New Jersey Session Laws

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Jerseyman

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Tom said:
Hey all,

I have been perusing the session laws of New Jersey and thought some might find this of interest:

http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/diglib.cgi?collect=njleg&file=003&page=0049&zoom=90

Any others I come across, I will post links to as well.

Tom
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Tom:

This is a great source, to be sure; I’ve using it for some time now. However, it is not very searchable. Google Books offers many of these volumes as either full view or snippets. So, you can run string searches on Google Books and for those volumes or pages that do not display on Google Books, I then turn to the Rutgers Law School website you cite above.

Good to see you posting again!

Best regards,
Jerseyman
 
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Tom

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Jerseyman said:
Tom:

This is a great source, to be sure; I’ve using it for some time now. However, it is not very searchable. Google Books offers many of these volumes as either full view or snippets. So, you can run string searches on Google Books and for those volumes or pages that do not display on Google Books, I then turn to the Rutgers Law School website you cite above.

Good to see you posting again!

Best regards,
Jerseyman
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Jerseyman,

I have been using the Rutgers Law website for about a month now and am very pleased with it, but as you have mentioned, it isn't searchable which makes research tedious at times. I wasn't aware that google books offered any of these...thanks for the heads up.

Tom
 
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Tom

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Jerseyman,

Do know of a website that offers public access to Pennsylvania's Law Sessions?

Thanks,

Tom
 
Jerseyman

Jerseyman

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Tom said:
Jerseyman,

Do know of a website that offers public access to Pennsylvania's Law Sessions?

Thanks,

Tom
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Tom:

There are two websites that offer partial access to the Pennsylvania Session Laws and the Pennsylvania Statutes (when they are working!!):

www.palrb.us offers access to the session laws passed between 1700 and 1809. They are planning to provide access to the remainder of the session laws “at some point in time,” but who knows when that will be. Today, the website is experiencing “technical difficulties,” so try accessing it tomorrow.

There is also the Legislature itself, which can be found at:

http://www.legis.state.pa.us This site will provide you with access to more recent session laws and, I believe to the PA State Statutues.

Other websites you can look at include:

http://www.statewatch.com/www/pa/stat_loc.htm

http://members.aol.com/StatutesPA/Index.html

If you do some creative Google searches, I’m sure you can find some others.

BTW, while the official name for New Jersey’s session laws is Acts of the General Assembly prior to approval of the 1844 state constitution and Acts of the Legislature post-1844, the annual volumes are commonly referred to as “pamphlet laws.”

Best regards,
Jerseyman

P.S. I note your new avatar photo!
 
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Tom

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Jerseyman said:
Tom:

There are two websites that offer partial access to the Pennsylvania Session Laws and the Pennsylvania Statutes (when they are working!!):

www.palrb.us offers access to the session laws passed between 1700 and 1809. They are planning to provide access to the remainder of the session laws “at some point in time,” but who knows when that will be. Today, the website is experiencing “technical difficulties,” so try accessing it tomorrow.

There is also the Legislature itself, which can be found at:

http://www.legis.state.pa.us This site will provide you with access to more recent session laws and, I believe to the PA State Statutues.

Other websites you can look at include:

http://www.statewatch.com/www/pa/stat_loc.htm

http://members.aol.com/StatutesPA/Index.html

If you do some creative Google searches, I’m sure you can find some others.

BTW, while the official name for New Jersey’s session laws is Acts of the General Assembly prior to approval of the 1844 state constitution and Acts of the Legislature post-1844, the annual volumes are commonly referred to as “pamphlet laws.”

Best regards,
Jerseyman

P.S. I note your new avatar photo!
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Thanks for the information Jerseyman. The old avatar wasn't a very good picture.
 
Teegate

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A good find. So every time we hike and onehand eats a cranberry from the vine on state property, I am going to ask him to pay me the shillings he owes. I could be rich! :dance:

Guy
 
MarkBNJ

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bruset said:
A lot changes in language in 200 years. You can argue that it's being dumbed down.
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I don't think there's much argument. The average educated nineteenth century person used language much more richly than a similarly educated person of today. Of course, that person was more a rarity then too, and the people at the other end of the education scale used language less fluently and richly than a person that we might consider uneducated would today. I think the language has been broadened and flattened and made more universally accessible. It also probably works better, as that should be the tendency over time, especially as efficiency of communication becomes an important consideration.
 
pinelandpaddler

pinelandpaddler

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MarkBNJ said:
I don't think there's much argument. The average educated nineteenth century person used language much more richly than a similarly educated person of today. Of course, that person was more a rarity then too, and the people at the other end of the education scale used language less fluently and richly than a person that we might consider uneducated would today. I think the language has been broadened and flattened and made more universally accessible. It also probably works better, as that should be the tendency over time, especially as efficiency of communication becomes an important consideration.
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Very well-put, Mark.
 
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Interesting Link

That says Lacey erected a mill in Northampton, and I'm not sure where that would be today, Smithville maybe?

Also interesting is the following act regarding William Emley's will. He owned much land in New Hanover and built what today is the General Godfrey House in Cookstown, although it wasn't anything substantial at the time. Good reading.

Geoff
 
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