Every law Pennsylvania has passed

567 laws of the 1780s

Constitution of 1776

1. Establish and confirm the title of John Shearer in a certain tract or piece of land situated in Whitpaine township in the county of Philadelphia

   Ch. 1113 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 381 · 1784 · Original text

2. Giving further time to the inhabitants of Westmoreland, Washington and Fayette counties to record their certificates obtained from the state of Virginia when under jurisdiction of the same

   Ch. 1114 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 383 · 1784 · Original text

3. Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the further regulation of the port of Philadelphia and for enlarging the power of the Wardens thereof."

   Ch. 1115 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 384 · 1784 · Original text

4. Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts."

   Ch. 1116 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 386 · 1784 · Original text

5. Supplement to "An act for raising by way of lottery the sum of $42,000 for improving the public roads leading from the city of Philadelphia to the Western parts of this state and ... improving the navigation of the river Schuylkill."

   Ch. 1117 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 387 · 1784 · Original text

6. Carry into immediate effect the resolutions of the United States in congress assembled for adjusting the claims of individuals of this commonwealth against the said United States

   Ch. 1118 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 389 · 1784 · Original text

7. Vest congress with certain powers for the protection of commerce

   Ch. 1119 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 391 · 1784 · Original text

8. Amend "An act to enable the owners and possessors of a certain tract of marsh meadow ground therein described situated in the township of Kingsessing in the county of Philadelphia to keep the banks, dams, sluices and flood-gates in repair ..."

   Ch. 1120 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 393 · 1784 · Original text

9. Relief of insolvent debtors now confined in the several gaols of this commonwealth

   Ch. 1121 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 396 · 1784 · Original text

10. Alter and amend an act of assembly entitled "An act for opening the land-office for granting and disposing of the unappropriated lands within this state."

    Ch. 1122 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 398 · 1784 · Original text

11. Directing the mode of recovering debts contracted before January 1, 1777

    Ch. 1123 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 401 · 1784 · Original text

12. Repeal part of "An act to prevent the erecting any new and independent state within the limits of this commonwealth" so far as it directs trial for offenses in another county than that in which the offence was or might have been committed

    Ch. 1168 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 5 · 1785 · Original text

13. Incorporating the German Lutheran Congregation of Germantown township in the county of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania

    Ch. 1169 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 6 · 1785 · Original text

14. Supplement to the act entitled "An act for building market houses and keeping a public market on both sides of Callowhill street and New Market street in the Northern Liberties of the city of Philadelphia."

    Ch. 1170 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 12 · 1785 · Original text

15. Furnishing the quota of troops required by congress for the protection for the north western frontiers and for other purposes

    Ch. 1171 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 15 · 1785 · Original text

16. Confirming a road and establishing a ferry and erecting a bridge across the Neshaminy creek

    Ch. 1172 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 17 · 1785 · Original text

17. Enable the Honorable Edward Shippen, esquire, and John Swift, esquire, the only surviving trustees now resident within this state, to sell and convey a certain messuage and lot of ground in the city of Philadelphia, commonly called the Masons' Lodge

    Ch. 1173 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 20 · 1785 · Original text

18. Supplement to the act entitled "An act for erecting and opening a loan office for the sum of 50,000 pounds and for other purposes therein mentioned."

    Ch. 1174 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 23 · 1785 · Original text

19. Regulate the general elections of this commonwealth and to prevent frauds therein

    Ch. 1175 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 25 · 1785 · Original text

20. Appoint trustees to purchase a piece of land within described bounds and thereon to erect a court-house and prison for the use of the county of Westmoreland

    Ch. 1176 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 52 · 1785 · Original text

21. Immediate sale of the lot of ground in the city of Philadelphia whereon the old gaol and work house lately stood

    Ch. 1177 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 53 · 1785 · Original text

22. Repeal "An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of North America" and "An act for preventing and punishing the counterfeiting of the common seal, bank bills and bank notes of the president, directors and company of the Bank of North America ..."

    Ch. 1178 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 57 · 1785 · Original text

23. Declaring the acts of assembly which give the authority of justice of the peace to the chief burgess of the borough of Lancaster and to the burgesses of the borough of Carlisle and Reading to be so far contrary to the constitution

    Ch. 1179 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 58 · 1785 · Original text

24. Compel the speedy settlement and the paying or securing of the debts due to this state for lands held by location or other office right obtained before the December 10, 1776, and yet remaining unpatented

    Ch. 1180 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 62 · 1785 · Original text

25. Establish a ferry from the south-west side of the Monongahela opposite the town of Pittsburgh

    Ch. 1181 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 67 · 1785 · Original text

26. Re-establish the ancient corporation of the borough of Bristol in the county of Bucks

    Ch. 1182 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 68 · 1785 · Original text

27. Regulation of bankruptcy

    Ch. 1183 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 70 · 1785 · Original text

28. Declare and establish the constitutional rights of the president and council of this state to draw for the public moneys in the hands of the treasurer of the commonwealth and to repeal divers acts of assembly so far as they are repugnant to the same

    Ch. 1184 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 86 · 1785 · Original text

29. Support of government

    Ch. 1185 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 88 · 1785 · Original text

30. Enable the commissioners therein named to settle the accounts of the managers of a lottery set up for building Newark Academy and a German Lutheran Church in Whitpain township in Philadelphia county and repairing Norriton Meeting House, etc.

    Ch. 1186 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 91 · 1785 · Original text

31. Concerning divorces and alimony

    Ch. 1187 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 94 · 1785 · Original text

32. Encourage and protect the manufactures of this state by laying additional duties on the importation of certain manufactures which interfere with them

    Ch. 1188 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 99 · 1785 · Original text

33. Appropriate the sum of 2,000 pounds of the public moneys to laying out and making a highway from the western parts of Cumberland county to the town of Pittsburgh and to authorize the president in council to appoint commissioners to lay out the same

    Ch. 1189 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 105 · 1785 · Original text

34. Authorizing the supreme executive council to draw an order on the treasurer of this state for the sum of 67 pounds and 3 pence in favor of David Meade, Esquire

    Ch. 1190 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 107 · 1785 · Original text

35. Empower Deborah Irvine to receive the interest upon her husband James Irvine's depreciation certificate during his absence

    Ch. 1191 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 108 · 1785 · Original text

36. Settle and adjust the accounts of the officers of this state in the service of the United States who were deranged by the resolution of congress passed June 4, 1778

    Ch. 1192 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 109 · 1785 · Original text

37. Regulating the measurement of corn and salt imported into the port of Philadelphia

    Ch. 1193 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 110 · 1785 · Original text

38. Relief of officers, soldiers and seamen who in the course of the late war have been wounded or otherwise disabled in the service of this state of the United States

    Ch. 1194 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 113 · 1785 · Original text

39. Confirm to the trustees of the University of the state of Pennsylvania divers estates therein enumerated for the support of the seminary and for enabling the board of trustees to choose a new trustee in the stead of any of trustee absent for six months

    Ch. 1195 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 119 · 1785 · Original text

40. Empowering certain trustees to sell and dispose of certain tracts or parcels of land and premises situate in the township of Salisbury in the county of Lancaster and secure the annual interest therefrom for the Protestant Episcopal Church minister

    Ch. 1196 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 142 · 1785 · Original text

41. Empowering certain trustees to sell and dispose of certain lands and premises and to apply the moneys arising therefrom towards the building of a parsonage house for the use of the minister for the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. James in Lancaster

    Ch. 1197 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 144 · 1785 · Original text

42. Supplement to the act entitled "An act to encourage and protect the manufacturers of this state by laying additional duties on the importation of certain manufactures which interfere with them."

    Ch. 1198 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 146 · 1785 · Original text

43. Quieting the disturbances at Wyoming, for pardoning certain offenders and for other purposes therein mentioned

    Ch. 1199 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 147 · 1785 · Original text

44. Incorporating the Presbyterian Congregation of Pequea in the township of Salisbury and county of Lancaster

    Ch. 1124 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 405 · 1785 · Original text

45. Grant to Arthur Donaldson, his executors, administrators and assigns, the exclusive right of making and using in the river Delaware a machine called hippopotamos by him invented for the cleansing of docks and raising sand, gravel, dirt and other things

    Ch. 1125 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 411 · 1785 · Original text

46. Enable the courts of quarter sessions of the several counties of this commonwealth to vacate roads and highways in proper cases

    Ch. 1126 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 415 · 1785 · Original text

47. Erecting South Dock ward, being part of Dock ward in the city of Philadelphia, into a new ward

    Ch. 1127 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 418 · 1785 · Original text

48. Alter and confirm the charter of the corporation for the relief of the widows and children of clergymen in communion of the church of England in America

    Ch. 1128 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 419 · 1785 · Original text

49. Supplement to "An act for regulating, pitching paving and cleansing the highways, streets, lanes and alleys and for regulating, making and amending the watercourses and common sewers within the inhabited ... parts within the city of Philadelphia ..."

    Ch. 1129 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 422 · 1785 · Original text

50. Authorize and direct the immediate payment of the sum of 15,000 pounds sterling to the devisees and legatees of Thomas Penn and Richard Penn and to the widow and relict of the said Thomas Penn, being the first yearly payment directed to be paid

    Ch. 1130 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 423 · 1785 · Original text

51. Dissolve the marriage of Nathaniel Irwin and Martha, his wife

    Ch. 1131 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 426 · 1785 · Original text

52. Better securing personal liberty and preventing wrongful imprisonment

    Ch. 1132 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 427 · 1785 · Original text

53. Give the benefit of trial by jury to the public officers of this state and to other persons who shall be proceeded against in a summary manner by the comptroller-general of this state

    Ch. 1133 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 435 · 1785 · Original text

54. Repeal "An act to vest in Isaac Austin a certain messuage, wharf, ferry and ferry landing situate on the north side of Mulberry street at the easternmost extremity thereof in the city of Philadelphia ..." and restore it to George Adam Baker

    Ch. 1134 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 441 · 1785 · Original text

55. Incorporate the Presbyterian congregation in Abington township in the county of Montgomery

    Ch. 1135 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 444 · 1785 · Original text

56. Erecting part of the county of Lancaster into a separate county (named Dauphin)

    Ch. 1136 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 450 · 1785 · Original text

57. Furnishing the quota of this state towards paying the annual interest of the debts of the United States and for finding and paying the interest of the public debts of this state

    Ch. 1137 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 454 · 1785 · Original text

58. Better regulation of juries

    Ch. 1138 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 486 · 1785 · Original text

59. Directing the mode of distributing the donation lands promised to the troops by this commonwealth

    Ch. 1139 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 494 · 1785 · Original text

60. Further supplement to the act entitled "An act for raising county rates and levies."

    Ch. 1140 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 503 · 1785 · Original text

61. Incorporating the Presbyterian church of Falling Spring in the county of Franklin

    Ch. 1141 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 508 · 1785 · Original text

62. Ascertain, fix and establish permanent salaries for the judges of the supreme court

    Ch. 1142 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 514 · 1785 · Original text

63. Relief of the Pennsylvania volunteers and eighteen months' men

    Ch. 1143 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 516 · 1785 · Original text

64. Granting to James Rumsey an exclusive right for a certain term of years to navigate and build boats calculated to work with greater ease and facility against rapid rivers

    Ch. 1144 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 517 · 1785 · Original text

65. Limitation of actions to be brought for the inheritance or possession of real property or upon penal acts of assembly

    Ch. 1145 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 519 · 1785 · Original text

66. Regulate the fishery in the river Schuylkill

    Ch. 1146 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 522 · 1785 · Original text

67. Vesting in the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for the promoting useful knowledge a certain lot of ground, being part of the state house square

    Ch. 1147 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 527 · 1785 · Original text

68. Relief of insolvent debtors now confined in the several gaols of this commonwealth

    Ch. 1148 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 528 · 1785 · Original text

69. Relief of such persons as have debts due to them from the estates of persons attainted of treason and confiscated in the late war and for other purposes therein mentioned

    Ch. 1149 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 530 · 1785 · Original text

70. Authorize the holding of prisoners arrested within the county of Montgomery for debts and offences in the gaol and workhouse of the county of Philadelphia until a proper prison shall be erected within the county of Montgomery

    Ch. 1150 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 532 · 1785 · Original text

71. Repeal an act of assembly entitled "An act to carry into immediate effect the resolutions of the United States in congress assembled for adjusting the claims of individuals of this commonwealth against the said United States

    Ch. 1151 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 534 · 1785 · Original text

72. Suspend "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to enable William Clingan, ... to build a new court house and prison in the county of Chester and sell the old court house and prison in the borough of Chester.' "

    Ch. 1152 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 535 · 1785 · Original text

73. Dissolve the marriage of Henry Willis with Mary, his wife

    Ch. 1153 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 537 · 1785 · Original text

74. Authorize and enable the supreme executive council to appoint commissioners to join with the commissioners appointed or to be appointed on the part of the state of New York to ascertain the northern boundary of this state from the river Delaware westward

    Ch. 1154 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 538 · 1785 · Original text

75. Authorize the appointment of new commissioners to execute "An act declaring the river Susquehanna and other streams therein named public highways, for improving the navigation of the said river and streams and for preserving the fish in the same," etc.

    Ch. 1155 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 540 · 1785 · Original text

76. Enable the agent or agents of his most Christian Majesty to sue for and recover in a more speedy way any debt or demand that may be due to them in this state

    Ch. 1156 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 542 · 1785 · Original text

77. Supplement to the acts for raising an impost on goods, wares and merchandise imported, for securing more effectually the revenues arising from the same

    Ch. 1157 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 546 · 1785 · Original text

78. Declare and establish the right of the executive council of this commonwealth to appoint all officers, civil and military, except in cases reserved by the constitution to the general assembly and to the people and to repeal the laws contrary thereto, etc.

    Ch. 1158 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 556 · 1785 · Original text

79. Erecting and opening a loan office for the sum of 50,000 pounds

    Ch. 1159 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 560 · 1785 · Original text

80. Enlarge the summary jurisdiction of the justices of the peace in actions of debt or demand to sums not exceeding ten pounds and to repeal an act entitled "A supplement to an act for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts."

    Ch. 1160 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 573 · 1785 · Original text

81. Repeal and alter parts of the tax laws as empower the collectors of taxes to break open dwelling houses in order to make seizures, inflict fines in a summary manner upon commissioners of counties, discourage desertion, etc.

    Ch. 1161 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 576 · 1785 · Original text

82. Empower the supreme executive council to draw on the treasurer of this state for the sum of 500 pounds in favor of Thomas Paine, esquire

    Ch. 1162 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 581 · 1785 · Original text

83. Further supplement to the act entitled "An act for acknowledging and recording of deeds."

    Ch. 1163 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 582 · 1785 · Original text

84. Provide further regulations whereby to secure fair and equal proceedings in the land office and in the surveying of lands

    Ch. 1164 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 584 · 1785 · Original text

85. Vest the personal estate of the late corporation of the mayor and commonalty of the city of Philadelphia in the wardens of the said city and to direct the immediate sale of the old gaol and workhouse of the county of Philadelphia, etc.

    Ch. 1165 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 596 · 1785 · Original text

86. Relief of divers officers, late of the state navy

    Ch. 1166 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 601 · 1785 · Original text

87. Establishing the office of a register of all German passengers who shall arrive at the port of Philadelphia and of all indentures by which any of them are bound servants for their freight and of the assignments of such servants in the city of Philadelphia

    Ch. 1167 · 11 Pa. Stat. at Large 602 · 1785 · Original text

88. Supplement to "An act for raising the sum of $42,000 for improving the public roads leading form the city of Philadelphia to the western parts of this state and towards the improving the navigation of the river Schuylkill."

    Ch. 1200 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 150 · 1786 · Original text

89. Incorporating the society known as the Mutual Assurance Company for insuring houses from loss by fire, to ratify and confirm the articles of agreement of the contributors and to enable them to make suitable by-laws

    Ch. 1201 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 151 · 1786 · Original text

90. Further relief of the public creditors who are citizens of this state by receiving on loan certain debts of the United States and for funding the same and for paying the annual interest of such loans and the interest of certain debts of this state

    Ch. 1202 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 158 · 1786 · Original text

91. Incorporating the congregation of the Protestant Episcopal Church commonly called Bangor Church and school in Churchtown, Carnarvan township and county of Lancaster

    Ch. 1203 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 164 · 1786 · Original text

92. Ascertain the number of taxable inhabitants within the city of Philadelphia and within the counties of this commonwealth and for other purposes therein mentioned

    Ch. 1204 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 169 · 1786 · Original text

93. Alter and amend "An act to remedy the defects of the several acts of assembly heretofore made for regulating the elections of justices of the peace ... and to authorize the justices of the peace of the city of Philadelphia to hold the courts ..."

    Ch. 1205 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 171 · 1786 · Original text

94. Securing to this commonwealth the fidelity and allegiance of the inhabitants thereof and for admitting certain persons to the rights of citizenship

    Ch. 1206 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 178 · 1786 · Original text

95. Incorporate the Episcopal congregation belonging to Saint Peter's Church in the Great Valley in the township of Tredyferim and county of Chester

    Ch. 1207 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 181 · 1786 · Original text

96. Removing the Protestant Episcopal Chapel of Saint Thomas in Carnarvan township, Berks county, and for incorporating the congregation thereof

    Ch. 1208 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 183 · 1786 · Original text

97. Complying with the requisition of the United States in congress assembled for the services of the year 1785 and for paying one year's interest on the foreign and domestic debts

    Ch. 1209 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 189 · 1786 · Original text

98. Relief of such officers late of the state navy as were made prisoners of war previous to the derangement in the year 1778 and were afterwards honorably discharged and of the widows and children of those officers who died during their captivity

    Ch. 1210 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 193 · 1786 · Original text

99. Supplement to the act entitled "An act to regulate the fisheries in the river Schuylkill."

    Ch. 1211 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 194 · 1786 · Original text

100. Provide for the payment of the principal and interest of such of the bills emitted pursuant to resolution of congress of March 18, 1780, and an act of this state of June 1, 1780, as shall remain unredeemed on December 31, 1786

     Ch. 1212 · 12 Pa. Stat. at Large 196 · 1786 · Original text