Every law Congress has passed

859 laws of the 43rd Congress, 1873–1875

1. An Act To revise and consolidate the statutes of the United States, general and permanent in their nature, relating to the District of Columbia, in force on the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

   Chapter · 18 Stat. 1 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

2. An Act Revising and embodying all the Laws authorizing Post-Roads, in force on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

   Chapter · 18 Stat. 1 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

3. An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 388 · 18 Stat. 133 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

4. 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 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 389 · 18 Stat. 146 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

5. An Act to amend and supplement an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 390 · 18 Stat. 178 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

6. An Act to amend the customs-revenue laws and to repeal moieties.

   Ch. 391 · 18 Stat. 186 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

7. An Act for the better government of the Navy of the United States.

   Ch. 392 · 18 Stat. 191 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

8. An Act to repeal so much of the act approved May eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes" as provides for the employment of persons to assist the proper officers of the Government in discovering and collecting moneys withheld and for other purposes.

   Ch. 393 · 18 Stat. 192 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

9. An Act to legalize entries of public lands under the homestead laws in certain cases.

   Ch. 394 · 18 Stat. 192 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

10. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.

    Ch. 395 · 18 Stat. 193 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

11. An Act conferring jurisdiction upon the criminal court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 396 · 18 Stat. 193 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

12. An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to establish a western judicial district of North Carolina”.

    Ch. 397 · 18 Stat. 193 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

13. An Act to admit free of duty merchandise sunk for two years and afterward recovered.

    Ch. 398 · 18 Stat. 194 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

14. An Act for the relief of savings institutions having no capital stock, and doing business solely for the benefit of depositors.

    Ch. 399 · 18 Stat. 194 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

15. An Act for the relief of settlers on railroad lands.

    Ch. 399 · 18 Stat. 194 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

16. An Act relating to circuit courts of the United States for the districts of Alabama.

    Ch. 401 · 18 Stat. 195 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

17. An Act to constitute Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, a port of delivery.

    Ch. 402 · 18 Stat. 196 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

18. An Act to authorize and provide for the construction of a substantial iron and masonry bridge and of a causeway across the Anacostia, or Eastern Branch of the Potomac River, at or near the site of the present Navy-Yard bridge.

    Ch. 403 · 18 Stat. 196 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

19. An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Willamette River at Salem, in the State of Oregon

    Ch. 404 · 18 Stat. 196 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

20. An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near the city of La Crosse, in the State of Wisconsin.

    Ch. 405 · 18 Stat. 197 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

21. An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 406 · 18 Stat. 197 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

22. An Act to change the name of the brig Sidi to Sea Waif.

    Ch. 407 · 18 Stat. 198 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

23. An Act to authorize the issue of an American register to the ship “Alhambra.”

    Ch. 408 · 18 Stat. 198 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

24. An Act relinquishing the rights of the United States in certain lands in the State of Michigan.

    Ch. 409 · 18 Stat. 198 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

25. An Act to provide for the sale of the present United States marine hospital and site, and the purchase of a new site, and erection thereon of a new marine hospital, in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 410 · 18 Stat. 199 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

26. An Act to provide for the appointment of a commission of engineers to investigate and report a permanent plan for the reclamation of the alluvial basin of the Mississippi River subject to inundation.

    Ch. 411 · 18 Stat. 199 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

27. An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver certain condemned ordnance to the municipal authorities of Lexington, Massachusetts, for monumental purposes.

    Ch. 412 · 18 Stat. 200 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

28. An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to sell unserviceable ordnance stores, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 413 · 18 Stat. 200 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

29. An Act providing for the collection of moneys due the United States from the Pacific Railroad Companies.

    Ch. 414 · 18 Stat. 200 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

30. An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to relinquish and turn over to the Interior Department parts of certain reservations in the Territory of Arizona as may be no longer required for military purposes.

    Ch. 415 · 18 Stat. 201 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

31. An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the Light-House Board.

    Ch. 416 · 18 Stat. 201 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

32. An Act for the transfer of twenty condemned Bronze cannon for the erection of a statue to the late Major General George Gordon Meade.

    Ch. 417 · 18 Stat. 201 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

33. An Act referring the claim of the owners of the schooner Ada A. Andrews to the Court of Claims

    Ch. 418 · 18 Stat. 201 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

34. An Act authorizing the transfer of gold mint bars from the bullion fund of the assay office New York to the Assistant Treasurer at New York.

    Ch. 419 · 18 Stat. 202 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

35. An Act to change the name of the pleasure-yacht “Blanchette,” to that of “Laxen.”

    Ch. 420 · 18 Stat. 202 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

36. An Act to place on the retired list of the Navy, M. H. Plunkett, late second assistant engineer of the Regular Navy.

    Ch. 421 · 18 Stat. 202 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

37. An Act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain fractional townships in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 422 · 18 Stat. 202 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

38. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver to the Connecticut Historical Society certain papers on file as vouchers for the discharged claims of the heirs of Silas Deane.

    Ch. 423 · 18 Stat. 203 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

39. An Act to extend the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act for the extension of time to the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company for the completion of its roads.

    Ch. 424 · 18 Stat. 203 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

40. Joint resolution making an appropriation for the purchase and restoration to the family of the Martinis do la Payette, of the watch presented to him by General Washington.

    Public Resolution 13 · 18 Stat. 288 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

41. Joint resolution amending joint resolution of April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, relating to a statue of the late Admiral Farragut.

    Public Resolution 14 · 18 Stat. 288 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

42. Joint resolution authorizing the Postmaster General to perfect title to certain real estate obtained from John W. Norton, a defaulter to the Postal Moucy Order Bureau.

    Public Resolution 15 · 18 Stat. 288 · June 22, 1874 · Original text

43. An act making appropriations for the payment of claims reported allowed by the Commissioners of Claims under the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

    Ch. 425 · 18 Stat. 580 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

44. An act for the relief of John W. Divine, late assistant surgeon of the Eleventh Regiment of Tennessee Cavalry.

    Ch. 426 · 18 Stat. 601 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

45. An act for the relief of Robert F. Winslow.

    Ch. 427 · 18 Stat. 601 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

46. An act for the relief of Henry P. Ingram and John H. Askins.

    Ch. 428 · 18 Stat. 601 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

47. An act for the relief of George A. Bacon.

    Ch. 429 · 18 Stat. 601 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

48. An act for the relief of Isaac Riseden, late a first lieutenant of the Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry.

    Ch. 430 · 18 Stat. 602 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

49. An act for the relief of John N. Newman, late an acting first lieutenant of Company B, Ninth Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry.

    Ch. 431 · 18 Stat. 602 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

50. An act for the relief of William H. Pilkenton, late a second lieutenant in comapny G, fifth regiment Indiana cavalry volunteers

    Ch. 432 · 18 Stat. 602 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

51. An act for the relief of Mrs. Louisa P. Molloy.

    Ch. 433 · 18 Stat. 602 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

52. An act for the relief of Colonel E. McCarty.

    Ch. 434 · 18 Stat. 603 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

53. An act for the relief of John Dold.

    Ch. 435 · 18 Stat. 603 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

54. An act for the relief of Martin Kallfleisch’s sons.

    Ch. 436 · 18 Stat. 603 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

55. An act for the relief of the heirs and next of kin of Colonel Willliam Northedge, deceased.

    Ch. 437 · 18 Stat. 604 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

56. An act for the relief of John L. T. Jones, of Montgomery County, Maryland, for rent and damage sustained by the destruction of a dwelling house by accidental fire while the same was being occupied by United States troops for quarters.

    Ch. 438 · 18 Stat. 604 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

57. An act for the benefit of the Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical Association.

    Ch. 439 · 18 Stat. 604 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

58. An act for the relief of the East Tennessee University.

    Ch. 440 · 18 Stat. 604 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

59. An act for the relief of Matthias Whitehead.

    Ch. 441 · 18 Stat. 605 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

60. An act to remove the political disabilities of Henry H. Sibley, a citizen of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

    Ch. 442 · 18 Stat. 605 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

61. An act making an appropriation to pay Emanuel Small and James Tate, of Atchison county, Missouri, for carrying the mails.

    Ch. 443 · 18 Stat. 605 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

62. An act for the relief of Benjamin W. Reynolds.

    Ch. 444 · 18 Stat. 605 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

63. An act for the relief of J. and W. R. Wing, of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 445 · 18 Stat. 606 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

64. An act for the relief of Peter J. Knapp.

    Ch. 446 · 18 Stat. 606 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

65. An act referring the petition and papers in the case of Robert M. and Stephen A. Douglas, in so far as the same relates to cotton seized, to the Court of Claims.

    Ch. 447 · 18 Stat. 606 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

66. An act for the relief of Alexander Henderson.

    Ch. 448 · 18 Stat. 606 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

67. An act for the relief of Peter S. Patton.

    Ch. 449 · 18 Stat. 606 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

68. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to settle and pay the accounts of William Pelham, late surveyor-general of New Mexico.

    Ch. 450 · 18 Stat. 607 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

69. An act for the relief of James A. McCullah, late collector of the fifth district of Missouri.

    Ch. 451 · 18 Stat. 607 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

70. An act for the relief of John D. Young of Kentucky

    Ch. 452 · 18 Stat. 607 · June 22, 1874 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act to prevent hazing at the Naval Academy

    Ch. 453 · 18 Stat. 203 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

72. An Act to amend the act entitled "An act to reorganize the courts in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1863.

    Ch. 454 · 18 Stat. 204 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

73. An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 455 · 18 Stat. 204 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

74. An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 456 · 18 Stat. 231 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

75. An Act making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 457 · 18 Stat. 237 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

76. An Act reorganizing the several staff corps of the Army.

    Ch. 458 · 18 Stat. 244 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

77. An Act for the creation of a court for the adjudication and disposition of certain moneys received into the Treasury under an award made by the tribunal of arbitration constituted by virtue of the first article of the treaty concluded at Washington the eighth of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, between the United States of America and the Queen of Great Britain.

    Ch. 459 · 18 Stat. 245 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

78. An Act to provide for the improvement of the Oostenaula River, in the State of Georgia.

    Ch. 460 · 18 Stat. 250 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

79. An Act to protect lines of telegraph constructed or used by the United States from malicious injury and obstruction.

    Ch. 461 · 18 Stat. 250 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

80. An Act to provide for the stamping of unstamped instruments, documents or papers.

    Ch. 462 · 18 Stat. 250 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

81. An Act to change the times of holding the circuit and district courts at the city of Evansville.

    Ch. 463 · 18 Stat. 251 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

82. An Act to protect persons of foreign birth against forcible constraint or involuntary servitude.

    Ch. 464 · 18 Stat. 251 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

83. An Act to provide for the care and custody of persons convicted in the courts of the United States who have or may become insane while imprisoned.

    Ch. 465 · 18 Stat. 251 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

84. An Act to extend the time allowed for the redemption of certain lands by the first section of the act entitled “An act to provide for the redemption and sale of lands held by the United States under the several acts levying direct taxes, and for other purposes” approved June eighth, eighteen hundred & seventy-two, and to suspend the operation of the fourth section of said act.

    Ch. 466 · 18 Stat. 252 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

85. An Act to authorize the use of gilt letters for the names of vessels.

    Ch. 467 · 18 Stat. 252 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

86. An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to establish a court for the investigation of claims against the United States,’” approved August 6th, 1856.

    Ch. 468 · 18 Stat. 252 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

87. An Act in relation to courts and judicial officers in the Territory of Utah.

    Ch. 469 · 18 Stat. 253 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

88. An Act to establish certain post-routes.

    Ch. 470 · 18 Stat. 256 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

89. An Act providing for the sale of the Kansas Indian lands in Kansas to actual settlers, and for the disposition of the proceeds of the sale.

    Ch. 471 · 18 Stat. 272 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

90. An Act to further provide for the sale of certain Indian lands in Kansas.

    Ch. 472 · 18 Stat. 273 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

91. An Act granting the right of way through the public lands to the Arkansas Valley Railway Company.

    Ch. 473 · 18 Stat. 274 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

92. An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to authorize the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Company to extend a railroad into and within the District of Columbia” approved January 22, 1873.

    Ch. 474 · 18 Stat. 274 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

93. An Act to declare the bridge across the Niagara River, authorized by the act of Congress, approved, June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, a post route

    Ch. 475 · 18 Stat. 275 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

94. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend work upon the public buildings.

    Ch. 476 · 18 Stat. 275 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

95. An Act to change the name of the schooner “Delmar.”

    Ch. 477 · 18 Stat. 276 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

96. An Act to confirm the purchase of a portion of the site of Fort Houston at Nashville, Tennessee, and to provide for the donation of the same to the Fisk University for educational purposes; also to confirm in the purchase of certain land at Fort Hamilton, New York.

    Ch. 478 · 18 Stat. 276 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

97. An Act to authorize the Farmers’ National Bank of Greensburgh, Pennsylvania, to change its location and name.

    Ch. 479 · 18 Stat. 277 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

98. An Act regulating gas-works.

    Ch. 480 · 18 Stat. 277 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

99. An Act extending the right of way heretofore granted to the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company through the arsenal grounds at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 481 · 18 Stat. 280 · June 23, 1874 · Original text

100. An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Willamette River at Portland in the State of Oregon.

     Ch. 482 · 18 Stat. 281 · June 23, 1874 · Original text