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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.
392 laws of the 23rd Congress, 1833–1835
An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act for the relief of George Johnston,” passed second March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Ch. CCLXXXVI · 6 Stat. 523 · July 14, 1833 · Private law · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Ch. I · 4 Stat. 670 · January 24, 1834 · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Widow Robert Avart.
Ch. II · 6 Stat. 553 · January 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of George Chinn.
Ch. III · 6 Stat. 553 · January 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of George H. Jennings.
Ch. IV · 6 Stat. 553 · February 5, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James H. Brewer.
Ch. V · 6 Stat. 554 · February 5, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Russell Hunt, David Hunt, and Amos Hunt.
Ch. VI · 6 Stat. 554 · February 5, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Edward Willett.
Ch. VII · 6 Stat. 554 · February 5, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Richard Bagnall, executor of James Vaughan.
Ch. VIII · 6 Stat. 554 · February 5, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Hurtell.
Ch. IX · 6 Stat. 554 · February 5, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Ch. X · 4 Stat. 672 · February 11, 1834 · Original text
An Act further to continue in force “An act to authorize the extension, construction, and use of a lateral branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad into and within the District of Columbia.”
Ch. XI · 4 Stat. 672 · February 26, 1834 · Original text
An Act to authorize Gazaway B. Lamar, to import an iron steamboat, in detached parts, with the necessary machinery, tools, and working utensils, therefore, into the United States, free from duty, and to provide for the remission of the same.
Ch. XII · 6 Stat. 555 · February 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Joseph M. Harper.
Ch. XIII · 6 Stat. 555 · February 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Benjamin Sherfey.
Ch. XIV · 6 Stat. 555 · February 26, 1834 · Private law · 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-four.
Ch. XV · 4 Stat. 672 · February 27, 1834 · Original text
An Act to change the times for commencing the sessions of the courts of the United States in the district of Delaware.
Ch. XVI · 4 Stat. 673 · March 24, 1834 · Original text
An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claims of the United States, against the late firm of Minturn and Champlin, and their securities.
Ch. XVII · 6 Stat. 555 · March 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the widow and heirs of Felix St. Vrain.
Ch. XVIII · 6 Stat. 556 · March 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Kimberlin.
Ch. XIX · 6 Stat. 556 · March 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of George Staley.
Ch. XX · 6 Stat. 556 · March 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Hone and Sons, of New York.
Ch. XXI · 6 Stat. 556 · March 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Noah Staley.
Ch. XXII · 6 Stat. 557 · March 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Philip Hickey.
Ch. XXIII · 6 Stat. 557 · March 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Peleg Spencer.
Ch. XXIV · 6 Stat. 557 · April 15, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Haggerty and David Austin, of New York.
Ch. XXV · 6 Stat. 557 · April 15, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Bills.
Ch. XXVI · 6 Stat. 557 · April 15, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Thomas Richardson.
Ch. XXVII · 6 Stat. 558 · April 15, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Samuel Thompson.
Ch. XXVIII · 6 Stat. 558 · April 15, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Daniel Hazleton and William Palmer.
Ch. XXIX · 6 Stat. 558 · April 15, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Thompson.
Ch. XXX · 6 Stat. 558 · April 18, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act to authorize the issuing of a register to the brig American, of Savannah.
Ch. XXXI · 6 Stat. 559 · May 1, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act supplementary to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana,” approved on the twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
Ch. XXXII · 6 Stat. 559 · May 1, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John L. Lobdell.
Ch. XXXIII · 6 Stat. 559 · May 1, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Whitford Gill.
Ch. XXXIV · 6 Stat. 559 · May 1, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the legal representative of James Morrison, deceased.
Ch. XXXV · 6 Stat. 560 · May 1, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William S. Anderson.
Ch. XXXVI · 6 Stat. 560 · May 1, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Henry Oakes.
Ch. XXXVII · 6 Stat. 560 · May 10, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Webber.
Ch. XXXVIII · 6 Stat. 560 · May 10, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Thomas Ap C. Jones.
Ch. XXXIX · 6 Stat. 560 · May 10, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John H. Maguire.
Ch. XL · 6 Stat. 561 · May 10, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Ch. XLI · 4 Stat. 673 · May 14, 1834 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Coleman Fisher.
Ch. XLII · 6 Stat. 561 · May 14, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Luther L. Smith.
Ch. XLIII · 6 Stat. 561 · May 14, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John S. Fleming, administrator de bonis non of John Syme, deceased.
Ch. XLIV · 6 Stat. 562 · May 23, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act to revive and amend “An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States,” passed on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and an act in addition thereto, passed on the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
Ch. XLV · 4 Stat. 676 · June 7, 1834 · Original text
An Act to equalize representation in the territory of Florida, and for other purposes.
Ch. XLVI · 4 Stat. 677 · June 18, 1834 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Ch. XLVII · 4 Stat. 677 · June 18, 1834 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Asa Hartfield, his assignee or legal representative.
Ch. XLVIII · 6 Stat. 562 · June 18, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Martha Bailey and others.
Ch. XLIX · 6 Stat. 562 · June 18, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting the right of pre-emption to John Yantis.
Ch. L · 6 Stat. 563 · June 18, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of George K. Jackson.
Ch. LI · 6 Stat. 563 · June 18, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Rowe, deceased.
Ch. LII · 6 Stat. 563 · June 18, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Frances Barham, deceased, and her husband, Fielding Barham.
Ch. LIII · 6 Stat. 563 · June 18, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act to revive the act entitled “An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,” approved May twenty-nine, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Ch. LIV · 4 Stat. 678 · June 19, 1834 · Original text
An Act further to extend the term of certain pensions chargeable on the privateer pension fund.
Ch. LV · 4 Stat. 679 · June 19, 1834 · Original text
An Act to grant to the state of Ohio certain lands for the support of schools in the Connecticut Western Reserve.
Ch. LVI · 4 Stat. 679 · June 19, 1834 · Original text
An Act to extend the time allowed for the discharge of the duties of the commission for carrying into effect the convention with France.
Ch. LVII · 4 Stat. 679 · June 19, 1834 · Original text
An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to carry into effect the convention between the United States and his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies, concluded at Naples on the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.”
Ch. LVIII · 4 Stat. 680 · June 19, 1834 · Original text
An Act for the re-appropriation of an unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the payment of the Georgia militia claims for the years one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
Ch. LIX · 4 Stat. 680 · June 19, 1834 · Original text
An Act making additional appropriations for the armory at Harper’s Ferry, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four.
Ch. LX · 4 Stat. 680 · June 19, 1834 · Original text
Resolution providing for the distribution of the diplomatic correspondence of the United States, from the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, to the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine.
Resolution I · 4 Stat. 743 · June 19, 1834 · Original text
Resolution for distributing returns of the last census.
Resolution II · 4 Stat. 744 · June 19, 1834 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Francis Barnes.
Ch. LXI · 6 Stat. 564 · June 19, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Boyd, deceased.
Ch. LXII · 6 Stat. 564 · June 19, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Percival, Master Commandant in the United States Navy.
Ch. LXIII · 6 Stat. 564 · June 19, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Aaron Bellamy.
Ch. LXIV · 6 Stat. 564 · June 19, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the widow and children of George Ludlum, deceased.
Ch. LXV · 6 Stat. 565 · June 19, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Lucy Loomis.
Ch. LXVI · 6 Stat. 565 · June 19, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Doctor John Berrien, deceased.
Ch. LXVII · 6 Stat. 565 · June 19, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the continuation and repair of the Cumberland road.
Ch. LXVIII · 4 Stat. 680 · June 24, 1834 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Charles Burkham and others, employed as spies, on the frontier of Arkansas, in eighteen hundred and thirty.
Ch. LXIX · 6 Stat. 566 · June 24, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act regulating the value of certain foreign silver coins within the United States.
Ch. LXXI · 4 Stat. 681 · June 25, 1834 · Original text
An Act to change the boundary between the south-eastern and the western land districts in the territory of Michigan, and for other purposes.
Ch. LXXII · 4 Stat. 682 · June 25, 1834 · Original text
Resolution giving the right of way through the property of the United States at Harper’s Ferry, to the Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company.
Resolution III · 4 Stat. 744 · June 25, 1834 · Original text
An Act granting pensions to certain persons therein named.
Ch. LXX · 6 Stat. 566 · June 25, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Peregrine Gardner.
Ch. LXXIII · 6 Stat. 566 · June 25, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act making appropriations for Indian annuities, and other similar objects, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Ch. LXXIV · 4 Stat. 682 · June 26, 1834 · Original text
An Act for the relief of the town of Fayetteville, in the territory of Arkansas.
Ch. LXXV · 4 Stat. 685 · June 26, 1834 · Original text
An Act to create additional land districts in the states of Illinois and Missouri, and in the territory north of the state of Illinois.
Ch. LXXVI · 4 Stat. 686 · June 26, 1834 · Original text
An Act to establish an additional land office in Arkansas.
Ch. LXXVII · 4 Stat. 687 · June 26, 1834 · Original text
An Act confirming certain land claims in the district of St. Stephen’s, in Alabama.
Ch. LXXVIII · 4 Stat. 688 · June 26, 1834 · Original text
Resolution manifesting the sensibility of the two houses of Congress, and of the nation, on the occasion of the decease of General La Fayette.
Resolution IV · 4 Stat. 745 · June 26, 1834 · Original text
An Act for the relief of the town of Fayetteville, in the Territory of Arkansas.
Ch. LXXV · 6 Stat. 567 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Asher Morgan and others.
Ch. LXXIX · 6 Stat. 567 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Jotham Lincoln, administrator of Samuel Burr Lincoln, deceased.
Ch. LXXX · 6 Stat. 568 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Joseph Guedry and others.
Ch. LXXXI · 6 Stat. 568 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Richard Nance.
Ch. LXXXII · 6 Stat. 568 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Pearson Freeman.
Ch. LXXXIII · 6 Stat. 568 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting further relief to Joel Byington.
Ch. LXXXIV · 6 Stat. 568 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the owners of the schooner Three Sisters, of Saybrook.
Ch. LXXXV · 6 Stat. 569 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Philip Bessom.
Ch. LXXXVI · 6 Stat. 569 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of certain inhabitants of East Florida.
Ch. LXXXVII · 6 Stat. 569 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act to amend an act passed on the twenty-ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled “An act for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.”
Ch. LXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 570 · June 26, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to establish a pension agency in the town of Decatur, in the state of Alabama; and to provide for the paying of certain pensioners in said town of Decatur.
Ch. XCI · 4 Stat. 688 · June 27, 1834 · Original text
An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Ch. XCII · 4 Stat. 689 · June 27, 1834 · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs at law of Richard Livingston, a Canadian refugee, deceased.
Ch. LXXXIX · 6 Stat. 570 · June 27, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Christian Ish, deceased.
Ch. XC · 6 Stat. 570 · June 27, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Baptiste Jeansonne and Joseph Pierre Petre.
Ch. XCIII · 6 Stat. 570 · June 27, 1834 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the administrators of Michael Gratz.
Ch. XCIV · 6 Stat. 571 · June 27, 1834 · Private law · Original text
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- 112th 2011 · 284
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- 110th 2007 · 460
- 109th 2005 · 483
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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.