Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,802 laws of the 1900s

Constitution of 1874

1. To provide for increasing the capital stock and indebtedness of corporations

   Act 1 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

2. To permit the classification by railroad, railway and transportation corporations of their boards of directors or managers

   Act 2 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

3. Increasing the number of courts of common pleas in the county of Philadelphia

   Act 3 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

4. Act to establish and to regulate the affairs of school districts and sub-school districts in cities of the second class, and to repeal all local and special laws inconsistent therewith - repeal

   Act 4 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

5. Making valid certain elections of municipal corporations held under an act to regulate the manner of increasing the indebtedness of municipalities

   Act 5 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

6. Granting consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the United States, for the purchase of a certain farm in the townships of North Middleton and Middlesex, county of Cumberland, to be used for the instruction in agriculture of the pupils of the

   Act 6 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

7. Act authorizing central boards of education in cities of the school class to establish and maintain schools for instruction in the mechanic arts and kindred subjects - amend - extend the benefits and provisions to boroughs and townships of the first class

   Act 7 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

8. Making an appropriation to the Keystone State Commission of the Pan-American Exposition

   Act 8 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

9. Act to provide for the better government of cities of the first class in this Commonwealth - amend - any board in any city of the first class is authorized to set apart any roadway or drive therein, for the use of horses and vehicles at such rate of speed

   Act 10 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

10. Making it unlawful for district attorneys to stand aside jurors in empanelling any jury in the trial of any indictment charging a felony or a misdemeanor in any court of this Commonwealth, and regulating the challenging of jurors by the Commonwealth

    Act 11 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

11. Act providing the erection of the Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans' Industrial School - amend - in certain cases pupils may remain at the Soldiers' Orphan Industrial Schools after attaining the age of 16 years

    Act 12 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

12. Act to provide for the incorporation of institutions of learning with power to confer degrees in art, pure and applied science, philosophy, literature, medicine, law and theology - amend - act shall not impair authority of colleges or universities which h

    Act 13 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

13. Second Class City Law

    Act 14 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

14. Relating to the study and practice of physical culture in the public schools

    Act 15 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

15. Supplement to the Penal Code of 1860 - amend - increasing the penalty for breaking and entering

    Act 16 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

16. Providing that where any court of quarter sessions of the peace or court of oyer and terminer in this Commonwealth has heretofore made or entered any order, sentence, decree or judgment for the payment of any moneys whatsoever, in any matter or thing

    Act 17 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

17. Authorizing the laying out and opening of public roads, which are extensions of streets in cities or boroughs, of equal width with such city or borough street

    Act 18 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

18. Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors, wines, ale and beer in the borough of Monongahela City and Carroll Township, Washington County - repeal - as relates to the borough of Donora in Carroll township

    Act 19 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

19. To admit to the public schools, where there is building capacity, the inmates of orphan asylums and homes for poor and friendless children, upon the payment of a reasonable tuition

    Act 21 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

20. Act to extend the provision of an act for the protection of sheep in certain counties, to the counties of Armstrong and Westmoreland - repeal

    Act 22 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

21. Making an appropriation, providing for extraordinary expenses incurred by the Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools, for the two years ending May 31,1901

    Act 23 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

22. To regulate the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers

    Act 24 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

23. Act authorizing the State Treasurer to refund collateral in heritance tax heretofore paid or that may hereafter be paid in error - amend - extension of the limitation of time within which applications shall be made to certain cases

    Act 25 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

24. To enable city, county, poor, township, ward, school, and borough tax collectors to collect taxes, for the payment of which they have become personally liable, without having collected the same, by expiration of the authority of their term of office or wa

    Act 26 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

25. To enforce the provisions of section four of article seventeen of the Constitution

    Act 27 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

26. Authorizing railroad and other transportation corporations of this State to acquire, hold, dispose of, and guarantee the stock and securities of certain other corporations of this State or elsewhere

    Act 28 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

27. To authorize railroads, constructed to any river forming the boundary between this and any adjoining State, to be built by means of a bridge and its approaches to the middle of such river, and there connect with any railroad of such adjoining State - enac

    Act 29 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

28. Act relating to the election of supervisors in the township of Middletown, county of Susquehanna - repeal

    Act 30 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

29. Supplement to an act to establish an Insurance Department - amend - division of the directors or managers of insurance companies into classes; election of such directors or managers; making lawful and valid such division and classification heretofore made

    Act 31 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

30. Pamphlet Law 556 of June 13, 1836 - amend - relating to private roads

    Act 32 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

31. To punish kidnappers, their aiders, assistors, and abettors

    Act 33 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

32. To validate private sales of real estate of decedents, heretofore made under authority of orphans' courts upon petition of executors or administrators for payment of debts

    Act 34 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

33. Regulating acknowledgments, by married women, of deeds, mortgages, and all other instruments of writing required by law to be acknowledged

    Act 35 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

34. To validate changes heretofore made in the names of corporations by the several courts of common pleas of this Commonwealth

    Act 36 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

35. To regulate the manufacture of flour and meal food products, the employment of adult females and minors therein

    Act 37 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

36. To enable Indians to sue and be sued in the courts of record of this Commonwealth

    Act 38 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

37. Fixing the term of office of notaries public, regulating the appointment, and prescribing certain duties thereof

    Act 39 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

38. Relative to the acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments of writing, taken before George R. Bothwell, a notary public in and for the county of Allegheny

    Act 40 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

39. To establish a separate Orphan's Court in and for the county of Westmoreland

    Act 41 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

40. Authorizing and empowering the owners and lessees of real estate within this Commonwealth to kill hare or rabbits upon their own premises at all seasons of the year

    Act 42 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

41. Act to for the taxation of dogs and the protection of sheep - amend - fund raised by the taxation of dogs be applied, in addition to the loss of sheep, for the loss of other domestic animals bitten by mad dogs

    Act 43 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

42. Relating to criminal prosecutions and civil suits for libel, and repealing the act relating to libel and its punishment

    Act 44 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

43. To provide for the taking of depositions in cases pending before magistrates and justices of the peace

    Act 45 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

44. Further supplement to an act to organize the Middle Coal Field Poor District - repeal - as relates to the returns of election being filed in the office of the clerk of quarter sessions of Carbon county; judges of election meeting at the poor house to coun

    Act 46 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

45. Entitled an act to regulate the bailing of hay and straw, and marking the weight of the bale

    Act 47 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

46. To encourage the preservation of forests by providing for a rebate of certain taxes levied thereon

    Act 48 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

47. Authorizing school boards to grant the use of school houses for lyceum and other literary purposes

    Act 49 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

48. Act for the incorporation and regulation of banks of discount and deposit - amend - what real estate may be held

    Act 50 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

49. To regulate the number of directors in corporations chartered under the laws of this Commonwealth

    Act 51 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

50. Validating all elections held to vote upon the question of increasing the indebtedness of municipalities of this Commonwealth, all bonds issued or to be issued in pursuance to such elections, and the indebtedness represented by such bonds

    Act 52 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

51. Providing for the addition of five per centum of the amount of all taxes for which seated lands are returned, for non-payment of taxes thereto, and for the recovery and payment thereof to the collector of taxes

    Act 53 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

52. Act to provide for the erection of a poorhouse, and for the support of the poor in the several counties of the Commonwealth - amend - relating to the settlement of existing claims and the deposit of the surplus money remaining in the hands of overseers of

    Act 54 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

53. Making it lawful for any municipality, in which a corporation, creating and existing under the laws of this Commonwealth, have constructed and are maintaining, sewers, culverts, conduits, and pipes, with the necessary inlets and appliances, for surface,

    Act 55 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

54. To authorize the several courts of this Commonwealth, in any proceedings at law or in equity in which a conveyance of lands or tenements shall be ordered, and the party who is ordered to execute the same shall neglect or refuse to do so, or die,

    Act 56 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

55. Act relative to costs in suits before magistrates, alderman and justices of the peace, and for the return of the same to the plaintiff in case of appeal by defendant - amend - when the defendant shall give good and sufficient bail absolute for the payment

    Act 57 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

56. Act supplementary and relating to the borough of West Elizabeth, in the county of Allegheny - repeal - section one as requires the borough election to be held at the public school house in said borough

    Act 58 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

57. Act to prohibit the adulteration or coloring of milk or cream by the addition of so called preservatives or coloring matter - amend - adding formaline, formaldehyde, sodium fluoride, and sodium benzoate as adulterating compounds

    Act 59 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

58. Act to amend an act authorizing companies incorporated under the laws of any other State of the United States for the manufacture of any form of iron, steel or glass, to erect and maintain buildings and manufacturing establishments - amend - extending to

    Act 60 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

59. Replevin Law

    Act 61 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

60. Act to prevent the adulteration of, and deception in the sale of, linseed or flaxseed oil

    Act 62 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

61. Act for the taxation of dogs and the protection of sheep - amend - how balance in hands of treasurer at end of the year shall be disposed of

    Act 63 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

62. Act authorizing the school directors or controllers of the several school districts of this Commonwealth to establish and maintain, out of the public school treasury, free kindergartens for children between the ages of 3 and 6 years, residing in their dis

    Act 64 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

63. Act to promote the more certain and equal assessment of taxes in Philadelphia - repeal - section one as relates to the appointment of members of the board of revision of taxes in said county; supplement; section one of further supplement

    Act 65 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

64. To provide for the election of the members of the board of revision of taxes in any county co-extensive in boundary with a city of the first class, and to provide for the filling of vacancies therein

    Act 66 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

65. Requiring non-resident gunners to secure a license before hunting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Act 67 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

66. To regulate the weight of all black blasting powder used, made, or sold in kegs, for use in the coal mines within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and providing for the proper stamping of the kegs containing said powder

    Act 68 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

67. Amending the act prescribing the fees to be paid by applicants for examination by the State Pharmaceutical Examining Board, and regulating the exhibition of their certificate

    Act 70 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

68. To encourage the use of wide tires upon wagons upon the public highways of this Commonwealth

    Act 71 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

69. Act authorizing and regulating the employment of male prisoners of the jails and the work houses of this Commonwealth, and providing a penalty for an escape of prisoners while employed outside of the said jails and work houses - amend - the prison board

    Act 72 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

70. To define and punish the crime of giving or administering drugs, narcotics, or anaesthetic agents to persons, by mixing the same with any food or drink, with felonious intent

    Act 73 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

71. Act to restrain and regulate the sale of vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixture - amend - authorizing bondsmen from any part of the county, or a security, trust or surety company, organized under the laws of this State or any other S

    Act 74 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

72. Act to increase the number of officers of Redbank township, Armstrong county, and make other changes in the officers of said township - repeal

    Act 75 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

73. Act to fix the compensation of the directors of the poor of the county of Cambria - repeal

    Act 76 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

74. To provide for the centralization of township schools, and to provide high schools for townships

    Act 77 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

75. Regulating the sale of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, defining concentrated feeding stuffs, prohibiting their adulteration, providing for the collection of samples

    Act 78 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

76. Regulating the publication of advertisements and notices, required by law to be published in counties of this Commonwealth, in newspapers published in the English language and newspapers published in the German language

    Act 79 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

77. Providing for the vacation of any portion of any main or public road or highway, the permanent improvement whereof has been authorized under an act providing for the permanent improvements of certain public roads or highways in the counties of this

    Act 80 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

78. To protect children, and making it a misdemeanor to place free or trial samples of medicines, dyes, ink, coloring or polishing compounds, in any form, where children can secure the same

    Act 81 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

79. Providing that where any corporation or surety company becomes surety in any bond or other obligation given by any officer or contractor to any borough, city or other municipality, action, suit or other legal proceeding upon said bond or obligation may be

    Act 82 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

80. Supplement to the act regulating boroughs - amend - the opening of sidewalks along lands abutting on turnpike roads, and ascertaining the benefits and damages caused thereby

    Act 83 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

81. Act to provide for the adoption of trade-marks, labels, symbols or private stamps by any incorporated or unincorporated association or union of workingmen - amend - fine and penalty for counterfeiting and wrongful use of trade-mark

    Act 84 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

82. To establish a separate orphan's court in and for the county of Montgomery

    Act 85 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

83. For the better protection of timber lands against fire, and providing for the expenses of the same, and directing what shall be done with the fines collected and costs paid

    Act 86 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

84. To prevent burgesses and councilmen of the several boroughs within this Commonwealth from soliciting or receiving bribes, and to punish any person who may offer to bribe the same

    Act 87 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

85. To provide for the prevention of the spread of disease from the carcasses of animals that die of dangerous or virulent diseases, or are killed while afflicted with such disease; to authorize the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to make regulations - enactm

    Act 88 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

86. Relative to adulteration of natural fruit juice

    Act 89 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

87. Act to restrain and regulate the sale of vinous and spirituous, malt or brewed liquors or any admixture thereof by wholesale - amend - authorizing bondsmen from any part of the county, or a security trust or surety company, organized under the laws

    Act 90 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

88. To validate mortgages, conveyances, and other instruments which have been defectively acknowledged

    Act 91 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

89. To provide for the sale of unserviceable machinery in the Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and the other State Reformatories, when machinery has been purchased by appropriations made from the State Treasury for the purpose

    Act 92 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

90. To provide for the payment by the proper county of costs in criminal and other cases, where recognizances have been or shall be taken and such recognizances shall be forfeited, recovered and paid to the proper authorities

    Act 93 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

91. To fix the compensation of the directors of the poor of the county of Cambria - repeal

    Act 94 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

92. Act to prevent fraud and deception in the manufacture and sale of cheese, and defining what shall constitute the various grades of cheese - amend - how cheese branded; full cream cheese sold outside the Commonwealth

    Act 95 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

93. Act to increase the daily pay of the county commissioners and county auditors of Cambria county - repeal

    Act 96 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

94. Act relative to the county commissioners of Cambria county - repeal

    Act 97 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

95. To fix, regulate and establish the fees to be charged and received by constables in this Commonwealth for executing an order of relief of a pauper

    Act 98 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

96. Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of foot-walks in Chartiers, Scott, Union, and Robinson townships, Allegheny county - repeal - as relates to the townships of Chartiers and Scott

    Act 99 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

97. Act creating and defining the offense of disorderly conduct by persons on the public highways, roads, streets, lanes, alleys, parks, squares, or commons of the Commonwealth - amend - provide for the right to appeal

    Act 100 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

98. Act relating to coroners and coroners' fees in the county of Westmoreland - repeal

    Act 101 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

99. Act to change the time for holding the borough and township elections in the county of Clearfield, and to fix the compensation of election officers therein - repeal - sections 2 and 3

    Act 102 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

100. Act to provide for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor of the county of Cambria - repeal - section 10

     Act 103 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text