 of 1872 · P.L. 197 · March 1, 1872 · Scanned page

89. Supplementing the charter of the Freehold Bank and Building Association of the city of Pittsburg.

    Act 195 of 1872 · P.L. 198 · March 1, 1872 · Scanned page

90. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act authorizing the burgess and town council of the borough of Stroudsburg to borrow money," approved the tenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

    Act 196 of 1872 · P.L. 199 · March 1, 1872 · Scanned page

91. Limiting the cost of new jail in Towanda, Bradford county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 197 of 1872 · P.L. 200 · March 4, 1872 · Scanned page

92. To allow the qualified voters of the borough of Shippensburg, in the county of Cumberland, to vote on the question of granting license to sell intoxicating liquors within the limits of said borough.

    Act 198 of 1872 · P.L. 200 · March 5, 1872 · Scanned page

93. To authorize the Pittsburg and Birmingham Passenger Railway Company to issue a general mortgage bond to raise money to pay the indebtedness of said road, to extend their traclj, building car houses, stables and other necessary improvements.

    Act 199 of 1872 · P.L. 202 · March 5, 1872 · Scanned page

94. Supplement to an act, entitled "An A.ct in relation to pleading and judgment, voluntary arbitrations and additional return days for writs by the courts of common pleas in ttie Nineteenth district of Pennsylvania, and the practice of said courts therein," approved the ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

    Act 200 of 1872 · P.L. 203 · March 5, 1872 · Scanned page

95. To authorize the trustees of the Polytechnic College of the State of Pennsylvania to borrow money, and secure the same bj' bond and mortgage.

    Act 201 of 1872 · P.L. 204 · March 5, 1872 · Scanned page

96. To confirm and amend the charter of the Old Oaks Cemetery Company.

    Act 202 of 1872 · P.L. 204 · March 5, 1872 · Scanned page

97. To change the terms of the several courts of the county oi Carbon,

    Act 203 of 1872 · P.L. 205 · March 5, 1872 · Scanned page

98. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania "Wine Manufacturing Company," approved May twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

    Act 204 of 1872 · P.L. 206 · March 5, 1872 · Scanned page

99. To authorize the commissioners of Crawford county to borrow money, and issue bonds therefor, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.

    Act 205 of 1872 · P.L. 207 · March 5, 1872 · Scanned page

100. To repeal so much of an act, entitled "An Act relative to the advertisement of claims, &c.,inthe city of Philadelphia," approved the twenty-fifth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, relating to the appointment of two persons to audit the accounts of the receiver of taxes, and the collector of delinquent taxes, in the city of Philadelphia.

     Act 206 of 1872 · P.L. 207 · March 6, 1872 · Scanned page