Every law Congress has passed

650 laws of the 46th Congress, 1879–1881

1. An Act for the relief of Doddridge and Davis.

   Ch. 7 · 21 Stat. 532 · January 16, 1880 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act to establish a land-district in the Territory of Dakota, and locating the office at Grand Forks.

   Ch. 8 · 21 Stat. 60 · January 21, 1880 · Original text

3. An Act to amend sections twenty-three hundred and twenty-four and twenty-three hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States concerning mineral lands.

   Ch. 9 · 21 Stat. 61 · January 22, 1880 · Original text

4. An Act directing the removal of obstructions from the harbor at the Delaware Breakwater.

   Ch. 10 · 21 Stat. 61 · January 23, 1880 · Original text

5. Joint resolution to correct an error in the act “making appropriations for sundry-civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.”

   Public Resolution 6 · 21 Stat. 300 · January 23, 1880 · Original text

6. An Act for the relief of Thomas Langton, of Dundee, Michigan.

   Ch. 11 · 21 Stat. 533 · January 23, 1880 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act granting a right of way across Water Shops Pond in Springfield, Massachusetts, to the Springfield and New London Railroad Company.

   Ch. 12 · 21 Stat. 61 · January 24, 1880 · Original text

8. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint a deputy-collector at Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 13 · 21 Stat. 62 · January 24, 1880 · Original text

9. An Act to authorize the importation of articles for exhibition at the Millers' International Exhibition to be held at Cincinnati in eighteen hundred and eighty, free of duty.

   Ch. 14 · 21 Stat. 62 · January 24, 1880 · Original text

10. An Act to authorize the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York to waive enforcement of section thirty-four hundred and seventy-seven of the Revised Statutes so far as the same affects certain drafts upon him now held by the Masonic Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 15 · 21 Stat. 533 · January 24, 1880 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act amending the charter of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 16 · 21 Stat. 62 · January 28, 1880 · Original text

12. Joint resolution authorizing certain printing for the Land Commission

    Public Resolution 7 · 21 Stat. 300 · January 28, 1880 · Original text

13. An Act to provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Macon, Georgia, and to transfer certain counties from the northern to the southern district in said State.

    Ch. 17 · 21 Stat. 62 · January 29, 1880 · Original text

14. An Act to provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Columbus, Ohio, and transferring certain counties from the northern to the southern district in said State.

    Ch. 18 · 21 Stat. 63 · February 4, 1880 · Original text

15. An Act to locate and purchase a new site for the United States Naval Observatory.

    Ch. 19 · 21 Stat. 64 · February 4, 1880 · Original text

16. 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.

    Public Resolution 8 · 21 Stat. 300 · February 4, 1880 · Original text

17. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to expend a sum of money heretofore appropriated for the erection of a storehouse and depot building at the city of Omaha, in t he State of Nebraska.

    Public Resolution 9 · 21 Stat. 301 · February 5, 1880 · Original text

18. An Act for the relief of Thomas Kearney.

    Ch. 20 · 21 Stat. 533 · February 7, 1880 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act for the erection of a public building at Danville, Virginia.

    Ch. 21 · 21 Stat. 65 · February 11, 1880 · Original text

20. An Act to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for contingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives

    Ch. 22 · 21 Stat. 65 · February 11, 1880 · Original text

21. Joint resolution for printing the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac

    Public Resolution 10 · 21 Stat. 301 · February 11, 1880 · Original text

22. An Act for the relief of Michael Granery, Nicholas Wax, and Moliere Lange.

    Ch. 23 · 21 Stat. 534 · February 11, 1880 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act for the relief of Captain J. B. Campbell.

    Ch. 24 · 21 Stat. 534 · February 11, 1880 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act authorizing the conversion of national gold banks.

    Ch. 25 · 21 Stat. 66 · February 14, 1880 · Original text

25. Joint resolution concerning an international fishery exhibition to be held in Berlin, Germany, in April, eighteen hundred and eighty.

    Public Resolution 11 · 21 Stat. 301 · February 16, 1880 · Original text

26. An Act granting an increase of pension to Samuel B. Davis.

    Ch. 26 · 21 Stat. 534 · February 16, 1880 · Private law · Original text

27. Joint resolution to print the eulogies delivered in the two houses of Congress upon the late Zachariah Chandler.

    Public Resolution 12 · 21 Stat. 302 · February 17, 1880 · Original text

28. An Act making appropriation for the removal of the remains of the late Major General George Sykes, United States Army, from Fort Brown, Texas, to West Point, New York.

    Ch. 27 · 21 Stat. 534 · February 17, 1880 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of Henry Page.

    Ch. 28 · 21 Stat. 535 · February 18, 1880 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act for the relief of Gibbes and Company, of Charleston, South Carolina.

    Ch. 29 · 21 Stat. 535 · February 20, 1880 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint a deputy-collector at Lake Charles, Louisiana.

    Ch. 30 · 21 Stat. 66 · February 24, 1880 · Original text

32. An Act for the relief of J. P. Zimmerman and H. P. Snow, of Clinton County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 31 · 21 Stat. 535 · February 24, 1880 · Private law · Original text

33. Joint resolution for printing the eulogies delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives upon Honorable Rusli Clark, deceased.

    Public Resolution 13 · 21 Stat. 302 · February 25, 1880 · Original text

34. Joint resolution making appropriations for the Reform School of the district of Columbia.

    Public Resolution 25 · 21 Stat. 302 · February 25, 1880 · Original text

35. Joint resolution for the relief of M. M. Herr, and to pay three messengers of the Senate.

    Public Resolution 15 · 21 Stat. 303 · February 25, 1880 · Original text

36. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to transport contributions for the relief of the suffering poor of Ireland.

    Public Resolution 16 · 21 Stat. 303 · February 25, 1880 · Original text

37. An Act authorizing the remission or refunding of duty on an altar from Rome, Italy, for the Saint John's Cathedral of Indianapolis, Indiana.

    Ch. 32 · 21 Stat. 535 · March 1, 1880 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act for the relief of colored emigrants.

    Ch. 33 · 21 Stat. 66 · March 5, 1880 · Original text

39. An Act to provide for the purchase of a site for a Post Office and other government buildings in the city of Baltimore, Maryland.

    Ch. 34 · 21 Stat. 66 · March 5, 1880 · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of the administrator of John D. McGill.

    Ch. 35 · 21 Stat. 536 · March 5, 1880 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act making additional appropriations for the support of certain Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty.

    Ch. 36 · 21 Stat. 67 · March 10, 1880 · Original text

42. An Act to amend section three thousand and twenty of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 37 · 21 Stat. 67 · March 10, 1880 · Original text

43. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of War to employ additional clerks for the balance of this fiscal year to expedite the settlement of pension applications, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 38 · 21 Stat. 67 · March 16, 1880 · Original text

44. An Act for the relief of certain actual settlers on the Kansas trust and diminished reserve lands in the State of Kansas.

    Ch. 39 · 21 Stat. 68 · March 16, 1880 · Original text

45. An Act to restore to the public domain the military reservation known as the Fort Ripley Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 40 · 21 Stat. 69 · April 1, 1880 · Original text

46. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to deposit certain funds in the United States Treasury in lieu of investment.

    Ch. 41 · 21 Stat. 70 · April 1, 1880 · Original text

47. An Act to authorize and direct the Commissioner of Agriculture to attend, in person or by deputy, the international sheep and wool show, to be held in the Centennial buildings, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, in September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty, and to make a full and complete report of the same, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 42 · 21 Stat. 70 · April 1, 1880 · Original text

48. An Act appropriating money to provide for the public printing

    Ch. 43 · 21 Stat. 70 · April 1, 1880 · Original text

49. Joint resolution to authorize the printing of thirteen thousand copies of the Report on Sheep Husbandry.

    Public Resolution 17 · 21 Stat. 303 · April 1, 1880 · Original text

50. An Act for the relief of William McGovern.

    Ch. 44 · 21 Stat. 536 · April 1, 1880 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act for the relief of Nelson Lyon and Jeremiah S. James.

    Ch. 45 · 21 Stat. 536 · April 1, 1880 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act for the relief of L. H. Hershfield and Brother.

    Ch. 46 · 21 Stat. 536 · April 1, 1880 · Private law · Original text

53. Joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Navy to organize a Board to inquire into the present condition of the double turroted monitors, and the propriety and cost of completing said vessels.

    Public Resolution 18 · 21 Stat. 303 · April 2, 1880 · Original text

54. An Act for protection of the Potomac fisheries in the District of Columbia and for the preservation of shad and herring in the Potomac River.

    Ch. 47 · 21 Stat. 71 · April 6, 1880 · Original text

55. An Act to provide for a deficiency in the appropriations for the transportation of the mails on Star routes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 48 · 21 Stat. 71 · April 7, 1880 · Original text

56. An Act giving the consent of Congress to an agreement or compact entered into between the States of New York and Vermont respecting the boundary between said States.

    Ch. 49 · 21 Stat. 72 · April 7, 1880 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to lend United States flags to Centennial Commissioners at Nashville, Tennessee.

    Private Resolution 19 · 21 Stat. 593 · April 7, 1880 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act to provide for a building suitable for a post-office, for the accommodation of the revenue officers, and the United States courts and their officers, in the city of Charleston, West Virginia.

    Ch. 50 · 21 Stat. 73 · April 9, 1880 · Original text

59. An Act to provide for the construction of a public building at the city of Paducah, State of Kentucky.

    Ch. 51 · 21 Stat. 73 · April 14, 1880 · Original text

60. An Act making appropriations for acquiring sites and the erection of suitable posts for the protection of the Rio Grande frontier.

    Ch. 52 · 21 Stat. 73 · April 16, 1880 · Original text

61. An Act donating six condemned cannon and cannon-balls to Post Number Sixty-six, Grand Army of the Republic, of Muncy, Pennsylvania, for monumental purposes.

    Ch. 53 · 21 Stat. 74 · April 16, 1880 · Original text

62. An Act to donate twelve condemned bronze cannon to the Blair Monument Association of Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 54 · 21 Stat. 74 · April 16, 1880 · Original text

63. An Act to change the name of the steamer “J. H. Kelly” to “John Thorn”

    Ch. 55 · 21 Stat. 74 · April 16, 1880 · Original text

64. An Act relating to justices of the peace in the Territories.

    Ch. 56 · 21 Stat. 74 · April 16, 1880 · Original text

65. Joint resolution providing for payment, of wages to employees in the Government Printing Office for legal holidays.

    Public Resolution 22 · 21 Stat. 304 · April 16, 1880 · Original text

66. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents, flags, and so forth, to the triennial committee of Knights Templar at Chicago.

    Private Resolution 20 · 21 Stat. 593 · April 16, 1880 · Private law · Original text

67. Joint Resolution granting the use of artillery, tents, and so forth, at the soldiers reunion to be held at Central City Nebraska.

    Private Resolution 21 · 21 Stat. 593 · April 16, 1880 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses", approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.

    Ch. 57 · 21 Stat. 75 · April 20, 1880 · Original text

69. An Act to provide for the establishing of terms of court in the district of Colorado.

    Ch. 58 · 21 Stat. 76 · April 20, 1880 · Original text

70. Joint resolution authorizing the printing and binding of additional copies of the Report of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army.

    Public Resolution 23 · 21 Stat. 304 · April 22, 1880 · Original text

71. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Roger A. Pryor, of New York.

    Ch. 59 · 21 Stat. 537 · April 22, 1880 · Private law · Original text

72. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents, flags, and camp equipage for the use of the soldiers' reunion to be hold at Milwaukee in the State of Wisconsin in June eighteen hundred and eighty.

    Private Resolution 24 · 21 Stat. 594 · April 22, 1880 · Private law · Original text

73. Joint Resolution authorizing tents to be loaned to the Governor of Missour for the use of sufferers by the recent tornado in that State.

    Private Resolution 27 · 21 Stat. 594 · April 22, 1880 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the treaty of peace and the recognition of American Independence by holding an international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and the products of the soil and mine, in the city of New York, in the State of New York, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three.

    Ch. 60 · 21 Stat. 77 · April 23, 1880 · Original text

75. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act for the removal of certain Indians in New Mexico”, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

    Ch. 61 · 21 Stat. 81 · April 23, 1880 · Original text

76. An Act granting a pension to Melissa Wagner.

    Ch. 62 · 21 Stat. 537 · April 23, 1880 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act to increase the pension of Captain Samuel C. Schoyer.

    Ch. 63 · 21 Stat. 537 · April 23, 1880 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act granting an increase of pension to James M. Boreland.

    Ch. 64 · 21 Stat. 537 · April 23, 1880 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act granting a pension to Patsy Davenport.

    Ch. 65 · 21 Stat. 538 · April 23, 1880 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act granting a pension to Abram F. Farrar.

    Ch. 66 · 21 Stat. 538 · April 23, 1880 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to repair and extend the public building owned by the government at Cleveland Ohio.

    Ch. 67 · 21 Stat. 81 · April 24, 1880 · Original text

82. Joint resolution legalizing the health ordinances and regulations for the District of Columbia.

    Public Resolution 25 · 21 Stat. 304 · April 24, 1880 · Original text

83. An Act for the relief of the owner of the bark Grapeshot.

    Ch. 68 · 21 Stat. 538 · April 24, 1880 · Private law · Original text

84. Joint resolution accepting the gift of the desk used by Thomas Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence.

    Public Resolution 26 · 21 Stat. 305 · April 28, 1880 · Original text

85. Joint resolution to print the eulogies delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives upon the late George S Houston, a Senator from the State of Alabama.

    Public Resolution 28 · 21 Stat. 305 · April 29, 1880 · Original text

86. An Act granting a pension to Esther E. Lieurance.

    Ch. 69 · 21 Stat. 538 · April 29, 1880 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act granting a pension to Ellen W. P. Carter.

    Ch. 70 · 21 Stat. 538 · April 29, 1880 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act for the establishment of a land-office in the Territory of Montana.

    Ch. 71 · 21 Stat. 81 · April 30, 1880 · Original text

89. An act to authorize and equip an expedition to the Arctic Seas.

    Ch. 72 · 21 Stat. 82 · May 1, 1880 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution authorizing tents to be loaned to the Governor of Missour for the use of sufferers by the recent tornado in that State.

    Private Resolution 29 · 21 Stat. 594 · May 1, 1880 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 73 · 21 Stat. 82 · May 3, 1880 · Original text

92. An act to establish post-routes.

    Ch. 74 · 21 Stat. 90 · May 3, 1880 · Original text

93. An act to change the name of the steam pleasure-yacht W. J. Gordon to Salmo.

    Ch. 75 · 21 Stat. 108 · May 3, 1880 · Original text

94. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the name of the steamboat “Minnie R. Child”, of New York.

    Ch. 76 · 21 Stat. 108 · May 3, 1880 · Original text

95. An act to provide for the construction of a marine hospital in the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

    Ch. 77 · 21 Stat. 109 · May 3, 1880 · Original text

96. An act to place William Gaines late ordnance sergeant United States Army on the retired list.

    Ch. 78 · 21 Stat. 109 · May 3, 1880 · Original text

97. An Act for the relief of Cyrus B. Ingham, of the Territory of Dakota, Harvey Bryant and Guilford A. Wood, of Kansas, and Richard Parker, of Minnesota, James H. Pinkerton, of Colorado, and Ed. G. Wright, of Kansas.

    Ch. 79 · 21 Stat. 539 · May 3, 1880 · Private law · Original text

98. An act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 80 · 21 Stat. 109 · May 4, 1880 · Original text

99. An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 81 · 21 Stat. 110 · May 4, 1880 · Original text

100. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to send rations to the sufferers from the recent cyclone at Macon, Mississippi.

     Public Resolution 30 · 21 Stat. 306 · May 4, 1880 · Original text