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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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435 laws of the 34th Congress, 1855–1857

  1. An Act for the Relief of Catharine V. R. Cochrane, sole surviving Child of the late General Philip Schuyler.

    Ch. CLVII · 11 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act for the Relief of Betsy Nash.

    Ch. CLVIII · 11 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the Relief of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Ascension, State of Louisiana.

    Ch. CLIX · 11 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the Relief of Daniel Wacaser.

    Ch. CLX · 11 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act for the Relief of Mary Hooker.

    Ch. CLXI · 11 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act for the Relief of William W. Belden, Administrator of Ebenezer Belden.

    Ch. CLXII · 11 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act for the Relief of the Children and Heirs of Levi and Mary Stone.

    Ch. CLXIII · 11 Stat. 518 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act for the Relief of the surviving Children of Sarah Van Pelt, Widow of John Van Pelt, a revolutionary Soldier.

    Ch. CLXIV · 11 Stat. 518 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act for the Relief of Barton Jewell.

    Ch. CLXV · 11 Stat. 518 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act for the Relief of Jonathan Cilley.

    Ch. CLXVI · 11 Stat. 518 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act for the Relief of J. H. F. Thornton, Lawrence Taliaferro, and Hay T. Taliaferro, sureties of D. M. F. Thornton, late a Purser in the Navy of the United States.

    Ch. CLXVII · 11 Stat. 518 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act for the Relief of Richard J. Murray, a Soldier in the Seminole War of eighteen hundred and eighteen.

    Ch. CLXVIII · 11 Stat. 519 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the Relief of Joseph Bailey, an invalid Soldier of the War of eighteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. CLXIX · 11 Stat. 519 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act for the Relief of Puig, Mir, and Company, of New Orleans.

    Ch. CLXX · 11 Stat. 519 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act for the Relief of Isaac P. Washburne.

    Ch. CLXXI · 11 Stat. 519 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act for the Relief of Robert H. Stevens.

    Ch. CLXXII · 11 Stat. 520 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act for the Relief of Collier H. Minge, Philip T. Ellicott, and Lucretia A. Brodie, Administratrix of Charles Brodie.

    Ch. CLXXIII · 11 Stat. 520 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act for the Relief of Shadrach Rice, of Jackson County, Virginia.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 11 Stat. 520 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of William Easby, deceased, Partner of Easby & Henly.

    Ch. CLXXV · 11 Stat. 520 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act for the Relief of George Chorpenning, Jr.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 11 Stat. 521 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act for the Relief of William Walton, a Soldier of the War of eighteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. CLXXVII · 11 Stat. 521 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act for the Relief of Thomas Rhodes and Jeremiah Austill.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 11 Stat. 521 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act for the Relief of George Cassady.

    Ch. CLXXIX · 11 Stat. 522 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act for the Benefit of William L. Oliver.

    Ch. CLXXX · 11 Stat. 522 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act for the Relief of Claiborn Vaughn.

    Ch. CLXXXI · 11 Stat. 522 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act for the Relief of George Bond.

    Ch. CLXXXII · 11 Stat. 522 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act for the Relief of Sampson Hays, a Soldier in the Mexican War.

    Ch. CLXXXIII · 11 Stat. 522 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act for the Relief of Benjamin W. Smithson.

    Ch. CLXXXIV · 11 Stat. 523 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act for the Relief of Mark and Richard H. Bean, of the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. CLXXXV · 11 Stat. 523 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act for the Relief of Isaac Swain.

    Ch. CLXXXVI · 11 Stat. 523 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act relinquishing the claim of the United States to certain Property of which Elijah King died seized and possessed, in the District of Columbia, upon certain specified Conditions.

    Ch. CLXXXVII · 11 Stat. 523 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  32. An Act for the Relief of John B. Rose, of Wabash County, Indiana.

    Ch. CLXXXVIII · 11 Stat. 524 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  33. An Act granting a Pension to Franklin W. Armstrong, of Hardin County, Kentucky.

    Ch. CLXXXIX · 11 Stat. 524 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  34. An Act for the Relief of Robert Davis.

    Ch. CXC · 11 Stat. 525 · March 3, 1857 · Private law · Original text

  35. Joint Resolution for the Relief of W. W. Wimmer, late Postmaster of West Zanesville, Ohio.

    Private Resolution 19 · 11 Stat. 526 · March 3, 1857 · 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.