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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.
269 laws of the 19th Congress, 1825–1827
An Act to alter the time of holding the district courts in the district of North Carolina.
Ch. CXXIX · 4 Stat. 186 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, and to repeal all acts heretofore passed for that purpose,” passed fifteenth May, eighteen hundred and twenty.
Ch. CXXX · 4 Stat. 186 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act altering the times of holding the courts in the District of Columbia.
Ch. CXXXI · 4 Stat. 186 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act to fix the time of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States in the district of Ohio.
Ch. CXXXII · 4 Stat. 187 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act to aid certain Indians of the Creek Nation in their removal to the west of the Mississippi.
Ch. CXXXIII · 4 Stat. 187 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act to allow the transportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, to and from Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Lancaster and York, or by the mail-route.
Ch. CXXXIV · 4 Stat. 188 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act to enable the President of the United States to hold a treaty with the Choctaw and Chicasaw nations of Indians.
Ch. CXXXV · 4 Stat. 188 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act to regulate the summoning of grand jurors, in the district courts.
Ch. CXXXVI · 4 Stat. 188 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act declaring valid and legalizing certain sales of land in the state of Mississippi.
Ch. CXXXVII · 4 Stat. 189 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the general land office.
Ch. CXXXVIII · 4 Stat. 189 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act appropriating a sum of money for the repair of the post-road from the Chatahoochie to Line Creek, in the state of Alabama.
Ch. CXXXIX · 4 Stat. 190 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act to perpetuate the evidence relating to the sale of dwelling-houses, lots, and lands, for the non-payment of direct taxes due the United States.
Ch. CXL · 4 Stat. 190 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
Resolution authorizing the delivery of rifles promised to Captain Aitkin’s volunteers, at the siege of Plattsburg.
Resolution IV · 4 Stat. 195 · May 20, 1826 · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Donly.
Ch. LXXXIV · 6 Stat. 345 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William P. Gould.
Ch. LXXXV · 6 Stat. 345 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of David Tate.
Ch. LXXXVI · 6 Stat. 345 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Stienman, James Winner, and Ann M. Nippes, executrix of Abraham Nippes.
Ch. LXXXVII · 6 Stat. 345 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Benedict Joseph Flaget, bishop of Bardstown, in the state of Kentucky.
Ch. XCI · 6 Stat. 346 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting certain grounds in the city of Detroit to the Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, and freemen of that city.
Ch. XCII · 6 Stat. 346 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Matthews.
Ch. XCIII · 6 Stat. 346 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Walley and Foster.
Ch. XCIV · 6 Stat. 346 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Davis Floyd.
Ch. XCV · 6 Stat. 347 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Rebecca Blodget.
Ch. XCVI · 6 Stat. 347 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Gilbert C. Russel.
Ch. XCVII · 6 Stat. 347 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act for the relief of Daniel Seward.”
Ch. XCVIII · 6 Stat. 347 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act giving the right of pre-emption of a certain lot of land to Charles Noble.
Ch. XCIX · 6 Stat. 348 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John A. Webster.
Ch. C · 6 Stat. 348 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Jacob Hampton.
Ch. CI · 6 Stat. 348 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Jarvis Jackson.
Ch. CII · 6 Stat. 348 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Sarah Venable and Jane Morgan.
Ch. CIII · 6 Stat. 349 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act to make compensation to Hugh McClung, for a tract of land situate in the state of Tennessee.
Ch. CIV · 6 Stat. 349 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Thompson.
Ch. CV · 6 Stat. 349 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of W. and J. Montgomery.
Ch. CVI · 6 Stat. 349 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Michael Hoff.
Ch. CVII · 6 Stat. 349 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Dickson and Company.
Ch. CVIII · 6 Stat. 350 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Daniel Davis.
Ch. CXIII · 6 Stat. 350 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John H. Mills.
Ch. CXIV · 6 Stat. 350 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the securities of Joseph Crockett, of Kentucky, late marshal and acting supervisor of the old internal revenue and direct tax.
Ch. CXV · 6 Stat. 350 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana.
Ch. CXVI · 6 Stat. 351 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Adams.
Ch. CXVII · 6 Stat. 351 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Ann D. Baylor, Leroy Edwards, and John Eustace.
Ch. CXVIII · 6 Stat. 351 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of a company of rangers, under the command of Captain James Bigger.
Ch. CXIX · 6 Stat. 352 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Otway Burns.
Ch. CXX · 6 Stat. 352 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William L. D. Ewing.
Ch. CXXI · 6 Stat. 352 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of William V. Keary, deceased.
Ch. CXXII · 6 Stat. 352 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Jesse F. Royston, of Missouri.
Ch. CXLI · 6 Stat. 353 · May 20, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof.
Ch. CXLVII · 4 Stat. 190 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
An Act making appropriations to carry into effect the treaty concluded between the United States and the Creek nation, ratified the twenty-second of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-six.
Ch. CXLVIII · 4 Stat. 191 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
An Act to fix the times and places of holding the district courts of the United States, in the districts of Alabama.
Ch. CXLIX · 4 Stat. 192 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
An Act allowing appeals and writs of error from the decisions in the district court in the northern district of New York, in certain cases.
Ch. CL · 4 Stat. 192 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
An Act authorizing the payment of interest due to the stale of New York.
Ch. CLI · 4 Stat. 192 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
An Act to compensate the registers and receivers of the land offices, for extra services rendered under the provisions of the act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-one.
Ch. CLII · 4 Stat. 193 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
An Act to compensate receivers of public moneys for transporting and depositing the same.
Ch. CLIII · 4 Stat. 193 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the public buildings in Washington, and for other purposes.
Ch. CLIV · 4 Stat. 194 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
An Act for the relief of the Florida Indians.
Ch. CLV · 4 Stat. 194 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
Resolution directing surveys and estimates for dry docks.
Resolution V · 4 Stat. 195 · May 22, 1826 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Walker K. Armistead.
Ch. CXLII · 6 Stat. 353 · May 22, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Alfred Flournoy.
Ch. CXLIII · 6 Stat. 353 · May 22, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Biggs.
Ch. CXLIV · 6 Stat. 353 · May 22, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Tharp.
Ch. CXLV · 6 Stat. 354 · May 22, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Monroe.
Ch. CXLVI · 6 Stat. 354 · May 22, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the Florida Indians.
Ch. CLV · 6 Stat. 354 · May 22, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Mack and Conant.
Ch. CLVI · 6 Stat. 354 · May 22, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Phinehas Underwood, andfor other purposes.
Ch. CLVII · 6 Stat. 355 · May 22, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Kellogg.
Ch. CLVIII · 6 Stat. 355 · May 22, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Edward Lee.
Ch. I · 6 Stat. 356 · December 29, 1826 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Warner Wing.
Ch. II · 6 Stat. 356 · December 29, 1826 · Private law · Original text
Resolution directing the Secretary of the Navy to apply to the government of Pennsylvania for jurisdiction over certain lands at the navy yard, Philadelphia.
Resolution · 4 Stat. 145 · January 24, 1827 · Original text
to provide for taking evidence in the courts of the United States in certain cases.
Ch. IV · 4 Stat. 197 · January 24, 1827 · Original text
An Act concerning the selection of certain lands heretofore granted by compact, to the state of Missouri, for seminaries of learning.
Ch. V · 4 Stat. 200 · January 24, 1827 · Original text
An Act for the relief of the indigent sufferers by the fire at Alexandria.
Ch. III · 6 Stat. 356 · January 24, 1827 · Private law · Original text
An Act to allow the citizens of the territory of Michigan to elect the members of their legislative council, and for other purposes.
Ch. VI · 4 Stat. 200 · January 29, 1827 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States.
Ch. VII · 4 Stat. 201 · January 29, 1827 · Original text
An Act to provide for the location of the two townships of land reserved for a seminary of learning in the territory of Florida, and to complete the location of the grant to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky.
Ch. VIII · 4 Stat. 201 · January 29, 1827 · Original text
An Act to provide for the confirmation and settlement of private land claims in East Florida, and for other purposes.
Ch. IX · 4 Stat. 202 · February 8, 1827 · Original text
An Act to provide for the settlement of the accounts of James W. Lent, junior, deceased.
Ch. X · 6 Stat. 357 · February 8, 1827 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Von Kapffe and Brune, of Baltimore.
Ch. XI · 6 Stat. 357 · February 8, 1827 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Lieutenant Isaac McKeever.
Ch. XII · 6 Stat. 357 · February 8, 1827 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Francis King, assignee of William King.
Ch. XIII · 6 Stat. 357 · February 8, 1827 · Private law · Original text
An Act to authorize the corporation of the city of Washington to introduce into the lotteries they are authorized to establish, certain land prizes herein mentioned.
Ch. XIV · 4 Stat. 205 · February 22, 1827 · Original text
An Act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court.
Ch. XVIII · 4 Stat. 205 · February 22, 1827 · Original text
An Act to authorize the President of the United States to remove the land office in the Choctaw district, in the state of Mississippi.
Ch. XIX · 4 Stat. 205 · February 22, 1827 · Original text
An Act concerning the entry of vessels at the port of Fairfield, in Connecticut.
Ch. XX · 4 Stat. 206 · February 22, 1827 · Original text
An Act to exempt Swedish and Norwegian vessels, and the merchandise imported therein, from the payment of discriminating duties of tonnage and impost, for a limited time, and for other purposes.
Ch. XXI · 4 Stat. 206 · February 22, 1827 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Benjamin Woodworth.
Ch. XV · 6 Stat. 357 · February 22, 1827 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Alfred Flournoy.
Ch. XVI · 6 Stat. 358 · February 22, 1827 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Noah Noble, of Indiana.
Ch. XVII · 6 Stat. 358 · February 22, 1827 · Private law · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.
Ch. XXII · 4 Stat. 206 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
Ch. XXIII · 4 Stat. 208 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
Ch. XXIX · 4 Stat. 214 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
Ch. XXX · 4 Stat. 216 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act malting appropriations for the erection and completion of certain barracks, store-houses, and hospitals, and for other purposes.
Ch. XXXI · 4 Stat. 217 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
Ch. XXXII · 4 Stat. 217 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and other objects.
Ch. XXXIII · 4 Stat. 218 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act supplementary to “An act to perfect certain locations and sales of the public lands in Missouri,” passed April the twenty-six, [sixth,] one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.
Ch. XXXIV · 4 Stat. 219 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act to extend the time of issuing and locating military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army.
Ch. XXXV · 4 Stat. 219 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act to provide for the adjustment of claims to persons entitled to indemnification, under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, and for the distribution, among such claimants, of the sum paid, and to be paid, by the government of Great Britain, under the convention between the United States and his Britannic majesty, concluded at London on the thirteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
Ch. XXXVI · 4 Stat. 219 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act to establish sundry post-roads.
Ch. XXXVII · 4 Stat. 221 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of books for the use of the library of Congress, and for other purposes.
Ch. XL · 4 Stat. 226 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
An Act to alter the time of holding the district court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama, and for other purposes.
Ch. XLI · 4 Stat. 226 · March 2, 1827 · Original text
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- 112th 2011 · 284
- 111th 2009 · 385
- 110th 2007 · 460
- 109th 2005 · 483
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- 107th 2001 · 337
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- 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.