Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Claims to appoint special Commissioners to take Testimony, and for other Purposes.

   Ch. CLVI · 17 Stat. 97 · May 11, 1872 · Original text

2. An Act to carry out certain Provisions of the Cherokee Treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and far the Relief of Settlers on the Cherokee Lands in the State of Kansas.

   Ch. CLVII · 17 Stat. 98 · May 11, 1872 · Original text

3. An Act to authorise the Construction of a Bridge across ths Missouri River, at Boonville, Missouri.

   Ch. CLVIII · 17 Stat. 99 · May 11, 1872 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution to amend the Resolution for the Relief of James Keenan, late Consul at Hong-Kong, China, approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

   Private Resolution 5 · 17 Stat. 707 · May 13, 1872 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act to Establish certain Post-roads.

   Ch. CLIX · 17 Stat. 100 · May 14, 1872 · Original text

6. An Act to establish the Pay of the enlisted Men of the Army.

   Ch. CLX · 17 Stat. 116 · May 15, 1872 · Original text

7. An Act to establish a System of Deposits, to prevent Desertion, and elevate the Condition of the Hank and File of the Army.

   Ch. CLXI · 17 Stat. 117 · May 15, 1872 · Original text

8. An Act to provide that Minors shall not be enlisted in the military Service of the United States without the Consent of Parents or Guardians.

   Ch. CLXII · 17 Stat. 117 · May 15, 1872 · Original text

9. An Act to authorize the West Wisconsin Railway Company to keep up and maintain a Bridge for Railway Purposes across Lake Saint Croix, al the City of Hudson, in the State of Wisconsin.

   Ch. CLXIII · 17 Stat. 118 · May 15, 1872 · Original text

10. An Act relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CLXIV · 17 Stat. 118 · May 15, 1872 · Original text

11. An Act declaring the Lands constituting the Fort Collins military Reservation, in the Territory of Colorado, subject to Pre-emption and Homestead Entry, as provided for in existing Laws.

    Ch. CLXV · 17 Stat. 120 · May 15, 1872 · Original text

12. An Act authorizing the Issue of Clothing to certain enlisted Men of Company B, fourteenth Regiment of Infantry.

    Ch. CLXVI · 17 Stat. 661 · May 15, 1872 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act for the Relief of George C. Haynie.

    Ch. CLXVII · 17 Stat. 661 · May 15, 1872 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act granting a Pension to Sarah McNana.

    Ch. CLXVIII · 17 Stat. 661 · May 15, 1872 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act to regulate the Salary of the Consul at Tien Tsin, China.

    Ch. CLXIX · 17 Stat. 120 · May 17, 1872 · Original text

16. An Act to authorize the Construction of certain Bridges across the Mississippi River, and to establish the same as Post-roads.

    Ch. CLXX · 17 Stat. 120 · May 17, 1872 · Original text

17. An Act authorizing the Erection of a public Building in Rockland, Maine.

    Ch. CLXXI · 17 Stat. 121 · May 17, 1872 · Original text

18. An Act making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former Years, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CLXXII · 17 Stat. 122 · May 18, 1872 · Original text

19. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish and to protect national Cemeteries,” approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

    Ch. CLXXIII · 17 Stat. 135 · May 18, 1872 · Original text

20. An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to pay certain Certificates issued for Fortification Purposes in Lawrence, Kansas.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 17 Stat. 135 · May 18, 1872 · Original text

21. An Act to allow the Pleasure Yacht “Tied Hot” to take the Name of “Addie Parker,” and be registered under that Name.

    Ch. CLXXV · 17 Stat. 135 · May 18, 1872 · Original text

22. An Act to fix the Times for holding United States Courts in the eighth Circuit.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 17 Stat. 135 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

23. An Act regulating the Mode of making private Contracts with Indians.

    Ch. CLXXVII · 17 Stat. 136 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

24. An Act to prohibit the Retention of Soldiers’ Discharges by Claim-agents and Attorneys.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 17 Stat. 137 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

25. An Act to establish an additional Land District in the Territory of Dakota.

    Ch. CLXXIX · 17 Stat. 138 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

26. An Act to create an additional Land District in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. CLXXX · 17 Stat. 138 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

27. An Act to authorize the Issue of a Supply of Arms to the Authorities of the Territory of Montana.

    Ch. CLXXXI · 17 Stat. 138 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

28. An Act to reduce the Limits of the military Reservation at Fort Stanton, New Mexico.

    Ch. CLXXXII · 17 Stat. 139 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

29. An Act relinquishing certain Wharf Property to the City of New Orleans.

    Ch. CLXXXIII · 17 Stat. 139 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

30. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Bridge over the Tide-water of Dunstan River, in the State of Maine.

    Ch. CLXXXIV · 17 Stat. 139 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

31. An Act to grant an American Register to the Hawaiian Bark “Florence.”

    Ch. CLXXXV · 17 Stat. 139 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

32. An Act to authorize the City of Buffalo, New York, to construct a Tunnel under Niagara River, and to erect and maintain an Inlet-pier therefrom, for the Purpose of supplying the City of Buffalo with pure Water.

    Ch. CLXXXVI · 17 Stat. 139 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

33. An Act to enable the City of Denver to purchase certain Lands in Colorado for a Cemetery.

    Ch. CLXXXVII · 17 Stat. 140 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

34. An Act authorizing the Construction of a public Building at Fall River, in the State of Massachusetts.

    Ch. CLXXXVIII · 17 Stat. 140 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

35. An Act to confirm the Action of the Board of Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Washington, designating a Depot Site for the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, and far other Purposes.

    Ch. CLXXXIX · 17 Stat. 140 · May 21, 1872 · Original text

36. An Act for the Relief of Charles F. Tracy.

    Ch. CXC · 17 Stat. 661 · May 21, 1872 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act for the Relief of Robert L. D. Burchfield.

    Ch. CXCI · 17 Stat. 662 · May 21, 1872 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act for the Relief of Fannie M. Jackson, of Tennessee.

    Ch. CXCII · 17 Stat. 662 · May 21, 1872 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act to remove political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Article of the Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.

    Ch. CXCIII · 17 Stat. 142 · May 22, 1872 · Original text

40. An Act making Appropriations far the consular and diplomatic Service of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CXCIV · 17 Stat. 142 · May 22, 1872 · Original text

41. An Act making Appropriations for the naval Service for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CXCV · 17 Stat. 145 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

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

    Ch. CXCVI · 17 Stat. 154 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

43. An Act defining and limiting the Appropriation of certain Moneys for the Preparation, Issue, and Reissue of the Securities of the United States, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CXCVII · 17 Stat. 156 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

44. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Ad to establish a uniform Time for holding Elections for Electors of President and Vice-President in all the States of the Union,” approved January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and forty-five.

    Ch. CXCVIII · 17 Stat. 157 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

45. An Act to establish the Collection District of Du Luth, and to create Saint Paul, in the Collection District of Minnesota, a Port of Delivery.

    Ch. CXCIX · 17 Stat. 157 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

46. An Act to create an additional Land District in the State of Kansas.

    Ch. CC · 17 Stat. 157 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

47. An Act to provide for holding the United States District Court in the City of Toledo.

    Ch. CCI · 17 Stat. 157 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

48. An Act to regulate criminal Practice in the federal Courts.

    Ch. CCII · 17 Stat. 158 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

49. An Act giving the Assent of Congress to the Subscription of the District of Columbia to the Stock of the Piedmont and Potomac Railroad Company.

    Ch. CCIII · 17 Stat. 158 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

50. An Act to withdraw from Settlement and Sale a certain Section of Land in Wyoming Territory.

    Ch. CCIV · 17 Stat. 158 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

51. An Act relating to certain Lands in the State of Alabama.

    Ch. CCV · 17 Stat. 159 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

52. An Act to provide Homes far the Pottawatomie and Absentee Shawnee Indians in the Indian Territory.

    Ch. CCVI · 17 Stat. 159 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

53. An Act to authorize the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company to change their projected Line of Railway in the State of Michigan.

    Ch. CCVII · 17 Stat. 160 · May 23, 1872 · Original text

54. An Act for the Relief of William Nixon, of West Virginia.

    Ch. CCVIII · 17 Stat. 662 · May 23, 1872 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act to appropriate to Henry Clay Williams a Sum of Money found due him on the Adjustment of his Accounts.

    Ch. CCIX · 17 Stat. 662 · May 23, 1872 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act for the Relief of Robert A. Mayo, of Richmond, Virginia.

    Ch. CCX · 17 Stat. 662 · May 23, 1872 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act for the Relief of H. C. Christopher, G. W. Beard, C. A. Uber, Edward Stiles, and N. H. Lamdin.

    Ch. CCXI · 17 Stat. 662 · May 23, 1872 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act for the Relief of S. B. Mitchell, George W. Mitchell, John W. Mitchell, and William Webster.

    Ch. CCXII · 17 Stat. 663 · May 23, 1872 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Bridge, and to establish the same as a Post-road.

    Ch. CCXIII · 17 Stat. 160 · May 25, 1872 · Original text

60. An Act for the Relief of James F. Joy.

    Ch. CCXIV · 17 Stat. 663 · May 25, 1872 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act granting a Pension to Elizabeth O’Neill.

    Ch. CCXV · 17 Stat. 663 · May 25, 1872 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act for the Relief of J. Ross Browne, late Minister to China.

    Ch. CCXVI · 17 Stat. 663 · May 25, 1872 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act for the Relief of William Blanchard.

    Ch. CCXVII · 17 Stat. 664 · May 25, 1872 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act to provide far the Abatement or Repayment of Taxes on distilled Spirits in Bond, destroyed by Casualty.

    Ch. CCXVIII · 17 Stat. 162 · May 27, 1872 · Original text

65. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to accept the Peninsula in Lake Erie, opposite the Harbor of Erie, in the State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. CCXIX · 17 Stat. 162 · May 27, 1872 · Original text

66. An Act in Relation to the Dakota Southern Railroad Company.

    Ch. CCXX · 17 Stat. 162 · May 27, 1872 · Original text

67. An Act to change the Name of the Schooner La Pette to La Petite.

    Ch. CCXXI · 17 Stat. 163 · May 27, 1872 · Original text

68. An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Martha L. House Russell.

    Ch. CCXXII · 17 Stat. 664 · May 27, 1872 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act for the Relief of L. Merchant and Company.

    Ch. CCXXIII · 17 Stat. 664 · May 27, 1872 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act for the Relief of Milo Pratt.

    Ch. CCXXIV · 17 Stat. 665 · May 27, 1872 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act granting a Pension to Martha A. Brooks.

    Ch. CCXXV · 17 Stat. 665 · May 27, 1872 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act for the Relief of certain Officers of the Navy.

    Ch. CCXXVI · 17 Stat. 163 · May 28, 1872 · Original text

73. An Act to restore Lazarus L. Reamey to the Navy of the United States as a Midshipman.

    Ch. CCXXVII · 17 Stat. 164 · May 28, 1872 · Original text

74. An Act to provide for furnishing Trusses to disabled Soldiers.

    Ch. CCXXVIII · 17 Stat. 164 · May 28, 1872 · Original text

75. An Act to provide for the Completion of three Volumes of Wilke’s United States Exploring Expedition.

    Ch. CCXXIX · 17 Stat. 164 · May 28, 1872 · Original text

76. An Act granting a Pension to the Widow of the late Admiral Farragut.

    Ch. CCXXX · 17 Stat. 665 · May 28, 1872 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act for the Relief of the Children of Otway H. Berryman, deceased.

    Ch. CCXXXI · 17 Stat. 665 · May 28, 1872 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act for the Relief of the Children of O. H. Berryman, deceased, and others.

    Ch. CCXXXII · 17 Stat. 665 · May 28, 1872 · Private law · Original text

79. 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-three, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCXXXIII · 17 Stat. 165 · May 29, 1872 · Original text

80. An Act for the Relief of Albert W. Gray.

    Ch. CCXXXIV · 17 Stat. 191 · May 29, 1872 · Original text

81. An Act to increase the capital Stock and to extend the Works of the Washington Gas-Light Company.

    Ch. CCXXXV · 17 Stat. 192 · May 29, 1872 · Original text

82. An Act granting a Pension to Margaret Riley.

    Ch. CCXXXVI · 17 Stat. 665 · May 29, 1872 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act granting a Pension to Nathan Morgan.

    Ch. CCXXXVII · 17 Stat. 666 · May 29, 1872 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act for the Relief o f the Heirs of the late Captain B. R. Perkins, of the United States Army.

    Ch. CCXXXVIII · 17 Stat. 666 · May 29, 1872 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act for the Apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth Census.”

    Ch. CCXXXIX · 17 Stat. 192 · May 30, 1872 · Original text

86. An Act fixing the Rank of Professors of Mathematics in the United States Navy.

    Ch. CCXL · 17 Stat. 192 · May 31, 1872 · Original text

87. An Act relating to the Creation of new Land Districts.

    Ch. CCXLI · 17 Stat. 192 · May 31, 1872 · Original text

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

    Ch. CCXLII · 17 Stat. 193 · May 31, 1872 · Original text

89. An Act to provide for a Building for the Use of the Post-office, United States circuit and district Courts, and internal Revenue Offices, at Utica, New York.

    Ch. CCXLIII · 17 Stat. 194 · May 31, 1872 · Original text

90. An Act to change the Location of the Railroad National Bank of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the City of Boston, Massachusetts.

    Ch. CCXLIV · 17 Stat. 194 · May 31, 1872 · Original text

91. An Act conferring upon the Court of Claims Pouter to hear and determine the Claim of J. W. Parish and Company for Damages for the alleged Violation of their Contract with the United States for the Delivery of Ice.

    Ch. CCXLV · 17 Stat. 195 · May 31, 1872 · Original text

92. An Act for the Relief of John Potts, Chief Clerk of the War Department.

    Ch. CCXLVI · 17 Stat. 666 · May 31, 1872 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act for the Relief of the United States Express Company.

    Ch. CCXLVII · 17 Stat. 666 · May 31, 1872 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Cecilia Barr, Widow of William Barr.

    Ch. CCXLIX · 17 Stat. 666 · May 31, 1872 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act for the Relief of Albert Wieland.

    Ch. CCXLVIII · 17 Stat. 669 · May 31, 1872 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act for the Relief of Charles A. Weidner.

    Ch. CCL · 17 Stat. 669 · May 31, 1872 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act for the Relief of B. C. Pressley.

    Ch. CCLI · 17 Stat. 669 · May 31, 1872 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act for the Relief of the Widow of D. Jay Brown, deceased.

    Ch. CCLII · 17 Stat. 670 · May 31, 1872 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act for the Relief of John Potts, chief Cleric of the War Department.

    Ch. CCXLVI · 17 Stat. 195 · June 1, 1872 · Original text

100. An Act to prescribe the Time for holding the Election for Electors of President and Vice-President in the State of Louisiana.

     Ch. CCLIII · 17 Stat. 195 · June 1, 1872 · Original text