Every law Congress has passed

771 laws of the 41st Congress, 1869–1871

1. An Act to enable the Jackson, Lansing, and Saginaw Railroad Company to change the northern Terminus of its Road from Traverse Pay to the Straits of Mackinaw, and for other Purposes.

   Ch. CXL · 16 Stat. 586 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

2. An Act to provide for a Building united to the Use of the Post-Office, the Pension and Revenue Officers, and the judicial Officers of the United States, in the City of Trenton, New Jersey.

   Ch. CXLI · 16 Stat. 587 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

3. An Act granting the Right of Way to the Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railway Company for its Road across the Oneida Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin.

   Ch. CXLII · 16 Stat. 588 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

4. An Act for the Recovery of Damages for the Loss of the Sloop-of-War Oneida.

   Ch. CXLIII · 16 Stat. 588 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

5. An Act authorizing the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company to change its Line in Consideration of a Relinquishment of Lands.

   Ch. CXLIV · 16 Stat. 588 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution granting the Chicago and Illinois Southern Bailroad Company the Right to build a Bridge across the Wabash River, and declaring the same a Post-Road.

   Resolution 48 · 16 Stat. 599 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution to enable, Owners to obtain Duplicates of lost and destroyed registered Bonds of the United States.

   Resolution 49 · 16 Stat. 600 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

8. A Resolution to amend a “Joint Resolution relating to Steamboats and other Vessels owned in the loyal States,” approved December twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

   Resolution 50 · 16 Stat. 600 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

9. A Resolution authorizing the President to nominate, and, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to appoint Lyman G. Spaulding a, Master in the Navy of the United States.

   Resolution 51 · 16 Stat. 600 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

10. A Resolution for the Relief of Settlers on the public Lands.

    Resolution 52 · 16 Stat. 601 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution to amend Section four, Act of July twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

    Resolution 53 · 16 Stat. 601 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

12. A Resolution authorizing the Nomination and Appointment to the retired List of the Navy of certain Volunteer Officers on the active List of the Navy, who are disabled in Consequence of Wounds received during the late War.

    Resolution 54 · 16 Stat. 601 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

13. A Resolution relating to Balances of Appropriations far the Library of Congress and Botanic Garden.

    Resolution 55 · 16 Stat. 601 · March 3, 1871 · Original text

14. An Act for the Relief of Rebecca J. Sheppard, of Philadelphia.

    Ch. CXLV · 16 Stat. 688 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act for the Relief of W. B. Carpenter.

    Ch. CXLVI · 16 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act for the Relief of Algernon S. Cadwallader, late Collector of internal Revenue and disbursing Agent fifth District, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. CXLVII · 16 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act for the Relief of Alexander J. McMillen, late Lieutenant of Company F, ninth Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. CXLVIII · 16 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act correcting an Error in the Passage of an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of the Officers and Crew of the Ship Nightingale,” approved June 1, 1870.

    Ch. CXLIX · 16 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act for the Relief of Charles T. Jackson, M. D., of Boston.

    Ch. CL · 16 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act for the Relief of Hull and Cozzens, and John Naylor and Company.

    Ch. CLI · 16 Stat. 690 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act for the Relief of Logan H. Roots, late Collector of internal Revenue for the first District of Arkansas.

    Ch. CLII · 16 Stat. 690 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act granting a Pension to Emma M. Moore.

    Ch. CLIII · 16 Stat. 690 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act for the Benefit of Bryan R. Young.

    Ch. CLIV · 16 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act increasing the Pension of Isabella Fogg.

    Ch. CLV · 16 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act for the Relief of A. A. De Long.

    Ch. CLVI · 16 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act granting a Pension to William Powell.

    Ch. CLVII · 16 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act granting a Pension to George Menz.

    Ch. CLVIII · 16 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act granting a Pension to Rachel W. Huston.

    Ch. CLIX · 16 Stat. 692 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act granting a Pension to Elizabeth Ravenscroft.

    Ch. CLX · 16 Stat. 692 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act granting a Pension to Zelica T. Dunlap.

    Ch. CLXI · 16 Stat. 692 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act granting a Pension to Benjamin F. Burnham.

    Ch. CLXII · 16 Stat. 692 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act granting a Pension to W. C. Pickens.

    Ch. CLXIII · 16 Stat. 692 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act granting a Pension to Hiram R. Rhea.

    Ch. CLXIV · 16 Stat. 693 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act granting a Pension to Olive Coombs.

    Ch. CLXV · 16 Stat. 693 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act granting a Pension to Anna E. Frei.

    Ch. CLXVI · 16 Stat. 693 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act granting a Pension to Nancy E. Ammons.

    Ch. CLXVII · 16 Stat. 693 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act granting a Pension to Benjamin F. Wells.

    Ch. CLXVIII · 16 Stat. 693 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act granting a Pension to John Preveaux, a Citizen of Amesbury, Massachusetts.

    Ch. CLXIX · 16 Stat. 694 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act granting a Pension to Ellis A. Haines.

    Ch. CLXX · 16 Stat. 694 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act to relieve certain Persons therein named from the legal and political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CLXXI · 16 Stat. 694 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the Relief of James J. Hiles, late a Private in the third Missouri Cavalry.

    Ch. CLXXII · 16 Stat. 695 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the Relief of Nancy S. Ledford.

    Ch. CLXXIII · 16 Stat. 695 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act granting Relief to Martha J. Willey.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 16 Stat. 695 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act for the Relief of Blessington Rutledge.

    Ch. CLXXV · 16 Stat. 695 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act granting a Pension to Mary B. Collins.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 16 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act for the Relief of Roxalana W. Sawyer.

    Ch. CLXXVII · 16 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act granting a Pension to Julia Traynor.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 16 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act granting a Pension to Adam D. Myers.

    Ch. CLXXIX · 16 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act granting a Pension to Chauncey H. Goodale.

    Ch. CLXXX · 16 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act granting a Pension to Henry Barton.

    Ch. CLXXXI · 16 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act granting a Pension to Harriett Dewitt Mitchell.

    Ch. CLXXXII · 16 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act granting a Pension to Abel S. Chase.

    Ch. CLXXXIII · 16 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act granting a Pension to Leann Cox.

    Ch. CLXXXIV · 16 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act granting a Pension to Elizabeth A. Spurgeon.

    Ch. CLXXXV · 16 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act granting a Pension to Susannah Snyder.

    Ch. CLXXXVI · 16 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act granting a Pension to Anna F. Hart.

    Ch. CLXXXVII · 16 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act granting a Pension to Anthony D. Havely.

    Ch. CLXXXVIII · 16 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act granting a Pension to Mary H. Alling.

    Ch. CLXXXIX · 16 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act granting a Pension to Maria Pratt.

    Ch. CXC · 16 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act for the Relief of Mary F. Prindle.

    Ch. CXCI · 16 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the Relief of A. A. Vance, Postmaster at Morristown, New Jersey.

    Ch. CXCII · 16 Stat. 699 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act for the Relief of John W. Massey.

    Ch. CXCIII · 16 Stat. 699 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act granting a Pension to Bridget Angus.

    Ch. CXCIV · 16 Stat. 699 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act for the Relief of William Chinn.

    Ch. CXCV · 16 Stat. 699 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act granting a Pension to Lucy Marden.

    Ch. CXCVI · 16 Stat. 700 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act for the Relief of Charles Cooper, Goshom A. Jones, Jerome Rowley, William Hannegan, and John Hannegan.

    Ch. CXCVII · 16 Stat. 700 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act for the Relief of Abram G. Snyder, of the Watervliet Arsenal at West Troy, New York.

    Ch. CXCVIII · 16 Stat. 700 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

68. A Resolution to close the Accounts of R. E. De Russy, late Colonel Corps of Engineers.

    Private Resolution 56 · 16 Stat. 704 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

69. Joint Resolution for the Relief of William P. Thomasson.

    Private Resolution 57 · 16 Stat. 704 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

70. A Resolution to compensate John L. Miles, late second Lieutenant of the second Indiana Battery, for one Horse lost in the Service.

    Private Resolution 58 · 16 Stat. 705 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text

71. A Resolution referring to the Court of Claims Claims against the United States for the Loss of the Schooner “William Carlton.”

    Private Resolution 59 · 16 Stat. 705 · March 3, 1871 · Private law · Original text