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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 Ezekiel Jones.

    Ch. CCVIII · 6 Stat. 787 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act for the relief of Samuel McComb.

    Ch. CCIX · 6 Stat. 787 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the relief of Cornelius Taylor.

    Ch. CCX · 6 Stat. 787 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the relief of Joseph Jackson.

    Ch. CCXI · 6 Stat. 787 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act for the relief of Sibel Barnes.

    Ch. CCXII · 6 Stat. 787 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act for the relief of Thomas Todd.

    Ch. CCXIII · 6 Stat. 787 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act for the relief of William Moor, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CCXIV · 6 Stat. 788 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be issued to Michael Ambrister, assignee of Us-se-yoholo, a Creek Indian, a patent for a certain reservation of land in the Stale of Alabama.

    Ch. CCXV · 6 Stat. 788 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act for the relief of Stephen Marsters.

    Ch. CCXVI · 6 Stat. 788 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act for the relief of Dudley Walker.

    Ch. CCXVII · 6 Stat. 789 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act for the relief of Thomae Cushing.

    Ch. CCXVIII · 6 Stat. 789 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act for the relief of Patrick Green.

    Ch. CCXIX · 6 Stat. 789 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the relief of John Balch, junior.

    Ch. CCXX · 6 Stat. 789 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act providing for paying three companies of militia in the State of Indiana, called into the service of the United States.

    Ch. CCXXI · 6 Stat. 789 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act for the relief of William Marcus, of Arkansas.

    Ch. CCXXII · 6 Stat. 790 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act for the relief of John Dougherty, of Wisconsin.

    Ch. CCXXIII · 6 Stat. 790 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act for the relief of William Traverse.

    Ch. CCXXIV · 6 Stat. 790 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act for the relief of Andrew Rembert.

    Ch. CCXXV · 6 Stat. 790 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act for the relief of Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama.

    Ch. CCXXVII · 6 Stat. 790 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act for the relief of Robert M. Roberts or his legal assignees.

    Ch. CCXXVIII · 6 Stat. 791 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act for the relief of Charles Rockwell.

    Ch. CCXXX · 6 Stat. 791 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act for the relief of John Jones and Charles Souder and Robinson Carr and. Company.

    Ch. CCXXXI · 6 Stat. 791 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act for the relief of Jamison and Williamson.

    Ch. CCXXXII · 6 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act for the relief of the widow or legal representatives of John Tilden.

    Ch. CCXXXIII · 6 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act for the relief of the assignees of Jacob Clements, deceased.

    Ch. CCXXXIV · 6 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act for the relief of Susan Gratiot, administratrix, and Charles II. Gratiot, administrator, of Henry Gratiot, deceased.

    Ch. CCXXXV · 6 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act for the relief of John L. McCarty.

    Ch. CCXXXVI · 6 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Dunscomb Bradford, deceased.

    Ch. CCXXXVII · 6 Stat. 793 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of the late Doctor James H. Cheears.

    Ch. CCXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 793 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act for the relief of Jesse Seymour, or his representatives, and in alteration of an act entitled “An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp,” approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixteen.

    Ch. CCXXXIX · 6 Stat. 793 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act for the relief of Woodburne Potter.

    Ch. CCXL · 6 Stat. 793 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  32. Resolution authorizing the opening of an alley, and the execution of certain deeds, in the city of Washington.

    Resolution 8 · 6 Stat. 794 · March 3, 1839 · Private law · Original text

  33. Resolution for the relief of Edward Beatty, of Missouri.

    Resolution 10 · 6 Stat. 795 · 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.