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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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1,802 laws of the 1900s

Constitution of 1874

  1. Making an aiypropriation to the Christian Home for 'Women, situate in Allegrheny City, Pennsylvania.

    Act 546 of 1907 · P.L. 663 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  2. Making an appropriation to Saint Vincent's Home, Philadelphia.

    Act 547 of 1907 · P.L. 663 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  3. Making an appropriation to Saint Timothy's Hospital and Home of Mercy, Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Act 549 of 1907 · P.L. 664 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  4. Making an appropriation to the Philadelphia Museums.

    Act 551 of 1907 · P.L. 665 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  5. Makingr an appropriation to the McKeesport Hospital, McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

    Act 552 of 1907 · P.L. 666 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  6. Making an appropriation to the Simon H. Barnes Memorial Hospital, of Susquehanna, Pennsylvania.

    Act 553 of 1907 · P.L. 667 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  7. Appropriation. Making: an appropriation to Emergency Hospital, Carbondale, Pennsylvania.

    Act 554 of 1907 · P.L. 667 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  8. an appropriation to the Philadelphia Polyclinic and Col- \ege for Graduates in Medicine.

    Act 555 of 1907 · P.L. 668 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  9. an appropriation to the Howard Hospital and Infirmary for Incurables, of Philadelphia.

    Act 558 of 1907 · P.L. 670 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  10. Making an appropriation to -the Berwick

    Act 559 of 1907 · P.L. 671 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  11. Making: an appropriation to the Joseph Re/tti Hospitai, located at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Act 560 of 1907 · P.L. 671 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  12. Making an appropriation to the West Philadelphia General Homeapathic Hospital and Dispensary.

    Act 562 of 1907 · P.L. 672 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  13. an appropriation for the payment of the cost of rebuUd- Ing bridges destroyed by flood or wind storm, and to carry out the provisions of the act of April twenty-flrst, one thousand nine hundred and three.

    Act 564 of 1907 · P.L. 673 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  14. Making an appropriation to the Women's Homoeopathic Association of Pennsylvania.

    Act 565 of 1907 · P.L. 674 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  15. Making: an appropriation to the Greenville Hospital, of Greenville.

    Act 566 of 1907 · P.L. 674 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  16. Making an approprl<a;tion to the Orphan Asylum of the Holy Family, located at £Im3 worth, Allegheny county, Pennsjlvania.

    Act 568 of 1907 · P.L. 675 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  17. an appropriation to the Butler County General Hospital located at Butler, Pennsylvania.

    Act 569 of 1907 · P.L. 676 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  18. Makingr a>n appropriation to the Miners' Hospital of Northern Canvbria, at Spanirier, in Cam»bria county.

    Act 572 of 1907 · P.L. 678 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  19. Maklns an appropriation to Saint Vincent'e Orphans' Asylum, of Tacony, Philadelphia.

    Act 573 of 1907 · P.L. 680 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  20. Making an appropriation to the Children's Homoeopathic Hospital, of Philadelphia.

    Act 575 of 1907 · P.L. 680 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  21. Maklngr an appropriation to the Children's Aid Society of Westmoreland county, at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. AppropHatfon. Sectiou 1.

    Act 576 of 1907 · P.L. 681 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  22. Making an appropriation to the Latrobe Hospital, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

    Act 577 of 1907 · P.L. 682 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  23. Making: an appropriation to fhe Home of Industry for Discharsred Prisoners, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania.

    Act 580 of 1907 · P.L. 684 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  24. Making an appropriation to the Medical and Surgical Department of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, of Pittsburg.

    Act 582 of 1907 · P.L. 685 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  25. Appropriation. Makins: an appropriation to Saint John's General Hospital, of Allegheny City.

    Act 583 of 1907 · P.L. 685 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  26. Making: an appropria/Uon of ten thousand dollars to tbe ^Wayne County Hospital Association, for the construction and equipment of a hospital at Honesdale, Wayne oounty» Pennsylvania.

    Act 686 of 1907 · P.L. 687 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  27. Making an appropriation to the South Side Hospital, of Pittsburg.

    Act 588 of 1907 · P.L. 689 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  28. an appropriation to the Homeopathic Medical and Surgrlcal Hospital and Dispensary, of Pittsburg.

    Act 589 of 1907 · P.L. 690 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  29. Making an appropriation to the Prankford Hospital, located in Frankford, Philadelphia.

    Act 590 of 1907 · P.L. 691 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  30. Making: an appropriation to the Roosevelt Hospital, of Phil-. adelphia.

    Act 591 of 1907 · P.L. 692 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  31. Making: an appropriation to the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Act 592 of 1907 · P.L. 692 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  32. Making: an appropriation to the Wyomlngr Valley Society for the Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis Dispensary.

    Act 594 of 1907 · P.L. 694 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  33. Making an appropriation to the Columbian Hospital, of Wilkinsburg, for the erection of a nurses' Home/ light and ice plants, and maintenance.

    Act 597 of 1907 · P.L. 696 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  34. Making an a];>propriation to the Grove City Hospital.

    Act 598 of 1907 · P.L. 697 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  35. Making an appropriation for the Krie Home for the FYiendless, of Erie.

    Act 599 of 1907 · P.L. 697 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  36. provide for the selection of a site and the erection of a State Hospital for injured persons, to be located at or near Shamokln, in the county of Northumberland, to be called a State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Treverton, Shamokln and Mount Carmel Coal Fields, and for the managrexnent of the eame, and making: an appropriation therefor.

    Act 601 of 1907 · P.L. 698 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  37. Making an appropriation ±o the Johnstown City Hospital, at the city of Johnstown.

    Act 602 of 1907 · P.L. 700 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  38. To authorize county commissioners, for the purpoee of encouragrlne agrricuKure and the holdingr of county agricultural exhibitions, to pay annually one thousand doUars to the incorporated agrricul tural association, paying* premiums on agricultural exhibits, holding an annual exhibition in the county; providing for the filing of sworn statement by the claimant or claimants with the

    Act 603 of 1907 · P.L. 701 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  39. Making an appropriation to the Shenango VaUey Hospital, of MaKing a w y^^^ Castle.

    Act 605 of 1907 · P.L. 703 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  40. Making an appropriation to the Meadville City Hospital.

    Act 609 of 1907 · P.L. 705 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  41. Making an appropriation to the MeadviUe City Hospital.

    Act 609 of 1907 · P.L. 705 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  42. Maklner an appropriation to the Hamot Hospital Association, of the city of

    Act 611 of 1907 · P.L. 706 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  43. Making an apprapiiatlon to asRlst In the maintenance of tbe Beaver Valley General Hospital, of Beaver county, at New Brighton, Pennpylvania. Aiwroprtotioii. Sectiou 1.

    Act 612 of 1907 · P.L. 707 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  44. Makiner an appropriation to the Todd Hospital, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania

    Act 613 of 1907 · P.L. 708 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  45. Making an appropriation to the Todd Hospital, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania

    Act 613 of 1907 · P.L. 708 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  46. an appr6priation to the Mercy Hospital, of Plttsborff* Pennsylvania.

    Act 615 of 1907 · P.L. 709 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  47. an apprbpriatlon to the Mercy Hospital, of Pittsbarr.

    Act 615 of 1907 · P.L. 709 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  48. Makins: an appropriation to Saint Joseph's Foun^iin^ Home and Maternity Hoepital, of

    Act 617 of 1907 · P.L. 711 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  49. Making an appropriation to the West 9ide Hospital Association, of the city of Scran ton.

    Act 619 of 1907 · P.L. 712 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  50. Making an appropriation to the Bedford County Hospital, located at Bedford, In the county of Bedford.

    Act 620 of 1907 · P.L. 712 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  51. Makins an appropriation for the Waynesburg HospHal. at Waynesburg, Greene county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 622 of 1907 · P.L. 714 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  52. Making an appropriation to the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hosplptal and Training School, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Act 623 of 1907 · P.L. 714 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  53. an appropriation to the West Mountain, Sanatorliun. of Scran ton, Pennsylvania.

    Act 624 of 1907 · P.L. 715 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  54. Making an appropriation to the

    Act 625 of 1907 · P.L. 715 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  55. Making an appropriation to the Good San>aritan Hospital, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

    Act 626 of 1907 · P.L. 716 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  56. an appropriation to the Hahnemann Hospital, of the city of Scran ton.

    Act 627 of 1907 · P.L. 717 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  57. Making an appropriation to the Kensington Hospital for Women.

    Act 628 of 1907 · P.L. 718 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  58. Making an appropriation to the Phoenixvllle HosiyLtal, at Fhoenixville, Pennsylvania.

    Act 630 of 1907 · P.L. 719 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  59. Making an appropriation to the Saint Luke's Hospital, of South Bethlehem, Iiehigh county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 631 of 1907 · P.L. 719 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  60. Making an appropriation to the Conemaugrh Valley Memorial Hosrpital, at the city of Johnstown.

    Act 633 of 1907 · P.L. 720 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  61. an appropriation to the Pittston Hospital ABSociatioB. of Pittston, Pennsylvania.

    Act 634 of 1907 · P.L. 721 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  62. Making an appropriation to the Medico- Chirurgrical Hospital. of Philadelphia,

    Act 635 of 1907 · P.L. 721 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  63. Making an appropriation to the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital.

    Act 636 of 1907 · P.L. 722 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  64. Making an appropriation to the Hospital I>epartniezit of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, of Philadelphia.

    Act 637 of 1907 · P.L. 723 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  65. Making an appropriation to the liock Haven

    Act 638 of 1907 · P.L. 723 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  66. Making an appropriation to Saint Joseph's Hospital » of Philadelphia.

    Act 639 of 1907 · P.L. 724 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  67. an appropriation to the Homoiiopatliic Medical and Surgrical Hospital, of Reading.

    Act 640 of 1907 · P.L. 725 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  68. Making an appropriation to the Adrian Hospital Association. of Jeflferaon county, Pennsylvania.

    Act 641 of 1907 · P.L. 725 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  69. Making an appropriation to the Mercy Hospital, at WUkes- Barre, Pennsylvania.

    Act 642 of 1907 · P.L. 726 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  70. Making an appropriation to the DuBois Hospital.

    Act 643 of 1907 · P.L. 726 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  71. Making an ai>propriation to the Nanticoke Hospital, in the county of Luzerne. Appropriauon. Sectiou 1.

    Act 644 of 1907 · P.L. 727 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  72. an appropriation to the Woman's Medical OoUege of Pennsylvania, for use in the Hospital Department.

    Act 645 of 1907 · P.L. 728 · 1907 · Scanned page

  73. Makingr an appropriation for the Hospital Department of the Jewish Hospital Association, of Philadelphia.

    Act 646 of 1907 · P.L. 728 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  74. Making an appropriation to the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.

    Act 648 of 1907 · P.L. 730 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  75. Making an appropriation to th« Allentown Hoepital tion, at Allentown, Pennsylvania,

    Act 649 of 1907 · P.L. 731 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  76. Making an appropriation to the Monongahela Memorial Hospital Association, of Monon^rahela City, Pennaylvanla.

    Act 650 of 1907 · P.L. 731 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  77. an appropriation to the Beaver County Greneral Hospital, of Rochester, Pennsylvania,

    Act 651 of 1907 · P.L. 732 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  78. Maklncr an appropriation for the Pittsburgr Sanatorium, of the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Act 652 of 1907 · P.L. 733 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  79. Maklnsr an appropriation to the Charity Hospital, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Act 655 of 1907 · P.L. 734 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  80. Making an appropriation to the Pittsburg Newsboys* Home.

    Act 657 of 1907 · P.L. 735 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  81. Making an appropriation to the Presbyterian Hospital, of Pittsburg: and Allegheny.

    Act 658 of 1907 · P.L. 736 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  82. Maklnff an appropriation to the Rush Hospital for Oonaiimptlon and Allied Diseases, of Philadelphia. AppropriatUML Sectiou 1.

    Act 659 of 1907 · P.L. 737 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  83. Extending the provisions of an act approved the tenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and five, entitled "An act relating to the management, care, and maintenance of the National, or Cumberland, Road, and freeing the same from tolls, and making an appropriation therefor," to the portion of said road lying within Siomerset county; directing the State Highway Commissioner

    Act 660 of 1907 · P.L. 738 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  84. Making an appropriation to the Philadelphia Protectory for Boys.

    Act 661 of 1907 · P.L. 740 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  85. Makinff an appropriation for the purohave of lands to be held as State f\>rest Reserves, in order to carry into effect the appropriate provisions of an act, entitled "An act to establish a Department of Forestry, to provide for its proper administration, to refiTulate the acquisition of land, for the Commonwealth, and to provide for the control, protection, and maintenance of

    Act 662 of 1907 · P.L. 741 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  86. Making: an appropriation to the city of Philadelphia, for tbe purposes of improvingr her water-front and dockage sjrstem, and reclaiming waste lands.

    Act 664 of 1907 · P.L. 743 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  87. To make an appropriation to the United Oharitles of Hasletoa.

    Act 665 of 1907 · P.L. 744 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  88. appropriations to the trustees of the Western University of Pennsylvania, for erection of bulldlngr for School of Mines, for general maintenance of the University, construction of buildlnsrs and purchase of apparatus, and for hospital, dental, educational, engineering:, and observatory

    Act 666 of 1907 · P.L. 744 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  89. Making: appropriations to the State Normal Schools of the Commonwealth, and regulating the number of trustees to be elected and appointed. Soctiou 1.

    Act 668 of 1907 · P.L. 746 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  90. Making: an appropriation to The Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia. Appropriatton. Sectiou 1.

    Act 669 of 1907 · P.L. 747 · June 14, 1907 · Scanned page

  91. Authorizing the readjustment of the rank of John C. Delaney, and providing for his promotion and commission to the rank of Captain in "I" Company, 107th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

    Act 33 of 1907 · P.L. 814 · April 29, 1907 · Scanned page

  92. Authorizing and directing the Adjutant General to file in his office a record of the services of the "First Defenders," of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, at the opening of the War of the Rebellion, and aathorixing and directing the Adjutant General to incorporate in his next annual report a copy of this resolution.

    Act 59 of 1907 · P.L. 827 · May 31, 1907 · Scanned page

  93. Enlarging the powers of county commissioners to erect county bridges: empowering them to erect and construct new bridges whenever the existing bridge or bridges are not sufficient, for any cause, to accommodate the public travel.

    Act 1 of 1907 · February 28, 1907 · Scanned page

  94. Making an appropriation for the payment of salaries of deputy prothonotaries, criers, tipstaffs, and clerks in the several districts of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, for the years nineteen hundred and Ave and nineteen hundred and six, which was 'inadvertently omitted in the general appropriation act of nineteen hundred and five.

    Act 3 of 1907 · March 5, 1907 · Scanned page

  95. Making an appropriation to the Coatesville Hospital.

    Act 509 of 1907 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  96. Making an appropriation to the Saint Vincent's Hospital Association, of the city of Erie.

    Act 510 of 1907 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  97. Making an appropriation to the Franklin City

    Act 511 of 1907 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  98. Tfakine: an appropriation to the Rosalia Foundling Afiylum and Maternity Hospital, of

    Act 607 of 1907 · June 13, 1907 · Scanned page

  99. For the appointment of a commission by the Governor of this Commonwealth, for the puri>ose of amending, revisingr, and collatingr the laws touching upon the public schools of this State, and for the further purpose of suggesting new legislation for the welfare of said schools, and an appropriation to meet the expenses of the said Commission.

    Resolution 140 of 1907 · P.L. 178 · May 8, 1907 · Scanned page

  100. for the creation of a Commission to cooperate with the authorities of the States of New Jersey, New York, and Delaware in regard to the propagation, protection, and catching of sturgeon, shad, bass, perch, and other fish in the Delaware River; the adoption of concurrent laws relevant thereto by such States; and to cooperate with the authorities of the State of Maryland in regard to

    Resolution 152 of 1907 · P.L. 192 · 1907 · Scanned page

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