Every law Congress has passed

771 laws of the 41st Congress, 1869–1871

1. An Act relinquishing whatever Title may remain in the United States to a certain Parcel of Ground in Fremont, Ohio, to the Corporation of Fremont.

   Ch. CCXLV · 16 Stat. 230 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

2. An Act to make the Territory of Arizona a separate surveying District, and to establish the Office of Surveyor-General therein.

   Ch. CCXLVI · 16 Stat. 230 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

3. An Act to create a Port of Delivery at Du Luth, Minnesota.

   Ch. CCXLVII · 16 Stat. 230 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution amendatory of “Joint Resolution for the Relief of certain Officers of the Army,” approved July twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

   Resolution 102 · 16 Stat. 385 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution making an Appropriation to pay the Government of Great Britain and Ireland in Accordance with the Award of the Commissioners appointed under the Treaty of July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to settle the Claims of the Hudson's Bay Company and of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company.

   Resolution 103 · 16 Stat. 386 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution authorizing the Improvement of the Grounds owned by the United States in the City of Buffalo, New York, known as Fort Porter.

   Resolution 104 · 16 Stat. 386 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution concerning Arsenal Grounds at Saint Louis, Missouri.

   Resolution 105 · 16 Stat. 386 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution in Relation to Enlistments into the Marine Corps, and for other Purposes.

   Resolution 106 · 16 Stat. 387 · July 11, 1870 · Original text

9. An Act for the Relief of Heirs of William Eddy, deceased.

   Ch. CCXLVIII · 16 Stat. 651 · July 11, 1870 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act to relieve the Estate held by Louis M. Edge from Succession Tax and Stamp Tax.

    Ch. CCXLIX · 16 Stat. 652 · July 11, 1870 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act for the Relief of Lot S. Bayless, Administrator of Lieutenant Marcus W. Bayless, deceased.

    Ch. CCL · 16 Stat. 652 · July 11, 1870 · Private law · Original text

12. Joint Resolution for the Relief of Colonel Thomas P. McManus, of Texas.

    Private Resolution 107 · 16 Stat. 669 · July 11, 1870 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act making Appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

    Ch. CCLI · 16 Stat. 230 · July 12, 1870 · Original text

14. An Act to provide for the Redemption of the three per cent. temporary Loan Certificates, and for an Increase of national Bank Notes.

    Ch. CCLII · 16 Stat. 251 · July 12, 1870 · Original text

15. A Resolution authorizing the Nomination and Appointment of Lieutenants Charles H. Pendleton and Richard P. Leary as Lieutenant-Commanders on the active List of the Navy.

    Resolution 108 · 16 Stat. 387 · July 12, 1870 · Original text

16. An Act to extend the Time for presenting Claims for additional Bounties.

    Ch. CCLIII · 16 Stat. 252 · July 13, 1870 · Original text

17. A Resolution to determine the Construction of an Act to provide internal Revenue to support the Government, and for other Purposes, approved June 30, 1864.

    Resolution 109 · 16 Stat. 387 · July 13, 1870 · Original text

18. A Resolution to pay Expenses of Delegations of Indians visiting the City of Washington.

    Resolution 110 · 16 Stat. 387 · July 13, 1870 · Original text

19. An Act to amend the Naturalisation Laws and to punish Crimes against the same, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCLIV · 16 Stat. 252 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

20. An Act to reduce internal Taxes, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCLV · 16 Stat. 256 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

21. An Act to authorize the Refunding of the national Debt.

    Ch. CCLVI · 16 Stat. 272 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

22. An Act to require national Banks going into Liquidation to retire their circulating Notes.

    Ch. CCLVII · 16 Stat. 274 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

23. An Act for the Relief of the United States and Brazil Steamship Company.

    Ch. CCLVIII · 16 Stat. 274 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

24. An Act to amend existing Laws relating to internal Revenue.

    Ch. CCLIX · 16 Stat. 274 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

25. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Construction of a Bridge across the Missouri River upon the military Reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.”

    Ch. CCLX · 16 Stat. 275 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

26. An Act to vacate the Fort Dakota military Reservation in the Territory of Dakota, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCLXI · 16 Stat. 275 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

27. An Act in Amendment of the Act entitled “An Act establishing an uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States.”

    Ch. CCLXII · 16 Stat. 276 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

28. An Act authorizing the Establishment of Water-Meters for the Potomac Water, the Laying of an additional Water-Main from the distributing Reservoir of the Washington Aqueduct, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCLXIII · 16 Stat. 276 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

29. An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the National Academy of Sciences.

    Ch. CCLXIV · 16 Stat. 277 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

30. An Act to amend Section four of the Act of March thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

    Ch. CCLXV · 16 Stat. 277 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

31. An Act to declare forfeited to the United States certain Lands granted to the State of Louisiana to aid in constructing a Railroad therein.

    Ch. CCLXVI · 16 Stat. 277 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

32. An Act to discontinue the Clarksville, Arkansas, Land District and the Establishment of an additional Land District in that State.

    Ch. CCLXVII · 16 Stat. 277 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

33. An Act to establish a Port of Delivery at Kansas City, Missouri.

    Ch. CCLXVIII · 16 Stat. 278 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

34. An Act to create a Port of Delivery at Houston, Texas.

    Ch. CCLXIX · 16 Stat. 278 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

35. An Act to annul a Portion of a certain Statute of the Territory of New Mexico, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCLXX · 16 Stat. 278 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

36. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act amendatory of the organic Law of Colorado Territory, and for other Purposes,” approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

    Ch. CCLXXI · 16 Stat. 279 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

37. An Act to extend the Provisions of the Pre-emption Laws to the Territory of Colorado, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCLXXII · 16 Stat. 279 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

38. An Act to establish certain Post-Roads.

    Ch. CCLXXIII · 16 Stat. 279 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

39. Joint Resolution granting the Evansville and Southern Illinois Railroad Company the Right to build a Bridge across the Big Wabash River.

    Resolution 111 · 16 Stat. 388 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

40. Joint Resolution to construe the Act of March thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

    Resolution 112 · 16 Stat. 388 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

41. A Resolution granting condemned Cannon for the Erection of a Soldiers' Monument at Omaha, Nebraska.

    Resolution 113 · 16 Stat. 389 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

42. A Resolution directing the Secretary of War to place at the Disposal of the President certain Bronze Ordnance to aid the Erection of an equestrian Statue of General John A. Rawlins.

    Resolution 114 · 16 Stat. 389 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

43. A Resolution in Regard to grading the Streets in the Vicinity of the Capitol.

    Resolution 115 · 16 Stat. 389 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

44. A Resolution granting condemned Ordnance for a Soldiers' Monument at Providence, Rhode Island, and at Bucksport, in the State of Maine.

    Resolution 116 · 16 Stat. 389 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

45. A Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to take Charge of the Gettysburg and Antietam national Cemeteries.

    Resolution 117 · 16 Stat. 390 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

46. A Resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to appoint Guardians or Trustees for minor Indian Children who may be entitled to Pensions or Bounties under the existing Laws.

    Resolution 118 · 16 Stat. 390 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to transfer to Keokuk, Iowa, condemned Ordnance for the Ornamentation of the Soldiers' Cemetery at that Place.

    Resolution 119 · 16 Stat. 390 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution relative to the Stone presented by the Patriots of Rome to the late President Lincoln.

    Resolution 120 · 16 Stat. 390 · July 14, 1870 · Original text

49. An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Margaret A. Laurie.

    Ch. CCLXXIV · 16 Stat. 652 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act for the Relief of Francis A. Conwell.

    Ch. CCLXXV · 16 Stat. 653 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act to authorize the Importation of a common Road Steam Locomotive free of Duty.

    Ch. CCLXXVI · 16 Stat. 653 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act granting a Pension to Mary Lincoln.

    Ch. CCLXXVII · 16 Stat. 653 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the Relief of Captain David Beaty’s Company of independent Scouts.

    Ch. CCLXXVIII · 16 Stat. 653 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the Relief of J. Alden Rathbun, Postmaster of Mystic Bridge, Connecticut.

    Ch. CCLXXIX · 16 Stat. 654 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act to provide for the Settlement of the Claims of Archer N. Martin, late Assessor of internal Revenue for the seventh Collection District of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. CCLXXX · 16 Stat. 654 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act to increase the Pension of Mrs. Annie A. Hays, Widow of Brigadier-General Alexander Hays, who was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness, May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

    Ch. CCLXXXI · 16 Stat. 654 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act to relieve Vernon H. Vaughan, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, of all legal and political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Article of the Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

    Ch. CCLXXXII · 16 Stat. 654 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act to relieve A. E. Reynolds from civil and political Disabilities.

    Ch. CCLXXXIII · 16 Stat. 655 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act for the Relief of Charles A. Frazer, of Harrison County, Texas, and Joseph H. Sloss, of Colbert County, State of Alabama, of all political Disabilities.

    Ch. CCLXXXIV · 16 Stat. 655 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act to remove the legal and political Disabilities of M. C. Butler, of South Carolina.

    Ch. CCLXXXV · 16 Stat. 655 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act repealing “An Act granting a Pension to Mrs. Ernestine Becker.”

    Ch. CCLXXXVI · 16 Stat. 655 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act for the Relief of the third Arkansas Cavalry.

    Ch. CCLXXXVII · 16 Stat. 655 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act for the Relief of the Trustees of Albert G. Sloo.

    Ch. CCLXXXVIII · 16 Stat. 655 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act to remove all legal and political Disabilities from George H. Bier, of Maryland.

    Ch. CCLXXXIX · 16 Stat. 656 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act for the Relief of William Selden.

    Ch. CCXC · 16 Stat. 656 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act to extend Letters-patent granted to John Bachelder.

    Ch. CCXCI · 16 Stat. 656 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

67. Joint Resolution for the Relief of Jane Dean Bishop.

    Private Resolution 121 · 16 Stat. 669 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

68. A Resolution authorizing the Postmaster-General to continue to use in the postal Service a certain Invention and Device for the Post-marking of Mail Packages and for the more permanent Cancellation of Postage-Stamps, and to make a just and equitable Compensation for the past and future Use of the same by the Post-Office Department.

    Private Resolution 122 · 16 Stat. 670 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

69. A Resolution for the Relief of Captain John Faunce, and others, Officers of the Revenue Cutter Harriet Lane.

    Private Resolution 123 · 16 Stat. 670 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

70. Joint Resolution for the Relief of I. Edwards Clarke, and the Heirs and legal Representatives of John T. Peabody, deceased.

    Private Resolution 124 · 16 Stat. 670 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

71. A Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to donate certain Buildings to the Saint Aloysius Relief Society of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Private Resolution 125 · 16 Stat. 670 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

72. Joint Resolution authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to examine and adjust the Accounts of the late Collector of the third and sixth Collection Districts of Missouri.

    Private Resolution 126 · 16 Stat. 671 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

73. Joint Resolution for the Relief of Joseph and Matthew M. Merriman, of Hartford, Connecticut.

    Private Resolution 127 · 16 Stat. 671 · July 14, 1870 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act making Appropriations for sundry civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXCII · 16 Stat. 277 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

75. An Act making additional Appropriations and to supply the Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXCIII · 16 Stat. 311 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

76. An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXCIV · 16 Stat. 315 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

77. An Act making Appropriations for the naval Service for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXCV · 16 Stat. 321 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

78. An Act making Appropriations for the current and contingent Expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling Treaty Stipulations with various Indian Tribes for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXCVI · 16 Stat. 335 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

79. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act granting Lands to the State of Oregon to aid in the Construction of a military Wagon Road from Albany, Oregon, to the eastern Boundary of said State.”.

    Ch. CCXCVII · 16 Stat. 363 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

80. An Act to provide for the Compensation of grand and petit Jurors in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXCVIII · 16 Stat. 363 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

81. An Act relating to the State of Georgia.

    Ch. CCXCIX · 16 Stat. 363 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

82. An Act to provide for Inventories and Accounts of the Property of the United States in the public Buildings and Grounds belonging to the United States in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CCC · 16 Stat. 364 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

83. An Act to confirm Title to certain Lands in Illinois.

    Ch. CCCI · 16 Stat. 364 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

84. An Act to provide for the Reports of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCCII · 16 Stat. 365 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

85. An Act donating for School Purposes a certain Lot of Land with the Building thereon erected, known as the Old Indian Dormitory, in the Village of Mackinac, Michigan.

    Ch. CCCIII · 16 Stat. 365 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

86. An Act for the Creation of an additional Land District in the State of California.

    Ch. CCCIV · 16 Stat. 365 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

87. An Act to disapprove of certain Acts of the legislative Assembly of Idaho Territory, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCCV · 16 Stat. 366 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution giving condemned Ordnance to the National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

    Resolution 128 · 16 Stat. 391 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution relative to the Pay of the Capitol Police and Watchmen.

    Resolution 129 · 16 Stat. 391 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution granting condemned Cannon for the Erection of Soldiers' Monuments.

    Resolution 130 · 16 Stat. 391 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

91. Joint Resolution authorizing the Extension of the Supervision of the Capitol Police over the Botanical Garden.

    Resolution 131 · 16 Stat. 391 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

92. Joint Resolution giving condemned Cannon to decorate the Soldiers' Burial Plot, at White Plains, New York.

    Resolution 132 · 16 Stat. 392 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution authorizing the Donation of certain Property of the United States, in the City of Galveston, State of Texas, to said City.

    Resolution 133 · 16 Stat. 392 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution granting condemned Cannon to the Delaware Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association.

    Resolution 134 · 16 Stat. 392 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

95. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to famish Cannon to “Soldiers' Plot” in Riverview Cemetery, at Trenton, New Jersey.

    Resolution 135 · 16 Stat. 392 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

96. Joint Resolution to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to allow certain Boats to carry Passengers and their Baggage between American Ports on Lake Ontario.

    Resolution 136 · 16 Stat. 393 · July 15, 1870 · Original text

97. An Act for the Relief of Rittenhouse P. Finck.

    Ch. CCCVI · 16 Stat. 656 · July 15, 1870 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act to settle the Claim of the Heirs of the late Colonel William Gates, of the United States Army.

    Ch. CCCVII · 16 Stat. 657 · July 15, 1870 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act for the Relief of Francis M. Strong and Thomas Ross.

    Ch. CCCVIII · 16 Stat. 657 · July 15, 1870 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act for the Relief of Charles Steedman, Commodore, United States Navy.

     Ch. CCCIX · 16 Stat. 657 · July 15, 1870 · Private law · Original text