Every law Congress has passed

746 laws of the 45th Congress, 1877–1879

1. An Act to remove the political disabilities of C. B. Oliver.

   Ch. 71 · 20 Stat. 597 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act to remove the political disabilities of R. L. Page, of Virginia.

   Ch. 72 · 20 Stat. 597 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act to remove the political disabilities of F. E. Shepperd of Virginia.

   Ch. 73 · 20 Stat. 597 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Jno D. Simms, of Virginia.

   Ch. 74 · 20 Stat. 598 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act to remove the political disabilities of W. B. Sinclair, of Virginia.

   Ch. 75 · 20 Stat. 598 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Charles F. M. Spottswood, of Virginia.

   Ch. 76 · 20 Stat. 598 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Henry G. Thomas, of Virginia.

   Ch. 77 · 20 Stat. 598 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act to remove the political disabilities of John T. Tucker of the District of Columbia

   Ch. 78 · 20 Stat. 598 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act to remove the political disabilities of C. H. Williamson, of New York.

   Ch. 79 · 20 Stat. 598 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act to remove the political disabilities of W. E. Wysham of Maryland.

    Ch. 80 · 20 Stat. 599 · February 14, 1879 · Private law · Original text

11. An act to relieve certain legal disabilities of women.

    Ch. 81 · 20 Stat. 292 · February 15, 1879 · Original text

12. An act to provide for holding term of the circuit and district courts in the district of Colorado.

    Ch. 82 · 20 Stat. 292 · February 15, 1879 · Original text

13. An act to abolish the Volunteer Navy of the United States.

    Ch. 83 · 20 Stat. 294 · February 15, 1879 · Original text

14. An Act for the relief of Thomas A. Walker

    Ch. 84 · 20 Stat. 599 · February 15, 1879 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act to provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain internal-revenue taxes erroneously assessed and collected from the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company.

    Ch. 85 · 20 Stat. 599 · February 15, 1879 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act for the relief of James Clift, late captain Fifth Tennessee Cavalry.

    Ch. 86 · 20 Stat. 600 · February 15, 1879 · Private law · Original text

17. An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 87 · 20 Stat. 295 · February 17, 1879 · Original text

18. An Act for the relief of John Henderson

    Ch. 88 · 20 Stat. 600 · February 17, 1879 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act granting a pension to Julia Watkins, widow of Thomas H. Watkins, late captain Company B, Purnell Legion, Maryland.

    Ch. 89 · 20 Stat. 600 · February 18, 1879 · Private law · Original text

20. An act for the payment, to the officers and soldiers of the Mexican war, of the three months’ extra pay provided for by the act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

    Ch. 90 · 20 Stat. 316 · February 19, 1879 · Original text

21. An act for the relief of Francis O. Wyse.

    Ch. 91 · 20 Stat. 316 · February 19, 1879 · Original text

22. An Act for the relief of the estate of Amos Ireland, deceased.

    Ch. 92 · 20 Stat. 600 · February 19, 1879 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act for the relief of Peasley and McClary, of Nashua, New Hampshire.

    Ch. 93 · 20 Stat. 601 · February 19, 1879 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act for the relief of Ebenezer Walker

    Ch. 94 · 20 Stat. 601 · February 19, 1879 · Private law · Original text

25. An act to fix the pay of letter-carriers.

    Ch. 95 · 20 Stat. 317 · February 21, 1879 · Original text

26. An act donating to the board of education of school district number one, Arapahoe County, Colorado, block numbered one hundred and forty-three, in the east division of the city of Denver, Colorado, for common-school purposes.

    Ch. 96 · 20 Stat. 317 · February 24, 1879 · Original text

27. An act to create the northern judicial district of the State of Texas, and to change the eastern and western judicial districts of said State, and to fix the time and places of holding courts in said districts.

    Ch. 97 · 20 Stat. 318 · February 24, 1879 · Original text

28. An Act for the relief of the Louise Home in the city of Washington District of Columbia.

    Ch. 98 · 20 Stat. 601 · February 24, 1879 · Private law · Original text

29. An act to create an additional associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and for the better administration of justice in said District

    Ch. 99 · 20 Stat. 320 · February 25, 1879 · Original text

30. An act to authorize the restoration of Michael O’Brien to the rank of first lieutenant in the Army

    Ch. 100 · 20 Stat. 321 · February 25, 1879 · Original text

31. An act directing the Secretary of War to purchase a lot of ground, situated near the city of Columbus, Ohio, now used by the United States as a cemetery.

    Ch. 101 · 20 Stat. 321 · February 25, 1879 · Original text

32. An act to authorize the issue of certificates of deposit in aid of the refunding of the public debt.

    Ch. 102 · 20 Stat. 321 · February 26, 1879 · Original text

33. An act to amend section twenty-three of the act approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An act to amend customs-revenue laws and to repeal moieties."

    Ch. 103 · 20 Stat. 322 · February 26, 1879 · Original text

34. An act relating to the Cumberland Road in the State of Ohio, and to authorize the same to become a free road.

    Ch. 104 · 20 Stat. 322 · February 26, 1879 · Original text

35. An act to promote a knowledge of steam-engineering and iron-ship building among the students of scientific schools or colleges in the United States.

    Ch. 105 · 20 Stat. 322 · February 26, 1879 · Original text

36. 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. 106 · 20 Stat. 323 · February 26, 1879 · Original text

37. An Act for the relief of the Richmond Female Institute of Richmond, Virginia.

    Ch. 107 · 20 Stat. 601 · February 26, 1879 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act to remove the disabilities of Asa Wall imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

    Ch. 108 · 20 Stat. 602 · February 26, 1879 · Private law · Original text

39. Joint Resolution making An appropriation for the benefit of the Penny Lunch House of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Public Resolution 8 · 20 Stat. 669 · February 26, 1879 · Private law · Original text

40. An act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept for the purposes of a voyage of exploration by way of Behring’s Straits, the ship Jeannette, tendered by James Gordon Bennett for that purpose.

    Ch. 109 · 20 Stat. 323 · February 27, 1879 · Original text

41. An act to provide for the settlement of tax-lien certificates erroneously issued by the late authorities of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 110 · 20 Stat. 323 · February 27, 1879 · Original text

42. Joint resolution authorizing sale of public property in Cincinnati.

    Resolution 9 · 20 Stat. 488 · February 27, 1879 · Original text

43. An Act for the relief of John A. Shaw.

    Ch. 111 · 20 Stat. 602 · February 27, 1879 · Private law · Original text

44. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain officers of the internal-revenue service the amounts due them for their services as such officers previous to the time of executing their bonds and taking the oath of office as prescribed by law.

    Public Resolution 10 · 20 Stat. 670 · February 27, 1879 · Private law · Original text

45. An act extending the limits of the port of New York.

    Ch. 112 · 20 Stat. 324 · February 28, 1879 · Original text

46. An Act for the relief of the Commercial Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee.

    Ch. 113 · 20 Stat. 602 · February 28, 1879 · Private law · Original text

47. An act for the relief of Edwin R Clarke

    Ch. 114 · 20 Stat. 324 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

48. An act for the relief of the officers and privates of the New Mexico Mounted Volunteers.

    Ch. 115 · 20 Stat. 324 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

49. An act donating condemned cannon and cannonballs to the Colchester Monument Association, of Colchester, Connecticut, for monumental purposes.

    Ch. 116 · 20 Stat. 325 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

50. An act donating condemned cannon and cannonballs to Ledyard Monument Association, of Ledyard, Connecticut, for monumental purposes.

    Ch. 117 · 20 Stat. 325 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

51. An act donating a condemned cannon and cannonballs to Post Number One hundred and forty-five, Grand Army of the Republic, district of Massachusetts.

    Ch. 118 · 20 Stat. 325 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

52. An act donating condemned cannon to Bayard Post for purposes therein mentioned.

    Ch. 119 · 20 Stat. 325 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

53. An act donating condemned cannon to the city of Boston for monumental purposes.

    Ch. 120 · 20 Stat. 325 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

54. An act releasing title to a certain cemetery lot to the city of Montgomery, Alabama.

    Ch. 121 · 20 Stat. 326 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

55. An act to place Lewis Leffman, ordnance-sergeant United States Army on the retired list

    Ch. 122 · 20 Stat. 326 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

56. An act to authorize the Secretary of War to convey to Jacob A. T. Wendell, Henry Van Allen, and John R. Bailey, a part of the military reservation of Fort Mackinac.

    Ch. 123 · 20 Stat. 326 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

57. An act relating to soldiers while in the civil service of the United States.

    Ch. 124 · 20 Stat. 327 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

58. An act to amend the laws relating to internal revenue.

    Ch. 125 · 20 Stat. 327 · March 1, 1879 · Original text

59. An Act for the relief of John W. Douglass.

    Ch. 126 · 20 Stat. 602 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act for the relief of William A. Mann.

    Ch. 127 · 20 Stat. 603 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the relief of Catharine and Sophia Germain

    Ch. 128 · 20 Stat. 603 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act for the relief of Albert U. Wyman, late Treasurer of the United States

    Ch. 129 · 20 Stat. 603 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act for the relief of William H. Carmen.

    Ch. 130 · 20 Stat. 603 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act for the relief of Leonard L. Lancaster, late sergeant Second Regiment Cavalry Wisconsin Volunteers.

    Ch. 131 · 20 Stat. 604 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act for the relief of Jenkins A. Fitzgerald, assistant surgeon United States Army.

    Ch. 132 · 20 Stat. 604 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act for the relief of Andrew Ivory

    Ch. 133 · 20 Stat. 604 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act for the relief of James D. Holman.

    Ch. 134 · 20 Stat. 604 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act for the relief of Second Lieutenant Thomas T. Knox, regimental quartermaster First Cavalry.

    Ch. 135 · 20 Stat. 605 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act granting relief to John T. Neale, an employee of the Provost-Marshal-General's Department in eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for injuries sustained in the line of his duties.

    Ch. 136 · 20 Stat. 605 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act for the relief of Josephine C. Owen, postmaster at Randolph, New York.

    Ch. 137 · 20 Stat. 605 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act for the relief of William F. Wheeler.

    Ch. 138 · 20 Stat. 605 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act granting a pension to Mary E. Pauley.

    Ch. 139 · 20 Stat. 606 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act for the relief of Ann Annis, widow of Harvey Annis, late second lieutenant Company G, Fifty-first Regiment United States Colored Infantry.

    Ch. 140 · 20 Stat. 606 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act for the relief of Henry M. Meade, late paymaster in the United States Navy.

    Ch. 141 · 20 Stat. 606 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act granting a pension to Henry Brown, late a private in Company C, One hundred and twenty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteers.

    Ch. 142 · 20 Stat. 606 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act granting a pension to Mary A. Allen.

    Ch. 143 · 20 Stat. 607 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act for the relief of Daniel C. Putnam.

    Ch. 144 · 20 Stat. 607 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act granting a pension to Nathan Udell.

    Ch. 145 · 20 Stat. 607 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act granting a pension to Elizabeth Teagarden.

    Ch. 146 · 20 Stat. 607 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act for the relief of Thomas C. Young, late private of Company F, Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry.

    Ch. 147 · 20 Stat. 607 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza A. Semple.

    Ch. 148 · 20 Stat. 607 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act to place George W. Browning on the pension-roll.

    Ch. 149 · 20 Stat. 608 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act granting a pension to Samuel B. Robertson.

    Ch. 150 · 20 Stat. 608 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act granting a pension to Catharine Brennan, widow of John Brennan, late private of Company B, Fifty-eighth Illinois Volunteers.

    Ch. 151 · 20 Stat. 608 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act for the relief of Alfred Muller, late acting assistant surgeon United States Army.

    Ch. 152 · 20 Stat. 608 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act for the relief of Henry E. Wilkinson, late first lieutenant of Company I, Ninety-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

    Ch. 153 · 20 Stat. 608 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act granting a pension to Henry Grossmann, late a private in Company G, of the One hundred and fifty-fourth Regiment of Illinois Infantry Volunteers.

    Ch. 154 · 20 Stat. 609 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act for the relief of Thomas W. Segar.

    Ch. 155 · 20 Stat. 609 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act for the relief of Lucinda C. Dillahunty, of Tennessee.

    Ch. 156 · 20 Stat. 609 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act granting a pension to Georgine Thomas, widow of General Charles Thomas, deceased.

    Ch. 157 · 20 Stat. 609 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act granting a pension to Hannah Hallam

    Ch. 158 · 20 Stat. 609 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act granting a pension to James Riley, late private in Company D, Fourth Regiment United States Infantry.

    Ch. 159 · 20 Stat. 610 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act granting a pension to James Buchanan.

    Ch. 160 · 20 Stat. 610 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act granting a pension to Cynthia Spradlin.

    Ch. 161 · 20 Stat. 610 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act granting a pension to Philip Thoen.

    Ch. 162 · 20 Stat. 610 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act granting a pension to Helen Crabbe.

    Ch. 163 · 20 Stat. 610 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act granting a pension to George W. Staplin.

    Ch. 164 · 20 Stat. 610 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act granting a pension to Catharine Gemmill and children.

    Ch. 165 · 20 Stat. 611 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act granting a pension to James Mahew, late private in the Twenty-third Battery of Indiana Volunteers.

    Ch. 166 · 20 Stat. 611 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act granting a pension to Peter Yarnell, late a private in Company D, Twelfth West Virginia Volunteers.

     Ch. 167 · 20 Stat. 611 · March 1, 1879 · Private law · Original text