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Every law Congress has passed

97,863 laws from 1789 to 2026, as printed in the Statutes at Large, the official record of every act of Congress. 51,799 are public laws; 46,064 are private laws, which apply to named people or places, such as pensions, land claims and relief from debts.

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650 laws of the 46th Congress, 1879–1881

  1. An act to vacate and close an alley in square five hundred and four in Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 159 · 21 Stat. 513 · March 3, 1881 · Original text

  2. An act to construe an act entitled “An act to relieve the churches and orphan asylums of the District of Columbia and to clear the title of the trustees of such property.”

    Ch. 160 · 21 Stat. 513 · March 3, 1881 · Original text

  3. Joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to investigate the claim of the State of Florida against the United States for expenditures made in suppressing Indian hostilities in said State between the years eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and sixty, and to report the result of such investigation to Congress.

    Public Resolution 25 · 21 Stat. 520 · March 3, 1881 · Original text

  4. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish States, for the use of agricultural colleges, one set of standard weights and measures and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 26 · 21 Stat. 521 · March 3, 1881 · Original text

  5. Joint resolution to provide for the publication of the memorial addresses on Evarts W. Farr.

    Public Resolution 27 · 21 Stat. 521 · March 3, 1881 · Original text

  6. Joint resolution to print fifteen thousand copies of the report of the Director of the Mint on the Statistics of the annual production of gold and silver in the United States.

    Public Resolution 28 · 21 Stat. 521 · March 3, 1881 · Original text

  7. Joint resolution to create a commission for the performance of certain duties under the act of Congress providing for the erection of a monument at Yorktown and the proposed centennial celebration.

    Public Resolution 29 · 21 Stat. 522 · March 3, 1881 · Original text

  8. Joint resolution relating to salaries of government employees in the District of Columbia.

    Public Resolution 30 · 21 Stat. 522 · March 3, 1881 · Original text

  9. An Act for the relief of Dodd, Brown and Company of Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 161 · 21 Stat. 640 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act for the relief of citizens of Montana who served with the United States troops in the war with the Nez Perces, and for the relief of the heirs of such as were killed in such service.

    Ch. 162 · 21 Stat. 641 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act granting a pension to Jacob Gelwicks.

    Ch. 163 · 21 Stat. 641 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act granting a pension to Wyatt Botts.

    Ch. 164 · 21 Stat. 641 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the relief of James B. Furman.

    Ch. 165 · 21 Stat. 641 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act granting a pension to Mary Ann McCarrol.

    Ch. 166 · 21 Stat. 642 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act for the relief of Calvin Bronson.

    Ch. 167 · 21 Stat. 642 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act for the relief of several persons impressed into the United States naval service.

    Ch. 168 · 21 Stat. 642 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act granting a pension to Henry Mills.

    Ch. 169 · 21 Stat. 642 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act granting a pension to Edward H. Mitchell

    Ch. 170 · 21 Stat. 642 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act granting a pension to James P. Hunter.

    Ch. 171 · 21 Stat. 643 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act for the relief of John T. Neale.

    Ch. 172 · 21 Stat. 643 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act for the relief of Lewis A. Kent.

    Ch. 173 · 21 Stat. 643 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act for the relief of Homer Fellows.

    Ch. 174 · 21 Stat. 643 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  23. 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. 175 · 21 Stat. 643 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act directing the payment of certain awards in favor of parties therein named.

    Ch. 176 · 21 Stat. 647 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act for the relief of David W. Bell.

    Ch. 177 · 21 Stat. 648 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act for the relief of Thomas Snell

    Ch. 178 · 21 Stat. 648 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act granting an increase of pension to James H. Reeve.

    Ch. 179 · 21 Stat. 649 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act for the relief of Levi Price.

    Ch. 180 · 21 Stat. 649 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act granting a pension to Mary A. Shemelia.

    Ch. 181 · 21 Stat. 649 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act for the relief of Hardie Hogan Helper.

    Ch. 182 · 21 Stat. 650 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act granting an increase of pension to George Smith.

    Ch. 183 · 21 Stat. 650 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  32. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Anna I. Guest.

    Ch. 184 · 21 Stat. 650 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  33. An Act granting a pension to Luman Case

    Ch. 185 · 21 Stat. 650 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  34. An Act for the relief of the sureties of Franklin Travis.

    Ch. 186 · 21 Stat. 650 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  35. An Act granting a pension to Caroline Stief

    Ch. 187 · 21 Stat. 651 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  36. An Act granting a pension to John S. Corlett.

    Ch. 188 · 21 Stat. 651 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  37. An Act for the relief of James R. Gordon.

    Ch. 189 · 21 Stat. 651 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  38. An Act granting a pension to William W. Church

    Ch. 190 · 21 Stat. 651 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  39. An Act for the relief of Edward T. Brownell

    Ch. 191 · 21 Stat. 651 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  40. An Act granting a pension to Peter Grattan.

    Ch. 192 · 21 Stat. 652 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  41. An Act granting a pension to Johanna Meehan and minor children.

    Ch. 193 · 21 Stat. 652 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  42. An Act granting a pension to Sally M. Buchanan, widow of General Robert C. Buchanan, United States Army.

    Ch. 194 · 21 Stat. 652 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  43. An Act granting a pension to William C. Parker.

    Ch. 195 · 21 Stat. 652 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  44. An Act for the relief of William Redus.

    Ch. 196 · 21 Stat. 652 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  45. An Act granting a pension to Betsey Elwell.

    Ch. 197 · 21 Stat. 653 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  46. An Act granting a pension to Stephen P. Benton.

    Ch. 198 · 21 Stat. 653 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  47. An Act for relief of the personal representative of George W. Henderlite, deceased.

    Ch. 199 · 21 Stat. 653 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  48. An Act for the relief of William H. Davis

    Ch. 200 · 21 Stat. 653 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  49. An Act restoring the name of Andrew J. Pennel to the pension-roll

    Ch. 201 · 21 Stat. 654 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

  50. An Act for the relief of John H. Templeton.

    Ch. 202 · 21 Stat. 654 · March 3, 1881 · Private law · Original text

By Congress

From the U.S. Statutes at Large, volumes 1 through 138, published by the Government Publishing Office on GovInfo; laws signed since the latest printed volume come from GovInfo’s public and private law files. Treaties, proclamations and concurrent resolutions, which share those volumes, are not laws and are left out. The oldest volumes were digitized from print, so a few dates could not be read; for those we show the year from the laws printed alongside. Short names come from each law’s own “may be cited as” clause.