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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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234 laws of the 20th Congress, 1827–1829

  1. An Act to authorize a subscription for stock on the part of the United States, in the Louisville and Portland Canal Company.

    Ch. XXXIII · 4 Stat. 353 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  2. An Act making additional appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

    Ch. XXXIV · 4 Stat. 353 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  3. An Act making additional appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

    Ch. XXXV · 4 Stat. 355 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  4. An Act making appropriations for the erection and completion of certain barracks and quarters, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXXVI · 4 Stat. 355 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  5. An Act making additional appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

    Ch. XXXVII · 4 Stat. 356 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  6. An Act providing for the printing and binding sixty thousand copies of the Abstract of Infantry Tactics, including manoeuvres of light in fantry and riflemen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXXVIII · 4 Stat. 357 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  7. An Act to authorize the establishment of a town, on land reserved for the use of schools, and to direct the manner of disposing of certain reserved quarter sections of land for the seat of government in Florida.

    Ch. XXXIX · 4 Stat. 357 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  8. An Act confirming the reports of the register and receiver of the land office for the district of St. Stephens, in the state of Alabama, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XI · 4 Stat. 358 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  9. An Act to provide for the apprehension and delivery of deserters from certain foreign vessels in the ports of the United States.

    Ch. XLI · 4 Stat. 359 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  10. An Act to continue the present mode of supplying the army of the United States.

    Ch. XLII · 4 Stat. 360 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  11. An Act for the relief of the navy hospital fund.

    Ch. XLIII · 4 Stat. 360 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  12. An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain treaties with the Indian tribes, and for holding a treaty with the Pattawatimas.

    Ch. L · 4 Stat. 361 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  13. Resolution in relation to the survey and laying out a military road, in the state of Maine.

    Resolution II · 4 Stat. 369 · March 2, 1829 · Original text

  14. An Act for the relief of William Otis.

    Ch. XLIV · 6 Stat. 396 · March 2, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act for the relief of George Wilson, of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. XLV · 6 Stat. 396 · March 2, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act for the relief of John Smith T. and Wilson P. Hunt.

    Ch. XLVI · 6 Stat. 397 · March 2, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act for the relief of the heirs of John Gwyn.

    Ch. XLVII · 6 Stat. 397 · March 2, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act for the relief of Thomas Griffin.

    Ch. XLVIII · 6 Stat. 397 · March 2, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act for the benefit of the trustees of the Valley Creek Academy, in the state of Alabama.

    Ch. XLIX · 6 Stat. 398 · March 2, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act malting appropriations for the public buildings, and other purposes.

    Ch. LI · 4 Stat. 362 · March 3, 1829 · Original text

  21. An Act making additional appropriations for completing and repairing piers, for the improvement of certain harbours, and of the navigation of certain rivers.

    Ch. LII · 4 Stat. 363 · March 3, 1829 · Original text

  22. An Act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road.

    Ch. LIII · 4 Stat. 363 · March 3, 1829 · Original text

  23. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the reserved salt springs, in the state of Missouri, to be exposed to public sale.

    Ch. LIV · 4 Stat. 364 · March 3, 1829 · Original text

  24. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the reserved lead mines, in the state of Missouri, to be exposed to public sale, and for other purposes.

    Ch. LV · 4 Stat. 364 · March 3, 1829 · Original text

  25. An Act providing for ceding to the state of South Carolina the jurisdiction over, and the title to, a certain tract of land, called Mount Dearborn, in the said state.

    Ch. LVII · 4 Stat. 364 · March 3, 1829 · Original text

  26. An Act concerning the government and discipline of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. LXV · 4 Stat. 365 · March 3, 1829 · Original text

  27. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guest, deceased.

    Ch. LIX · 6 Stat. 395 · March 3, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act for the relief of the representatives of James A. Harper, deceased.

    Ch. LXI · 6 Stat. 395 · March 3, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and George Town Steam Packet Company.

    Ch. LVI · 6 Stat. 398 · March 3, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act for the relief of Charles A. Burnett.

    Ch. LVIII · 6 Stat. 400 · March 3, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act for the relief of Samuel Chesnut.

    Ch. LX · 6 Stat. 400 · March 3, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  32. An Act for the relief of Thomas Hunt.

    Ch. LXII · 6 Stat. 401 · March 3, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  33. An Act for the relief of William R. Maddox.

    Ch. LXIII · 6 Stat. 401 · March 3, 1829 · Private law · Original text

  34. An Act for the relief of Joshua Foltz.

    Ch. LXIV · 6 Stat. 401 · March 3, 1829 · 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.