Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,802 laws of the 1900s

Constitution of 1874

1. Act to increase the compensation of the county commissioners, county auditors, and jurors of Pike county - repeal - as relates to and fixes the fees for the county auditors of Pike county

   Act 104 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

2. Supplement to an act to provide for the erection of a poorhouse in Clarion county - repeal

   Act 105 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

3. Act to provide for the erection of a poorhouse in the county of Clarion - repeal

   Act 106 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

4. To validate official acts done and performed by burgesses, holding offices under irregular elections or appointments

   Act 108 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

5. Authorizing and empowering councils of boroughs within this Commonwealth to contract with any incorporated water company, authorized to do business within such municipality, for a supply of water for fire protection and for other purposes

   Act 109 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

6. Approving the removal of the library of the Pittsburgh Library Association, and authorizing the keeping and maintaining thereof at any place in the city of Pittsburgh, or borough or suburb adjoining the said city

   Act 110 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

7. Directing how to proceed, when a county has been divided and a new county erected therefrom, on mortgages, judgments, liens and other records, which have been made or entered in the original county and relate to or affect lands to tenements in the new

   Act 111 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

8. Act relative to roads in East Marlborough and New London Townships, Chester county - repeal - as relates to the township of New London

   Act 112 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

9. Authorizing boroughs to provide a supply of water for the use of the public, either by the erection and operation of water works or by contracts with persons or corporations authorized to supply water within the limits of said boroughs

   Act 113 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

10. Act creating the office of county controller in counties of this Commonwealth containing 150,000 inhabitants and over, and abolishing the office of county auditor in said county - amend - make it apply to all counties containing 150,000 inhabitants; autho

    Act 114 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

11. Act relating to judicial sales and the preservation of the lien of mortgages - amend - liens of mortgages upon real estate

    Act 115 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

12. Relative to verdicts and judgments in actions of ejectment, and to regulate procedure in such actions

    Act 116 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

13. Providing for raising of revenue for State purposes, by imposing a bonus of one-third of one per centum upon the capital and increase thereof of certain partnerships associations

    Act 120 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

14. Providing for the raising of revenue for State purposes, by imposing upon certain foreign corporations, limited partnership and joint-stock associations a bonus of one-third of one per centum upon the capital actually employed in Pennsylvania, and

    Act 121 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

15. To provide for the appointment and compensation of additional officers and employes of the General Assembly, and abolishing the offices of engineer and fireman of the Senate and fireman of the House of Representatives

    Act 122 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

16. Supplement to an act regulating boroughs - amend - levy and collect annual tax for county purposes

    Act 123 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

17. Regulating foreign mutual savings fund or building and loan associations doing business within this Commonwealth, and prescribing an annual license fee to be paid by such associations

    Act 124 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

18. To provide for the maintenance and instruction of children committed to Houses of Refuge which are not exclusively under the State control

    Act 125 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

19. Act to provide for the erection of all the public buildings required to accommodate the courts and for all municipal purposes in the city of Philadelphia, and to require the appropriation by said city of Penn Square, at Broad and Market Streets, to

    Act 126 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

20. Act to provide for the classification of the townships of the Commonwealth - amend - for the purpose of classification the population of townships may be ascertained by proceedings in the courts of quarter sessions

    Act 127 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

21. Act to restrain and regulate the sale of vinous and spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixture thereof - amend - fines; appeal; bond

    Act 128 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

22. Entitled an act prescribing the method of entering the judgment of the court where a judgment of a justice of the peace is reversed on a certiorari issued by the defendant, and prescribing how defendant's costs shall be entered as a part of said judgment

    Act 130 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

23. To provide for the removal of judges of the supreme, superior, common pleas, and orphans' courts, permanently disqualified by reason of physical or mental disability to perform their judicial functions and duties, with half pay for their unexpired terms -

    Act 131 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

24. Relative to the purchase of a law library in counties of this Commonwealth having a population of less than 150,000 inhabitants, and authorizing one-half of the fines and forfeitures to be expended for the purchase and support of said library

    Act 132 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

25. Providing for the commutation of sentences, for good behavior of convicts in prisons, penitentiaries, workhouses and county jails of this State, and regulations governing the same

    Act 133 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

26. Relating to the police in the several cities of the Commonwealth, and providing penalties and imprisonments for violation of city ordinances

    Act 134 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

27. To provide for the levying a tax to erect and maintain a suitable building, for the purpose of locking up and keeping criminals and disorderly persons until they can be properly dealt with according to law

    Act 135 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

28. Authorizing borough councils or school boards of this Commonwealth to purchase, acquire, take, use and appropriate private property for public library purposes

    Act 136 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

29. To regulate the acknowledgment of proofs of deeds, mortgages and other instruments of writing by corporations, the form of certificates thereof, and confirming those heretofore made

    Act 137 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

30. Act to prohibit foreign corporations from doing business in Pennsylvania without having known places of business and authorized agents - amend - validating and providing for the enforcement of mortgages or contracts, assigned bona fide ten or more years

    Act 138 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

31. To allow an executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, or trustee to institute an action at law, or other legal or equitable proceedings, against a co-executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, or trustee, to recover or enforce any debt or obligation

    Act 141 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

32. Act to ascertain and appoint the fees to be received by the several officers of this Commonwealth - amend - payment of a portion of said fees into the county treasury for the use of the respective counties

    Act 142 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

33. Relating to night schools for the manual training of children above the age of twelve years

    Act 143 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

34. To provide for the alteration of the boundaries of townships and boroughs in certain cases, and the adjustment of the indebtedness thereof

    Act 144 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

35. Act to regulate the employment and provide for the health and safety of persons employed where clothing, cigarettes, cigars, and certain other articles are made, and that said articles be made under clean and healthful conditions - amend - hearings and ap

    Act 145 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

36. Act for the establishment of free public libraries in the several school districts of this Commonwealth, except in cities of first and second class - amend - authorizing the school directors, boards, or organizations having control of the common schools o

    Act 146 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

37. Act for the establishment of free public libraries in the several school districts of this Commonwealth, except in cities of first and second class - amend - when election of trustees may be dispensed with

    Act 147 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

38. Act authorizing and requiring the county commissioners of each county in the State to appoint a sufficient number of suitable persons in each township and ward of their county to look after, bury and provide a headstone for the body of any honorably

    Act 148 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

39. To authorize the sale of property acquired or held for public landings by cities of the first class, where the same or portions thereof are not required for the purpose originally intended

    Act 149 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

40. Establishing interstate comity in teachers' licenses, by authorizing the endorsement and validation in Pennsylvania of Normal School diplomas and permanent certificates granted in other States of the Union

    Act 150 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

41. Act authorizing the county commissioners of the several counties of this Commonwealth to erect or complete and maintain a suitable monument, at the county seat of each county, in memory of the soldiers and sailors of the late war - amend - authorizing

    Act 151 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

42. Authorizing appeals from the court of common pleas to the Supreme and Superior Courts in cases which are appeals from settlements or reports of county, borough, or township auditors

    Act 152 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

43. To authorize the Fishery Commissioners to co-operate with the State of New Jersey in assisting to restore the sturgeon fisheries in the Delaware river and bay

    Act 153 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

44. Act authorizing the cities of this Commonwealth to purchase, acquire, take, use, and appropriate private property for public park purposes - amend - property within or without the corporate limits of such cities

    Act 154 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

45. Authorizing the judges of the courts of quarter session of the peace, magistrates and justices of the peace, to commit vicious or incorrigible minors, of the male sex, to the Philadelphia Protectory for Boys, located at Protectory, Montgomery County, Penn

    Act 155 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

46. Supplement to the act consolidating the city of Philadelphia - amend - regulating public advertisements

    Act 156 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

47. Act extending provisions of an act relative to roads and public highways in Fulton and Salisbury townships, Lancaster county - repeal

    Act 157 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

48. Act requiring the owners and renters of land in the Lack township, Juniata county, to keep and maintain sufficient fences around their enclosures - repeal

    Act 158 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

49. Regulating the charges for legal advertising in daily newspapers

    Act 159 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

50. Act authorizing the county commissioners of the several counties of this Commonwealth to rebuild bridges on sites owned by corporations or by private persons, or built by public subscriptions, over any stream or river forming the boundary line

    Act 160 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

51. Act to provide for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor, in the county of Beaver - repeal

    Act 161 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

52. Relating to negotiable instruments

    Act 162 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

53. Regulating the employment of minor children for theatrical or athletic performances, singing exhibitions, or for playing upon musical instruments

    Act 163 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

54. To prohibit the sale of adulterated, unwholesome or impure milk in cities of the second class

    Act 164 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

55. Act providing for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class - amend - enlarging, modifying, and defining the powers of cities of the third class

    Act 165 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

56. Act to provide for the laying out of private roads, under the surface or over the surface, of intervening land or lands, to reach bituminous coal, iron ore, or fire clay underlying adjacent land, with sufficient surface on the intervening lands necessary

    Act 166 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

57. Authorizing the utilization, for domestic, manufacturing and commercial purposes, of waters theretofore used for purposes of transportation

    Act 167 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

58. Act to carry into effect section five of article fourteen of the Constitution, relative to the salaries of county officers and the payment of fees received by them into the State and county treasury, in counties containing over 150,000 inhabitants - amend

    Act 168 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

59. Act to amend an act prescribing the mode of fixing the salaries of county superintendents of common schools - amend - prescribing the mode of fixing salaries above the minimum and below the maximum

    Act 169 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

60. Act authorizing the transfer, by the judges of the several courts of the Commonwealth, of licenses for the wholesale or retail of vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, from one person to another and from one place to another - amend - advertisement

    Act 170 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

61. Relating to connection of property with public sewers in boroughs

    Act 171 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

62. Authorizing treasurers of the counties of this Commonwealth to refund, on warrant drawn by the county commissioners, to aliens the tax of three cents per day paid into the county treasury, and providing for the distribution to school districts of so much

    Act 172 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

63. Act to provide for the appointment of game commissioners for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, defining their duties, and empowering them to appoint game protectors - amend - extending the powers of said protectors; making disposition of fines received

    Act 173 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

64. Authorizing county commissioners of the several counties of this Commonwealth to construct any public road, leading to either end of a county bridge across any river in this Commonwealth

    Act 174 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

65. Further supplement to an act for the regulation and continuance of a system of education by common schools - amend - qualification of teachers; disqualifications

    Act 175 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

66. Relating to the payment of arrears of bonus on charters and upon the authorized increase of the capital stock of certain corporations, and declaring a forfeiture of charter upon nonpayment of bonus within one year

    Act 176 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

67. Granting certain rights and privileges to regularly organized and incorporated water companies

    Act 177 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

68. To provide for the election of recorders of deeds and registers of wills in counties having a population of over 150,000

    Act 178 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

69. To provide for the acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments of writing, concerning property in Pennsylvania, which may hereafter be taken in Cuba and in Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, or other possessions of the United States

    Act 179 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

70. To confer on the several orphans' courts having jurisdiction of the accounts of guardians, power to order and direct a mortgage or a public or private sale, for the payment of debts or for other purposes, of any lands lying partly in two or more counties,

    Act 180 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

71. Act to authorize the councils of the cities of the first class of the Commonwealth to appropriate annually a sum, not exceeding 500 dollars, for the support and maintenance of each company of the National Guard using and occupying an armory, building, roo

    Act 181 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

72. To encourage county historical societies

    Act 182 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

73. Act to provide for the regulation of the manufacture and sale of distilled and fermented vinegars, prescribing their standards to prevent the adulteration of the same -amend - vinegar made wholly from grapes, apples or other fruits, shall not be required

    Act 183 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

74. Instructing the county commissioners of Centre county to reimburse John P. Condo, late high sheriff of said Centre county, in the amount of the judgment, costs, and expenses obtained against him by the estate of Emma R. Goodman, for damages arising out

    Act 184 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

75. To regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children, under the age of 16 years; providing for the establishment of juvenile courts; prohibiting the commitment to jail or police station of a child under 14 years of age - e

    Act 185 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

76. Creating and defining the offence of disorderly conduct by persons on railroad and railway cars, public or private parks, and picnic grounds kept for the amusement of the public in this Commonwealth

    Act 186 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

77. Providing for uniform practice and procedure in, and for the adoption, promulgation and enforcement of uniform rules relative to such practice and procedure in, all the courts of common pleas in counties containing more than one such court

    Act 187 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

78. To authorize banks and banking companies to improve any real estate they may hold for the accommodation and transaction of their business, by the erection , renewal, or replacing of buildings thereon, and to derive rent therefrom

    Act 188 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

79. To authorize the co-operation of cities of the third class, school districts thereof, and incorporated library associations therein, for the erection and maintenance of free public libraries

    Act 189 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

80. Authorizing the trustees of any State Normal School of the State of Pennsylvania to refund its bonded indebtedness at a lower rate of interest, and to include in the reissue of bonds a limited amount of additional indebtedness, contracted prior to the

    Act 190 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

81. Constituting a board of Commissioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States

    Act 191 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

82. Supplement to an act relative to coroners and coroners' fees in the county of Westmorland - repeal

    Act 192 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

83. To provide for an additional law judge of the several courts of the Eighth Judicial District

    Act 193 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

84. Act supplementing and amending an act to establish an intermediate court of appeal - amend - how many candidates for judge may be voted for

    Act 194 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

85. Act to provide for the classification of the townships of the Commonwealth - amend - to establish a system of sewers and drainage

    Act 195 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

86. Providing for the service of notice to build or repair sidewalks in the several boroughs of this Commonwealth

    Act 196 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

87. Authorizing the policemen of the several boroughs of this Commonwealth to perform the duties of high constable, and regulating compensation for their services

    Act 197 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

88. Supplement to an act to provide for the classification of the townships of the Commonwealth - amend - authorizing the township commissioners of townships of the first class to enter into a contract with any one or more taxpayers of the township, for

    Act 198 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

89. In relation to bonds of indemnity given to the sheriff in all counties having more than 150,000 inhabitants, in his official capacity, for executing writs

    Act 199 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

90. Act regulating boroughs - amend - empowering the corporate authorities of boroughs to lay out foot-walks, pavement, gutters, culverts and drains, over and upon lands within the boroughs, abutting on and along the side or sides of public roads entirely

    Act 200 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

91. Authorizing change of location of new county buildings on public squares or commons

    Act 202 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

92. To declare the species of fish which are game fish, and which are commercially valuable for food, and to regulate the catching and encourage the propagation of the same; to define the public waters within the State; to protect the waters within the State

    Act 203 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

93. Ratifying and confirming all paving done in cities of the third class since May 22, 1895, without a petition of property owners, under any ordinance passed in compliance with the provisions of an act providing for the incorporation and government of citie

    Act 205 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

94. To regulate the employment and provide for the health and safety of men, women, and children in manufacturing establishments, mercantile industries, laundries, renovating works or printing offices; and provide for the safety of men, women, and children in

    Act 206 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

95. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - authorizing formation of corporations for profit by voluntary association of three or more persons, one of whom, at least, must be a citizen of this Commonwealth

    Act 207 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

96. To prohibit the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine, butterine, and other similar products, when colored in imitation of yellow butter; to provide for license fees to be paid by manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers, and by proprietors of hotels,

    Act 208 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

97. Prohibiting the public presentation for profit of unpublished dramatic plays and musical compositions, without consent of the authors thereof

    Act 209 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

98. For the protection and increase of fish in such parts of boundary lakes, of more than 5,000 acres, as this Commonwealth has jurisdiction over, and in water or any peninsula or in any bay adjacent to or connected with such lakes; to declare the species of

    Act 210 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

99. Exempting from taxation the lands, buildings and funds of free, public, non-sectarian libraries, in boroughs and townships yielding revenues only partially sufficient for the maintenance of the same

    Act 211 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

100. Relating to anthracite mines, and providing for the care and life and attention of employes injured in and about said mines

     Act 212 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text