Every law Congress has passed

771 laws of the 41st Congress, 1869–1871

1. A Resolution to admit free of Duty, certain printed Chromos.

   Private Resolution 83 · 16 Stat. 668 · June 23, 1870 · Private law · Original text

2. A Resolution conferring upon the Court of Claims Jurisdiction to hear and determine the Claim of William B. Campbell.

   Private Resolution 84 · 16 Stat. 668 · June 23, 1870 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act to pay loyal Citizens in the States lately in Rebellion for Services in taking the United States Census of eighteen hundred and sixty.

   Ch. CLXIV · 16 Stat. 167 · June 24, 1870 · Original text

4. A Resolution for the Relief of Lewis D. Smith.

   Private Resolution 85 · 16 Stat. 668 · June 24, 1870 · Private law · Original text

5. A Resolution for the Relief of J. R. Clark.

   Private Resolution 86 · 16 Stat. 669 · June 25, 1870 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act to amend an Act incorporating the National Junction Railway Company.

   Ch. CLXV · 16 Stat. 167 · June 28, 1870 · Original text

7. An Act declaring the Bridge between Philadelphia and Camden a Post-Route.

   Ch. CLXVI · 16 Stat. 168 · June 28, 1870 · Original text

8. An Act making the first Day of January, the twenty-fifth Day of December, the fourth Day of July, and Thanksgiving Day, Holidays, within the District of Columbia.

   Ch. CLXVII · 16 Stat. 168 · June 28, 1870 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution concerning the Southern Pacific Railroad of California.

   Resolution 87 · 16 Stat. 382 · June 28, 1870 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution to amend Act of July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

    Resolution 88 · 16 Stat. 382 · June 28, 1870 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution donating condemned Ordnance for a Soldiers' Monument at Poughkeepsie, New York.

    Resolution 89 · 16 Stat. 382 · June 28, 1870 · Original text

12. An Act to incorporate the National Bolivian Navigation Company.

    Ch. CLXVIII · 16 Stat. 168 · June 29, 1870 · Original text

13. An Act to reorganize the Marine Hospital Service, and to provide for the Relief of sick and disabled Seamen.

    Ch. CLXIX · 16 Stat. 169 · June 29, 1870 · Original text

14. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to license Yachts.”

    Ch. CLXX · 16 Stat. 170 · June 29, 1870 · Original text

15. An Act to provide for changing the Boundaries of Land Districts.

    Ch. CLXXI · 16 Stat. 171 · June 29, 1870 · Original text

16. Joint Resolution in Relation to female Clerks in the internal Revenue Bureau.

    Resolution 90 · 16 Stat. 382 · June 29, 1870 · Original text

17. An Act granting a Pension to Amanda M. Ritchey.

    Ch. CLXXII · 16 Stat. 644 · June 29, 1870 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act granting a Pension to Sarah E. Stubbs.

    Ch. CLXXIII · 16 Stat. 644 · June 29, 1870 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act for the Relief of Commodore S. B. Bissell and Commodore John C. Carter.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 16 Stat. 645 · June 29, 1870 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act to establish the western judicial District of Wisconsin.

    Ch. CLXXV · 16 Stat. 171 · June 30, 1870 · Original text

21. An Act to authorize the Construction and Maintenance of a Bridge across the Niagara River.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 16 Stat. 173 · June 30, 1870 · Original text

22. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approval March 2, 1867.

    Ch. CLXXVII · 16 Stat. 173 · June 30, 1870 · Original text

23. An Act concerning the District Court of the United States for the District of Iowa.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 16 Stat. 174 · June 30, 1870 · Original text

24. An Act supplementary to “An Act to provide for furnishing artificial Limbs to disabled Soldiers.”

    Ch. CLXXIX · 16 Stat. 174 · June 30, 1870 · Original text

25. An Act to require the Holding of additional District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the District of Indiana, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CLXXX · 16 Stat. 175 · June 30, 1870 · Original text

26. An Act giving Priority to certain Cases to which a State is a Party in the Courts of the United States.

    Ch. CLXXXI · 16 Stat. 176 · June 30, 1870 · Original text

27. Joint Resolution Relative to the Champaign County, Ohio, Monumental Association.

    Resolution 91 · 16 Stat. 383 · June 30, 1870 · Original text

28. An Act for the Benefit of Margaret Riddle, Widow and Executrix of George Read Riddle.

    Ch. CLXXXII · 16 Stat. 645 · June 30, 1870 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act granting a Pension to John W. Salyers, a Soldier of the War of 1812.

    Ch. CLXXXIII · 16 Stat. 645 · June 30, 1870 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act for the Relief of James C. Strong.

    Ch. CLXXXIV · 16 Stat. 645 · June 30, 1870 · Private law · Original text

31. Joint Resolution authorizing Surgeon George E. Cooper, of the United States Army, to accept a Gift from the Government of France, in Acknowledgment of Services rendered.

    Private Resolution 92 · 16 Stat. 669 · June 30, 1870 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act to regulate the foreign and coasting Trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern Frontiers of the United States, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CLXXXV · 16 Stat. 176 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

33. An Act in Relation to Circuit Courts.

    Ch. CLXXXVI · 16 Stat. 179 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

34. An Act to define the Intent of an Act entitled “An Act to allow Deputy Collectors of internal Revenue acting as Collectors the Pay of Collector, and for other Purposes,” approved March one, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

    Ch. CLXXXVII · 16 Stat. 179 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

35. An Act to change the Place of holding the Courts of the United States for the Albemarle District of North Carolina.

    Ch. CLXXXVIII · 16 Stat. 180 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

36. An Act to prevent the Extermination of Fur-bearing Animals in Alaska.

    Ch. CLXXXIX · 16 Stat. 180 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

37. An Act to create a Port of Delivery at Vallejo, California.

    Ch. CXC · 16 Stat. 182 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

38. An Act to confirm Entries of public Land in certain Cases in the State of Alabama.

    Ch. CXCI · 16 Stat. 182 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

39. An Act to repeal certain Sections of Acts passed by the territorial Legislature of Wyoming.

    Ch. CXCII · 16 Stat. 183 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

40. An Act for the Relief of the Inhabitants of Salt Lake City, in the Territory of Utah.

    Ch. CXCIII · 16 Stat. 183 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

41. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to carry into Effect Provisions of the Treaties between the United States, China, Japan, Siam, Persia, and other Countries, giving certain judicial Powers to Ministers and Consuls and other Functionaries of the United States in those Countries, and for other Purposes,” approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty.

    Ch. CXCIV · 16 Stat. 183 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

42. An Act authorizing the Construction of a Bridge across the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas.

    Ch. CXCV · 16 Stat. 185 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

43. An Act amendatory of “An Art to protect the Rights of actual Settlers upon the public Lands of the United States,” approved July 27, 1868, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CXCVI · 16 Stat. 186 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

44. An Act to relinquish the Interest of the United States in certain Lands to the City and County of San Francisco.

    Ch. CXCVII · 16 Stat. 186 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

45. An Act for the Disposal of the Lands within the Fort Ridgely Military Reservation, Minnesota.

    Ch. CXCVIII · 16 Stat. 187 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

46. An Act in Relation to certain unsold Lands in the Counties of Porter and Lake, in the State of Indiana.

    Ch. CXCIX · 16 Stat. 187 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

47. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish and to protect National Cemeteries.”

    Ch. CC · 16 Stat. 188 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

48. A Resolution for the Relief of certain Officers of the Navy.

    Resolution 93 · 16 Stat. 383 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

49. A Resolution providing for the Admission of Photographs for Exhibition free of Duty.

    Resolution 94 · 16 Stat. 383 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

50. A Resolution giving the Consent of Congress to the Reception of a certain Request by the State of New Jersey under the Will of the late Edwin A. Stevens.

    Resolution 95 · 16 Stat. 383 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

51. A Resolution to regulate the Effect of a Vote of the Thanks of Congress upon Promotion in the Navy.

    Resolution 96 · 16 Stat. 384 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

52. A Resolution concerning the Pay of Customs Officers in North Carolina.

    Resolution 97 · 16 Stat. 384 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

53. A Resolution instructing the President to negotiate with the Indians upon the Umatilla Reservation, in Oregon.

    Resolution 98 · 16 Stat. 384 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

54. A Resolution authorizing the First National Bank of Fart Smith, Arkansas, to change its Location and Name.

    Resolution 99 · 16 Stat. 384 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

55. A Resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the Name of the Steam Yacht “Fanny.”

    Resolution 100 · 16 Stat. 385 · July 1, 1870 · Original text

56. An Act granting a Pension to Henry C. Weatherby.

    Ch. CCI · 16 Stat. 645 · July 1, 1870 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act to confirm the Title of the Heirs of Gervacio Nolan, deceased, to certain Lands in the Territory of Colorado.

    Ch. CCII · 16 Stat. 646 · July 1, 1870 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act for the Settlement of the Account of Captain E. M. Buchanan, late Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers.

    Ch. CCIII · 16 Stat. 647 · July 1, 1870 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act for the Relief of Thomas Henderson.

    Ch. CCIV · 16 Stat. 647 · July 1, 1870 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act to relieve Henry A. Badham from the legal and political Disability imposed by the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

    Ch. CCV · 16 Stat. 647 · July 1, 1870 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to remove the Charge of Desertion from certain Soldiers of the second North Carolina mounted Infantry,” approved March twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

    Ch. CCVI · 16 Stat. 647 · July 1, 1870 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act for the Relief of Pre-emption Settlers in the State of Nebraska.

    Ch. CCVII · 16 Stat. 188 · July 7, 1870 · Original text

63. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Police Court for the District of Columbia, and for Other Purposes,” approved June seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy.

    Ch. CCVIII · 16 Stat. 188 · July 7, 1870 · Original text

64. An Act to establish an additional Land District in the State of Kansas.

    Ch. CCIX · 16 Stat. 189 · July 7, 1870 · Original text

65. An Act for the Improvement of Water Communication between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, by the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers.

    Ch. CCX · 16 Stat. 189 · July 7, 1870 · Original text

66. An Act to constitute Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, a Port of Delivery.

    Ch. CCXI · 16 Stat. 190 · July 7, 1870 · Original text

67. An Act to amend the Laws regulating the Assessment of Taxes in the City of Washington.

    Ch. CCXII · 16 Stat. 190 · July 7, 1870 · Original text

68. An Act to construe certain Acts therein cited, in Relation to Pensions.

    Ch. CCXIII · 16 Stat. 191 · July 7, 1870 · Original text

69. An Act to change the Times of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the United States in the northern District of Ohio.

    Ch. CCXIV · 16 Stat. 192 · July 7, 1870 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution granting four Pieces of condemned Cannon to the City of Lowell, for the Ornamentation of the Soldiers' Monument in that Place.

    Resolution 101 · 16 Stat. 385 · July 7, 1870 · Original text

71. An Act for the Relief of John Tyler.

    Ch. CCXV · 16 Stat. 648 · July 7, 1870 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act for the Relief of Alexander C. Twining.

    Ch. CCXVI · 16 Stat. 648 · July 7, 1870 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act to authorize the proper accounting Officers of the Treasury to settle and close the Account of Hinton Rowan Helper.

    Ch. CCXVII · 16 Stat. 648 · July 7, 1870 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act granting a Pension to Francis M. Davis.

    Ch. CCXVIII · 16 Stat. 648 · July 7, 1870 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act to carry into Effect the Decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana in the Case of the British Schooner Flying Scud and her Cargo.

    Ch. CCXIX · 16 Stat. 649 · July 7, 1870 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act to carry into Effect the Decree of the District Court of the United States for the southern District of New York in the Case of the British Steamer Labuan.

    Ch. CCXX · 16 Stat. 649 · July 7, 1870 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act for the Relief of Baron Creutz, of the Netherlands.

    Ch. CCXXI · 16 Stat. 649 · July 7, 1870 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act granting a Pension to Rebecca Shoemaker.

    Ch. CCXXII · 16 Stat. 650 · July 7, 1870 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act granting a Pension to William B. Looney, of Alabama.

    Ch. CCXXIII · 16 Stat. 650 · July 7, 1870 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act to incorporate the United States Freehold Land and Emigration Company, and to confirm certain Legislation in Colorado Territory.

    Ch. CCXXIV · 16 Stat. 192 · July 8, 1870 · Original text

81. An Act to define the Duties of Pension Agents, to prescribe the Manner of paging Pensions, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXXV · 16 Stat. 193 · July 8, 1870 · Original text

82. An Act to declare the Construction of Section fifty-five of 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,” approved June three, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and the Acts amendatory thereof, and to amend the same.

    Ch. CCXXVI · 16 Stat. 195 · July 8, 1870 · Original text

83. An Act authorizing the Allowance of the Claim of the State of Minnesota to Lands for the Support of a State University.

    Ch. CCXXVII · 16 Stat. 196 · July 8, 1870 · Original text

84. An Act to provide for the Paving of Pennsylvania Avenue.

    Ch. CCXXVIII · 16 Stat. 196 · July 8, 1870 · Original text

85. An Act providing for refunding the interest paid by the State of Massachusetts on Money expended by her on Account of the War of eighteen hundred and twelve to eighteen hundred and fifteen.

    Ch. CCXXIX · 16 Stat. 197 · July 8, 1870 · Original text

86. An Act to revise, consolidate, and amend the Statutes relating to Patents and Copyrights.

    Ch. CCXXX · 16 Stat. 198 · July 8, 1870 · Original text

87. An Act to carry into Effect the Decree of the District Court of the United States for the southern District of New York in the Case of the English Schooner Sibyl and her Cargo.

    Ch. CCXXXI · 16 Stat. 650 · July 8, 1870 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act to carry into Effect the two several Decrees of the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana in the Cases of the British Vessels Volant and Science.

    Ch. CCXXXII · 16 Stat. 650 · July 8, 1870 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act granting a Pension to Enoch Lytle.

    Ch. CCXXXIII · 16 Stat. 651 · July 8, 1870 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act to carry into Effect the Decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana in the Case of the British Brig Dashing Wave and her Cargo.

    Ch. CCXXXIV · 16 Stat. 651 · July 8, 1870 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act to amend “An Act granting the Right of Way to Ditch and Canal Owners over the public Lands, and for other Purposes.”

    Ch. CCXXXV · 16 Stat. 217 · July 9, 1870 · Original text

92. An Act to grant the Right of Way for the Alameda Road through certain Lands in California.

    Ch. CCXXXVI · 16 Stat. 218 · July 9, 1870 · Original text

93. An Act making Appropriations for the consular and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXXXVII · 16 Stat. 218 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

94. An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

    Ch. CCXXXVIII · 16 Stat. 221 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

95. An Act making Appropriations for the Construction, Preservation, and Repairs of certain Fortifications and other Works of Defense, for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

    Ch. CCXXXIX · 16 Stat. 222 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

96. An Act making Appropriations for the Repair, Preservation, and Completion of certain public Works on Rivers and Harbors, and for other Purposes, for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

    Ch. CCXL · 16 Stat. 223 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

97. An Act making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

    Ch. CCXLI · 16 Stat. 227 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

98. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes,” approved April twenty, eighteen hundred and seventy.

    Ch. CCXLII · 16 Stat. 228 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

99. An Act to regulate the Purchase of Fuel for the legislative, executive, and judicial Departments, and for the military and naval Establishments of the United States in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CCXLIII · 16 Stat. 229 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

100. An Act to establish a Port of Delivery at St. Joseph, Missouri.

     Ch. CCXLIV · 16 Stat. 229 · July 11, 1870 · Original text