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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.
2,121 laws of the 1830s
Constitution of 1790
To incorporate the Trustees of the Associate Reformed Congregation of Brush creek, in the county of Westmoreland
Act 169 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Vacating certain streets, lanes and alleys, in Williamsport and in Williamsburg
Act 170 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Authorizing the laying out of a state road from the borough of Lebanon in Lebanon county, to Churchtown, in Lancaster county
Act 171 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the executors of the last will and testament of Joseph Shultz, deceased, to sell certain real estate, and for other purposes
Act 172 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Altering and extending the powers of the corporation of the borough of Bristol
Act 173 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To encourage the destruction of foxes and wild cats in the county of Juniata
Act 174 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To prevent the destruction of Trout in the Big Spring in the county of Cumberland, and for other purposes
Act 175 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the executors of the last will and testament of Jacob Hiestand, deceased, to sell certain real estate
Act 176 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate sundry bridge and turnpike road companies, and for other purposes - amend - time extended
Act 177 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To recharter the Erie Bank
Act 178 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Concerning the Marietta Rail Road, the Armagh and Conemaugh Turnpike Road and the Sunbury Canal
Act 179 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Towanda Bank
Act 180 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Relative to suits brought by and against Canal and Rail Road Companies
Act 181 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To transfer certain State stock
Act 182 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Harrisburg Savings Institution
Act 183 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To regulate the inspection of flour in the boroughs of Harrisburg and Columbia
Act 184 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Appointing Commissioners to run and mark a line dividing the counties of Perry and Juniata
Act 185 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Chemung Bridge Company
Act 186 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the Governor to incorporate a company for making a Turnpike Road from the Bald Eagle Bridge, through Nittany Valley, to the Brush Valley road in Miles township, Centre county
Act 187 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the commissioners of Potter county to borrow money for the use of the said county
Act 188 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
In relation to the electing of directors for the bank of Northumberland and the Wyoming bank at Wilkesbarre
Act 189 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Muddy Branch rail road company
Act 190 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Making an appropriation to the Waynesburg, Green Castle and Mercersburg turnpike road company
Act 191 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Adamsburg School House in Westmoreland county
Act 192 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Authorizing the commissioners of the county of Berks to subscribe stock to a bridge over the river Schuylkill, in Amity township
Act 193 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Fishing creek navigation company
Act 194 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the borough of Johnstown, in Cambria county, to Ligonier, in Westmoreland county
Act 195 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Authorizing the laying out of sundry State Roads
Act 196 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a toll bridge over the river Susquehanna, at the village of Tunkhannock
Act 197 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Lackawanna and Susquehanna Rail Road Company - amend - advertise the time and place of elections and meetings
Act 198 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act to encourage the destruction of Foxes and Wild Cats - amend - extended to the counties of Somerset, Cambria, Butler, Northumberland, Clearfield and Bedford
Act 199 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate the Hydraulic company, of the borough of Berwick - amend - extend capital stock
Act 200 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act establishing an academy in the borough of Beaver, in the county of Beaver - amend - 8 trustees; appointment and duties of treasurer; agreements by former trustees; oaths of office
Act 201 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Mahonoy Navigation Company - amend - time extended; Penns creek navigation co. extended
Act 202 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Manayunk Athenaeum and Library Company
Act 203 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To enable the executors and widow of James Walton to sell and convey certain real estate
Act 204 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Granting to James Beatty a tract of donation land
Act 205 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Authorizing the commissioners of the internal improvement fund to apply certain moneys to the payment of interest
Act 206 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Vesting the right of this Commonwealth to the escheated estate of Diana James, deceased, in Sarah Dexter and Jane Nelson wife of Ralph Nelson
Act 207 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Concerning the boroughs of Hanover, Lewisberry and Marcus Hook
Act 208 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act for the promotion of Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures - amend - extended 7 years; elect 10 directors; county to pay to the society
Act 209 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Firemen's Insurance Company of the city of Pittsburg and vicinity
Act 210 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
For the relief of the heirs of Conrad Weiser, deceased
Act 211 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To enable the owners and possessors of a certain tract of marsh and meadow land therein described, situate in the township of Kingsessing, in the county of Philadelphia, to keep the banks, dams and sluices in repair, and to raise a fund to defray the
Act 212 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
For the relief of sundry Volunteer Companies
Act 213 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act to incorporate the York and Maryland line rail road company - amend - stock reduced; rates of toll; commissioners to give notice
Act 214 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act relative to the eastern and western State penitentiaries, and to the Philadelphia county prisons - amend - more cells to be erected; appropriation; wardens required to receive persons convicted in U.S. courts
Act 215 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Further supplement to an act to incorporate a company to make an artificial road by the best and nearest route from Waterford in the county of Erie to the river Susquehanna - amend - penalty for toll gatherer to demand greater rates and for toll evading
Act 216 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Regulating Election Districts
Act 217 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
For the relief of William Adams and others of the Revolutionary War
Act 218 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Erie Fire and Marine Insurance company of Erie County
Act 219 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Directing the sale of certain town lots in the town of Beaver and other lands adjacent thereto
Act 220 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act to incorporate and endow the academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of Philadelphia - amend - trustees; funds may be applied to support of free schools; quorum; contributors need to approve
Act 221 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the sale of certain real estate, late the property of Jasper Slaymaker, George Denison, James P. McMullen and Penelope Adams, and for other purposes
Act 222 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the borough of Johnstown in Cambria county, to New Alexandria in Westmoreland county
Act 223 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
For the relief Samuel Gibson and William Riddles, late supervisors of Nippenose township, in the county of Lycoming
Act 224 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Erecting the town of Mount Jackson, in the county of Beaver, into a Borough
Act 225 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Authorizing patents to be issued to Catharine Zeigler and Joseph Chapman, and for the sale of certain lands late of Dickinson college, and for other purposes
Act 226 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To alter a certain line between the counties of Mifflin and Huntingdon on the river Juniata
Act 227 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To add five hundred dollars to the contingent fund of the State department
Act 228 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Authorizing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to give bond for the duties on rail iron entitled to draw back
Act 229 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Schuylkill river, at or near Phoenixville, Chester county
Act 230 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Relative to the management of the Philadelphia and Columbia, and Allegheny Portage rail roads
Act 231 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Relating to county rates and levies and township rates and levies
Act 232 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
For the relief of William Bailey, late paymaster of the thirty third regiment of Pennsylvania militia
Act 233 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Extending the bounds of the borough of Erie
Act 234 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
For the relief of Julia Planton and others
Act 235 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
For the relief of sundry soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war
Act 236 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To revive an act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Susquehanna and Lehigh Canal Company
Act 237 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To fix the Standards and Denominations of Measures and Weights in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Act 238 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act to enable the Governor to incorporate the Harrisburg Water Company - amend - boundaries of canal extended
Act 239 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Bloomfield Saving Fund Association
Act 240 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act to improve the Norwegian creek in Schuylkill county - amend - make a canal or slackwater navigation; new subscriptions; time extended; quorum
Act 241 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Monongahela river, at Williamsport, and to establish the Dunstable ferry - amend - John Quigley to make a landing; keep landing and ferry in good repair; fees
Act 242 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To aid the Perrysville bridge company
Act 243 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act to erect the town of Milton in the county of Northumberland, and the town of Butler in the county of Butler, in boroughs - amend - separate election district; elect a judge
Act 244 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To authorize the Canal Commissioners to make a re-estimate of the work done by Jonathan Leslie, in constructing the Aqueduct at Shaffer's Ford, Huntingdon county
Act 245 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act concerning strays - amend - extended to the county of Adams
Act 246 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Relating to counties and townships, and county and township officers
Act 247 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Act for laying out, making and keeping in repair the public roads and highways within this commonwealth and for laying out private roads so far as respects the township of Hopewell in the county of York, and for other purposes - amend - citizens of Hopewe
Act 248 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
To incorporate the Southwark Fire Insurance company, of the county of Philadelphia
Act 249 of 1834 · 1834 · Original text
Resolution relative to that part of the Columbia and Philadelphia rail-road, which passes through the city of Lancaster
Act jr09 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Resolution relative to the Supreme Court
Act jr13 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Resolution relating to the removal of the transfer or stock books of loans in the Auditor General's office to the Bank of Pennsylvania
Act jr18 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Granting relief to John Schucker, a soldier of the revolutionary war, and for other purposes
Act 1 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
For the relief of sundry soldiers, and widows of revolutionary soldiers
Act 2 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
To authorize Adam Reigart, of the city of Lancaster, guardian of Adam Reigart Hopkins, Emily W. Hopkins, and Horace Hopkins, minor children of George R. Hopkins and Ann his wife, late of the said city, to sell and dispose of certain real estate, and rent
Act 3 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Relative to the election of Managers of the Loyalhanna Bridge Company
Act 4 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Extending the time limited in the will of William Work, deceased, for the sale of his real estate
Act 5 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Act for incorporating the Methodist Episcopal church, known by the name of Saint George's church, in the city of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - churches to be separate and independent congregations; may be incorporated
Act 6 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
For the relief of sundry soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war
Act 7 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
To vest certain real estate in the Seventh-day Baptist Monastical society of Snowhill
Act 8 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
To authorize a temporary loan for the use of the Commonwealth
Act 9 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Act extending the time for closing the concerns of the Bank of Washington - amend - time extended
Act 10 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Act to provide for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor in the county of Fayette - amend - duties of treasurer to disburse moneys
Act 11 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Act to incorporate the Chambersburg Insurance Company - repeal - insurances against fire
Act 12 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
To confer on Mary Lavinia Leas the rights and benefits of a child born in lawful wedlock
Act 13 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
To alter the time of holding the Courts in Susquehanna county
Act 14 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
For the relief of sundry soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war
Act 15 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
Act for incorporating certain bridge and turnpike companies, and for other purposes - repeal - as relates to the roads of St. Clair township, in Allegheny county
Act 16 of 1835 · 1835 · Original text
By decade
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.