Every law Congress has passed

1,824 laws of the 50th Congress, 1887–1889

1. An Act granting a pension to William H. Dowdall.

   Ch. 959 · 25 Stat. 1174 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act granting a pension to William J. Toncray, of Tennessee.

   Ch. 960 · 25 Stat. 1174 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act granting a pension to the minor children of Orison S. Baldwin.

   Ch. 961 · 25 Stat. 1175 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act granting a pension to Margaret J. McQuary.

   Ch. 962 · 25 Stat. 1175 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act granting a pension to Henry Crotsley.

   Ch. 963 · 25 Stat. 1175 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act granting a pension to Eliza A. Woods.

   Ch. 964 · 25 Stat. 1175 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act granting a pension to Susan Singleton.

   Ch. 965 · 25 Stat. 1175 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act granting a pension to Lucy A. Jordan.

   Ch. 966 · 25 Stat. 1176 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act granting a pension to Henry Alward, dependent father of Henry M. Alward.

   Ch. 967 · 25 Stat. 1176 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act granting a pension to Albert O. Robb.

    Ch. 968 · 25 Stat. 1176 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act granting a pension to Martha F. Lee.

    Ch. 969 · 25 Stat. 1176 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act granting a pension to John T. Vincent.

    Ch. 970 · 25 Stat. 1176 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act granting a pension to Rachel Morgan.

    Ch. 971 · 25 Stat. 1177 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act granting a pension to Philip Neuman.

    Ch. 972 · 25 Stat. 1177 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act granting a pension to Fidel Gates.

    Ch. 973 · 25 Stat. 1177 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act granting an increase of pension to John D. Jones.

    Ch. 974 · 25 Stat. 1177 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act granting an increase of pension to Almeron J. Patchin.

    Ch. 975 · 25 Stat. 1177 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act granting an increase of pension to Richard Hogan.

    Ch. 976 · 25 Stat. 1178 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act to increase the pension of W. B. Stokes.

    Ch. 977 · 25 Stat. 1178 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act to increase the pension of Charles Ritchey

    Ch. 978 · 25 Stat. 1178 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act to increase the pension of Martin McLaughlin, a survivor of the Mexican war, and late a private in Company D, Third United States Infantry.

    Ch. 979 · 25 Stat. 1178 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act to increase the pension of Charles S. Baker.

    Ch. 980 · 25 Stat. 1178 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act for the relief of William Collins.

    Ch. 981 · 25 Stat. 1179 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act for the relief of Mathew H. Fulton.

    Ch. 982 · 25 Stat. 1179 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act for the relief of A. F. Saint Sure Lindefelt

    Ch. 983 · 25 Stat. 1179 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act for the relief of John D. Munnerlyn.

    Ch. 984 · 25 Stat. 1179 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act for the relief of Elizabeth A. South.

    Ch. 985 · 25 Stat. 1179 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act for the relief of M. M. Gibson

    Ch. 986 · 25 Stat. 1180 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of Samuel E. Wilson.

    Ch. 987 · 25 Stat. 1180 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act for the relief of Nathan Cook.

    Ch. 988 · 25 Stat. 1180 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act for the relief of Emanuel H. Custer.

    Ch. 989 · 25 Stat. 1180 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act for the relief of Albert Watson.

    Ch. 990 · 25 Stat. 1181 · September 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

33. An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 991 · 25 Stat. 458 · September 7, 1888 · Original text

34. An Act for the relief of Samuel Purcell.

    Ch. 992 · 25 Stat. 1181 · September 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act granting a pension to Julia E. Ambrose.

    Ch. 993 · 25 Stat. 1181 · September 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act granting a pension to Charles Molseed.

    Ch. 994 · 25 Stat. 1181 · September 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act granting a pension to William J. Brown.

    Ch. 995 · 25 Stat. 1182 · September 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Helen B. Brown.

    Ch. 996 · 25 Stat. 1182 · September 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act granting a pension to Joseph Hunter, M. D.

    Ch. 997 · 25 Stat. 1182 · September 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act to restore Nathaniel Francis to the pension-roll.

    Ch. 998 · 25 Stat. 1183 · September 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

41. An act declaring that certain water reserve lands in the State of Wisconsin are and have been subject to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

    Ch. 999 · 25 Stat. 473 · September 10, 1888 · Original text

42. An act granting the Leavenworth Rapid Transit Railway Company the right to construct and operate its railroad through a portion of the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

    Ch. 1000 · 25 Stat. 474 · September 10, 1888 · Original text

43. An act amendatory of an act authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, Missouri, approved February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

    Ch. 1001 · 25 Stat. 474 · September 10, 1888 · Original text

44. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Mary R. Armstrong.

    Ch. 1002 · 25 Stat. 1183 · September 10, 1888 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act granting a pension to Jackson Chapman.

    Ch. 1003 · 25 Stat. 1183 · September 10, 1888 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act granting a pension to Mary M. Shattuck.

    Ch. 1004 · 25 Stat. 1183 · September 10, 1888 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act granting a pension to William F. Pike.

    Ch. 1005 · 25 Stat. 1183 · September 10, 1888 · Private law · Original text

48. An act empowering and directing the Commissioner of Navigation to register and enroll as American vessels certain sailing vessels of foreign construction, repaired in the port of Cleveland, Ohio and named the Josephine and M. C. Upper, respectively.

    Ch. 1006 · 25 Stat. 475 · September 11, 1888 · Original text

49. An act to provide for an American register for the steamer Saginaw, of New York.

    Ch. 1007 · 25 Stat. 475 · September 11, 1888 · Original text

50. An Act granting an increase of pension to Benjamin T. Baker.

    Ch. 1008 · 25 Stat. 1184 · September 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act for the relief of H. C. Markham.

    Ch. 1009 · 25 Stat. 1184 · September 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act for the relief of Sophia B. Moore.

    Ch. 1010 · 25 Stat. 1184 · September 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the relief of John H. Weeks.

    Ch. 1011 · 25 Stat. 1184 · September 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the relief of Thomas Strodder.

    Ch. 1012 · 25 Stat. 1185 · September 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act for the relief of Susan B. Hopkins, widow of Arvah Hopkins, late of Tallahassee, Florida, deceased.

    Ch. 1013 · 25 Stat. 1185 · September 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act to place the name of Delia Newman on pension-roll.

    Ch. 1014 · 25 Stat. 1185 · September 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

57. An act to prohibit the coining of Chinese laborers to the United States.

    Ch. 1015 · 25 Stat. 476 · September 13, 1888 · Original text

58. An Act for the relief of Mary M. Briggs.

    Ch. 1016 · 25 Stat. 1185 · September 13, 1888 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act granting a pension to Harriet Welch.

    Ch. 1017 · 25 Stat. 1186 · September 13, 1888 · Private law · Original text

60. An act for the erection of an appraiser’s warehouse in the city of New York, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1018 · 25 Stat. 479 · September 14, 1888 · Original text

61. An Act granting a pension to Jacob Pitner.

    Ch. 1019 · 25 Stat. 1186 · September 14, 1888 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act granting a pension to Carl M. Schwantes.

    Ch. 1020 · 25 Stat. 1186 · September 14, 1888 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Sarah J. Martin.

    Ch. 1021 · 25 Stat. 1186 · September 14, 1888 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act for the relief of Mathew O. Regan.

    Ch. 1022 · 25 Stat. 1186 · September 14, 1888 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act for the relief of the First National Bank of Portland, Oregon, for money advanced the Oregon Iron Works, the contractor in building the United States revenue-cutter Thomas Corwin, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1023 · 25 Stat. 1187 · September 14, 1888 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act to grant a pension to William Thields.

    Ch. 1024 · 25 Stat. 1188 · September 14, 1888 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act to remove the political disabilities of William L. Bradford.

    Ch. 1025 · 25 Stat. 1188 · September 14, 1888 · Private law · Original text

68. Joint resolution to continue the provisions of a Joint Resolution entitled a “Joint Resolution to continue the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a ‘Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government’.”

    Public Resolution 43 · 25 Stat. 630 · September 15, 1888 · Original text

69. An act for the construction of a revenue cutter for New Berne, North Carolina, to replace the revenue cutter Stevens.

    Ch. 1026 · 25 Stat. 480 · September 22, 1888 · Original text

70. An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1027 · 25 Stat. 481 · September 22, 1888 · Original text

71. An act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1028 · 25 Stat. 489 · September 22, 1888 · Original text

72. An Act for the relief of the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

    Ch. 1029 · 25 Stat. 1188 · September 22, 1888 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act for the relief of A. C. Bradford.

    Ch. 1030 · 25 Stat. 1188 · September 22, 1888 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act for the relief of Joseph R. White

    Ch. 1031 · 25 Stat. 1189 · September 22, 1888 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act for the relief of the Baptist Female College of Lexington, Missouri.

    Ch. 1032 · 25 Stat. 1189 · September 22, 1888 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act to increase the pension of Annie Gibson Yates.

    Ch. 1033 · 25 Stat. 1189 · September 22, 1888 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act for pension for Eliza N. Aiken.

    Ch. 1034 · 25 Stat. 1189 · September 22, 1888 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act to refund to Doctor F. O. Saint Clair ninety-seven dollars and eighty cents, duties on a monument to the memory of Francis J. Townshend, late of the United States Navy.

    Ch. 1035 · 25 Stat. 1190 · September 22, 1888 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act for the relief of Charles L. Bradwell.

    Ch. 1036 · 25 Stat. 1190 · September 24, 1888 · Private law · Original text

80. An act to amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions, and so forth.

    Ch. 1037 · 25 Stat. 491 · September 26, 1888 · Original text

81. An act to incorporate the Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator, and Railway Company.

    Ch. 1038 · 25 Stat. 492 · September 26, 1888 · Original text

82. An act amendatory of “An act relating to postal crimes and amendatory of the statutes therein mentioned,” approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1039 · 25 Stat. 496 · September 26, 1888 · Original text

83. An act to change the time of the sessions of the circuit and district courts for the Western Division of the Western District of Missouri.

    Ch. 1040 · 25 Stat. 497 · September 26, 1888 · Original text

84. An act to amend an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.” approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

    Ch. 1041 · 25 Stat. 497 · September 26, 1888 · Original text

85. Joint resolution appropriating two hundred thousand dollars to suppress infection in the interstate commerce of the United States.

    Public Resolution 44 · 25 Stat. 630 · September 26, 1888 · Original text

86. Joint resolution to continue the provisions of existing laws providing temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.

    Public Resolution 45 · 25 Stat. 631 · September 26, 1888 · Original text

87. An Act for the relief of Patrick H. Winston, junior.

    Ch. 1042 · 25 Stat. 1190 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act for the relief of Semon Bache and Company.

    Ch. 1043 · 25 Stat. 1190 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act for the relief of Addie Bell.

    Ch. 1044 · 25 Stat. 1191 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act granting a pension to Henry F. Kaiser.

    Ch. 1045 · 25 Stat. 1191 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act granting a pension to Henry R. Blakiston.

    Ch. 1046 · 25 Stat. 1191 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act granting a pension to Richard Hudson.

    Ch. 1047 · 25 Stat. 1191 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act granting a pension to Pierre Bottineau.

    Ch. 1048 · 25 Stat. 1192 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act granting a pension to Mary Sturgess.

    Ch. 1049 · 25 Stat. 1192 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act granting a pension to James McDonald.

    Ch. 1050 · 25 Stat. 1192 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Mary Morrison Elliott.

    Ch. 1051 · 25 Stat. 1192 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act granting a pension to Patrick Welch.

    Ch. 1052 · 25 Stat. 1192 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act granting a pension to Christian Winkel.

    Ch. 1053 · 25 Stat. 1193 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act to increase the pension of Samuel A. Tate.

    Ch. 1054 · 25 Stat. 1193 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act granting an increase of pension to George A. Washburn, late major Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers.

     Ch. 1055 · 25 Stat. 1193 · September 26, 1888 · Private law · Original text