Every law Congress has passed

746 laws of the 45th Congress, 1877–1879

1. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Larkin Smith, of Georgia.

   Ch. 353 · 20 Stat. 582 · June 19, 1878 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act granting a pension to Levi J. Friel, late private Company K, Seventy-seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

   Ch. 354 · 20 Stat. 583 · June 19, 1878 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act granting a pension to Catharine Harris.

   Ch. 355 · 20 Stat. 583 · June 19, 1878 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act granting a pension to August Mellon.

   Ch. 356 · 20 Stat. 583 · June 19, 1878 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act authorizing a settlement of the claim of the estate of the late Rear-Admiral John A Dahlgren

   Ch. 357 · 20 Stat. 583 · June 19, 1878 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act for the removal of the political disabilities of William A. Carswell, of Georgia.

   Ch. 358 · 20 Stat. 584 · June 19, 1878 · Private law · Original text

7. An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 359 · 20 Stat. 206 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

8. An act in relation to the Venezuelan Mixed Commission

   Ch. 360 · 20 Stat. 241 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

9. An act to appoint a commission to ascertain the cost of removing the Naval Observatory

   Ch. 361 · 20 Stat. 241 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

10. An act creating the Utah and Northern Railway Company, a corporation in the Territories of Utah, Idaho, and Montana, and granting the right of way to said company through the public lands

    Ch. 362 · 20 Stat. 241 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

11. An act granting condemned bronze cannon to the soldiers Union of West Virginia.

    Ch. 363 · 20 Stat. 242 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

12. An act to authorize the sale of the small-arms now in use in the naval service, and the conversion of the proceeds of such sale, in the purchase of arms similar in caliber to the arms now in use by the United States Army.

    Ch. 364 · 20 Stat. 242 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

13. An act to construct a road to the national cemetery at Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Ch. 365 · 20 Stat. 242 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

14. An act to amend section twenty-five hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, making Gardiner and Richmond, in Maine, ports of entry.

    Ch. 366 · 20 Stat. 243 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

15. An act relating to claim agents and attorneys in pension cases

    Ch. 367 · 20 Stat. 243 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

16. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to turn over to the Governor of West Virginia such tents, poles, and pine as he may require for the use of the militia and volunteer organizations of the State at their summer and fall encampment.

    Resolution 41 · 20 Stat. 256 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

17. Joint resolution to amend the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, and for other purposes.”

    Resolution 42 · 20 Stat. 256 · June 20, 1878 · Original text

18. An Act for the relief of George H. Giddings.

    Ch. 368 · 20 Stat. 584 · June 20, 1878 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act to authorize Spencer F. Baird, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to receive from the King of Sweden a diploma and medal, constituting him a member of the Norwegian Order of Saint Olaf, the same being a literary and scientific organization.

    Ch. 369 · 20 Stat. 584 · June 20, 1878 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act granting a pension to Mary McNamara.

    Ch. 370 · 20 Stat. 585 · June 20, 1878 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act for the relief of the families of the men who perished on the United States dredge-boat McAlister.

    Ch. 371 · 20 Stat. 585 · June 20, 1878 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act granting a pension to Aaron H. Miller.

    Ch. 372 · 20 Stat. 585 · June 20, 1878 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act granting a pension to George Denney.

    Ch. 373 · 20 Stat. 585 · June 20, 1878 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act granting a pension to Abram V. Miller, late a lieutenant in Company E, of the One hundred and eighty-fourth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers.

    Ch. 1 · 20 Stat. 589 · December 10, 1878 · Private law · Original text

25. An act establishing the rank of the senior inspector-general.

    Ch. 2 · 20 Stat. 257 · December 12, 1878 · Original text

26. An act for the relief of William Gibson

    Ch. 3 · 20 Stat. 257 · December 12, 1878 · Original text

27. An act to aid in the protection of the public buildings and property against loss and damage by fire

    Ch. 4 · 20 Stat. 257 · December 13, 1878 · Original text

28. An act to correct an error of enrollment in bill making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 5 · 20 Stat. 258 · December 16, 1878 · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of Andrew Muckle

    Ch. 6 · 20 Stat. 589 · December 18, 1878 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act to authorize the issue of certain duplicate registered bonds for the benefit of the Manhattan Savings Institution.

    Ch. 7 · 20 Stat. 589 · December 19, 1878 · Private law · Original text

31. An act authorizing the donation of twenty condemned bronze cannon to aid in the erection of a monument to the memory of General George A. Custer, at tile Military Academy at West Point.

    Ch. 8 · 20 Stat. 259 · December 21, 1878 · Original text

32. An act changing the time of holding the terms of the United States Circuit Court for the district of West Virginia.

    Ch. 9 · 20 Stat. 259 · December 21, 1878 · Original text

33. An act to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for transportation of mails by railroads for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.

    Ch. 10 · 20 Stat. 259 · December 21, 1878 · Original text

34. Joint resolution providing for the distribution of the Revised Statutes of the United States to the Post Office Department.

    Resolution 1 · 20 Stat. 487 · December 21, 1878 · Original text

35. Joint resolution making an appropriation for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses incurred in investigating the origin and causes of Epidemic Diseases in the United States.

    Resolution 2 · 20 Stat. 487 · December 21, 1878 · Original text

36. Joint resolution extending time for Joint Committee on transfer of Indian Bureau to report.

    Resolution 3 · 20 Stat. 487 · December 21, 1878 · Original text

37. An act to amend an act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and to fix the rate of interest on bonds authorized by said act to be issued by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and for other purposes.

    Ch. 11 · 20 Stat. 259 · December 23, 1878 · Original text

38. An act to authorize the proper accounting-officer of the Treasury to audit and pay the claim of the State of Tennessee for keeping United States military prisoners.

    Ch. 12 · 20 Stat. 260 · January 13, 1879 · Original text

39. An Act for the relief of James W. Richard and J. S. Brown and Brother, of Denver, Colorado.

    Ch. 13 · 20 Stat. 590 · January 13, 1879 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Manning M. Kimmell, late of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.

    Ch. 14 · 20 Stat. 590 · January 13, 1879 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of Columbus F. Perry and Elizabeth H. Gilmer of Chambers County, Alabama.

    Ch. 15 · 20 Stat. 591 · January 13, 1879 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of George Williams deceased.

    Ch. 16 · 20 Stat. 591 · January 13, 1879 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act for the relief of William S. Morris, William S. Mann, Charles A. Oakman, George W. Hillman, the Union Transfer Company, all of Philadelphia, the Union Transfer Company of Baltimore, Maryland, and John R. Graham, late of Philadelphia, now of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 17 · 20 Stat. 591 · January 15, 1879 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act to remove the political disabilities of James Chesnut of South Carolina.

    Ch. 18 · 20 Stat. 592 · January 17, 1879 · Private law · Original text

45. An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June-thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 19 · 20 Stat. 260 · January 20, 1879 · Original text

46. An act to divide the western district of Missouri into two divisions, and to prescribe the times and places for holding courts therein, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 20 · 20 Stat. 263 · January 21, 1879 · Original text

47. An act authorizing the Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution to appoint an Acting Secretary in certain cases.

    Ch. 21 · 20 Stat. 264 · January 24, 1879 · Original text

48. An act for the protection of dairymen, and to prevent deception in sales of butter and cheese in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 22 · 20 Stat. 264 · January 25, 1879 · Original text

49. An act to provide that all pensions on account of death, or wounds received, or disease contracted in the service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion, which have been granted, or which shall hereafter be granted, shall commence from the date of death or discharge from the service of the United States; for the payment of arrears of pensions, and other purposes.

    Ch. 23 · 20 Stat. 265 · January 25, 1879 · Original text

50. An act to facilitate the refunding the national debt.

    Ch. 24 · 20 Stat. 265 · January 25, 1879 · Original text

51. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to examine the evidence of payments made by the State of Missouri since April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to the officers and privates of the militia forces of said State, for military services actually performed in the suppression of the rebellion, in full concert and cooperation with the authorities of the United States, and subject to their orders, and to make report thereof to Congress.

    Ch. 25 · 20 Stat. 266 · January 27, 1879 · Original text

52. 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 eighty.

    Ch. 26 · 20 Stat. 266 · January 27, 1879 · Original text

53. An act to amend an act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes”, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

    Ch. 27 · 20 Stat. 267 · January 27, 1879 · Original text

54. An act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 28 · 20 Stat. 267 · January 27, 1879 · Original text

55. An Act for the relief of William M. Kendall.

    Ch. 29 · 20 Stat. 592 · January 27, 1879 · Private law · Original text

56. An act defining the manner in which certain land-scrip may be assigned and located, or applied by actual settlers, and providing for the issue of patents in the name of the locator or his legal representatives

    Ch. 30 · 20 Stat. 274 · January 28, 1879 · Original text

57. An Act to confirm a certain private land-claim in the Territory of New Mexico.

    Ch. 31 · 20 Stat. 592 · January 28, 1879 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act for the adjudication of title to lands claimed by Jose Apis and Pablo Apis in the State of California.

    Ch. 32 · 20 Stat. 593 · January 28, 1879 · Private law · Original text

59. An act making appropriations to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of section two hundred and fifty-four of the Revised Statutes, and to appropriate forty thousand dollars for the miscellaneous expenses of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 33 · 20 Stat. 275 · January 29, 1879 · Original text

60. An act to repeal section twelve hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes relating to company cooks in the Army.

    Ch. 34 · 20 Stat. 276 · January 29, 1879 · Original text

61. An act authorizing the appointment of Doctor Junius L. Powell an assistant surgeon in the United States Army.

    Ch. 35 · 20 Stat. 276 · January 29, 1879 · Original text

62. An act subjecting the Fort Wayne military reservation in the State of Arkansas to entry as other public lands in said State.

    Ch. 36 · 20 Stat. 276 · January 30, 1879 · Original text

63. An act relating to the National Road in the State of Maryland, and to give consent of the United States to a certain act of the general assembly of Maryland in relation to said road.

    Ch. 37 · 20 Stat. 277 · January 30, 1879 · Original text

64. An act to amend section nine hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States for the District of Columbia, so as to make the twenty-second day of February a holiday within said District.

    Ch. 38 · 20 Stat. 277 · January 31, 1879 · Original text

65. An act to amend the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the records and files of district and circuit courts of the United States lost or destroyed.

    Ch. 39 · 20 Stat. 277 · January 31, 1879 · Original text

66. Joint Resolution providing for transportation by the military authorities of John J. Manuel and two infant daughters from Camp Howard, Idaho Territory, to Saint Charles, Missouri.

    Public Resolution 4 · 20 Stat. 669 · January 31, 1879 · Private law · Original text

67. An act to provide for taking testimony, to be used before Congress, in cases of private claims against the United States.

    Ch. 40 · 20 Stat. 278 · February 3, 1879 · Original text

68. An act to disapprove and annul an act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, passed on the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, by a two-thirds vote of both houses over the veto of the governor of said Territory.

    Ch. 41 · 20 Stat. 280 · February 3, 1879 · Original text

69. An act to amend section five thousand four hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes relating to embezzlement by officers of the United States.

    Ch. 42 · 20 Stat. 280 · February 3, 1879 · Original text

70. An act to extend the jurisdiction of the district and circuit courts of the United States for the southern district of Florida.

    Ch. 43 · 20 Stat. 280 · February 3, 1879 · Original text

71. An act authorizing the Secretary of War to erect headstones over the graves of Union soldiers who have been interred in private, village, or city cemeteries.

    Ch. 44 · 20 Stat. 281 · February 3, 1879 · Original text

72. An act to amend section thirty-eight hundred and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to deficiency in postmasters accounts.

    Ch. 45 · 20 Stat. 281 · February 4, 1879 · Original text

73. An act making an appropriation for the purchase of a site, and for the erection thereon of a military post, at El Paso, Texas.

    Ch. 46 · 20 Stat. 281 · February 4, 1879 · Original text

74. An act for the relief of the Domestic and Indian Missions and Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention

    Ch. 47 · 20 Stat. 282 · February 4, 1879 · Original text

75. An act to create an additional land-district in the Territory of Idaho

    Ch. 48 · 20 Stat. 282 · February 4, 1879 · Original text

76. Joint resolution for the relief of Bushrod B. Taylor and other naval officers.

    Resolution 5 · 20 Stat. 487 · February 5, 1879 · Original text

77. An act declaratory of the law relating to descents and inheritance in the District of Columbia in certain cases.

    Ch. 49 · 20 Stat. 282 · February 6, 1879 · Original text

78. An act relating to tax-sales and taxes in the District of Columbia

    Ch. 50 · 20 Stat. 283 · February 6, 1879 · Original text

79. An Act for the relief of Jesse Turner and others, sureties upon the officia bond of George W. Clarke, formerly Indian agent.

    Ch. 51 · 20 Stat. 593 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act granting a pension to James B. Treadwell, major of the Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

    Ch. 52 · 20 Stat. 594 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act for the relief of Andrew F. Higgins, of Brown County, Ohio.

    Ch. 53 · 20 Stat. 594 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act granting a pension to William R. Browne.

    Ch. 54 · 20 Stat. 594 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act granting a pension to Miles L. Reed, of Newcastle, Indiana.

    Ch. 55 · 20 Stat. 594 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to place upon the pension-roll the name of John Ward, late sergeant of Company K, Second Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry.

    Ch. 56 · 20 Stat. 594 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act granting a pension to Mrs Eliza Bayard Anderson, widow of General Robert Anderson, United States Army.

    Ch. 57 · 20 Stat. 594 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act granting a pension to Andrew J. Morrison.

    Ch. 58 · 20 Stat. 595 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act granting a pension to William Denene.

    Ch. 59 · 20 Stat. 595 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act granting a pension to Lydia A. Morris.

    Ch. 60 · 20 Stat. 595 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act granting a pension to Mary Frazee.

    Ch. 61 · 20 Stat. 595 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Eliza H. Frailey.

    Ch. 62 · 20 Stat. 595 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act granting a pension to H. Louise Gates.

    Ch. 63 · 20 Stat. 596 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act granting a pension to Belinda Macdonald.

    Ch. 64 · 20 Stat. 596 · February 7, 1879 · Private law · Original text

93. An act authorizing the Windham National Bank to change its location.

    Ch. 65 · 20 Stat. 283 · February 10, 1879 · Original text

94. 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 6 · 20 Stat. 488 · February 10, 1879 · Original text

95. Joint Resolution to allow Lieutenant D. F. Tozier a gold medal awarded by the President of the French Republic.

    Public Resolution 7 · 20 Stat. 669 · February 10, 1879 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act for the relief of Burr S. Craft

    Ch. 66 · 20 Stat. 596 · February 13, 1879 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act for the relief of Jane Clark, Margaret A. Jack, Justina Peterson, and Mary Johanson.

    Ch. 67 · 20 Stat. 596 · February 13, 1879 · Private law · Original text

98. An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 68 · 20 Stat. 284 · February 14, 1879 · Original text

99. An Act to remove the political disabilities of C. H. Kennedy, of Virginia.

    Ch. 69 · 20 Stat. 597 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act to remove the political disabilities of D. M. W. Nash, of Virginia.

     Ch. 70 · 20 Stat. 597 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text