The Register
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.
119 laws of the 11th Congress, 1809–1811
An Act supplementary in the act, entituled “An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes.”
Ch. XXIX · 2 Stat. 651 · March 2, 1811 · Original text
An Act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.
Ch. XXX · 2 Stat. 652 · March 2, 1811 · Original text
An Act to establish the Districts of Mumphreymagog, of Oswegatchie, and of the White Mountains.
Ch. XXXI · 2 Stat. 655 · March 2, 1811 · Original text
An Act authorizing a loan of money, for a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars.
Ch. XXXII · 2 Stat. 656 · March 2, 1811 · Original text
An Act to annex a part of the state of New Jersey to the collection district of New York; to remove the office of Collector of Niagara to Lewistown; to make Cape St. Vincent, in the district of Sacket’s Harbor, a port of delivery; and out of the districts of Miami and Mississippi to make two new districts, to be called the Districts of Sandusky and Teche; and for other purposes.
Ch. XXXIII · 2 Stat. 656 · March 2, 1811 · Original text
An Act to extend the time for completing the third census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.
Ch. XXXIV · 2 Stat. 658 · March 2, 1811 · Original text
An Act declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the stale of Georgia, passed the twelfth of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, “establishing the fees of the harbor master and health officer of the ports of Savannah and St. Mary’s.”
Ch. XXXVI · 2 Stat. 658 · March 2, 1811 · Original text
An Act to erect a lighthouse on Boon island in the state of Massachusetts, to place buoys off Cape Fear river, and to erect a beacon at New Inlet, in the stale if North Carolina, and to place buoys at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, and to erect a column of stone on Cape Elizabeth, and to complete the beacons and buoys at the entrance of Beverly harbor, in the slate of Massachusetts.
Ch. XXXVII · 2 Stat. 659 · March 2, 1811 · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Macnamara.
Ch. XXXV · 6 Stat. 99 · March 2, 1811 · Private law · Original text
An Act to extend the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes.
Ch. XXXVIII · 2 Stat. 659 · March 3, 1811 · Original text
An Act to increase the salaries of the Judges of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.
Ch. XL · 2 Stat. 660 · March 3, 1811 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Great and Little Osage nations of Indians, concluded at Fort Clarke, on the tenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and for other purposes.
Ch. XLI · 2 Stat. 660 · March 3, 1811 · Original text
An Act making further appropriations to complete the fortifications commenced far the security of the ports and harbors of the United States.
Ch. XLIII · 2 Stat. 661 · March 3, 1811 · Original text
An Act for allowing a reasonable compensation in the parsons who have taken an account of the several manufacturing establishments and manufactures within the United States.
Ch. XLIV · 2 Stat. 661 · March 3, 1811 · Original text
An Act in addition to the act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the stale of Ohio.
Ch. XLV · 2 Stat. 661 · March 3, 1811 · Original text
An Act providing for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, and to repeal the act passed for the same purpose, and approved February sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.
Ch. XLVI · 2 Stat. 662 · March 3, 1811 · Original text
An Act concerning an act to enable the President of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the country lying cast of the river Perdido, and south of the state of Georgia and the Mississippi territory, and for other purposes, and the declaration accompanying the same.
Ch. XLVII · 2 Stat. 666 · March 3, 1811 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Richard Tervin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, and Joseph Wilson, of the Mississippi Territory.
Ch. XXXIX · 6 Stat. 99 · March 3, 1811 · Private law · Original text
An Act concerning invalid pensioners.
Ch. XLII · 6 Stat. 100 · March 3, 1811 · Private law · Original text
By Congress
- 119th 2025 · 136
- 118th 2023 · 274
- 117th 2021 · 365
- 116th 2019 · 344
- 115th 2017 · 443
- 114th 2015 · 329
- 113th 2013 · 296
- 112th 2011 · 284
- 111th 2009 · 385
- 110th 2007 · 460
- 109th 2005 · 483
- 108th 2003 · 504
- 107th 2001 · 337
- 106th 1999 · 604
- 105th 1997 · 404
- 104th 1995 · 337
- 103rd 1993 · 473
- 102nd 1991 · 610
- 101st 1989 · 666
- 100th 1987 · 761
- 99th 1985 · 688
- 98th 1983 · 677
- 97th 1981 · 529
- 96th 1979 · 736
- 95th 1977 · 805
- 94th 1975 · 729
- 93rd 1973 · 774
- 92nd 1971 · 769
- 91st 1969 · 942
- 90th 1967 · 1,002
- 89th 1965 · 1,283
- 88th 1963 · 1,026
- 87th 1961 · 1,573
- 86th 1959 · 1,292
- 85th 1957 · 1,721
- 84th 1955 · 1,909
- 83rd 1953 · 1,784
- 82nd 1951 · 1,640
- 81st 1949 · 2,000
- 80th 1947 · 1,365
- 79th 1945 · 1,626
- 78th 1943 · 1,157
- 77th 1941 · 1,489
- 76th 1939 · 1,659
- 75th 1937 · 1,760
- 74th 1935 · 1,724
- 73rd 1933 · 975
- 72nd 1931 · 861
- 71st 1929 · 1,506
- 70th 1927 · 1,722
- 69th 1925 · 1,423
- 68th 1923 · 996
- 67th 1921 · 930
- 66th 1919 · 594
- 65th 1917 · 453
- 64th 1915 · 684
- 63rd 1913 · 700
- 62nd 1911 · 717
- 61st 1909 · 881
- 60th 1907 · 621
- 59th 1905 · 7,020
- 58th 1903 · 4,043
- 57th 1901 · 2,773
- 56th 1899 · 1,959
- 55th 1897 · 1,438
- 54th 1895 · 947
- 53rd 1893 · 712
- 52nd 1891 · 721
- 51st 1889 · 2,188
- 50th 1887 · 1,824
- 49th 1885 · 1,452
- 48th 1883 · 970
- 47th 1881 · 761
- 46th 1879 · 650
- 45th 1877 · 746
- 44th 1875 · 578
- 43rd 1873 · 859
- 42nd 1871 · 1,014
- 41st 1869 · 771
- 40th 1867 · 769
- 39th 1865 · 715
- 38th 1863 · 516
- 37th 1861 · 526
- 36th 1859 · 382
- 35th 1857 · 314
- 34th 1855 · 435
- 33rd 1853 · 540
- 32nd 1851 · 308
- 31st 1849 · 171
- 30th 1847 · 456
- 29th 1845 · 356
- 28th 1843 · 279
- 27th 1841 · 525
- 26th 1839 · 147
- 25th 1837 · 533
- 24th 1835 · 459
- 23rd 1833 · 392
- 22nd 1831 · 461
- 21st 1829 · 370
- 20th 1827 · 234
- 19th 1825 · 269
- 18th 1823 · 337
- 17th 1821 · 237
- 16th 1819 · 210
- 15th 1817 · 262
- 14th 1815 · 305
- 13th 1813 · 271
- 12th 1811 · 208
- 11th 1809 · 119
- 10th 1807 · 106
- 9th 1805 · 110
- 8th 1803 · 112
- 7th 1801 · 96
- 6th 1799 · 115
- 5th 1797 · 157
- 4th 1795 · 86
- 3rd 1793 · 133
- 2nd 1791 · 80
- 1st 1789 · 119
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.