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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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540 laws of the 33rd Congress, 1853–1855

  1. An Act to amend an Act approved the fourth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled “An Act to graduate and reduce the Price of the Public Lands to actual Settlers and Cultivators.

    Ch. CCIX · 10 Stat. 703 · March 3, 1855 · Original text

  2. An Act for carrying into Effect the Convention upon the Subject of Claims between the United States and her Britannic Majesty, of the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

    Ch. CCX · 10 Stat. 703 · March 3, 1855 · Original text

  3. An Act to Establish certain Post-roads.

    Ch. CCXI · 10 Stat. 704 · March 3, 1855 · Original text

  4. An Act to change the Boundaries of the Land Districts in the State of Iowa, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXII · 10 Stat. 714 · March 3, 1855 · Original text

  5. An Act to Regulate the Carriage of Passengers in Steamships and other Vessels.

    Ch. CCXIII · 10 Stat. 715 · March 3, 1855 · Original text

  6. A Resolution in Relation to the New Orleans Custom-House.

    Public Resolution 14 · 10 Stat. 724 · March 3, 1855 · Original text

  7. Joint Resolution making an Appropriation for the Purchase of Territorial Libraries.

    Public Resolution 23 · 10 Stat. 724 · March 3, 1855 · Original text

  8. A Resolution explanatory of an Act passed August third, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

    Public Resolution 24 · 10 Stat. 724 · March 3, 1855 · Original text

  9. Joint Resolution making Appropriation for the Payment of those entitled to the Benefits of the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, passed March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, voting Extra Compensation to Pages, Folders, and Others.

    Public Resolution 25 · 10 Stat. 724 · March 3, 1855 · Original text

  10. An Act for the Relief of Andrew H. Patterson.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 10 Stat. 862 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act granting a Pension to Joseph McCormick.

    Ch. CLXXVII · 10 Stat. 862 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act for the Relief of Stephen Lutz, of New York.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 10 Stat. 863 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the Relief of Thomas C. Ramsey, and Ananias O. Richardson, and James McLaughlin.

    Ch. CLXXIX · 10 Stat. 863 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act to continue the Pension of Frances E. Baden.

    Ch. CLXXX · 10 Stat. 863 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Lieutenant Andrew Finly.

    Ch. CLXXXI · 10 Stat. 863 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act for the Relief of Ferdinand Clark.

    Ch. CLXXXII · 10 Stat. 864 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act for the Relief of Thomas S. Johnson, of the Territory of New Mexico.

    Ch. CLXXXIII · 10 Stat. 864 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act for the Relief of Titian R. Peale.

    Ch. CLXXXIV · 10 Stat. 864 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Thomas Park, deceased.

    Ch. CLXXXV · 10 Stat. 864 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act for the Relief of Jeptha L. Heminger.

    Ch. CLXXXVI · 10 Stat. 865 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act for the Relief of Franklin Chase.

    Ch. CLXXXVII · 10 Stat. 865 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act for the Relief of Paul S. Ridgway, of Ohio.

    Ch. CLXXXVIII · 10 Stat. 865 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of William A. Christian.

    Ch. CLXXXIX · 10 Stat. 865 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act for the Relief of Jesse French, of Braintree, Massachusetts.

    Ch. CXC · 10 Stat. 866 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of George M. Bentley, of the State of Indiana” approved August five, eighteen hundred and fifty four.

    Ch. CXCI · 10 Stat. 866 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Irene G. Scarritt.

    Ch. CXCII · 10 Stat. 866 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act for the Relief of Madalena Van Ness, widow of Cornelius P. Van Ness, deceased.

    Ch. CXCIII · 10 Stat. 866 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act for the Relief of James Hoistin.

    Ch. CXCIV · 10 Stat. 867 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act for the Relief of the Widow of W. Irving, deceased.

    Ch. CXCV · 10 Stat. 867 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Nancy Weatherford, Widow of Colonel Wm. Weatherford, of the First Regiment Illinois Volunteers in the Mexican War.

    Ch. CXCVI · 10 Stat. 867 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act for the Relief of L. R. Lyon, and Dean S. Howard, of the State of New York.

    Ch. CXCVII · 10 Stat. 867 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  32. Joint Resolution for the Relief of George W. McCerren.

    Resolution 15 · 10 Stat. 870 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  33. Joint Resolution to pay the Pension due James Capen to his Administrator.

    Resolution 16 · 10 Stat. 870 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  34. A Resolution explanatory of an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of Abigail Stafford.”

    Resolution 17 · 10 Stat. 871 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  35. Joint Resolution for the Final Adjustment of the Account of John D. Colmesnil.

    Resolution 18 · 10 Stat. 871 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  36. Joint Resolution for the Relief of James Hughes.

    Resolution 19 · 10 Stat. 871 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  37. Joint Resolution for the Relief of Joel Henry Dyer.

    Resolution 20 · 10 Stat. 871 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  38. Joint Resolution for the Relief of John Dugan.

    Resolution 21 · 10 Stat. 872 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  39. Joint Resolution for the Relief of Clark Mills.

    Resolution 22 · 10 Stat. 872 · March 3, 1855 · Private law · Original text

  40. An Act to improve the Laws of the District of Columbia, and to codify the same.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 10 Stat. 642 · March 4, 1855 · 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.