Every law Pennsylvania has passed

5,365 laws of the 1870s

Constitution of 1838

1. For the relief of Samue. A. Small, private of company E, Seventeenth regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania.

   Act 58 of 1879 · P.L. 58 · May 13, 1879 · Scanned page

2. To provide for the appointment of a messenger for the state library.

   Act 67 of 1879 · P.L. 58 · May 13, 1879 · Scanned page

3. Providing for the more speedy relief of poor and indigent persons in poor districts, wliere directors of the poor are appointed by the courts of quarter

   Act 59 of 1879 · P.L. 59 · May 18, 1879 · Scanned page

4. For the protection of the aids to navigation established by the author* ity of the United States light house board within the state of Pennsylvania.

   Act 62 of 1879 · P.L. 60 · May 19, 1879 · Scanned page

5. To regulate the fees of Justices of the peace and constables of the several counties of this commonwealth. Fees

   Act 69 of 1879 · P.L. 64 · May 19, 1879 · Scanned page

6. Supplementary to an act, entitled **An act to revise and amend an act, entitled *An act dividing the cities of this state into three classes, regulating the passage of ordinances, providing for contracts for sapplies and work for said cities, authorizing the increase of indebtedness and the creation of a sinking ftind to redeem the same, defining and punishing certain offenses in all of

   Act 70 of 1879 · P.L. 65 · May 19, 1879 · Scanned page

7. To provide additional remedies for the unlawfal removing or injuring of any breakwater or embankment along property fronting or abutting on any river or stream within this commonwealth.

   Act 71 of 1879 · P.L. 65 · May 28, 1879 · Scanned page

8. Authorizing oouncils of the cities of the seoond class, of this commonwealth, to make an amicable settlement of municipal liens for the grading, paving and carbing, or otherwise improving, streets or avenues in said cities, either under general or special laws.

   Act 76 of 1879 · P.L. 69 · May 28, 1879 · Scanned page

9. Applying the proceeds of the sales of the old grave-yard lots* and the io vestments of the same, to the payment of the funded debt of the city of

   Act 77 of 1879 · P.L. 70 · May 28, 1879 · Scanned page

10. Repealing aection seventh of an act, entitled "An aot to carry into effect section five, of article fourteenth, of the constitution, relatire to the salaries of county officers, and the payment of fees received by them into the state or county treasury, in counties containing over one hundred and tifly thousand inhabitants.** approved the thirty-first day of March, Anno I>oniini one

    Act 82 of 1879 · P.L. 72 · May 22, 1879 · Scanned page

11. regulate the holding of and to prevent frauds io the primary elootions of the republioan party, held in the several electioa districtB ' of the oounty of Beaver.

    Act 86 of 1879 · P.L. 76 · June 3, 1879 · Scanned page

12. To create poor districts, and to authori^ie 'purchase of lands and erection of buildings to furnish relief and give employment to the destitute, poor and paupers in this commonwealth.

    Act 89 of 1879 · P.L. 78 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

13. To repeal an act, entitled **An aot fixing the pay of the sheriff of Crawford county for boarding priaoners and other persons," approved the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. act repealed.

    Act 90 of 1879 · P.L. 82 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

14. Making an appropriation to tiie Pennsylvania state Innatio hospital, at Harrisburg.

    Act 91 of 1879 · P.L. 83 · 1879 · Scanned page

15. Relating to the houses of refuge and reform sohools in the oommonwealth of Pennsylvania, deoLaratory of their authority.

    Act 93 of 1879 · P.L. 84 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

16. To regulate the compensation of auditors and commissioners.

    Act 94 of 1879 · P.L. 84 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

17. To prevent the obstraotion of toll-gates for the purpose of evading the payment of tolls.

    Act 95 of 1879 · P.L. 85 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

18. Authorizing the trustees of the Indiana Normal School of Pennsylvania, to plaoe a mortgage on the building and g^unds of the insdtution. Preamble. Whsbeas, There ezists a mechanics' lien against the building of the Indiana Normal School of Pennsylvania, of fifteen thousand dollars, in favor of the contractor and bailder of the same or his assigns : And whereas, There is a first mortgage

    Act 97 of 1879 · P.L. 86 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

19. To repeal an aot relative to the pay of superviaorB of Linooln township, AUeglieny oounty, approved April the tenth, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and

    Act 98 of 1879 · P.L. 86 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

20. Supplement to an act relating to last wills and testaments, approved the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, pnirtding for the time fh)m which wills shall speak and take effect^ for the vasting of lapsed or void devises of real estate in the residuary d<?Tisee, and for the execution of powers over real and personal estate by the person in whom such powers are vested.

    Act 101 of 1879 · P.L. 88 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

21. To authorize the governor, superintendent of public instruction and attorney general, if in their Judgment the interest of the oommonvrealth will be thereby promoted, to purchase on behalf of the state, at judicial sale, real estate of the state normal schools on which the state has a lien or liens by mortgage. Whbbeas, In the distribution of money heretofore appro- Pwambie. priated by law

    Act 102 of 1879 · P.L. 89 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

22. Supplement to an act, entitled ** An act to exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, and places of religious worship, places of burial not used or held for private or corporate profit, and institotions of purely public charity," approved the fourteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundrod and seventy-four.

    Act 104 of 1879 · P.L. 90 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

23. To enlarge the jurisdiotion of oourts of common pleas of this oommonnvealthf relative tx> granting, improving or amending otaarters of turnpike road companies, wliere the charters of such corporations have been granted by the legislature.

    Act 106 of 1879 · P.L. 91 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

24. To provide for the current expenses of the state board of agriculture.

    Act 107 of 1879 · P.L. 92 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

25. For the assessment and collection in cities of the third class of the cost of grading, paving, curbing or otherwise improving streets heretofore improved, and running in whole or part through rural districts.

    Act 113 of 1879 · P.L. 97 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

26. Requiring every person holding any official position under the state government to take and subscribe an oath or affirmation.

    Act 115 of 1879 · P.L. 99 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

27. Relative to the Western state penitentiary, and making an appropriation thereto.

    Act 116 of 1879 · P.L. 99 · June 4, 1879 · Scanned page

28. Making an appropriation for salaries of officers and employ^ of the Pennsylvania Reform School, and to pay for permanent improve^ ments, interest on bonded debt, interest on temporary loans and bonded debt falling due in one thooaand eight hundred and eighty.

    Act 118 of 1879 · P.L. 100 · June 5, 1879 · Scanned page

29. Applying the laws for widening and straightening roads to nayigable streams affected by the tides of the ooean. uonrts of quar.

    Act 119 of 1879 · P.L. 100 · June 5, 1879 · Scanned page

30. To the several aots [providing for the disoipUne and oonduot of the National Guard.

    Act 120 of 1879 · P.L. 101 · June 6, 1879 · Scanned page

31. To provide for the ordinary expenses of the executive, l^slative, and Judicial departments of the commonwealth, interest on the public debt, and for the support of the common schools, for the years, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine and one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

    Act 121 of 1879 · P.L. 104 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

32. Supplement to an act, entitled "An act authorizing courts to provide by rules as to return of writs, and making all necessary rules for the transaction of any and all business brought before them, and authorizing the judge of a separate Judicial district to do all acts which heretofore two or more Judges were by law authorized to do,'* extending the lirst section of said act.

    Act 128 of 1879 · P.L. 125 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

33. Relating to turnpike and plank roads.

    Act 130 of 1879 · P.L. 126 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

34. Relating to the oominen cement of actions of ejectment upon titles aoqnired by sheriff^, treasurers or commissioners sales, and limiting the time witliin which such actions may be brought.

    Act 131 of 1879 · P.L. 127 · 1879 · Scanned page

35. Supplement to an act of the general assembly approved the seventeenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act relative to fraudulent debtors.

    Act 133 of 1879 · P.L. 129 · 1879 · Scanned page

36. Providing for the payment of all fees received by salaried oounty oftieers into the county treasury of their respective counties, where existing laws do not provide for the payment of the same into the state treasury. SECTiOJf 1.

    Act 136 of 1879 · P.L. 133 · 1879 · Scanned page

37. Making a special appropriation to the state librarian for the purchase of rare and valuable books relating to the early history of Pennsylvania.

    Act of 1879 · P.L. 136 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

38. To amend section four of an act, entitled **An act authorizing and empowering the court of common pleas of the several counties of this commonwealth to change, alter and direct the mode of preparing and keeping indices in the several offices of record in said counties, and for preparing, making and substituting new indices for old indices, or parts thereof/' approved May third, one thousand

    Act 139 of 1879 · P.L. 136 · 1879 · Scanned page

39. To authorize cities of the tirst class to fund their present floatinpf Indebtedness, and to refund existing loans by creating loans theroibr, and to provide for the redemption of the same.

    Act 142 of 1879 · P.L. 137 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

40. In relation to the voting shares of certain corporations.

    Act 144 of 1879 · P.L. 139 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

41. To repeal the act of April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act relating to the purchase of a law library in the county of Washington.

    Act 145 of 1879 · P.L. 139 · 1879 · Scanned page

42. make an appropriation to the Pennsyivaaia Working Ilome for Blind Men. Appropriation

    Act 150 of 1879 · P.L. 142 · 1879 · Scanned page

43. Supplement to the act of aasembly approved the thirteenth day of June, Auno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, relative to roads and bridges, to authorize county commissioners to build bridge^t or furnish money to aid in building bridges, the erecting of which would require more expense than it is reasonable one or two adjoining townships should bear, in cases where the

    Act 152 of 1879 · P.L. 146 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

44. To require all ma^trates and other officials in cities of ttie tint, Be<y ond and third class, authorized to take acknowledgments and Administer oaths, to perform such service free of charge for soldiers and widows of soldiers, when making affidavit to papers for the purpose of drawing pensions.

    Act 156 of 1879 · P.L. 148 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

45. To amend an act, entitled "An aot relating to destroyed or lost dockets of justices* of the peace, and to the Birmingham and Elizabethtown Turnpike R -ad Company," approved the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, relating to lost dockets of Justices of the peace.

    Act 161 of 1879 · P.L. 151 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

46. Supplement to an act for the prevention of trespassing upon railway trains, and consequent injuries to minors and other persons, approved Maj twenty-fourth, Anno Domini one tiiousand eight hundred and seven ty-eight.

    Act 162 of 1879 · P.L. 152 · 1879 · Scanned page

47. To provide for the suitable marking of the grave of General Anthony Wayne, at Erie, Pennsylvania, and making an appropriation therefor.

    Act 164 of 1879 · P.L. 154 · 1879 · Scanned page

48. Providing for the propagation and protootion of fish, and appropriating moneys therefor.

    Act 166 of 1879 · P.L. 154 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

49. Making an appropriation to th<^ state hospital for the insane at Warren.

    Act 167 of 1879 · P.L. 156 · 1879 · Scanned page

50. To provide for the selection of a site and erection of a state hospital for injured persons, to be located in the counties of Scliuylkill, Carbon, Danphin, Northumberland and Columbia, to be called the state hospital for injured persons of the anthracite coal region, and for the management of the same, and making an appropriation therefor.

    Act 169 of 1879 · P.L. 157 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

51. Making an appropriation to the Eastern Penitentiary for the salaries of otiSoers, repairs, books and stationery for library, and gratuities to discharged oonviots.

    Act 171 of 1879 · P.L. 159 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

52. For the protection of the fishing interests of the state. Whebbab, Daring the past six years, efforts have been preamble, made on the part of the fish commissioners of the United States and the commissioners of fisheries of the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, to stock the waters of this state with salmon, and particularly to stock the Delaware river, with a view to making that river

    Act 178 of 1879 · P.L. 163 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

53. To provide for the current expenses of the board of public charities, for the year commencing on the first day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and also for the year commencing on the first day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

    Act 180 of 1879 · P.L. 165 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

54. To repeal an act, entitled "An act for the protection of sheep in Warne county/' approved April tenth. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

    Act 183 of 1879 · P.L. 168 · June 11, 1879 · Scanned page

55. To repeal an act, entitled "An act providing for the erection of a poor house in the county of Lawrence," approved the eigiith day of March, Anno Domini one tliousand eiglit hundred and sixty-six: and also an act, entitled "A supplement to Lawrence county po<»r house law," approved the eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six; and also an act, entitled** An

    Act 184 of 1879 · P.L. 168 · June 12, 1879 · Scanned page

56. Directing the printing and distribution of the reports of the oommiflk aionera of the geological sanrey for the use of the senate and house of representatives.

    Act 189 of 1879 · P.L. 173 · June 12, 1879 · Scanned page

57. Authorizing appeals to be taken in equity cases, where special or preliminary injunction has been refused.

    Act 192 of 1879 · P.L. 177 · June 28, 1879 · Scanned page

58. To repeal an act, entitled *'An act incorporating the White Deer Improvement Company," and the supplements theretj.

    Act 195 of 1879 · P.L. 178 · June 28, 1879 · Scanned page

59. To regulate the manuflBtoture and sale of oommeroiaL fertilizers.

    Act 197 of 1879 · P.L. 180 · June 28, 1879 · Scanned page

60. Granting a pension to Edwin Hatoh, father of the late Rjland Hatch.

    Act 199 of 1879 · P.L. 184 · January 14, 1879 · Scanned page

61. In thk House of Representatives, February 20th, 1879.

    Act 5 of 1879 · P.L. 198 · February 27, 1879 · Scanned page

62. To provide for changing the location of the principal office of certain corporations.

    Act of 1879 · March 18, 1879 · Scanned page

63. To repeal an act, entitled "An act giving the oourt of qnarter aesaons of Luzerne oounty power to appoint certain officers in said county," approved the twenty-third day of December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. Act repealed.

    Act 8 of 1879 · March 18, 1879 · Scanned page

64. To provide for the inoorporation, and for the government and regulation of street railway oompanies now incorporated or which may hereafter be inoorporated, in cities of the second and third class, in this commonwealth.

    Act 10 of 1879 · March 19, 1879 · Scanned page

65. In THi SxNATS, March 6th, 1879. Whbbxas, In his last annual message, governor Hartranft announced the demise of Bayard Taylor, a citizen of Pennsylvania, representing the United States at the court of the German Empire: And whereas. This commonwealth, while sharing the common loss, cannot but feel more than ordinary Interest in the occasion; therefore, By the Senate and House of RepresentaHves of Pennsylvania,

    Resolution 18 of 1879 · P.L. 206 · June 13, 1879 · Scanned page