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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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516 laws of the 38th Congress, 1863–1865

  1. An Act granting a Pension to Sophia Brooke Taylor, Widow of the late Major Francis Taylor.

    Ch. CXXIX · 13 Stat. 598-599 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act for the Relief of W. H. and C. S. Duncan.

    Ch. CXXX · 13 Stat. 599 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the Relief of Samuel L. Gerould.

    Ch. CXXXI · 13 Stat. 599 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the Relief of John Hastings, Collector of the Port of Pittsburg.

    Ch. CXXXII · 13 Stat. 599 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act for the Relief of Mary A. Baker, Widow of Brigadier-General Edward D. Baker.

    Ch. CXXXIII · 13 Stat. 599 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act granting a Pension to Ellen M. Whipple, Widow of the late Major-General Amiel W. Whipple, of the United States Army.

    Ch. CXXXIV · 13 Stat. 599-600 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act granting a Pension to the Widow of the late Major-General Hiram G. Berry.

    Ch. CXXXV · 13 Stat. 600 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act granting a Pension to Ezekiel Darling.

    Ch. CXXXVI · 13 Stat. 600 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act for the Relief of Jean M. Lander, Widow of F. W. Lander, deceased.

    Ch. CXXXVII · 13 Stat. 600 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act granting a Pension to Thomas Booth.

    Ch. CXXXVIII · 13 Stat. 600 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act granting a Pension to Elizabeth B. Leppien.

    Ch. CXXXIX · 13 Stat. 600 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act granting a Pension to Rachel Mills, Widow of Peter Mills, deceased, late a Major in the United States Army.

    Ch. CXL · 13 Stat. 601 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the Relief of Benjamin Vreeland, Surgeon in the Navy of the United States.

    Ch. CXLI · 13 Stat. 601 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  14. A Resolution for the Relief of Mrs. Lucy A. Rice, late of Richmond, Virginia.

    Private Resolution 38 · 13 Stat. 604 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  15. A Resolution authorizing the Acceptance of a Sword of Honor from the Government of Great Britain, by Captain Henry S. Stellwagen, of the United States Navy.

    Private Resolution 39 · 13 Stat. 604 · March 3, 1865 · Private law · Original text

  16. A Resolution for the Relief of Garrett R. Barry, a Paymaster in the United States Navy.

    Private Resolution 40 · 13 Stat. 604 · March 3, 1865 · 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.