Every law Pennsylvania has passed

5,365 laws of the 1870s

Constitution of 1838

1. To provide lor the custodyof insane persons charged with and acquitted or convicted of crime.

   Act 97 of 1874 · P.L. 160 · 1874 · Scanned page

2. To provide for a geological survey of the state.

   Act 98 of 1874 · P.L. 162 · May 14, 1874 · Scanned page

3. Relating to the assessment of damages arising from the oiiening of roads and highways and the construction of bridges. Duties of road

   Act 99 of 1874 · P.L. 164 · May 14, 1874 · Scanned page

4. To permit ceihetery companies, not organized for the puv|K>8es of corporate profit, to take and hold any grant, donation or bequest of property, for the uses herein mentioned.

   Act 100 of 1874 · P.L. 164 · May 14, 1874 · Scanned page

5. Relating to the estates of decedents.

   Act 101 of 1874 · P.L. 166 · May 14, 1874 · Scanned page

6. To provide for the submission of civil cases by agreement of the parties to a referee learned in the law.

   Act 102 of 1874 · P.L. 166 · May 14, 1874 · Scanned page

7. To provide for the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the commonwealth, interest on the public debt, and for common schools, for the year, Aruio Domini one thousand eight hundred and

   Act 103 of 1874 · P.L. 168 · May 14, 1874 · Scanned page

8. Relating to parties engaged in the storage and transportation by pipe lines of crude and refined petroleum oil, and the issuing of fraudulent receipts, certificates or vouchers, and providing for monthly reports. The transportation

   Act 104 of 1874 · P.L. 172 · 1874 · Scanned page

9. Kelatinsr to accounts of the several countv officers of this coninion- 't! wealth.

   Act 105 of 1874 · P.L. 175 · 1874 · Scanned page

10. Making an appropriation for the payment of Purdon's Digest furnished members of the House of Representatives.

    Act 106 of 1874 · P.L. 176 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

11. To authorize the auditor general and state treasui'cr to settle all outstanding claims due for work done and material furnished tho constitutional convention.

    Act 107 of 1874 · P.L. 176 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

12. To carry out the provisions of article three, section twelve of the constitution, relative to contracts for reporting and printing the Legislative Record,

    Act 108 of 1874 · P.L. 177 · 1874 · Scanned page

13. To enforce the sixth section ^)f the seventeenth article of the constitution of this commonwealth, providing tliat no president, director, offiaer, agent or employee of any railroad or canal company shall be interested in the furnishing of material or supplies to such company, or in the business of transpoi-tation as a common carrier of freight or passengers over the works owned,

    Act of 1874 · P.L. 178 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

14. Defining the duties of directors of the j>oot where such oflBoe exists in the several counties of this commonwealth.

    Act 111 of 1874 · P.L. 180 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

15. To construe the twenty-first tection of an act, entitled "An Act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to game and game fish," approved May first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

    Act 112 of 1874 · P.L. 180 · 1874 · Scanned page

16. To authorize the appointment of stenographers in the several courts of this commonwealth, prescribing their duties and fixing their compensation. (■(Hilts may

    Act 114 of 1874 · P.L. 182 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

17. Supplementary to an act relating to the comm&ncement of actions, approved June thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, applying the writ of foreign attachment to actions ex delicto.

    Act 115 of 1874 · P.L. 183 · 1874 · Scanned page

18. To provide for the expenses required by an act, entitled "An Act to provide for the continuance of the education ami maintenance of the destit '^ ogrphans of the deceased soldiers and sailors, and the destitute chi±uJ m of permanently disabled soldiers and sailors of the state," approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 116 of 1874 · P.L. 183 · May 14, 1874 · Scanned page

19. To provide for the adjustment, settlement and collection of co»ipensatian from railroad companies, for railroads located or that may be located on county bridges, and to empower county commissioners to make contracts relating thereto.

    Act of 1874 · P.L. 185 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

20. Declaring what offices are incompatible.

    Act 120 of 1874 · P.L. 186 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

21. Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation of gas and water companies," approved the eleventh day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

    Act 121 of 1874 · P.L. 188 · 1874 · Scanned page

22. Relative to forfeitures of charters or grants of special or exclusire privileges to railroad, titrnpike and plank road corporations.

    Act 122 of 1874 · P.L. 188 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

23. To provide for the better security of life and property from the dangers of coal and petroleum oils.

    Act 123 of 1874 · P.L. 189 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

24. To provide for the recording of deaths of testators and intestates in the oflfioe of register of

    Act 127 of 1874 · P.L. 191 · May 16, 1874 · Scanned page

25. Authorizing the collection of contributions for charitable purposes.

    Act 128 of 1874 · P.L. 191 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

26. To make the redemption money paid by a lien creditor a prior lien on the title of the debtor in the land that is redeemed.

    Act 124 of 1874 · P.L. 192 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

27. To secure to married women and mitiors the control of money deposited by them in banks.

    Act 125 of 1874 · P.L. 193 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

28. Relative to the transfer of the loans of this commonwealth, and of the city of Philadelphia, and to amend the provisions of the twenty-second section of an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the governor to incorporate the Delaware Canal Company, and for other purposes,'' approved the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-three, nnd extending the same to the holders of any loans

    Act 129 of 1874 · P.L. 195 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

29. To provide for the holding of special courts of common pleas for the determination of pending causes.

    Act 130 of 1874 · P.L. 196 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

30. To lis the number of senators and representatives in the general assembly of the state, and to apportion the state intq^enatorial and representative districts as provided in the constitution.

    Act 131 of 1874 · P.L. 197 · 1874 · Scanned page

31. Supplement to an act approved April ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-fourentitled "An Act designating the judicial districts of this commonwealth.

    Act 133 of 1874 · P.L. 206 · May 19, 1874 · Scanned page

32. Designating the several classes of contested elections in this commonwealth, and providing for the trial thereof.

    Act 136 of 1874 · P.L. 208 · May 19, 1874 · Scanned page

33. the sum of twentj'thousand dollars to the German liospital at Philadelphia, for the purpose of improving and enlarging its buildings.

    Act 137 of 1874 · P.L. 217 · 1874 · Scanned page

34. Conferring upon the councils of certain cities of this commonwealth tlic power to re-organize the municipal departments thereof.

    Act 139 of 1874 · P.L. 218 · May 19, 1874 · Scanned page

35. To aid in tlie erection and maintenance oftlie Antliracite Hospital of Pennsylvania.

    Act 141 of 1874 · P.L. 219 · May 20, 1874 · Scanned page

36. To provide for the support out of the county treasury of the sick and injured poor when under treatment in hospitals, in certain cities and boroughs.

    Act 142 of 1874 · P.L. 219 · May 2, 1874 · Scanned page

37. To provide for the support out of the comity treasury of the siok and injured poor wheu under treatment in hospitals, in certain cities and boroughs.

    Act of 1874 · P.L. 220 · May 21, 1874 · Scanned page

38. In reference to entailments.

    Act 143 of 1874 · P.L. 220 · May 21, 1874 · Scanned page

39. To facilitate the transfer of stocks and loans.

    Act of 1874 · P.L. 222 · May 23, 1874 · Scanned page

40. Making decoration day a legal lioliday.

    Act 145 of 1874 · P.L. 222 · 1874 · Scanned page

41. For the better confirmation of the estates of persons luvlding or claiming title iinder/('7n« coverts, and providing a mode for curing defective uclcnowlcdgments. WiiniEAS, Estates of great value have been bojia jlde snld by husband and wife for a legal and sufficient consideration, and the det-ds therefor have been by them legally ackiiowl- SESSiOK or 18T4. 223 edged before the proper

    Act 146 of 1874 · P.L. 222 · May 25, 1874 · Scanned page

42. Relative to the establishment and jurisdiction of magistrates' court? in the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 147 of 1874 · P.L. 224 · May 25, 1874 · Scanned page

43. To regulate damages pending a writ of error and the eosts accruing thereon.

    Act 148 of 1874 · P.L. 227 · May 25, 1874 · Scanned page

44. To provide for the appointment of inspectors ot the state penitentiaries, as required by the twenty-first section of article fifth of the constitution of this commonwealth.

    Act 149 of 1874 · P.L. 228 · May 25, 1874 · Scanned page

45. To cure defective acknowledgments of deeds by husband and wife of the pi'operty of the wife.

    Act 151 of 1874 · P.L. 229 · 1874 · Scanned page

46. Dividing the cities of this state into three classes, regulating the passage of ordinances, providing for contracts for supplies and worlc for said cities, authorizing the increase of indebtedness, and the creation of a sinking fund to redeem the same, defining and punishing certain offences in all of said cities, and providing for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class.

    Act 152 of 1874 · P.L. 230 · June 2, 1874 · Scanned page

47. Makiug an iipproprration for the support of the State School Homelur Colored Soldiers' Orphans, at Bridgewater, Bucks county, Pennsylvania.

    Act of 1874 · P.L. 273 · June 5, 1874 · Scanned page

48. Supplement to the act of ninth of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fitty-six, regulating the public printing and binding, and the supplement thereto, approved March twentj^-seventh. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, amending the same so as to increase the number of bills to be printed for the use of the two houses, and jiroviding for the printing of

    Act 155 of 1874 · P.L. 274 · June 5, 1874 · Scanned page

49. To authorize the settlement of certain claims for advertising the new constitution.

    Act 156 of 1874 · P.L. 275 · June 5, 1874 · Scanned page

50. To enable railroads, canals or other trans]3ortatiou companies to accept of the terms of the seventeenth article of the constitution, adopted the sixteenth day of December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

    Act 157 of 1874 · P.L. 275 · June 5, 1874 · Scanned page

51. Making an appropriation of two thousand dollars toward the improvement of the Susquehanna river, between Shainokin dam and Harrisburg.

    Act 158 of 1874 · P.L. 276 · June 5, 1874 · Scanned page

52. To authorize the boards of revision in the cities of this commonwealth to appoint additional assessors.

    Act 159 of 1874 · P.L. 276 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

53. Making the office of mayor a salaried one.

    Act 161 of 1874 · P.L. 277 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

54. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad corporations.

    Act 162 of 1874 · P.L. 277 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

55. Relating to prison inspectors and regulating prisons.

    Act 163 of 1874 · P.L. 278 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

56. To enable mining, manufacturing and trading companies to wind np their allairs after tlie expiration of tlieir charters.

    Act 164 of 1874 · P.L. 278 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

57. Supplement to an act, entitled '^ An Act allowing parties in interest to be wituessses," approved the fifteenth day of April, Anno JDomini one thoosand eight hundred and sixty-nine, providing that no party to aoy civil proceedings shall be a witness in actions by or against committees of lunatics, except in certain cases.

    Act 165 of 1874 · P.L. 278 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

58. For the annexation of boroughs or townships, or parts of townships, to adjacent cities.

    Act 166 of 1874 · P.L. 279 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

59. To regulate the extension of borough limits when the territory to be annexed is situate in two or more counties.

    Act 168 of 1874 · P.L. 281 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

60. To authorize the counties, cities, towns or townships of this state, respectively, to enter into contracts with railroad companies whose roads enter their limits, wherebj' said companies may re-locate, change or elevate their railroads.

    Act 169 of 1874 · P.L. 282 · June 9, 1874 · Scanned page

61. To an aoty entitled '*Au Aot to regalate the oommisaion or lioenae fees to be paid by auotioneers/' approved the twenty-sixth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventythree.

    Act 171 of 1874 · P.L. 282 · June 13, 1874 · Scanned page

62. For further regulation of appeals from assessments of damages to owners of property taken for public use.

    Act of 1874 · P.L. 283 · June 13, 1874 · Scanned page

63. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act to regulate the commission or license fees to be paid by auctioneers," approved the twenty-sixth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventythree.

    Act of 1874 · P.L. 283 · June 13, 1874 · Scanned page

64. To an aot, entitled **An Act relating to goods, wares and merohandiae in store and in transit, and to make receipts and bills of lading therefor negotiable," approved the twenty-fourth day of September, Anno Domini one thoasand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act 173 of 1874 · P.L. 284 · June 13, 1874 · Scanned page

65. Supplement to an act, entitled "An Act relating to goods, wares and merchandise in store and in transit, and to make receipts and bills of ladin-;thei-efor negotiable," approved the twenty-fourth day of September, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

    Act of 1874 · P.L. 285 · June 13, 1874 · Scanned page

66. To provide for a right of way across or under the rivers or other streams of this commonwealth for the better and more convenient mining of anthracite coal. < itiiin

    Act 174 of 1874 · P.L. 285 · 1874 · Scanned page

67. Liequiring every railroad or canal corporation, organized in this state, to maintain an office therein for the transaction of its business.

    Act 115 of 1874 · P.L. 289 · 1874 · Scanned page

68. To an a«t, entitled <*An Act granting a pension to Henry Fix/' pfissed the twenty-third day of I^fay, Anno Domini eighteen bandred and seventy-one.

    Act 178 of 1874 · P.L. 290 · May 2, 1874 · Scanned page

69. To extend to the county, of Union the third proviso to section one of • an act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to game Lxnd game llsh, approved the tirst day of May, Anno Domini one, thousand eight hundred and seventj'-three, wliicli reads as follows : " Provided, That so much of this section as prohibits the runniii-of deer with dogs shall not apply to the counties of

    Act 179 of 1874 · P.L. 291 · May 1, 1874 · Scanned page

70. 'I'o an act granting a pension to Henry Stewart, a disabled soldier, approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

    Act 180 of 1874 · P.L. 292 · May 7, 1874 · Scanned page

71. L''or the relief of R. M. Ilooton, the widow of Joseph Hooton, wlio was a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve.

    Act 182 of 1874 · P.L. 292 · 1874 · Scanned page

72. AX ACT To repeal so much of aw. act, entitled " An Act to provide for the improvement of Second avenue, in the city of Pittsburg," approved the twenty-sixth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-tiiree, as provides that tlie improvement of said avenue shall be uniform throughout the whole length to be improved.

    Act 183 of 1874 · P.L. 293 · May 8, 1874 · Scanned page

73. For the relief of Mary Dougherty, aged eightyyears, a resident of Westmoreland count}', and widow of John Doughertj', deceased, who was a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and

    Act 184 of 1874 · P.L. 293 · 1874 · Scanned page

74. To repeal an act to authori/re and require the school directors of North Sewickly townshijj, Beaver couiitj^ to lev}' a tax to phy balance due by said township for bounty purposes, appi'oved April eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the supplement thereto, approved the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hvindred and seventy-two.

    Act 185 of 1874 · P.L. 294 · May 11, 1874 · Scanned page

75. To repeal an act, entitled "An Act to extend the provisions of an act, entitled 'An Act to prevent cattle, horses, mules, sheep, goats and swine, from running at large in the townships of Sugar Grove and Freehold, in the county of Warren, and Plum township, Venango county,' to the townships of Bedford and Snake Spring, in the county of Bedford.

    Act 186 of 1874 · P.L. 294 · May 14, 1874 · Scanned page

76. Passed in pursuance of notice given according to law to repeal an act approved the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An Act to vacate parts of Second street, Monroe street and High street, in the town of Port Perry, Allegheny county.

    Act 189 of 1874 · P.L. 296 · 1874 · Scanned page

77. To repeal an act for the protection of sheep and'taxing of dogs in the township of Hamilton, in the county of Monroe, approved on th« second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and

    Act 190 of 1874 · P.L. 296 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

78. To validate a convej-ance of land in Venango county, and to assurt the title of the same, made bj- John Hopper, trustee of the Orange on Company, and the said Orange Oil Company', to George Jackson.

    Act 191 of 1874 · P.L. 296 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

79. To repeal an act, entitled "An Act to authorize tiie road supervisors of Hickory township, Mercer county, to levy additional taxes for road purposes.

    Act 192 of 1874 · P.L. 297 · May 15, 1874 · Scanned page

80. To repeal an act approved April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An Act to repeal the road laws of ^I'Kean county, and to restore the provisions of Llie general road law as passed in Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and two, and the supplements thereto, to said county.

    Act 193 of 1874 · P.L. 298 · May 19, 1874 · Scanned page

81. To repeal an act, entitled " An Act relative to the duties of district attorney for the county of Erie."

    Act 194 of 1874 · P.L. 298 · May 19, 1874 · Scanned page

82. Declaring Montgomery creek and its brunches, in Clearfield county, pnblic highways.

    Act 195 of 1874 · P.L. 299 · May 21, 1874 · Scanned page

83. Declaring tlie First Fork of the Sinneniahoning creek, in the county of Potter, a public liigliway, from tlie mouth of the South Lick branch thereof as far up as tlie moulli of Prouty run.

    Act 196 of 1874 · P.L. 299 · May 21, 1874 · Scanned page

84. To extend t© the county of Lycoming, the third proviso to section one of an act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to game and game fiBh, approved the first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, which reads as follows : ^^ Provided, That so much of this section as j^rohibits the running of deer with dogs, shall not apply to the counties of

    Act 197 of 1874 · P.L. 299 · May 25, 1874 · Scanned page

85. To repeal an act, entitled '*An Actio require the borough of Young!^ ville, in Warren county, to maintain a ceitain side-walk.

    Act 199 of 1874 · P.L. 299 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

86. Repealing certain local lien laws relative to real and leasehold estates and propertj' thereon, so far as said laws relate to the counties of Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Forest, Venango and Warren, except as to claims for actual labor done by mechanics and laboring men.

    Act 198 of 1874 · P.L. 300 · June 8, 1874 · Scanned page

87. For the relief of the fliildren of Mary E. Prosser, widow of Iloiden Tj. Prosser, late of M'Kean county, Pennsylvania. WiiKUEAS, IToldcn L, Prosser, :i native of M'Kean county, in this state, where his parents still reside, removed, after he was grown, to Iowa, and then enlisted in compau}- H, nineteenth regiment Iowa volunteers, and died in the service ot tlie United States, in the United

    Act 200 of 1874 · P.L. 302 · June 6, 1874 · Scanned page

88. For the relief of Captain Richard Budd.

    Act 202 of 1874 · P.L. 304 · 1874 · Scanned page

89. Supplement to an act, entitled <'An Act granting a pension to Sam iiel Hamilton," approved April third, eigliteen iiundred and sixty-seven.

    Act 203 of 1874 · P.L. 305 · 1874 · Scanned page

90. To repeal the third section of an act, entitled "An Act for the making of a state road in the counties of Schuylkill and Dauphin," approved the seventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and the supplement to the said act, approved the twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

    Act 204 of 1874 · P.L. 306 · June 9, 1874 · Scanned page

91. For the relief of Hannah Thompson, mother of John M. Thompson, late superiutendent of the state arsenal.

    Act 205 of 1874 · P.L. 306 · June 9, 1874 · Scanned page

92. Tn an act, entitled "An Act to aid the Central Normal School Association of the State of Pennsj'lvania," approved the eighth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-two, making an appropriation of ten thousand dollars thereto. Entitled

    Act 206 of 1874 · P.L. 307 · June 13, 1874 · Scanned page

93. To aid the Indiana Normal school of Pennsylvania.

    Act 207 of 1874 · P.L. 308 · June 13, 1874 · Scanned page

94. To r(!-ini burse J. (i. White, superintendent of the soldiers' orphans school of Mercer, Pennsylvania, for clothing soldiers' ori)lians over ten years of as^c, on account of the state. WuKREAS, J. G. White, superintendent of the 'soldiers' orph.ins' school of Mercer, Pennsylvania, under authoritv of law, between the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and the thirty-first

    Act 208 of 1874 · P.L. 308 · June 13, 1874 · Scanned page

95. To regulate the manner o'f advertising for the state, and the issuing of warrants therefor.

    Act 58 of 1874 · P.L. 309 · May 6, 1874 · Scanned page

96. To incorporate the Granite Insurance Company.

    Act 209 of 1874 · P.L. 316 · February 23, 1874 · Scanned page

97. To incorporate the Anthracite Region Printing Company.

    Act 210 of 1874 · P.L. 317 · 1874 · Scanned page

98. To incorporate the John Harris Publishing Company.

    Act 211 of 1874 · P.L. 318 · April 2, 1874 · Scanned page

99. Ti) incorporate the Bridesburg Bank, located in the Twenty-fifth Avard of the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 213 of 1874 · P.L. 321 · 1874 · Scanned page

100. To incorporate the Mechanics" Safe Deposit, Trust and Guarantee Company.

     Act 215 of 1874 · P.L. 323 · 1874 · Scanned page