Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,705 laws of the 1810s

Constitution of 1790

1. The governor is hereby requested to convey thanks to captain Perry, master commandant Elliott and lieutenant Yarnall

   Resolution of 1814 · 1814 · Original text

2. The secretary of the commonwealth is hereby directed to deliver to the clerk of the House of Representatives, ten copies, and to the clerk of the Senate, five copies of Purdon's Abridgment of the Laws o

   Resolution of 1814 · 1814 · Original text

3. The Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested, to use their best endeavours to prevail upon Congress to propose to the several states for their adoption, an amendment to the

   Resolution of 1814 · 1814 · Original text

4. We will to the utmost of our power support the General Government in all lawful and constitutional measures to bring to justice infractors of the laws and constitution of the United States, and all abett

   Resolution of 1814 · 1814 · Original text

5. The auditor general of this state is hereby required to prepare and transmit to the proper accountant officer of the United States, a specific statement of the sums which have been or which may be advanc

   Resolution of 1814 · 1814 · Original text

6. The secretary of the commonwealth is hereby authorized and required to distribute to the prothonotaries of the city of Philadelphia and different counties, as many copies of Smith's edition of the Laws o

   Resolution of 1814 · 1814 · Original text

7. The secretary of the commonwealth is hereby required to transmit to each of the members of the present legislature, and to each of the clerks, assistant clerks, sergeant at arms and door keepers a copy o

   Resolution of 1814 · 1814 · Original text

8. Protest against the passage of an act of the legislature of the state of New Jersey

   Act res 3 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

9. Act granting further time for completing the Susquehanna and Tioga turnpike road

   Act 1 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

10. Act to extend the act to revive and continue certain acts therein mentioned, relative to the patenting of land, and for other purposes

    Act 2 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

11. Act vesting in certain banking institutions within this commonwealth the power of issuing small notes

    Act 3 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

12. Act to enable the governor to appoint notaries public, and for other purposes therein mentioned - amend - certified copies of the official acts of notaries public to be received in evidence

    Act 4 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

13. Act to enable the overseers of the public school, founded by charter in the town and county of Philadelphia, to make certain releases

    Act 5 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

14. Act to authorize the administrators of the estate of Calvin Hathaway to complete the title of a certain tract of land therein mentioned

    Act 6 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

15. Act to authorize the governor to contract with Joseph G. Chambers, for certain arms for the use of this Commonwealth

    Act 7 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

16. Act to incorporate the town of Brownsville, in the county of Fayette

    Act 8 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

17. Act to authorize the executors of Thomas Davenport, deceased, to convey a tract of land in Plymouth township, in Luzerne county

    Act 9 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

18. Act relating to the choice of State Treasurer

    Act 10 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

19. Act authorizing the employment of two additional clerks in the office of Auditor General

    Act 11 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

20. Act to incorporate the Manufacturing Company of Lancaster

    Act 12 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

21. Act directing the Secretary of the Land Office, to issue patents in certain cases therein mentioned

    Act 13 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

22. Act to incorporate the Manufacturing Company of Waterford, in Susquehanna county

    Act 14 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

23. Act to erect the town of Canonsburg, in the county of Washington, into a borough - amend - boundaries defined

    Act 15 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

24. Act to establish a Twelfth Judicial District

    Act 16 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

25. Act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal church of Saint John, at Yorktown - amend - time of vestrymen election

    Act 17 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

26. Act for the election of a constable in the borough of Marietta, in the county of Lancaster

    Act 18 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

27. Act authorizing the partition of certain lands in the counties of Armstrong, Indiana and Jefferson - amend - powers given to Charles Biddle

    Act 19 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

28. Act to erect the town of Stroudsburg, in Northampton county, into a borough

    Act 20 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

29. Act to enable Hardman Phillips to receive certain conveyances and grant certain lands - amend - Hardman Philips authorized to receive deed

    Act 21 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

30. Act to enable the Governor to appoint a notary public in Germantown

    Act 22 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

31. Act granting to John Woodend the exclusive right to use a salt spring, which he has recently discovered in Toby's creek

    Act 23 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

32. Act for laying out, making and keeping in repair the public roads and highways within this commonwealth, and for laying out private roads - amend - report of viewers

    Act 24 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

33. Act to authorize undertakers of public bridges, to procure materials for building said bridges

    Act 25 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

34. Act to erect Pottstown, in the county of Montgomery, into a borough

    Act 26 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

35. Act to incorporate a manufacturing company at Stroudsburg, in Northampton county

    Act 27 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

36. Act incorporating that part of the township of the Northern Liberties, lying between the west side of Sixth street and the river Delaware, and between Vine street and Cohocksink creek - amend - meetings of commissioners and citizens may be held; levy tax

    Act 28 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

37. Act granting additional emoluments to seamen employed in the defense of this commonwealth

    Act 29 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

38. Act to extend the boundaries of Northumberland county

    Act 30 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

39. Act incorporating the Presbyterian congregation of the Three Ridges, in the county of Washington

    Act 31 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

40. Act dissolving the marriage of Francis D. Cummins and Eliza his wife

    Act 32 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

41. Act to authorize Hugh Moore, James Herrington and Samuel Evans, to erect a toll bridge over French creek, at the place usually known by the name of "Evans' Ferry," in Mercer county

    Act 33 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

42. Act confirming the title of Henry Voights, an alien, to a certain tract of land

    Act 34 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

43. Act appointing commissioners to run and mark a line dividing the counties of Columbia and Luzerne

    Act 35 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

44. Act appropriating certain militia fines to the improvement of public roads

    Act 36 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

45. Act to authorize Elizabeth Hale, guardian of the persons and estates of Mary Wood Hale, Thomas Hale, Elizabeth Hale and Matthew Hale, minors, to sell and convey their share of two tracts of land in Cumberland county

    Act 37 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

46. Act securing to mechanics and others, payment for their labor and materials, in erecting any house or other building within the city and county of Philadelphia - amend - extending to the borough of Marietta, in the county of Lancaster, and the borough of

    Act 38 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

47. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the President, Managers and Company of the Smithfield turnpike road

    Act 39 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

48. Act to authorize the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal congregation in the borough of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, to sell and convey a lot of ground in said borough

    Act 40 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

49. Act to erect Kutztown, in the county of Berks, into a borough

    Act 41 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

50. Act directing the Secretary of the Land Office, to issue a patent to James Herrington, for a tract of donation land

    Act 42 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

51. Act for laying out, making and keeping in repair the public roads and highways within this commonwealth, and for laying out private roads - amend - viewers may change the route of a road crossing any river

    Act 43 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

52. Act to enable the governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road, beginning at the end of the Little Conestoga turnpike road, in the county of Berks, thence through Morgantown and Churchtown to the Blue Ball tavern in Lancaster county - amen

    Act 44 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

53. Act to regulate the fisheries in the river Susquehanna and its branches - amend - sienes drawn; mode of recovery

    Act 45 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

54. Act authorizing certain persons therein named, to raise a gravel bar in the west branch of the river Susquehanna

    Act 46 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

55. Act to erect the town of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming, into a borough - amend - election of borough officers

    Act 47 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

56. Act authorizing the loan of money from the state to the commissioners of Mercer county - amend - credit of the commissioners of the county of Mercer

    Act 48 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

57. Act divorcing Christian Heistand and Barbara, his wife, from the bonds of matrimony

    Act 49 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

58. Act for the relief of certain brigade inspectors

    Act 50 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

59. Act for the relief of George Parson

    Act 51 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

60. Act declaring part of Broadhead's creek a public highway

    Act 52 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

61. Act for the relief of Jacob Nell

    Act 53 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

62. Act for the relief of Andrew M'Dowel and Adam Hill, old soldiers

    Act 54 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

63. Act to provide for the erection of houses for the employment and support of the poor in the counties of Chester and Lancaster - amend - directors of the poor authorized to sell land

    Act 55 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

64. Act declaring a part of Big Cattawissa creek, in Luzerne county, and the south branch of Swatara creek, in Schuylkill county, and part of Beech creek, in Centre county, and part of Kittle creek, in Lycoming county, public highways

    Act 56 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

65. Act to erect the town of Hanover, in the county of York, into a borough

    Act 57 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

66. Act to authorize the executors of Francis Rhoads, deceased, to convey a lot of ground in the town of Selins-Grove, in the county of Union

    Act 58 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

67. Act authorizing John Snyder and Peter Cook, trustees of the German Presbyterian congregation in Guilford township, Franklin county, to sell and convey certain lands therein mentioned

    Act 59 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

68. Act to authorize Ralph Funk and John W. Burson, executors of the estate of Henry Funk, deceased, to make and execute a title for a certain lot of land therein mentioned

    Act 60 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

69. Act to incorporate the Penn's Manor meadow company, in the county of Bucks

    Act 61 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

70. Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to make a lock navigation on the river Schuylkill

    Act 62 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

71. Act to enable the Governor to incorporate a company for manufacturing hemp, flax, wool and cotton, at or near Milford, in the county of Pike

    Act 63 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

72. Act to authorize the accountant officers of this commonwealth, to open their accounts with William Henderson, late treasurer of Montgomery county - amend - duty of the auditor general and state treasurer

    Act 64 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

73. Further supplement to the act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the bank of the river Susquehanna, opposite Harrisburg, to Pittsburg - amend - Stoystown made a point in said road; commissioners; governor

    Act 65 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

74. Act directing the secretary of the land office, to issue patents to the assignees of John Nicholson, for certain lands therein mentioned

    Act 66 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

75. Act for the relief of Jacob Bower

    Act 67 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

76. Act altering the mode of issuing tavern licenses

    Act 68 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

77. Act to incorporate the district of Spring Garden - amend - constables to be elected and to give security; surveyors duty; manager of the poor

    Act 69 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

78. Act to fix the number of Senators and Representatives, and form the state into districts, in pursuance of the provisions of the constitution

    Act 70 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

79. Act to erect part of Northumberland county into a separate county, to be called Union - amend - courts of Union to be held at New Berlin

    Act 71 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

80. Act establishing an Academy in Lewistown, in the county of Mifflin

    Act 72 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

81. Act to authorize the governor to incorporate a company for the purpose of erecting a bridge over the river Susquehanna, opposite the borough of Sunbury, in the county of Northumberland

    Act 73 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

82. Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Steam Boat Company

    Act 74 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

83. Act for the relief of Jacob Gitt

    Act 75 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

84. Act for erecting part of the counties of Mifflin, Northumberland, Lycoming and Huntingdon into a separate county - amend - trustees of Centre county to make settlement; commissioners contracts

    Act 76 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

85. Act authorizing the executors named in the last will and testament of William Hoge, deceased, and the administrators of Samuel Miller, late of Washington county, deceased, to complete the titles to certain lots of land

    Act 77 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

86. Act to authorize the governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the river Schuylkill, opposite the borough of Pottstown, in the county of Montgomery

    Act 78 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

87. Act to extend the boundaries of Lycoming county

    Act 79 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

88. Act to enable the governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road, by the best and nearest route from the west end of the borough of York to the borough of Gettysburg, in the county of Adams

    Act 80 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

89. Act to authorize William Hunter, of Butler county, to convey lands

    Act 81 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

90. Act to revive an act authorizing the governor to appoint commissioners to view and examine the river Monongahela, from the borough of Pittsburg to the southern boundary of the state, for purposes therein mentioned

    Act 82 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

91. Act for the relief of Henry Dougherty, Thomas Smith, George Mosser and Alexander M'Curdy, old soldiers

    Act 83 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

92. Act to extend the powers of the president, managers and company of the Ridley turnpike road

    Act 84 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

93. Act for the limitation of actions to be brought for the inheritance or possession of real property, or upon penal acts of assembly - amend - limitation extended

    Act 85 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

94. Act authorizing the governor to appoint commissioners for the purpose of laying out a state road, from the middle ferry bridge, near Philadelphia, to the M'Call's ferry bridge over the Susquehanna

    Act 86 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

95. Act to enable the recorder of deeds for the city and county of Philadelphia, to complete the records appertaining to his office

    Act 87 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

96. Act to enable the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road, beginning at the intersection of Vine and Tenth streets, Philadelphia, and thence to Perkiomin bridge, in the county of Montgomery - amend - double toll for carriage of bur

    Act 88 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

97. Act for the relief of Samuel Kearsley, of Cumberland county

    Act 89 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

98. Act authorizing the governor to negociate a loan for paying the militia and volunteers of this state, late in the service of the United States

    Act 90 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

99. Act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road, from the south end of Market street, in the borough of Lebanon, to Cornwall Furnace

    Act 91 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text

100. Act to compel the branch banks within this commonwealth, to receive, in payment, the notes of the banks of which they are severally branches

     Act 92 of 1815 · 1815 · Original text