Every law Pennsylvania has passed

3,241 laws of the 1840s

Constitution of 1838

1. Resolution relative to the Navigation of the Ohio River

   Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

2. Resolution to prevent Collectors and other public agents from speculating with the public funds in notes of May 4, 1841

   Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

3. Resolution authorizing the State Treasurer to pay interest to certain Loan holders

   Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

4. Resolution relative to the Apportionment Bill

   Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

5. Resolution authorizing the Commissioners of the county of Philadelphia to borrow money

   Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

6. Resolution relative to witnesses before either branch of the Legislature

   Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

7. Resolution to prevent a further subscription by the Banks to the loan authorized by the act of May 4, 1841, and to provide for the redemption in gold and silver coin of the relief notes

   Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

8. Resolution relative to the Courts of Common Pleas of Berks county, and for other purposes

   Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

9. Resolution relative to the Distribution of the Colonial Records, and for other purposes

   Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

10. Resolution repealing the proviso in the first section of the act to abolish Imprisonment for Debt, and to punish Fraudulent Debtors

    Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

11. Resolution relative to the payment of Militia expenses

    Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

12. Resolution to authorize the State Treasurer to pay the amounts due the Pennsylvania Institution, for the Instruction of the Blind, and the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb

    Resolution of 1842 · 1842 · Original text

13. Law increasing the salaries of Judges - repeal

    Act 1 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

14. To regulate the Public Printing and Binding, and for other purposes

    Act 2 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

15. To change the name of John Young, of Westmoreland county, to John Young Forrester

    Act 3 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

16. To authorize the Governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from Butler to New Castle

    Act 4 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

17. To abolish the Court of General Sessions of the city and county of Philadelphia, and for other purposes

    Act 5 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

18. Act incorporating the Bear Mountain Railroad Company - amend - branch roads authorized

    Act 6 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

19. Act to incorporate the Asbury Beneficial Society of the city and county of Philadelphia - amend - charter extended

    Act 7 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

20. To incorporate the Independent Mutual Fire Insurance company of Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties

    Act 8 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

21. Act to incorporate the city of Lancaster - amend - election of mayor; duty of recorder

    Act 9 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

22. Act erecting a new county out of the northern part of Luzerne county, to be called 'Wyoming' - amend - appeals within limits of Wyoming county; commissions of just peace in Wyoming county made valid; transfer of suits; testatum executions; levy tax to ere

    Act 10 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

23. To change the name of Lloyd Wharton, of the county of Philadelphia

    Act 11 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

24. To authorize the citizens of Springhill, George and German townships, in the county of Fayette, to determine by ballot whether there shall be a new township erected out of parts of said townships

    Act 12 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

25. To confer on William Geddes, Mary Jane Dubbs and William A. M'Cool, the benefits of children born in lawful wedlock

    Act 13 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

26. To confer on William Geddes, Mary Jane Dubbs and William A. M'Cool, the benefits of children born in lawful wedlock

    Act 14 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

27. Act to incorporate the village of Clarion, in the county of Clarion, into a borough, and for other purposes - amend - election of borough officers

    Act 15 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

28. Act graduating the duties upon wholesale dealers and retailers of merchandize, and prescribing the mode of issuing licenses and collecting duties - amend - duties of constables

    Act 16 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

29. To incorporate the Goschenhoppen Mutual Fire Insurance company

    Act 17 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

30. To confirm certain deeds executed by William Stambaugh and David Stambaugh, of Perry county

    Act 18 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

31. To incorporate the town of Milesburg, in the county of Centre, into a Borough

    Act 19 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

32. To authorize the Governor to incorporate the Erie Canal company

    Act 20 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

33. To protect the property of the city of Pittsburg, situated without the city limits, and for other purposes

    Act 21 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

34. Regulating election districts

    Act 22 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

35. Authorizing the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county to confirm the sale of certain real estate of Frederick Nauman, an habitual drunkard

    Act 23 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

36. Authorizing the Canal Commissioners to settle the claims of Cummins, Johnston and Corryell

    Act 24 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

37. Authorizing the election of an additional Justice of the Peace in the borough of Greensburg, in the county of Westmoreland, and for other purposes

    Act 25 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

38. To authorize the Overseers of the Poor of the city of Pittsburg to sell certain real estate, and for other purposes

    Act 26 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

39. Act to incorporate the borough of Marietta, in the county of Lancaster - amend - paving curbing; penalty for not repairing streets; swine at large on streets

    Act 27 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

40. To authorize certain trustees to sell and to convey certain real estate

    Act 28 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

41. To incorporate the Line Lexington and Mutual Fire Insurance company of Bucks and Montgomery counties

    Act 29 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

42. To incorporate the Cumberland Valley Mutual Fire Protection company of Dickinson township, Cumberland county

    Act 30 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

43. Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate the Cherry Ridge and East Sterling Turnpike Road company - amend - commissioners; commencement and completion of road; road termination; tolls

    Act 31 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

44. Act to incorporate the American Insurance company of Philadelphia - amend - reduction of capital; meetings

    Act 32 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

45. To incorporate the Society of the Methodist Episcopal church of Berwick, in the county of Columbia, with power to sell certain real estate

    Act 33 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

46. Act erecting Wyoming county - amend - assessments; constables; collectors; acts of county commissioners made valid; selecting jurors; duty of prothonotary; deeds from commissioners

    Act 34 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

47. To reduce the capital of the Bank of Penn Township, in the county of Philadelphia

    Act 35 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

48. To vacate that part of the Columbia Avenue, in the county of Philadelphia, as lies between the river Delaware and the west side of Sixth street, from said river, and for other purposes

    Act 36 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

49. Act to provide for the education of the poor in the non-accepting school districts of this commonwealth, and for other purposes - amend - tuition of poor; Bradford county school houses

    Act 37 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

50. Relative to school directors in the first school district, and for other purposes

    Act 38 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

51. Act to settle the estates of John Nicholson and Peter Baynton - repeal

    Act 39 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

52. Authorizing F.B. Hubbard, a justice of the peace, to take testimony and perpetuate evidence of certain records of his office

    Act 40 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

53. Erecting parts of Northampton and Monroe counties, into a separate county, to be called Carbon

    Act 41 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

54. To incorporate the Dauphin County Mutual Insurance company

    Act 42 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

55. Act to encourage the destruction of foxes and wild cats, in the counties of Lebanon, Luzerne, Wayne, Pike, Monroe, Susquehanna and Tioga - repeal

    Act 43 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

56. To incorporate the Washington Mutual Insurance company

    Act 44 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

57. To authorize the trustees of Charles A. Keller and Elizabeth, his wife, to sell and convey certain real estate

    Act 45 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

58. Act to legalize certain proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county, and for other purposes - amend - Samuel Awl deceased tax collector Northumberland county

    Act 46 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

59. Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Allegheny river, at or near Sharpsburg, in Allegheny county - amend - number of shares of stock required prior to the issue of letters patent is reduced

    Act 47 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

60. To incorporate the Mutual Fire Insurance company of Pottstown

    Act 48 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

61. Act to incorporate the Delaware county Insurance company - amend - acceptance by stockholders; affairs of company; dividends certificates; losses and expenses; liability; elections for directors; employment of capital stock

    Act 49 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

62. Act authorizing the election of an additional justice of the peace, in the borough of Greensburg, in the county of Westmoreland - repeal - as authorizes the election of additional Justices of the Peace, on the 31st of March, 1843

    Act 50 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

63. Act to incorporate the Philadelphia Typographical society - amend - in case of sickness or accident members shall receive sum as allowed in by-laws

    Act 51 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

64. To incorporate the Farmers' and Mechanics' Mutual Insurance association of Bucks county

    Act 52 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

65. To incorporate the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Society of Warminster, in Bucks county

    Act 53 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

66. To change the name of Samuel Hannums to Samuel Jackson, and to confer upon him all the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock

    Act 54 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

67. To reduce the capital of the Bank of North America

    Act 55 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

68. To create permanently the office of State Printer

    Act 56 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

69. To divide the State into Congressional districts, for the election of Representatives in the Congress of the United States

    Act 57 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

70. Extending the time for the completion of the Lock Navigation on the river Monongahela, and for other purposes

    Act 58 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

71. Relative to the duties of Borough Constable, in the borough of Ebensburg

    Act 59 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

72. Act to provide additional revenue, and for other purposes - amend - joint stock associations; tax

    Act 60 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

73. Relative to the county of Philadelphia

    Act 61 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

74. Authorizing the Commissioners of Kensington district to make such alterations in the plans heretofore made in the survey and regulations of streets and water courses, and for other purposes

    Act 62 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

75. To preserve and perfect the validity of judgments entered upon the continuance or appearance dockets of the courts

    Act 63 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

76. To authorize the Marion Hose Company, in the county of Philadelphia, to purchase and hold real estate

    Act 64 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

77. To incorporate the Allen and East Pennsboro' Mutual Fire Insurance company of Cumberland county

    Act 65 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

78. 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 Robeson's mill, thence along the bed of said road to the Flat Rock bridge - amend - termi

    Act 66 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

79. To confer upon the Orphans' Court of Lancaster county certain powers in relation to the real estate of John Lindemuth, deceased, and for other purposes

    Act 67 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

80. Authorizing the appointment of an Inspector of sole, rough harness and rough skirting leather, in the city and county of Philadelphia

    Act 68 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

81. To incorporate the York County Mutual Insurance company

    Act 69 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

82. Authorizing the Canal Commissioners to settle the damages alleged by John Evans

    Act 70 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

83. Act to incorporate the Hazleton Coal company - amend - borrow money; record of mortgages

    Act 71 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

84. To authorize the sale and conveyance of certain real estate, and for other purposes

    Act 72 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

85. To incorporate the town of Perrysville, in the county of Juniata, into a borough

    Act 73 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

86. Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Bedford and Cumberland Turnpike Road company

    Act 74 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

87. To incorporate the Kensington Gas company

    Act 75 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

88. Authorizing the laying out of certain state roads, and for other purposes

    Act 76 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

89. Concerning a certain trial for murder in Cambria county

    Act 77 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

90. Act relating to the claims of Samuel S. Barton and others, and for other purposes - amend - construction of former act

    Act 78 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

91. Act relating to the lien of Mechanics' and others on buildings - amend - extended to the counties of Potter and Jefferson

    Act 79 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

92. To incorporate the Frankford Mutual Insurance company of the county of Philadelphia

    Act 80 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

93. To confer on William John Ayres, the benefits of a child born in lawful wedlock

    Act 81 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

94. To confer on Harriet and Eliza Justice, minor children of John and Verrata Justice, the rights and benefits of children born in lawful wedlock, and for other purposes

    Act 82 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

95. Act to authorize the appointment of Commissioners to take the acknowledgement of deeds and instruments of writing under seal - amend - governor to appoint commissioners in each of the territories

    Act 83 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

96. To legalize certain acts of the Commissioners of Warren county

    Act 84 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

97. To change the manner of assessing damage sustained by the owners of lands in the opening of public roads in the counties of Washington, Mercer and Fayette

    Act 85 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

98. To authorize the sale and conveyance of certain real estate, and for other purposes

    Act 86 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

99. To provide for the payment of the Domestic Creditors of this Commonwealth, sale of State stocks, and for other purposes

    Act 87 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text

100. To reduce the capital of the Mechanics' Bank of the city and county of Philadelphia, and for other purposes

     Act 88 of 1843 · 1843 · Original text