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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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1,014 laws of the 42nd Congress, 1871–1873

  1. An Act granting a Pension to Martha E. Orich, Mary J. Orich, and John J. Orich, minor Children of John C. Orich, deceased.

    Ch. CDLXII · 17 Stat. 790 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act to enable Richard A. Stewart to make Application to the Commissioner of Patents for the Extension of Letters-patent for an improvement in clarifying and defecating Cane-juice.

    Ch. CDLXIII · 17 Stat. 790 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act permitting Lieutenant Theodore B. M. Mason of the Navy, to accpt a Decoration from the Emperor of Brazil.

    Ch. CDLXIV · 17 Stat. 791 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act for the Relief of Grace B. Peck.

    Ch. CDLXV · 17 Stat. 791 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act for the Relief of Josiah George Jennings.

    Ch. CDLXVI · 17 Stat. 791 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act granting a Pension to Ann E. Boyle, Widow of Commodore Junius J. Boyle.

    Ch. CDLXVII · 17 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act granting a Pension to Elvira A. Maxey, and in Respect to her minor Children under sixteen Years of Age.

    Ch. CDLXVIII · 17 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act granting a Pension to Eliza J. Humphrey, Widow of James H. Humphrey.

    Ch. CDLXIX · 17 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act granting a Pension to Captain Henry M. Scott” approved April nine, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. CDLXX · 17 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act to remove the political Disabilities of David Coleman, of Buncombe County, North Carolina.

    Ch. CDLXXI · 17 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act to remove the political Disabilities of James D. Halyburton, of Virginia, and Thomas G. Williams, of San Antonio, in the State of Texas.

    Ch. CDLXXII · 17 Stat. 792 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act for the Relief of John Paine.

    Ch. CDLXXIII · 17 Stat. 793 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs and legal Representatives of Leonidas Haskell, deseased.

    Ch. CDLXXIV · 17 Stat. 793 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act granting a Pension to Mrs. Mollie L. Roberts.

    Ch. CDLXXV · 17 Stat. 793 · March 3, 1873 · 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.