Every law Congress has passed

746 laws of the 45th Congress, 1877–1879

1. Joint resolution authorizing the payment of Rev John Poisal D. D. late Chaplain of the House of Representatives for time of his service as such without taking the oaths prescribed by law.

   Private Resolution 1 · 20 Stat. 495 · November 17, 1877 · Private law · Original text

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

   Ch. 1 · 20 Stat. 1 · November 21, 1877 · Original text

3. An Act to provide for certain deficiencies in the pay of the Navy and the pay of the Marine Corps, and for other purposes

   Ch. 2 · 20 Stat. 4 · November 21, 1877 · Original text

4. An Act authorizing the changing of the name of the ship Samuel G. Reed.

   Ch. 3 · 20 Stat. 5 · November 21, 1877 · Original text

5. Joint resolution fixing a site for the equestrian statue of General Greene.

   Public Resolution 2 · 20 Stat. 6 · November 23, 1877 · Original text

6. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Charles W. Field, of King George County, Virginia

   Ch. 4 · 20 Stat. 493 · November 23, 1877 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a register and change the name of the schooner Captain Charles Robbins to Minnie.

   Ch. 5 · 20 Stat. 5 · November 24, 1877 · Original text

8. An Act authorizing binding of documents for members of Congress.

   Ch. 6 · 20 Stat. 5 · December 10, 1877 · Original text

9. An Act to provide a method for the settlement and adjustment of the accounts of the Attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 1 · 20 Stat. 7 · December 14, 1877 · Original text

10. An Act for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the United States steamer Huron, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 2 · 20 Stat. 497 · December 14, 1877 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3 · 20 Stat. 7 · December 15, 1877 · Original text

12. An Act providing for the printing and distribution of the Biennial Register.

    Ch. 4 · 20 Stat. 13 · December 15, 1877 · Original text

13. An Act authorizing the changing of the name of the ship 'Samuel G. Reed'

    Ch. 5 · 20 Stat. 13 · December 15, 1877 · Original text

14. An Act relative to the burial of the officers and others of the United States Navy who perished by the wreck of the United States steamer Huron and for other purposes.

    Ch. 6 · 20 Stat. 14 · December 15, 1877 · Original text

15. Joint resolution in relation to the International Industrial Exposition to be held in Paris in eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

    Resolution 1 · 20 Stat. 245 · December 15, 1877 · Original text

16. Joint resolution relative to reservoirs to promote the navigation of the Mississippi River.

    Resolution 2 · 20 Stat. 246 · December 15, 1877 · Original text

17. Joint resolution fixing the date on which the payment of the twenty-one clerks to committees of the House of Representatives, who are paid during the session only, shall begin.

    Resolution 3 · 20 Stat. 246 · December 15, 1877 · Original text

18. Joint resolution authorizing payment of employees of the Honso of representatives their salaries for time served by them during the present session of Congress, without having taken the oath prescribed by law.

    Resolution 4 · 20 Stat. 247 · December 15, 1877 · Original text

19. Joint resolution authorizing Commander Edmund O. Matthews, of the United States Navy, to accept a gilt teapot from the Emperor of Siam

    Private Resolution 5 · 20 Stat. 587 · December 15, 1877 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act establishing post-roads.

    Ch. 7 · 20 Stat. 14 · January 14, 1878 · Original text

21. An Act to authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the Great Seal of the United States to a certain document therein stated.

    Ch. 8 · 20 Stat. 22 · January 18, 1878 · Original text

22. Joint resolution filling an existing vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Resolution 6 · 20 Stat. 247 · January 26, 1878 · Original text

23. Joint resolution authorizing Rear Admiral William Reynolds, of the United States Navy, to accept certain presents tendered him by Kings of Siam.

    Private Resolution 7 · 20 Stat. 587 · January 26, 1878 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act to change the location and name of the Miners' National Bank of Braidwood, Illinois.

    Ch. 9 · 20 Stat. 22 · January 31, 1878 · Original text

25. An Act to further regulate the purchase of material for the public printing and binding.

    Ch. 10 · 20 Stat. 22 · February 1, 1878 · Original text

26. Joint resolution accepting a painting tendered to Congress by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson.

    Resolution 8 · 20 Stat. 247 · February 1, 1878 · Original text

27. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Charles L Scott, of Wilcox County, Alabama

    Ch. 11 · 20 Stat. 498 · February 1, 1878 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act to punish embezzlement in the District of Columbia, and to protect the records of said District, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 12 · 20 Stat. 23 · February 4, 1878 · Original text

29. An Act for the removal of obstructions from the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas and Red Rivers and for the preservation of the public property.

    Ch. 13 · 20 Stat. 24 · February 7, 1878 · Original text

30. Joint resolution extending the thanks of Congress to Henry M. Stanley.

    Resolution 9 · 20 Stat. 247 · February 7, 1878 · Original text

31. An Act to change the name of the "Consulate at Omoa and Truxillo."

    Ch. 14 · 20 Stat. 24 · February 11, 1878 · Original text

32. Joint resolution authorizing the printing and distribution of the memorial addresses on the life and character of the late Edward Young Parsons, a Representative from the State of Kentucky.

    Resolution 10 · 20 Stat. 248 · February 18, 1878 · Original text

33. Joint resolution declaring that a reduction of the tax on distilled spirits is inexpedient.

    Resolution 11 · 20 Stat. 248 · February 18, 1878 · Original text

34. An Act to remove the charges against Lieutenant Charles Wilkinson, late of Company K, One hundred and second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, on file in the War Department.

    Ch. 15 · 20 Stat. 498 · February 18, 1878 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act for providing portraits to accompany the memorial addresses on the late Senators Morton and Bogy.

    Ch. 16 · 20 Stat. 24 · February 19, 1878 · Original text

36. An Act to appropriate money for the purchase of a law library for the Territory of Dakota.

    Ch. 17 · 20 Stat. 24 · February 25, 1878 · Original text

37. An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of a law-library for the use of the courts and the United States officers in the Territory of Wyoming.

    Ch. 18 · 20 Stat. 25 · February 25, 1878 · Original text

38. An Act for the relief of the Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Georgia.

    Ch. 19 · 20 Stat. 498 · February 27, 1878 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal-tender character.

    Ch. 20 · 20 Stat. 25 · February 28, 1878 · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of James W. Glover, postmaster at Oxford, in the State of New York.

    Ch. 21 · 20 Stat. 499 · March 2, 1878 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act to change the name of the steam-tug C. M. Whittaker to Caroline

    Ch. 22 · 20 Stat. 26 · March 4, 1878 · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of William H. Needham, late second lieutenant of Company D, Twenty-second Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers.

    Ch. 23 · 20 Stat. 499 · March 4, 1878 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act for the relief of Charles W. Wood, late of Company E, First Battalion, Thirteenth Regiment of United States Infantry.

    Ch. 24 · 20 Stat. 499 · March 4, 1878 · Private law · Original text

44. Joint resolution appropriating two hundred dollars, to defray expenses of transferring the remains of Pancoast Loose, a deceased soldier.

    Private Resolution 12 · 20 Stat. 587 · March 4, 1878 · Private law · Original text

45. Joint resolution authorizing Lieutenant T.B.M. Mason, United States Navy, to accept a medal conferred by the King of Italy for extinguishing a fire on a powder-ship.

    Private Resolution · 20 Stat. 587 · March 4, 1878 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act to amend section four thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight of the Revised Statutes

    Ch. 25 · 20 Stat. 26 · March 8, 1878 · Original text

47. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the preparation and publication of a new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States", approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

    Ch. 26 · 20 Stat. 27 · March 9, 1878 · Original text

48. An Act changing the times of holding terms of the district court for the district of West Virginia.

    Ch. 27 · 20 Stat. 27 · March 9, 1878 · Original text

49. An Act amending the laws granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and their widows, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 28 · 20 Stat. 27 · March 9, 1878 · Original text

50. Joint resolution providing for issuing anus and ammunition to the Territory of Idaho under the act approved July third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

    Resolution 13 · 20 Stat. 248 · March 9, 1878 · Original text

51. Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to issue certain arms to the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, South Carolina.

    Resolution 14 · 20 Stat. 248 · March 9, 1878 · Original text

52. An Act for the relief of Captain William L. Foulk.

    Ch. 29 · 20 Stat. 499 · March 9, 1878 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act making appropriations for the payment of claims reported to Congress under section two of the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, by the Secretary of the Treasury.

    Ch. 30 · 20 Stat. 499 · March 11, 1878 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the relief of Edwin A. Clifford.

    Ch. 31 · 20 Stat. 510 · March 11, 1878 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Glasgow, Missouri.

    Ch. 32 · 20 Stat. 29 · March 13, 1878 · Original text

56. An Act for the relief of John Pulford.

    Ch. 33 · 20 Stat. 510 · March 13, 1878 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act further to suspend the operations of section five thousand five hundred and seventy-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, title seventy-two, in relation to guano islands.

    Ch. 34 · 20 Stat. 30 · March 15, 1878 · Original text

58. An Act for the relief of William A. Hammond, late Surgeon-General of the Army.

    Ch. 35 · 20 Stat. 511 · March 15, 1878 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act granting a pension to Dwight A. Barrett, late private Company E, Forty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. 36 · 20 Stat. 511 · March 15, 1878 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act to make persons charged with crimes and offences competent witnesses in the United States and Territorial Courts.

    Ch. 37 · 20 Stat. 30 · March 16, 1878 · Original text

61. An Act in aid of a Polar expedition designed by James Gordon Bennett.

    Ch. 38 · 20 Stat. 31 · March 18, 1878 · Original text

62. An Act granting a Pension to Mrs Rebecca C. Maxwell, widow of the late Colonel O. C. Maxwell, one hundred and ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. 39 · 20 Stat. 511 · March 22, 1878 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act granting a Pension to Margaret R. Colony, widow of the late Major Josiah B. Colony, First Maryland Infantry Volunteers.

    Ch. 40 · 20 Stat. 511 · March 22, 1878 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act granting a Pension to Kate Louise Roy, widow of J. P. Roy, late lieutenant-colonel United States Army.

    Ch. 41 · 20 Stat. 512 · March 22, 1878 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act to authorize the granting of an American register to a foreign built ship, for the purpose of the Woodruff Scientific Expedition around the world.

    Ch. 42 · 20 Stat. 31 · March 23, 1878 · Original text

66. An Act making appropriations for fortifications and for other works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 43 · 20 Stat. 31 · March 23, 1878 · Original text

67. Joint resolution filling an existing vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian institution.

    Resolution 15 · 20 Stat. 249 · March 25, 1878 · Original text

68. An Act to extend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company of the city of Washington.

    Ch. 44 · 20 Stat. 32 · March 26, 1878 · Original text

69. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Robert H. Chilton.

    Ch. 45 · 20 Stat. 512 · March 26, 1878 · Private law · Original text

70. Joint resolution to prescribe the time for the payment of the tax on distilled spirite, and for other purposes.

    Resolution 16 · 20 Stat. 249 · March 28, 1878 · Original text

71. An Act to authorize the Worthington and Sioux Falls Railroad Company to extend its road into the Territory of Dakota to the village of Sioux Falls.

    Ch. 46 · 20 Stat. 32 · April 2, 1878 · Original text

72. An Act to provide for deficiencies in the miscellaneous fund of the Senate and of the House of Representatives.

    Ch. 47 · 20 Stat. 34 · April 2, 1878 · Original text

73. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act for the support of the government for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes."

    Ch. 48 · 20 Stat. 34 · April 3, 1878 · Original text

74. An Act to constitute a commission to consider and report a plan for providing enlarged accommodations for the Library of Congress.

    Ch. 49 · 20 Stat. 35 · April 3, 1878 · Original text

75. Joint resolution making an appropriation for filling up, draining, and placing in good sanitary condition the grounds south of the Capitol along the line of the old canal, and for other purposes.

    Resolution 17 · 20 Stat. 250 · April 4, 1878 · Original text

76. An Act for the relief of John A. Darling.

    Ch. 50 · 20 Stat. 35 · April 8, 1878 · Original text

77. An Act to amend section five hundred and forty, chapter one, title thirteen, Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 51 · 20 Stat. 35 · April 8, 1878 · Original text

78. An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to refund a certain tax erroneously collected.

    Ch. 52 · 20 Stat. 512 · April 8, 1878 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act granting a pension to George McCoy.

    Ch. 53 · 20 Stat. 512 · April 8, 1878 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act granting a pension to Adam Stinson.

    Ch. 54 · 20 Stat. 512 · April 8, 1878 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act granting a pension to Bridget T. Hopper.

    Ch. 55 · 20 Stat. 513 · April 8, 1878 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act granting a pension to Fannie E. Records, widow of Albert B. Records, late a private in Company G, Fifteenth Regiment Maine Volunteers.

    Ch. 56 · 20 Stat. 513 · April 8, 1878 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act restoring the name of Thomas Crawford, a soldier of the Mexican war, to the pension-roll.

    Ch. 57 · 20 Stat. 513 · April 8, 1878 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to prescribe rules and regulations to be observed in the preparation, submission, and opening of bids for contracts under the War Department.

    Ch. 58 · 20 Stat. 36 · April 10, 1878 · Original text

85. Joint resolution providing for a place of deposit for the records and proceedings of the commission appointed under the act entitled “An act to provide for and regulate the counting of votes for President and Vice-President, and the decision of questions arising thereon, for the term commencing March fourth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-seven”, approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

    Resolution 18 · 20 Stat. 250 · April 11, 1878 · Original text

86. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the sale of certain New York Indian lands in Kansas," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

    Ch. 59 · 20 Stat. 36 · April 17, 1878 · Original text

87. An Act to prevent depredations upon property in the District of Columbia

    Ch. 60 · 20 Stat. 36 · April 17, 1878 · Original text

88. An Act requiring the Commissioner for preparing and publishing a new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States to revise and perfect the index to the first volume of the same.

    Ch. 61 · 20 Stat. 36 · April 19, 1878 · Original text

89. An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge abutment and approach within the Fort Riley military reservation.

    Ch. 62 · 20 Stat. 37 · April 20, 1878 · Original text

90. An Act to authorize the issue of a patent of certain lands in the Brothertown reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, to the persons selected by the Brothertown Indians.

    Ch. 63 · 20 Stat. 513 · April 20, 1878 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act to authorize the restoration of George A. Armes to the rank of captain

    Ch. 64 · 20 Stat. 37 · April 23, 1878 · Original text

92. An Act for the relief of the executors of the estate of John S. Miller, deceased.

    Ch. 65 · 20 Stat. 514 · April 23, 1878 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States.

    Ch. 66 · 20 Stat. 37 · April 29, 1878 · Original text

94. An Act to provide for the erection of a public building in the City of Kansas in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 67 · 20 Stat. 39 · April 29, 1878 · Original text

95. An Act to prevent the sale of policy or lottery tickets in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 68 · 20 Stat. 39 · April 29, 1878 · Original text

96. An Act providing for the recording of deeds, mortgages, and other conveyances affecting real estate in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 69 · 20 Stat. 39 · April 29, 1878 · Original text

97. An Act for the relief of Thomas W. Collier.

    Ch. 70 · 20 Stat. 514 · April 29, 1878 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act for the relief of W. C. Snyder, of Illinois.

    Ch. 71 · 20 Stat. 514 · April 29, 1878 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act for the relief of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 72 · 20 Stat. 40 · April 30, 1878 · Original text

100. An Act to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for the public printing and binding for the current fiscal year.

     Ch. 73 · 20 Stat. 40 · April 30, 1878 · Original text