Every law Congress has passed

859 laws of the 43rd Congress, 1873–1875

1. An Act to authorize the county commissioners of Thurston County, in Washington Territory, to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing a railroad from Budd’s Inlet, Puget Sound, to intersect the Northern Pacific Railroad at or near Tenino.

   Ch. 194 · 18 Stat. 48 · May 27, 1874 · Original text

2. An Act to authorize the trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts to import and retain for two years, certain works of Art, free of duty.

   Ch. 195 · 18 Stat. 49 · May 28, 1874 · Original text

3. Joint resolution authorizing the President to issue army rations and clothing to the destitute people on the Tombigbee, Warrior, and Alabama rivers.

   Public Resolution 9 · 18 Stat. 287 · May 28, 1874 · Original text

4. An act for the relief of the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church of Washington City.

   Ch. 196 · 18 Stat. 553 · May 28, 1874 · Private law · Original text

5. An act for the relief of W. A. Saylor, of Bryan, Texas.

   Ch. 197 · 18 Stat. 553 · May 29, 1874 · Private law · Original text

6. An act for the relief of John T. Watson, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

   Ch. 198 · 18 Stat. 553 · May 30, 1874 · Private law · Original text

7. An act for the relief of Rev. George Morrison, late of Kentucky.

   Ch. 199 · 18 Stat. 554 · May 30, 1874 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act for the benefit of occupying claimants.

   Ch. 200 · 18 Stat. 50 · June 1, 1874 · Original text

9. An Act to facilitate the execution of, and to protect certain public works of improvement at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

   Ch. 201 · 18 Stat. 50 · June 1, 1874 · Original text

10. An act granting a pension to Jennet H. Nisbet.

    Ch. 202 · 18 Stat. 554 · June 1, 1874 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to reduce duties on imports and to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes,’” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

    Ch. 203 · 18 Stat. 51 · June 3, 1874 · Original text

12. An Act donating condemned cannon and cannon-balls to the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic of Philadelphia and other associations, for monumental purposes.

    Ch. 204 · 18 Stat. 51 · June 3, 1874 · Original text

13. An Act to provide for the better protection of the frontier settlements of Texas against Indian and Mexican depredations.

    Ch. 205 · 18 Stat. 51 · June 3, 1874 · Original text

14. An Act to extend the time to pre-emptors on the public lands in the State of Minnesota, to make final payment.

    Ch. 206 · 18 Stat. 52 · June 3, 1874 · Original text

15. An Act changing name and location of Irasburgh National Bank of Orleans, county of Orleans, State of Vermont.

    Ch. 207 · 18 Stat. 52 · June 3, 1874 · Original text

16. An act granting a pension to Jemima Maxwell.

    Ch. 208 · 18 Stat. 554 · June 3, 1874 · Private law · Original text

17. An act granting a pension to Fanny Newcomb, mother of Irenus Newcomb, late of Company H, Sixth Regiment Vermont Volunteers.

    Ch. 209 · 18 Stat. 555 · June 3, 1874 · Private law · Original text

18. An act granting a pension to Hugh P. Lytle, late a private in Company H, Thirty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteers.

    Ch. 210 · 18 Stat. 555 · June 3, 1874 · Private law · Original text

19. An act for the relief of William B. Thomas, late collector of customs at the port of Philadelphia.

    Ch. 211 · 18 Stat. 555 · June 3, 1874 · Private law · Original text

20. An act for the relief of Henry A. Webster, V. B. McCollum, and A. Colby, of Washington Territory, preemptors on the Makah Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 212 · 18 Stat. 555 · June 3, 1874 · Private law · Original text

21. An act granting a Pension to Louisa H. Canby, widow of the late General E. R. S. Canby.

    Ch. 213 · 18 Stat. 556 · June 4, 1874 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act changing the time of holding circuit and district courts in Vermont.

    Ch. 214 · 18 Stat. 53 · June 5, 1874 · Original text

23. An Act in relation to the Centennial Exhibition.

    Ch. 215 · 18 Stat. 53 · June 5, 1874 · Original text

24. An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 216 · 18 Stat. 53 · June 6, 1874 · Original text

25. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

    Ch. 217 · 18 Stat. 59 · June 6, 1874 · Original text

26. An Act to change the name, of the port of San Pedro, California, to Wilmington.

    Ch. 218 · 18 Stat. 61 · June 6, 1874 · Original text

27. An Act to equalize pensions in certain cases.

    Ch. 219 · 18 Stat. 61 · June 6, 1874 · Original text

28. An Act to amend the act entitled "An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States," passed May tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. 220 · 18 Stat. 61 · June 6, 1874 · Original text

29. An Act to change the name of the schooner “Jacob Faithful” to “Eyvor.”

    Ch. 221 · 18 Stat. 61 · June 6, 1874 · Original text

30. An Act to change the name of the schooner-yacht “Quarantine,” to “Welcome.”

    Ch. 222 · 18 Stat. 62 · June 6, 1874 · Original text

31. An Act obviating the necessity of issuing patents for certain private land-claims in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 223 · 18 Stat. 62 · June 6, 1874 · Original text

32. An Act to legalize and establish a pontoon-railway-bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, and to authorize the construction of a similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa.

    Ch. 224 · 18 Stat. 62 · June 6, 1874 · Original text

33. An act granting a Pension to Peter J. Cratzer.

    Ch. 225 · 18 Stat. 556 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

34. An act granting a Pension to John C. Farnam.

    Ch. 226 · 18 Stat. 556 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

35. An act granting a Pension to Alfred Bolder.

    Ch. 227 · 18 Stat. 556 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

36. An act granting a Pension to Martin Lafflin.

    Ch. 228 · 18 Stat. 556 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

37. An act granting a Pension to Mary Storrs.

    Ch. 229 · 18 Stat. 557 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

38. An act granting a Pension to Guadaloupe Torres.

    Ch. 230 · 18 Stat. 557 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

39. An act granting a Pension to Susan Bennett.

    Ch. 231 · 18 Stat. 557 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

40. An act granting a Pension to John Folger.

    Ch. 232 · 18 Stat. 557 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

41. An act granting a Pension to Ezra H. Foster.

    Ch. 233 · 18 Stat. 557 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

42. An act granting a Pension to Augustus L. Yaeger.

    Ch. 234 · 18 Stat. 558 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

43. An act granting a Pension to Elizabeth Hackleman.

    Ch. 235 · 18 Stat. 558 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

44. An act granting a Pension to Lucinda Jones, widow of Thompson M. Jones, late a private of company G, twenty-second regiment Illinois volunteers.

    Ch. 236 · 18 Stat. 558 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

45. An act granting a pension to Dennis McCarthy, a soldier of the Mexican war.

    Ch. 237 · 18 Stat. 558 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

46. An act granting a pension to Henry B. Havens, late a private of company K, twelfth regiment Wisconsin volunteers.

    Ch. 238 · 18 Stat. 558 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

47. An act granting a Pension to Ann M. Brackett.

    Ch. 239 · 18 Stat. 559 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

48. An act for the relief of Magdalena Docks.

    Ch. 240 · 18 Stat. 559 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

49. An act granting a Pension to Ann Humphreys, of Philadelphia.

    Ch. 241 · 18 Stat. 559 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

50. An act granting a Pension to Cornelia A. Washburn.

    Ch. 242 · 18 Stat. 559 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

51. An act granting a Pension to Henry Bruckner, late a private of company F, fifty-eighth regiment Illinois volunteers.

    Ch. 243 · 18 Stat. 559 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

52. An act granting a Pension to Andrew J. Baldwin.

    Ch. 244 · 18 Stat. 560 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

53. An act granting a Pension to Lucy Ann Cummings.

    Ch. 245 · 18 Stat. 560 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

54. An act granting a Pension to Edward Jardine, late colonel and brevet-brigadier-general, United States volunteers.

    Ch. 246 · 18 Stat. 560 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

55. An act granting a Pension to Deborah A. Swan.

    Ch. 247 · 18 Stat. 560 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

56. An act granting a Pension to Mary A. S. Loomis.

    Ch. 248 · 18 Stat. 560 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

57. An act granting a Pension to Thomas McKinster.

    Ch. 249 · 18 Stat. 561 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

58. An act granting a Pension to Charles Herbert.

    Ch. 250 · 18 Stat. 561 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

59. An act granting a Pension to Nancy Abbott.

    Ch. 251 · 18 Stat. 561 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

60. An act granting a Pension to Llewellyn Bell.

    Ch. 252 · 18 Stat. 561 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

61. An act granting a Pension to Harriette A. Woodruff.

    Ch. 253 · 18 Stat. 561 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

62. An act granting a Pension to Dorothea Irons, mother of lieutenant Joseph F. Irons.

    Ch. 254 · 18 Stat. 562 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

63. An act granting a Pension to Sarah A. Timmons.

    Ch. 255 · 18 Stat. 562 · June 6, 1874 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act authorizing corrections to be made in errors of prize-lists.

    Ch. 256 · 18 Stat. 63 · June 8, 1874 · Original text

65. An act for the relief of Dewight Desilva, of Deposit, New York.

    Ch. 257 · 18 Stat. 562 · June 8, 1874 · Private law · Original text

66. An act for the relief of Pat. O. Hawes.

    Ch. 258 · 18 Stat. 562 · June 8, 1874 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act to facilitate the exportation of distilled spirits, and amendatory of the acts in elation thereto.

    Ch. 259 · 18 Stat. 64 · June 9, 1874 · Original text

68. An Act in reference to the operations of the shipping commissioners’ act, approved June seventh eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

    Ch. 260 · 18 Stat. 64 · June 9, 1874 · Original text

69. An Act to reduce the area of the military reservation of Fort Sanders, and providing for the survey of said reservation as reduced.

    Ch. 261 · 18 Stat. 65 · June 9, 1874 · Original text

70. An Act to grant an American register to the steamship Suffolk and to change the name of said steamship to that of Professor Morse.

    Ch. 262 · 18 Stat. 65 · June 9, 1874 · Original text

71. An Act to change the name of the registered steamer Oakes Ames to Champlain.

    Ch. 263 · 18 Stat. 66 · June 9, 1874 · Original text

72. An Act to change the name of the schooner "China."

    Ch. 264 · 18 Stat. 66 · June 9, 1874 · Original text

73. An act for the relief of J. L. Tedrow, of Clarke county, Iowa.

    Ch. 265 · 18 Stat. 562 · June 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

74. An act for the relief of Jacob Harding.

    Ch. 266 · 18 Stat. 563 · June 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

75. An act granting a Pension to Cordelia Wilkins.

    Ch. 267 · 18 Stat. 563 · June 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

76. An act for the relief of Michael Bannon, of Dayton, Ohio.

    Ch. 268 · 18 Stat. 563 · June 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

77. An act granting a Pension to Mrs. Letitia Carr.

    Ch. 269 · 18 Stat. 563 · June 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

78. An act granting a Pension to John Heddinger.

    Ch. 270 · 18 Stat. 563 · June 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

79. An act to place the name of Mrs. Caroline Duncan on the pension-roll.

    Ch. 271 · 18 Stat. 564 · June 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

80. An act granting a Pension to George H. Reynolds.

    Ch. 272 · 18 Stat. 564 · June 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

81. An act authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to give to George A. Armes, late captain Tenth United States Cavalry, an honorable discharge, to date the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy.

    Ch. 273 · 18 Stat. 564 · June 9, 1874 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act granting one condemned cannon to Prescott Post No one Grand Army of the Republic for the erection of a monument at Providence, Rhode Island.

    Ch. 274 · 18 Stat. 66 · June 10, 1874 · Original text

83. Joint resolution giving the consent of Congress to the acceptance by Edward Young, of a present from the Emperor of Russia.

    Private Resolution 2 · 18 Stat. 619 · June 10, 1874 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 275 · 18 Stat. 66 · June 11, 1874 · Original text

85. An act for the relief of Thomas T. Crittenden, of Missouri.

    Ch. 276 · 18 Stat. 564 · June 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

86. An act relieving the political disabilities of Fitzhugh Lee.

    Ch. 277 · 18 Stat. 565 · June 11, 1874 · Private law · Original text

87. An act for the relief of Edward H. Calvert.

    Ch. 278 · 18 Stat. 565 · June 12, 1874 · Private law · Original text

88. An act for the relief of Joseph Council of Mobile, Alabama.

    Ch. 279 · 18 Stat. 565 · June 12, 1874 · Private law · Original text

89. An act for the relief of the heirs of Mary B. Belfield, of Virginia.

    Ch. 280 · 18 Stat. 566 · June 12, 1874 · Private law · Original text

90. An act for the relief of Benjamin Crawford.

    Ch. 281 · 18 Stat. 566 · June 12, 1874 · Private law · Original text

91. An act for the benefit of the Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike Company.

    Ch. 282 · 18 Stat. 566 · June 12, 1874 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act to forfeit certain public lands granted to the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad, in the State of California.

    Ch. 283 · 18 Stat. 72 · June 15, 1874 · Original text

93. An act for the relief of Sebastian Reichert.

    Ch. 284 · 18 Stat. 566 · June 15, 1874 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 285 · 18 Stat. 72 · June 16, 1874 · Original text

95. An Act to change the time for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the eastern district of Wisconsin, at Oshkosh.

    Ch. 286 · 18 Stat. 75 · June 16, 1874 · Original text

96. An Act fixing the times of holding the circuit court of the United States in the districts of California, Oregon, and Nevada.

    Ch. 287 · 18 Stat. 76 · June 16, 1874 · Original text

97. An Act to authorize medals commemorating the One hundredth anniversary of the first meeting of the Continental Congress, and of the Declaration of Independence.

    Ch. 288 · 18 Stat. 76 · June 16, 1874 · Original text

98. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to change the name of the schooner “Jennie Spear” to that of “Santa Rosa.”

    Ch. 289 · 18 Stat. 76 · June 16, 1874 · Original text

99. An Act to authorize an appointment in the Inspector-General’s Department.

    Ch. 290 · 18 Stat. 77 · June 16, 1874 · Original text

100. An act for the relief of Nathaniel McKay, assignee of the builders of the steamers La Portena, Edward Everett, F. W. Lincoln, Azalia, and N. P. Banks.

     Ch. 291 · 18 Stat. 567 · June 16, 1874 · Private law · Original text