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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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208 laws of the 12th Congress, 1811–1813

  1. An Act vesting in the President of the United States the power of retaliation.

    Ch. LXI · 2 Stat. 829 · March 3, 1813 · Original text

  2. Resolution requesting the President of the United States to cause to be prepared and laid before Congress a system if Military Discipline.

    Resolution II · 2 Stat. 830 · March 3, 1813 · Original text

  3. An Act authorizing the discharge of Daniel Updike from his imprisonment.

    Ch. XLI · 6 Stat. 118 · March 3, 1813 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the relief of Washington Lee.

    Ch. XLVI · 6 Stat. 118 · March 3, 1813 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act for the relief of Lewis Chacherie.

    Ch. XLIX · 6 Stat. 118 · March 3, 1813 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act for the relief of Susannah Wiley.

    Ch. LIX · 6 Stat. 119 · March 3, 1813 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act for the relief of Nathaniel G. Ingraham, Alexander Phoenix, and William Nexsen, junior.

    Ch. LXII · 6 Stat. 119 · March 3, 1813 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Lapsley, deceased.

    Ch. LXIII · 6 Stat. 119 · March 3, 1813 · 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.