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Every law Congress has passed

97,863 laws from 1789 to 2026, as printed in the Statutes at Large, the official record of every act of Congress. 51,799 are public laws; 46,064 are private laws, which apply to named people or places, such as pensions, land claims and relief from debts.

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106 laws of the 10th Congress, 1807–1809

  1. An Act authorizing an augmentation of the Marine Corps.

    Ch. XXXIII · 2 Stat. 544 · March 3, 1809 · Original text

  2. An Act supplemental to the act intituled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.”

    Ch. XXXIV · 2 Stat. 544 · March 3, 1809 · Original text

  3. An Act making appropriations for the. support of the Military establishment, and of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine.

    Ch. XXXVI · 2 Stat. 545 · March 3, 1809 · Original text

  4. An Act for the relief of Jacob Barnitz.

    Ch. XXXII · 6 Stat. 79 · March 3, 1809 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act to extend to Amos Whittemore and William Whittemore, junior, the patent right to a machine for manufacturing cotton and wool cards.

    Ch. XXXV · 6 Stat. 80 · March 3, 1809 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act concerning invalid pensioners.

    Ch. XXXVII · 6 Stat. 80 · March 3, 1809 · Private law · Original text

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From the U.S. Statutes at Large, volumes 1 through 138, published by the Government Publishing Office on GovInfo; laws signed since the latest printed volume come from GovInfo’s public and private law files. Treaties, proclamations and concurrent resolutions, which share those volumes, are not laws and are left out. The oldest volumes were digitized from print, so a few dates could not be read; for those we show the year from the laws printed alongside. Short names come from each law’s own “may be cited as” clause.