Every law Congress has passed

578 laws of the 44th Congress, 1875–1877

1. An act To extend the duration of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims.

   Ch. 1 · 19 Stat. 1 · December 24, 1875 · Original text

2. An act To declare the road leading from Concordia Kentucky to Mooleyville Kentucky a pose rood.

   Ch. 2 · 19 Stat. 1 · January 18, 1876 · Original text

3. An act To change the name of the steamboat “Tom Jasper,” of Saint Louis, Missouri.

   Ch. 3 · 19 Stat. 2 · January 18, 1876 · Original text

4. An act To amend Section three thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes in relation to the purchase of paper for the public printing.

   Ch. 4 · 19 Stat. 2 · January 25, 1876 · Original text

5. An act To amend the Revised Statutes relating to naturalization.

   Ch. 5 · 19 Stat. 2 · February 1, 1876 · Original text

6. An act To amend the Revised Statutes touching Vice Consul Generals.

   Ch. 6 · 19 Stat. 2 · February 1, 1876 · Original text

7. An Act To remove political disabilities of George S. Hawkins, of Florida

   Ch. 7 · 19 Stat. 415 · February 7, 1876 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act To authorize George P. Marsh to accept a certain present from the government of Switzerland, and a certain present from the government of Italy.

   Ch. 8 · 19 Stat. 415 · February 12, 1876 · Private law · Original text

9. Joint Resolution Authorizing G. Harris Heap, United States consul at Tunis, to accept the trust of commissioner of the Bey of Tunis.

   Private Resolution 1 · 19 Stat. 497 · February 12, 1876 · Private law · Original text

10. An act Providing for the payment of judgments rendered under section eleven of chapter four hundred and fifty-nine of the laws of the first session of the forty-third Congress.

    Ch. 9 · 19 Stat. 3 · February 15, 1876 · Original text

11. An act Relating to the Centennial Celebration of American Independence.

    Ch. 10 · 19 Stat. 3 · February 16, 1876 · Original text

12. An act Fixing the time of holding the circuit court of the United States in the districts of California, Oregon, and Nevada.

    Ch. 11 · 19 Stat. 4 · February 18, 1876 · Original text

13. An act To change the location of the consulates at Aixla-Chapelle and at Omoa and Truxillo.

    Ch. 12 · 19 Stat. 4 · February 18, 1876 · Original text

14. An act To extend the time for stamping unstamped instruments.

    Ch. 13 · 19 Stat. 5 · February 25, 1876 · Original text

15. An act Donating condemned cannon and cannon balls to the Ladies’ Monumental Association of Allegheny County, for monumental purposes.

    Ch. 14 · 19 Stat. 5 · February 25, 1876 · Original text

16. An act Making an appropriation to pay fourteen crippled and disabled Union soldiers from the sixth day of December 1875, to the thirtieth day of June, 1876.

    Ch. 15 · 19 Stat. 5 · February 29, 1876 · Original text

17. An Act To remove, the political disabilities of Daniel T. Chandler, Baltimore, Maryland.

    Ch. 16 · 19 Stat. 415 · March 2, 1876 · Private law · Original text

18. An act To amend the act entitled “An act to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States” approved March 3, 1875

    Ch. 17 · 19 Stat. 5 · March 3, 1876 · Original text

19. An act To remedy an error in enrolment

    Ch. 18 · 19 Stat. 6 · March 3, 1876 · Original text

20. An act To change the name of the schooner “Turner and Keller” of Oswego, to that of “Falmouth”

    Ch. 19 · 19 Stat. 6 · March 3, 1876 · Original text

21. Joint Resolution Authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to present the medal made for William H. H. Nash, to his widow, Mrs Keturah J Nash.

    Private Resolution 2 · 19 Stat. 497 · March 3, 1876 · Private law · Original text

22. An act To extend the time for claimants under section eleven, of chapter four hundred and fifty-nine, of the laws of the Forty-third Congress, to prove their claims.

    Ch. 20 · 19 Stat. 6 · March 6, 1876 · Original text

23. Joint resolution On the celebration of the Centennial in the several counties or towns.

    Public Resolution 3 · 19 Stat. 211 · March 13, 1876 · Original text

24. An Act Legalizing the homestead entry of Mrs. Phoebe C. Oakley, of Bay County, Michigan

    Ch. 21 · 19 Stat. 416 · March 13, 1876 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act Granting a Pension to Elizabeth A. Neibling.

    Ch. 22 · 19 Stat. 416 · March 13, 1876 · Private law · Original text

26. An act To extend to the port of Genessee in the State of New York the privileges of sections twenty-nine hundred and ninety to twenty-nine hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes inclusive.

    Ch. 23 · 19 Stat. 7 · March 14, 1876 · Original text

27. Joint resolution Directing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to pay the interest on the bonds issued in pursuance of the act of Congress approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four, out of any funds in the United States Treasury subject to the requisition of said Commissioners, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 4 · 19 Stat. 211 · March 14, 1876 · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Ezra B. Barnett, postmaster at Norwich, Now York.

    Ch. 24 · 19 Stat. 416 · March 14, 1876 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of S. K. Thompson.

    Ch. 25 · 19 Stat. 416 · March 14, 1876 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To remove the political disabilities of Samuel Cooper Jr, of Virginia.

    Ch. 26 · 19 Stat. 417 · March 14, 1876 · Private law · Original text

31. An act To provide for the purchase of material and for the continuation of the work on the building for custom-house and post office, at Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 27 · 19 Stat. 7 · March 15, 1876 · Original text

32. An act Authorizing the purchase of additional grounds for the custom house at Nashville, Tennessee.

    Ch. 28 · 19 Stat. 7 · March 15, 1876 · Original text

33. An act To establish certain post-routes in the State of Texas.

    Ch. 29 · 19 Stat. 8 · March 16, 1876 · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of C. H. Frederick, late a lieutenant-colonel in the Ninth Missouri Infantry.

    Ch. 32 · 19 Stat. 417 · March 22, 1876 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Granting six hundred and forty acres of land to the widow and heirs of Janies Sinclair, deceased.

    Ch. 33 · 19 Stat. 417 · March 22, 1876 · Private law · Original text

36. 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 seven.

    Ch. 30 · 19 Stat. 8 · March 23, 1876 · Original text

37. An act To confirm certain school-indemnity selections of public lands by the State of Nebraska

    Ch. 31 · 19 Stat. 8 · March 23, 1876 · Original text

38. An Act Granting a pension to John G. Parr, of Kittanuing, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 34 · 19 Stat. 418 · March 23, 1876 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act Granting a pension to Frances C. Elliott.

    Ch. 35 · 19 Stat. 418 · March 23, 1876 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of First Lieutenant Henry Jackson, Seventh Cavalry, United States Army.

    Ch. 36 · 19 Stat. 418 · March 23, 1876 · Private law · Original text

41. Joint Resolution Authorizing Edwin James, consular agent at San Jose, to accept a piece of plate from the Queen of Great Britain.

    Private Resolution 5 · 19 Stat. 497 · March 23, 1876 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth B. Dyer, widow of Alexander B. Dyer, late brigadier-general and Chief of Ordnance United States Army.

    Ch. 37 · 19 Stat. 419 · March 25, 1876 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act To relieve the political disabilities of Robert Tansill, of Virginia

    Ch. 38 · 19 Stat. 419 · March 25, 1876 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act Approving an act of the legislative assembly of Colorado Territory.

    Ch. 39 · 19 Stat. 419 · March 27, 1876 · Private law · Original text

45. An act To incorporate the Washington City Inebriate Asylum in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 40 · 19 Stat. 9 · March 30, 1876 · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Hibben and Company, of Chicago, Illinois.

    Ch. 41 · 19 Stat. 419 · March 30, 1876 · Private law · Original text

47. An act Establishing post-roads.

    Ch. 42 · 19 Stat. 12 · April 3, 1876 · Original text

48. An act To incorporate the Citizens’ Building Company of Washington.

    Ch. 43 · 19 Stat. 25 · April 5, 1876 · Original text

49. An act To amend the act entitled “An act giving the approval and sanction of Congress to the route and termini of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad, and to regulate its construction and operation.”

    Ch. 44 · 19 Stat. 26 · April 5, 1876 · Original text

50. An act To authorize the printing and distribution of the eulogies delivered in Congress on announcement of the death of the late Orris S. Ferry, a Senator from the State of Connecticut.

    Ch. 45 · 19 Stat. 27 · April 5, 1876 · Original text

51. An act To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the manufacture of postal-cards for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

    Ch. 46 · 19 Stat. 27 · April 6, 1876 · Original text

52. An act To supply a deficiency in the appropriations for certain Indians.

    Ch. 47 · 19 Stat. 28 · April 6, 1876 · Original text

53. Joint resolution For the relief of Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians.

    Public Resolution 6 · 19 Stat. 212 · April 6, 1876 · Original text

54. An Act Granting a pension to Ruth Ellen Greelaud

    Ch. 48 · 19 Stat. 420 · April 6, 1876 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act To relieve S. J. Gholson of Mississippi, of political disabilities imposed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

    Ch. 49 · 19 Stat. 420 · April 6, 1876 · Private law · Original text

56. Joint Resolution Granting the rights and benefits of the Soldiers Home to John News.

    Private Resolution 7 · 19 Stat. 497 · April 6, 1876 · Private law · Original text

57. An act To suspend the sale of the jail on Judiciary Square and for other purposes.

    Ch. 50 · 19 Stat. 28 · April 10, 1876 · Original text

58. An act To authorize the sale of the Pawnee Reservation.

    Ch. 51 · 19 Stat. 28 · April 10, 1876 · Original text

59. An act To incorporate the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railroad Company.

    Ch. 52 · 19 Stat. 30 · April 10, 1876 · Original text

60. Joint resolution Declaring the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, a holiday.

    Public Resolution 8 · 19 Stat. 212 · April 10, 1876 · Original text

61. An act Donating the military road running from Astoria, Oregon, to Salem, in that State, to the several counties through which it passes.

    Ch. 53 · 19 Stat. 31 · April 11, 1876 · Original text

62. An act For the sale of the Arsenal and lot, at Stonington, Connecticut.

    Ch. 54 · 19 Stat. 32 · April 11, 1876 · Original text

63. An act To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay judgments provided for in an act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled “An act providing for the payment of judgments rendered under section 11 of chapter 459 of the laws of the First session of the Forty-third Congress.”

    Ch. 55 · 19 Stat. 32 · April 11, 1876 · Original text

64. An act To amend section 1044 of the Revised Statutes relating to limitations in criminal cases.

    Ch. 56 · 19 Stat. 32 · April 13, 1876 · Original text

65. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth B. Thomas, widow of General Lorenzo Thomas late of the United States Army.

    Ch. 57 · 19 Stat. 420 · April 13, 1876 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of the widow of L. H. Rousseau, deceased, late brigadier-general and brevet major-general of the United States Army.

    Ch. 58 · 19 Stat. 421 · April 13, 1876 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Charles W. Mackey, late first lieutenant Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps.

    Ch. 59 · 19 Stat. 421 · April 13, 1876 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act Granting a pension to Seth W. Homestead.

    Ch. 60 · 19 Stat. 421 · April 13, 1876 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act Granting a pension to David J Garrett.

    Ch. 61 · 19 Stat. 421 · April 13, 1876 · Private law · Original text

70. An act Concerning cases in bankruptcy commenced in the supreme courts of the several Territories prior to the twenty-second day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and now undetermined therein.

    Ch. 62 · 19 Stat. 33 · April 14, 1876 · Original text

71. An act To provide for a deficiency in the Printing and Engraving Bureau of the Treasury Department, and for the issue of silver coin of the United States in place of fractional currency.

    Ch. 63 · 19 Stat. 33 · April 17, 1876 · Original text

72. An act To provide for the expenses of admission of foreign goods to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia.

    Ch. 64 · 19 Stat. 34 · April 17, 1876 · Original text

73. An act Providing for the sale of part of custom house lot in Rockland Maine

    Ch. 65 · 19 Stat. 34 · April 17, 1876 · Original text

74. An act Further to provide for the administering of oaths in the Senate.

    Ch. 66 · 19 Stat. 34 · April 18, 1876 · Original text

75. An act To pay the First National Bank of Saint Albans, in the county of Franklin, and State of Vermont, the value of certain United States Treasury notes held by said bank as financial agent of the United States, and forcibly taken therefrom by raiders from Canada, in October, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

    Ch. 67 · 19 Stat. 35 · April 20, 1876 · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Charles E. Hovey.

    Ch. 68 · 19 Stat. 421 · April 20, 1876 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting a pension to Almon P. Graves.

    Ch. 69 · 19 Stat. 422 · April 20, 1876 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act Granting a pension to Melville H Hudson.

    Ch. 70 · 19 Stat. 422 · April 20, 1876 · Private law · Original text

79. An act For continuing the work of improving the Capitol Grounds.

    Ch. 71 · 19 Stat. 35 · April 21, 1876 · Original text

80. An act To confirm pre-emption and homestead entries of public lands within the limits of railroad-grants in cases where such entries have been made under the regulations of the Land Department.

    Ch. 72 · 19 Stat. 35 · April 21, 1876 · Original text

81. An act Authorizing the transfer of certain causes from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Alabama at Mobile into the circuit court of the United States for the middle and northern districts of Alabama at Montgomery and Huntsville in said State.

    Ch. 73 · 19 Stat. 36 · April 21, 1876 · Original text

82. An Act Granting a pension to to Philip J. Shaw.

    Ch. 74 · 19 Stat. 423 · April 21, 1876 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Jane Dulaney.

    Ch. 75 · 19 Stat. 423 · April 21, 1876 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Hermann Kreismann, United States consul-general at Berlin.

    Ch. 76 · 19 Stat. 423 · April 21, 1876 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of James M. Coffinberry, of Cleveland, Ohio.

    Ch. 77 · 19 Stat. 424 · April 21, 1876 · Private law · Original text

86. An act To establish a land-office in the southern part of Utah Territory, to be known as the Beaver district, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 78 · 19 Stat. 36 · April 25, 1876 · Original text

87. An act Authorizing the sale of logs cut by the Indians of the Menomonee reservation in Wisconsin under the direction of the Interior Department.

    Ch. 79 · 19 Stat. 37 · April 25, 1876 · Original text

88. An act Giving the consent of the United States to the county of Dubuque, in the State of Iowa, to construct county buildings in Washington Square, in the city of Dubuque, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 80 · 19 Stat. 37 · April 25, 1876 · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Caroline M. Purviance and Francis Wyeth.

    Ch. 81 · 19 Stat. 424 · April 25, 1876 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of William L. Nance.

    Ch. 82 · 19 Stat. 425 · April 25, 1876 · Private law · Original text

91. An act To change the name of the steamboat Charles W. Mead.

    Ch. 83 · 19 Stat. 37 · April 26, 1876 · Original text

92. An act To correct an error in the Revised Statutes of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 84 · 19 Stat. 38 · April 27, 1876 · Original text

93. An act To incorporate the Mutual Protection Fire Insurance Company of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 85 · 19 Stat. 38 · April 27, 1876 · Original text

94. Joint resolution To authorize the Secretary of War to issue certain arms to the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston South Carolina and the Clinch Rifles of Augusta Georgia.

    Public Resolution 9 · 19 Stat. 212 · April 27, 1876 · Original text

95. An act To protect the public property, turf and grass of the Capitol Grounds from injury.

    Ch. 86 · 19 Stat. 41 · April 29, 1876 · Original text

96. An Act To enable Harvey Lull, of Hoboken, New Jersey, to make application to the Commissioner of Patents for extension of letters-patent for a self-locking shutter-hinge.

    Ch. 87 · 19 Stat. 425 · April 29, 1876 · Private law · Original text

97. An act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 88 · 19 Stat. 41 · May 1, 1876 · Original text

98. An act To provide for the separate entry of packages contained in one importation.

    Ch. 89 · 19 Stat. 49 · May 1, 1876 · Original text

99. An act Revising and amending the various acts establishing and relating to the Reform-School in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 90 · 19 Stat. 49 · May 3, 1876 · Original text

100. An act To exclude the States of Missouri and Kansas from the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States” approved May tenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

     Ch. 91 · 19 Stat. 52 · May 5, 1876 · Original text