Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act granting a pension to Frederick W. Travis.

   Ch. 766 · 25 Stat. 1142 · August 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act granting a pension to William Jack.

   Ch. 767 · 25 Stat. 1142 · August 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act granting a pension to James T. Bourland.

   Ch. 768 · 25 Stat. 1142 · August 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act granting a pension to Louise Paul.

   Ch. 769 · 25 Stat. 1142 · August 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act granting a pension to Julia A. Rhoads.

   Ch. 770 · 25 Stat. 1143 · August 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Fredericka Hauser.

   Ch. 771 · 25 Stat. 1143 · August 6, 1888 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act supplementary to the act of July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes.” and also of the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and other acts amendatory of said first-named act.

   Ch. 772 · 25 Stat. 382 · August 7, 1888 · Original text

8. An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River and to establish it as a post-road.

   Ch. 773 · 25 Stat. 385 · August 7, 1888 · Original text

9. An Act granting a pension to Hiram R. Ellis.

   Ch. 774 · 25 Stat. 1143 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act granting a pension to Mary Kelley.

    Ch. 775 · 25 Stat. 1143 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act granting a pension to Eliza Trefren.

    Ch. 776 · 25 Stat. 1144 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act granting a pension to George W. Flowers.

    Ch. 777 · 25 Stat. 1144 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act granting a pension to Isaac N. Johnson.

    Ch. 778 · 25 Stat. 1144 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act granting a pension to Caroline Pautel.

    Ch. 779 · 25 Stat. 1144 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act granting a pension to the widow of Samuel Clary.

    Ch. 780 · 25 Stat. 1144 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act granting a pension to James McIntyre.

    Ch. 781 · 25 Stat. 1145 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act granting a pension to George W. Croop.

    Ch. 782 · 25 Stat. 1145 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act granting a pension to Mary E. Forren.

    Ch. 783 · 25 Stat. 1145 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act releasing the estate of Asher R. Eddy, late lieutenant-colonel and quartermaster-general United States Army, deceased, and George W. Gibbs and R. L. Ogden, sureties on his official bond.

    Ch. 784 · 25 Stat. 1145 · August 7, 1888 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act to authorize the juries of the United States circuit and district courts to be used interchangeably, and to provide for drawing talesmen.

    Ch. 785 · 25 Stat. 365 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

21. An act to provide for the issuing and recording of certain commissions in the Department of Justice.

    Ch. 786 · 25 Stat. 387 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

22. An act requiring notice of deficiency in accounts of principals to be given to sureties upon bonds of United States officials, and fixing a limitation of time within which suits shall be brought against said sureties upon said bonds.

    Ch. 787 · 25 Stat. 387 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

23. An act to provide for a term of court at Quincy, Illinois.

    Ch. 788 · 25 Stat. 387 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

24. An act to subdivide the western judicial district of Louisiana.

    Ch. 789 · 25 Stat. 388 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

25. An act providing for the holding of the United States courts in the city of Newark, New Jersey.

    Ch. 790 · 25 Stat. 388 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

26. An act to provide for the erection of a public building at Statesville, North Carolina.

    Ch. 791 · 25 Stat. 389 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

27. An act to provide for holding terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Kentucky at Owensborough, in said district, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 792 · 25 Stat. 389 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

28. An act for the erection of a public building at Brownsville, Texas.

    Ch. 793 · 25 Stat. 390 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

29. An act for the erection of a public building at Ottumwa, Iowa.

    Ch. 794 · 25 Stat. 391 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

30. Joint resolution providing for a duplicate of the compilation of the reports of the Senate and House of Representatives from eighteen hundred and fifteen to eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

    Public Resolution 36 · 25 Stat. 628 · August 8, 1888 · Original text

31. An Act for the relief of W. H. Tibbits.

    Ch. 795 · 25 Stat. 1145 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act for the relief of Caroline T. Cockle.

    Ch. 796 · 25 Stat. 1146 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act for the relief of James O’Brien.

    Ch. 797 · 25 Stat. 1146 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act for the relief of C. L. Wilson.

    Ch. 798 · 25 Stat. 1146 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act for the relief of the Southern Illinois Normal University.

    Ch. 799 · 25 Stat. 1146 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act granting an increase of pension to William M. Whaley.

    Ch. 800 · 25 Stat. 1147 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act granting a pension to Samuel F. C. Garrison.

    Ch. 801 · 25 Stat. 1147 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act granting a pension to Lydia Calhoun.

    Ch. 802 · 25 Stat. 1147 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act granting a pension to Joseph Peve.

    Ch. 803 · 25 Stat. 1147 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act granting a pension to Mary Foster.

    Ch. 804 · 25 Stat. 1147 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act granting a pension to George E. Wells.

    Ch. 805 · 25 Stat. 1148 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act granting a pension to Mrs Catharine Peterson.

    Ch. 806 · 25 Stat. 1148 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act granting a pension to William C. Tilly.

    Ch. 807 · 25 Stat. 1148 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act granting a pension to John Taaffe.

    Ch. 808 · 25 Stat. 1148 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act granting a pension to William C. Lord.

    Ch. 809 · 25 Stat. 1148 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act granting a pension to Anna M. Arnold, widow of John Arnold.

    Ch. 810 · 25 Stat. 1148 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act granting a pension to Susan F. Scott.

    Ch. 811 · 25 Stat. 1149 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act granting a pension to Levi Little.

    Ch. 812 · 25 Stat. 1149 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act granting a pension to Eliza Mathews.

    Ch. 813 · 25 Stat. 1149 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act granting a pension to George C. Chase.

    Ch. 814 · 25 Stat. 1149 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act restoring the right of pre-emption to Jesse A. Corn.

    Ch. 815 · 25 Stat. 1149 · August 8, 1888 · Private law · Original text

52. An act to cancel certain reservations of lands, on account of live-oak, in the southwestern land-district of the State of Louisiana.

    Ch. 816 · 25 Stat. 391 · August 9, 1888 · Original text

53. An act to provide for the holding of the district court of the United States at Salina, Kansas.

    Ch. 817 · 25 Stat. 392 · August 9, 1888 · Original text

54. An act in relation to marriage between white men and Indian women.

    Ch. 818 · 25 Stat. 392 · August 9, 1888 · Original text

55. An act to authorize the leasing of the school and university lands in the Territory of Wyoming, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 819 · 25 Stat. 393 · August 9, 1888 · Original text

56. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Knoxville, Tennessee.

    Ch. 820 · 25 Stat. 394 · August 9, 1888 · Original text

57. An act to authorize the construction and maintenance of a railroad bridge by the Birmingham, Atlantic and Air Line Railroad, and Banking and Navigation Company across the Oconee River in Laurens County, State of Georgia.

    Ch. 821 · 25 Stat. 395 · August 9, 1888 · Original text

58. An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River, at or near the city of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 822 · 25 Stat. 396 · August 9, 1888 · Original text

59. An act to provide for two additional associate justices of the supreme court of Dakota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 823 · 25 Stat. 398 · August 9, 1888 · Original text

60. An act to amend the charter of the Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway Company.

    Ch. 824 · 25 Stat. 399 · August 9, 1888 · Original text

61. An Act to restore the homestead right of M. F. Vance of Akron, Colorado.

    Ch. 825 · 25 Stat. 1150 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act restoring to the pension-roll the name of Cynthia J. Carlton.

    Ch. 826 · 25 Stat. 1150 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act to increase the pension of Mrs. Minerva Eagle.

    Ch. 827 · 25 Stat. 1150 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act increasing the pension of William J. Heady.

    Ch. 828 · 25 Stat. 1150 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act to grant a pension to “Muck-a-pec-wak-keu-zah,” or “John,” an Indian who aided in saving the lives of many white people in the Indian outbreak in Minnesota in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

    Ch. 829 · 25 Stat. 1151 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act to grant a pension to Elizabeth O’Laughlin, the helpless and invalid daughter of Dennis O’Laughlin, late a member of Company I, Ninth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. 830 · 25 Stat. 1151 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act to place the name of Frederic Ronicke on the pension-roll.

    Ch. 831 · 25 Stat. 1151 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act to place the name of John J. Mitchell on the pension-roll.

    Ch. 832 · 25 Stat. 1151 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act to place the name of Samuel Massey on the pension-roll.

    Ch. 833 · 25 Stat. 1152 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act granting an increase of pension to Elnathan Meade.

    Ch. 834 · 25 Stat. 1152 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act granting an increase of pension to John A. Rolf.

    Ch. 835 · 25 Stat. 1152 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act granting an increase of pension to A. W. Rose.

    Ch. 836 · 25 Stat. 1152 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act granting an increase of pension to Charles Jewett.

    Ch. 837 · 25 Stat. 1152 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act granting an increase of pension to Rebecca Manlove.

    Ch. 838 · 25 Stat. 1153 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act for the relief of Eliza Russell, widow of Eldredge Russell.

    Ch. 839 · 25 Stat. 1153 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act for the relief of Mrs Delilah Whipps.

    Ch. 840 · 25 Stat. 1153 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act for the relief of Mary Nevels.

    Ch. 841 · 25 Stat. 1153 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act for the relief of Coburn D. Outten.

    Ch. 842 · 25 Stat. 1153 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act for the relief of John H. Claus.

    Ch. 843 · 25 Stat. 1154 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act for the relief of William H. Porter.

    Ch. 844 · 25 Stat. 1154 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act for the relief of Marshall Burtrum.

    Ch. 845 · 25 Stat. 1154 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act granting a pension to Rosanna K. Griffin.

    Ch. 846 · 25 Stat. 1154 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Judith Deig.

    Ch. 847 · 25 Stat. 1154 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act granting a pension to William M. Dicken

    Ch. 848 · 25 Stat. 1155 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act granting a pension to Martha J. Rushford, widow of John Rushford.

    Ch. 849 · 25 Stat. 1155 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act granting a pension to Malinda Hardin.

    Ch. 850 · 25 Stat. 1155 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act granting a pension to Sarah Riddle.

    Ch. 851 · 25 Stat. 1155 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act granting a pension to Ralph P. Wilborn.

    Ch. 852 · 25 Stat. 1155 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act granting a pension to Moses T. Coffey.

    Ch. 853 · 25 Stat. 1156 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act granting a pension to Myron Teachout.

    Ch. 854 · 25 Stat. 1156 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act granting a pension to Mrs Maria Hulse.

    Ch. 855 · 25 Stat. 1156 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act granting a pension to Daniel K. Harris.

    Ch. 856 · 25 Stat. 1156 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Betsy Lockwood.

    Ch. 857 · 25 Stat. 1156 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act granting a pension to Mary C. Davis.

    Ch. 858 · 25 Stat. 1157 · August 9, 1888 · Private law · Original text

95. An act to provide for the enlargement of the dimensions of the wharf at Fortress Monroe.

    Ch. 859 · 25 Stat. 399 · August 10, 1888 · Original text

96. An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of Certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 860 · 25 Stat. 400 · August 11, 1888 · Original text

97. An Act granting a pension to Elizabeth B. Sailer.

    Ch. 861 · 25 Stat. 1157 · August 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act granting a pension to Mrs Catharine Sinnott.

    Ch. 862 · 25 Stat. 1157 · August 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act granting a pension to David A. Yeaw.

    Ch. 863 · 25 Stat. 1157 · August 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act granting a pension to William A. Humes.

     Ch. 864 · 25 Stat. 1158 · August 11, 1888 · Private law · Original text