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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.

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578 laws of the 44th Congress, 1875–1877

  1. 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

  2. An Act For the relief of Almont Barnes.

    Ch. 140 · 19 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. An Act For the relief of Herman Hulman, of Terre Haute, Indiana.

    Ch. 144 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act For the relief of W. H. Woodward, of Indianola, Texas.

    Ch. 145 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act For the relief of J. B. McCullough.

    Ch. 146 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act Granting a pension to Amasa J. Finch.

    Ch. 147 · 19 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. An Act For the relief of Henry Voelter.

    Ch. 150 · 19 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  13. 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

  14. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs Amy King

    Ch. 152 · 19 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act For the relief of Catherine Harris.

    Ch. 153 · 19 Stat. 539 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. An Act For the relief of Louis Rose.

    Ch. 156 · 19 Stat. 539 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. An Act For the relief of Reclick McKee.

    Ch. 161 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act Granting a pension to Esther P. Fox.

    Ch. 162 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act Granting a pension to Hattie D. McKain.

    Ch. 163 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act Granting a pension to Apoline A. Blair

    Ch. 164 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act Granting a pension to Armstead Goodlow.

    Ch. 165 · 19 Stat. 541 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Ann Annis.

    Ch. 168 · 19 Stat. 542 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  31. 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

  32. An Act For the relief of John N Hall.

    Ch. 170 · 19 Stat. 542 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. An Act Granting a pension to Lucinda Starnes.

    Ch. 176 · 19 Stat. 544 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  39. An Act Granting a pension to James Johnston.

    Ch. 177 · 19 Stat. 544 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  40. An Act For the relief of Marshal P. Thatcher.

    Ch. 178 · 19 Stat. 545 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  41. An Act To remove the political disabilities of Richard S. Kinney.

    Ch. 179 · 19 Stat. 545 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. An Act Granting a pension to Austin R. Mills.

    Ch. 185 · 19 Stat. 546 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  48. An Act For the benefit of the Louisville Baptist Orphans’ Home.

    Ch. 186 · 19 Stat. 546 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  49. 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

  50. An Act Granting a pension to Daniel Houlihan.

    Ch. 188 · 19 Stat. 547 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  51. An Act For the relief of Eli Teegarden.

    Ch. 189 · 19 Stat. 547 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  52. An Act Granting a pension to Harriet Moss.

    Ch. 190 · 19 Stat. 547 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  53. An Act For the relief of H. H. Mathis, of Arkansas.

    Ch. 191 · 19 Stat. 547 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  54. 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

  55. An Act Granting a pension to William H. Oliver, of Sweetwater, Tennessee.

    Ch. 193 · 19 Stat. 548 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  56. An Act To increase the pension of Helen M. Stansbury.

    Ch. 194 · 19 Stat. 548 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  57. An Act For the relief of Joseph W. Parish.

    Ch. 195 · 19 Stat. 548 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  58. An Act Granting a pension to Laura M. Knowlton.

    Ch. 196 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  59. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Laurence P. N. Landrum.

    Ch. 197 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  60. An Act Granting a pension to T. B. Murdock

    Ch. 198 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  61. An Act Granting a pension to Martha Irwin, widow of John Irwin.

    Ch. 199 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  62. An Act For the relief of Hans C. Peterson.

    Ch. 200 · 19 Stat. 549 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  63. 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

  64. An Act Granting a pension to Edmund H. Cobb.

    Ch. 202 · 19 Stat. 550 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  65. 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

  66. 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

  67. 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

  68. An Act Granting a pension to Irena Garrett.

    Ch. 206 · 19 Stat. 551 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  69. 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

  70. An Act Granting a pension to Stillman E. Dix, of Hampton, Virginia.

    Ch. 208 · 19 Stat. 551 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  71. 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

  72. An Act Granting a pension to Peter Harder

    Ch. 210 · 19 Stat. 552 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  73. An Act Granting a pension to Theodore Gardner.

    Ch. 211 · 19 Stat. 552 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  74. An Act Granting a pension to Harrison H. Dodds.

    Ch. 212 · 19 Stat. 552 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  75. An Act For the relief of William Jasper Cordill.

    Ch. 213 · 19 Stat. 552 · March 3, 1877 · Private law · Original text

  76. 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

  77. 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

  78. 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

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.