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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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1,802 laws of the 1900s

Constitution of 1874

  1. Making an appropriation to the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind.

    Act 414 of 1907 · P.L. 581 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  2. Making an appropriation to the House of Refu^re, situate in the Sastern District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvanicu Seetioi) 1.

    Act 416 of 1907 · P.L. 582 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  3. Making an appropriation to the Home for Colored Children, pf Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

    Act 418 of 1907 · P.L. 583 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  4. Making an appropriation to the House of the Grood Shepherd, of Philadelphia.

    Act 419 of 1907 · P.L. 583 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  5. Making" an appropriation to the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases.

    Act 420 of 1907 · P.L. 584 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  6. Making an appropriation to the Home for Aged Couples and Old Men, at Bala, Philadelphia.

    Act 421 of 1907 · P.L. 584 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  7. Making an appropriation to the Pittsburg: and Allegheny Home for the Friendless.

    Act 423 of 1907 · P.L. 585 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  8. Making: an appropriation to the Western Temporary Home, of Philadelphia. S<»ctioii 1.

    Act 424 of 1907 · P.L. 586 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  9. Maklnsr an appropriation to the Pennsylvania Home Teaching: Society and Free Circulating Library for the Blind.

    Act 425 of 1907 · P.L. 586 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  10. an appropriation to the Pennflylvanla Industrial School

    Act 427 of 1907 · P.L. 587 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  11. Making: an appropriation to the Pennsylvania Memorial Home, located at Brookville, Jefferson county* Pennsylvania.

    Act 428 of 1907 · P.L. 587 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  12. Makingr an appropriation to the Christian Home, of the city of York, Pennsylvania.

    Act 429 of 1907 · P.L. 587 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  13. Making an appropriation to the Hayes Mechanics' Home, located In the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 430 of 1907 · P.L. 588 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  14. Making an appropriation to the Children's Aid Society of Franklin county.

    Act 431 of 1907 · P.L. 588 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  15. To provide for the support of the National Guard of Pennsylvania anti Naval Force of Pennsylvania » for the two fiscal years beginning June first, one thousand nine hundred and seven; and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and seven; for the payment of an annual allowance to officers of

    Act 434 of 1907 · P.L. 590 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  16. Making an appropriation toward the completion and furnishing of the Thaddeus Stevens Industrial School.

    Act 435 of 1907 · P.L. 592 · June 18, 1907 · Scanned page

  17. To provide for the erection of a monument to commemorate the services of Pennsylvania troops in the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, and the appointment of a Commission to carry into effect the provisions of this act, making^ appropriation therefor.

    Act 437 of 1907 · P.L. 593 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  18. Maklnsr an appropriation to the State Forest Academy, at Mont Alto, Franklin county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 442 of 1907 · P.L. 596 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  19. Making an appropriation to the Florence Crittenton Mission, of the city of

    Act 443 of 1907 · P.L. 597 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  20. Appropriation. Makinsr an appropriation to the Western Home for Poor Children, at Philadelphia.

    Act 444 of 1907 · P.L. 597 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  21. Makinsr an appropriation to the Pittsburgr Hospital for Children, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Act 445 of 1907 · P.L. 597 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  22. Making an appropriation to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, ot Philadelphia.

    Act 446 of 1907 · P.L. 598 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  23. Maklnsr an appropriation for thp erection of a suitable monument. In the National Cemetery at Culpeper, Virginia, to the memory of the Pennsylvania soldiers of the Civil War burled therein.

    Act 447 of 1907 · P.L. 598 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  24. To authorize the building of a dike, or dikes, for the protection of property adjacent to the Delaware River, in f\U]s township, Bucks county, and makinsr an appropriation therefor.

    Act 448 of 1907 · P.L. 599 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  25. Making an appropriation to the Corry Hospital.

    Act 449 of 1907 · P.L. 600 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  26. Making" an appropriation to the Downingtown Industrial School for Colored Youth, located at Downingtown, Chester county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 450 of 1907 · P.L. 600 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  27. of 0«nfrral Anthony Wayn«. Appropriation. MakinfiT an appropriation for the payment of the expenses incident to the dedication of the equestrian statue of G-eneral Anthony Wayne, erected on the Revolutionary Camp Grounds of Valley Forge by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly, approved the eleventh day of May, Anno Domini

    Act 452 of 1907 · P.L. 601 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  28. Makinsr an ai>prc^riatlon to the Northwestern Pennsylvania Humane Society.

    Act 461 of 1907 · P.L. 601 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  29. Making an appropriation to the Rosine Home, of Philadelphia.

    Act 454 of 1907 · P.L. 602 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  30. Making an appropriation for the erection of a monument, at Driftwood, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the embarkation of the Bucktail Regiment.

    Act 455 of 1907 · P.L. 603 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  31. Making an appropriation to the Penn Asylum for Indigent Widows and Single Women, located at Belgrade street and Susquehanna avenue, Philadelphia.

    Act 456 of 1907 · P.L. 603 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  32. To commemorate the heroism, sacrifices, and patriotism of the members of the Sixty-seventh, Eighty-seventh, and the Onp Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiments of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, at the battle of Monocacy, July ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, by the erection and dedication, upon the battlefield of Monocacy, of a suitable monument: creating a Commission for

    Act 457 of 1907 · P.L. 604 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  33. Makingr an appropriation to the Benevolent Association's Home for Children, of Pottsvllle, Schuylkill county.

    Act 458 of 1907 · P.L. 607 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  34. Maklnsr an appropriation to the Woods Run Industrial House, of Allegheny, Pennsylvania,

    Act 459 of 1907 · P.L. 607 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  35. a special appropriation to the Department of Apiculture, to meet the deficiency necessary to complete the demonstration work being done by the Division of £?conomic Zoologry. during: the fiscal year endinsr May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and

    Act 460 of 1907 · P.L. 608 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  36. Making: an appropriation to the General and "EimeTgency Hospital, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Act 461 of 1907 · P.L. 608 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  37. To provide for the publishing: of the proceedings of the dedication of the Pennsylvania Monument at Andersonville, Georgia, erected under an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, July eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and one; providing for the distribution and clerical work thereof, and making an appropriation for the same.

    Act 462 of 1907 · P.L. 608 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  38. Making: aji appropriation to the Evangelical Home for the Aged, of Philadelphia.

    Act 463 of 1907 · P.L. 610 · 1907 · Scanned page

  39. Making an appropriation to the Home for the Aged, one thousand eight hundred and nine Mount Vernon street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Act 464 of 1907 · P.L. 610 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  40. Making an appropriation for the erection of a monument or memorial to the memory of the soldier and statesman. United States Senator Samuel Maclay, at his grave in Buffalo Valley, Union county.

    Act 467 of 1907 · P.L. 611 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  41. Making: an appropriation to the State Uvestock Sanitary Board for the purchase of a suitable site, for the erection of buildings thereon, and for equipment for conductiniT research work with relation to the diseases of animals.

    Act 469 of 1907 · P.L. 612 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  42. To provide for the publishlngr of the proceedings of the dedication of the Pennsylvania monuments » erected under the act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, approved the eleventh day of May, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and five: providing for the distribution and clerical work thereof, and making an appro>priation for the same.

    Act 470 of 1907 · P.L. 613 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  43. an appropriation for the establishment of an exhibit In the Museum of the State Library, llluatrating the development of oil and oil products in the Oommonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Act 472 of 1907 · P.L. 614 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  44. Making: an appropriation to the Rx>man Catholic Society of Saint Joseph, lor educatina: and maintaining poor orphan children, in the city of Philadelphia.,

    Act 473 of 1907 · P.L. 615 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  45. Making an appropriation to the Bostb* Industrial Home, of WDliamsport, Pennsylvania.

    Act 474 of 1907 · P.L. 615 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  46. Making an appropriation to the German Baptist Home for the Aged, Philadelphia.

    Act 475 of 1907 · P.L. 616 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  47. To provide for the compilation, by the Secretary of the C?ommonwealth, of all the laws pertaining: to borough and township assessors, tax collectors, treasurers and auditors, and the publication of twenty-flve thousand coi;>ie8 and their distribution; also providing an appropriation for the same.

    Act 476 of 1907 · P.L. 616 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  48. Making an appropriation to the Children's Aid Society, of Meadville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 478 of 1907 · P.L. 617 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  49. For the relief of Charles Francis Judson and Oliver Boyce Judpon, substituted trustees under the will of Thomas McEnen. late of the city of Philadelphia, deceased, refunding the sum of sixteen hundred and thirty -five and sixty-five one hundredth dollars, being an overpayment to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of collateral inheritance tax.

    Act 479 of 1907 · P.L. 617 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  50. Making an appropriation to the Children's Industrial Home, at Harrisburgr, Pennsylvania. iSection 1.

    Act 480 of 1907 · P.L. 619 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  51. Making an appropriation to the House of the Good Shepherd, in the city of

    Act 481 of 1907 · P.L. 619 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  52. an appropriation to the directors of the First Alle^rheny I>ay Nui*sery and Temporary Home for Children, of Allefflieny.

    Act 482 of 1907 · P.L. 620 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  53. Making an appropriation to the Kittanning General Hospital

    Act 490 of 1907 · P.L. 627 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  54. Making an appropriation to the Taylor Hospital Association, of Taylor, Lax^kawanna county.

    Act 491 of 1907 · P.L. 627 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  55. an appropriation to Saint Afirnes' Hospital, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Act 492 of 1907 · P.L. 628 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  56. Making: an appropriation to the Hospital Department of the Jefferson Medical OoUeg^, of Philadelphia.

    Act 493 of 1907 · P.L. 628 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  57. Making: an appropriation to the Chambersburg' Hospital, of Cham ber

    Act 494 of 1907 · P.L. 628 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  58. Preamble. Appropriation. Making* an appropriation for the improvement of the port of Eirie, by constructing: a modern steamboat landing:, or wharf, upon State lands, within the harbor of Brie; authorizing' the appointment of a Commission to construct same, and providing for regulating the manner in which said dock shall be used by the public and kept in repairs.

    Act 500 of 1907 · P.L. 631 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  59. Maklnff an appropriation to The National Farm School, at Doylestown.

    Act 501 of 1907 · P.L. 632 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  60. Making an appropriation for the erection of a monument or memorial structure on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, in memory of the volunteer soldiers, sailors, and marines from Pennsylvania, who participated in the late Civil War, one thousand eierht hundred and sixty-one to one thousand eig-ht hundred and sixty-flve.

    Act 504 of 1907 · P.L. 634 · 1907 · Scanned page

  61. Making an appropriation for Ches»ter Hospital, at Pennsylvania.

    Act 505 of 1907 · P.L. 635 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  62. Making an appropriation to the L»ying-ln Charity Hospital, Philadelphia.

    Act 506 of 1907 · P.L. 636 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  63. Making: an appropriation to the Wills' Eye Hospital, of

    Act 509 of 1907 · P.L. 637 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  64. Making an appropriation to the Coatesville Hospital.

    Act 509 of 1907 · P.L. 638 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  65. To provide revenue by levying a tax upon the shares of stock of companies incorporated under the provisions of section twenty-nine of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations/' approved April twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and the supplements thereto: for the insurance of owners of real estate, mortgages,

    Act 512 of 1907 · P.L. 639 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  66. Making an appropriation to the Franklin City Hospital

    Act 611 of 1907 · P.L. 639 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  67. Making an appropriation for the public highways of the State, subject and under the direction of the Department of Highways.

    Act 513 of 1907 · P.L. 642 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  68. Makingan appropriation for the public highways of the State, subject and under the direction of the Department of Highways.

    Act 513 of 1907 · P.L. 642 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  69. Making an appropriation to the Topographic and Geological Survey of the State In cooperation with the United States Geological Survey, and providing for printing and publishing the results of said survey.

    Act 514 of 1907 · P.L. 643 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  70. Making an appropriation to the Topographic and Geological Survey of the State in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey, and providing for printing and publishing the results of said survey.

    Act 514 of 1907 · P.L. 643 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  71. To appropriate the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, for the purpose of draining Pymatuning Swamp in Crawford Ck>unty, and Improvine: the highways therein; authorizlner the State Highway Department to make a survey of, and decide upon the best method of draining, said swamp, and to let contracts for making channels for draining same, and to draw money

    Act 515 of 1907 · P.L. 644 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  72. To appropriate the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, for the purpose of draining Pymatuning Swamp in Crawford County, and imiproving the highwsCys therein; authorizing the State Highway Department to make a survey of, and decide upon the best method of draining, said swamp, and to let contracts for making channels for draining same, and to draw money from

    Act 515 of 1907 · P.L. 644 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  73. Pike county. DlkM. Borouffh of Matamoraa. Water Supply CommiMlon. Appropriation. Po authorize the buildlngr of a dike, or dikes, for the protection of the public road and of the property adjacent to the Delaware River in the borough of Matamoras and in the township of Delaware, and making an appropriation therefor.

    Act 516 of 1907 · P.L. 645 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  74. Pike county. DlkM. Borough of Matamoras. Water Supply Commlulon. Appropriation. Po authorize the building of a dike, or dikes, for the protectioc of the public road and of the property adjacent to the Delaware River in the borough of Miatamoras and in the township of Delaware, and making an appropriation therefor.

    Act 516 of 1907 · P.L. 645 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  75. an appropriation to the Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania.

    Act 517 of 1907 · P.L. 646 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  76. Making: an appropriation to St. John's Orphan Asylum, Philadelphia.

    Act 518 of 1907 · P.L. 646 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  77. Making: an appropriation to St. John's Orphan Asylum, Philadelphia.

    Act 518 of 1907 · P.L. 646 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  78. Making an appropriation to the Mount Pleasant Memorial Hospital, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. Appropriauon. ScctioD 1.

    Act 519 of 1907 · P.L. 647 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  79. Making: an appropriation to the Curtis Home for Destitute Women and Children, of the City of Plttsburir. State of Pennsylvania,

    Act 520 of 1907 · P.L. 647 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  80. Maklns an appropriation to the Children's Aid Society af Western Pennsylvania,.

    Act 521 of 1907 · P.L. 648 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  81. an appropriation to the Children's Aid Society ^ af Western Pennsylvania.

    Act 521 of 1907 · P.L. 648 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  82. Tfakintr an appropriation to the Garretson Hospital » of Philadelphia.

    Act 522 of 1907 · P.L. 648 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  83. an appropriation to the Garretson Hospital, of Philadelphia.

    Act 522 of 1907 · P.L. 648 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  84. Making an appropriation to the Woman's Southern Homoeopathic Hospital, of Philadelphia,

    Act 524 of 1907 · P.L. 650 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  85. an appropriation to the Sanitarium Association of Philadelphia.

    Act 525 of 1907 · P.L. 650 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  86. Making an appropriation to the Christian H. Buhl Hospital » at Sharon, Pennsylvania.

    Act 528 of 1907 · P.L. 652 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  87. Making an appropriation to the Williamsport Hospital.

    Act 529 of 1907 · P.L. 652 · 1907 · Scanned page

  88. Making an appropriation to the Saint Mary's Hospital, of Philadelphia.

    Act 530 of 1907 · P.L. 653 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  89. Making an appropriation to the Sylvan. Heights Home for Oi-phan Girls, at Harrlsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Act 532 of 1907 · P.L. 654 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  90. Making: an appropriation to Saint Chrletoipher's Hospit&l for CShildren. for the city of Philadelphia.

    Act 533 of 1907 · P.L. 655 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  91. Making an appropriation to Charity Hospital, of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, located at Norristown.

    Act 535 of 1907 · P.L. 656 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  92. Making an appropriation to the Saint Joseph's Hospital and Dispensary, of Pittsburg.

    Act 536 of 1907 · P.L. 657 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  93. Making an ai>propriation to the Home for the Friendless, cf th-* city of Willlamsport.

    Act 537 of 1907 · P.L. 657 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  94. Making an appropriation to the Lewistown Hospital, of Lewistown.

    Act 538 of 1907 · P.L. 658 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  95. Making an appropriation to the Mercy Hospital and School for Nurses, in the City of Philadelphia.

    Act 539 of 1907 · P.L. 659 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  96. Appropriation. Making: an appropriation to the Home of the Good Shepherd, of the county of Allegheny.

    Act 540 of 1907 · P.L. 659 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  97. Making: an appropriation to the Braddock General Hospital, Braddock, Pennsylvania.

    Act 541 of 1907 · P.L. 660 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  98. Making an appropriation to the Boys' Industrial Home of Western Pennsylvania, located at Oakdale, Allegheny county.

    Act 543 of 1907 · P.L. 661 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  99. Making: an appropriation to the North General Hospital and Sanitarium, located at Austin, Pennsylvania.

    Act 544 of 1907 · P.L. 662 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  100. Making an appropriation to the Saint Luke's Homeopathic Hospital, of Philadelphia.

    Act 545 of 1907 · P.L. 662 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

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