Every law Congress has passed

516 laws of the 38th Congress, 1863–1865

1. An Act to incorporate the Sisters of Mercy in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. XLIX · 13 Stat. 434 · February 23, 1865 · Original text

2. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind,” approved February sixteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

   Ch. L · 13 Stat. 437 · February 23, 1865 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain the Title to certain Property in Carson City and State of Nevada, for the Purposes of a Branch Mint located in said Place.

   Resolution 18 · 13 Stat. 569 · February 23, 1865 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution to facilitate the Adjustment of certain Accounts of the American Colonization Society for the Support of recaptured Africans in Liberia.

   Resolution 19 · 13 Stat. 569 · February 23, 1865 · Original text

5. An Act for the Relief of George A. Schreiner.

   Ch. LI · 13 Stat. 596 · February 23, 1865 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act to prevent Officers of the Army and Navy, and other Persons engaged in the military and naval Service of the United States, from interfering in Elections in the States.

   Ch. LII · 13 Stat. 437 · February 25, 1865 · Original text

7. An Act to increase the Efficiency of the Medical Corps of the Army.

   Ch. LIII · 13 Stat. 437 · February 25, 1865 · Original text

8. An Act to create the Eastern Judicial District of the State of New York.

   Ch. LIV · 13 Stat. 438 · February 25, 1865 · Original text

9. An Act supplemental ta an Act entitled “An Act to annex a Part of the State of New Jersey to the Collection District of New York, and to appoint an Assistant Collector to reside at Jersey City,” approved February twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

   Ch. LV · 13 Stat. 438 · February 25, 1865 · Original text

10. An Act to authorize the Corporation of Georgetown to levy certain Taxes.

    Ch. LVI · 13 Stat. 439 · February 25, 1865 · Original text

11. An Act authorizing and requiring the Opening of Sixth Street West.

    Ch. LVII · 13 Stat. 439 · February 25, 1865 · Original text

12. An Act in Reference to Prosecutions for Libel in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. LVIII · 13 Stat. 439 · February 25, 1865 · Original text

13. An Act for changing the Time for holding the Circuit Courts in the District of Virginia.

    Ch. LIX · 13 Stat. 440 · February 25, 1865 · Original text

14. Joint Resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue American Registers to British Schooners “Minnie Williams” and “E. M. Baxter.”

    Resolution 20 · 13 Stat. 570 · February 25, 1865 · Original text

15. An Act for the Relief of Harriet and Emily W. Morris, unmarried Sisters of the late Commodore Henry W. Morris.

    Ch. LX · 13 Stat. 597 · February 25, 1865 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act to change the Name of Dorsey Edwin William Towson, of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, to that of Dorsey Edwin William Carter.

    Ch. LXI · 13 Stat. 597 · February 25, 1865 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act for the Relief of Mary Shircliff.

    Ch. LXII · 13 Stat. 597 · February 25, 1865 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act for the Relief of Rebecca S. Harrison.

    Ch. LXIII · 13 Stat. 597 · February 25, 1865 · Private law · Original text

19. Joint Resolution in the Matter of Sergeant Daniel Collett, Jr., deceased.

    Private Resolution 21 · 13 Stat. 603 · February 25, 1865 · Private law · Original text

20. A Resolution for the Relief of James B. Royce.

    Private Resolution 22 · 13 Stat. 603-604 · February 25, 1865 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act providing for a District and a Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nevada, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. LXIV · 13 Stat. 440 · February 27, 1865 · Original text

22. An Act to pay to each of the surviving Soldiers of the Revolution, five in Number, whose Names are on the Pension Roll, three hundred Dollars annually, as a Gratuity, in Addition to the Pension now paid them.

    Ch. LXV · 13 Stat. 597-598 · February 27, 1865 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act for the Relief of Chapin Hall.

    Ch. LXVI · 13 Stat. 598 · February 27, 1865 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act to revive certain Provisions of the Act entitled “An Act further to provide for the Collection of Unties on Imports and Tonnage,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. LXVII · 13 Stat. 440 · February 28, 1865 · Original text

25. An Act making Appropriations for the Construction, Preservation, and Repairs of certain Fortifications and other Works of Defence, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

    Ch. LXVIII · 13 Stat. 440 · February 28, 1865 · Original text

26. An Act relating to the Enrolment and License of certain Vessels.

    Ch. LXIX · 13 Stat. 444 · February 28, 1865 · Original text

27. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the Admeasurement of Tonnage of Ships and Vessels of the United States,” approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

    Ch. LXX · 13 Stat. 444 · February 28, 1865 · Original text

28. An Act concerning the Collection District of Salem and Beverly, in Massachusetts.

    Ch. LXXI · 13 Stat. 444 · February 28, 1865 · Original text

29. An Act granting to the Michigan City Harbor Company the Use of Government Piers in said Harbor for the purpose of protecting said Harbor.

    Ch. LXXII · 13 Stat. 445 · February 28, 1865 · Original text

30. Joint Resolution in Relation to the Distribution of Books and Documents.

    Resolution 23 · 13 Stat. 570 · February 28, 1865 · Original text

31. An Act making Appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and additional Appropriations for the current fiscal Year.

    Ch. LXXIII · 13 Stat. 445 · March 2, 1865 · Original text

32. An Act making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

    Ch. LXXIV · 13 Stat. 462 · March 2, 1865 · Original text

33. An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

    Ch. LXXV · 13 Stat. 467 · March 2, 1865 · Original text

34. An Act to establish the Office of Solicitor and Naval Judge-Advocate.

    Ch. LXXVI · 13 Stat. 468 · March 2, 1865 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution to provide for the Publication of a full Army Register.

    Resolution 24 · 13 Stat. 570 · March 2, 1865 · Original text

36. Joint Resolution authorizing a Contract with William H. Powell for a Picture for the Capitol.

    Resolution 25 · 13 Stat. 570 · March 2, 1865 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to advance to Paul S. Forbes two hundred and fifty thousand Dollars additional out of the Sum to be paid him under his Contract for building a Steam Screw Sloop-of-War.

    Private Resolution 26 · 13 Stat. 604 · March 2, 1865 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act to provide Ways and Means for the Support of the Government.

    Ch. LXXVII · 13 Stat. 468 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

39. An Act to amend an Act entitled “Ah Act to provide Internal Revenue to support the Government, to pay Interest on the Public Debt, and for other Purposes,” approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

    Ch. LXXVIII · 13 Stat. 469 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

40. An Act to amend the several Acts heretofore passed to provide for the Enrolling and Calling out the National Forces, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. LXXIX · 13 Stat. 487 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

41. An Act amendatory of certain Acts imposing Duties upon foreign Importations.

    Ch. LXXX · 13 Stat. 491 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

42. An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

    Ch. LXXXI · 13 Stat. 495 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

43. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide a National Currency, secured by a Pledge of United States Bonds, and to provide for the Circulation and Redemption thereof.”

    Ch. LXXXII · 13 Stat. 498 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

44. An Act to prevent the Enlistment of Persons charged with Crime in the District of Columbia, as Substitute [s] or as Volunteers in the Army or Navy, and to prevent Frauds al the District Jail, in the City of Washington.

    Ch. LXXXIII · 13 Stat. 498 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

45. An Act supplementary io the several Acts relating to Pensions.

    Ch. LXXXIV · 13 Stat. 499 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

46. An Act to provide for a Chief of Staff to the Lieutenant-General commanding die Armies of the United States.

    Ch. LXXXV · 13 Stat. 500 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

47. An Act regulating Proceedings in criminal Cases, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. LXXXVI · 13 Stat. 500 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

48. An Act further to amend an Act entitled “An Act for the Collection of direct Tares in the insurrectionary Districts within the United States, and for other Purposes,” approved fine seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

    Ch. LXXXVII · 13 Stat. 501 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

49. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the Use of the same for postal, military, and other Purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to amend an Act amendatory thereof, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

    Ch. LXXXVIII · 13 Stat. 504 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

50. An Act relating to the postal Laws.

    Ch. LXXXIX · 13 Stat. 504 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

51. An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees.

    Ch. XC · 13 Stat. 507 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

52. An Act to incorporate a national military and naval Asylum for the Relief of the totally disabled Officers and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the United States.

    Ch. XCI · 13 Stat. 509 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

53. An Act to incorporate the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company.

    Ch. XCII · 13 Stat. 510 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

54. An Act for the better Organization of the Subsistence Department.

    Ch. XCIII · 13 Stat. 513 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

55. An Act to provide for two assistant local Inspectors of Steamboats in the City of New York, and for two local Inspectors at Galena, Illinois, and to reestablish the Board of local Inspectors at Wheeling; and also to amend the Act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty four, entitled “An Act to create an additional Inspector of Steamboats and two local Inspectors of Steamboats for Collection Districts of Memphis and Oregon, and for other Purposes.”

    Ch. XCIV · 13 Stat. 514 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

56. An Act to provide for the Publication of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States.

    Ch. XCV · 13 Stat. 514 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

57. An Act to remove all Disqualification of Color in carrying the Mails.

    Ch. XCVI · 13 Stat. 515 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

58. An Act relating to the Clerkships in the Post-Office Department.

    Ch. XCVII · 13 Stat. 515 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

59. An Act amendatory of the Acts relative to the Attorney-General’s Office, and to fix the Compensation of his Assistant and Clerks.

    Ch. XCVIII · 13 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

60. An Act to provide for the Construction of certain Wagon-Roads in the Territories of Idaho, Montana, Dakota, and Nebraska.

    Ch. XCIX · 13 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

61. An Act to authorize the Coinage of Three-Cent Pieces, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. C · 13 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

62. An Act to regulate the Fees of Custom-House Officers on the Northern, Northeastern, and North western Frontiers of the United States.

    Ch. CI · 13 Stat. 518 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

63. An Act granting Land to the State of Michigan, to aid in building a Harbor and Ship-Canal at Portage Lake, Kewenaw Point, Lake Superior.

    Ch. CII · 13 Stat. 519 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

64. An Act to extend the Time for the Completion of certain Railroads to which Land Grants have been made in the States of Michigan and Wisconsin.

    Ch. CIII · 13 Stat. 520 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

65. An Act to establish certain Post-Roads.

    Ch. CIV · 13 Stat. 522 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

66. An Act extending the Time for the Completion of certain Land-grant Rail roads in the States of Minnesota and Iowa, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CV · 13 Stat. 526 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

67. An Act to regulate the Taking of Depositions in certain Cases.

    Ch. CVI · 13 Stat. 528 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

68. An Act supplemental to the Act approved first July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, “for the Disposal of Coal Lands and of Town Property in the Public Domain.”

    Ch. CVII · 13 Stat. 529 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

69. An Act to amend an Act entitled “Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act making a Grant of alternate Sections of Public Lands to the State of Michigan, to aid in the Construction of certain Railroads in said State, and for other Purposes.’”

    Ch. CVIII · 13 Stat. 529 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

70. An Act to authorize the Issuing of Patents for certain Lands in the Town of Stockbridge, State of Wisconsin, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CIX · 13 Stat. 530 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

71. An Act to quiet Titles in Favor of Parties in actual Possession of Lands situated in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CX · 13 Stat. 531 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

72. An Act further to Provide for the Verification of Invoices.

    Ch. CXI · 13 Stat. 532 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

73. An Act amendatory of “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to promote the Progress of the useful Arts,’ approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.”

    Ch. CXII · 13 Stat. 533 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

74. An Act to amend the third Section of an Act entitled “An Act making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other Purposes,” so far as the same relates to Witnesses in the Courts of the United States.

    Ch. CXIII · 13 Stat. 533 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

75. An Act in Relation to the Naval Observatory.

    Ch. CXIV · 13 Stat. 533 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

76. An Act for the Relief of the Occupants of the Lands of the Ex-mission of San José, in the State of California.

    Ch. CXV · 13 Stat. 534 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

77. An Act to enable the accounting Officers of the Treasury to settle the Claim of the State of Kansas.

    Ch. CXVI · 13 Stat. 535 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

78. An Act to extend the Provisions of the first Section of “An Act for the Government of Persons in certain Fisheries,” approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirteen.

    Ch. CXVII · 13 Stat. 535 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

79. An Act to incorporate the Colored Union Benevolent Association.

    Ch. CXVIII · 13 Stat. 535 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

80. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company in the District of Columbia.”

    Ch. CXIX · 13 Stat. 536 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

81. An Act to incorporate the Continental Hotel Company of the City of Washington.

    Ch. CXX · 13 Stat. 537 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

82. An Act providing for the Confinement of juvenile Offenders against the Laws of the United States in Houses of Refuge.

    Ch. CXXI · 13 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

83. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the better Organization of Indian Affairs in California.”

    Ch. CXXII · 13 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

84. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to lease or sell certain Property of the United States situated at Bath, in the State of Maine.

    Ch. CXXIII · 13 Stat. 539 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

85. An Act to increase the Pay of Midshipmen and others.

    Ch. CXXIV · 13 Stat. 539 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

86. An Act to incorporate the “Capitol Hotel Company,” in Washington City, District of Columbia.

    Ch. CXXV · 13 Stat. 539 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

87. An Act supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to amend the several Acts respecting Copyright,” approved February third, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to the Acts in Addition thereto and Amendment thereof.

    Ch. CXXVI · 13 Stat. 540 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

88. An Act making Appropriations for the current and contingent Expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling Treaty Stipulations with carious Indian Tribes fir the Tear ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CXXVII · 13 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

89. A Resolution to encourage the Employment of disabled and discharged Soldiers.

    Resolution 27 · 13 Stat. 571 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution of Thanks to Major-General George H. Thomas and the Army under his Command.

    Resolution 28 · 13 Stat. 571 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

91. A Resolution to encourage Enlistments and to promote the Efficiency of the military Forces of the United States.

    Resolution 29 · 13 Stat. 571 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

92. A Resolution to authorize and direct an Inventory of Articles in the Quartermaster’s Depots of the United States, and in the Possession of the Naval Storekeepers of the United States.

    Resolution 30 · 13 Stat. 571 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

93. A Resolution relating to International Exhibitions at Bergen, in Norway, and Oporto, in Portugal, during the Summer of eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

    Resolution 31 · 13 Stat. 572 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution to amend the joint Resolution entitled “Joint Resolution in Relation to the Public Printing,” approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty.

    Resolution 32 · 13 Stat. 572 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

95. A Resolution directing Inquiry into the Condition of the Indian Tribes, and their Treatment by the Civil and Military Authorities.

    Resolution 33 · 13 Stat. 572 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

96. A Resolution to extend the Time for constructing the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, in Iowa, and filing a Map of Relocation.

    Resolution 34 · 13 Stat. 573 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

97. A Resolution transferring Maps and other Documents relating to the Surveys of the Pacific Railroad to the Department of the Interior.

    Resolution 35 · 13 Stat. 573 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

98. A Resolution respecting the Publication of the Papers of James Madison.

    Resolution 36 · 13 Stat. 573 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

99. A Resolution to purchase Mail Pouches or Bores of Marshall Smith’s Patent for the Postal Service, and for other Purposes.

    Resolution 87 · 13 Stat. 574 · March 3, 1865 · Original text

100. An Act for the Relief of Charles A. Pitcher.

     Ch. CXXVIII · 13 Stat. 598 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text