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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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314 laws of the 35th Congress, 1857–1859

  1. An Act for the Relief of Jane Turnbull.

    Ch. LXXXIX · 11 Stat. 567 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act for the Relief of Frances Ann Mc Cauley.

    Ch. XC · 11 Stat. 567 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the Relief of Eli W. Goff.

    Ch. XCL · 11 Stat. 567 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the Relief of Mary B. Dusenbery.

    Ch. XCII · 11 Stat. 567 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act to provide for the final Settlement of the Land Claim of the Persons claiming as Heirs of or under Jehu Underwood, as Purchasers or otherwise to certain Land in Florida, and to confirm the Title to the proper Owner or Owners.

    Ch. XCIII · 11 Stat. 568 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act for the Relief of Edward Ingersoll.

    Ch. XCIV · 11 Stat. 568 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act for the Relief of James A. Glanding.

    Ch. XCV · 11 Stat. 568 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act for the Relief of James Collier.

    Ch. XCVI · 11 Stat. 568 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act for the Relief of the Assignees of Hugh Glenn.

    Ch. XCVII · 11 Stat. 569 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act for the Relief of Enoch B. Talcott, late Collector of Customs at Oswego, New York.

    Ch. XCVIII · 11 Stat. 569 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act for the Relief of William M. Harrison.

    Ch. XCIX · 11 Stat. 569 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act for the Relief of Lucy A. Wakefield, Widow of Benjamin Wakefield.

    Ch. C · 11 Stat. 569 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the Relief of Ferdinand Coxe.

    Ch. CI · 11 Stat. 570 · March 3, 1859 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act for the Relief of John Perry, of Illinois.

    Ch. CII · 11 Stat. 570 · March 3, 1859 · 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.