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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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970 laws of the 48th Congress, 1883–1885

  1. An Act for the relief of Eugene B. Bail and others.

    Ch. 465 · 23 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act granting a pension to John M. Milton.

    Ch. 466 · 23 Stat. 692 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of the late Captain John G. Tod, of the Texas navy.

    Ch. 467 · 23 Stat. 692 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Elizabeth A. Randall, widow of Captain Fernando Randall.

    Ch. 468 · 23 Stat. 692 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act for the relief of the heirs of the late Langley B. Culley.

    Ch. 469 · 23 Stat. 692 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act for the benefit of the legal representatives of A. J. Guthrie, deceased.

    Ch. 470 · 23 Stat. 693 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act granting a pension to Esther Hudson, mother of William H. Hudson, deceased, late of Company G, Twenty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Company E, One hundred and Ninety-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.

    Ch. 471 · 23 Stat. 693 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act granting a pension to James M. Pike.

    Ch. 472 · 23 Stat. 693 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act graining a pension to Mrs Lucretia G. Ripley,

    Ch. 473 · 23 Stat. 693 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act granting a pension to Mary A. Grennon.

    Ch. 474 · 23 Stat. 694 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act granting a pension to Joseph Raible,

    Ch. 475 · 23 Stat. 694 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act granting a pension to Abraham Cover.

    Ch. 476 · 23 Stat. 694 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act granting a pension to Sarah Tyler.

    Ch. 477 · 23 Stat. 694 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act granting a pension to David N. Bryan.

    Ch. 478 · 23 Stat. 694 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act granting a pension to Harlan Jackson,

    Ch. 479 · 23 Stat. 695 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act granting a pension to Ellen Edmiston.

    Ch. 480 · 23 Stat. 695 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act granting a pension to Brevet Colonel C A Cilley, of North Carolina.

    Ch. 481 · 23 Stat. 695 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act granting a pension to Emma O. Zeigler,

    Ch. 482 · 23 Stat. 695 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act granting a pension to Joshua F. Justice.

    Ch. 483 · 23 Stat. 695 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act granting a pension to Jesse C. Buck.

    Ch. 484 · 23 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act granting a pension to Jacob Lafferty.

    Ch. 485 · 23 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act granting an increase of pension to Augustus Jones,

    Ch. 486 · 23 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act granting a pension to Octavia A, Newhall

    Ch. 487 · 23 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act granting a pension to Henry Milkey.

    Ch. 488 · 23 Stat. 696 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act granting a pension to Sarah Parry.

    Ch. 489 · 23 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act granting a pension to Anna Beck.

    Ch. 490 · 23 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act granting an increase of pension to Jonathan C. Harrison.

    Ch. 491 · 23 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act granting a pension to Christian Bauman.

    Ch. 492 · 23 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act granting a pension to Edward Wilcox.

    Ch. 493 · 23 Stat. 697 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act granting a pension to W. H. H. Coleman.

    Ch. 494 · 23 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act granting a pension to Patrick Murphy.

    Ch. 495 · 23 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  32. An Act granting a pontoon to Elizabeth Kaler.

    Ch. 496 · 23 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  33. An Act granting a pension to William H. Kinman,

    Ch. 497 · 23 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  34. An Act granting an increase of pension to John O. Gardner,

    Ch. 498 · 23 Stat. 698 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  35. An Act to inereaae the pension of Jane D. Brom.

    Ch. 499 · 23 Stat. 699 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  36. An Act granting a pension to Judson Bostwick.

    Ch. 500 · 23 Stat. 699 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  37. An Act granting a pension to John Sparr.

    Ch. 501 · 23 Stat. 699 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  38. An Act granting a pension to Sylvester Greenough,

    Ch. 502 · 23 Stat. 699 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  39. An Act granting a pension to Sebert Toney,

    Ch. 503 · 23 Stat. 699 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  40. An Act granting a pension to Alexander Weide

    Ch. 504 · 23 Stat. 700 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  41. An Act granting a pension to Richard W. Barnes.

    Ch. 505 · 23 Stat. 700 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  42. An Act granting a pension to Amos McDowell.

    Ch. 506 · 23 Stat. 700 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  43. An Act granting a pension to Harry H. G. Kislingbury, Walter F. Kislingbury, Wheeler Schofield Kislingbury, and Douglas E. L. Kislingbury respectively children of the late Frederick F. Kislingbury a Lieutenant in the Eleventh Regiment United States Infantry.

    Ch. 507 · 23 Stat. 700 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  44. An Act restoring John Snyder to the pension roll.

    Ch. 508 · 23 Stat. 700 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  45. An Act granting a pension to L W. Pitts,

    Ch. 509 · 23 Stat. 701 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  46. An Act granting a pension to Captain Vincent Phelps.

    Ch. 510 · 23 Stat. 701 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  47. An Act granting a pension to Rosanna Riley.

    Ch. 511 · 23 Stat. 701 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  48. An Act granting a pension to Margaret Flaherty,

    Ch. 512 · 23 Stat. 701 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  49. An Act granting a pension to Thomas M. McChesney.

    Ch. 513 · 23 Stat. 701 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  50. An Act granting a pension to Matilda Cody

    Ch. 514 · 23 Stat. 702 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  51. An Act granting a pension to Henry Bierderbick.

    Ch. 515 · 23 Stat. 702 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  52. An Act granting it pension to Amanda Allen.

    Ch. 516 · 23 Stat. 702 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  53. An Act granting a pension to Amanda Allen.

    Ch. 517 · 23 Stat. 702 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  54. An Act granting a pension to Amnnda Allen.

    Ch. 518 · 23 Stat. 702 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  55. An Act granting a pension to Joseph Sansom.

    Ch. 519 · 23 Stat. 703 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  56. An Act to increase the pension of Ferdinand Hercher.

    Ch. 520 · 23 Stat. 703 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  57. An Act granting a pension co Catharine Helton.

    Ch. 521 · 23 Stat. 703 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  58. An Act granting a pension to Lina J. Stearns.

    Ch. 522 · 23 Stat. 703 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  59. An Act granting a pension to Albert Harper.

    Ch. 523 · 23 Stat. 703 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  60. An Act granting a pension to David Sears.

    Ch. 524 · 23 Stat. 704 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  61. An Act to restore to the pension-roll the name of Rachael A. Queen.

    Ch. 525 · 23 Stat. 704 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  62. An Act granting a pension to Mrs Lucy Parr.

    Ch. 526 · 23 Stat. 704 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  63. An Act granting a pension to Addie L. Moore.

    Ch. 527 · 23 Stat. 704 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  64. An Act to remove the political disabilities of W. H. Murdaugh of Virginia

    Ch. 528 · 23 Stat. 704 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  65. An Act granting n pension to Chancy G. Darrah,

    Ch. 529 · 23 Stat. 705 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  66. An Act granting a pension to Mrs F. M. Norton.

    Ch. 530 · 23 Stat. 705 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  67. An Act to grant a pension to James Dye,

    Ch. 531 · 23 Stat. 705 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  68. An Act granting a pension to Mary J. Dickson,

    Ch. 532 · 23 Stat. 705 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  69. Joint resolution authorizing the collector of the port at New York to deliver, free of duty, a silver cup won by Sergeant A. B. Van Heusen, as a member of the American Rifle Team, at Wimbledon, in July eighteen hundred and eighty-three.

    Public Resolution 23 · 23 Stat. 707 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

  70. An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Pond, Jr

    Ch. 443 · 23 Stat. 868 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

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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.