Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act to authorise Pre-emptors or Settlers upon Homesteads on the public Land to alienate Portions of their pre-emptions or Homesteads for certain public Purposes.

   Ch. CCLXVI · 17 Stat. 602 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

2. An Act to provide for the Care and Preserration of the Cemetery near the City of Mexico, purchased in Accordance with the Act of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty.

   Ch. CCLXVII · 17 Stat. 602 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

3. An Act to establish the Customhouse Value of the Sovereign or Pound sterling of Great Britain, and to fix the Par of Exchange.

   Ch. CCLXVIII · 17 Stat. 602 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

4. An Act to require national Hanks to restore their Capital when impaired, and to amend the National-currency Act.

   Ch. CCLXIX · 17 Stat. 603 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

5. An Act to confer upon the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy the Power to convene general Courts-martial.

   Ch. CCLXX · 17 Stat. 604 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

6. An Act authorizing deputy Collectors and other Officers of the Customs to act as disbursing Agents in certain Cases.

   Ch. CCLXXI · 17 Stat. 604 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

7. An Act to authorize certain Postmasters to deposit public Moneys in national flanks.

   Ch. CCLXXII · 17 Stat. 604 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

8. An Act to fix the Compensation of the Deputy Collector of Customs at Saint Paul.

   Ch. CCLXXIII · 17 Stat. 604 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

9. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to enable honorably discharged Soldiers and Sailors, their Widows and orphan Children, to acquire homesteads on the public Lands of the United States,” and the Amendments thereto.

   Ch. CCLXXIV · 17 Stat. 605 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

10. An Act for the Belief of the State of Connecticut and other States,

    Ch. CCLXXV · 17 Stat. 605 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

11. An Act to authorize the Interment of honorably discharged soldiers, Sailors and, Marines in the national Cemeteries of the United States.

    Ch. CCLXXVI · 17 Stat. 605 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

12. An Act to encourage the Growth of Timber on western Prairies.

    Ch. CCLXXVII · 17 Stat. 605 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

13. An Act for the Protection of Owners of SawmiSs on the Mississippi River.

    Ch. CCLXXVIII · 17 Stat. 606 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

14. An Act to provide for the Sale of the Lands of the United States containing Coal.

    Ch. CCLXXIX · 17 Stat. 607 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

15. An Act for the Belief of Howard F. Moffat.

    Ch. CCLXXX · 17 Stat. 608 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

16. An Act to extend the Time for filing Claims for additional Bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

    Ch. CCLXXXI · 17 Stat. 608 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

17. An Act to authorize and direct the Secretary of War to distribute Arms and military Equipments under the Act of April twenty-three, eighteen hundred and eight, and the Acts amendatory thereof.

    Ch. CCLXXXII · 17 Stat. 608 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

18. An Act authorising joint Entry by pre-emption Settlers, and for other Purposes,

    Ch. CCLXXXIII · 17 Stat. 609 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

19. An Act to sell a vacated Soldiers’ Burial-ground near Cumberland, Maryland, to the Hebrew Congregation of that City, to enlarge their Graveyard.

    Ch. CCLXXXIV · 17 Stat. 609 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

20. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to release twenty-five Acres of the binds of the United States at Plattsburgh, Neto York, to the New York and Canada Railroad Company, and for other Purposes,” passed June eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. CCLXXXV · 17 Stat. 609 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

21. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railroad and Draw-bridge across the Genesee Rirer, in Monroe County, New York.

    Ch. CCLXXXVI · 17 Stat. 610 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

22. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to change the Name of Steamer “New England,” to “City of Portland.”

    Ch. CCLXXXVII · 17 Stat. 610 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

23. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of the old Post-office Property in Chicago.

    Ch. CCLXXXVIII · 17 Stat. 610 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

24. An Act to provide for a Building suitable for a Post-office, for the Accommodation of the Revenue Officers, and the United States Courts and their officers, in the City of Parker sburgh, West Virginia.

    Ch. CCLXXXIX · 17 Stat. 611 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

25. An Act to authorize the National Bank of Springfield, Missouri, to change its Name.

    Ch. CCXC · 17 Stat. 611 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

26. An Act granting the Right of Way through the public Lands to the Utah Northern Railroad Company.

    Ch. CCXCI · 17 Stat. 612 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

27. An Act supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act granting the Right of Way through the public Lands for the Construction of a Railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon,” approved April twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. CCXCII · 17 Stat. 612 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

28. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act granting the Right of Way to the Walla- Walla and Columbia River Railroad Company, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine

    Ch. CCXCIII · 17 Stat. 613 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

29. An Act to enable the Secretary of War to pay the Expenses incurred in suppressing the Indian Hostilities in the Territory of Montana, in the Year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

    Ch. CCXCIV · 17 Stat. 613 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

30. An Act to provide for the Erection of a public Building for Post-office and other U. S. Offices at Jersey City, New Jersey.

    Ch. CCXCV · 17 Stat. 613 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

31. An Act to provide for the Purchase, by the Secretary of War, of Lands for the United States in the State of Texas, for the Sites of Forts and Military Posts.

    Ch. CCXCVI · 17 Stat. 614 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

32. An Act anthorizing the Award to the Vincennes University of certain vacant and abandoned Lands in Knox County, Indiana.

    Ch. CCXCVII · 17 Stat. 614 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

33. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Sale of certain public Property,” approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. CCXCVIII · 17 Stat. 615 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

34. An Act to aid in the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Major-General George H. Thomas.

    Ch. CCXCIX · 17 Stat. 615 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

35. An Act to change the Name of Schooner “Andrew Stewart” and Steamer “Sleepy Hollow.”

    Ch. CCC · 17 Stat. 615 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

36. An Act authorizing the Transfer of Safes from the War Department to the Post-office Department for Use in the Transportation of registered Mails.

    Ch. CCCI · 17 Stat. 615 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

37. An Act authorising the Construction of a Bridge across the Mississippi Hirer at Saint Louis in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. CCCII · 17 Stat. 616 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

38. An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver condemned Ordnance to certain Organizations for monumental Purposes.

    Ch. CCCIII · 17 Stat. 617 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

39. An Act to confirm the Purchase by the Executive Department, on the eighth September, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, of a certain Tract of Land at Omaha, Nebraska.

    Ch. CCCIV · 17 Stat. 617 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

40. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the City of Chelsea, Massachusetts, certain Land for the Use of a Street.

    Ch. CCCV · 17 Stat. 618 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

41. An Act to authorize the President to ascertain the Value of certain Lands in the State of Iowa, north of the Raccoon Pork of the iJes Moines Hitter held by Settlers under the pre-emption and Homestead Laics of the United States.

    Ch. CCCVI · 17 Stat. 618 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

42. An Act to provide for the Establishment of life-saving Stations on the Coasts of Maine, Neto Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina.

    Ch. CCCVII · 17 Stat. 619 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

43. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act governing the colored Schools of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CCCVIII · 17 Stat. 619 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

44. An Act donation condemned Cannon and cannonballs to the Wyoming County Soldiers’ Monument Association —

    Ch. CCCIX · 17 Stat. 620 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

45. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to survey, plat, and sell the present Cemetery Grounds upon the Fort Gratiot Military Reservation in Michigan, ana for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCCX · 17 Stat. 620 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

46. An Act to pnrehnse a Site for a public Building in Pittsburgh

    Ch. CCCXI · 17 Stat. 621 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

47. An Act providing for the Completion of the, military Road from Santa Fé to Taos, in the Territory of Neto Mexico.

    Ch. CCCXII · 17 Stat. 621 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

48. An Act to confer Jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear and determine the Suit of Carondelel versus the United States

    Ch. CCCXIII · 17 Stat. 621 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

49. An Act to place at the Disposal of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue certain Copies of the new Compilation of Internal-revenue Laws.

    Ch. CCCXIV · 17 Stat. 622 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

50. An Act authorizing the Kansas Valley National Bank of Topeka, in the State of Kansas, to change its Name to the First National Bank of Topeka.

    Ch. CCCXV · 17 Stat. 622 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

51. An Act to provide for a Board of Commissioners to report a System of Irrigation for the San Joaquin, Sacramento and Tulare in California.

    Ch. CCCXVI · 17 Stat. 622 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

52. An Act for the temporary Relief of the Indians at Camp McDermit, in Humboldt County, Nevada.

    Ch. CCCXVII · 17 Stat. 623 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

53. An Act to amend the Charter of the Grütli Verein Association.

    Ch. CCCXVIII · 17 Stat. 623 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

54. An Act repealing an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of certain Indians in the Central Supenntendency” approved June tenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. CCCXIX · 17 Stat. 623 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

55. An Act authorizing the Secretarg of War to have a Monument erected at Saltsburg, North Carolina, to the Memory of the Soldiers who died in Prison and are there buried.

    Ch. CCCXX · 17 Stat. 625 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

56. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the Chiefs and Head-men of the Crow Tribe of Indians, for the Surrender of their Reservation or a Part thereof in the Territory of Montana.

    Ch. CCCXXI · 17 Stat. 626 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

57. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the Creek Indians for the Cession of a Portion of their Reservation, occupied by friendly Indians.

    Ch. CCCXXII · 17 Stat. 626 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

58. An Act extending the Time for the Completion of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal.

    Ch. CCCXXIII · 17 Stat. 627 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

59. An Act to enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to purchase and pay for certain Improvements within the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in the Territory of Idaho.

    Ch. CCCXXIV · 17 Stat. 627 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

60. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Bridge across the Missouri River at or near the City of Lexington, in the State of Missouri, and to establish it as a Post-road.

    Ch. CCCXXV · 17 Stat. 627 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

61. An Act to extend the Works of the Georgetown Gaslight Company.

    Ch. CCCXXVI · 17 Stat. 629 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

62. An Act to authorize inquiries into the Causes of Steam-boiler Explosions

    Ch. CCCXXVII · 17 Stat. 629 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

63. An Act supplemental to the Act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the Columbia College, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CCCXXVIII · 17 Stat. 629 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

64. An Act to authorize the Little Rock, Pine Rluff and Arkadelphia Southwestern Railroad Company to construct a Bridge over the Ouachita River at or near Arkadelphia, Arkansas

    Ch. CCCXXIX · 17 Stat. 630 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

65. An Act donating condemned Cannon and cannonballs to ths Gettysburgh Battlefield Memorial Association.

    Ch. CCCXXX · 17 Stat. 631 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

66. An Act for the Extension of Time to the Saint Paid and Pacific Railroad Company for the Completion of its Roads.

    Ch. CCCXXXI · 17 Stat. 631 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

67. An Act to abolish the tribal Relations of the Miami Indians, and for other Purposes.

    Ch. CCCXXXII · 17 Stat. 631 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

68. An Act to restore a Part of the Round Valley Indian reservation, in California, to the public Lands and for other Purposes

    Ch. CCCXXXIII · 17 Stat. 633 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

69. An Act to quiet the Title to the Lands of the Settlers on Lands claimed by the West Wisconsin Railway Company.

    Ch. CCCXXXIV · 17 Stat. 634 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution tendering the Congratulations of the American People to the People of Spain

    Resolution · 17 Stat. 638 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

71. A Resolution authorizing the President to invite the International Statistical Congress to hold its next Session in the United States.

    Resolution · 17 Stat. 638 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution in relation to the Old Bridge al Rock Island.

    Resolution · 17 Stat. 639 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

73. Joint Resolution granting condemned Cannon far a Statue of UPajorGeneral Philip Kearney, United States Volunteer Army.

    Resolution · 17 Stat. 639 · March 3, 1873 · Original text

74. An Act for the Relief of Horace Tyler.

    Ch. CCCXXXV · 17 Stat. 740 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act for the Relief of Hiram W. Hayden.

    Ch. CCCXXXVI · 17 Stat. 740 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act for the Relief of William Spence.

    Ch. CCCXXXVII · 17 Stat. 741 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act for the Relief of Ethan A. Sawyer.

    Ch. CCCXXXVIII · 17 Stat. 741 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Claims reported allowed by the Commissioners of Claims under the Ad of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

    Ch. CCCXXXIX · 17 Stat. 741 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act for the Relief of the Heirs at Law and next of Kin of James B. Armstrong deceased—

    Ch. CCCXL · 17 Stat. 763 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act for the Relief of Miles Greenwood.

    Ch. CCCXLI · 17 Stat. 764 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act for the Relief of Thomas E. Tutt Co.

    Ch. CCCXLII · 17 Stat. 764 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act for the Relief of William Selden.

    Ch. CCCXLIII · 17 Stat. 764 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act for the Relief of Dr. W. J. C. Duhamel—

    Ch. CCCXLIV · 17 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act for the Relief of Kreel and Miller.

    Ch. CCCXLV · 17 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act to refund to Thomas C. Magruder certain Moneys stolen from him in eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

    Ch. CCCXLVI · 17 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act for the Relief of Peter Dunn and others.

    Ch. CCCXLVII · 17 Stat. 765 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Ann Marble, (now Strong,) Administratrix.

    Ch. CCCXLVIII · 17 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act to relieve William Smith, of Fauquier County, Virginia, of his political Disabilities.

    Ch. CCCXLIX · 17 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act for the Relief of Julia P. Lynde, minor Child of R. D. Lynde, late Surgeon of United States Volunteers, deceased.

    Ch. CCCL · 17 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act for the Relief of Jonathan Diehl and George Blymer, Sureties on the Bond of Josiah S. Diehl, late Contractor for carrying the United States Mails on Post-route No. 4249.

    Ch. CCCLI · 17 Stat. 766 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act for the Relief of Margeret Merklein.

    Ch. CCCLII · 17 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act to pay Charles Probst, of New Mexico, for Supplies furnished the New Mexico Militia during the late Rebellion.

    Ch. CCCLIII · 17 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act for the Relief of George Washington, and Sallie Washingington his Wife, of Alexandria, Virginia.

    Ch. CCCLIV · 17 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act to relieve Francis E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United States.

    Ch. CCCLV · 17 Stat. 767 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act for the Relief of E. H. Jarrett.

    Ch. CCCLVI · 17 Stat. 768 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act for the Relief of Edmund Jussen.

    Ch. CCCLVII · 17 Stat. 768 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act for the Relief of Jesse E. Peyton.

    Ch. CCCLVIII · 17 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act for the Relief of Frederick Walter, Company A, fourth United States Artillery.

    Ch. CCCLIX · 17 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act for the Relief of Jennie E. Savage.

    Ch. CCCLX · 17 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act for the Relief of Amherst H. Wilder.

     Ch. CCCLXI · 17 Stat. 769 · March 3, 1873 · Private law · Original text