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The Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (also known as the Pamphlet Laws or just Laws of Pennsylvania, as well as the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) is the compilation of session laws passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. [1]
William Westcott Rundell, sometimes W W Rundell (21 March 1816–10 March 1897) was an inventor and engineer from Stoke Damerel in Devon. He is best known for his work on the magnetism, particularly of adjustment needed for compasses on iron ships. [1] He also campaigned for the better training of ships crews.
Online digitized versions of many 18th- and 19th-century American atlases, as well as the 1897 Rand McNally Indexed Atlas of the World and many other maps, can be found at DavidRumsey.com. Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps from Atlases and any old books with maps in them!
The Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, convened on January 19, 1897, to elect a new Senator to fill the term beginning on March 4, 1897. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:
U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1881 to 1889 and Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1897 to 1899 [17] George Handy Smith: Republican: 1875 – 1895: William Wagner: Whig: 1883 – 1884: Founder of the Wagner Free Institute of Science [18] George Augustus Vare: Republican: 1897 – 1907: Edwin H ...
Compass is an unincorporated community in West Caln Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. Compass is located at the intersection of state routes 10 and 340. [2] The community was named after the image of a compass on the sign of a tavern. [3]
Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsilfaani), [7] is a U.S. state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Type Symbol Description Adopted Image Notes Aircraft: Piper J-3 Cub: June 26, 2014 [2]Amphibian: Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) April 23, 2019