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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.

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1,705 laws of the 1810s

Constitution of 1790

  1. 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

  2. Act to annul the marriage of Jesse Hopkins and Sarah Hopkins

    Act 13 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  3. Act for the relief of John M'Gill, an old and wounded soldier of the revolutionary war

    Act 14 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  4. Act declaring a part of Marsh creek, in the county of Centre, a public highway

    Act 15 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Act to incorporate the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania - amend - time extended

    Act 19 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Act granting to John M'Gowan a tract of land therein mentioned

    Act 22 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Act for the relief of William Gill, an old soldier

    Act 26 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Act relative to the removal of the seat of justice, in Bucks county - amend - time extended

    Act 32 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. Act for the relief of Charles Capple, and Francis Stockhouse, of Bucks county, soldiers of the revolution

    Act 39 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  29. Act for the relief of Arthur St. Clair

    Act 40 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  30. 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

  31. Act for the relief of George Nagle

    Act 42 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  32. Act granting aid, to erect a bridge across Licking creek in the county of Bedford

    Act 43 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  33. 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

  34. Act for the relief of John Bioren

    Act 45 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  35. Act granting to John Vogan, a certain tract of land therein mentioned

    Act 46 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  36. Act to compensate Cornelius Vanhorn, a Pennsylvania claimant of lands in Luzerne county

    Act 47 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  37. 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

  38. Act for the relief of Charles Bisson and John Colman, old soldiers

    Act 49 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  39. Act vacating certain streets in the district of Southwark, in the county of Philadelphia

    Act 50 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  40. Act to incorporate the Phoenix Insurance company of Philadelphia - amend - time extended

    Act 51 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  41. Act erecting parts of Dauphin and Lancaster counties into a separate county, to be called Lebanon

    Act 52 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  42. 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

  43. Act granting to John Rankin a tract of donation land

    Act 54 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. Act for the relief of disabled, aged, and poor revolutionary officers and soldiers

    Act 60 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  50. Act granting an annuity to John Smith, an old soldier

    Act 61 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  51. Act to incorporate the trustees of Hughesian Free School, in Buckingham township Bucks county

    Act 62 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  52. 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

  53. Act for the relief of Joshua Williams, late a captain in the fourth Pennsylvania regiment

    Act 64 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  54. Act regulating arbitrations - amend - no suit marked for trial to be referred within a certain time

    Act 65 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  55. 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

  56. 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

  57. Act establishing an academy in the borough of Beaver, in the county of Beaver

    Act 68 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  58. 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

  59. 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

  60. Act for the relief of Philip Gleim, a sergeant in the revolutionary war

    Act 71 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  61. 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

  62. Act explanatory of an act erecting part of Northampton county into a separate county

    Act 73 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  63. 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

  64. 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

  65. Act establishing two public schools or academies, in the county of Wayne

    Act 76 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  66. Act directing the state treasurer to refund any monies received from the estate of Thomas Gallagher, deceased

    Act 77 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  67. Act to continue and amend an act to incorporate the Philadelphia Insurance Company

    Act 78 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  68. Act granting to Matthew Knox two tracts of donation land

    Act 79 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  69. Act to erect the town of Orwigsburg, in the county of Schuylkill, into a borough

    Act 80 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  70. 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

  71. Act for the relief of Joseph Hollar

    Act 82 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  72. 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

  73. Act to grant a sum of money to the Bustleton academy, in the county of Philadelphia

    Act 84 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  74. 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

  75. Act for the relief of James Shields, of Indiana county, an old soldier

    Act 86 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  76. Act to confirm the title of Abraham Walker to a certain tract of land in Bedford county

    Act 87 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  77. Act for the relief of Elizabeth Currens, in the county of Chester

    Act 88 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  78. 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

  79. Act confirming the title of John Williams, to certain lands therein mentioned

    Act 90 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  80. Act granting to Jacob Warner, a soldier of the revolutionary war a tract of donation land

    Act 91 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  81. 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

  82. Act to continue and amend an act to incorporate the Union Insurance Company of Philadelphia

    Act 93 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  83. Act granting a tract of donation land, and a gratuity, to Henry Young

    Act 94 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. 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

  87. Act authorizing Thomas Forster to convey a certain tract of land therein mentioned

    Act 98 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  88. 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

  89. Act for the relief of Enoch Morgan, late a pay-master in the revolutionary war

    Act 100 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  90. 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

  91. Act for the further relief of James Purdy

    Act 102 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  92. 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

  93. 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

  94. 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

  95. Act in aid of the Gap and Newport turnpike road

    Act 106 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  96. 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

  97. Act to incorporate the district of Spring Garden

    Act 108 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  98. Act erecting part of Northumberland county into a separate county, to be called Columbia

    Act 109 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  99. Act erecting part of Northumberland county into a separate county, to be called Union

    Act 110 of 1813 · 1813 · Original text

  100. 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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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.