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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.
461 laws of the 22nd Congress, 1831–1833
An Act for the relief of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer.
Ch. CCXCI · 6 Stat. 524 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Augustine Taney.
Ch. CCXCII · 6 Stat. 525 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Henry Waller.
Ch. CCXCIII · 6 Stat. 525 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Harvey Brown.
Ch. CCXCIV · 6 Stat. 525 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Alexander Oswald Brodie, of New York.
Ch. CCXCV · 6 Stat. 525 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Hoffman, a Canadian volunteer.
Ch. CCXCVI · 6 Stat. 525 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the widow and heirs of Pedro, alias Pierre Guedry.
Ch. CCXCVII · 6 Stat. 526 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Nimrod Farrow and of Richard Harris.
Ch. CCXCVIII · 6 Stat. 526 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Nathaniel Hillen.
Ch. CCXCIX · 6 Stat. 526 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Mary Daws, Robert Bond, James Patridge, and John G. Smith.
Ch. CCC · 6 Stat. 527 · July 14, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act supplemental to the act “granting certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahaba, and Black Warrior rivers,” approved the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Ch. CCCI · 4 Stat. 604 · July 16, 1832 · Original text
An Act for the relief of certain Invalid Pensioners.
Ch. CCCII · 6 Stat. 527 · July 16, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Grieve Drummond.
Ch. CCCIII · 6 Stat. 527 · July 16, 1832 · Private law · Original text
An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and, for certain expenditures of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Ch. I · 4 Stat. 609 · January 14, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Ch. II · 4 Stat. 610 · January 14, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for carrying on the fortifications of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Ch. III · 4 Stat. 610 · January 14, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the relief of the children of Charles Comb and Marguerite Laviolet, his wife.
Ch. IV · 6 Stat. 528 · January 14, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Eugene Borell.
Ch. V · 6 Stat. 528 · January 14, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act to change the names of William B. Finch and Elizabeth B. Finch, to that of William Compton Bolton, and Elizabeth Bolton.
Ch. VI · 6 Stat. 528 · January 14, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Joseph Eaton, an assistant surgeon in the army of the United States.
Ch. VII · 6 Stat. 529 · January 14, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Matthew Flournoy, and R. J. Ward of the state of Mississippi.
Ch. VIII · 6 Stat. 529 · January 28, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Archibald Gamble.
Ch. IX · 6 Stat. 529 · January 28, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William B. Keene and John L. Martin, and for other purposes.
Ch. X · 6 Stat. 529 · January 28, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Peter McCormick.
Ch. XI · 6 Stat. 530 · January 28, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act to establish a land office in the territory of Michigan.
Ch. XII · 4 Stat. 610 · January 30, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Jean Baptiste Saucier.
Ch. XIII · 6 Stat. 530 · January 30, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William A. Tennille, of Georgia.
Ch. XIV · 6 Stat. 530 · January 30, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of George Mayfield.
Ch. XV · 6 Stat. 530 · January 30, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for making Calais and Pembroke, in the state of Maine, ports of delivery.
Ch. XVI · 4 Stat. 611 · February 5, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Sylvester Havens.
Ch. XVII · 6 Stat. 531 · February 5, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Daniel Johnson.
Ch. XVIII · 6 Stat. 531 · February 5, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Andrew Moore.
Ch. XIX · 6 Stat. 531 · February 5, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act amendatory to an act, entitled “An act for the relief of Robert C. Jennings, and of the executors of James Roddy, deceased.”
Ch. XX · 6 Stat. 531 · February 5, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents to persons therein named.
Ch. XXI · 6 Stat. 531 · February 5, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Joel Thomas.
Ch. XXII · 6 Stat. 532 · February 5, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act to explain an act, entitled “An act to reduce the duties on coffee, tea, and cocoa,” passed the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Ch. XXIII · 4 Stat. 611 · February 9, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Nicholas Hart, deceased, and the heirs of John Grayson, deceased, and Jacob Bosworth.
Ch. XXIV · 6 Stat. 532 · February 9, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the administrator of the late Colonel John Thornton, deceased.
Ch. XXV · 6 Stat. 533 · February 9, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Brownlee.
Ch. XXVI · 6 Stat. 533 · February 9, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Russell Hotchkiss and others, owners of the brig Stranger.
Ch. XXVII · 6 Stat. 533 · February 9, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy and Jean Baptiste Beaugraud.
Ch. XXVIII · 6 Stat. 534 · February 9, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Josiah Barker.
Ch. XXIX · 6 Stat. 534 · February 9, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to alter and amend an act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive;” approved nineteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Ch. XXX · 4 Stat. 611 · February 19, 1833 · Original text
An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.”
Ch. XXXI · 4 Stat. 612 · February 19, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the further improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Ch. XXXII · 4 Stat. 612 · February 19, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the payment of horses and arms lost in the military service of the United States against the Indians on the frontiers of Illinois and the Michigan territory.
Ch. XXXIII · 4 Stat. 613 · February 19, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the purchase of certain copies of Watterston and Vanzandt’s Statistical Tables, and to authorize a subscription for a continuation of the same.
Ch. XXXIV · 4 Stat. 613 · February 19, 1833 · Original text
A Resolution authorizing the delivery of certain papers in the Department of Stale to the commissioners for settling claims under the treaty with France, of the second of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Resolution I · 4 Stat. 668 · February 19, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the relief of John D. Sloat.
Ch. XXXV · 6 Stat. 534 · February 19, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Crosby Arey.
Ch. XXXVI · 6 Stat. 534 · February 19, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Enoch Wilhoet.
Ch. XXXVII · 6 Stat. 535 · February 19, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William P. Zantzinger.
Ch. XXXVIII · 6 Stat. 535 · February 19, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Ch. XXXIX · 4 Stat. 614 · February 20, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for Indian annuities, and other similar objects, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Ch. XL · 4 Stat. 616 · February 20, 1833 · Original text
An Act to authorize the laying out and constructing a road from Line Creek to the Chatahooche, and for repairing the road on which the mail is now transported.
Ch. XLI · 4 Stat. 618 · February 20, 1833 · Original text
An Act to authorize the legislature of the state of Ohio to sell the land reserved for the support of religion in the Ohio Company’s, and John Cleeves Symmes’ purchases.
Ch. XLII · 4 Stat. 618 · February 20, 1833 · Original text
An Act further to extend the time for entering certain donation claims to land in the territory of Arkansas.
Ch. XLIII · 4 Stat. 619 · February 20, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Sarah Carr, widow of Richard Carr, deceased.
Ch. XLIV · 6 Stat. 535 · February 20, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Abraham Adams.
Ch. XLV · 6 Stat. 535 · February 20, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the widow of Joseph Knight.
Ch. XLVI · 6 Stat. 536 · February 20, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Glover Broughton, of Marblehead, late owner of the fishing schooner Union; and, also, for the relief of the crew of said vessel.
Ch. XLVII · 6 Stat. 536 · February 27, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Josiah P. Creesy, and others.
Ch. XLVIII · 6 Stat. 536 · February 27, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John S. Devlin.
Ch. XLIX · 6 Stat. 536 · February 27, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Alexander Donelson.
Ch. L · 6 Stat. 536 · February 27, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief [of] Riddle, Becktle, and Headington.
Ch. LI · 6 Stat. 537 · February 27, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs of John Wilson, deceased.
Ch. LII · 6 Stat. 537 · February 27, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Archibald Watt.
Ch. LIII · 6 Stat. 537 · February 27, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Ch. LIV · 4 Stat. 619 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to modify the act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and all other acts imposing duties on imports.
Ch. LV · 4 Stat. 629 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Ch. LVI · 4 Stat. 631 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports.
Ch. LVII · 4 Stat. 632 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to explain and amend the eighteenth section of “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,” approved the fourteenth July, one thousand eight hundred und thirty-two.
Ch. LVIII · 4 Stat. 635 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriations to carry into effect certain Indian treaties, and for other purposes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Ch. LIX · 4 Stat. 636 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the engineer and ordnance departments.
Ch. LX · 4 Stat. 641 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Ch. LXI · 4 Stat. 642 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to explain and amend, the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports passed July fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, so far as relates to hardware, and certain manufactures of copper and brass, and other articles.
Ch. LXII · 4 Stat. 644 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the erection of certain fortifications.
Ch. LXIII · 4 Stat. 645 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act for improving the navigation of certain rivers in the territories of Florida and Michigan, and for surveys, and for other purposes.
Ch. LXIV · 4 Stat. 645 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act in relation to the Potomac bridge.
Ch. LXV · 4 Stat. 646 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to improve the navigation of the Potomac river between Georgetown and Alexandria, and for other purposes.
Ch. LXVI · 4 Stat. 646 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act [ in ] addition to the act for the gradual improvement of the navy of the United States.
Ch. LXVII · 4 Stat. 646 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to improve the condition of the non-commissioned officers and privates of the army and marine corps of the United States, and to prevent desertion.
Ch. LXVIII · 4 Stat. 647 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for carrying on certain marks heretofore commenced for the improvement of harbours and rivers, and, also, for continuing and repairing the Cumberland road, and certain territorial roads.
Ch. LXIX · 4 Stat. 648 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act making appropriation for the public buildings, and for other purposes.
Ch. LXX · 4 Stat. 649 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the construction of a road from the Mississippi river to William Strong’s, on the St. Francis river, in the territory of Arkansas.
Ch. LXXI · 4 Stat. 650 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act prolonging the second session of the fifth legislative council of the territory of Michigan.
Ch. LXXII · 4 Stat. 650 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act in addition to, and in alteration of, an act entitled “An act vesting in the corporation of the city of Washington all the rights of the Washington Canal Company,” and for other purposes.
Ch. LXXIII · 4 Stat. 651 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act establishing a port of entry and delivery at the village of Fall River in Massachusetts, and discontinuing the office at Dighton.
Ch. LXXIV · 4 Stat. 651 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to authorize the President of the United States to exchange certain lands belonging to the navy yard at Brooklyn, for other lands contiguous thereto.
Ch. LXXV · 4 Stat. 652 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act for the more perfect defence of the frontiers.
Ch. LXXVI · 4 Stat. 652 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to create sundry new land offices, and to alter the boundaries of other land offices of the United States.
Ch. LXXVII · 4 Stat. 653 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act making provision for the publication of the Documentary History of the American Revolution.
Ch. LXXVIII · 4 Stat. 654 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of the state of Virginia, hereinafter recited.
Ch. LXXIX · 4 Stat. 655 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to secure to mechanics and others payment for labour done and materials furnished in the erection of buildings in the District of Columbia.
Ch. LXXX · 4 Stat. 659 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act authorizing an alteration in the election districts for members of the legislative council of the territory of Michigan.
Ch. LXXXII · 4 Stat. 660 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act concerning a seminary of learning in the territory of Arkansas,” approved the second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.
Ch. LXXXIII · 4 Stat. 661 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act supplemental to the act entitled “An act for the final adjustment of land claims in Missouri.”
Ch. LXXXIV · 4 Stat. 661 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act authorizing the removal of the office of surveyor general of public lands south of Tennessee.
Ch. LXXXV · 4 Stat. 662 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to grant a quantity of land to the stale of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan,” and to allow further time to the state of Ohio for commencing the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie.
Ch. LXXXVII · 4 Stat. 662 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the public surreys to be connected with the line of demarcation between the states of Indiana and Illinois.
Ch. LXXXIX · 4 Stat. 663 · March 2, 1833 · Original text
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- 112th 2011 · 284
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- 110th 2007 · 460
- 109th 2005 · 483
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- 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.