Every law Congress has passed

650 laws of the 46th Congress, 1879–1881

1. An act to complete the survey of the Gettysburg battle-field, and to provide for the compilation and preservation of data showing the various positions and movements of troops at that battle, illustrated by diagrams.

   Ch. 165 · 21 Stat. 170 · June 9, 1880 · Original text

2. An act to restore pensions in certain cases.

   Ch. 166 · 21 Stat. 170 · June 9, 1880 · Original text

3. An act providing for the transportation of the mails between East Saint Louis, in the State of Illinois, and Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri.

   Ch. 167 · 21 Stat. 170 · June 9, 1880 · Original text

4. An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an American register to the bark Annie Johnson.

   Ch. 168 · 21 Stat. 170 · June 9, 1880 · Original text

5. An act to grant to the corporate authorities of the city of Council Bluffs, in the State of Iowa, for public uses, a certain lake or bayou situated near said city.

   Ch. 169 · 21 Stat. 171 · June 9, 1880 · Original text

6. An act to authorize a compromise of the claims of the United States under the will of Joseph L. Lewis.

   Ch. 170 · 21 Stat. 171 · June 9, 1880 · Original text

7. An act to confirm certain entries and warrant locations in the former Palatka military reservation in Florida.

   Ch. 171 · 21 Stat. 171 · June 9, 1880 · Original text

8. An Act granting a pension to Herman Netterfield.

   Ch. 172 · 21 Stat. 550 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act for the relief of Emma G. Nelson, executrix, and Aaron H. Nelson, executor, of the estate of W. F. Nelson, deceased.

   Ch. 173 · 21 Stat. 551 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act for the relief of Priscilla Watson.

    Ch. 174 · 21 Stat. 551 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act to remove the political disabilities of C. Manigault Morris, of Georgia.

    Ch. 175 · 21 Stat. 551 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act granting a pension to Eli Cooprider.

    Ch. 176 · 21 Stat. 551 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act authorizing the closing of the accounts of the late Rear-Admiral A. H. Foote, United States Navy.

    Ch. 177 · 21 Stat. 551 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act for the relief of certain settlers within the late Fort Kearney military reservation in Nebraska.

    Ch. 178 · 21 Stat. 552 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act to authorize the Roman Catholic bishops in California to sell certain church lands.

    Ch. 179 · 21 Stat. 552 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act granting an increase of pension to Horace Boughton

    Ch. 180 · 21 Stat. 553 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act to reimburse Charles Dougherty for his expenses to the consulate of Londonderry.

    Ch. 181 · 21 Stat. 553 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act for the relief of George Eyster.

    Ch. 182 · 21 Stat. 553 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act granting an increase of pension to John H. Black.

    Ch. 183 · 21 Stat. 553 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act for the relief of Rev Paul E. Gillen

    Ch. 184 · 21 Stat. 553 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act to remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Jerry Foley.

    Ch. 185 · 21 Stat. 554 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

22. Joint Resolution to authorize the loaning of certain tents and artillery to the Union Veteran Corps, composed of ex-Union soldiers, for the purposes of a reunion to be held at Wichita, Kansas, in the month of October, eighteen hundred and eighty.

    Private Resolution 47 · 21 Stat. 597 · June 9, 1880 · Private law · Original text

23. An act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to introduce cotton cordage into the naval service of the United States.

    Ch. 186 · 21 Stat. 172 · June 10, 1880 · Original text

24. An act abolishing the military reservations of Fort Abercrombie, Fort Seward, and Fort Ransom, all in the Territory of Dakota, and authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to have the lands embraced therein surveyed and made subject to homestead and pre-emption entry and sale, the same as other public lands.

    Ch. 187 · 21 Stat. 172 · June 10, 1880 · Original text

25. An act to change the name of the schooner “J. H. Dusenberry.

    Ch. 188 · 21 Stat. 172 · June 10, 1880 · Original text

26. An Act to regulate the compensation of night inspectors of customs.

    Ch. 189 · 21 Stat. 173 · June 10, 1880 · Original text

27. An Act to amend the Statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 190 · 21 Stat. 173 · June 10, 1880 · Original text

28. An Act for the relief of Thomas Lucas.

    Ch. 191 · 21 Stat. 554 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of L. C. Cantwell.

    Ch. 192 · 21 Stat. 554 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act granting an increase of pension to Harrietta M. Davis.

    Ch. 193 · 21 Stat. 554 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act granting a pension to Peter Claesgens.

    Ch. 194 · 21 Stat. 555 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act granting a pension to Aaron Hatcher.

    Ch. 195 · 21 Stat. 555 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act to refund to Jackson Grubb or his legal representative internal revenue tax wrongfully collected

    Ch. 196 · 21 Stat. 555 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act refunding to the University of Notre Dame du Lac, of Saint Joseph County, in the State of Indiana, the sum of two thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and seven cents, that being the amount paid on certain imported articles and so forth.

    Ch. 197 · 21 Stat. 555 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act for the relief of William D. Oyler.

    Ch. 198 · 21 Stat. 556 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act to remove the political disabilities of William Sharp of Virginia.

    Ch. 199 · 21 Stat. 556 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Abner Smead of Oregon.

    Ch. 200 · 21 Stat. 556 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act to remove the political disabilities of John M. Brooke, of Virginia.

    Ch. 201 · 21 Stat. 557 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Walter R. Butt, of California.

    Ch. 202 · 21 Stat. 557 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

40. Joint Resolution authorizing the remission or refunding of duty on a stained-glass window from Munich, Germany, for All Saints’ Church, in Saint Michaels Parish, in Talbot County, Maryland.

    Private Resolution 49 · 21 Stat. 597 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

41. Joint Resolution for the relief of Robert L. Martin.

    Private Resolution 50 · 21 Stat. 598 · June 10, 1880 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act to establish a district and circuit court at Chattanooga Tennessee, and to add the county of Grundy to the eastern district of Tennessee.

    Ch. 203 · 21 Stat. 175 · June 11, 1880 · Original text

43. An Act authorizing the City National Bank, of Manchester, New Hampshire, to change its name.

    Ch. 204 · 21 Stat. 176 · June 11, 1880 · Original text

44. An Act authorizing the President of the United States to nominate Doctors Thomas Owens and William Martin, assistant surgeons United States Navy.

    Ch. 205 · 21 Stat. 176 · June 11, 1880 · Original text

45. An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 206 · 21 Stat. 177 · June 11, 1880 · Original text

46. Joint resolution providing for the printing of the Reports of the Commissioner of Education for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.

    Public Resolution 51 · 21 Stat. 309 · June 11, 1880 · Original text

47. An Act to change the name of the steam-yacht “ Kate Sutton, of Buffalo”, to that of “Loraine, of Oak Orchard”.

    Ch. 207 · 21 Stat. 179 · June 14, 1880 · Original text

48. An Act to change the name of the steam-yacht “E. R. Bryant”, of Rochester to “Summerland”

    Ch. 208 · 21 Stat. 179 · June 14, 1880 · Original text

49. An Act to change the name of the sloop-yacht “Mariah”, of Rochester, New York, to that of “Tourist”.

    Ch. 209 · 21 Stat. 180 · June 14, 1880 · Original text

50. An Act authorizing the changing the name of the sloop-yacht America.

    Ch. 210 · 21 Stat. 180 · June 14, 1880 · Original text

51. An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, completion, and preservation of certain works on rivers and liarbers, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 211 · 21 Stat. 180 · June 14, 1880 · Original text

52. An Act to change the name of yacht Niantic to that of Hildegarde.

    Ch. 212 · 21 Stat. 197 · June 14, 1880 · Original text

53. An Act to amend an act entitled “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 lix the time and places of holding courts in said districts ”, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.

    Ch. 213 · 21 Stat. 198 · June 14, 1880 · Original text

54. An Act to amend an act entitled “An Act to amend the Statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 214 · 21 Stat. 198 · June 14, 1880 · Original text

55. Joint resolution for the relief of certain persons in respect of duties demanded of them upon the import of certain articles named therein.

    Public Resolution 52 · 21 Stat. 309 · June 14, 1880 · Original text

56. An Act authorizing the Treasurer of the United States to refund to W. B. Farrar, of Whitfield County, Georgia, illegal taxes collected from him in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

    Ch. 215 · 21 Stat. 557 · June 14, 1880 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act to remove disabilities of I. Wilkinson.

    Ch. 216 · 21 Stat. 557 · June 14, 1880 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act to remove the political disabilities of John Owins of Portsmouth, Virginia.

    Ch. 217 · 21 Stat. 557 · June 14, 1880 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Joseph A. Seawell, of Virginia.

    Ch. 218 · 21 Stat. 557 · June 14, 1880 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act to remove the political disabilities of Charles Carroll Simms, of Virginia.

    Ch. 219 · 21 Stat. 558 · June 14, 1880 · Private law · Original text

61. 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, and acts amendatory thereof.

    Ch. 220 · 21 Stat. 558 · June 14, 1880 · Private law · Original text

62. Joint Resolution granting the use of artillery muskets and tents at the Soldiers’ reunion at Decatur, Illinois.

    Private Resolution 53 · 21 Stat. 598 · June 14, 1880 · Private law · Original text

63. Joint Resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to loan flags and bunting to the city of Boston.

    Private Resolution 54 · 21 Stat. 598 · June 14, 1880 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act to provide for the disposal of the Fort Harker military reservation.

    Ch. 221 · 21 Stat. 198 · June 15, 1880 · Original text

65. An Act making an appropriation for the erection of a lighthouse and fog-bell on Old Gay Rock at the entrance of Wickford Harbor, Nanagansett Bay.

    Ch. 222 · 21 Stat. 199 · June 15, 1880 · Original text

66. An Act to accept and ratify the agreement submitted by the confederated bands of Ute Indians in Colorado, for tno sale of their reservation in said State, and for other purposes, and to make the necessary appropriations for carrying out the same.

    Ch. 223 · 21 Stat. 199 · June 15, 1880 · Original text

67. An Act to establish Post Roads.

    Ch. 224 · 21 Stat. 205 · June 15, 1880 · Original text

68. An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government tor the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and tor other purposes.

    Ch. 225 · 21 Stat. 210 · June 15, 1880 · Original text

69. An Act to change the name of the steamboat “L. Boardman” to “River Belle”.

    Ch. 226 · 21 Stat. 237 · June 15, 1880 · Original text

70. An Act relating to the public lands of the United States.

    Ch. 227 · 21 Stat. 237 · June 15, 1880 · Original text

71. An Act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Israel Dodge, deceased.

    Ch. 228 · 21 Stat. 570 · June 15, 1880 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act for the relief of Clement C. Clay, of Alabama.

    Ch. 229 · 21 Stat. 571 · June 15, 1880 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act for the allowance of certain claims reported by the accounting officers of the United States Treasury Department.

    Ch. 230 · 21 Stat. 571 · June 15, 1880 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act granting a pension to John Fisher guardian of the infant heirs of William Dakin, deceased.

    Ch. 231 · 21 Stat. 586 · June 15, 1880 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act to pay for expert services relating to the metric system rendered the Forty-fifth Congress.

    Ch. 232 · 21 Stat. 586 · June 15, 1880 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act for the relief of John Hohstadt.

    Ch. 233 · 21 Stat. 586 · June 15, 1880 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for prior years, and for those certified as duo by the accounting-officers of the Treasury in accordance with section four of the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, heretofore paid from permanent appropriations, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 234 · 21 Stat. 238 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

78. An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil-expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 235 · 21 Stat. 259 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

79. An Act to increase the pensions of certain pensioned soldiers and sailors who are utterly helpless from injuries received or disease contracted while in the United States service.

    Ch. 236 · 21 Stat. 281 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

80. An Act for the construction of a building for the use of the United States at Toledo, Ohio.

    Ch. 237 · 21 Stat. 282 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

81. An Act to authorize the Mississippi River Logging Company to construct and operate sheer-booms at or near Straight Slough.

    Ch. 238 · 21 Stat. 282 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

82. An Act to constitute the city of Portsmouth, in the State of Ohio, a port of delivery.

    Ch. 239 · 21 Stat. 283 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

83. An Act for the relief of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers.

    Ch. 240 · 21 Stat. 283 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

84. An Act making an appropriation for the erection of a naval wharf at Key West in tile State of Florida.

    Ch. 241 · 21 Stat. 283 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

85. An Act creating Yakima land-district in Washington Territory.

    Ch. 242 · 21 Stat. 283 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

86. An Act to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction on the Court oi Claims to hear the sime, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 243 · 21 Stat. 284 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

87. An Act for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands, and to provide for the repayment of certain fees, purchase money and commissions paid on void entries of public lands.

    Ch. 244 · 21 Stat. 287 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

88. An Act to grant the State of Nevada lands in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in said State.

    Ch. 245 · 21 Stat. 287 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

89. An Act for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 246 · 21 Stat. 288 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

90. An Act in relation to the mileage of jurors and witnesses in the State of Colorado.

    Ch. 247 · 21 Stat. 290 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

91. An Act granting to the Territory of Dakota section thirty-six, in township number fifty-six north, of range number ninety-four west, in the county of Yankton, in said Territory, lor the purposes of An asylum for the insaue, and granting to said Territory one section of land, in lieu of said thirty-sixth section, for school purposes.

    Ch. 248 · 21 Stat. 290 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

92. An Act relating to machinists in the Navy.

    Ch. 249 · 21 Stat. 290 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

93. An Act to amend the sixth subdivision of section thirty-two hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 250 · 21 Stat. 291 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

94. An Act to carry into effect the second and sixteenth articles of the treaty between the United States and the Great and Little Osage Indians, proclaimed January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

    Ch. 251 · 21 Stat. 291 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

95. An Act making appropriations for the Agricultural Department of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 252 · 21 Stat. 292 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

96. An Act to constitute a Joint Commission for carrying into effect the Convention between the United States and the French Republic for the settlement of certain claims of the citizens of either country against the other, signed at Washington on the fifteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty.

    Ch. 253 · 21 Stat. 296 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

97. Joint resolution in relation to committee-clerks, pages, and other employees of the Senate and House of Representatives.

    Public Resolution 55 · 21 Stat. 310 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

98. Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to sell or lease to the Port Huron and Northwestern Railway Company all of the Fort Gratiot military reserve, and to authorize the city of Port Huron to grant to said railway company the right of way through Pine Grove Park.

    Public Resolution 56 · 21 Stat. 310 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

99. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to certify school lands to the State of Kansas.

    Public Resolution 57 · 21 Stat. 310 · June 16, 1880 · Original text

100. An Act for the relief of Benjamin Babb and others.

     Ch. 254 · 21 Stat. 587 · June 16, 1880 · Private law · Original text