Every law Pennsylvania has passed

2,121 laws of the 1830s

Constitution of 1790

1. To authorize a temporary loan for the use of the Commonwealth

   Act 7 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

2. Act incorporating the borough of Womelsdorf in the county of Berks - amend - borough assessors; Heidelburg township disconnected

   Act 8 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

3. Act to provide for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor, in the county of Schuylkill - amend - justices to issue orders without fee; constable's pay for executing an order

   Act 9 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

4. Authorizing the executors of the last will and testament of Amos Darlington deceased, to sell and convey certain real estate

   Act 10 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

5. Act to incorporate Haverford School Association - amend - capital stock; power to fill vacancies

   Act 11 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

6. To change the time of appointing the Canal Commissioners

   Act 12 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

7. Act enabling the Governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the state line, near the town of Emmittsburg in the state of Maryland - amend - time of completion extended

   Act 14 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

8. Relative to certain parts of the estate of Elizabeth Powel, deceased

   Act 15 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

9. Act to incorporate the Cumberland Valley railroad company - amend - build a bridge and connect the railroad with Pennsylvania canal; rate of toll; stock may be increased; trade and travel between Chambersburg and Philadelphia

   Act 16 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

10. For the relief of William Bladen

    Act 17 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

11. Act authorizing a review of the State road from the town of Indiana, in Indiana county, to Pittsburg - amend - commissioners appointed; duties of commissioners; draft of road

    Act 18 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

12. For the relief of Adam Schneider and others, soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 19 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

13. For the relief of sundry soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 20 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

14. For the relief of Simon Link and others, soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 21 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

15. To repeal the state tax on real and personal property, and to continue and extend the improvements of the state by railroads and canals, and to charter a state bank, to be called the United States Bank

    Act 22 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

16. To change the location of that part of the Columbia, Chiques and Marietta road, which passes through the land of Elizabeth, Mary and Susan Bethel, in the county of Lancaster

    Act 23 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

17. Act making appropriation for certain internal improvements - amend - governor to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer; certificates of shares of stock

    Act 24 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

18. Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, and other purposes - amend - company empowered to receive moneys and property in trust; interest allowed; corporation liable for losses; how affairs investigated

    Act 25 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

19. To authorize William Williamson of the borough of West Chester, trustee of the children of Taylor Seal, to sell and dispose of certain personal property left under the will of William Seal, M.D. deceased

    Act 26 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

20. To incorporate the Exchange Bank of Pittsburg

    Act 27 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

21. To incorporate "The president and managers of the Kensington and Oxford turnpike road company"

    Act 28 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

22. Act to enable John Christ to exchange certain real estate, and for other purposes - amend - exchange real estate; time extended

    Act 29 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

23. To incorporate the Franklin bank of Washington

    Act 30 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

24. Providing for the trial of certain causes depending in the Court of Common Pleas of York county

    Act 31 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

25. For the relief of James Robb and others

    Act 32 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

26. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Philadelphia Steam Tow Boat Company - amend - capital stock; duties of the board of directors

    Act 33 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

27. Act to establish the District court for the city and county of Philadelphia - amend - no copy of record; judgments by default; powers of the court in bank and district court; costs and fees; public notice; associate judge to be appointed by the governor

    Act 34 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

28. Authorizing the payment of the temporary loan, made under the act of April 15, 1835

    Act 35 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

29. For the relief of Robert Boyd, and other soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 36 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

30. To authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Allegheny river, from Mechanic's street in the borough of the Northern Liberties of Pittsburg, in Allegheny county

    Act 37 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

31. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Philadelphia and Delaware county, and Southwark railroad companies - amend - capital stock; borrow money; subscriptions; no bridge to be built below Fairmount; name changed

    Act 38 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

32. Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Warren and Pine Grove Railroad Company

    Act 39 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

33. Regulating election districts, and for other purposes

    Act 40 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

34. To charter the Girard Life Insurance, Annuity and Trust Company of Philadelphia

    Act 41 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

35. Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Warren and Franklin Turnpike Road Company

    Act 42 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

36. To incorporate the Plymouth Rail Road Company

    Act 43 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

37. To incorporate the Honesdale Bank of Wayne county

    Act 44 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

38. Vesting in the Trustees of Washington College a certain escheated estate, and for the purpose of vesting a certain estate, late of Peter Deardorf, deceased, in the mother and half brothers and sisters of the said Peter Deardorf, deceased

    Act 45 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

39. To incorporate the Summit Coal Company

    Act 46 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

40. To incorporate the Hazleton Coal Company

    Act 47 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

41. Act to incorporate the Girard Bank in the city of Philadelphia - amend - charter extended and continued; capital stock increased

    Act 48 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

42. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Northampton Water Company - amend - steam power; hydrants; borrow money; authority to enter lands; cisterns and reservoirs; ascertaining damages

    Act 49 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

43. Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate the Susquehanna Canal Company - amend - canal to connect with Pennsylvania canal; rates of toll; right of purchase; subscribers not liable; outlet lock near Havredegrace

    Act 50 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

44. Relative to limited partnerships

    Act 51 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

45. To incorporate the Wrightsville and Gettysburg Railroad Company

    Act 52 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

46. Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Bristol and Newtown Railroad Company

    Act 53 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

47. Making appropriations to the Eastern and Western Penitentiaries and for other purposes

    Act 55 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

48. To incorporate the New Hope, Doylestown and Norristown Railroad Company

    Act 56 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

49. To incorporate a company to build a bridge over the Big Beaver creek, at Fallston, in Beaver county

    Act 57 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

50. To authorize the sale of a certain messuage and lot of ground situate in the city of Philadelphia

    Act 58 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

51. To incorporate the Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal Land company, and a supplement to the act to incorporate the Philipsburg and Juniata Railroad company, passed March 10, 1830

    Act 59 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

52. To extend the charter of the Delaware Coal company

    Act 60 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

53. For the conveyance of certain Real Estate, and for other purposes

    Act 61 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

54. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Lizard creek, Lehigh and Loyalhannah Bridge company, and for other purposes - amend - president, treasurer and secretary

    Act 62 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

55. Authorizing the opening and continuing of Perry and other streets in the borough of Birmingham, Allegheny county, on certain conditions

    Act 63 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

56. For the relief of George Long, and other soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 64 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

57. Act to incorporate the Bucks county Contributionship for insuring houses and other buildings from loss by fire - amend - charter of Philadelphia Fire and Inland Navigation company; directors chosen

    Act 65 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

58. Act to enable the Governor to incorporate the Harrisburg Water company - amend - route of the canal; dam at Brushy Rock; annual reports to auditor general; capital stock increased

    Act 66 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

59. Act to promote the culture of silk - amend - capital stock increased

    Act 67 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

60. Declaring Tidyiute, Hare's and coffee creeks, in Warren county, public highways, and relative to the erection of dams on the headwaters of the Lehigh, above the falls at Stodartsville

    Act 68 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

61. Authorizing the removal of a certain action of ejectment, brought by Anthony F. Miller, against Samuel Brooke, John Drehr, James Cresson, and others, which is now pending in the court of Schuylkill county, to an adjacent county for trial

    Act 69 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

62. Providing for the call of a Convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the State, to be submitted to the people thereof for their ratification or rejection

    Act 70 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

63. To enable the Governor to incorporate The Water Works company of the Northern Liberties of Pittsburg

    Act 71 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

64. Act to prohibit in courts of justice the reading or quoting of British precedents, subsequent to July 4, 1776 - repeal

    Act 72 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

65. To provide for a Geological and Mineralogical survey of the State

    Act 73 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

66. To authorize the trustees of Eliza Macferran and Amanda Malvina Baker, to sell and convey certain real estate, and for other purposes

    Act 74 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

67. Act to incorporate the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad company - amend - capital stock increased; when locomotive engines may be used; single or double tracks may be laid; annual meeting and election; oil and coal; rate of charge for use of motive

    Act 75 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

68. Act to provide for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor in the county of Washington and an act to incorporate the Monongahela Manual Labour Academy - amend - fines; powers and duties of overseers conferred on the treasurer;

    Act 76 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

69. To incorporate the Chester and Delaware county Railroad company

    Act 77 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

70. Relating to the election of township officers in the county of Crawford, and for other purposes

    Act 78 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

71. The Insurance company of the state of Pennsylvania - amend - investments of capital stock

    Act 79 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

72. Act to incorporate the Delaware county Insurance company - amend - notice of elections

    Act 80 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

73. Act to authorize the sale and conveyance of certain real estate, and for other purposes - amend - estate of Mary and Phoebe Chaderton; Summit coal company authorized to hold lands

    Act 81 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

74. Act authorizing the laying out of a State Road from Shippenville in Venango county, to Ridgeway in Jefferson county - repeal - section 9

    Act 82 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

75. Act to establish a general system of Education by Common Schools - amend - relative to the borough of Indiana; school money assessed

    Act 83 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

76. Supplement to the Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate a company to extend the West Chester railroad into and along the streets of the borough, and An act to incorporate the Phoenixville and Chester Springs railroad company, and supplementary to th

    Act 84 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

77. To authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to make a lock navigation on the river Monongahela

    Act 85 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

78. To incorporate the Philadelphia Loan company, and for other purposes

    Act 86 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

79. Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Willardsburg and Jersey Shore Railroad company

    Act 87 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

80. To incorporate the Marshall College at Mercersburg, and to incorporate the Haddington College in the county of Philadelphia

    Act 88 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

81. Act relating to county rates and levies, and township rates and levies - amend - lists of taxables and property; compensation of assessors; limited to Philadelphia; duties of commissioners; defaulting tax payers

    Act 89 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

82. For the relief of Thomas Russel, and other soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war, and an act supplementary to an act regulating tin and clock pedlars

    Act 90 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

83. Incorporating the Mechanics' and Tradesmen's Loan Company of the State of Pennsylvania

    Act 91 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

84. Authorizing Michael Weimer to constitute as attorney Ingham Wood, son of Peter Wood, late of the city of Philadelphia, deceased, to make sale of the interest and title of Mary Weimer, wife of Michael Weimer, of the city of Lancaster, of and in certain lan

    Act 92 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

85. Relative to the appointment of High constable in the borough of Lewistown, Mifflin county, and taxing Dogs in said borough, and for other purposes

    Act 93 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

86. For dividing the incorporated district of Southwark, in the county of Philadelphia, into five wards, and for other purposes

    Act 94 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

87. Authorizing the Governor to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the borough of Birmingham, in St. Clair township, Allegheny county, to a point at or near the mill of Samuel Hamilton, in Mifflin township, in said county

    Act 95 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

88. Declaring the streets in the town of Mifflinburg, in Columbia county, public highways, and relating to Duquesne way, Pittsburg, Gas works, and for other purposes

    Act 96 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

89. Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Somerset and Shanksville turnpike company

    Act 97 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

90. Act to incorporate the Norristown Insurance company, of Montgomery county, and relative to the Norristown Library company, in Montgomery county - amend - enable the commissioners of Dauphin county to sell the Lancasterian school house in said county

    Act 98 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

91. Act to incorporate the Norristown Insurance company, of Montgomery county, and relative to the Norristown Library company, in Montgomery county - amend - enable the commissioners of Dauphin county to sell the Lancasterian school house in said county

    Act 98 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

92. Relative to the borough of Pottsville

    Act 99 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

93. Act to incorporate and endow the Pennsylvania Institution for the instruction of the Blind - amend - Governor to draw warrant; enumeration of the blind

    Act 100 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

94. To increase the salaries of the President Judge of the fifth Judicial District, and of the Judge of the District Court of the county of Allegheny

    Act 101 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

95. For the relief of Jacob Wise and others, soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 102 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

96. Act directing the sale of certain town lots in the town of Beaver, and other lands adjacent thereto - amend - commissioner to pay balance to supply borough with water; commissioner to collect balances; Episcopal church of Morgantown

    Act 103 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

97. Act relating to Inspections - amend - corn meal; Susquehanna and Delaware flour; relative to foreign produce

    Act 104 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

98. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Bald Eagle and Spring creek Navigation company, and to authorize the Canal Commissioners to construct a canal round the abutments of the bridge at Bairdstown - amend - Bald Eagle & Spring creek Navigation co

    Act 105 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

99. Act to authorize the Sandy and Beaver Canal company to extend a canal into Pennsylvania - amend - outlet locks into Ohio; time of commencing and completing canal; borrow money; waters of the Big Beaver not to be taken without consent

    Act 106 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text

100. Authorizing Jonas Preston, of the city of Philadelphia, to erect a bridge over the Susquehanna, at or near M'Call's Ferry

     Act 107 of 1836 · 1836 · Original text