Every law Congress has passed

761 laws of the 47th Congress, 1881–1883

1. An Act granting the franking privilege to Lucretia R. Garfield.

   Ch. 1 · 22 Stat. 1 · December 20, 1881 · Original text

2. An Act to amend section nine hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States for the District of Columbia, and an act entitled “An act to amend section nine hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States for the District of Columbia”, approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.

   Ch. 2 · 22 Stat. 1 · December 20, 1881 · Original text

3. An Act to legalize the election of the Territorial legislature of New Mexico held November second, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 3 · 22 Stat. 1 · December 21, 1881 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution giving one months pay to certain employes of the House of Representatives.

   Public Resolution 1 · 22 Stat. 377 · December 21, 1881 · Original text

5. Joint resolution for the relief of Isaac R. Hill.

   Private Resolution 2 · 22 Stat. 741 · December 21, 1881 · Private law · Original text

6. Joint Resolution tendering the thanks of the people of the United States to His Highness, the Khedive of Egypt, for the gift of an ancient obelisk

   Public Resolution 3 · 22 Stat. 377 · January 12, 1882 · Original text

7. An Act to permit Ward Hunt, an associate justice of the Supremo Court of the United States, to retire,

   Ch. 4 · 22 Stat. 2 · January 27, 1882 · Original text

8. An Act making appropriations for the payment of the final expenses of the Tenth Census.

   Ch. 5 · 22 Stat. 2 · January 28, 1882 · Original text

9. An Act granting additional pension to Mary Lincoln.

   Ch. 6 · 22 Stat. 647 · February 2, 1882 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act authorizing and directing the Architect of the Capitol to make certain changes and repairs in tho House wing of the Capitol

    Ch. 7 · 22 Stat. 2 · February 8, 1882 · Original text

11. An Act to restore certain articles of silverware to Mrs. Isabella S. McRae.

    Ch. 8 · 22 Stat. 647 · February 11, 1882 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act for the relief of Theophilus P. Chandler.

    Ch. 9 · 22 Stat. 647 · February 11, 1882 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act for the relief of Sidney P. Luther

    Ch. 10 · 22 Stat. 648 · February 11, 1882 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act for the relief of E. J. Gurley

    Ch. 11 · 22 Stat. 648 · February 11, 1882 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act to appropriate five thousand dollars for packing, transporting and arranging certain agricultural and mineral specimens.

    Ch. 12 · 22 Stat. 3 · February 13, 1882 · Original text

16. An Act for the relief of colored emigrants.

    Ch. 13 · 22 Stat. 3 · February 15, 1882 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution to print certain eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Fernando Wood, Matt. H. Carpenter, and Ambrose E. Burnside.

    Public Resolution 4 · 22 Stat. 377 · February 15, 1882 · Original text

18. An Act to change the name of the National Mechanics Banking Association of New York to that of Wall Street National Bank

    Ch. 14 · 22 Stat. 3 · February 17, 1882 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution fixing the time when the pay of certain clerks to committees of the House shall begin.

    Public Resolution 5 · 22 Stat. 378 · February 17, 1882 · Original text

20. An Act supplemental to the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the payment of the final expenses of the Tenth Census.”

    Ch. 15 · 22 Stat. 4 · February 20, 1882 · Original text

21. An Act to enable the Postmaster-General to delegate authority to sign warrants.

    Ch. 16 · 22 Stat. 4 · February 25, 1882 · Original text

22. An Act making an appropriation for the base and pedestal of a monument to the late Rear-Admiral Samuel Francia Du Pont, United States Navy.

    Ch. 17 · 22 Stat. 4 · February 25, 1882 · Original text

23. An Act in reference to the Trustees of the Lincoln Monument Association

    Ch. 25 · 22 Stat. 5 · February 25, 1882 · Original text

24. An Act authorizing the Lancaster National Bank of Lancaster, Massachusetts, to change its location and name.

    Ch. 19 · 22 Stat. 5 · February 25, 1882 · Original text

25. An Act making an apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States under the tenth census.

    Ch. 20 · 22 Stat. 5 · February 25, 1882 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to use rations for the relief of destitute persons in the district overflowed by the Mississippi River.

    Public Resolution 6 · 22 Stat. 378 · February 25, 1882 · Original text

27. An Act for the relief of the Eastern Shawnee Indiana at the Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory.

    Ch. 21 · 22 Stat. 7 · March 4, 1882 · Original text

28. An Act making an appropriation for continuing the improvements of Galveston Harbor, State of Texas.

    Ch. 22 · 22 Stat. 7 · March 4, 1882 · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of William H. Gill.

    Ch. 23 · 22 Stat. 7 · March 4, 1882 · Original text

30. An Act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 24 · 22 Stat. 7 · March 6, 1882 · Original text

31. An Act to establish a port of delivery at Denver, in the State of Colorado.

    Ch. 25 · 22 Stat. 13 · March 6, 1882 · Original text

32. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish impressions of the cards of invitation to the Garfield Memorial Service.

    Ch. 26 · 22 Stat. 13 · March 6, 1882 · Original text

33. An Act to establish post-routes

    Ch. 27 · 22 Stat. 13 · March 6, 1882 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution authorizing the printing of two thousand five hundred extra copies of the report of the health officer of the District of Columbia.

    Public Resolution · 22 Stat. 378 · March 6, 1882 · Original text

35. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the construction of a marine hospital in the city of Memphis, Tennessee”.

    Ch. 28 · 22 Stat. 28 · March 9, 1882 · Original text

36. An Act for the relief of Warren Hall.

    Ch. 29 · 22 Stat. 648 · March 9, 1882 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act to authorize the erection of a statue of Chief Justice Marshall.

    Ch. 30 · 22 Stat. 28 · March 10, 1882 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to use hospital tents for the relief of sufferers from the overflow of the Mississippi River.

    Public Resolution 8 · 22 Stat. 378 · March 10, 1882 · Original text

39. An Act directing the Secretary of War to nay over to the Society of the Army of thee Cumberland seven thousand five hundred dollars, to aid in the erection of a statue or monument to General James A. Garfield.

    Ch. 31 · 22 Stat. 28 · March 11, 1882 · Original text

40. An Act authorizing and directing the purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the public use, of the property known as the Freedman’s Bank, and the real estate and parcels of ground adjacent thereto, belonging to the Freedman’s Savings andTrust Company, and located on Pennsylvania avenue, between Fifteenth and Fifteenth-and-a-half streets, Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 32 · 22 Stat. 29 · March 11, 1882 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to use Government vessels for the transportation and distribution of rations furnished by the United States to the sufferers by the Mississippi overflow.

    Public Resolution 9 · 22 Stat. 378 · March 11, 1882 · Original text

42. Joint resolution in behalf of the American Company of Revisers of the New Testament for return and remission of duties.

    Private Resolution 10 · 22 Stat. 741 · March 11, 1882 · Private law · Original text

43. Joint Resolution to print certain eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Michael P. O’Connor.

    Public Resolution 11 · 22 Stat. 379 · March 15, 1882 · Original text

44. An Act for the relief of Paulina Jones, widow of Alexander Jones, deceased, late of Company E, Second North Carolina Infantry.

    Ch. 33 · 22 Stat. 648 · March 15, 1882 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act for the relief of Charles Collins.

    Ch. 34 · 22 Stat. 648 · March 15, 1882 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act for the relief of S. Rosenfeld and Company.

    Ch. 35 · 22 Stat. 649 · March 15, 1882 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act for the relief of Frank D. Yates and others.

    Ch. 36 · 22 Stat. 649 · March 15, 1882 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act directing the issue of a duplicate check to William J. Anthony, a pensioner of the United States.

    Ch. 37 · 22 Stat. 649 · March 15, 1882 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act granting a pension to Olive Stephenson.

    Ch. 38 · 22 Stat. 650 · March 15, 1882 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act for the relief of George W. Wicks and Company, of Louisville. Kentucky.

    Ch. 39 · 22 Stat. 650 · March 16, 1882 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act granting a pension to Elizabeth Wirt Goldsborough.

    Ch. 40 · 22 Stat. 650 · March 16, 1882 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act authorizing the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of Postmasters for loss by Burglary, Fire, or other unavoidable casualty.

    Ch. 41 · 22 Stat. 29 · March 17, 1882 · Original text

53. An Act An act to admit free of duty certain steam plow machinery now at the Port of San Francisco.

    Ch. 42 · 22 Stat. 650 · March 17, 1882 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the relief of Henry P. Rolfe.

    Ch. 43 · 22 Stat. 650 · March 17, 1882 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act appropriating one hundred thousand dollars for continuing the work on Davis Island Dam.

    Ch. 44 · 22 Stat. 30 · March 21, 1882 · Original text

56. Joint Resolution making a further appropriation to relieve the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

    Public Resolution 12 · 22 Stat. 379 · March 21, 1882 · Original text

57. An Act for the relief of Susan Marshall Massie

    Ch. 45 · 22 Stat. 651 · March 21, 1882 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act authorizing the sale of certain logs cut by the Indians of the Menomonee Reservation in Wisconsin.

    Ch. 46 · 22 Stat. 30 · March 22, 1882 · Original text

59. An Act to amend section fifty-three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to bigamy, and for oilier purposes.

    Ch. 47 · 22 Stat. 30 · March 22, 1882 · Original text

60. Joint resolution granting the use of articles, tents, and so forth, at the Soldiers’ reunion to be held at Grand Island, Nebraska, in the month of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.

    Private Resolution 13 · 22 Stat. 742 · March 22, 1882 · Private law · Original text

61. Joint resolution granting the use of articles, tents, and so forth, at the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic of the Department of Pennsylvania on the battle field of Gettysburg, in July eighteen hundred and eighty-two.

    Private Resolution 14 · 22 Stat. 742 · March 22, 1882 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act to amend the Revised Statutes of the United States establishing the times, places, and provisions for holding terms of the district and circuit courts in the northern district of New York.

    Ch. 48 · 22 Stat. 32 · March 23, 1882 · Original text

63. An Act to create two additional land districts, and to change the boundaries of the Watertown land district in the Territory of Dakota.

    Ch. 49 · 22 Stat. 33 · March 23, 1882 · Original text

64. An Act directing the issue of a check to the Pequonnock National Bank in place of one heretofore issued to Juliaett Prescott, a pensioner of the United States, and lost.

    Ch. 50 · 22 Stat. 651 · March 23, 1882 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act to establish a rail way bridge across I be Mississippi Kiveroxtendiug from a point between Wabasha and Read’s Landing, in Minnesota, to a point below the mouth of the Chippewa River in Wisconsin.

    Ch. 51 · 22 Stat. 34 · March 28, 1882 · Original text

66. An Act to extend the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska.

    Ch. 52 · 22 Stat. 35 · March 28, 1882 · Original text

67. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to release a right of way across lands of the United States at Plattsburgh, New York.

    Ch. 53 · 22 Stat. 36 · March 28, 1882 · Original text

68. An Act granting a pension to Samuel Pollock.

    Ch. 54 · 22 Stat. 652 · March 30, 1882 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act to confirm certain instructions given by the Department of the Interior to the Indian agent at Green Bay Agency, in the State of Wisconsin, and to legalize the acts done and permitted by said Indian agent pursuant thereto.

    Ch. 55 · 22 Stat. 35 · March 31, 1882 · Original text

70. An Act to authorize the accounting officers of the Treasury to settle the accounts of Brevet Major General Edward Hatch, United States Army, chairman and disbursing officer of the special Ute Commission appointed under act of Congress of May third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

    Ch. 56 · 22 Stat. 652 · March 31, 1882 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act granting pensions to Lucretia R. Garfield, Sarah Childress Polk, and Julia Gardner Tyler.

    Ch. 57 · 22 Stat. 652 · March 31, 1882 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act for the relief of Captain William D. Whiting.

    Ch. 58 · 22 Stat. 37 · April 1, 1882 · Original text

73. An Act to amend an act entitled. “An act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.

    Ch. 59 · 22 Stat. 38 · April 1, 1882 · Original text

74. An Act authorizing tho construction of a bridge over the Missouri River, at or near Arrow Rock, Missouri.

    Ch. 60 · 22 Stat. 38 · April 1, 1882 · Original text

75. An Act to provide for the closing of an alloy in square one hundred and ninety-five in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 61 · 22 Stat. 40 · April 1, 1882 · Original text

76. Joint Resolution making an appropriation for filling up, draining, and placing in good sanitary condition the ground south of the Capitol along the line of the old canal, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 15 · 22 Stat. 379 · April 1, 1882 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to use rations for the relief of destitute persons in the district overflowed by the Mississippi River.

    Public Resolution 16 · 22 Stat. 379 · April 1, 1882 · Original text

78. An Act for the relief of Cyrus C. Clark.

    Ch. 62 · 22 Stat. 652 · April 1, 1882 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act to pay the creditors of the late Henry O. Waggoner, late consular clerk at Lyons, France.

    Ch. 63 · 22 Stat. 653 · April 1, 1882 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act granting a pension to Mary A. Davis.

    Ch. 64 · 22 Stat. 653 · April 1, 1882 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act for the relief of H. V. Philpott

    Ch. 65 · 22 Stat. 653 · April 1, 1882 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act granting a pension to P. B. Perry, senior.

    Ch. 66 · 22 Stat. 653 · April 1, 1882 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act to amend section forty-four hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to license fees of officers of steam vessels.

    Ch. 67 · 22 Stat. 40 · April 5, 1882 · Original text

84. An Act to facilitate the payment, of dividends to the creditors of the Freedmans Savings and Trust Company.

    Ch. 68 · 22 Stat. 40 · April 5, 1882 · Original text

85. An Act for the relief of George G. Snyder.

    Ch. 69 · 22 Stat. 653 · April 5, 1882 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act for the relief of John H. Schabinger guardian of Susan McKnatt and Martha McKnatt, minor daughters of James McKnatt, deceased.

    Ch. 70 · 22 Stat. 654 · April 5, 1882 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to sell the military barracks, and the lands upon which they are located, in the city of Savannah, Georgia.

    Ch. 71 · 22 Stat. 41 · April 7, 1882 · Original text

88. An Act for the relief of Medical Director John Thornley, United States Navy.

    Ch. 72 · 22 Stat. 41 · April 7, 1882 · Original text

89. An Act to admit free of duty articles intended for exhibition at the National Mining and Industrial Exposition to be held in the city of Denver, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two

    Ch. 73 · 22 Stat. 41 · April 7, 1882 · Original text

90. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to supply artillery and camp equipage to the soldiers’ and sailors’ reunion at Topeka, Kansas.

    Private Resolution 17 · 22 Stat. 742 · April 7, 1882 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act to accept and ratify the agreement submitted by the Crow Indiana of Montana for the sale of a portion of their reservation in said Territory, and for other purposes, and to make the necessary appropriations for carrying out the same.

    Ch. 74 · 22 Stat. 42 · April 11, 1882 · Original text

92. An Act appropriating money for the purchase of a site and the erection of a suitable building for a post-office and other government offices in the city of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 75 · 22 Stat. 43 · April 11, 1882 · Original text

93. An Act for the erection of a public building at Columbus, Ohio.

    Ch. 76 · 22 Stat. 44 · April 11, 1882 · Original text

94. An Act appropriating twenty thousand dollars for the purchase and distribution of seeds.

    Ch. 77 · 22 Stat. 44 · April 11, 1882 · Original text

95. An Act for the relief of Peter Gallagher.

    Ch. 78 · 22 Stat. 654 · April 11, 1882 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the most accessible point within five miles above the city of Saint Charles, Missouri.

    Ch. 79 · 22 Stat. 44 · April 14, 1882 · Original text

97. Joint resolution granting to the State of Indiana the use of tents on the occasion of an encampment of State troops to be held in said State during the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two.

    Private Resolution 18 · 22 Stat. 743 · April 14, 1882 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act to provide additional accommodations for the Department of the Interior.

    Ch. 80 · 22 Stat. 46 · April 15, 1882 · Original text

99. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to remit certain custom dues and custom-house charges to Consul General Alfred E. Lee.

    Ch. 81 · 22 Stat. 655 · April 15, 1882 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act making appropriations to supply a deficiency for dies, paper and stamps for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and to continue work on t he Washington Monument for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 82 · 22 Stat. 46 · April 17, 1882 · Original text