Every law Congress has passed

769 laws of the 40th Congress, 1867–1869

1. An Act granting a Pension to Sarah K. Johnson.

   Ch. CCCXLI · 15 Stat. 416 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act graiting [ granting ] a Pension to Roslinda McCabe, Widow of Barney McCabe, late a Private in Company I, Tenth Regiment New York Cavalry Volunteers.

   Ch. CCCXLII · 15 Stat. 416-417 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act granting a Pension to Joseph A. Fry.

   Ch. CCCXLIII · 15 Stat. 417 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act granting a Pension to William J. Cotty, late of the Twenty-first Missouri Infantry Volunteers.

   Ch. CCCXLIV · 15 Stat. 417 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act for the Relief of Nancy Cook, of Tennessee.

   Ch. CCCXLV · 15 Stat. 417 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act for the Relief of Barbara Stout, of Tennessee.

   Ch. CCCXLVI · 15 Stat. 417 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act granting a Pension to the minor Children of Garrett W. Freer.

   Ch. CCCXLVII · 15 Stat. 418 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act granting a Pension to Julia L. Doty.

   Ch. CCCXLVIII · 15 Stat. 418 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act granting a Pension to Frances M. Webster.

   Ch. CCCXLIX · 15 Stat. 418 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act granting a Pension to Ruth Barton.

    Ch. CCCL · 15 Stat. 418 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act granting a Pension to John Marley.

    Ch. CCCLI · 15 Stat. 418 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act granting a Pension to Joanna L. Shaw.

    Ch. CCCLII · 15 Stat. 419 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act granting a Pension to Anna H. Pratt.

    Ch. CCCLIII · 15 Stat. 419 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act granting a Pension to Hannah K. Cook.

    Ch. CCCLIV · 15 Stat. 419 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act granting a Pension to Jane E. Rogers.

    Ch. CCCLV · 15 Stat. 419 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act granting a Pension to Patrick Collins.

    Ch. CCCLVI · 15 Stat. 419 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act granting a Pension to Kate Higgins.

    Ch. CCCLVII · 15 Stat. 420 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act granting a Pension to Barbara Weisse.

    Ch. CCCLVIII · 15 Stat. 420 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act granting a Pension to Sarah J. Rogers.

    Ch. CCCLIX · 15 Stat. 420 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act granting a Pension to Louisa M. Williston.

    Ch. CCCLX · 15 Stat. 420 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act granting a Pension to Esther Graves.

    Ch. CCCLXI · 15 Stat. 420 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act granting a Pension to Frederick Denning.

    Ch. CCCLXII · 15 Stat. 420-421 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act granting a Pension to Joseph B. Rodden.

    Ch. CCCLXIII · 15 Stat. 421 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act authorizing the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to adjust the Accounts of Mark Howard.

    Ch. CCCLXIV · 15 Stat. 421 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act granting a Pension to Eliza Mathews.

    Ch. CCCLXV · 15 Stat. 421 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act granting a Pension to William F. Nelson.

    Ch. CCCLXVI · 15 Stat. 421 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act granting a Pension to Julia A. Barton.

    Ch. CCCLXVII · 15 Stat. 421 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act granting a Pension to Julia Carroll.

    Ch. CCCLXVIII · 15 Stat. 422 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act granting a Pension to Cornelia Peaslee.

    Ch. CCCLXIX · 15 Stat. 422 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act granting a Pension to Mary Cover, Widow of Samuel Cover, deceased, late a Private in Company G, of the Fifty-sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers.

    Ch. CCCLXX · 15 Stat. 422 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act granting a Pension to William F. Moses.

    Ch. CCCLXXI · 15 Stat. 422 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act granting a Pension to Malinda Ferguson, Widow of James Ferguson, late a Private in Company C, of the First Regiment of Kentucky Cavalry.

    Ch. CCCLXXII · 15 Stat. 422-423 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act granting a Pension to Mary Merchant, Mother of Timothy H. Pittsford, deceased, late a Private in Company G, of the First Regiment of the United States Veteran Engineer Corps.

    Ch. CCCLXXIII · 15 Stat. 423 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act granting a Pension to Frederica Brielmayer.

    Ch. CCCLXXIV · 15 Stat. 423 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act granting a Pension to Mary A. Falardo, Widow of Onesimus Falardo, deceased, late a Private in Company K, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment of New York Volunteers.

    Ch. CCCLXXV · 15 Stat. 423 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act granting a Pension to Phœbe McBride, Mother of Thomas McBride, deceased, late a Private in Company B, of the Eighty-seventh Regiment of Illinois Volunteers.

    Ch. CCCLXXVI · 15 Stat. 423 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act granting a Pension to Harriet E. Shears, Widow of John T. Shears, deceased, late a Private in Company H, of the Fifty-seventh Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. CCCLXXVII · 15 Stat. 424 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act granting a Pension to William H. Blair, late a Private in Company G, of the Twelfth Regiment of Maine Volunteers.

    Ch. CCCLXXVIII · 15 Stat. 424 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act granting a Pension to Christopher M. Cornmesser, late a Private in the Independent Iowa Home Guards.

    Ch. CCCLXXIX · 15 Stat. 424 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act granting a Pension to Johannah Connolly.

    Ch. CCCLXXX · 15 Stat. 424 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act granting a Pension to the minor Children of Michael Travis.

    Ch. CCCLXXXI · 15 Stat. 425 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act granting a Pension to the Widow and minor Children of James Cox.

    Ch. CCCLXXXII · 15 Stat. 425 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act granting a Pension to Lavinia A. Gittings, Mother of Andrew J. Gittings.

    Ch. CCCLXXXIII · 15 Stat. 425 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act granting a Pension to Owen Griffin.

    Ch. CCCLXXXIV · 15 Stat. 425 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act granting a Pension to Margaret Lewis.

    Ch. CCCLXXXV · 15 Stat. 425 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act granting a Pension to Mrs. Mary Brown.

    Ch. CCCLXXXVI · 15 Stat. 426 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act granting a Pension to Esther Fisk.

    Ch. CCCLXXXVII · 15 Stat. 426 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act granting a Pension to William O. Dodge.

    Ch. CCCLXXXVIII · 15 Stat. 426 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act granting a Pension to the Widow of Solomon Gause.

    Ch. CCCLXXXIX · 15 Stat. 426 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act granting an Increase of Pension to Emily B. Bidwell, Widow of Brigadier-General Daniel D. Bidwell, and to Sarah Hackleman, Widow of Brigadier-General Pleasant A. Hackleman.

    Ch. CCCXC · 15 Stat. 426-427 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act for the Relief of Samuel Tibbetts.

    Ch. CCCXCI · 15 Stat. 427 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act granting a Pension to Chauncey D. Rose, Father of Alvin J. Rose, late a Sergeant Veteran in Company A, Second Regiment of Ohio Cavalry Volunteers, who was killed in Action at Five Forks, Virginia, April one, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

    Ch. CCCXCII · 15 Stat. 427 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act to relieve Nelson Tift, of Georgia, of Disabilities.

    Ch. CCCXCIII · 15 Stat. 427 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the Relief of A. W. Ballard.

    Ch. CCCXCIV · 15 Stat. 427-428 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

55. A Resolution to construe an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the accounting Officers of the Treasury to settle the Accounts of Andrew S. Core.”

    Resolution 85 · 15 Stat. 433 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

56. A Resolution for the Relief of Jonathan S. Turner.

    Resolution 86 · 15 Stat. 434 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

57. Joint Resolution for the Relief of Martha E. King.

    Resolution 87 · 15 Stat. 434 · July 27, 1868 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act to relieve from Disabilities Franklin J. Moses, a Citizen of South Carolina.

    Ch. I · 15 Stat. 435 · December 11, 1868 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act providing for the Sale of the Lands, Tenements, and Waler Privileges belonging to the United States at and near Harper’s Ferry, in the County of Jefferson, West Virginia.

    Ch. II · 15 Stat. 265 · December 15, 1868 · Original text

60. A Resolution in Relation to the Library of the Department of Agriculture.

    Resolution 1 · 15 Stat. 343 · December 15, 1868 · Original text

61. An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to adjust the Claim of Gustavus G. Cushman for Office Rent while Commissioner under the Reciprocity Treaty.

    Ch. III · 15 Stat. 435 · December 15, 1868 · Private law · Original text

62. Joint Resolution donating condemned Cannon for the Erection of a Monument to Major-General Kearney.

    Resolution 2 · 15 Stat. 343 · December 21, 1868 · Original text

63. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act imposing Taxes on distilled Spirits and Tobacco, and for other Purposes,” approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

    Ch. IV · 15 Stat. 266 · December 22, 1868 · Original text

64. An Act to relieve certain Persons of all political Disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Article of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

    Ch. V · 15 Stat. 435 · December 22, 1868 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act for the Relief of Joseph Moorehead.

    Ch. VI · 15 Stat. 436 · January 6, 1869 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act authorizing the Admission in Evidence of Copies of certain Papers, Documents, and Entries.

    Ch. VII · 15 Stat. 266 · January 8, 1869 · Original text

67. An Act to relieve from Disabilities John G. Stokes, a Citizen of Alabama.

    Ch. VIII · 15 Stat. 436 · January 8, 1869 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act to repeal certain Provisions of Section six of an Act entitled “An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

    Ch. IX · 15 Stat. 266 · January 14, 1869 · Original text

69. Joint Resolution explanatory of the Act to create an additional Land Office in the State of Minnesota, approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

    Resolution 3 · 15 Stat. 343 · January 14, 1869 · Original text

70. An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Emma Wilson, of the State of Indiana.

    Ch. X · 15 Stat. 436 · January 14, 1869 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act to provide for the Removal of the Remains of Hon. W. T. Coggeshall, late Minister of the United States at Ecuador, to the United States.

    Ch. XI · 15 Stat. 436 · January 18, 1869 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act to relieve William H. Bagley, of Wake County, North Carolina.

    Ch. XII · 15 Stat. 437 · January 18, 1869 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act relating to Habeas Corpus and regulating judicial Proceedings in certain Cases.”

    Ch. XIII · 15 Stat. 267 · January 22, 1869 · Original text

74. An Act to relieve from Disabilities R W. Best and Samuel F. Phillips, of North Carolina.

    Ch. XIV · 15 Stat. 437 · January 22, 1869 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prescribe the Mode of obtaining Evidence in Cases of contested Elections,” approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

    Ch. XV · 15 Stat. 267 · January 23, 1869 · Original text

76. An Act in Relation to the Appointment of Midshipmen from the lately reconstructed States.

    Ch. XVI · 15 Stat. 267 · January 30, 1869 · Original text

77. An Act for the Relief of Ruf is M. Hollister, of Janesville, Wisconsin.

    Ch. XVII · 15 Stat. 437 · January 30, 1869 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act confirming Title to “Little Rock Island,” in the Mississippi River.

    Ch. XVIII · 15 Stat. 437 · January 30, 1869 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

    Ch. XIX · 15 Stat. 268 · February 2, 1869 · Original text

80. An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

    Ch. XX · 15 Stat. 268 · February 2, 1869 · Original text

81. An Act supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to confirm the Titles to certain Lands in the State of Nebraska.”

    Ch. XXI · 15 Stat. 269 · February 2, 1869 · Original text

82. An Act for the Relief of Commander John L. Davis.

    Ch. XXII · 15 Stat. 438 · February 2, 1869 · Private law · Original text

83. Joint Resolution for the Relief of George W. Lane, Superintendent of the Branch Mint at Denver, Colorado, and Assistant Treasurer of the United States.

    Resolution 4 · 15 Stat. 463 · February 4, 1869 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Salaries and contingent Expenses of the Patent Office for January and February, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

    Ch. XXIII · 15 Stat. 269 · February 9, 1869 · Original text

85. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the Coolie Trade by American Citizens in American Vessels,” approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

    Ch. XXIV · 15 Stat. 269 · February 9, 1869 · Original text

86. A Resolution authorizing the Transfer of certain Appropriations heretofore made for the public Printing, Binding, and Engraving.

    Resolution 5 · 15 Stat. 343 · February 9, 1869 · Original text

87. An Act for the Relief of John H. Osler, of Guernsey County, Ohio.

    Ch. XXV · 15 Stat. 438 · February 9, 1869 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act to confirm the Title to certain Land to the Pueblo of Santa Ana, in the Territory of New Mexico.

    Ch. XXVI · 15 Stat. 438 · February 9, 1869 · Private law · Original text

89. A Resolution relating to the Mileage of Charles Westmoreland.

    Resolution 6 · 15 Stat. 463 · February 9, 1869 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act for the Relief of Jane McMurray.

    Ch. XXVII · 15 Stat. 438 · February 16, 1869 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act granting a Pension to the Widow and Child of Martin Whitt, deceased.

    Ch. XXVIII · 15 Stat. 439 · February 16, 1869 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act granting a Pension to Anne Dycher, Widow of Matthew D. Dycher.

    Ch. XXIX · 15 Stat. 439 · February 16, 1869 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act granting a Pension to Elizabeth J. Miller, Widow of General John Miller.

    Ch. XXX · 15 Stat. 439 · February 16, 1869 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act for the temporary Relief of the poor and destitute People in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XXXI · 15 Stat. 269 · February 18, 1869 · Original text

95. A Resolution relative to the recent Contract for Stationery for the Department of the Interior.

    Resolution 7 · 15 Stat. 344 · February 18, 1869 · Original text

96. A Resolution respecting the provisional Governments of Virginia and Texas.

    Resolution 8 · 15 Stat. 344 · February 18, 1869 · Original text

97. An Act to prevent loaning Money upon United States Notes.

    Ch. XXXII · 15 Stat. 270 · February 19, 1869 · Original text

98. An Act to locate and establish an Assay Office in the Territory of Idaho.

    Ch. XXXIII · 15 Stat. 270 · February 19, 1869 · Original text

99. An Act to give an additional Tenn of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

    Ch. XXXIV · 15 Stat. 271 · February 19, 1869 · Original text

100. An Act to authorize the Importation of Machinery, for Repair only, free of Duty.

     Ch. XXXV · 15 Stat. 271 · February 19, 1869 · Original text