Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act for the Relief of Thomas D. West, of Sandusky, in the State of Ohio.

   Ch. CDLIII · 17 Stat. 700 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act for the Relief of John J. Smith.

   Ch. CDLIV · 17 Stat. 700 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act for the Relief of Simeon Savage.

   Ch. CDLV · 17 Stat. 700 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act granting a Pension to J. W. Cronkite.

   Ch. CDLVI · 17 Stat. 700 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act for the Relief of Elbridge Gerry.

   Ch. CDLVII · 17 Stat. 701 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act granting a Pension to L. Adelia Foster.

   Ch. CDLVIII · 17 Stat. 701 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act for the Relief of Frederick P. Dimpfel.

   Ch. CDLIX · 17 Stat. 701 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act for the Relief of Harriet Spring, the Heir of Captain Williams Barker, deceased.

   Ch. CDLX · 17 Stat. 701 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act to authorize the Payment of Bounty to Ann McCarthy.

   Ch. CDLXI · 17 Stat. 701 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act for the Relief of William F. Barker, Postmaster at Northville, Fulton County, New York.

    Ch. CDLXII · 17 Stat. 702 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act for the Relief of William B. Muse.

    Ch. CDLXIII · 17 Stat. 702 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act for the Relief of Simeon Stansifer.

    Ch. CDLXIV · 17 Stat. 702 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act for the Relief of Doctor John H. McQuown, of Illinois.

    Ch. CDLXV · 17 Stat. 702 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Lieutenant-Colonel Humphrey M. Woodyard, late of the twenty-first Missouri Infantry.

    Ch. CDLXVI · 17 Stat. 702 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act for the Relief of Seth M. Whitten, late Private of the fourth Regiment, Michigan Infantry.

    Ch. CDLXVII · 17 Stat. 703 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act for the Relief of William J. Clark, Administrator of Gad E. Upson, deceased.

    Ch. CDLXVIII · 17 Stat. 703 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act for the Relief of Dwight J. McCann.

    Ch. CDLXIX · 17 Stat. 703 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act for the Relief of William M. Stafford, late acting District Attorney for Montana Territory.

    Ch. CDLXX · 17 Stat. 703 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act for the Relief of Richard R. Bolling.

    Ch. CDLXXI · 17 Stat. 704 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act for the Relief of T. P. Robb, of Savannah, Georgia.

    Ch. CDLXXII · 17 Stat. 704 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act for the Relief of A. G. Booth, late assistant Assessor in the twenty-first Revenue District of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. CDLXXIII · 17 Stat. 704 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act for the Relief of Martin Freeman.

    Ch. CDLXXIV · 17 Stat. 704 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act for the Relief of George W. Sturtevant.

    Ch. CDLXXV · 17 Stat. 704 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act for the Relief of Eliza B. Anderson.

    Ch. CDLXXIX · 17 Stat. 704 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act for the Relief of Benjamin W. Reynolds.

    Ch. CDLXXVI · 17 Stat. 705 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act for the Relief of Martin P. Hardin, of Pontotoc County, Mississippi.

    Ch. CDLXXVII · 17 Stat. 705 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act for the Relief of W. W. Griffin.

    Ch. CDLXXVIII · 17 Stat. 705 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act for the Relief of Henry N. Galpin, Postmaster at Berlin, Connecticut.

    Ch. CDLXXX · 17 Stat. 706 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act for the Relief of Herman Raster, Collector of internal Revenue for the first District, Illinois.

    Ch. CDLXXXI · 17 Stat. 706 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act for the Relief of Lucy C. Baker and Mary A. Baker, children of John M. Baker, deceased.

    Ch. CDLXXXII · 17 Stat. 706 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act for the Relief of Thomas F. Spencer of Indiana.

    Ch. CDLXXXIII · 17 Stat. 707 · June 10, 1872 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act making an Appropriation for the Repairs, Furnishing, and Ornamentation of the United States Custom-house and Post-office at Bath, Maine.

    Ch. I · 17 Stat. 397 · December 10, 1872 · Original text

33. An Act to authorize the Issuance of College Scrip to the State of Arkansas, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. II · 17 Stat. 397 · December 13, 1872 · Original text

34. An Act for the Relief of John Black, late Consul of the United States a the City of Mexico.

    Ch. III · 17 Stat. 709 · December 13, 1872 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act to authorize the Construction of Bridges across the Ohio River, and to prescribe the Dimensions of the same.

    Ch. IV · 17 Stat. 398 · December 17, 1872 · Original text

36. An Act to fix the Salary of the Members of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. V · 17 Stat. 400 · December 17, 1872 · Original text

37. An Act to authorize the proper accounting Officers of the Treasury to settle with F. M. Cordeiro.

    Ch. VI · 17 Stat. 709 · December 17, 1872 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act to remove the Disabilities of Lucius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi.

    Ch. VII · 17 Stat. 709 · December 17, 1872 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to transport in a Government Vessel, free of Duty, a Monument designed by Admiral Porter to be erected in the Grounds of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, in Memory of the Officers, Seamen, and Marines of the Navy who fell in Defence of the Union.

    Ch. VIII · 17 Stat. 400 · December 19, 1872 · Original text

40. An Act for the Relief of Thomas C. Martin, Emilia E. Martin, Jane G. Martin, and Leonor Martin, Children of J. E. Martin, deceased.

    Ch. IX · 17 Stat. 710 · December 19, 1872 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the Relief of William Howard.

    Ch. X · 17 Stat. 710 · December 19, 1872 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the Relief of Samuel Hitchcock.

    Ch. XI · 17 Stat. 710 · December 20, 1872 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act authorizing the Construction of Railroad-bridges across the Mobile River and other navigable Streams tributary to Mobile Bay, in Accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Alabama, and to establish them as Post-roads.

    Ch. XII · 17 Stat. 400 · December 24, 1872 · Original text

44. An Act for the Reduction of Officers and Expenses of the internal Revenue.

    Ch. XIII · 17 Stat. 401 · December 24, 1872 · Original text

45. An Act to provide for holding adjourned Terms of the supreme Court of Arizona.

    Ch. XIV · 17 Stat. 404 · December 24, 1872 · Original text

46. An Act to authorise the National Bank of Lyons, Michigan, to change its Location and Name.

    Ch. XV · 17 Stat. 404 · December 24, 1872 · Original text

47. A Resolution extending the Time for the Presentation and Selection of Models of a colossal Statue of the late Admiral Farragut

    Resolution · 17 Stat. 637 · December 24, 1872 · Original text

48. An Act for the Relief of Scales and Manning, of Nashville, Tennessee.

    Ch. XVI · 17 Stat. 710 · December 24, 1872 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act to quiet the Title to certain Lands in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. XVII · 17 Stat. 404 · December 27, 1872 · Original text

50. 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-three, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. XVIII · 17 Stat. 404 · January 8, 1873 · Original text

51. An Act to provide for the Removal of the sunken Wreck which now obstructs the Channel-way off Sandy Hook.

    Ch. XIX · 17 Stat. 406 · January 8, 1873 · Original text

52. An Act to provide for the Expenses of the Commission to enquire into Depredations on the Frontiers of the State of Texas.

    Ch. XX · 17 Stat. 406 · January 8, 1873 · Original text

53. An Act to amend the one hundred and thirty-third Section of an Act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled “An Act to revise, consolidate, and amend the Statutes relating to the Post-office Department.”

    Ch. XXI · 17 Stat. 406 · January 9, 1873 · Original text

54. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an American Register to the English-built, wrecked Schooner, N. J. Miller.

    Ch. XXII · 17 Stat. 407 · January 9, 1873 · Original text

55. An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United States, for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

    Ch. XXIII · 17 Stat. 407 · January 10, 1873 · Original text

56. An Act supplemental to and amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act to prescribe the Mode of obtaining Evidence in Cases of contested Elections,” approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

    Ch. XXIV · 17 Stat. 408 · January 10, 1873 · Original text

57. An Act for the Extension of Time to the Winona and Saint Peter Railroad Company for the Completion of its Road.

    Ch. XXV · 17 Stat. 409 · January 10, 1873 · Original text

58. An Act for the Relief of Tinsley, Van Horn and Company, Glenn, Overall and Clark, and J. N. Henderson and Company, of Louisiana, Missouri.

    Ch. XXVI · 17 Stat. 711 · January 10, 1873 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act repealing an Act entitled “An Act granting a Pension to Joanna L. Shaw.”

    Ch. XXVII · 17 Stat. 711 · January 10, 1873 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act for the Payment of R. M. Green for the Use of his Patent by the Government.

    Ch. XXVIII · 17 Stat. 711 · January 10, 1873 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the Relief of Samuel B. Elliott, late acting Purser of the United States Vessel of War “The Flirt.”

    Ch. XXIX · 17 Stat. 711 · January 10, 1873 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act to enable Joseph Fox to make Application to the Commissioner of Patents for the Extension of Letters-patent for Machine for making Crackers.

    Ch. XXX · 17 Stat. 711 · January 10, 1873 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act for the Relief of James C. Cooke.

    Ch. XXXI · 17 Stat. 712 · January 10, 1873 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act to release to the State of Indiana the Lands known as the Bed of Beaver Lake, in Newton County, in said State.

    Ch. XXXII · 17 Stat. 409 · January 11, 1873 · Original text

65. An Act authorizing the East Chester National Bank of Mount Vernon to change its Location and Name.

    Ch. XXXIII · 17 Stat. 409 · January 11, 1873 · Original text

66. An Act to authorize the Employment of Keepers, and Crews of Surfmen for the life-saving Stations on the Coasts of Cape Cod, and Block Island, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. XXXIV · 17 Stat. 410 · January 11, 1873 · Original text

67. An Act to amend Section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Appointment of Shipping-Commissioners,” &c., approved June seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. XXXV · 17 Stat. 410 · January 15, 1873 · Original text

68. An Act to prevent certain Officers of the United States and Territories from practising as Attorneys or Solicitors in Courts of the United States in certain Cases.

    Ch. XXXVI · 17 Stat. 411 · January 16, 1873 · Original text

69. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act relating to Members of Congress, Heads of Departments, and other Of leers of the Government,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

    Ch. XXXVII · 17 Stat. 411 · January 16, 1873 · Original text

70. An Act to authorize the Erection of a public Building at Evansville, Indiana.

    Ch. XXXVIII · 17 Stat. 411 · January 16, 1873 · Original text

71. An Act to fix the Compensation of Gaugers and Measurers at the Port of Boston.

    Ch. XXXIX · 17 Stat. 411 · January 17, 1873 · Original text

72. An Act for the Relief of James A. Waymire, late a second Lieutenant of Company M, first Cavalry, United States Army.

    Ch. XL · 17 Stat. 712 · January 17, 1873 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act to close the Accounts of R. E. De Russy, late Colonel Corps of Engineers, deceased.

    Ch. XLI · 17 Stat. 712 · January 17, 1873 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act for the Relief of S. D. Cochran.

    Ch. XLII · 17 Stat. 713 · January 18, 1873 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act to authorize the Examination of certain Banks.

    Ch. XLIII · 17 Stat. 412 · January 20, 1873 · Original text

76. An Act for the Relief of Theodore Adams.

    Ch. XLIV · 17 Stat. 713 · January 20, 1873 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act to incorporate the Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company.

    Ch. XLV · 17 Stat. 412 · January 21, 1873 · Original text

78. An Act to authorize the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Company to extend a Railroad into and within the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XLVI · 17 Stat. 413 · January 22, 1873 · Original text

79. An Act to change the Name of the Pleasure-yacht Ellie, of Boston, Massachusetts.

    Ch. XLVII · 17 Stat. 416 · January 22, 1873 · Original text

80. An Act regulating the Compensation of the Members and Officers of the legislative Assemblies of the several Territories of the United States, and limiting the Duration of the Sessions of said Assemblies.

    Ch. XLVIII · 17 Stat. 416 · January 23, 1873 · Original text

81. An Act establishing Post-routes in the State of Maine.

    Ch. XLIX · 17 Stat. 416 · January 23, 1873 · Original text

82. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend the fifth Section of on Art entitled ‘An Act donating public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the mechanic Arts,’ approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, so as to extend the Time within which the Provisions of said Act shall be accepted and such Colleges established,” approved July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

    Ch. L · 17 Stat. 416 · January 23, 1873 · Original text

83. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate a national military and naval Asylum for the Relief of the totally disabled Officers and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the United States,” approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-sir, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. LI · 17 Stat. 417 · January 23, 1873 · Original text

84. An Act authorizing the Removal of Restrictions upon the Alienation of certain Miami Indian Lands in the State of Kansas.

    Ch. LII · 17 Stat. 417 · January 23, 1873 · Original text

85. An Act authorizing the First National Bank of Newnan to change its Location and Name.

    Ch. LIII · 17 Stat. 417 · January 23, 1873 · Original text

86. An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to contract for the Construction of a light draught Snag-boat to ply on the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers.

    Ch. LIV · 17 Stat. 418 · January 23, 1873 · Original text

87. An Act providing for the Payment to loyal Citizens of Loudoun County, Virginia, therein named, for their Property taken by the military Authorities of the United States.

    Ch. LV · 17 Stat. 713 · January 23, 1873 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act for the Settlement and Payment of the Claim of Elizabeth S. Brewer, Executrix of John Brewer.

    Ch. LVI · 17 Stat. 716 · January 23, 1873 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act for the Relief of Levi J. Powell.

    Ch. LVII · 17 Stat. 716 · January 23, 1873 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act for the Relief of Captain Lyman J. Hissong, of Henry County, Ohio.

    Ch. LVIII · 17 Stat. 716 · January 23, 1873 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act for the Relief of W. H. Kirk.

    Ch. LIX · 17 Stat. 716 · January 23, 1873 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act for the Relief of Harriet W. Pond.

    Ch. LX · 17 Stat. 716 · January 23, 1873 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act for the Relief of A. W. Moss.

    Ch. LXI · 17 Stat. 717 · January 23, 1873 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act to abolish the Grades of Admiral and Vice-Admiral in the Navy of the United States.

    Ch. LXII · 17 Stat. 418 · January 24, 1873 · Original text

95. An Act transferring the Control of certain territorial Penitentiaries to the several Territories in which the same are Located.

    Ch. LXIII · 17 Stat. 418 · January 24, 1873 · Original text

96. An Act to fix the Time for holding the annual Session of the supreme Court of the United States, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. LXIV · 17 Stat. 419 · January 24, 1873 · Original text

97. An Act to provide for the Erection of a public Building at Nashville, Tennessee.

    Ch. LXV · 17 Stat. 419 · January 24, 1873 · Original text

98. An Act to pay the County of Ontario, in the State of New York, the Sum of eighteen thousand Dollars.

    Ch. LXVI · 17 Stat. 419 · January 24, 1873 · Original text

99. An Act to give to the Bark Jewess an American Register.

    Ch. LXVII · 17 Stat. 420 · January 24, 1873 · Original text

100. An Act to provide for the Sale of a Part of the Light-house Reservation at Fort Gratiot, Part Huron, in the State of Michigan.

     Ch. LXVIII · 17 Stat. 420 · January 24, 1873 · Original text