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Every law Pennsylvania has passed
55,382 acts of the General Assembly, from William Penn’s first assembly in 1682 to 2026. Until 1874 much of the Assembly’s work was “special” legislation for a single person, company or town: a divorce, a road, a tavern license. That year’s constitution barred local and special laws on most subjects, and the yearly count fell; lately it is about 150.
Not yet complete · The state has not yet digitized its session laws act by act for most years between 1851 and 1949. We filled what we could from scans of the printed volumes: every year from 1851 to 1875 and most sessions from 1877 to 1907. A computer read those titles, so they can contain misspellings, and a few acts in each year were missed. Most years from 1909 to 1949 are still thin (marked below). Every other year is complete, from 1682 through 1850 and from 1950 to today.
1,705 laws of the 1810s
Constitution of 1790
Act to enable the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the Spring House tavern, in Montgomery county, and thence to the borough of Northampton, in the county of Lehigh, and to the town of Bethlehem, in the county of
Act 12 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to annul the marriage of Jesse Hopkins and Sarah Hopkins
Act 13 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of John M'Gill, an old and wounded soldier of the revolutionary war
Act 14 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act declaring a part of Marsh creek, in the county of Centre, a public highway
Act 15 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the narrows at Big Eddey by Bethany, to the intersection of the Milford and Owago turnpike, with the Clifford and Wilkesbarre turnpike, in Luzerne county
Act 16 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company, to make an artificial road from the Centre turnpike road, near the Bear Gap, to the north-east branch of Susquehanna, at end of the Blue Hill, near Danville, in the county of Northumberland - enactmen
Act 17 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act securing to mechanics and others, payment for their labour and materials in erecting any house or other building, within the city and county of Philadelphia, to the borough of Beaver in the county of Beaver - amend - extended to the borough of Beaver
Act 18 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to incorporate the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania - amend - time extended
Act 19 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to enable the executors of William Ball, deceased, to release certain lots from the payment of rents charge
Act 20 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act allowing an additional compensation to the commissioners appointed to view and ascertain the route for the turnpike road, from Harrisburg to Pittsburg
Act 21 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting to John M'Gowan a tract of land therein mentioned
Act 22 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act enabling William Sharpless, one of a committee appointed by the court of common pleas, of Chester county, to sell and convey a part of the real estate of William Smith, a lunatic
Act 23 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to authorize the governor to incorporate a company for erecting a permanent bridge over the river Schuylkill, at or near Pawling's ford, in the counties of Montgomery and Chester - amend - rates of tolls; exempt from toll
Act 24 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act incorporate the subscribers to the Insurance Company of North America - amend - funds vested; directors to be chosen; charter extended until 1835
Act 25 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of William Gill, an old soldier
Act 26 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act establishing an academy in the town of Franklin, in Venango county, and granting a sum of money thereto
Act 27 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to enable the governor to incorporate a company, to make an artificial road, from the Anderson's ferry, Waterford and New Haven turnpike road, along Elbow lane or Pleasant alley, past Henry Shares' mill; thence through Christian Leib's lane, to the no
Act 28 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for raising by way of lottery, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be applied to the defraying the expenses of paving the streets in the borough of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster - amend - governor authorized to supply vacancies; sc
Act 29 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to vest certain lands therein mentioned, granted to the ministers, trustees, elders, and deacons of the German Reformed congregation, in the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, in the ministers, trustees, elders, and deacons of the Ger
Act 30 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to enable William M'Ewen, and David Watson, administrators of John Watson, deceased, to convey certain real estate therein mentioned
Act 31 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act relative to the removal of the seat of justice, in Bucks county - amend - time extended
Act 32 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for erecting part of the counties of Berks and Northampton, into a separate county - amend - Sherriff of Schuylkill county authorized to receive prisoners confined in Berks county
Act 33 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act making an appropriation for the employment of an additional clerk in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth
Act 34 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act enabling a committee appointed by the court of common pleas of Westmoreland county, to sell and convey the real estate of William Guthrie, a lunatic
Act 35 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to enable Margaret Allen to hold certain real estate by her purchased in the county of Philadelphia
Act 36 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to validate and confirm the official acts of John Christy, late a justice of the peace in Mercer county, and of George Fowler and Alexander M'Dowell, justices of the peace of Venango county
Act 37 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to alter part of a state road laid out from the town of Butler to the town of Mercer
Act 38 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of Charles Capple, and Francis Stockhouse, of Bucks county, soldiers of the revolution
Act 39 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of Arthur St. Clair
Act 40 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to alter the time of holding several of the courts of quarter sessions and common pleas, in the third judicial district or circuit
Act 41 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of George Nagle
Act 42 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting aid, to erect a bridge across Licking creek in the county of Bedford
Act 43 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act directing the sales of certain town-lots in the town of Beaver, and other land adjacent thereto - amend - time extended
Act 44 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of John Bioren
Act 45 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting to John Vogan, a certain tract of land therein mentioned
Act 46 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to compensate Cornelius Vanhorn, a Pennsylvania claimant of lands in Luzerne county
Act 47 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to enable the accountant officers to adjust and settle the accounts of services and expenditures in relation to the militia, called into the services of the United States and of this state
Act 48 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of Charles Bisson and John Colman, old soldiers
Act 49 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act vacating certain streets in the district of Southwark, in the county of Philadelphia
Act 50 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to incorporate the Phoenix Insurance company of Philadelphia - amend - time extended
Act 51 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act erecting parts of Dauphin and Lancaster counties into a separate county, to be called Lebanon
Act 52 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for offering compensation to the Pennsylvania claimants, of certain lands in the seventeen townships in the county of Luzerne, and for other purposes therein mentioned - amend - part of a certain act suspended
Act 53 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting to John Rankin a tract of donation land
Act 54 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to incorporate "The Society of Artists of the United States," by the name of the Columbian Society of Artists
Act 55 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting certain privileges to the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of Philadelphia, in relation to the highways, streets, and roads of Penn township, in the county of Philadelphia
Act 56 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act authorizing Andrew Bozorth, and doctor Phineas Jenks, executors of the last will and testament of Hannah Dyer, deceased, to sell and convey a certain tract of land therein mentioned
Act 57 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to authorize the governor to appoint commissioners to lay out certain roads, therein mentioned, and for other purposes
Act 58 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of insolvent debtors, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, and their creditors - amend - in part revived
Act 59 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of disabled, aged, and poor revolutionary officers and soldiers
Act 60 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting an annuity to John Smith, an old soldier
Act 61 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to incorporate the trustees of Hughesian Free School, in Buckingham township Bucks county
Act 62 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act enabling Ralph Ewart and Archibald Ewart, of Greene county, aliens, to convey a certain tract of land therein mentioned, to George Reynolds
Act 63 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of Joshua Williams, late a captain in the fourth Pennsylvania regiment
Act 64 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act regulating arbitrations - amend - no suit marked for trial to be referred within a certain time
Act 65 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
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
Act 66 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to enable Jonathan Bowen and Thomas Blackburn, executors of Thomas Bowen, deceased, to sell and convey certain tracts of land therein mentioned
Act 67 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act establishing an academy in the borough of Beaver, in the county of Beaver
Act 68 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to authorize the guardians of Phebe Wadhams and Lydia Wadhams, minors, and heirs of Moses Wadhams, late of Luzerne county, deceased, to convey certain land
Act 69 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to grant compensation for extra services, to the militia of this commonwealth now in service, under the command of General William Henry Harrison
Act 70 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of Philip Gleim, a sergeant in the revolutionary war
Act 71 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting a tract of donation land to the legal heirs of Francis Miller, deceased, a sergeant in the Pennsylvania line
Act 72 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act explanatory of an act erecting part of Northampton county into a separate county
Act 73 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act vesting in the guardians and overseers of the poor for the city and county of Philadelphia, a certain burial ground on the west side of Schuylkill near the upper ferry, for the use of the poor of said county
Act 74 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to enable the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the town of Manheim to the town of Richland, to meet New Haven street, at the point where the same intersects the Lancaster and Middletown turnpike in the county of
Act 75 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act establishing two public schools or academies, in the county of Wayne
Act 76 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act directing the state treasurer to refund any monies received from the estate of Thomas Gallagher, deceased
Act 77 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to continue and amend an act to incorporate the Philadelphia Insurance Company
Act 78 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting to Matthew Knox two tracts of donation land
Act 79 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to erect the town of Orwigsburg, in the county of Schuylkill, into a borough
Act 80 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to organize for judicial purposes, the counties of Bradford, Tioga and Susquehanna, and for other purposes - amend - suits affected; duties of return judges of election; commissioners to appoint assistant assessors; sheriff and jail keeper; selecting
Act 81 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of Joseph Hollar
Act 82 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to confer on James Fleming, the younger, the rights and benefits of a child born in lawful wedlock
Act 83 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to grant a sum of money to the Bustleton academy, in the county of Philadelphia
Act 84 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act authorizing Andrew Swearingen, guardian of Elizabeth Taylor, a minor, to sell a lot of ground therein mentioned
Act 85 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of James Shields, of Indiana county, an old soldier
Act 86 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to confirm the title of Abraham Walker to a certain tract of land in Bedford county
Act 87 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of Elizabeth Currens, in the county of Chester
Act 88 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act enabling a committee appointed by the court of common pleas, of Westmoreland county, to sell and convey the real estate of Catharine Waldhaur, a lunatic
Act 89 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act confirming the title of John Williams, to certain lands therein mentioned
Act 90 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting to Jacob Warner, a soldier of the revolutionary war a tract of donation land
Act 91 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for incorporating the society known by the name and style of 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 for the b
Act 92 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to continue and amend an act to incorporate the Union Insurance Company of Philadelphia
Act 93 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting a tract of donation land, and a gratuity, to Henry Young
Act 94 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act authorizing the governor to appoint commissioners for the purpose of laying out a road from the borough of West Chester, in Chester County, to M'Call's ferry on the Susquehanna
Act 95 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to enable Alexander Mack, guardian of and for minor children of Agness Mack, deceased, to sell and convey two certain tracts of land to the purchaser thereof
Act 96 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to lay a tax on dogs in certain counties, and for other purposes - amend - tax collected on dogs to be given to overseers of the poor
Act 97 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act authorizing Thomas Forster to convey a certain tract of land therein mentioned
Act 98 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act authorizing the governor of this commonwealth to subscribe to a loan opened by the government of the United States
Act 99 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the relief of Enoch Morgan, late a pay-master in the revolutionary war
Act 100 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act granting a tract of donation land to the trustees of Butler academy, in the county of Butler
Act 101 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act for the further relief of James Purdy
Act 102 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act authorizing the administrators of the estate of Casper Wight, to convey a tract of land in Antis township, Huntingdon county
Act 103 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act enabling the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road, beginning at or near John Guthrie's, on the Downingstown, Ephrata and Harrisburgh turnpike road
Act 104 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act incorporating a company for making a turnpike road from Middletown to Harrisburg - amend - commissioners appointed; time limited for the completion of a turnpike road
Act 105 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act in aid of the Gap and Newport turnpike road
Act 106 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company, to make an artificial road from the town of Manchester, in the county of York, to intersect the York, Conewago, and Canal turnpike road, between the fifth and seventh mile stones
Act 107 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act to incorporate the district of Spring Garden
Act 108 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act erecting part of Northumberland county into a separate county, to be called Columbia
Act 109 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act erecting part of Northumberland county into a separate county, to be called Union
Act 110 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
Act confirming the title of a tract of land in Chester county to Tacy Freeman
Act 111 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text
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Constitution of 18741874–1967
Constitution of 17761776–1789
- 1780s 567
1682–1801: the Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania. 1802–1974: the Pamphlet Laws (Laws of the General Assembly). Both from the scans published by the Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau, which link to each original page. 1975 onward: the General Assembly’s own record of legislation enacted, which adds approval dates and bill numbers. Years the Bureau hasn’t indexed act by act come from the annual Laws of the General Assembly as scanned by the Internet Archive and Google Books: we split each volume into acts by their approval lines, and each one links to its scanned page. Before 1975 each year’s appropriation acts were scanned as one bundle, so they aren’t listed one by one. Proposed constitutional amendments, vetoed bills and reorganization plans are left out. Subject lines are the Bureau’s and the General Assembly’s, not the laws’ full titles.