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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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305 laws of the 14th Congress, 1815–1817

  1. An Act for the relief of George Buckmaster.

    Ch. XC · 6 Stat. 195 · March 3, 1817 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act for the relief of James H. Boisgervais.

    Ch. XCV · 6 Stat. 195 · March 3, 1817 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the relief of the widow and children of Abraham Owen.

    Ch. XCVII · 6 Stat. 196 · March 3, 1817 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the relief of Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough.

    Ch. XCVIII · 6 Stat. 196 · March 3, 1817 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act for the relief of William Oliver.

    Ch. CXIII · 6 Stat. 196 · March 3, 1817 · Private law · Original text

By Congress

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.