Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...

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An Act to vacate part of an alley in the city of Lancaster
74
An Act for the relief of Mungo Murry and wife and to authorize the man
87
An Act relating to the directors of the poor in the county of Chester
94
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96
A supplement to an act passed on the seventh day of May A D
102
An Act to incorporate the Philadelphia hose company
108
An Act relative to the Berwick water company in Columbia county
114
An Act for the better regulation of the streets and alleys of the borough
124
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130
An Act erecting parts of Saville and Juniata townships in the county
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154
An Act providing for laying out a state road from Mifflinville in Columbia
160
An Act to authorize the executors of Isaac Baugher deceased to sell
166
An Act to incorporate the Danville and Pottsville telegraph company
172
An Act to reinstate the capital and extend the charter of the Farmers
178
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184
An Act to confer on James Kelly the rights and privileges of a child born
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209
A further supplement to the act incorporating the Monongahela navigation
215
An Act repealing an act relative to roads and bridges in Warsaw township
221
An Act to incorporate the village of Providence in the county of Luzerne
227
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235
and to vacate another road parallel thereto
242
A supplement to an act entitled An Act enabling the governor to incor
248
An Act relative to the courts of Wayne county
254
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259
An Act for the relief of Ann Merklin of the county of Lancaster
279
An Act to incorporate a company to build a turnpike or plank road from
293
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302
An Act to incorporate the president and managers of the Tunkhannock
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328
An Act for the protection of miners mechanics and laborers in certain coun
337
An Act for the relief of Samuel White
343
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358
An Act to authorize John H Townsend and William Guthrie to construct
361
An Act to extend the charter of the Columbia Bank and Bridge Company
376
An Act authorizing the paving of the Grays Ferry road from Cedar street
389
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472
An Act to authorize the school directors of Mount Pleasant township West
480
An Act to incorporate the York Springs and Berlin turnpike road company
486
An Act for the relief of Edward Bloomer
492
An Act to authorize the school directors of the borough of Pottsville to sell
501
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504
A further supplement to an act entitled An Act authorizing the governor
511
An Act to authorize the extension of Cherry street in the borough of
521
An Act relative to certain school districts in Jefferson Indiana Cambria
528
A supplement to an act incorporating the Doylestown and Willow Grove
534
An Act to extend the boundary line of the borough of Newton Hamilton
537
An Act to incorporate the Franklin and Butler plank road company
545
An Act erecting parts of Beaver and Mereer counties in a separate county
551
An Act to encourage manufacturing operations in this commonwealth
563
An Act to create a sinking fund and to provide for the gradual and certain
570
An Act to incorporate the Upland manufacturing company
577
An Act erecting the village of East Birmingham into a borough fixing
584
An Act to exempt from taxation except for state and road purposes
599
An Act for the relief of W P MCulloch
608
An Act to incorporate the Carrol hall association
614
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616
An Act to authorize and confirm the sale of certain real estate of the
624
An Act to authorize the canal commissioners to examine the claim of Peter
630
An Act for the relief of certain citizens of the borough of Allentown
645
A supplement to an act entitled An Act to extend the charter of the West
657
No Page
662
An Act to annul the marriage contract between John Nicholson and Ellen
671
An Act authorizing the commissioners of the incorporated districts of
678
An Act relating to certain bridges over the river Lehigh near Catasauqa
685
An Act to authorize John Stevenson guardian of William Inman to exe
698
An Act to incorporate the society of the First Regular Baptist church
704
An Act authorizing the governor to incorporate the Conestoga and Reading
710
An Act to erect the village of Bridesburg in the county of Philadelphia into
720
An Act to incorporate the Chester County horticultural society
729
An Act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company for making
736
An Act to incorporate the Columbia fire engine company in the city
745
An Act to incorporate the Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad company
754
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762

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Page 564 - ... in case of her surviving her husband, the sum or net amount of the insurance becoming due and payable by the terms of the insurance, shall be payable to her, to and for her own use, free from the claims of the representatives of her husband, or of any of his creditors ; but such exemption shall not apply where the amount of premium annually paid shall exceed 300 dollars.
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Page 762 - The General Assembly shall have the power to alter, revoke, or annul any charter of incorporation now existing and revocable at the adoption of this Constitution, or any that may hereafter be created, whenever, in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators.
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