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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.
459 laws of the 24th Congress, 1835–1837
An Act for the relief of Joseph Gresham.
Ch. XCIII · 6 Stat. 635 · June 14, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the legal representative of Thomas Holiday, deceased.
Ch. XCIV · 6 Stat. 635 · June 14, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Woodward and William Mitchell.
Ch. XCV · 6 Stat. 636 · June 14, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Samuel W. Ruff.
Ch. XCVI · 6 Stat. 636 · June 14, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Albert Pawling, a colonel in the revolutionary war.
Ch. CI · 6 Stat. 636 · June 14, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act repealing the fourteenth section of the “Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States,” approved, April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixteen.
Ch. XCVII · 5 Stat. 48 · June 15, 1836 · Original text
An Act to divide the Green Bay land district in Michigan, and for other purposes.
Ch. XCVIII · 5 Stat. 48 · June 15, 1836 · Original text
An Act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide, for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed.
Ch. XCIX · 5 Stat. 49 · June 15, 1836 · Original text
An Act for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the same, and for other purposes.
Ch. C · 5 Stat. 50 · June 15, 1836 · Original text
An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of Lieutenant Richard Wilde, deceased.
Ch. CII · 6 Stat. 636 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Orris Gay.
Ch. CIII · 6 Stat. 636 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the widow of Samuel Gibbs.
Ch. CIV · 6 Stat. 637 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Richard Anderson.
Ch. CV · 6 Stat. 637 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act to increase the pension of Jacob Slough.
Ch. CVI · 6 Stat. 637 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act to increase the pension of Thomas Harrison.
Ch. CVII · 6 Stat. 637 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief if Carey Clark.
Ch. CVIII · 6 Stat. 637 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting an invalid petition to Daniel Stoddard.
Ch. CIX · 6 Stat. 638 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Jonathan Elkins.
Ch. CX · 6 Stat. 638 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Stephen Bohannan.
Ch. CXI · 6 Stat. 638 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Gaius Hitchcock.
Ch. CXII · 6 Stat. 638 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John A. Rodgers.
Ch. CXIII · 6 Stat. 638 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Leslie Combs.
Ch. CXIV · 6 Stat. 638 · June 15, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act to regulate, the deposites of the public money.
Ch. CXV · 5 Stat. 52 · June 23, 1836 · Original text
An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to act as the agent of the United States in all matters relating to their stock in the Bank of the United States.
Ch. CXVI · 5 Stat. 56 · June 23, 1836 · Original text
An Act to settle and establish the northern boundary lite of the State of Ohio.
Ch. CXVII · 5 Stat. 56 · June 23, 1836 · Original text
An Act to remove the Land Office from Clinton to Jackson, in the State of Mississippi.
Ch. CXVIII · 5 Stat. 57 · June 23, 1836 · Original text
An Act to amend an act to grant 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 river.
Ch. CXIX · 5 Stat. 57 · June 23, 1836 · Original text
An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act far the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the same, and fur other purposes.”
Ch. CXX · 5 Stat. 58 · June 23, 1836 · Original text
An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union on certain conditions.”
Ch. CXXI · 5 Stat. 59 · June 23, 1836 · Original text
A Resolution to furnish the Rotundo with paintings.
Resolution 8 · 5 Stat. 133 · June 23, 1836 · Original text
An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be issued to Albert J. Smith, and others, patents for certain reservations of land in Michigan Territory.
Ch. CXXII · 6 Stat. 639 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Henry Stoddard.
Ch. CXXIII · 6 Stat. 639 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Benjamin F. Stone.
Ch. CXXIV · 6 Stat. 639 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Francis R. Theobald.
Ch. CXXV · 6 Stat. 640 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Jacob F. Walter.
Ch. CXXVI · 6 Stat. 640 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Wiltbank.
Ch. CXXVII · 6 Stat. 640 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Caulfield.
Ch. CXXVIII · 6 Stat. 640 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Daniel Smith.
Ch. CXXIX · 6 Stat. 640 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor Absalom Baird, deceased.
Ch. CXXX · 6 Stat. 641 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the citizens of the reserved township in Monroe county, in the state of Indiana.
Ch. CXXXI · 6 Stat. 641 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Benjamin and Nancy Merrill.
Ch. CXXXII · 6 Stat. 641 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of George Gott and others.
Ch. CXXXIII · 6 Stat. 641 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Ebenezer Phillips and others.
Ch. CXXXIV · 6 Stat. 642 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Charles M. Frasier.
Ch. CXXXV · 6 Stat. 642 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Archibald Small.
Ch. CXXXVI · 6 Stat. 642 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel P. Tatum.
Ch. CXXXVII · 6 Stat. 642 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of George Bender.
Ch. CXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 642 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act to revive and extend the provisions of an act passed on the twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others.”
Ch. CXXXIX · 6 Stat. 643 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of David Browning.
Ch. CXI · 6 Stat. 643 · June 23, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act to provide for the paying of certain pensioners of the United States, at Pulaski, in the State of Tennessee.
Ch. CCXXX · 5 Stat. 60 · June 28, 1836 · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Robertson, of South Carolina.
Ch. CXLI · 6 Stat. 643 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Samuel Hunt.
Ch. CXLII · 6 Stat. 643 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Pickard.
Ch. CXLIII · 6 Stat. 644 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Richard Martin.
Ch. CXLIV · 6 Stat. 644 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Peter Dimick, of the state of New York.
Ch. CXLV · 6 Stat. 644 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act providing that John Smith be placed on the list of invalid pensioners.
Ch. CXLVI · 6 Stat. 644 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Peter Cook, a soldier in the last war.
Ch. CXLVII · 6 Stat. 644 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Samuel Kincaid.
Ch. CXLVIII · 6 Stat. 644 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of George Elliot.
Ch. CXLIX · 6 Stat. 645 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Bennet.
Ch. CL · 6 Stat. 645 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Samuel Cole.
Ch. CLI · 6 Stat. 645 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to James Stevens.
Ch. CLII · 6 Stat. 645 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Mullings.
Ch. CLIII · 6 Stat. 645 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief if Stephen Talmage.
Ch. CLIV · 6 Stat. 645 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to John Collins.
Ch. CLV · 6 Stat. 646 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Francis F. Saint Cyr.
Ch. CLVI · 6 Stat. 646 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Luke Voorhise.
Ch. CLVII · 6 Stat. 646 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Bowman.
Ch. CLVIII · 6 Stat. 646 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Thomas Dixon and Company of New York.
Ch. CLIX · 6 Stat. 646 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Robert McJimsey, surviving partner of the firm of Jackson and McJimsey.
Ch. CLX · 6 Stat. 646 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Frasier and Company, of Charleston, South Carolina.
Ch. CLXI · 6 Stat. 647 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John F. Lewis.
Ch. CLXII · 6 Stat. 647 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Abraham Forbes, a spy in the late war.
Ch. CLXIII · 6 Stat. 647 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Theophilus E. Beekman, late first lieutenant in the forty-first regiment of the United States infantry.
Ch. CLXIV · 6 Stat. 648 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Hewes.
Ch. CLXV · 6 Stat. 648 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Henry Keefer.
Ch. CLXVI · 6 Stat. 648 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Francis Bashford.
Ch. CLXVII · 6 Stat. 648 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Bernard Pompilly.
Ch. CLXVIII · 6 Stat. 648 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Elisha Lucas.
Ch. CLXIX · 6 Stat. 648 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting pensions to certain persons therein named.
Ch. CLXX · 6 Stat. 648 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Thaddeus Tuttle.
Ch. CLXXI · 6 Stat. 649 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Steel.
Ch. CLXXII · 6 Stat. 649 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Davis Hunt.
Ch. CLXXIII · 6 Stat. 649 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Relief Harris.
Ch. CLXXIV · 6 Stat. 649 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Taylor.
Ch. CLXXV · 6 Stat. 649 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Dal.
Ch. CLXXVI · 6 Stat. 650 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to William Lawrence, late a colonel in the army.
Ch. CLXXVII · 6 Stat. 650 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Peter L. Allen.
Ch. CLXXVIII · 6 Stat. 650 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Logan.
Ch. CLXXIX · 6 Stat. 650 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Conkin.
Ch. CLXXX · 6 Stat. 650 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Thaddeus Potter, of the State of New York.
Ch. CLXXXI · 6 Stat. 650 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Foxworthy.
Ch. CLXXXII · 6 Stat. 651 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Ephraim F. Gilbert.
Ch. CLXXXIII · 6 Stat. 651 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Godfrey Vought.
Ch. CLXXXIV · 6 Stat. 651 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Lent.
Ch. CLXXXV · 6 Stat. 651 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Patrick McEwen.
Ch. CLXXXVI · 6 Stat. 651 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Charles Blake.
Ch. CLXXXVII · 6 Stat. 651 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension ta Walter Dyer.
Ch. CLXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 652 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Jeremiah Goldsmith.
Ch. CLXXXIX · 6 Stat. 652 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Joseph Tuttle.
Ch. CXC · 6 Stat. 652 · June 28, 1836 · Private law · Original text
By Congress
- 119th 2025 · 136
- 118th 2023 · 274
- 117th 2021 · 365
- 116th 2019 · 344
- 115th 2017 · 443
- 114th 2015 · 329
- 113th 2013 · 296
- 112th 2011 · 284
- 111th 2009 · 385
- 110th 2007 · 460
- 109th 2005 · 483
- 108th 2003 · 504
- 107th 2001 · 337
- 106th 1999 · 604
- 105th 1997 · 404
- 104th 1995 · 337
- 103rd 1993 · 473
- 102nd 1991 · 610
- 101st 1989 · 666
- 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.