The Register
Every law Congress has passed
97,863 laws from 1789 to 2026, as printed in the Statutes at Large, the official record of every act of Congress. 51,799 are public laws; 46,064 are private laws, which apply to named people or places, such as pensions, land claims and relief from debts.
578 laws of the 44th Congress, 1875–1877
An Act For the relief of Julius S. Bohrer, master in the United States Navy.
Ch. 139 · 19 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Almont Barnes.
Ch. 140 · 19 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of H. E. Woodhouse and Company, of Brownsville, Texas.
Ch. 141 · 19 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Charles C Campbell, of Washington County Virginia.
Ch. 142 · 19 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Julia A. Schutt, widow of Martin Schutt, a deceased soldier.
Ch. 143 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Herman Hulman, of Terre Haute, Indiana.
Ch. 144 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of W. H. Woodward, of Indianola, Texas.
Ch. 145 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of J. B. McCullough.
Ch. 146 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Amasa J. Finch.
Ch. 147 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
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. 148 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Making an appropriation to pay the claim of Benjamin Fenton and D. W. Fenton.
Ch. 149 · 19 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Henry Voelter.
Ch. 150 · 19 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To provide for an increase of pension in favor of Martin Kelly.
Ch. 151 · 19 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mrs Amy King
Ch. 152 · 19 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Catherine Harris.
Ch. 153 · 19 Stat. 539 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Marsilvia F. Woodard, mother of George R. Woodard.
Ch. 154 · 19 Stat. 539 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of John S. Wood, late a first lieutenant in the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Ch. 155 · 19 Stat. 539 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Louis Rose.
Ch. 156 · 19 Stat. 539 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To remove the political disabilities of P. J. Quattlebaum of Georgia.
Ch. 157 · 19 Stat. 540 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To remove the political disabilities of Theophilus H. Holmes of North Carolina.
Ch. 158 · 19 Stat. 540 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To remove the political disabilities of John M. Haden, of Galveston, Texas.
Ch. 159 · 19 Stat. 540 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of James A Jackson and others securities of G R Horton late Post Master at Monticello Arkansas.
Ch. 160 · 19 Stat. 540 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Reclick McKee.
Ch. 161 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Esther P. Fox.
Ch. 162 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Hattie D. McKain.
Ch. 163 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Apoline A. Blair
Ch. 164 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Armstead Goodlow.
Ch. 165 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Sarah E. Garland and Frank M. Hoppin.
Ch. 166 · 19 Stat. 542 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Almeron E. Calkins, late a second lieutenant in the Eighth Michigan Cavalry.
Ch. 167 · 19 Stat. 542 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Ann Annis.
Ch. 168 · 19 Stat. 542 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To remove the disabilities of Lawrence S. Baker, of Tarboro, North Carolina.
Ch. 169 · 19 Stat. 542 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of John N Hall.
Ch. 170 · 19 Stat. 542 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Remove the political disabilities of George Watson Carr, a citizen of the State of Virginia.
Ch. 171 · 19 Stat. 543 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of A. M. Garoutte, late captain and assistant quartermaster, United States Army.
Ch. 172 · 19 Stat. 543 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Edwin Morgan, late captain of Company G, Seventy-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantary.
Ch. 173 · 19 Stat. 543 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Chancy J. Poore, late a private in Battery G, First New York Light Artillery
Ch. 174 · 19 Stat. 544 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of. W. W. Van Antwerp, late Major of Fourth Michigan Cavalry.
Ch. 175 · 19 Stat. 544 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Lucinda Starnes.
Ch. 176 · 19 Stat. 544 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to James Johnston.
Ch. 177 · 19 Stat. 544 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Marshal P. Thatcher.
Ch. 178 · 19 Stat. 545 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To remove the political disabilities of Richard S. Kinney.
Ch. 179 · 19 Stat. 545 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To remove the political disabilities of Samuel V. Turner of Virginia.
Ch. 180 · 19 Stat. 545 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To remove the political disabilities of William A Webb of Virginia.
Ch. 181 · 19 Stat. 545 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Col. Frank L. Woolford late of the First Kentucky Cavalry Volunteers, of certain disabilities.
Ch. 182 · 19 Stat. 545 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To pay William L. Scruggs, late minister at Bogota, from October tenth to November twenty first, eighteen hundred and seventy six.
Ch. 183 · 19 Stat. 546 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Removing the political disabilities of Joel S. Kennard of Savannah Georgia.
Ch. 184 · 19 Stat. 546 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Austin R. Mills.
Ch. 185 · 19 Stat. 546 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the benefit of the Louisville Baptist Orphans’ Home.
Ch. 186 · 19 Stat. 546 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Virginia E. White, of Ohio County, West Virginia.
Ch. 187 · 19 Stat. 547 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Daniel Houlihan.
Ch. 188 · 19 Stat. 547 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Eli Teegarden.
Ch. 189 · 19 Stat. 547 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Harriet Moss.
Ch. 190 · 19 Stat. 547 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of H. H. Mathis, of Arkansas.
Ch. 191 · 19 Stat. 547 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize Louis Petoskey, of Michigan, to enter a certain tract of land which embraces his home and. improvements.
Ch. 192 · 19 Stat. 548 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to William H. Oliver, of Sweetwater, Tennessee.
Ch. 193 · 19 Stat. 548 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To increase the pension of Helen M. Stansbury.
Ch. 194 · 19 Stat. 548 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Joseph W. Parish.
Ch. 195 · 19 Stat. 548 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Laura M. Knowlton.
Ch. 196 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Laurence P. N. Landrum.
Ch. 197 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to T. B. Murdock
Ch. 198 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Martha Irwin, widow of John Irwin.
Ch. 199 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Hans C. Peterson.
Ch. 200 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Catharine A. Winslow, widow of the late Rear-Admiral John A. Winslow.
Ch. 201 · 19 Stat. 550 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Edmund H. Cobb.
Ch. 202 · 19 Stat. 550 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of William Wheeler Hubbell, and to make just compensation for the past making, or use, or vending of his patent explosive shell, fuses, and percussion-exploders by the United States.
Ch. 203 · 19 Stat. 550 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To grant a pension to Margaret Hunter Hardie, widow of James A. Hardie Inspector-General in the United States Army.
Ch. 204 · 19 Stat. 550 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Sarah A. Chamberlain, guardian of the minor heirs of James Eagle, Company F, Second Regiment Kansas State Militia.
Ch. 205 · 19 Stat. 551 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Irena Garrett.
Ch. 206 · 19 Stat. 551 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To enable Erastus T. Bussell, of Indianapolis, Indiana, to make application to the Commissioner of Patents for extension of letters-patent for a “combined rubber and spiral steel spring.”
Ch. 207 · 19 Stat. 551 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Stillman E. Dix, of Hampton, Virginia.
Ch. 208 · 19 Stat. 551 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act To repeal an act granting a pension to Mary H. Bartlett, approved January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
Ch. 209 · 19 Stat. 552 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Peter Harder
Ch. 210 · 19 Stat. 552 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Theodore Gardner.
Ch. 211 · 19 Stat. 552 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Harrison H. Dodds.
Ch. 212 · 19 Stat. 552 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of William Jasper Cordill.
Ch. 213 · 19 Stat. 552 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Rosetta Hert, (late Rosetta Scoville) Charles C. Benoist, Emily Benoist, and Logan Fanfan, half-breed Indians.
Ch. 214 · 19 Stat. 553 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
Joint Resolution Authorizing the issue of clothing to Company “A” Second Regiment, United States Cavalry.
Private Resolution 10 · 19 Stat. 554 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
Joint Resolution Authorizing the issue of clothing to Private Francis Hegner, Company F, Seventh Cavalry, and Private John C. Collins, Company G. Seventh Cavalry.
Private Resolution 11 · 19 Stat. 554 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text
By Congress
- 119th 2025 · 136
- 118th 2023 · 274
- 117th 2021 · 365
- 116th 2019 · 344
- 115th 2017 · 443
- 114th 2015 · 329
- 113th 2013 · 296
- 112th 2011 · 284
- 111th 2009 · 385
- 110th 2007 · 460
- 109th 2005 · 483
- 108th 2003 · 504
- 107th 2001 · 337
- 106th 1999 · 604
- 105th 1997 · 404
- 104th 1995 · 337
- 103rd 1993 · 473
- 102nd 1991 · 610
- 101st 1989 · 666
- 100th 1987 · 761
- 99th 1985 · 688
- 98th 1983 · 677
- 97th 1981 · 529
- 96th 1979 · 736
- 95th 1977 · 805
- 94th 1975 · 729
- 93rd 1973 · 774
- 92nd 1971 · 769
- 91st 1969 · 942
- 90th 1967 · 1,002
- 89th 1965 · 1,283
- 88th 1963 · 1,026
- 87th 1961 · 1,573
- 86th 1959 · 1,292
- 85th 1957 · 1,721
- 84th 1955 · 1,909
- 83rd 1953 · 1,784
- 82nd 1951 · 1,640
- 81st 1949 · 2,000
- 80th 1947 · 1,365
- 79th 1945 · 1,626
- 78th 1943 · 1,157
- 77th 1941 · 1,489
- 76th 1939 · 1,659
- 75th 1937 · 1,760
- 74th 1935 · 1,724
- 73rd 1933 · 975
- 72nd 1931 · 861
- 71st 1929 · 1,506
- 70th 1927 · 1,722
- 69th 1925 · 1,423
- 68th 1923 · 996
- 67th 1921 · 930
- 66th 1919 · 594
- 65th 1917 · 453
- 64th 1915 · 684
- 63rd 1913 · 700
- 62nd 1911 · 717
- 61st 1909 · 881
- 60th 1907 · 621
- 59th 1905 · 7,020
- 58th 1903 · 4,043
- 57th 1901 · 2,773
- 56th 1899 · 1,959
- 55th 1897 · 1,438
- 54th 1895 · 947
- 53rd 1893 · 712
- 52nd 1891 · 721
- 51st 1889 · 2,188
- 50th 1887 · 1,824
- 49th 1885 · 1,452
- 48th 1883 · 970
- 47th 1881 · 761
- 46th 1879 · 650
- 45th 1877 · 746
- 44th 1875 · 578
- 43rd 1873 · 859
- 42nd 1871 · 1,014
- 41st 1869 · 771
- 40th 1867 · 769
- 39th 1865 · 715
- 38th 1863 · 516
- 37th 1861 · 526
- 36th 1859 · 382
- 35th 1857 · 314
- 34th 1855 · 435
- 33rd 1853 · 540
- 32nd 1851 · 308
- 31st 1849 · 171
- 30th 1847 · 456
- 29th 1845 · 356
- 28th 1843 · 279
- 27th 1841 · 525
- 26th 1839 · 147
- 25th 1837 · 533
- 24th 1835 · 459
- 23rd 1833 · 392
- 22nd 1831 · 461
- 21st 1829 · 370
- 20th 1827 · 234
- 19th 1825 · 269
- 18th 1823 · 337
- 17th 1821 · 237
- 16th 1819 · 210
- 15th 1817 · 262
- 14th 1815 · 305
- 13th 1813 · 271
- 12th 1811 · 208
- 11th 1809 · 119
- 10th 1807 · 106
- 9th 1805 · 110
- 8th 1803 · 112
- 7th 1801 · 96
- 6th 1799 · 115
- 5th 1797 · 157
- 4th 1795 · 86
- 3rd 1793 · 133
- 2nd 1791 · 80
- 1st 1789 · 119
From the U.S. Statutes at Large, volumes 1 through 138, published by the Government Publishing Office on GovInfo; laws signed since the latest printed volume come from GovInfo’s public and private law files. Treaties, proclamations and concurrent resolutions, which share those volumes, are not laws and are left out. The oldest volumes were digitized from print, so a few dates could not be read; for those we show the year from the laws printed alongside. Short names come from each law’s own “may be cited as” clause.