Every law Congress has passed

540 laws of the 33rd Congress, 1853–1855

1. An Act to Refund to the Territory of Utah the Expenses incurred by said Territory in suppressing Indian Hostilities.

   Ch. LXXXVI · 10 Stat. 307 · July 17, 1854 · Original text

2. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to settle and adjust the Expenses of the Rogue River Indian War.

   Ch. LXXXVII · 10 Stat. 307 · July 17, 1854 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution explanatory of the Second Section of “A Resolution to Establish certain Post Routes,” approved July twelve, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

   Resolution 16 · 10 Stat. 593 · July 17, 1854 · Original text

4. An Act to change the Name of the American-built Brig “Hallowell” to that of “James Rose,” and to grant her a new Register.

   Ch. LXXXVIII · 10 Stat. 783 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act for the Relief of the Utica Steam Woollen Company.

   Ch. LXXXIX · 10 Stat. 783 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act to confirm the Claim of William H. Henderson, and the Heirs of Robert Henderson, to five hundred acres of land in the Bastrop Grant.

   Ch. XC · 10 Stat. 784 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act for the Relief of Juan M. Luco and Jose L. Luco.

   Ch. XCI · 10 Stat. 784 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act for the Relief of Cornelius H. Latham.

   Ch. XCII · 10 Stat. 784 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act for the Relief of George W. Gibson.

   Ch. XCIII · 10 Stat. 784 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act for the Relief of Samuel W. Brady.

    Ch. XCIV · 10 Stat. 785 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act to authorize the issue of a Register to the Brig Amelia, by the name of Abby Frances.

    Ch. XCV · 10 Stat. 785 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act for the Relief of A. B. Raman, of Louisiana.

    Ch. XCVI · 10 Stat. 785 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act to provide a Pension for Sergeant G. W. Torrence.

    Ch. XCVII · 10 Stat. 785 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

14. Joint Resolution to correct a clerical error in the Act approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, “to authorize a Register to be issued to the steamer ‘El Paraguay’ by a new name.”

    Private Resolution 15 · 10 Stat. 830 · July 17, 1854 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act regulating the Time of holding the Sessions of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the Eastern District of Louisiana.

    Ch. XCIX · 10 Stat. 307 · July 20, 1854 · Original text

16. A Resolution providing for the Distribution of the Works of Thomas Jefferson.

    Resolution 17 · 10 Stat. 594 · July 20, 1854 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution to fix the Compensation of the Employees in the Legislative Department of the Government, and to prohibit the allowance of the usual extra compensation to such as receive the benefits hereof.

    Resolution 18 · 10 Stat. 594 · July 20, 1854 · Original text

18. An Act to Incorporate the Georgetown Gaslight Company.

    Ch. XCVIII · 10 Stat. 786 · July 20, 1854 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act for the Relief of Thomas K. Glenn.

    Ch. C · 10 Stat. 788 · July 20, 1854 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act for the Relief of Charles Staples.

    Ch. CI · 10 Stat. 788 · July 20, 1854 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act making further Appropriation for the Improvement of the Cape Fear River, North Carolina.

    Ch. CII · 10 Stat. 307 · July 22, 1854 · Original text

22. An Act to establish the offices of Surveyor-General of New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska, to grant Donations to actual Settlers therein, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CIII · 10 Stat. 308 · July 22, 1854 · Original text

23. An Act to confirm the Claim of Dusuan de la Croix to a Lot of Land therein described.

    Ch. CIV · 10 Stat. 788 · July 24, 1854 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act creating a Collection District in New York, to be called the District of Dunkirk, and constituting Dunkirk a Port of Entry, and the Ports of Barcelona, Silver Creek, and Cattaraugus Creek, Ports of Delivery.

    Ch. CV · 10 Stat. 310 · July 27, 1854 · Original text

25. An Act making Appropriations to Defray the Expenses of the Cayuse War.

    Ch. CVI · 10 Stat. 311 · July 27, 1854 · Original text

26. An Act to Increase the Salaries of Executive and Judiciary Officers in Oregon, New Mexico, Washington, Utah, and Minnesota.

    Ch. CVII · 10 Stat. 311 · July 27, 1854 · Original text

27. An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fify-five.

    Ch. CVIII · 10 Stat. 312 · July 27, 1854 · Original text

28. An Act making Provision for the Postal Service in the State of California and in the Territories of Oregon and Washington.

    Ch. CIX · 10 Stat. 312 · July 27, 1854 · Original text

29. An Act to ascertain and adjust the Titles to certain Lands in the State of Indiana.

    Ch. CX · 10 Stat. 313 · July 27, 1854 · Original text

30. An Act to Incorporate the Proprietors of the Glenwood Cemetery.

    Ch. CXI · 10 Stat. 789 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act for the Relief of the Representatives of Joseph Watson, deceased.

    Ch. CXII · 10 Stat. 790 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act for the Relief of the Executrix of the late Brevet-Colonel A. C. W. Fanning of the United States Army.

    Ch. CXIII · 10 Stat. 790 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act for the Relief of John W. Killy.

    Ch. CXIV · 10 Stat. 791 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act for the Relief of William Senna Factor.

    Ch. CXV · 10 Stat. 791 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act for the Relief of John S. Wilson.

    Ch. CXVI · 10 Stat. 791 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act for the Relief of Manuel Hernandez.

    Ch. CXVII · 10 Stat. 792 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act for the Relief of William Clande Jones.

    Ch. CXVIII · 10 Stat. 792 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act for the Relief of Joseph Gonder, junior, and John Duff.

    Ch. CXIX · 10 Stat. 792 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act for the Relief of Robert Grignon.

    Ch. CXX · 10 Stat. 792 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act for the Relief of A. G. Bennett.

    Ch. CXXI · 10 Stat. 793 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the Relief of Lavinia Taylor.

    Ch. CXXII · 10 Stat. 793 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Samuel Prioleau, deceased.

    Ch. CXXIII · 10 Stat. 793 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representative of Joshua Kennedy, deceased.

    Ch. CXXIV · 10 Stat. 793 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act for the Relief of Ira Baldwin.

    Ch. CXXV · 10 Stat. 794 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of the late Thomas Chapman, formerly Collector of the Port of Georgetown, South Carolina.

    Ch. CXXVI · 10 Stat. 794 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act for the Relief of William Miller.

    Ch. CXXVII · 10 Stat. 794 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act for the Relief of Sarah Crandall.

    Ch. CXXVIII · 10 Stat. 794 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act for the Relief of Thomas Snodgrass.

    Ch. CXXIX · 10 Stat. 794 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act for the Relief of Mary Carlton.

    Ch. CXXX · 10 Stat. 795 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act for the Relief of Thomas D. Jennings.

    Ch. CXXXI · 10 Stat. 795 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act for the Relief of Joseph Mitchell.

    Ch. CXXXII · 10 Stat. 795 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act for the Relief of Charles Cooper and Company.

    Ch. CXXXIII · 10 Stat. 795 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the Relief of James Dunning.

    Ch. CXXXIV · 10 Stat. 796 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the Relief of Richard King.

    Ch. CXXXV · 10 Stat. 796 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act for the Relief of John Phagan.

    Ch. CXXXVI · 10 Stat. 796 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act for the Relief of Passed Midshipmen George P. Welsh and Clark H. Wells.

    Ch. CXXXVII · 10 Stat. 796 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act for the Relief of Thomas S. Russell.

    Ch. CXXXVIII · 10 Stat. 796 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act to create and provide a Pension for David Towle.

    Ch. CXXXIX · 10 Stat. 797 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Sally T. B. Cochrane, widow of the lata Lieutenant R. E. Cochrane, United States Army.

    Ch. CXL · 10 Stat. 797 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act authorising Victor Morass to relinquish certain Lands, and to enter the same quantity elsewhere.

    Ch. CXLI · 10 Stat. 797 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the Relief of Rebecca Freeman.

    Ch. CXLII · 10 Stat. 797 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act for the Relief of Charles Lee Jones.

    Ch. CXLIII · 10 Stat. 798 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act authorizing a Patent to be issued to Peter Poncin for certain Lands therein described.

    Ch. CXLIV · 10 Stat. 798 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act for the Relief of Ezra Williams.

    Ch. CXLV · 10 Stat. 798 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act for the Relief of Conrad Wheat, Jr., or his Legal Representatives.

    Ch. CXLVI · 10 Stat. 798 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act for the Relief of Richard M. Bouton, George Wright, and the Widow of Marvin W. Fisher.

    Ch. CXLVII · 10 Stat. 799 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act for the Relief of Andrew J. Dickerhoff.

    Ch. CXLVIII · 10 Stat. 799 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act for the Relief of the Window and Orphans of the Officers and Seamen of the United States Schooner Grampus, who were lost in that vessel in March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, near the coast of the United States.

    Ch. CXLIX · 10 Stat. 799 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act for the Relief of Captain George Simpton, of Galveston.

    Ch. CL · 10 Stat. 799 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act for the Relief of Pamela Brown, the widow of Major-General Jacob Brown, late of the United States Army, deceased.

    Ch. CLI · 10 Stat. 800 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act for the Relief of William Harris, of Georgia.

    Ch. CLII · 10 Stat. 800 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act for the Relief of James M. Goggin.

    Ch. CLIII · 10 Stat. 800 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act confirming a certain Land Claim in Louisiana known as the Fleuriau Claim.

    Ch. CLIV · 10 Stat. 800 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act for the Relief of James Edwards and others.

    Ch. CLV · 10 Stat. 801 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act for the Relief of Sylvester T. Jerauld, Assignee of the interest of Henry Richard.

    Ch. CLVI · 10 Stat. 801 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act for the Relief of James Wormsley.

    Ch. CLVII · 10 Stat. 801 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act for the Relief of Samuel H. Hempstead.

    Ch. CLVIII · 10 Stat. 802 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act for the Relief of Joseph Campau.

    Ch. CCLXXVII · 10 Stat. 827 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

79. A Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Territory of New Mexico to adjust and pay to Juan C. Armijo, Jose L. Perea, and James L. Collins, the amount by them loaned to the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, under authority of a Joint Resolution of that body, approved the seventeenth of June eighty [eighteen] hundred and fifty-one.

    Private Resolution 19 · 10 Stat. 830 · July 27, 1854 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to authorize Notaries Public to take and certify Oaths, Affirmations and Acknowledgments in certain cases.”

    Ch. CLIX · 10 Stat. 315 · July 29, 1854 · Original text

81. An Act for the Relief of John S. Jones and William H. Russell, surviving partners of the firm of Brown, Russell, and Company.

    Ch. CLX · 10 Stat. 802 · July 29, 1854 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act for the Relief of the Pine Grove Academy, in Louisiana.

    Ch. CLXI · 10 Stat. 802 · July 29, 1854 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act for the Compensation of James W. Low, and others, for the capture of the British private armed Schooner Ann, during the late War with Great Britain.

    Ch. CLXII · 10 Stat. 803 · July 29, 1854 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act for the Relief of Purser T. P. McBlair.

    Ch. CLXIII · 10 Stat. 803 · July 29, 1854 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act for the Relief of John Frazer and the Administrator of the Estate of John G. Clendenin, deceased.

    Ch. CLXIV · 10 Stat. 803 · July 29, 1854 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay John Charles Fremont for beef furnished the California Indians.

    Ch. CLXV · 10 Stat. 804 · July 29, 1854 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act for the Relief of Captain Lewis E. Simonds.

    Ch. CLXVI · 10 Stat. 804 · July 29, 1854 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act making Appropriations for the current and contingent Expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling Treaty Stipulations with various Indian Tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CLXVII · 10 Stat. 315 · July 31, 1854 · Original text

89. An Act for the Relief of Asa Andrews.

    Ch. CLXVXII · 10 Stat. 804 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act for the Relief of Dr. S. R. Addison, passed Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy.

    Ch. CLXIX · 10 Stat. 805 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act for the Relief of William Darby.

    Ch. CLXX · 10 Stat. 805 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act for the Relief of Levi Pierce and Andrew Hodge, Junior.

    Ch. CLXXI · 10 Stat. 805 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act for the Relief of Jean Baptiste Beaubien.

    Ch. CLXXII · 10 Stat. 805 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act for the Relief of Urban Stoll.

    Ch. CLXXIII · 10 Stat. 806 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act for the Relief of Gaston T. Raoul.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 10 Stat. 806 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act for the Relief of A. G. Penn.

    Ch. CLXXV · 10 Stat. 806 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act for the Settlement of the Claims of W. P. Buckner and Pierce Crosby, Passed Midshipmen in the United States Navy.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 10 Stat. 806 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act for the Relief of William G. Smith.

    Ch. CLXXVII · 10 Stat. 807 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Major Caleb Swan, deceased.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 10 Stat. 807 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act for the Relief of Henry La Reintrie.

     Ch. CLXXIX · 10 Stat. 807 · August 1, 1854 · Private law · Original text