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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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2,121 laws of the 1830s

Constitution of 1790

  1. Resolution relative to erecting a bridge over the river Delaware, at Columbia Glass Manufactory

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  2. Resolution respecting the Tariff

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  3. Resolution relative to the United States Bank

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  4. Resolution relative to Isaac Lynn, passed Jan 24, 1832 - amend - appropriation

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  5. Resolution relative to the Monongahela Bridge

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  6. Resolution relative to the Susquehanna and Delaware Rail-Road Company

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  7. Resolution relating to the claim of Arthur Toner

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  8. Resolution relative to soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  9. Resolution relative to the claim of James Murry, for compensation for damages upon the Western division of the Pennsylvania Canal

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  10. Resolution relative to Joseph M'Masters

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  11. Resolution relative to the schute in Snyder's mill dam, on Penn's creek

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  12. Resolution to suspend the daily pay of the members and officers of the legislature during adjournment

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  13. Resolution to pay the reward to Stewart and Hays, for apprehending a fugitive from justice

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  14. Resolution for the relief of Isaac Griffith, late Deputy Marshal of the Eastern district of Pennsylvania

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  15. Resolution relative to the Robbstown Bridge

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  16. Resolution to pay the reward to Willis H. Blayney, for apprehending a fugitive from justice

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  17. Resolution relative to the Commissioners for revising the code of Pennsylvania

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  18. Resolution relative to the record of the appraisers of damages

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  19. Resolution relative to the claims of Robert Beatty, late inspector of the second brigade of the fifteenth division Pennsylvania militia, and of Peter Ehinger, late captain of the fifth company of the one hundred

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  20. Resolution relative to the use of the waters of the river Delaware

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  21. Resolution relative to collectors and lock keepers on the Pennsylvania canal

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  22. Resolution authorizing the Canal Commissioners to change the location of the Philadelphia and Columbia rail-road between the Little and Big Conestoga bridges

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  23. Resolution relative to certain turnpike road companies

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  24. Resolution relative to the record of the appraisers of damages

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  25. Resolution relative to costs of Thomas Ross, Deputy Escheator General, and to the escheated estate of Dinah Henderson

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  26. Resolution authorizing the payment of the funeral expenses of William Musgrave, deceased, late state librarian

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  27. Resolution relative to protective duties and the bank of the United States

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  28. Resolution relative to the claim of Andrew Boggs, for compensation for damages upon the Western division of the Pennsylvania canal

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  29. Resolution in aid of the Mount Pleasant and Pittsburg turnpike road company

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  30. Resolution relative to that part of the Columbia and Philadelphia rail-road which passes through the city of Lancaster

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  31. Resolution relative to the Shippenville and Emlenton, and Shippenville and Foxburg turnpike roads; and to authorize the street commissioners of the borough of Towanda, to open a certain road or street therein

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  32. Resolution relative to the use of the Columbia and Philadelphia rail-road

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  33. Resolution relative to the payment of damages occasioned by the removal of buildings from the line of the Pennsylvania canal and rail-road

    Resolution of 1832 · 1832 · Original text

  34. To enable the Governor to appoint a Notary Public in the borough of Middletown, in Dauphin county

    Act 1 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  35. Further supplement to the act to alter the judiciary system of this commonwealth - amend - circuit court; notice of trial

    Act 2 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  36. Relative to the Abington and Waterford Turnpike

    Act 3 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  37. Declaring that part of Pine Creek, in Potter county, from the Forks above Big Elk Lick, to the Forks above William Ellsworth's on said creek, a public highway

    Act 4 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  38. To annul the marriage contract of James S. Chambers and Rose Ann his wife

    Act 5 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  39. To enable the Governor to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the Choconut creek, on the north line of Susquehanna county, to the Abington and Waterford turnpike

    Act 6 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  40. For the relief of Abraham Shoemaker, and other revolutionary soldiers, and for the relief of Christina Clemence, the widow of a Revolutionary soldier

    Act 7 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  41. For the relief of Adam Weaver, a soldier of the revolutionary war, and Eve Gensimer, the widow of a revolutionary soldier, and for other purposes

    Act 8 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  42. Authorizing the inhabitants of North Sewickly township, Beaver county, to elect three supervisors of the roads in said township

    Act 9 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  43. To enable the Governor to incorporate the Willardsburg turnpike road company

    Act 10 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  44. To enable the Governor to incorporate a company for making a turnpike road from Coudersport, in the county of Potter, to the New York state line, in the direction of Olean Point

    Act 11 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  45. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Mill creek and Mine Hill navigation and rail-road company - amend - rates of toll; privileges extended

    Act 12 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  46. Act to incorporate the Beaver Meadow rail road and coal company - amend - extension of time for completion; governor to appoint engineers; hold additional land; meetings of stockholders; privileges extended

    Act 13 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  47. Act to incorporate the city of Lancaster - amend - borrow money

    Act 14 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  48. For the relief of Ebenezer Kerr, present coroner of Allegheny county and for other purposes

    Act 15 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  49. To revive and continue in force the chartered privileges of the Presbyterian congregation of Waynesburg, in Mifflin county, which have been lost by neglecting to choose trustees

    Act 16 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  50. For the relief of Jacob Bastian and others, soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 17 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  51. Changing the organization and extending the jurisdiction of the court of Common Pleas of the first judicial district

    Act 18 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  52. To incorporate the Belvidere Delaware bridge company

    Act 19 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  53. To enable the Governor to incorporate the Harrisburg water company

    Act 20 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  54. For the relief of Benjamin Jones and George Eyster, soldiers, and Catharine Weikle and Magdalena Kunkle, widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 21 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  55. To continue the improvements of the state by rail-roads and canals

    Act 22 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  56. To preserve the evidence of title to the donation and other lands in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Act 23 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  57. Altering the time of holding the courts in the eighth and fourteenth judicial districts, and for other purposes

    Act 24 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  58. For the relief of John Lehman, John Kitts, Matthias Ritz, Robert Wright and Thomas Abott, soldiers, and Christiana Wilhelm the widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war

    Act 25 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

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

    Act 26 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  60. Act supplementary to the act to incorporate and endow the Pennsylvania Institution for the deaf and dumb - amend - time of making annual report changed

    Act 27 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  61. Act for the recovery of debts and demands not exceeding one hundred dollars before a justice of the peace, and for the election of constables, and for other purposes - amend - disposal of dockets; temporary absence of justices

    Act 28 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  62. Act to incorporate the district of Spring Garden - amend - expense of laying conduit pipes; alterations and macadamization of streets

    Act 29 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  63. Relative to the Western and Eastern state penitentiaries, and to the Philadelphia county prisons

    Act 30 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  64. To enable Thomas Laird, of the borough of Erie to perfect his title to out-lot number four hundred and twelve of the second section of the town of Erie

    Act 31 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  65. For the entire abolition of lotteries

    Act 32 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  66. For the relief of Zachariah Closson, Jacob Booz, Henry Bloss and George Swetzer, soldiers, and Elizabeth Henry, widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war

    Act 33 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  67. To erect Mifflintown, in the county of Juniata, into a borough, and for other purposes

    Act 34 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  68. For the relief of Dennis Carroll and Frederick Bruner, soldiers, and Ann Carothers and Catharine Keasey, widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 35 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  69. For the relief of Jonathan Jacobs and Jacob Erb, soldiers, and Elizabeth Moser, Elizabeth Wheeland, Catharine Sheeley and Mary Parker, the widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 36 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  70. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation and Rail Road Company - amend - neglect to elect officers

    Act 37 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  71. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road commencing where the Schuylkill canal road intersects the Ridge turnpike road, near Robinson's mill, thence along the bed of said road to the Flat Rock bridge - amend - numbe

    Act 38 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  72. For removing strata of rock from the bed of the Wallenpaupack river, in the counties of Pike and Wayne, and for other purposes

    Act 39 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  73. For the relief of George Keller, a soldier, and Louisa Osteer and Catharine Curry, the widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 40 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  74. For the relief of James Kirk, Benjamin Watson, James Curry, Thomas Henderson, Thomas Clark and Adam Lead, soldiers, and Catharine Rehr, the widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war

    Act 41 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  75. Authorizing the inhabitants of Windsor township, York county, and Skippack and Perkiomen township, Montgomery county, to elect additional supervisors, and for other purposes

    Act 42 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  76. Act establishing an Academy in the town of Wellsborough, in the county of Tioga - amend - number and classification of trustees

    Act 43 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  77. Act relative to suits brought by or against corporations - amend - process may be served upon toll gatherer

    Act 44 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  78. To authorize the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, to enjoy a larger income

    Act 45 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  79. For the relief of John Overturff, Thomas Burk and George Cook, soldiers of the revolution

    Act 46 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  80. To change the names of Sebastian Gundt, George Henry Gundt, and Benjamin Gundt, of the county of Northampton, and John George Gundt, of the county of Bucks

    Act 47 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  81. Act for promotion of agriculture and domestic manufactures - amend - extended five years for the counties of Washington and Greene

    Act 48 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  82. Providing for the inspection of Spirituous Liquors in the boroughs of Columbia and Washington, in the county of Lancaster, and in the town of Wrightsville, in the county of York

    Act 49 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  83. To incorporate the "Philadelphia Fire company"

    Act 50 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  84. To incorporate sundry Fire companies

    Act 51 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  85. Relative to Swine running at large in M'Kean county, and for other purposes

    Act 52 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  86. To confer on Horatio Nelson Beaumont, Andrew Jackson Beaumont, Sarah Ann Beaumont, Louisa Beaumont, George Harrison Beaumont, John Addison Beaumont, and William M. Beaumont, the rights and benefits of children born in lawful wedlock

    Act 53 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

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

    Act 54 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  88. To prevent obstructions being placed on turnpike roads

    Act 55 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  89. Act relative to the patenting of lands - amend - extension

    Act 56 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  90. For the relief of Robert Campbell, Frederick Baum, James M'Dowell, Michael Rager, Job Helms, and Samuel Shaw, soldiers, and Justina Weiser, and Margaret Dentsler, the widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war

    Act 57 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  91. Act for laying out a state road from the bridge over the river Delaware at New Hope to the Harrisburg bridge - amend - commissioners appointed; courses and distances; powers of commissioners; state roads; draughts of location; width of road

    Act 58 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  92. Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Schuylkill Valley Navigation Company - amend - increase of toll on coal and lumber; time extended for commencing Philadelphia canal

    Act 59 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  93. To facilitate appeals by guardians, from the judgements of justices of the peace, and from awards of arbitrators, and for other purposes

    Act 60 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  94. Act to continue the improvements of the state by rail roads and canals - amend - appropriations; construction of towing path; connexion of Lycoming line of canal with Bald Eagle creek; borrow money

    Act 61 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  95. To incorporate the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Bank of Pittsburg

    Act 62 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  96. To authorize the Prothonotaries of the several Courts of Common Pleas of this commonwealth to take security, and discharge insolvent debtors from arrest, and for other purposes

    Act 63 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  97. Declaring Big Sugar Creek, from Goodwin's mill, in Venango county, to Proper's Forks, in Crawford county, and the north fork of Sandy Lick creek, in the county of Jefferson, from the mouth thereof to Ridgway, in said county, public highways

    Act 64 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  98. To authorize the surviving executors of the will of Henry Drinker, deceased, to sell certain lands therein mentioned, and for other purposes

    Act 65 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  99. Appointing Commissioners to settle accounts of William Hawley, a contractor for the erection of the Chester county Poor House

    Act 66 of 1833 · 1833 · Original text

  100. Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company for erecting a bridge over the river Susquehanna, at the borough of Towanda, the seat of justice in the county of Bradford - amend - state subscription; price of shares reduced

    Act 67 of 1833 · 1833 · 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.