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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 for the Relief of William L. Wigent.

    Ch. CXXXIII · 9 Stat. 776 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act for the Relief of Henry D. Garrison.

    Ch. CXXXIV · 9 Stat. 777 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the Relief of the Owners of the Schooner Ticonic.

    Ch. CXXXV · 9 Stat. 777 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the Relief of P. Chouteau, Junior, and Company.

    Ch. CXXXVI · 9 Stat. 777 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act for the Relief of George Center.

    Ch. CXXXVII · 9 Stat. 777 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act for the Relief of Mary G. Leverett.

    Ch. CXXXVIII · 9 Stat. 778 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act for the Relief of John P. Skinner and the legal Representatives of Isaac Green.

    Ch. CXXXIX · 9 Stat. 778 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act for the Relief of John F. Ohl.

    Ch. CXL · 9 Stat. 778 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act for the Relief of the President and Directors of the Union Bank of Florida.

    Ch. CXLI · 9 Stat. 778 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act for the Relief of Sidney Flower, of Louisiana, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CXLII · 9 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act for the Relief of Joel Thacker.

    Ch. CXLIII · 9 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act for the Relief of James Moorehead.

    Ch. CXLIV · 9 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the Relief of William Gott.

    Ch. CXLV · 9 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act for the Relief of Doctor Adolphus Wislizenus.

    Ch. CXLVI · 9 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act for the Relief of Samuel A. Grier.

    Ch. CXLVII · 9 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act for the Relief of David Thomas, of Philadelphia.

    Ch. CXLVIII · 9 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act for the Relief of Polly Dameron, Widow of Charles Dameron, deceased.

    Ch. CXLIX · 9 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act for the Relief of Catharine Clark.

    Ch. CL · 9 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act for the Relief of Captain Alexander McEwen.

    Ch. CLI · 9 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act for the Relief of Maurice R. Simonds.

    Ch. CLII · 9 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act for the Relief of Major Charles Larrabee.

    Ch. CLIII · 9 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act for the Relief of Alexander Montgomery, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster of the Army.

    Ch. CLIV · 9 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act for the Relief of Jesse Washington Jackson.

    Ch. CLV · 9 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act for the Relief of Elizabeth S. Cobbs.

    Ch. CLVI · 9 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Captain George R. Shoemaker, deceased.

    Ch. CLVII · 9 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act for the Relief of Robert Ramsay.

    Ch. CLVIII · 9 Stat. 782 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act for the Relief of Daniel Robinson.

    Ch. CLIX · 9 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act for the Relief of Noah A. Phelps.

    Ch. CLX · 9 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act for the Relief of H. Carrington, Executor of Paulina Le Grand, deceased.

    Ch. CLXI · 9 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act for the Relief of Hervey Jones.

    Ch. CLXII · 9 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act for the Relief of Eve Boggs.

    Ch. CLXIII · 9 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  32. An Act for the Relief of John Campbell.

    Ch. CLXV · 9 Stat. 783 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  33. An Act for the Relief of Satterlee Clark.

    Ch. CLXIV · 9 Stat. 784 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  34. An Act for the Relief of William P. Yonge.

    Ch. CLXVI · 9 Stat. 784 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  35. An Act for the Relief of John W. Hockett.

    Ch. CLXVII · 9 Stat. 784 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  36. An Act for the Relief of Mary Ruck.

    Ch. CLXVIII · 9 Stat. 784 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  37. An Act for the Relief of Lowry Williams.

    Ch. CLXIX · 9 Stat. 785 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  38. An Act for the Relief of John Savage.

    Ch. CLXX · 9 Stat. 785 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  39. An Act for the Relief of Andrew Flanegan.

    Ch. CLXXI · 9 Stat. 785 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  40. An Act for the Relief of William H. Wilson.

    Ch. CLXXII · 9 Stat. 785 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  41. An Act for the Relief of Charles McLane, of Missouri.

    Ch. CLXXIII · 9 Stat. 785 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  42. An Act for the Relief of James Fugate.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 9 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  43. An Act for the Relief of Thomas H. Noble.

    Ch. CLXXV · 9 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  44. An Act for the Relief of Peter Shaffer.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 9 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  45. An Act for the Relief of John J. Young, a Commander in the Navy of the United States.

    Ch. CLXXVII · 9 Stat. 786 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  46. An Act for the Relief of Charles Benns.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 9 Stat. 787 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  47. An Act for the Relief of James Norris, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CLXXIX · 9 Stat. 787 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  48. An Act for the Relief of James F. Sothoron.

    Ch. CLXXX · 9 Stat. 787 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  49. An Act for the Relief of Peter Capella, Administrator of Andrew Capella, deceased, and for the Relief of John Capo, and for the Relief of Elijah Petty and Hannah Petty, his Wife, Heirs of John Reardon, deceased.

    Ch. CLXXXI · 9 Stat. 788 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  50. An Act for the Relief of Thomas W. Chinn and others.

    Ch. CLXXXII · 9 Stat. 788 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  51. An Act for the Relief of Thomas Talbot and others.

    Ch. CLXXXIII · 9 Stat. 789 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  52. An Act for the Relief of Amelia Comillion, of Louisiana.

    Ch. CLXXXIV · 9 Stat. 789 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  53. An Act for the Relief of Polly Aldrich.

    Ch. CLXXXV · 9 Stat. 789 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  54. An Act for the Relief of Daniel Wilson.

    Ch. CLXXXVI · 9 Stat. 790 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  55. A Resolution respecting the Claims of A. S. & A. W. Benson.

    Private Resolution 21 · 9 Stat. 793 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

  56. Joint Resolution for the Relief of George R. Smith.

    Private Resolution 22 · 9 Stat. 794 · March 3, 1849 · Private law · Original text

By Congress

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.