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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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715 laws of the 39th Congress, 1865–1867

  1. An Act for the Relief of Thomas D. Burrall.

    Ch. CCXIV · 14 Stat. 637 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act to extend to, and for the Benefit of Elisa Wells, Letters Patent heretofore issued to Henry A. Wells, deceased.

    Ch. CCXV · 14 Stat. 637 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the Relief of Hugh Leddy.

    Ch. CCXVI · 14 Stat. 638 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  4. Joint Resolution to pay Lieutenant John H. Hamlin for Military Services.

    Resolution 61 · 14 Stat. 643 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  5. A Resolution for the Relief of Dempsey Reece, of Indiana.

    Resolution 62 · 14 Stat. 644 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  6. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to audit and settle the Accounts of John Sedgewick, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third Collection District of California.

    Resolution 63 · 14 Stat. 644 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  7. Joint Resolution for the Relief of Almanson Eaton, Receiver of Public Money for the Land Office at Stevens’ Point, Wisconsin.

    Resolution 64 · 14 Stat. 644 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  8. Joint Resolution referring the Papers in the Case of F. A. Gibbons and F. X. Kelley to the Court of Claims.

    Resolution 65 · 14 Stat. 644 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  9. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to audit and pay the Claim of John R. Beckley.

    Resolution 66 · 14 Stat. 644 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  10. Joint Resolution for the Relief of James I. Hudnall.

    Resolution 67 · 14 Stat. 645 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  11. A Resolution for the Relief of Joseph R. Morris.

    Resolution 68 · 14 Stat. 645 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  12. A Resolution for the Relief of certain Enlisted Men of the Seventh Regiment of West Virginia Volunteers.

    Resolution 69 · 14 Stat. 645 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  13. A Resolution for the Relief of Dyer B. Pettijohn.

    Resolution 70 · 14 Stat. 646 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  14. Joint Resolution for the Relief of J. H. Riley.

    Resolution 71 · 14 Stat. 646 · March 2, 1867 · Private law · Original text

  15. A Resolution authorizing Gustavus V. Fox, late Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and the Officers of the Iron-clad “Miantonomah” and Gunboat “Augusta,” to accept Presents tendered them by the Emperor of Russia.

    Resolution 72 · 14 Stat. 646 · March 2, 1867 · 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.