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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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456 laws of the 30th Congress, 1847–1849

  1. An Act in Relation to the Terms of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States in and for the District of New Jersey.

    Ch. CLXIX · 9 Stat. 303 · August 12, 1848 · Original text

  2. An Act for the Relief of B. O. Tayloe.

    Ch. CLXX · 9 Stat. 736 · August 12, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the Relief of Charily Herrington.

    Ch. CLXXI · 9 Stat. 736 · August 12, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the Relief of Gustavus Dorr.

    Ch. CLXXII · 9 Stat. 736 · August 12, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

    Ch. CLXXIII · 9 Stat. 304 · August 14, 1848 · Original text

  6. An Act to establish certain Post Routes.

    Ch. CLXXV · 9 Stat. 306 · August 14, 1848 · Original text

  7. An Act making Appropriations for Lighthouses, Light-boats, Buoys, &c., and providing for the Erection and Establishment of the same.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 9 Stat. 321 · August 14, 1848 · Original text

  8. An Act to establish the Territorial Government of Oregon.

    Ch. CLXXVII · 9 Stat. 323 · August 14, 1848 · Original text

  9. An Act for the Payment of the Fourth Regiment in the Second Brigade of the Third Division of the Vermont Militia, for Services at the Battle of Plattsburg.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 9 Stat. 331 · August 14, 1848 · Original text

  10. An Act for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of the Officers, Seamen, and Marines of the Brig-of-War Somers.

    Ch. CLXXIX · 9 Stat. 331 · August 14, 1848 · Original text

  11. An Act in Relation to Military Land Warrants.

    Ch. CLXXX · 9 Stat. 332 · August 14, 1848 · Original text

  12. An Act supplementary to “An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to liquidate certain Claims therein mentioned,” passed eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 9 Stat. 736 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the Payment of the Fourth Regiment in the Second Brigade of the Third Division of the Vermont Militia, for Services at the Battle of Plattsburg.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 9 Stat. 737 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of the Officers, Seamen, and Marines of the Brig-of-War Somers.

    Ch. CLXXIX · 9 Stat. 737 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act for the Relief of George V. Mitchell.

    Ch. CLXXXI · 9 Stat. 737 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act for the Relief of Ward and Smith.

    Ch. CLXXXII · 9 Stat. 737 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act for the Relief of Messrs. Cook, Anthony, Mahony, and others.

    Ch. CLXXXIII · 9 Stat. 738 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act for the Relief of Charles M. Gibson.

    Ch. CLXXXIV · 9 Stat. 738 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act for the Relief of William Triplett.

    Ch. CLXXXV · 9 Stat. 738 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act for the Relief of Richard Reynolds.

    Ch. CLXXXVI · 9 Stat. 739 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act granting a Pension to John Clark.

    Ch. CLXXXVII · 9 Stat. 739 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act for the Relief of Milledge Galphin, Executor of the last Will and Testament of George Galphin, deceased.

    Ch. CLXXXVIII · 9 Stat. 739 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act for the Payment of Charles Richmond.

    Ch. CLXXXIX · 9 Stat. 739 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act for the Relief of Jesse Turner.

    Ch. CXC · 9 Stat. 740 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act for the Relief of Mary Taylor.

    Ch. CXCI · 9 Stat. 740 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Thomas J. V. Owen, deceased.

    Ch. CXCII · 9 Stat. 740 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act for the Relief of William B. Stokes.

    Ch. CXCIII · 9 Stat. 740 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act for the Relief of Samuel Grice.

    Ch. CXCIV · 9 Stat. 741 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act for the Relief of Frederic Durrive.

    Ch. CXCV · 9 Stat. 741 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act granting a Pension to William Pittman.

    Ch. CXCVI · 9 Stat. 741 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act for the Relief of John P. B. Gratiot and the legal Representatives of Henry Gratiot.

    Ch. CXCVII · 9 Stat. 741 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  32. An Act authorizing the Payment of a Sum of Money to Robert Purkis.

    Ch. CXCVIII · 9 Stat. 742 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  33. An Act for the Relief of William Hogan, Administrator of Michael Hogan, deceased.

    Ch. CXCIX · 9 Stat. 742 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  34. An Act to compensate R. M. Johnson, for the Erection of certain Buildings for the Use of the Choctaw Academy.

    Ch. CC · 9 Stat. 742 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  35. An Act for the Relief of Benjamin Adams and Company, and others.

    Ch. CCI · 9 Stat. 742 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  36. An Act for the Relief of Purser Benjamin J. Cahoone.

    Ch. CCII · 9 Stat. 743 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  37. An Act granting a Pension to Abigail Garland, Widow of Jacob Garland, deceased.

    Ch. CCIII · 9 Stat. 743 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  38. An Act for the Relief of Anna J. Hassler.

    Ch. CCIV · 9 Stat. 743 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  39. An Act for the Relief of Welcome Parmeter.

    Ch. CCV · 9 Stat. 744 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  40. An Act for the Relief of David Currier.

    Ch. CCVI · 9 Stat. 744 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  41. An Act for the Relief of Elizabeth Pistole, Widow of Charles Pistole, deceased.

    Ch. CCVII · 9 Stat. 744 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  42. An Act for the Relief of David A. Watterston.

    Ch. CCVIII · 9 Stat. 744 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  43. An Act for the Relief of David Wilkinson.

    Ch. CCIX · 9 Stat. 745 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  44. An Act for the Relief of John Lorimer Graham, late Postmaster in the City of New York.

    Ch. CCX · 9 Stat. 745 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  45. A Resolution for the Relief of H. B. Gaither.

    Private Resolution 28 · 9 Stat. 748 · August 14, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  46. A Resolution for the Appointment of Regents in the Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Resolution 1 · 9 Stat. 417 · December 19, 1848 · Original text

  47. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Jean F. Perry, Josiah Bleakley, Nicholas Jarrot, and Robert Morrison.

    Ch. I · 9 Stat. 749 · December 21, 1848 · Private law · Original text

  48. A Resolution relating to the Compensation of Persons appointed to deliver the Votes far President and Vice-President of the United States to the President of the Senate.

    Public Resolution 2 · 9 Stat. 417 · January 6, 1849 · Original text

  49. An Act for the Relief of Reuben Perry and Thomas P. Ligon.

    Ch. II · 9 Stat. 749 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  50. An Act for the Relief of Hugh Riddle.

    Ch. III · 9 Stat. 750 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  51. An Act for the Relief of Elisha Thomason.

    Ch. IV · 9 Stat. 750 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  52. An Act for the Relief of Zilpha White.

    Ch. V · 9 Stat. 750 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  53. An Act for the Relief of Philip J. Fontane.

    Ch. VI · 9 Stat. 750 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  54. An Act for the Relief of Eliza A. Mellon.

    Ch. VII · 9 Stat. 751 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  55. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of William Evans.

    Ch. VIII · 9 Stat. 751 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  56. An Act for the Relief of Charles Waldron.

    Ch. IX · 9 Stat. 751 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  57. An Act for the Relief of Simon Rodrigues.

    Ch. X · 9 Stat. 751 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  58. An Act for the Relief of Archibald Bull and Lemuel S. Finch.

    Ch. XI · 9 Stat. 752 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  59. An Act for the Relief of Colonel Robert Wallace, Aid-de-camp to General William Hull.

    Ch. XII · 9 Stat. 752 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  60. An Act for the Relief of Esther Russell.

    Ch. XIII · 9 Stat. 752 · January 8, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  61. An Act to extend certain Privileges to the Town of Whitehall, in the State of New York.

    Ch. XIV · 9 Stat. 341 · January 10, 1849 · Original text

  62. An Act for the Relief of James B. Davenport.

    Ch. XV · 9 Stat. 752 · January 10, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  63. An Act for the Relief of Anthony Bessee.

    Ch. XVI · 9 Stat. 753 · January 10, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  64. An Act to confirm Elizabeth Burriss, her Heirs, or Assigns, in their Title to a Tract of Land.

    Ch. XVII · 9 Stat. 753 · January 10, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  65. An Act for the Relief of John B. Smith and Simeon Darden.

    Ch. XVIII · 9 Stat. 753 · January 10, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  66. An Act supplemental to the Act approved the sixth Day of July, eighteen hundred, and forty-two, entitled “An Act confirming certain Land Claims in Louisiana.”

    Ch. XIX · 9 Stat. 341 · January 19, 1849 · Original text

  67. An Act to continue the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions.

    Ch. XX · 9 Stat. 341 · January 19, 1849 · Original text

  68. An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Anne W. Angus.

    Ch. XXI · 9 Stat. 754 · January 19, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  69. An Act for the Relief of Marcus Fulton Johnson.

    Ch. XXII · 9 Stat. 754 · January 19, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  70. An Act for the Relief of James M. Scantland.

    Ch. XXIII · 9 Stat. 754 · January 19, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  71. Joint Resolution directing that the Government of Russia be supplied with certain Volumes of the Narrative of the Exploring Expedition, in lieu of those which were lost at Sea, and for other Purposes.

    Public Resolution 11 · 9 Stat. 418 · January 20, 1849 · Original text

  72. An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.

    Ch. XXIV · 9 Stat. 342 · January 26, 1849 · Original text

  73. An Act authorizing the Payment of Interest upon the Advances made by the State of Alabama for the Use of the United States Government, in the Suppression of the Creek Indian Hostilities of eighteen hundred and thirty-six and eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in Alabama.

    Ch. XXV · 9 Stat. 344 · January 26, 1849 · Original text

  74. An Act for the Relief of Joseph Bryan.

    Ch. XXVI · 9 Stat. 754 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  75. An Act for the Relief of James H. Conley.

    Ch. XXVII · 9 Stat. 754 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  76. An Act for the Relief of Stephen Champlin.

    Ch. XXIX · 9 Stat. 754 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  77. An Act for the Relief of Thomas Badger.

    Ch. XXVIII · 9 Stat. 755 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  78. An Act for the Relief of Captain Dan Drake Henrie.

    Ch. XXX · 9 Stat. 755 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  79. An Act for the Relief of William Harding.

    Ch. XXXI · 9 Stat. 756 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  80. An Act granting a Pension to John Morrison.

    Ch. XXXII · 9 Stat. 756 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  81. An Act for the Relief of G. F. de la Roche and William P. S. Sanger.

    Ch. XXXIII · 9 Stat. 756 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  82. An Act for the Relief of Elizabeth Mays.

    Ch. XXXIV · 9 Stat. 756 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  83. An Act for the Relief of Edward Quinn.

    Ch. XXXV · 9 Stat. 756 · January 26, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  84. An Act for the Relief of the forward Officers of the fate Exploring Expedition.

    Ch. XXXVII · 9 Stat. 344 · February 1, 1849 · Original text

  85. An Act to authorize the Issuing of a Register or Enrolment to the Ship Annie Tift.

    Ch. XXXVI · 9 Stat. 757 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  86. An Act for the Relief of the forward Officers of the late Exploring Expedition.

    Ch. XXXVII · 9 Stat. 757 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  87. An Act to provide for the Settlement of the Claim of Henry Washington, late a Deputy Surveyor of the Public Lands in Florida.

    Ch. XXXVIII · 9 Stat. 757 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  88. An Act for the Relief of Salsy Darby, of Randolph county, and State of Georgia.

    Ch. XXXIX · 9 Stat. 758 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  89. An Act for the Relief of Charles Wilson.

    Ch. XL · 9 Stat. 758 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  90. An Act for the Relief of John Percival, Captain in the Navy of the United States.

    Ch. XLI · 9 Stat. 758 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  91. An Act for the Relief of Creed Taylor.

    Ch. XLII · 9 Stat. 758 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  92. An Act to compensate John M. Moore.

    Ch. XLIII · 9 Stat. 759 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  93. An Act for the Relief of Joseph F. Caldwell.

    Ch. XLIV · 9 Stat. 759 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  94. An Act for the Relief of the Owners of the Spanish Brig Restaurador.

    Ch. XLV · 9 Stat. 759 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  95. An Act for the Relief of Thomas Douglas, late United States Attorney for East Florida.

    Ch. XLVI · 9 Stat. 760 · February 1, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  96. An Act for the Relief of Timothy Cavan.

    Ch. XLVII · 9 Stat. 760 · February 2, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  97. An Act for the Relief of William Plummer, Executor of Starkey Armistead, deceased.

    Ch. XLVIII · 9 Stat. 760 · February 2, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  98. An Act for the Relief of William Fuller and Charles Savage.

    Ch. XLIX · 9 Stat. 761 · February 10, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  99. An Act for the Relief of Jeanette C. Huntington, Widow and sole Executrix of William D. Cheever, deceased.

    Ch. L · 9 Stat. 761 · February 10, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  100. An Act for the Relief of William Fuller and Orlando Saltmarsh.

    Ch. LI · 9 Stat. 761 · February 10, 1849 · 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.