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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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533 laws of the 25th Congress, 1837–1839

  1. An Act for the relief of Nicholas Phelan, heir at law of John Phelan, deceased.

    Ch. CVIII · 6 Stat. 762 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Major Tarlton Woodson.

    Ch. CIX · 6 Stat. 762 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Crocker Sampson, deceased.

    Ch. CX · 6 Stat. 763 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the relief of Parish Carter, and the heirs of Charles Williamson, deceased.

    Ch. CXI · 6 Stat. 763 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act for the relief of E. H. Williams, administrator of the estate of Doctor Hazel W. Crouch.

    Ch. CXII · 6 Stat. 763 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Plumb.

    Ch. CXIII · 6 Stat. 763 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act granting a pension to Susannah Rowe, widow of John Rowe, deceased.

    Ch. CXIV · 6 Stat. 763 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of Walter Jones against the United States.

    Ch. CXV · 6 Stat. 764 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act for the relief of James L, Stokes, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CXVI · 6 Stat. 764 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act for the relief of the widow of Thomas Kibbey.

    Ch. CXVII · 6 Stat. 764 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act for the relief of Joseph Pierce and others.

    Ch. CXVIII · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act granting a pension to Harvey Reynolds.

    Ch. CXIX · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the benefit of Eliphalet Spofford.

    Ch. CXX · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act for the relief of Rosaline Prudhomme.

    Ch. CXXI · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act for the relief of Isaac Miller.

    Ch. CXXII · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act for the relief of Doctor J. M. Foltz.

    Ch. CXXIII · 6 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act for the relief of Frederick Richmond.

    Ch. CXXIV · 6 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act for the relief of the heirs of William Graham, deceased.

    Ch. CXXV · 6 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act for the relief of Philip Catner.

    Ch. CXXVI · 6 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act for the relief of Francis Mallaby.

    Ch. CXXVII · 6 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act for the relief of Peter Samuel Jaccard.

    Ch. CXXVIII · 6 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act for the relief of John Plane.

    Ch. CXXIX · 6 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act for the relief of Paul Poissot.

    Ch. CXXX · 6 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act for the relief of Return B. Brown.

    Ch. CXXXI · 6 Stat. 768 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act for the relief of Herman Harris, of the city of New York.

    Ch. CXXXII · 6 Stat. 768 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act to confirm the claim of Charles Morgan, in right of Simon Porche, to a tract of land.

    Ch. CXXXIII · 6 Stat. 768 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act for the relief of Zebulon Sheets.

    Ch. CXXXIV · 6 Stat. 768 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act for the relief of John and Samuel Rowe, heirs and legal representatives of Ludwick Rowe, deceased.

    Ch. CXXXV · 6 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act for the relief of James Cooper.

    Ch. CXXXVI · 6 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act for the relief of the representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased.

    Ch. CXXXVII · 6 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act for the relief of Milley Yales.

    Ch. CXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  32. An Act for the relief of Isaac Conly.

    Ch. CXXXIX · 6 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  33. An Act for the relief of Daniel Ward and George Ficklin.

    Ch. CXL · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  34. An Act for the relief of Richard Hendley.

    Ch. CXLI · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  35. An Act for the relief of Abel A. Pasko and others.

    Ch. CXLII · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  36. An Act for the relief if John Proton and Company.

    Ch. CXLIII · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  37. An Act for the relief of Enoch Matson.

    Ch. CXLIV · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  38. An Act for the relief of John L. Allen.

    Ch. CLXV · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  39. An Act for the relief of William Grozer.

    Ch. CXLVI · 6 Stat. 771 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  40. An Act for the relief of James Selby.

    Ch. CXLVII · 6 Stat. 771 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  41. An Act for the relief of Winslow Lewis.

    Ch. CXLVIII · 6 Stat. 771 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  42. An Act for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.

    Ch. CXLIX · 6 Stat. 771 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  43. An Act for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.

    Ch. CL · 6 Stat. 772 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  44. An Act for the relief of Spencer C. Gist.

    Ch. CLI · 6 Stat. 772 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  45. An Act for the relief of the widow and other heirs at law of Alexander Hamilton, deceased.

    Ch. CLII · 6 Stat. 772 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  46. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Warner.

    Ch. CLIII · 6 Stat. 772 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  47. An Act for the relief of the heirs if Francis Jarvis, deceased.

    Ch. CLIV · 6 Stat. 773 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  48. An Act for the relief of Stephen P. IP. Douglass.

    Ch. CLV · 6 Stat. 773 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  49. An Act for the relief of Isaac Lilley.

    Ch. CLVI · 6 Stat. 773 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  50. An Act to authorize the trustees of the township if Oxford, in the county if Butler and state of Ohio, to enter a section of land in lieu if section sixteen, in said township, for the use if schools.

    Ch. CLVII · 6 Stat. 773 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  51. An Act for the relief of Solomon Prewett.

    Ch. CLVIII · 6 Stat. 774 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  52. An Act granting a pension to William Ford, of the State of Virginia.

    Ch. CLIX · 6 Stat. 774 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  53. An Act granting a pension to Frances Jones, widow of John Jones, of the State of Virginia.

    Ch. CLX · 6 Stat. 774 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  54. An Act for the relief of David Rollins.

    Ch. CLXI · 6 Stat. 774 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  55. An Act for the relief of Weight Hurlbert.

    Ch. CLXII · 6 Stat. 774 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  56. An Act granting a pension to the widow of John March, deceased.

    Ch. CLXIII · 6 Stat. 775 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  57. An Act granting a pension to Mary Uptegraff, of Butler county, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. CLXIV · 6 Stat. 775 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  58. An Act granting a pension to John Clark.

    Ch. CLXV · 6 Stat. 775 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  59. An Act for the relief of Henry Grady, of Macon county, North Carolina.

    Ch. CLXVI · 6 Stat. 775 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  60. An Act for the relief of Chauncey Calhoon.

    Ch. CLXVII · 6 Stat. 775 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  61. An Act for the relief of Thomas M. Burland.

    Ch. CLXVIII · 6 Stat. 776 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  62. An Act for the relief of A. J. Picket and George W. Gayle.

    Ch. CLXIX · 6 Stat. 776 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  63. An Act for the relief of Isaac D. Saunders.

    Ch. CLXX · 6 Stat. 776 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  64. An Act for the relief of Samuel Mussey and Thomas James, of the county of Crawford, in the state of Missouri.

    Ch. CLXXI · 6 Stat. 776 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  65. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of James Maxwell, of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. CLXXII · 6 Stat. 777 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  66. An Act for the relief of Abraham Stipp.

    Ch. CLXXIII · 6 Stat. 777 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  67. An Act for the relief of Captain John Vannettin and his Company, for their services, during the late war.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 6 Stat. 777 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  68. An Act for the relief of Joseph R. Folsom and the owners and crew of the schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, in the state of Maine.

    Ch. CLXXV · 6 Stat. 777 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  69. An Act for the relief of Joseph Safford and other heirs at law of Joseph Sufford, late of the New Hampshire line in the revolutionary war, deceased.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 6 Stat. 778 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  70. An Act for the relief of George Rowe.

    Ch. CLXXVII · 6 Stat. 778 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  71. An Act for the relief of Jarius Loomis and heirs of James Basset.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 6 Stat. 778 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  72. An Act for the relief of certain settlers, living on what is called the Salt Lick reservation, in the western district of Tennessee.

    Ch. CLXXIX · 6 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  73. An Act for the relief of Ashbel Mason.

    Ch. CLXXX · 6 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  74. An Act for the relief of Lewis B. Willis, formerly acting deputy surveyor for the district of Mississippi.

    Ch. CLXXXI · 6 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  75. An Act for the relief of William C. Hazard, of Rhode Island.

    Ch. CLXXXII · 6 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  76. An Act for the relief of John Borey, of Arkansas.

    Ch. CLXXXIII · 6 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  77. An Act for the relief of William Washington Bigham.

    Ch. CLXXXIV · 6 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  78. An Act for the relief of Polly Lemon.

    Ch. CLXXXV · 6 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  79. An Act for the relief of John Dixon.

    Ch. CLXXXVI · 6 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  80. An Act for the relief of Aaron Stout.

    Ch. CLXXXVII · 6 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  81. An Act for the relief of the children and heirs of Sebastain Sroufe, late of Ohio, deceased.

    Ch. CLXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  82. An Act for the relief of John McCarroll, junior.

    Ch. CLXXXIX · 6 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  83. An Act for the relief of Zebulon Baxter.

    Ch. CXC · 6 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  84. An Act for the relief of Thomas Sinnard.

    Ch. CXCI · 6 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  85. An Act for the relief of William Clark.

    Ch. CXCII · 6 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  86. An Act for the relief of Margaret Kingsbury.

    Ch. CXCIII · 6 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  87. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Dawson, deceased.

    Ch. CXCIV · 6 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  88. An Act for the relief of David Ballentine.

    Ch. CXCV · 6 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  89. An Act for the relief of J. Eloi Rachal.

    Ch. CXCVI · 6 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  90. An Act for the relief of James H. Grant, Moses TV. Simpson, and Preston Going.

    Ch. CXCVII · 6 Stat. 784 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  91. An Act for the relief of Henry Stoker, William G. Belknap, and Benjamin Walker.

    Ch. CXCVIII · 6 Stat. 784 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  92. An Act for the relief of Griffith Coombe and John P. Ingle, trustees of the house in the city of Washington commonly called “the brick capitol.”

    Ch. CXCIX · 6 Stat. 784 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  93. An Act for the relief of had Kelly and Datus Kelly.

    Ch. CC · 6 Stat. 784 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  94. An Act for the relief of the representatives of Ann Levacher De Van Brun.

    Ch. CCI · 6 Stat. 785 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  95. An Act for the relief of Polly Lining, executrix of the last will and testament of Charles Lining, deceased, who in his life-time, and at the time of his death, was executor of the last will and testament of Edward Blake, deceased.

    Ch. CCII · 6 Stat. 785 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  96. An Act for the relief of the heirs and assignees of Peter Alba, deceased.

    Ch. CCIII · 6 Stat. 785 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  97. An Act for the relief of George Innes.

    Ch. CCIV · 6 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  98. An Act for the relief of Henry L. Riviere.

    Ch. CCV · 6 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  99. An Act for the relief of Henry Lynch.

    Ch. CCVI · 6 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  100. An Act for the relief of Solomon Sturges, assignee of Resin Frazier.

    Ch. CCVII · 6 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1839 · 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.