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- Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, [2015]
- ©2015
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- 1 online resource (142 items)
- Volume title from publisher's website (resource viewed on 7 Oct. 2015)
- Volume reference no.: CO 5/1238.
- Includes index.
- The National Archives
- An Act about arrests and making debtors pay by servitude -- An Act about attachments -- An Act about attachments under forty shillings -- An Act about binding to the peace -- An Act about boats and canoes -- An Act about country product to be current pay in the territories of the province of Pennsylvania -- An Act about cutting timber-trees -- An Act about departers out of this province -- An Act about forcible entry -- An Act against adultery and fornication -- An Act against barrattors -- An Act against bigamy -- An Act against buying land of the natives -- An Act against defacers of charters etc. -- An Act against drunkennesse and drinking of healths -- An Act against incest -- An Act against jurors absenting themselves being lawfully summoned to attend the several courts of judicature within this province and territory -- An Act against mixing and adulterating strong liquors -- An Act against removing of land-marks -- An Act against riots and rioters -- An Act against selling rum and other strong liquors to the Indians -- An Act against unreasonable firing of woods -- An Act against wears [weirs], cross creeks and rivers -- An Act concerning bills of exchange -- An Act concerning feme-sole traders -- An Act concerning the probates of written and nuncupative wills and for confirming devises of lands -- An Act concerning the Register-General's office -- An Act directing appeals to Great Britain -- An Act directing how petty offences shall be punished -- An Act directing the order of payment of debts of persons deceased -- An Act for acknowledging and recording of deeds -- An Act for the advancement of justice, and more certain administration thereof -- An Act for the appraisement of goods -- An Act for the ascertaining the dimentions of cask and for the packing of meat for transportation -- An Act for the assigning of bonds, specialties and promisary-notes -- An Act for the assize of bread -- An Act for bailing of prisoners and about imprisonment -- An Act for the better and more effectual putting in execution an Act of assembly of this province, entituled, an Act for the emitting and making current fifteen thousand pounds in bills of credit -- An Act for the better ascertaining the publick debts, and collecting the arrears of county levies -- An Act for the better attendance of the justice on the several courts of judicature within this province and territories -- An Act for the better confirmation of the owners of lands, and inhabitants of this province, in their just rights and possessions --
- -- An Act for better determining of debts and demands under forty shillings, and for laying aside the two weeks court in the city of Philadelphia -- An Act for the better enabling divers inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania, to hold and enjoy lands, tenements and plantations, in the said province -- An Act for the better enabling of Bernhard Vanleer, Arent Hassert, Michael Smiths, William Seliger, Arnold Bamberger, William Hilligart, and Ulrick Hageman, to trade and hold lands in this province -- An Act for the better recovery of fines and forfeitures, due to the governour and government of this province -- An Act for the better regulating of elections of sheriffs, coroners and assessors -- An Act for the better regulating of Negroes in this province -- An Act for the better regulating the retailers of liquors, near the iron-works and elsewhere -- An Act for the better regulation of servants in this province and territories -- An Act for the better securing the city of Philadelphia, from the danger of gun-powder -- An Act for the better settling of intestates estates -- An Act for confirming the sales of lands by attorneys or agents and for ascertaining the proof of instruments or writings made out of this province -- An Act for continuing and establishing a ferry from the landing-place of John Kirkbride, over Delaware river, at the falls -- An Act for continuing and establishing a ferry over Neshaminey creek, on the King's high-road from Philadelphia to Bristol, in the county of Bucks -- An Act for the continuing the ferry from Bristol, in the county of Bucks, to Burlington in the western-division of the province of New Jersey -- An Act for county seals, and against counterfeiting hands and seals -- An Act for defalcation -- An Act for the destruction of black-birds and crows -- An Act for emitting and making current fifteen thousand pounds in bills of credit -- An Act for the emitting and making current thirty thousand pounds in bills of credit -- An Act for emitting of thirty thousand pounds in bills of credit, for the better support of government, and the trade of this province -- An Act for encouraging the making of good beer and for the consumption of grain in this province -- An Act for erecting and maintaining of pounds -- An Act for the erecting of bridges and maintaining high-ways -- An Act for erecting of houses of correction and work-houses, in the respective counties of this province -- An Act for erecting of pownds in each township of this province -- An Act for erecting the upper parts of the province of Pennsilvania, lying towards Sasquehannah, Conestogoe, Dunnegal, etc. into a county --
- An Act for establishing and regulating of ferries over Delaware-river and Neshaminy-creek -- An Act for establishing a ferry from the city of Philadelphia, to the landing at or near the house of William Cooper, and another from or near the city-bounds to Gloucester in New Jersey -- An Act for establishing a ferry over Delaware, at the falls -- An Act for establishing a ferry over the river Schuylkil, at the end of the highstreet of Philadelphia -- An Act for establishing the lower ferry on the River Skyulkil -- An Act for the establishing of courts of judicature in this province -- An Act for establishing orphan's-courts -- An Act for the further securing the administration of the government -- An Act for imposing a duty on persons convicted of heinous crimes, and imported into this province as servants, or otherwise -- An Act for keeping a registry in religious societies -- An Act for laying a duty on Negroes imported into this province -- An Act for limitation of actions -- An Act for mariners not to be trusted -- An Act for the more easy and effectual collecting of the proprietary's quit-rents -- An Act for the more effectual encouraging the raising of good hemp : and for continuing an excise on all wine, rum, brandy and other spirits, retailed within this province -- An Act for preventing accidents that may happen by fire in the towns of Bristol (formerly called Buckingham) Philadelphia, Germantown, Darby, Chester, Newcastle and Lewis, within this government -- An Act for preventing accidents that may happen by fire -- An Act for the preventing of clandestine marriages -- An Act for raising money on the inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, for the public use and benefit thereof -- An Act for raising of county rates and levies -- An Act for raising two thousand pounds for the Queen's use, by a tax of five pence half-penny per pound, and twenty shillings per head -- An Act for the re-emitting and continuing the currency of such bills of credit of this province, as by former Acts are directed to be sunk and destroyed, and for the striking and making current 10,000 l. in new bills, to supply those that are torn and defaced -- An Act for reducing the interest of money, from eight to six per cent per annum -- An Act for regulating and establishing fees -- An Act for regulating and maintaining of fences -- An Act for regulating elections of sheriffs and coroners -- An Act for regulating the gauging of cask in this province -- An Act for regulating party-walls, buildings and partition-fences in the city of Philadelphia --
- An Act for regulating weights and measures -- An Act for the relief of the poor -- An Act for reviving, explaining and continuing several laws in this Act mentioned -- An Act for selling beer and ale by wine measure -- An Act for settling a ferry at Solebury, in Bucks-County, over Delaware to New Jersey -- An Act for supplying some desects in the law for the relief of the poor -- An Act for taking lands in execution for payment of debts -- An Act for taking lands in execution for payment of debts, where the sheriff cannot come at other effects to satisfy the same -- An Act for the trial and punishment of larceny under five shillings -- An Act for the trial of Negroes -- An Act for the well tanning and currying of leather, and regulating of cordwainers, and other artificers, using and occupying leather within this province -- An Act impowing the justices to settle the prices of liquors in publick-houses and provender for horses in publick-stables -- An Act laying a duty on forreigners, and Irish servants, etc. imported into this province -- An Act more effectually to prevent unfair practices in the packing of beef and pork, for exportation -- An Act prescribing the forms of declaration of fidelity, abjuration, and affirmation, instead of the forms heretofore required in such cases -- An Act preventing the killing of deer out of season, and against carrying of guns and hunting by persons not qualified -- An Act that no publick-house or inn within this government be kept without licence -- An Act to ascertain the number of members of assembly and to regulate the elections -- An Act to erect and establish a ferry on the land of Thomas Yardley of Makefield township in Bucks County -- An Act to impower the justices in each county to lay out and confirm all roads except the King's high-ways and publick-roads -- An Act to improve the breed of horses, and regulate rangers -- An Act to prevent disputes which may hereafter arise about the dates of conveyances, and other instruments and writings -- An Act to prevent duelling, and fighting of duels, within this province and territories -- An Act to prevent the exportation of bread and flour not merchantable -- An Act to prevent the grievous sins of cursing and swearing within the province and territories -- An Act to prevent the importation of Indian-slaves -- An Act to prevent the running of swine at large -- An Act to prevent sickly vessells coming into this government -- An Act to prohibit the selling of rum, and other strong liquors, to the Indians; and to prevent the abuses that may happen thereby --
- An Act to rectify proceedings upon attachments -- An Act to regulate the practice upon writs of summons and arrest -- An Act to restrain people from labour on the first day of the week -- An additional Act for the better preserving the high-ways -- The law about court proceedings and summons -- The law about forms of writs -- The law about Indian-traders -- The law about seven years quiet possession -- The law about summoning of juries -- The law concerning liberty of conscience -- A supplement to the Act entituled, an Act to prevent swine running at large -- A supplement to the Act for taking lands in execution for the payment of debts -- A supplement to the Act, entituled, an Act for the making good beer, etc. -- A supplement to that part of the Act, for raising county rates and levies, relating to the killing of wolves -- A supplementary Act to the Act for ascertaining the number of members of assembly and to regulate elections -- A supplementary Act to the Act, entituled, an Act for emitting and making current fifteen thousand pounds, in bills of credit -- A supplementary Act to a law of this province, entituled, an Act that no publick-house or inn within this province be kept without lisence -- The Table
Subjects
- Law -- Pennsylvania -- Early works to 1800.
- Pennsylvania. General Assembly -- Records and correspondence.
- Great Britain. Colonial Office -- Archives.
- Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.