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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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1,452 laws of the 49th Congress, 1885–1887

  1. An Act for the relief of General Speed S. Fry.

    Ch. 406 · 24 Stat. 930 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act for the relief of Sarah A. Jones.

    Ch. 407 · 24 Stat. 930 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act granting a pension to Mary M. Thompson.

    Ch. 408 · 24 Stat. 930 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act granting a pension to Jacob Teits.

    Ch. 409 · 24 Stat. 930 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. S. C. Goodin.

    Ch. 410 · 24 Stat. 930 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act granting a pension to Mrs Almira Ambler.

    Ch. 411 · 24 Stat. 931 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act to remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Henry B. Jay.

    Ch. 412 · 24 Stat. 931 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act for the relief of T. J. Payne.

    Ch. 413 · 24 Stat. 931 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act for the relief of J. M. English, administrator of the estate o Richard Fitzpatrick, deceased.

    Ch. 414 · 24 Stat. 931 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act for the removal of the charge of desertion from John Rockwell, late a private in Company F, One hundred and twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. 415 · 24 Stat. 932 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act granting a pension to Henry P. Reed.

    Ch. 416 · 24 Stat. 932 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act for the relief of Henry Linebaugh, late of Company A, Third Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteers.

    Ch. 417 · 24 Stat. 932 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act for the relief of George Lemon.

    Ch. 418 · 24 Stat. 932 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act granting a pension to Missouri Anderson.

    Ch. 419 · 24 Stat. 933 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act granting a pension to Joseph M. Potter.

    Ch. 420 · 24 Stat. 933 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act to confirm to Emile Guerin and Cheri P. Major title to certain lands.

    Ch. 421 · 24 Stat. 933 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act for the relief of Thomas P. Westmoreland.

    Ch. 422 · 24 Stat. 933 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act granting a pension to Peter P. Hoffman

    Ch. 423 · 24 Stat. 933 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act to increase the pension of Lewis M. Strong.

    Ch. 424 · 24 Stat. 934 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act for the relief of Isaac Crawford.

    Ch. 425 · 24 Stat. 934 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act Directing the Secretary of War to cause the name of Fred B. Barnes to be entered as a private on the muster-roll of Company I, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 426 · 24 Stat. 934 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act granting relief to Henry Durkee.

    Ch. 427 · 24 Stat. 935 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act for the relief of Samuel F. Rice.

    Ch. 428 · 24 Stat. 935 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act granting a pension to Thomas J. Hays.

    Ch. 429 · 24 Stat. 935 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act granting a pension to Sabin Stocking.

    Ch. 430 · 24 Stat. 936 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act to increase the pension of Richard Foreman.

    Ch. 431 · 24 Stat. 936 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act granting a pension to Moses Williams

    Ch. 432 · 24 Stat. 936 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act to increase the pension of Captain Frank Bell.

    Ch. 433 · 24 Stat. 936 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Glassbrener and Mary Glassbrener.

    Ch. 434 · 24 Stat. 936 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 435 · 24 Stat. 937 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act for the relief of Samuel P. Evans.

    Ch. 436 · 24 Stat. 967 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  32. An Act for the relief of William Schuchardt, United States commercial agent at Piedras Negras, Mexico.

    Ch. 437 · 24 Stat. 967 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  33. An Act for the relief of B. B. Connor, of Louisville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 438 · 24 Stat. 967 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  34. An Act granting a pension to Alice Kelley.

    Ch. 439 · 24 Stat. 968 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  35. An Act for the relief of Miss Eula E. Henry.

    Ch. 440 · 24 Stat. 968 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  36. An Act granting a pension to James Smithpeter.

    Ch. 441 · 24 Stat. 968 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  37. An Act for the relief of Samuel M. Gaines.

    Ch. 442 · 24 Stat. 968 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  38. An Act for the relief of John A. London.

    Ch. 443 · 24 Stat. 969 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  39. An Act for relief of A. S. Bloom.

    Ch. 444 · 24 Stat. 969 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  40. An Act granting a pension to Mary Renfro.

    Ch. 445 · 24 Stat. 969 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  41. An Act for the relief of William M. Morrison.

    Ch. 446 · 24 Stat. 969 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  42. An Act for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Samuel H. Moer.

    Ch. 447 · 24 Stat. 970 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  43. An Act for the relief of Alexander Worrall.

    Ch. 448 · 24 Stat. 970 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  44. An Act to remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Philip Taylor.

    Ch. 449 · 24 Stat. 970 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  45. An Act to remove the charge of desertion against William Figley.

    Ch. 450 · 24 Stat. 970 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  46. An Act for the relief of George D. Paul.

    Ch. 451 · 24 Stat. 971 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  47. An Act granting a pension to Mary Parrott.

    Ch. 452 · 24 Stat. 971 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  48. An Act granting an increase of pension to H. H. Dodd.

    Ch. 453 · 24 Stat. 971 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  49. An Act placing the name of Mrs. Lydia Burdick on the pension-roll.

    Ch. 454 · 24 Stat. 971 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  50. An Act for the relief of William C. Spencer.

    Ch. 455 · 24 Stat. 971 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  51. An Act granting a pension to Lawrence O'Conner.

    Ch. 456 · 24 Stat. 972 · March 3, 1887 · Private law · Original text

  52. An Act granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. Hilliker.

    Ch. 457 · 24 Stat. 972 · March 3, 1887 · 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.