Every law Congress has passed

859 laws of the 43rd Congress, 1873–1875

1. An Act to provide for the redemption of the loan of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

   Ch. 1 · 18 Stat. 1 · December 17, 1873 · Original text

2. An act to remove the disabilities of Thomas S. Bocock, E. J. Harvie, and Daniel Trigg, of Virginia; and John H. Reagan, of Texas.

   Ch. 2 · 18 Stat. 529 · December 27, 1873 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act making appropriations for extraordinary expenses of the naval service.

   Ch. 3 · 18 Stat. 1 · December 31, 1873 · Original text

4. An act to correct the enrolment of an act entitled “An act for the relief of P. W. Standefer.”

   Ch. 4 · 18 Stat. 529 · January 3, 1874 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act to establish a post route from the village of L’Anse, in the county of Houghton and State of Michigan, to Huron Bay, in said county and State.

   Ch. 5 · 18 Stat. 2 · January 5, 1874 · Original text

6. An Act relating to the limitation of steam pressure of vessels used exclusively for towing and carrying freight on the Mississippi river and its tributaries.

   Ch. 6 · 18 Stat. 2 · January 6, 1874 · Original text

7. Joint resolution providing for a change in the name and title of the agent and consul-general of the United States at Alexandria.

   Public Resolution 1 · January 8, 1874

8. An Act to so amend the laws relative to internal revenue as to allow distillery warehouses to be continued in use after changes have occurred in the management of the business

   Ch. 7 · 18 Stat. 2 · January 8, 1874 · Original text

9. An Act to authorize the First National Bank of Saint Anthony, Minnesota, to change its location and name.

   Ch. 8 · 18 Stat. 3 · January 8, 1874 · Original text

10. An Act authorizing the Second National Bank of Havana, New York, to change its name.

    Ch. 9 · 18 Stat. 4 · January 9, 1874 · Original text

11. An Act making an appropriation for the legislative expenses of Colorado Territory.

    Ch. 10 · 18 Stat. 4 · January 14, 1874 · Original text

12. Joint resolution filling existing vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Resolution 3 · January 19, 1874

13. An Act repealing the increase of salaries of members of Congress, and other officers.

    Ch. 11 · 18 Stat. 4 · January 20, 1874 · Original text

14. An act to remove the legal and political disabilities of William Steele, of Bexar County, Texas.

    Ch. 12 · 18 Stat. 529 · January 20, 1874 · Private law · Original text

15. An act for the relief of His estates of Abel Gilbert and William Gerrish, late co-partners in business under the style of Gilbert and Gerrish.

    Ch. 13 · 18 Stat. 530 · January 21, 1874 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act to amend the act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

    Ch. 15 · 18 Stat. 5 · January 22, 1874 · Original text

17. An Act in relation to the printing of the Biennial Register commonly called the Blue Book.

    Ch. 15 · 18 Stat. 5 · January 23, 1874 · Original text

18. An Act making appropriations to pay for reporting the debates and proceedings of Congress.

    Ch. 16 · 18 Stat. 5 · January 28, 1874 · Original text

19. An Act to provide for the purchase of fire extinguishers for the Capitol building.

    Ch. 17 · 18 Stat. 6 · January 28, 1874 · Original text

20. An Act to abolish the office of Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

    Ch. 18 · 18 Stat. 6 · January 29, 1874 · Original text

21. An Act authorizing coinage to be executed at the mints of the United States for foreign countries.

    Ch. 19 · 18 Stat. 6 · January 29, 1874 · Original text

22. An Act providing for busts of the late Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney and of Samuel Portland Chase, to be placed in the Supreme Court room of the United States.

    Ch. 20 · 18 Stat. 6 · January 29, 1874 · Original text

23. An Act to establish certain post-routes.

    Ch. 22 · 18 Stat. 7 · February 4, 1874 · Original text

24. An Act in relation to the lines of telegraph connecting the Capitol with the various Departments of the Government.

    Ch. 22 · 18 Stat. 14 · February 4, 1874 · Original text

25. An Act to change the name of the pleasure-yacht "Fearless"

    Ch. 23 · 18 Stat. 15 · February 7, 1874 · Original text

26. An Act changing the times for holding certain district courts of the United States, for the State of Iowa.

    Ch. 24 · 18 Stat. 15 · February 9, 1874 · Original text

27. An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to provide for the removal of the Flathead and other Indians from the Bitterroot Valley, in the Territory of Montana,” approved June fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. 25 · 18 Stat. 15 · February 11, 1874 · Original text

28. An Act in relation to the monument erected to the memory of the Chevalier de Ternay.

    Ch. 26 · 18 Stat. 15 · February 11, 1874 · Original text

29. Joint resolution authorizing a special court of inquiry concerning General O. O. Howard.

    Public Resolution 4 · February 13, 1874

30. An act for the relief of William H. Vesey.

    Ch. 27 · 18 Stat. 530 · February 13, 1874 · Private law · Original text

31. An act to amend the act entitled “An act granting a pension to Amos Farling,” approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

    Ch. 28 · 18 Stat. 530 · February 13, 1874 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act to confirm certain land titles in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 29 · 18 Stat. 16 · February 14, 1874 · Original text

33. An Act granting certain swamp-lands in Holt county, Missouri, to said Holt county, for school purposes.

    Ch. 30 · 18 Stat. 16 · February 19, 1874 · Original text

34. An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver to the State authorities of Rhode Island a certain gun.

    Ch. 31 · 18 Stat. 17 · February 19, 1874 · Original text

35. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to ascertain the amount of expense incurred by the territorial authorities of Dakota for arms, equipments, military stores, supplies, and all other expenses of the volunteer forces of the Indian war of eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

    Ch. 32 · 18 Stat. 17 · February 20, 1874 · Original text

36. An act to authorize the cancellation of an export bond for a portion of the distilled spirits of John S. Miller, on board of bonded cars of the United States.

    Ch. 33 · 18 Stat. 530 · February 21, 1874 · Private law · Original text

37. An act giving the consent of Congress to the acceptance by James McDonnell, a warrant officer in the United States Navy, of a present from the King of Italy.

    Ch. 34 · 18 Stat. 531 · February 21, 1874 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act to change the-titles of certain naval officers, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 35 · 18 Stat. 17 · February 24, 1874 · Original text

39. An Act to withhold from sale the site of the old light-station at Nayatt Point

    Ch. 36 · 18 Stat. 18 · February 24, 1874 · Original text

40. An act for the relief of Robert N. McMillan, late collector of customs and superintendent of lights for the district of Teche, in the State of Louisiana.

    Ch. 37 · 18 Stat. 531 · February 24, 1874 · Private law · Original text

41. An act for the relief of Colonel Daniel McClure, assistant paymaster-general.

    Ch. 38 · 18 Stat. 531 · February 24, 1874 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act to dredge and protect the navigable channel at the mouth of Buffalo River against the sand-bar formed by the gale of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

    Ch. 39 · 18 Stat. 18 · February 25, 1874 · Original text

43. An Act to establish certain post-routes in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 40 · 18 Stat. 18 · February 27, 1874 · Original text

44. An act for the relief of Henry Sr Welles.

    Ch. 41 · 18 Stat. 532 · February 27, 1874 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act to restore William Kliburn, of San Francisco, California, to the Navy of the United States as an ensign.

    Ch. 42 · 18 Stat. 18 · March 2, 1874 · Original text

46. An Act creating an additional land district in the Territory of New Mexico.

    Ch. 43 · 18 Stat. 18 · March 3, 1874 · Original text

47. An Act authorizing the chief clerk of the War Department to sign requisitions on the Treasury during the temporary absence of the Secretary of War.

    Ch. 44 · 18 Stat. 19 · March 4, 1874 · Original text

48. An Act to render available a certain unexpended balance of appropriation.

    Ch. 45 · 18 Stat. 19 · March 4, 1874 · Original text

49. An Act to amend the fifteenth 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. 46 · 18 Stat. 19 · March 5, 1874 · Original text

50. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to discontinue the use of the cutter "Relief" as a revenue cutter, and use said vessel for a boarding station in Mobile Bay.

    Ch. 47 · 18 Stat. 20 · March 5, 1874 · Original text

51. An act for the relief of Thomas Hillhouse, assistant treasurer of the United States in New York city.

    Ch. 48 · 18 Stat. 532 · March 5, 1874 · Private law · Original text

52. An act granting a pension to William E. Prince, of Iowa.

    Ch. 49 · 18 Stat. 532 · March 5, 1874 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act making an appropriation to pay the operators of the Government telegraph connecting the Departments with the two houses of Congress.

    Ch. 50 · 18 Stat. 20 · March 7, 1874 · Original text

54. An Act extending the time for the completion of the Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship-Canal, in the State of Wisconsin.

    Ch. 51 · 18 Stat. 20 · March 7, 1874 · Original text

55. An act for the relief of Matthew Woodruff, late first sergeant of Company G, Twenty-first Missouri Volunteers.

    Ch. 52 · 18 Stat. 532 · March 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

56. An act granting a pension to John A. Fisher—

    Ch. 53 · 18 Stat. 533 · March 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

57. An act for the relief of David Braden.

    Ch. 54 · 18 Stat. 533 · March 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act to amend the act entitled "An act to encourage the growth of timber on western prairies."

    Ch. 55 · 18 Stat. 21 · March 13, 1874 · Original text

59. An Act to grant an American register to the Canadian schooner "George Warren."

    Ch. 56 · 18 Stat. 22 · March 16, 1874 · Original text

60. Joint resolution in relation to the bronze statue of Jefferson presented to Congress by Uriah P. Levy, late an officer in the United States Navy.

    Public Resolution 5 · March 18, 1874

61. An Act to provide for the issuing and recording of commissions to postmasters appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

    Ch. 57 · 18 Stat. 23 · March 18, 1874 · Original text

62. An Act making an appropriation for a topographical survey of the Capitol grounds and plans for improving the same.

    Ch. 58 · 18 Stat. 23 · March 21, 1874 · Original text

63. An act for the relief of Doctor Edward Jarvis

    Ch. 59 · 18 Stat. 533 · March 21, 1874 · Private law · Original text

64. An act for the relief of Susan D. Galloway.

    Ch. 60 · 18 Stat. 533 · March 21, 1874 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the name of the propeller "Wm. M. Tweed," of Buffalo.

    Ch. 61 · 18 Stat. 23 · March 23, 1874 · Original text

66. An Act to authorize the President to accept for citizens of the United States the jurisdiction of certain tribunals in the Ottoman dominions, and Egypt, established, or to be established, under the authority of the Sublime Porte, and of the government of Egypt.

    Ch. 62 · 18 Stat. 23 · March 23, 1874 · Original text

67. An act for the relief of Willard Davis.

    Ch. 63 · 18 Stat. 533 · March 23, 1874 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act to amend the act entitled "An act to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska," approved July first, eighteen hundred and seventy.

    Ch. 64 · 18 Stat. 24 · March 24, 1874 · Original text

69. An Act to establish bonded warehouses for the storing and cleansing of rice intended for exportation.

    Ch. 65 · 18 Stat. 24 · March 24, 1874 · Original text

70. Joint resolution explanatory of resolution approved January 31, 1868, entitled “A resolution limiting contracts for stationery and other supplies in the executive departments to one year.”

    Public Resolution 6 · 18 Stat. 286 · March 24, 1874 · Original text

71. An act to exempt George M. Richard, of Pittston, in the State of Pennsylvania, from the payment of eight hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents for postage stamps stolen from his office while postmaster.

    Ch. 66 · 18 Stat. 534 · March 24, 1874 · Private law · Original text

72. An act for the relief of Reuel B. Fuller, of Wilton, Maine.

    Ch. 67 · 18 Stat. 534 · March 24, 1874 · Private law · Original text

73. An act for the relief of Willard Howe, of Massachusetts.

    Ch. 68 · 18 Stat. 534 · March 24, 1874 · Private law · Original text

74. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to detail a medical officer of the Army to inquire into, and report upon, the causes of epidemic cholera.

    Public Resolution 7 · 18 Stat. 286 · March 25, 1874 · Original text

75. An Act making an appropriation to defray the expenses of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Affairs of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 69 · 18 Stat. 24 · March 26, 1874 · Original text

76. An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to withdraw from settlement and sale a certain section of land in Wyoming Territory,” approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. 70 · 18 Stat. 25 · March 26, 1874 · Original text

77. An act for the relief of L. S. Campbell.

    Ch. 71 · 18 Stat. 534 · March 26, 1874 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act to approve an act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia relating to parishes of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

    Ch. 72 · 18 Stat. 25 · March 28, 1874 · Original text

79. An act to remove the disabilities of William L. Cabell, of Texas.

    Ch. 73 · 18 Stat. 534 · April 2, 1874 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act making appropriations for the construction, preservation, and repair of certain fortifications and other works of defense, for the fiscal year ending ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

    Ch. 74 · 18 Stat. 25 · April 3, 1874 · Original text

81. An Act to improve the mouth of the Mississippi River.

    Ch. 75 · 18 Stat. 26 · April 3, 1874 · Original text

82. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an American register to the schooner "Carrie," of Eastport, Maine.

    Ch. 76 · 18 Stat. 26 · April 3, 1874 · Original text

83. An Act appropriating certain unexpended balances of appropriations for removal of Indians.

    Ch. 77 · 18 Stat. 27 · April 3, 1874 · Original text

84. An act granting a pension to Henry B. Ryder

    Ch. 78 · 18 Stat. 535 · April 3, 1874 · Private law · Original text

85. An act to relief from political disabilities Thomas Hardeman, Jr., of Georgia.

    Ch. 79 · 18 Stat. 535 · April 3, 1874 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act concerning the practice in territorial courts, and appeals therefrom.

    Ch. 80 · 18 Stat. 27 · April 7, 1874 · Original text

87. An act granting a pension to Mrs. Cynthia McPherson, mother of the late General James B. McPherson.

    Ch. 81 · 18 Stat. 535 · April 7, 1874 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act to extend the time for completing the Wisconsin Central Railroad in Wisconsin.

    Ch. 82 · 18 Stat. 28 · April 9, 1874 · Original text

89. An act for the relief of Lieutenant Alonzo V. Richards.

    Ch. 83 · 18 Stat. 535 · April 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

90. An act for the relief of Robert Bent and Jack Smith.

    Ch. 84 · 18 Stat. 535 · April 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

91. An act granting a pension to Julia A. Smith.

    Ch. 85 · 18 Stat. 536 · April 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

92. An act granting a pension to Elizabeth F. Thompson.

    Ch. 86 · 18 Stat. 536 · April 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

93. An act granting a pension to Sciotha Brasbears, late of the Seventeenth Regiment Kentucky Cavalry.

    Ch. 87 · 18 Stat. 536 · April 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

94. An act granting a pension to Captain Benjamin Farley, Company C, Fifth Indiana Cavalry.

    Ch. 88 · 18 Stat. 536 · April 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

95. An act granting a pension to Benjamin C. Skinner.

    Ch. 89 · 18 Stat. 537 · April 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

96. An act granting a pension to Christiana Bailey.

    Ch. 90 · 18 Stat. 537 · April 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

97. An act granting a pension to Lucinda Schrum, widow of Jacob R. Schrum, late of Company A, Forty-ninth Regiment Missouri Volunteers.

    Ch. 91 · 18 Stat. 537 · April 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

98. An act for the relief of W. W. Elliott.

    Ch. 92 · 18 Stat. 537 · April 13, 1874 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act to grant an American register to the Canadian tug “Noah P. Sprague.”

    Ch. 93 · 18 Stat. 28 · April 14, 1874 · Original text

100. An act granting a pension to Mrs. Amy A. Hough.

     Ch. 94 · 18 Stat. 537 · April 14, 1874 · Private law · Original text