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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

An Act granting a pension to Bryson R. McCartney.
Ch. 364 · 23 Stat. 669 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to James Bond.
Ch. 365 · 23 Stat. 669 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to the widow and children of the late Byram Pitney.
Ch. 366 · 23 Stat. 669 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Anne T. Dicks.
Ch. 367 · 23 Stat. 670 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Sarah Hague.
Ch. 368 · 23 Stat. 670 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting an increase of pension to John Hall.
Ch. 369 · 23 Stat. 670 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Duncan L. Clinch, of the State of Georgia.
Ch. 370 · 23 Stat. 670 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Sarah Jane Prince.
Ch. 371 · 23 Stat. 670 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Benjamin F. Brockett.
Ch. 372 · 23 Stat. 671 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to William N. Morris.
Ch. 373 · 23 Stat. 671 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Sedate P. Martin.
Ch. 374 · 23 Stat. 671 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Robert J. Ballort
Ch. 375 · 23 Stat. 671 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Lewie L, Canady.
Ch. 376 · 23 Stat. 671 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to John Lowe.
Ch. 377 · 23 Stat. 672 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Cordelia Brainerd Thomas.
Ch. 378 · 23 Stat. 672 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Sarah A. White.
Ch. 379 · 23 Stat. 672 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Mary Gordon.
Ch. 380 · 23 Stat. 672 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting an increase of pension to Polly Young.
Ch. 381 · 23 Stat. 672 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Robert Sheridan.
Ch. 382 · 23 Stat. 673 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Charlotte C. B. Hatch.
Ch. 383 · 23 Stat. 673 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Mary B. Holmes.
Ch. 384 · 23 Stat. 673 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Martha Hughes.
Ch. 385 · 23 Stat. 673 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Thomas H. Boaz.
Ch. 386 · 23 Stat. 673 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Francia B. Van Haesen
Ch. 387 · 23 Stat. 674 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the heirs of Mary Jane Veazie, deceased.
Ch. 388 · 23 Stat. 674 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John M. Dorsey and William F. Shepard.
Ch. 389 · 23 Stat. 674 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting an increase of pension to Sophia A Morgan, widow of the kite Charles H. Morgan, a brevet brigadier-general in the United States Army.
Ch. 390 · 23 Stat. 674 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act to place J Washington Brank on the muster-rolls of Company B, Second North Carolina Mounted Infantry.
Ch. 391 · 23 Stat. 675 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Alexander D. Schenck
Ch. 392 · 23 Stat. 675 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of O. L. Cochran, late postmaster at Houston, Texas, reimbursing him for money erroneously collected from him by the Poet Office Department.
Ch. 393 · 23 Stat. 675 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting an increase of pension to Ann Cornelia Lan man.
Ch. 394 · 23 Stat. 676 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the benefit of John C. Herndon.
Ch. 395 · 23 Stat. 676 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Rosa Vertner Jeffrey and others.
Ch. 396 · 23 Stat. 676 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John F. Severance
Ch. 397 · 23 Stat. 676 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Martha Turner.
Ch. 398 · 23 Stat. 677 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of certain settlers on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada.
Ch. 399 · 23 Stat. 677 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act to increase the pension of Mrs Martha C. Breese.
Ch. 400 · 23 Stat. 677 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William H. Davis,
Ch. 401 · 23 Stat. 677 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Fendall Carpenter.
Ch. 402 · 23 Stat. 678 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to William H. Whitcomb
Ch. 403 · 23 Stat. 678 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John W. Martin.
Ch. 404 · 23 Stat. 678 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to David M. Nagle.
Ch. 405 · 23 Stat. 678 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to John E. Denham.
Ch. 406 · 23 Stat. 678 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting an increase of pension to Robert Cary.
Ch. 407 · 23 Stat. 679 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Jeremiah McCarty.
Ch. 408 · 23 Stat. 679 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Moses F. Carloton.
Ch. 409 · 23 Stat. 679 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Sarah M. Bissell,
Ch. 410 · 23 Stat. 679 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Mrs Ann E Gridley
Ch. 411 · 23 Stat. 679 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting an increase of pension to the widow of Major Thomas T. Thornburgh, late of the United States Army.
Ch. 412 · 23 Stat. 680 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Mrs Emily L. Alvord
Ch. 413 · 23 Stat. 680 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to the widow of the late Commander S. Dana Greene, United States Navy.
Ch. 414 · 23 Stat. 680 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the estates of Hugh and Byrd Douglas, deceased.
Ch. 415 · 23 Stat. 680 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Thomas Jeffries.
Ch. 416 · 23 Stat. 680 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Creet H. Dougherty.
Ch. 417 · 23 Stat. 681 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to John Boyle.
Ch. 418 · 23 Stat. 681 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Elizabeth Connor.
Ch. 419 · 23 Stat. 681 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Lemuel J. Bennett.
Ch. 420 · 23 Stat. 681 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Rachel Nickell.
Ch. 421 · 23 Stat. 681 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Brannin, Summers and Company.
Ch. 422 · 23 Stat. 682 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John B. Davis.
Ch. 423 · 23 Stat. 682 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William W. Thomas.
Ch. 424 · 23 Stat. 682 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Nathan H. Dunphe, of Bridgewater, in the State of Massachusetts.
Ch. 425 · 23 Stat. 683 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Mrs Lydia S Huggins
Ch. 426 · 23 Stat. 683 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Nelly Roberts.
Ch. 427 · 23 Stat. 683 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John Taylor and Son.
Ch. 428 · 23 Stat. 683 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Annie E, Bailey,
Ch. 429 · 23 Stat. 683 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of J. H. Hammond.
Ch. 430 · 23 Stat. 684 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to George W. Bean.
Ch. 431 · 23 Stat. 684 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Calvin L. Knick.
Ch. 432 · 23 Stat. 684 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Edward Kraemer
Ch. 433 · 23 Stat. 684 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Harrison Mitchell, late of Company K, Forty-eight Indiana Volunteers,
Ch. 434 · 23 Stat. 684 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Joseph McIntosh,
Ch. 435 · 23 Stat. 685 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Mary Allen.
Ch. 436 · 23 Stat. 685 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of the State National Bank of Boston Massachusetts.
Ch. 437 · 23 Stat. 685 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to James Stockton.
Ch. 438 · 23 Stat. 685 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Richard Dillon.
Ch. 439 · 23 Stat. 686 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Jacob Funkhouser
Ch. 440 · 23 Stat. 686 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act granting a pension to Marion D. Egbert.
Ch. 441 · 23 Stat. 686 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Lieutenant Nathaniel Johnson Coffin,
Ch. 442 · 23 Stat. 686 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Sarah E. Webster, administratrix.
Ch. 444 · 23 Stat. 687 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of certain citizens of Marion County, Tennessee.
Ch. 445 · 23 Stat. 687 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Elizabeth W. Creighton.
Ch. 446 · 23 Stat. 687 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Mary Royal,
Ch. 447 · 23 Stat. 687 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Charles Milk.
Ch. 448 · 23 Stat. 688 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Grigsby Foster,
Ch. 449 · 23 Stat. 688 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Rose Dougherty,
Ch. 450 · 23 Stat. 688 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John P. Peterson.
Ch. 451 · 23 Stat. 688 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Doctor Thomas J, Jones
Ch. 452 · 23 Stat. 688 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of John F. Chase.
Ch. 453 · 23 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Charles L. Alden
Ch. 454 · 23 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Clark G. Maine.
Ch. 455 · 23 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Frederick Hutten.
Ch. 456 · 23 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Daniel McAlpin
Ch. 457 · 23 Stat. 689 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Joseph F, Wilson,
Ch. 458 · 23 Stat. 690 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Pardon H. Morey.
Ch. 459 · 23 Stat. 690 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Mrs Ida P. Belcher.
Ch. 460 · 23 Stat. 690 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Christian Arndt
Ch. 461 · 23 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William Stansberry.
Ch. 462 · 23 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Addison M. Copen.
Ch. 463 · 23 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of William D. Farnsworth.
Ch. 464 · 23 Stat. 691 · March 3, 1885 · Private law · Original text

By Congress

119th 2025 · 136
118th 2023 · 274
117th 2021 · 365
116th 2019 · 344
115th 2017 · 443
114th 2015 · 329
113th 2013 · 296
112th 2011 · 284
111th 2009 · 385
110th 2007 · 460
109th 2005 · 483
108th 2003 · 504
107th 2001 · 337
106th 1999 · 604
105th 1997 · 404
104th 1995 · 337
103rd 1993 · 473
102nd 1991 · 610
101st 1989 · 666
100th 1987 · 761
99th 1985 · 688
98th 1983 · 677
97th 1981 · 529
96th 1979 · 736
95th 1977 · 805
94th 1975 · 729
93rd 1973 · 774
92nd 1971 · 769
91st 1969 · 942
90th 1967 · 1,002
89th 1965 · 1,283
88th 1963 · 1,026
87th 1961 · 1,573
86th 1959 · 1,292
85th 1957 · 1,721
84th 1955 · 1,909
83rd 1953 · 1,784
82nd 1951 · 1,640
81st 1949 · 2,000
80th 1947 · 1,365
79th 1945 · 1,626
78th 1943 · 1,157
77th 1941 · 1,489
76th 1939 · 1,659
75th 1937 · 1,760
74th 1935 · 1,724
73rd 1933 · 975
72nd 1931 · 861
71st 1929 · 1,506
70th 1927 · 1,722
69th 1925 · 1,423
68th 1923 · 996
67th 1921 · 930
66th 1919 · 594
65th 1917 · 453
64th 1915 · 684
63rd 1913 · 700
62nd 1911 · 717
61st 1909 · 881
60th 1907 · 621
59th 1905 · 7,020
58th 1903 · 4,043
57th 1901 · 2,773
56th 1899 · 1,959
55th 1897 · 1,438
54th 1895 · 947
53rd 1893 · 712
52nd 1891 · 721
51st 1889 · 2,188
50th 1887 · 1,824
49th 1885 · 1,452
48th 1883 · 970
47th 1881 · 761
46th 1879 · 650
45th 1877 · 746
44th 1875 · 578
43rd 1873 · 859
42nd 1871 · 1,014
41st 1869 · 771
40th 1867 · 769
39th 1865 · 715
38th 1863 · 516
37th 1861 · 526
36th 1859 · 382
35th 1857 · 314
34th 1855 · 435
33rd 1853 · 540
32nd 1851 · 308
31st 1849 · 171
30th 1847 · 456
29th 1845 · 356
28th 1843 · 279
27th 1841 · 525
26th 1839 · 147
25th 1837 · 533
24th 1835 · 459
23rd 1833 · 392
22nd 1831 · 461
21st 1829 · 370
20th 1827 · 234
19th 1825 · 269
18th 1823 · 337
17th 1821 · 237
16th 1819 · 210
15th 1817 · 262
14th 1815 · 305
13th 1813 · 271
12th 1811 · 208
11th 1809 · 119
10th 1807 · 106
9th 1805 · 110
8th 1803 · 112
7th 1801 · 96
6th 1799 · 115
5th 1797 · 157
4th 1795 · 86
3rd 1793 · 133
2nd 1791 · 80
1st 1789 · 119

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.