Every law Congress has passed

2,188 laws of the 51st Congress, 1889–1891

1. An Act granting a pension to John L. Russell.

   Ch. 859 · 26 Stat. 1248 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act granting a pension to Jeremiah White.

   Ch. 860 · 26 Stat. 1248 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act granting a pension to Thomas Todd.

   Ch. 861 · 26 Stat. 1248 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act granting a pension to Caroline Huddell White.

   Ch. 862 · 26 Stat. 1249 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act granting a pension to Mary J. Milroy.

   Ch. 863 · 26 Stat. 1249 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act granting a pension to Mary C. Winslow.

   Ch. 864 · 26 Stat. 1249 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act granting a pension to Mary E. Greening, widow of Orlando A. Greening, who served in the Indian war.

   Ch. 865 · 26 Stat. 1249 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act granting a pension to Maria E. Baker.

   Ch. 866 · 26 Stat. 1249 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act granting a pension to J. G. Featherstone.

   Ch. 867 · 26 Stat. 1250 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act granting an increase of pension to Harrison De F. Young.

    Ch. 868 · 26 Stat. 1250 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act granting an increase of pension to Augustus J. Wernitsch.

    Ch. 869 · 26 Stat. 1250 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act increasing the pension of Andrew J. Konkle.

    Ch. 870 · 26 Stat. 1250 · September 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

13. An act to authorize the construction of two bridges across Bœuf River, Louisiana.

    Ch. 871 · 26 Stat. 422 · September 4, 1890 · Original text

14. An act giving the consent of the United States to the State of North Dakota to appropriate for the use of the State Agricultural College, as a site for that institution, section thirty-six township one hundred and forty, range forty-nine west, situate in the county of Cass, in said State.

    Ch. 872 · 26 Stat. 424 · September 4, 1890 · Original text

15. An act constituting Cairo, Illinois, a port of delivery in the customs collection district of New Orleans.

    Ch. 873 · 26 Stat. 424 · September 4, 1890 · Original text

16. An act extending the criminal jurisdiction of the circuit and district courts to the Great Lakes and their connecting waters.

    Ch. 874 · 26 Stat. 424 · September 4, 1890 · Original text

17. An act in regard to collision at sea.

    Ch. 875 · 26 Stat. 425 · September 4, 1890 · Original text

18. An act to provide an American register for the steamer Italia.

    Ch. 876 · 26 Stat. 425 · September 4, 1890 · Original text

19. An Act for the relief of the Norfolk County ferry committee.

    Ch. 877 · 26 Stat. 1251 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act granting a pension to Benjamin W. Botts.

    Ch. 878 · 26 Stat. 1251 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act granting a pension to Jeanie Brent Davenport.

    Ch. 879 · 26 Stat. 1251 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act granting a pension to William P. Madden.

    Ch. 880 · 26 Stat. 1251 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act granting a pension to William N. Cline.

    Ch. 881 · 26 Stat. 1251 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act granting a pension to Zephaniah H. Bones.

    Ch. 882 · 26 Stat. 1252 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act granting a pension to Phillipe Ray.

    Ch. 883 · 26 Stat. 1252 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act granting a pension to Daniel Donovan.

    Ch. 884 · 26 Stat. 1252 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Amanda L. Wisner.

    Ch. 885 · 26 Stat. 1252 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act granting a pension to Mena Holmes.

    Ch. 886 · 26 Stat. 1252 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act granting a pension to Eveline A. Noyes.

    Ch. 887 · 26 Stat. 1253 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act granting a pension to Rozalia Junk.

    Ch. 888 · 26 Stat. 1253 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act granting a pension to Betsey Mansfield.

    Ch. 889 · 26 Stat. 1253 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act granting a pension to Lloyd H. Snell.

    Ch. 890 · 26 Stat. 1253 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act granting a pension to John Swearer.

    Ch. 891 · 26 Stat. 1253 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act granting a pension to N. L. Young.

    Ch. 892 · 26 Stat. 1254 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act granting a pension to John McLaren.

    Ch. 893 · 26 Stat. 1254 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act granting a pension to T. A. Morton.

    Ch. 894 · 26 Stat. 1254 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act granting a pension to Charles A. Norton.

    Ch. 895 · 26 Stat. 1254 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act granting a pension to Mary S. Miller.

    Ch. 896 · 26 Stat. 1254 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Robert J. Baugness, deceased.

    Ch. 897 · 26 Stat. 1255 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of Henrietta E. Boggs.

    Ch. 898 · 26 Stat. 1255 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of Isabella Hance, administrative of William Hance.

    Ch. 899 · 26 Stat. 1255 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of Mary A, Doud.

    Ch. 900 · 26 Stat. 1255 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act granting increase of pension to Hugh Brady.

    Ch. 901 · 26 Stat. 1256 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act granting increase of pension to Daniel H. Kent.

    Ch. 902 · 26 Stat. 1256 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act granting relief to Samuel D. Harper.

    Ch. 903 · 26 Stat. 1256 · September 4, 1890 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act to remove the charge of desertion from the record of William H. Fenton.

    Ch. 904 · 26 Stat. 1256 · September 5, 1890 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act to remove the charge of desertion against George Fetterman

    Ch. 905 · 26 Stat. 1256 · September 5, 1890 · Private law · Original text

48. An act authorizing the Lexington Pontoon Bridge Company to construct and maintain a pontoon bridge across the Missouri River, and to legalize the bridge already constructed, at the city of Lexington, in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 906 · 26 Stat. 426 · September 13, 1890 · Original text

49. An act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 907 · 26 Stat. 426 · September 19, 1890 · Original text

50. An act to amend certain sections of the Revised Statutes relating to lotteries, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 908 · 26 Stat. 465 · September 19, 1890 · Original text

51. Joint resolution to print eulogies on Honorable David Wilber.

    Public Resolution 45 · 26 Stat. 679 · September 19, 1890 · Original text

52. Joint resolution to print eulogies on the honorable Newton W. Nutting.

    Public Resolution 46 · 26 Stat. 680 · September 19, 1890 · Original text

53. Joint resolution to print the eulogies upon Samuel J. Randall.

    Public Resolution 47 · 26 Stat. 680 · September 19, 1890 · Original text

54. An act to establish a port of delivery at Sioux City, Iowa.

    Ch. 909 · 26 Stat. 466 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

55. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to survey and mark the seventh standard parallel between the States of North and South Dakota.

    Ch. 910 · 26 Stat. 467 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

56. An act to provide for the establishment of a port of delivery at Rock Island, Illinois.

    Ch. 911 · 26 Stat. 467 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

57. An act to amend an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to amend sections twenty-five hundred and thirty-three and twenty-five hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes, and making Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, a port of entry, in place of Middletown.”

    Ch. 912 · 26 Stat. 467 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

58. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to procure and submit to Congress a proposal for the sale to the United States of the western part of the Crow Indian Reservation, in Montana.

    Ch. 913 · 26 Stat. 468 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

59. An act to extend the time for the redemption of school farms in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

    Ch. 914 · 26 Stat. 468 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

60. An act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Red River of the North,” approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

    Ch. 915 · 26 Stat. 468 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

61. An act to construct a wagon bridge across the Mississippi River at Hastings, Minnesota.

    Ch. 916 · 26 Stat. 469 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

62. An act to create a port of entry at Eagle Pass, Texas, in lieu of Indianola, Texas.

    Ch. 917 · 26 Stat. 470 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

63. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Winona, Minnesota.

    Ch. 918 · 26 Stat. 470 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

64. An act to authorize the Haines’ Brackett, Fort Clark and Rio Grande Railroad Company to construct and operate a railway through the Fort Clark military reservation in Texas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 919 · 26 Stat. 472 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

65. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Savannah River by the Middle Georgia and Atlantic Railway Company.

    Ch. 920 · 26 Stat. 472 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

66. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the Cairo and Tennessee River Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers,” Approved January eighth, Eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

    Ch. 921 · 26 Stat. 474 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

67. An act to amend section five hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes so as to provide for the holding of the regular terms of the circuit and district courts for the western districts of Virginia.

    Ch. 922 · 26 Stat. 474 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

68. An act to authorize the construction of bridges over the Savannah, Ocmulgee, and Oconee Rivers by the Macon and Atlantic Railway Company.

    Ch. 923 · 26 Stat. 474 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

69. An act to authorize the Chicago, Henderson, Bowling Green and Chattanooga Railway Company to construct a bridge over Green and Barren Rivers, in the State of Kentucky.

    Ch. 924 · 26 Stat. 476 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

70. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain lands, and to grant the proceeds of such sale to the town of Pelican, Oneida County, Wisconsin, for school purposes.

    Ch. 925 · 26 Stat. 477 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

71. An act to set apart a certain tract of land in the State of California as a public park.

    Ch. 926 · 26 Stat. 478 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

72. Joint resolution to print the Annual Reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the year’s eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety.

    Public Resolution 48 · 26 Stat. 681 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

73. Joint resolution providing for the printing of the Agricultural Report for eighteen hundred and ninety.

    Public Resolution 49 · 26 Stat. 681 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

74. Joint resolution granting permission to officers and enlisted men of the Army and Navy of the United States to wear the badges adopted by military, societies of men who served in the war of the revolution, the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, the Mexican war, and the war of the rebellion.

    Public Resolution 50 · 26 Stat. 681 · September 25, 1890 · Original text

75. An Act to remove the charge of desertion and of having enlisted in the Confederate service from the records of the War Department standing against John McFarland and to grant him an honorable discharge.

    Ch. 927 · 26 Stat. 1257 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act to correct the military record of William Smith, of Tennessee.

    Ch. 928 · 26 Stat. 1257 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act for the relief of Henry G. Healy.

    Ch. 929 · 26 Stat. 1257 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act for the relief of Christian Fredericksen.

    Ch. 930 · 26 Stat. 1257 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Lewis Steelman.

    Ch. 931 · 26 Stat. 1258 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act granting a pension to Lucy Hale.

    Ch. 932 · 26 Stat. 1258 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act granting an increase of pension to Laura L. Wallen.

    Ch. 933 · 26 Stat. 1258 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act to relieve Benjamin F. Smith of the charge of desertion.

    Ch. 934 · 26 Stat. 1258 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act to restore the pension of Jane M. McCrabb.

    Ch. 935 · 26 Stat. 1259 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act restoring the pension of Mrs. Catharine Sonne.

    Ch. 936 · 26 Stat. 1259 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act to relieve Enoch Venter from the charge of desertion.

    Ch. 937 · 26 Stat. 1259 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act to remove the charge of desertion against William Gibbon.

    Ch. 952 · 26 Stat. 1259 · September 25, 1890 · Private law · Original text

87. An act granting right of way across United States lands in Saint Augustine, Florida.

    Ch. 938 · 26 Stat. 478 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

88. An act to restore telegraphic communication between Tatoosh Island and Port Angeles, Washington.

    Ch. 939 · 26 Stat. 479 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

89. An act to grant to the Mobile and Dauphin Island Railroad and Harbor Company a right to trestle across the shoal water between Cedar Point and Dauphin Island.

    Ch. 940 · 26 Stat. 479 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

90. An act authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Tennessee River at or near Knoxville, Tennessee.

    Ch. 941 · 26 Stat. 481 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

91. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Chattahoochee River in the State of Georgia.

    Ch. 942 · 26 Stat. 482 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

92. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Oconee River in the State of Georgia.

    Ch. 943 · 26 Stat. 483 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

93. An act to amend section thirty-five hundred and ten of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and to provide for new designs of authorized devices of United States coins.

    Ch. 944 · 26 Stat. 484 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

94. An act to discontinue the coinage of the three-dollar and one-dollar gold pieces and three-cent nickel piece.

    Ch. 945 · 26 Stat. 485 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

95. An act creating an additional land office in the State of North Dakota.

    Ch. 946 · 26 Stat. 485 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

96. An act granting the right of way to the Hutchinson and Southern Railroad Company to construct and operate a railroad, telegraph, and telephone line from the city of Anthony, in the State of Kansas, through the Indian Territory, to some point in the county of Grayson, in the State of Texas.

    Ch. 947 · 26 Stat. 485 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

97. An act granting to the Rio Grande Southern Railroad Company the right of way through the Fort Lewis military reservation in La Plata County, in the State of Colorado.

    Ch. 948 · 26 Stat. 489 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

98. An act establishing a free public bathing beach on the Potomac River near Washington Monument.

    Ch. 949 · 26 Stat. 490 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

99. An act for the relief of certain property owners in the City of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 950 · 26 Stat. 490 · September 26, 1890 · Original text

100. An act to grant school district numbered seven of the township of Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan, certain lots of land for school purposes.

     Ch. 951 · 26 Stat. 490 · September 26, 1890 · Original text