The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is a bicameral body consisting of an upper house, the Pennsylvania State Senate, with 50 members, and a lower house, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, with 203 members. The legislature convenes in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg.
[August 23, 1756] To the Honourable William Denny, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and of the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, The Address of the…
[August 31, 1756] May it please the Governor , We look upon the Royal Approbation of the Governor’s Appointment, at this critical Time, as a Mark of the paternal Regard…
[October 29, 1756] May it please your Honour , We have considered your Honour’s Message of this Day, with Lord Loudoun’s Letter, laid before us at the Beginning of the…
[November 24, 1756] May it please your Honour , You were pleased by your Message, at the Beginning of this Session, 8 to represent to us the Expediency of framing…
[January 26, 1757] May it please your Honour , The Representatives of the Freemen of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, do hereby humbly remonstrate to your Honour, That the Proprietaries…
[January 28, 1757] Resolved, N.C.D . That a Commissioner, or Commissioners, be appointed to go Home to England, in Behalf of the People of this Province, to solicit a Removal…
[February 9, 1757] May it please your Honour , By our late Law, extending several Sections of the Act of Parliament, intituled, “An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and…
[March 31, 1757] Instructions TO Benjamin Franklin Esqr. One of the Commissioners appointed by the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania to obtain Redress of those several Infractions of the…
January 20, 1764. May it please your Honour , We have taken into our Consideration your Honour’s Message of the Sixteenth Instant, with the Letters therein referred to, and are…
September 22, 1764. Sir, The Representatives of the Freemen of the Province of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, having received Information of the Resolutions of the House of Commons respecting…
May 9, 1775. Gentlemen , The Trust reposed in you, is of such a Nature, and the Modes of executing it, may be so diversified in the Course of your…
November 9, 1775. Gentlemen, The Trust reposed in you is of such a Nature, and the Modes of executing it may be so diversified in the Course of your Deliberations,…