Every law Congress has passed

435 laws of the 34th Congress, 1855–1857

1. An Act for the Relief of Abner Dickson, a Soldier in the War of eighteen hundred and twelve.

   Ch. X · 11 Stat. 479 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act for the Relief of Calvin Hall, Assignee of William Jones.

   Ch. XI · 11 Stat. 479 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act for the Relief of the Sureties of the late Lieutenant Charles E. Jarvis, United States Army.

   Ch. XII · 11 Stat. 480 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act for the Relief of Edmund Mitchell.

   Ch. XIII · 11 Stat. 480 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act for the Relief of William Humphreys, jr., Owner of Fishing Schooner “Good Exchange,” lost at Sea.

   Ch. XIV · 11 Stat. 480 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs and Legal Representatives of Ignacio Delino.

   Ch. XV · 11 Stat. 480 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act providing an Increase of Pension to Daniel Waldo, of Onondaga county, New York.

   Ch. XVI · 11 Stat. 481 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act to confirm the Title of Ruhama Whitaker and Rebecca Whitaker to certain Lands in the State of Louisiana.

   Ch. XVII · 11 Stat. 481 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act for the Relief of Captain Thomas Ap Catesby Jones.

   Ch. XVIII · 11 Stat. 481 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act for the Relief of Rudolf Kussmaul.

    Ch. XIX · 11 Stat. 481 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act authorizing the Legal Representatives of Manuel Gonzales Moro to enter certain Lands in Missouri.

    Ch. XX · 11 Stat. 482 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act for the Relief of J. W. Todd, a Lieutenant of Ordnance in the United States Army.

    Ch. XXI · 11 Stat. 482 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs and Legal Representatives of Louis Reggio.

    Ch. XXII · 11 Stat. 482 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act for the Relief of James M. Lindsay.

    Ch. XXIII · 11 Stat. 483 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Thomas Gordon, deceased.

    Ch. XXIV · 11 Stat. 483 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act for the Relief of Antoine Robedeau.

    Ch. XXV · 11 Stat. 483 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act for the Relief of Salvador Accardi.

    Ch. XXVI · 11 Stat. 484 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act for the Relief of William H. Chase.

    Ch. XXVII · 11 Stat. 484 · August 23, 1856 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act to supply an Omission in the Enrolment of a certain Act.

    Ch. XXVIII · 11 Stat. 147 · August 28, 1856 · Original text

20. A Resolution authorizing the Purchase and Restoration to the British Government of the Ship “Resolute,” late of the British Navy.

    Resolution 1 · 11 Stat. 151 · August 28, 1856 · Original text

21. An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

    Ch. XXIX · 11 Stat. 147 · August 30, 1856 · Original text

22. An Act to fix the Times of holding, in the State of Delaware, the Election of a Representative in the Congress of the United States.

    Ch. XXX · 11 Stat. 150 · August 30, 1856 · Original text

23. A Resolution authorizing the Acceptance of certain Medals from Foreign Governments.

    Resolution 2 · 11 Stat. 151 · August 30, 1856 · Original text

24. A Resolution allowing Doctor E. K. Kane, and the Officers associated with him in their late Expedition to the Arctic seas, in search of Sir John Franklin, to accept such Token of Acknowledgment from the Government of Great Britain as it may please to present.

    Resolution 3 · 11 Stat. 152 · August 30, 1856 · Original text

25. A Resolution authorizing Alexander D. Bache to accept a Medal presented to him by the King of Sweden.

    Resolution 4 · 11 Stat. 152 · August 30, 1856 · Original text

26. A Resolution granting further Time to the Creditors of Texas to present their Claims, and for other Purposes.

    Resolution 1 · 11 Stat. 252 · December 26, 1856 · Original text

27. An Act for the Relief of George K. McGunnegle, surviving Partner of the late firm of Hill and McGunnegle, of St. Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. I · 11 Stat. 485 · December 26, 1856 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act providing for the compulsory Prepayment of Postage on all transient printed Matter.

    Ch. II · 11 Stat. 153 · January 2, 1857 · Original text

29. An Act for the Relief of James Harrington.

    Ch. III · 11 Stat. 485 · January 2, 1857 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act for the Relief of Peter Grover.

    Ch. IV · 11 Stat. 485 · January 8, 1857 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act for the Relief of A. S. Bender.

    Ch. V · 11 Stat. 485 · January 8, 1857 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act granting Bounty Land to Jared L. Elliott.

    Ch. VI · 11 Stat. 486 · January 8, 1857 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act increasing the Pension of George W. Torrence.

    Ch. VII · 11 Stat. 486 · January 10, 1857 · Private law · Original text

34. A Resolution Accepting the Portrait of John Hampden, presented to Congress by John McGregor.

    Resolution 2 · 11 Stat. 253 · January 13, 1857 · Original text

35. An Act to authorize the Postmaster-General to execute a Contract with Messrs. Garman, Wigle, and Benford, for carrying the Mail from Cumberland, Maryland, to Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. VIII · 11 Stat. 486 · January 13, 1857 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act for the Relief of J. Randolph Clay.

    Ch. IX · 11 Stat. 486 · January 13, 1857 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay unto Hannah F.…

    Ch. X · 11 Stat. 487 · January 13, 1857 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the Efficiency of the Navy.”

    Ch. XII · 11 Stat. 153 · January 16, 1857 · Original text

39. An Act for the Relief of the surviving Children of Sarah Crandall, deceased

    Ch. XI · 11 Stat. 487 · January 16, 1857 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United Stales for the Year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

    Ch. XIII · 11 Stat. 155 · January 17, 1857 · Original text

41. An Act for the Relief of Charles L. Denman.

    Ch. XIV · 11 Stat. 487 · January 17, 1857 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the Relief of Joseph White.

    Ch. XV · 11 Stat. 487 · January 17, 1857 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act for the Relief of Amos B. Carwine.

    Ch. XVI · 11 Stat. 487 · January 17, 1857 · Private law · Original text

44. A Resolution to authorise the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior to settle the Claim of William Carey Jones, for certain Services.

    Private Resolution 3 · 11 Stat. 525 · January 17, 1857 · Private law · Original text

45. Joint Resolution in favor of J. W. Nye.

    Private Resolution 4 · 11 Stat. 525 · January 17, 1857 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act to procure a Bust, in Marble, of the late Chief Justice John Rutledge.

    Ch. XVIII · 11 Stat. 155 · January 21, 1857 · Original text

47. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Major-General Arthur St. Clair.

    Ch. XVII · 11 Stat. 488 · January 21, 1857 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act more effectually to enforce the Attendance of Witnesses on the Summons of either House of Congress, and to compel them to discover Testimony.

    Ch. XIX · 11 Stat. 155 · January 24, 1857 · Original text

49. An Act making a Reappropriation from the Surplus Fund for the Relief of Lieutenant John Guest, United States Navy, and others.

    Ch. XXIV · 11 Stat. 156 · January 26, 1857 · Original text

50. An Act for the Relief of Thomas J. Churchill, late a Lieutenant in the first Kentucky Regiment of Volunteers.

    Ch. XX · 11 Stat. 488 · January 26, 1857 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act to authorize the Legal Representatives of Pascal L. Cerre to enter certain Lands in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. XXI · 11 Stat. 488 · January 26, 1857 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act for the Relief of James P. Fleming, of Augusta, Georgia.

    Ch. XXII · 11 Stat. 489 · January 26, 1857 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the Relief of John H. Horne.

    Ch. XXIII · 11 Stat. 489 · January 26, 1857 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act making a Reappropriation from the Surplus Fund for the Relief of Lieutenant John Guest, United States Navy, and others.

    Ch. XXIV · 11 Stat. 489 · January 26, 1857 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act authorizing the establishing of a Navy Depot on Blythe Island, at Brunswick, on the Coast of Georgia, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. XXV · 11 Stat. 156 · January 28, 1857 · Original text

56. A Resolution respecting the Distribution of certain Public Documents.

    Resolution 5 · 11 Stat. 253 · January 28, 1857 · Original text

57. A Resolution for the Appointment of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Resolution 6 · 11 Stat. 253 · January 28, 1857 · Original text

58. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to approve the Accounts of the Marshal for the District of Missouri, for Furniture provided for the Use of the Circuit Court of the United States for said District, at the April Term of said Court, held at St. Louis, in the Year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and for the Allowance and Payment to the Marshal of the District of Indiana, of the Account for Furniture for the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the District of Indiana.

    Ch. XXVI · 11 Stat. 489 · January 28, 1857 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act for the Relief of Charlotte Turner.

    Ch. XXVII · 11 Stat. 490 · January 28, 1857 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act for the Relief of Charles Lucas, or his Legal Representatives, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. XXVIII · 11 Stat. 490 · February 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the Relief of the Sureties of Daniel Winslow.

    Ch. XXIX · 11 Stat. 490 · February 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act for the Relief of Sally T. Mathews.

    Ch. XXX · 11 Stat. 491 · February 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act for the Relief of Brevet Major James Belger, of the United States Army.

    Ch. XXXI · 11 Stat. 491 · February 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be procured, by Purchase or otherwise, a suitable Steamer as a Revenue Cutter.

    Ch. XXXII · 11 Stat. 157 · February 5, 1857 · Original text

65. An Act for the Relief of Ransdell Pegg.

    Ch. XXXIII · 11 Stat. 491 · February 5, 1857 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs or Legal Representatives of Jeremiah Bryan.

    Ch. XXXIV · 11 Stat. 491 · February 5, 1857 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act for the Relief of Captain Thomas Duncan, of the United States Army.

    Ch. XXXV · 11 Stat. 492 · February 5, 1857 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act supplementary to “An Act to organize an institution for the Insane of the Army and Navy, and of the District of Columbia, in the said District,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

    Ch. XXXVI · 11 Stat. 157 · February 7, 1857 · Original text

69. An Act for regulating the Terms of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. XXXVII · 11 Stat. 158 · February 7, 1857 · Original text

70. An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

    Ch. XXXVIII · 11 Stat. 159 · February 7, 1857 · Original text

71. An Act for the Relief of Mary Reeside.

    Ch. XLII · 11 Stat. 485 · February 7, 1857 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act for the Relief of John Mitchell, of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XXXIX · 11 Stat. 492 · February 7, 1857 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act to extend the Charter of the President and Directors of the “Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.”

    Ch. XL · 11 Stat. 492 · February 7, 1857 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Edmund H. McCabe, Assignee of Antoine Soulard.

    Ch. XLI · 11 Stat. 495 · February 7, 1857 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act to extend the Time for selling the Lands granted to the Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb.

    Ch. XLIII · 11 Stat. 496 · February 7, 1857 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act for the Relief of Joseph D. Beers, of the City of New York.

    Ch. XLIV · 11 Stat. 496 · February 10, 1857 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

    Ch. XLV · 11 Stat. 160 · February 16, 1857 · Original text

78. An Act to incorporate the Columbian Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind.

    Ch. XLVI · 11 Stat. 161 · February 16, 1857 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution providing for the furnishing of a complete Set of Weights and Measures to the State of Vermont.

    Resolution 7 · 11 Stat. 254 · February 16, 1857 · Original text

80. An Act for the Relief of Martin Millett, of Iowa.

    Ch. XLVII · 11 Stat. 496 · February 16, 1857 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act for the Relief of Jonathan Painter, a Black Man, who acted as a Spy in the War of eighteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. XLVIII · 11 Stat. 497 · February 16, 1857 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act to Incorporate an Insurance Company in the City of Washington.

    Ch. XLIX · 11 Stat. 497 · February 16, 1857 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act for the Construction of a Wagon Road from Fort Kearney via the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains and Great Salt Lake Valley, to the eastern Portion of the State of California, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. L · 11 Stat. 162 · February 17, 1857 · Original text

84. An Act providing for the regular Transmission of the Mail on Route six thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

    Ch. LI · 11 Stat. 500 · February 17, 1857 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act for the Relief of Dr. James Morrow.

    Ch. LII · 11 Stat. 500 · February 18, 1857 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act for the Relief of the Officers and Privates of the “Clinton Guards,” of the County of Macomb, in the State of Michigan.

    Ch. LIII · 11 Stat. 500 · February 18, 1857 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act for the Relief of William Craig.

    Ch. LIV · 11 Stat. 501 · February 18, 1857 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act to increase the Pay of the Officers of the Army.

    Ch. LV · 11 Stat. 163 · February 21, 1857 · Original text

89. An Act relating to Foreign Coins and to the Coinage of Cents at the Mint of the United States.

    Ch. LVI · 11 Stat. 163 · February 21, 1857 · Original text

90. An Act to divide the State of Texas into two Judicial Districts.

    Ch. LVII · 11 Stat. 164 · February 21, 1857 · Original text

91. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of the late Colonel John Hardin.

    Ch. LVIII · 11 Stat. 501 · February 21, 1857 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act to authorize the People of the Territory of Minnesota to form a Constitution and State Government, preparatory to their Admission in the Union on an equal Footing with the original States.

    Ch. LX · 11 Stat. 166 · February 26, 1857 · Original text

93. A Resolution to provide for ascertaining the relative Value of the Coinage of the United States and Great Britain, and the fixing the relative Value of the Unitary Coins of the two Countries.

    Resolution 8 · 11 Stat. 254 · February 26, 1857 · Original text

94. A Resolution to prevent the Counterfeiting of the Coins of the United States.

    Resolution 9 · 11 Stat. 254 · February 26, 1857 · Original text

95. An Act for the Relief of Mary B. Winship, Widow of Oscar F. Winship.

    Ch. LIX · 11 Stat. 501 · February 26, 1857 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act making Appropriations for the Completion of Military Roads in Oregon Territory.

    Ch. LXI · 11 Stat. 168 · March 2, 1857 · Original text

97. An Act to establish Augusta, in the State of Georgia, a Port of Delivery.

    Ch. LXII · 11 Stat. 168 · March 2, 1857 · Original text

98. An Act to amend the twenty-eighth Section of the Act of Congress approved the thirtieth of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, entitled “An Act to provide Revenue from Imports and to change and modify existing Laws imposing Duties on Imports and for other Purposes,”—prohibiting the Importation of obscene and indecent Articles, so as more effectually to accomplish the Purposes for which that Provision was enacted.

    Ch. LXIII · 11 Stat. 168 · March 2, 1857 · Original text

99. An Act for the Relief of John C. McConnell.

    Ch. LXIV · 11 Stat. 501 · March 2, 1857 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act for the Relief of Whitemarsh B. Seabrook and others.

     Ch. LXV · 11 Stat. 501 · March 2, 1857 · Private law · Original text