Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,705 laws of the 1810s

Constitution of 1790

1. An act authorising the Governor to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from Tunkhannock in Luzerne county, to Wysox in Bradford county

   Act 128 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

2. To repeal "An act to raise by way of lottery a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, to defray the expenses of building a church in the town of Somerset, and for other purposes - repeal

   Act 129 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

3. An act to authorise the Governor to incorporate a company for the purpose of making and erecting a permanent bridge over the river Susquehanna, in the counties of Dauphin and Cumberland, at or near Clark's Ferry, and to revive, continue and amend the act

   Act 130 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

4. A supplement to "An act authorising a loan of money to colonel Rees Hill" - amend - authority of governor

   Act 131 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

5. An act further to suspend the opening of certain streets, lanes and alleys in the district of Southwark

   Act 132 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

6. An act altering the time of holding the courts in the sixth judicial district

   Act 133 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

7. A further supplement to "An act to regulate the trials of contested elections" - amend - petition contesting election of governor

   Act 134 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

8. An act for the relief of the late State Treasurer

   Act 135 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

9. A supplement to "An act to provide for selling the several reserved tracts of land adjoining the towns of Eric, Franklin, Warren and Waterford - amend - time extended; what payment shall be an equivalent for the conditions of settlement

   Act 136 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

10. A supplement to "An act to enable the Governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road from the court house in the borough of Lewistown, to Alexander Reed's in Kishacoquillas valley - amend - extend road; increase capital stock

    Act 137 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

11. A supplement to "An act to incorporate and endow an Academy or Public School in the borough of Reading, in the county of Berks - amend - patent for the land

    Act 138 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

12. An act to annex part of Wayne township in Lycoming county, to Miles township in Centre county

    Act 139 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

13. An act to alter the time of holding the courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas in the county of Dauphin

    Act 140 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

14. An act declaring Bennett's branch of Sinnamahoning in the county of Clearfield, a public highway

    Act 141 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

15. An act to authorise the Governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road, to commence at the most suitable place on the United States' turnpike road, between Brownsville and Frost's tavern, Fayette county, thence through Connelsville, the

    Act 142 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

16. An act relative to the boroughs of Waynesburg and Greensburg

    Act 143 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

17. A further supplement to "An act laying a tax on dogs in certain counties - amend - Bucks county; additional dog tax in Philadelphia; surplus money

    Act 144 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

18. An act authorising the Governor to appoint commissioners to view and lay out certain state roads therein mentioned

    Act 145 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

19. An act extending the benefits of "An act securing to mechanics and others payment for their labor and materials in erecting any house or other building in the city and county of Philadelphia - amend - extending to the mechanics and others of the county

    Act 146 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

20. An act appropriating the monies arising from fines and forfeitures to county purposes

    Act 147 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

21. A supplement to "An act for directing the mode of distributing the donation lands promised to the troops of this commonwealth - amend - duty of deputy surveyors; general drafts of surveys

    Act 148 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

22. A further supplement to "An 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 and re-viewers authorised to administer oaths; mode of appointing super

    Act 149 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

23. An act directing a further distribution of the laws and journals of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth

    Act 150 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

24. A supplement to "An act regulating banks" - amend - name changed to Lancaster Bank

    Act 151 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

25. An act authorising John Daily, guardian of Margaret and Ann Thompson, minor children of Mathew Thompson, deceased, to sell and convey certain real estate

    Act 152 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

26. An act establishing and altering certain Election Districts

    Act 153 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

27. An act to compel assignees to settle their accounts, and for other purposes

    Act 154 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

28. A further supplement to "An act for the regulation of the militia of this commonwealth - amend - commanding officer to enroll persons; exempt fines; penalty for not transmitting lists; mode of proceeding to collect fines incurred; monies in the paymaster'

    Act 155 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

29. An act authorising Patton Ross to erect wharves in the river Susquehanna, opposite the town of Washington, in Lancaster county

    Act 156 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

30. An act to enable Aliens to purchase and hold real estates within this Commonwealth

    Act 157 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

31. An act for the further advancement of money to certain Turnpike Road Companies

    Act 158 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

32. An act for securing the bridge over the Loyal Hanna creek, at New Alexandria

    Act 159 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

33. An act relating to will of Ellis Passmore, deceased

    Act 160 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

34. A supplement to "An act taxing certain offices" - amend - duty of the auditor general; duty of the successor to an officer accountable to the state for surplus fees

    Act 161 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

35. An act for repairing Public Arms

    Act 162 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

36. A supplement to "An act providing for the sale of the estate of Lunatics or persons non compos mentis in certain cases" - amend - power to mortgage

    Act 163 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

37. An act regulating tin pedlars

    Act 164 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

38. An act to authorise the sale of part of the real estate of Roger Davis, Esquire, deceased

    Act 165 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

39. An act relative to supervisors of the roads in the counties of M'Kean and Potter

    Act 166 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

40. An act to extend for a limited time the "Act To extend for a limited time the act providing for the settlement of certain disputed titles to lands north and west of the rivers Ohio and Allegheny and Conawango creek, and also to continue in force for a lim

    Act 167 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

41. An act for the relief of sundry soldiers

    Act 168 of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

42. Resolutions

    Resolution of 1818 · 1818 · Original text

43. An act to vest in George Ely the estate of his mother Esther Ely, late of Delaware county, deceased

    Act 1 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

44. An act vesting in Violet Keys and George Palmer, a certain escheated estate therein mentioned

    Act 2 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

45. A supplement to "An act to erect the town of Berwick, in the counties of Columbia and Luzerne, into a borough" - amend - borough election

    Act 3 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

46. An act dissolving the marriage contract between David Wells and Mary his wife

    Act 4 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

47. An act to incorporate the town of Waynesburg, in the county of Franklin, into a borough, and for other purposes

    Act 5 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

48. An act for the relief of Rosina Price, the widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war

    Act 6 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

49. An act for the relief of Charles Bowman, a soldier of the revolutionary war

    Act 7 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

50. An act to repeal the third section of "An act making further provision for the support of the Board of Warden of the port of Philadelphia - repeal - section 3

    Act 8 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

51. An act authorising the Governor to appoint commissioners to lay out a state road from Waynesburg in Greene county, to intersect the Brownsville and Somerset turnpike road at or near Connellsville in Fayette county

    Act 9 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

52. An act empowering James Campbell and M'Farland Campbell, executors of the last will of James Campbell, deceased, to execute a deed of release

    Act 10 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

53. An act to increase the number of constables in the township of Lower Dublin, in the county of Philadelphia

    Act 11 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

54. An act to provide for the more speedy publication and distribution of the laws of this commonwealth

    Act 12 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

55. An act to erect the town of Shippensburg, in the county of Cumberland, into a borough, and for other purposes therein mentioned

    Act 13 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

56. An act vesting in John Shrum and Adam Baughman, certain real estate in trust for the use of the German Lutheran and Calvinist congregations in Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, and authorising the trustees to sell part of the same

    Act 14 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

57. An act authorising the sale of certain real estates and an investment of the proceeds thereof in some productive fund, for the benefit of Lydia Lorain and her children

    Act 15 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

58. An act authorising James Coulter to execute a certain release on behalf of his minor children

    Act 16 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

59. An act for the relief of Jacob Kreider, a soldier of the revolutionary war

    Act 17 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

60. An act relative to escheated estates

    Act 18 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

61. An act extending the powers of the Gettysburg and Black's tavern turnpike company

    Act 19 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

62. An act authorising the Governor to incorporate the Strasburg and Fannetsburg turnpike road company

    Act 20 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

63. An act for the relief of Elizabeth Carmines

    Act 21 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

64. An act authorising the courts of quarter sessions of Butler and Armstrong counties, to appoint viewers to review part of the state road from the borough of Butler to Kittaning

    Act 22 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

65. An act more effectually to prevent the selling of liquors by less measure than a quart, without license, in the city or county of Philadelphia

    Act 23 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

66. An act to authorise the Governor to appoint Commissioners to lay out a State Road from the town of Kittaning, in a direction to the mouth of Anderson's creek

    Act 24 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

67. A supplement to "An Act regulating banks" - amend - State Treasurer to refuse notes not payable in specie; disqualification to be director or cashier of a bank

    Act 25 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

68. A supplement to "An act providing for the erection of a State Capitol" - amend - powers and duties; commissioners named; contract; appropriation; contingent expenses; present materials how to be disposed

    Act 26 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

69. An act authorising the Governor to incorporate the Beaver Canal Company

    Act 27 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

70. An act authorising the Secretary of the Commonwealth to purchase eight hundred copies of Purdon's Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania

    Act 28 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

71. An act to authorise and require the Auditor General to settle and adjust the accounts of the several brigade inspectors within this commonwealth

    Act 29 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

72. A supplement to "An act to enable the Governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from Jersey Shore, in the county of Lycoming, to Coudersport in the county of Potter" - amend - number of shares reduced; state subscription payable

    Act 30 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

73. An act relating to a lien of this commonwealth on the estate of William Nichols, deceased

    Act 31 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

74. An act to prevent the imprisonment of females for debt

    Act 32 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

75. A supplement to "An act to provide for the erection of a State Penitentiary on the public land adjoining the town of Allegheny opposite Pittsburg, and for other purposes - amend - commissioners to employ a clerk; height of the outer wall and towers of the

    Act 33 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

76. An act to limit the time of appeal in cases of divorce, and of the settlement of the accounts of guardians, executors and administrators

    Act 34 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

77. An act to confirm the title to certain real estate within this commonwealth to Benjamin Shaw, an alien

    Act 35 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

78. An act divorcing James Kite and Eliza his wife from the bonds of matrimony

    Act 36 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

79. An act divorcing Vachel Stephens and Rachel his wife from the bonds of matrimony

    Act 37 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

80. An act incorporating the Western University of Pennsylvania

    Act 38 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

81. An act authorising the guardians of the minor children of William Hutchison, deceased, to execute a conveyance to James Todd

    Act 39 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

82. An act for the relief of Matthias Armbruster of Philadelphia

    Act 40 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

83. An act to vest in Cynthia Bennet and Richard Denny, a certain escheated estate therein mentioned

    Act 41 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

84. An act designating the different kinds of arms to be received from the United States in part of the quota of Pennsylvania

    Act 42 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

85. An act for the relief of the widow and heirs of James Carson, deceased, late recorder of deeds for the city and county of Philadelphia

    Act 43 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

86. An act to incorporate the Conestogoe Manufacturing company of Lancaster

    Act 44 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

87. An act for the relief of lieutenant John Painter, and others

    Act 45 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

88. A supplement to "An act to authorise the officers of the land office to accept returns of surveys and direct patents to issue where an excess of more than ten per cent is returned" - amend - warrants of acceptance; restriction as to certain titles

    Act 46 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

89. An act for the relief of Isaac Rees

    Act 47 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

90. A supplement to "An act for the sale of the undrawn donation land the property of this commonwealth" - amend - patents to issue to settlers on undrawn donation land

    Act 48 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

91. An act relative to habitual drunkards

    Act 49 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

92. An act to enable the executors of Elizabeth Boyes, to sell and convey certain real estate

    Act 50 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

93. An act for the relief of Joshua Williams, an officer of the revolution

    Act 51 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

94. A supplement to "An act authorising the Governor to incorporate two companies for making an artificial road from the city of Pittsburg, through Butler and Mercer to Meadville - amend - Governor to incorporate two companies; commissioners appointed

    Act 52 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

95. An act for the relief of the Anderson Ferry, Waterford and New-Haven turnpike road company

    Act 53 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

96. An act incorporating the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society

    Act 54 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

97. An act authorising the election of a constable in the borough of Pottstown in the county of Montgomery, and an additional constable in each of the townships of Washington and Dunbar in the county of Fayette

    Act 55 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

98. An act for the relief of Alexander Burns, a soldier of the revolutionary war

    Act 56 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

99. An act to annul the marriage of Abraham Armstrong and Maria his wife

    Act 57 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text

100. An act directing the county commissioners to transmit copies of the receipts and expenditures of the counties respectively for the use of the legislature

     Act 58 of 1819 · 1819 · Original text