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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.
533 laws of the 25th Congress, 1837–1839
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
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
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Crocker Sampson, deceased.
Ch. CX · 6 Stat. 763 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
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
An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Plumb.
Ch. CXIII · 6 Stat. 763 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
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
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
An Act for the relief of the widow of Thomas Kibbey.
Ch. CXVII · 6 Stat. 764 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Joseph Pierce and others.
Ch. CXVIII · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Harvey Reynolds.
Ch. CXIX · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the benefit of Eliphalet Spofford.
Ch. CXX · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Rosaline Prudhomme.
Ch. CXXI · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Isaac Miller.
Ch. CXXII · 6 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Doctor J. M. Foltz.
Ch. CXXIII · 6 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Frederick Richmond.
Ch. CXXIV · 6 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs of William Graham, deceased.
Ch. CXXV · 6 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Philip Catner.
Ch. CXXVI · 6 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Francis Mallaby.
Ch. CXXVII · 6 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Peter Samuel Jaccard.
Ch. CXXVIII · 6 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Plane.
Ch. CXXIX · 6 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Paul Poissot.
Ch. CXXX · 6 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Return B. Brown.
Ch. CXXXI · 6 Stat. 768 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
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
An Act for the relief of Zebulon Sheets.
Ch. CXXXIV · 6 Stat. 768 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
An Act for the relief of James Cooper.
Ch. CXXXVI · 6 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased.
Ch. CXXXVII · 6 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Milley Yales.
Ch. CXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Isaac Conly.
Ch. CXXXIX · 6 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Daniel Ward and George Ficklin.
Ch. CXL · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Richard Hendley.
Ch. CXLI · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Abel A. Pasko and others.
Ch. CXLII · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief if John Proton and Company.
Ch. CXLIII · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Enoch Matson.
Ch. CXLIV · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John L. Allen.
Ch. CLXV · 6 Stat. 770 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Grozer.
Ch. CXLVI · 6 Stat. 771 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of James Selby.
Ch. CXLVII · 6 Stat. 771 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Winslow Lewis.
Ch. CXLVIII · 6 Stat. 771 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.
Ch. CXLIX · 6 Stat. 771 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.
Ch. CL · 6 Stat. 772 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Spencer C. Gist.
Ch. CLI · 6 Stat. 772 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Warner.
Ch. CLIII · 6 Stat. 772 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs if Francis Jarvis, deceased.
Ch. CLIV · 6 Stat. 773 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Stephen P. IP. Douglass.
Ch. CLV · 6 Stat. 773 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Isaac Lilley.
Ch. CLVI · 6 Stat. 773 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
An Act for the relief of Solomon Prewett.
Ch. CLVIII · 6 Stat. 774 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
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
An Act for the relief of David Rollins.
Ch. CLXI · 6 Stat. 774 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Weight Hurlbert.
Ch. CLXII · 6 Stat. 774 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to the widow of John March, deceased.
Ch. CLXIII · 6 Stat. 775 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Mary Uptegraff, of Butler county, Pennsylvania.
Ch. CLXIV · 6 Stat. 775 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to John Clark.
Ch. CLXV · 6 Stat. 775 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
An Act for the relief of Chauncey Calhoon.
Ch. CLXVII · 6 Stat. 775 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Thomas M. Burland.
Ch. CLXVIII · 6 Stat. 776 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
An Act for the relief of Isaac D. Saunders.
Ch. CLXX · 6 Stat. 776 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
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
An Act for the relief of Abraham Stipp.
Ch. CLXXIII · 6 Stat. 777 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
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
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
An Act for the relief of George Rowe.
Ch. CLXXVII · 6 Stat. 778 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
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
An Act for the relief of Ashbel Mason.
Ch. CLXXX · 6 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
An Act for the relief of William C. Hazard, of Rhode Island.
Ch. CLXXXII · 6 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Borey, of Arkansas.
Ch. CLXXXIII · 6 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Washington Bigham.
Ch. CLXXXIV · 6 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Polly Lemon.
Ch. CLXXXV · 6 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Dixon.
Ch. CLXXXVI · 6 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Aaron Stout.
Ch. CLXXXVII · 6 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
An Act for the relief of John McCarroll, junior.
Ch. CLXXXIX · 6 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Zebulon Baxter.
Ch. CXC · 6 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Thomas Sinnard.
Ch. CXCI · 6 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Clark.
Ch. CXCII · 6 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Margaret Kingsbury.
Ch. CXCIII · 6 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
An Act for the relief of David Ballentine.
Ch. CXCV · 6 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of J. Eloi Rachal.
Ch. CXCVI · 6 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
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
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
An Act for the relief of had Kelly and Datus Kelly.
Ch. CC · 6 Stat. 784 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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
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
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
An Act for the relief of George Innes.
Ch. CCIV · 6 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Henry L. Riviere.
Ch. CCV · 6 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Henry Lynch.
Ch. CCVI · 6 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text
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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- 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.