Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act granting a pension to Mary G. Crocker.

   Ch. 282 · 25 Stat. 1065 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act granting a pension to Noah S. Cramer.

   Ch. 283 · 25 Stat. 1065 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Smith.

   Ch. 284 · 25 Stat. 1066 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act granting a pension to Elizabeth Twigg.

   Ch. 285 · 25 Stat. 1066 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Lepha A. Osborn.

   Ch. 286 · 25 Stat. 1066 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act to increase the pension of David M. Rennoe.

   Ch. 287 · 25 Stat. 1066 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act for the relief of James M. McKeehan.

   Ch. 288 · 25 Stat. 1066 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act granting a pension to Elizabeth Ward.

   Ch. 289 · 25 Stat. 1067 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act to pension Peter Clark, Jr.

   Ch. 290 · 25 Stat. 1067 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act granting a pension to Nancy Van Dyne.

    Ch. 291 · 25 Stat. 1067 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act granting a pension to Aletta V. Quick.

    Ch. 292 · 25 Stat. 1067 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act granting a pension to David L. Partlow.

    Ch. 293 · 25 Stat. 1067 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act granting a pension to John E. Smith.

    Ch. 294 · 25 Stat. 1068 · May 18, 1888 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act for the relief of Francis Daniels.

    Ch. 296 · 25 Stat. 1068 · May 19, 1888 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act to establish an additional land-district in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 297 · 25 Stat. 152 · May 21, 1888 · Original text

16. An Act to detach the county of Audrain, in the State of Missouri from the eastern, and attach it to the western judicial district of said State.

    Ch. 298 · 25 Stat. 153 · May 21, 1888 · Original text

17. An Act granting to the city of Grand Forks, Dakota, the right to build two free bridges across Red River.

    Ch. 299 · 25 Stat. 153 · May 21, 1888 · Original text

18. Joint resolution to print twelve thousand five hundred copies of the eulogies on Seth C. Moffatt, late a Representative in Congress.

    Public Resolution 18 · 25 Stat. 623 · May 21, 1888 · Original text

19. An Act for the relief of Thomas H. Norton and James McLean.

    Ch. 300 · 25 Stat. 1038 · May 21, 1888 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act to grant a pension to Mrs. Elvira L. Johnson, widow of Commodore Philip C. Johnson.

    Ch. 301 · 25 Stat. 1068 · May 21, 1888 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act granting a pension to Harriet L. Vaughan.

    Ch. 302 · 25 Stat. 1068 · May 21, 1888 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act granting an increase of pension to William Irving.

    Ch. 303 · 25 Stat. 1069 · May 21, 1888 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act for the relief of Emory R. Seward.

    Ch. 304 · 25 Stat. 1069 · May 21, 1888 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act for the relief of Merchants’ National Bank, of Poughkeepsie, New York.

    Ch. 305 · 25 Stat. 1069 · May 21, 1888 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act to provide for the survey of certain historic grounds, locations, and military works.

    Ch. 306 · 25 Stat. 155 · May 24, 1888 · Original text

26. An Act authorizing the President of the United States to arrange a conference between the United States of America and the Republics of Mexico, Central and South America, Hayti, San Domingo, and the Empire of Brazil.

    Ch. 307 · 25 Stat. 155 · May 24, 1888 · Original text

27. An Act to limit the hours that letter-carriers in cities shall be employed per day.

    Ch. 308 · 25 Stat. 157 · May 24, 1888 · Original text

28. An Act to increase the limit of cost for the public building in course of erection at Charleston, South Carolina.

    Ch. 309 · 25 Stat. 157 · May 24, 1888 · Original text

29. An Act to restore to the public domain a part of the Uintah Valley Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Utah, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 310 · 25 Stat. 157 · May 24, 1888 · Original text

30. Joint resolution to enable the President of the United States to extend to certain inhabitants of Japan a suitable recognition of their humane treatment of the survivors of the crew of the American bark Cashmere.

    Public Resolution 19 · 25 Stat. 623 · May 24, 1888 · Original text

31. An Act for the relief of Edward Fitzgerald.

    Ch. 311 · 25 Stat. 1070 · May 24, 1888 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act for the relief of the estate of Thomas L. Price, deceased.

    Ch. 312 · 25 Stat. 1070 · May 24, 1888 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act for the relief of the heirs of John S. Fillmore, deceased.

    Ch. 314 · 25 Stat. 1071 · May 24, 1888 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act for the relief of the heirs of the late Solomon Spitzer.

    Ch. 315 · 25 Stat. 1071 · May 24, 1888 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act for the relief of the First National Bank of Marion, Iowa.

    Ch. 313 · 25 Stat. 2070 · May 24, 1888 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act to remove the political disabilities of John Rutledge of South Carolina.

    Ch. 316 · 25 Stat. 1071 · May 25, 1888 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act to authorize Commander John W. Philip. United States Navy, to accept a silver pitcher from the Government of the United States of Colombia.

    Ch. 317 · 25 Stat. 1071 · May 25, 1888 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to complete a contract for the sale of certain real estate to Job Barnard.

    Ch. 318 · 25 Stat. 1072 · May 25, 1888 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act granting certain lands in the Territory of Wyoming for public purposes.

    Ch. 319 · 25 Stat. 158 · May 28, 1888 · Original text

40. An Act changing the name of the port of Lamberton, in the district of Burlington, New Jersey, to the port of Trenton, in said district.

    Ch. 320 · 25 Stat. 158 · May 28, 1888 · Original text

41. An Act making an appropriation to enable the several Executive Departments of the Government and the Bureau of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries, to participate in the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, to be held at Cincinnati. Ohio, from July fourth to October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

    Ch. 321 · 25 Stat. 159 · May 28, 1888 · Original text

42. An Act to grant an increase of pension to Frederick Beno.

    Ch. 322 · 25 Stat. 1072 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act granting a pension to John Kalbfleisch.

    Ch. 323 · 25 Stat. 1072 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act for the relief of Basile Champagne.

    Ch. 324 · 25 Stat. 1072 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act granting a pension to Melvina Greenwood.

    Ch. 325 · 25 Stat. 1072 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act granting a pension to Amastasia Walter.

    Ch. 326 · 25 Stat. 1073 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act granting a pension to Stephen Singleton.

    Ch. 327 · 25 Stat. 1073 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act granting a pension to James Lucas.

    Ch. 328 · 25 Stat. 1073 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act granting a pension to Emma Von Bernewitz.

    Ch. 329 · 25 Stat. 1073 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act granting a pension to Lemuel R. Rea.

    Ch. 330 · 25 Stat. 1073 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act granting a pension to William Lemons.

    Ch. 331 · 25 Stat. 1074 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act authorizing a loan of arms and equipments to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.

    Ch. 332 · 25 Stat. 1074 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the relief of Thomas C. Dickey.

    Ch. 333 · 25 Stat. 1074 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the relief of William P. Thorne.

    Ch. 334 · 25 Stat. 1074 · May 28, 1888 · Private law · Original text

55. Joint resolution authorizing and directing the payment of the salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for the month of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

    Public Resolution 20 · 25 Stat. 623 · May 29, 1888 · Original text

56. Joint Resolution authorizing the loan of tents and tent equipage to the veteran organizations of the Society of the Army of the Potomac.

    Public Resolution 21 · 25 Stat. 623 · May 29, 1888 · Original text

57. An Act for the relief of Henry Brock.

    Ch. 335 · 25 Stat. 1074 · May 29, 1888 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act granting to the Washington and Idaho Railroad Company the right of way through the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 336 · 25 Stat. 160 · May 30, 1888 · Original text

59. An Act to grant to the Fort Smith and El Paso Railway Company a right of way through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 337 · 25 Stat. 162 · May 30, 1888 · Original text

60. An Act to revive the grade of General in the United States Army.

    Ch. 338 · 25 Stat. 165 · June 1, 1888 · Original text

61. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain citizens of Chicago, employees of the customhouse, for extra time service.

    Ch. 339 · 25 Stat. 165 · June 4, 1888 · Original text

62. An Act to amend section fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to timber depredations.

    Ch. 340 · 25 Stat. 166 · June 4, 1888 · Original text

63. An Act to establish a port of delivery at Grand Rapids, Michigan.

    Ch. 341 · 25 Stat. 166 · June 4, 1888 · Original text

64. An Act authorizing the construction and repair of the roads from the entrance to the reservation of the Presidio, at San Francisco. California, to the national cemetery on the same, and the fencing and protection of the said reservation and the cemetery thereon.

    Ch. 342 · 25 Stat. 167 · June 4, 1888 · Original text

65. An Act to authorize United States marshals to arrest offenders and fugitives from justice in Indian Territory.

    Ch. 343 · 25 Stat. 167 · June 4, 1888 · Original text

66. An Act granting to the Billings, Clark’s Fork and Cooke City Railroad Company the right of way through the Crow Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 344 · 25 Stat. 167 · June 4, 1888 · Original text

67. An Act granting to the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway Company the right of way through the Lac de Flambeau Indian Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin.

    Ch. 345 · 25 Stat. 169 · June 4, 1888 · Original text

68. An Act for the relief of John C. Weaver.

    Ch. 346 · 25 Stat. 1075 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act for the relief of the heirs of A. Gates Lee and heirs of B. P. Lee, deceased.

    Ch. 347 · 25 Stat. 1075 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act for the relief of the estate of C. M. Briggs, deceased.

    Ch. 348 · 25 Stat. 1075 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act granting a pension to Eliza Douglass

    Ch. 349 · 25 Stat. 1076 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act granting an increase of pension to Andrew Franklin, alias McKee.

    Ch. 350 · 25 Stat. 1076 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act granting a pension to Berry Day.

    Ch. 351 · 25 Stat. 1076 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act granting a pension to Mary Gammell.

    Ch. 352 · 25 Stat. 1076 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act granting a pension to Cordelia R. Jones.

    Ch. 353 · 25 Stat. 1076 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act granting a pension to Harlow B. Hyde.

    Ch. 354 · 25 Stat. 1077 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act granting a pension to George W. Peavey.

    Ch. 355 · 25 Stat. 1077 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act for the relief of Morgan Rawls.

    Ch. 356 · 25 Stat. 1077 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to place the name of James L. Henderson on the roll of Company B, Sixteenth Kentucky Volunteers.

    Ch. 357 · 25 Stat. 1077 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act granting a pension to General W. E. Woodruff.

    Ch. 358 · 25 Stat. 1077 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act for the relief of Thomas J. Taylor.

    Ch. 359 · 25 Stat. 1078 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act granting a pension to Abial G. Chamberlain.

    Ch. 360 · 25 Stat. 1078 · June 4, 1888 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act to provide a building for the use of the United States courts, post-office, custom-office, and internal-revenue office at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

    Ch. 361 · 25 Stat. 169 · June 6, 1888 · Original text

84. An Act to authorize the sale of a tract of land in the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, in the State of Kansas.

    Ch. 362 · 25 Stat. 170 · June 6, 1888 · Original text

85. An Act authorizing the construction of bridges across the Cape Fear River, Black River, and the Northeast River, in the State of North Carolina.

    Ch. 363 · 25 Stat. 171 · June 6, 1888 · Original text

86. An Act to authorize the construction of bridges across the Kentucky River, and its tributaries, by the Louisville, Cincinnati and Virginia Railway Company.

    Ch. 364 · 25 Stat. 172 · June 6, 1888 · Original text

87. An Act to enlarge, improve, and make repairs upon the United States courthouse and post-office building in Atlanta, Georgia, and to appropriate money therefor.

    Ch. 365 · 25 Stat. 173 · June 6, 1888 · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of S. H. Pearce.

    Ch. 366 · 25 Stat. 1078 · June 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act for the relief of Thomas A. Osborn.

    Ch. 367 · 25 Stat. 1078 · June 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act for the relief of John Powers.

    Ch. 368 · 25 Stat. 1078 · June 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 369 · 25 Stat. 173 · June 7, 1888 · Original text

92. An Act for the erection of a public building at Tallahassee, Florida.

    Ch. 370 · 25 Stat. 174 · June 7, 1888 · Original text

93. An Act to increase the appropriation for the erection of the public building at Sacramento, California.

    Ch. 371 · 25 Stat. 175 · June 7, 1888 · Original text

94. An Act for the erection of a public building in Paterson, New Jersey.

    Ch. 372 · 25 Stat. 175 · June 7, 1888 · Original text

95. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish agricultural stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto.”

    Ch. 373 · 25 Stat. 176 · June 7, 1888 · Original text

96. An Act making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 374 · 25 Stat. 176 · June 8, 1888 · Original text

97. An Act to authorize the removal of an obstruction to the navigation of Broad Creek, in the State of Delaware.

    Ch. 375 · 25 Stat. 177 · June 8, 1888 · Original text

98. An Act granting a pension to George W. Schell.

    Ch. 376 · 25 Stat. 1079 · June 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act granting a pension to Stephen C. Lobdill.

    Ch. 377 · 25 Stat. 1079 · June 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act granting a pension to Margaret M. Collins.

     Ch. 378 · 25 Stat. 1079 · June 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text