Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 1244 · 26 Stat. 567 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

2. An act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to annul and cancel the subdivision of part of square one hundred and twelve, known as Cooke Park.

   Ch. 1245 · 26 Stat. 625 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

3. An act to provide for the incorporation of trust, loan, mortgage, and certain other corporations within the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 1246 · 26 Stat. 625 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

4. An act to confirm certain sales of the Kansas trust and diminished, reserve lands in the State of Kansas.

   Ch. 1247 · 26 Stat. 632 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

5. An act granting the right of way to the Sherman and Northwestern Railway Company through the Indian Territory, and for oilier purposes.

   Ch. 1248 · 26 Stat. 632 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

6. An act to refer to the Court of Claims certain claims of the Shawnee and Delaware Indians and the freedmen of the Cherokee Nation, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 1249 · 26 Stat. 636 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

7. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at some accessible point in Boone County, in the State of Missouri.

   Ch. 1250 · 26 Stat. 637 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

8. An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Osage River at some accessible point in the county of Benton, in the State of Missouri.

   Ch. 1251 · 26 Stat. 639 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

9. An act giving, upon conditions and limitations therein contained, the assent of the United States to certain leases of rights to mine coal in the Choctaw Nation.

   Ch. 1252 · 26 Stat. 640 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

10. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the most accessible point within one mile above or below the town of Quindaro, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas.

    Ch. 1253 · 26 Stat. 643 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

11. An act relative to the Rancho Punta de la Laguna.

    Ch. 1254 · 26 Stat. 644 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

12. An act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for compensation of members in the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories.

    Ch. 1255 · 26 Stat. 645 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

13. An act defining certain duties of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1256 · 26 Stat. 645 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

14. An act opening to settlement a portion of the Fort Randall Military Reservation in South Dakota, and to dispose of the Sisseton Military Reservation.

    Ch. 1257 · 26 Stat. 646 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

15. An act for the relief of settlers on Northern Pacific Railroad indemnity lands.

    Ch. 1258 · 26 Stat. 647 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

16. An act to promote the administration of justice in the Army.

    Ch. 1259 · 26 Stat. 648 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

17. An act granting leaves of absence to clerks and employees in first and second class post-offices, and to employees of the Post-Office Department employed in the mail-bag repair shops connected with said Department.

    Ch. 1260 · 26 Stat. 648 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

18. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Altamaha River.

    Ch. 1261 · 26 Stat. 649 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

19. An act to amend section twenty-three hundred and ninety-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 1262 · 26 Stat. 650 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

20. An act to set apart certain tracts of land in the State of California as forest reservations.

    Ch. 1263 · 26 Stat. 650 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

21. An act to reconvey certain lands to the county of Ormsby, State of Nevada.

    Ch. 1264 · 26 Stat. 652 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

22. An act to authorize the conveyance of certain Absentee Shawnee Indian lands in Kansas.

    Ch. 1265 · 26 Stat. 652 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

23. An act to increase the efficiency and reduce the expenses of the Signal Corps of the Army, and to transfer the Weather Service to the Department of Agriculture.

    Ch. 1266 · 26 Stat. 653 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

24. An act establishing a customs collection district to consist of the States of North Dakota and South Dakota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1267 · 26 Stat. 655 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

25. An act to provide for railroad crossings in the Indian Territory.

    Ch. 1268 · 26 Stat. 655 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

26. An act for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands of the United States and to authorize the taking and filing of final proofs in certain cases.

    Ch. 1269 · 26 Stat. 657 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

27. An act to authorize the appointment of Assistant Surgeons Thomas Owens and William Martin, United States Navy, not in the line of promotion, to the position of Surgeons, United States Navy, not in the line of promotion, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1270 · 26 Stat. 657 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

28. An act to provide for the reduction of the Round Valley Indian Reservation, in the State of California, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1271 · 26 Stat. 658 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

29. An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain damages resulting to any person who had settled upon the Crow Creek and Winnebago Reservations in South Dakota between February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

    Ch. 1272 · 26 Stat. 659 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

30. An act granting right of way to the Red Lake and Western Railway and Navigation Company across Red Lake Reservation, in Minnesota, and granting said company the right to take lands for terminal railroad and warehouse purposes.

    Ch. 1273 · 26 Stat. 660 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

31. An act to extend and amend “An act to authorize the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 1274 · 26 Stat. 661 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

32. An act granting to the Northern Pacific and Yakima Irrigation Company a right of way through the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington.

    Ch. 1275 · 26 Stat. 661 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

33. An act for the protection of actual settlers who have made homesteads or preemption entries upon the public lands of the United States in the State of Florida upon which deposits of phosphate have been discovered since such entries were made.

    Ch. 1276 · 26 Stat. 662 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

34. An act granting to the Newport and King’s Valley Railroad Company the right of way through the Siletz Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 1277 · 26 Stat. 663 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

35. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Rio Grande Junction Railway Company certain lands in the State of Colorado in lieu of certain other lands in said State conveyed by the said company to the United States.

    Ch. 1278 · 26 Stat. 664 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

36. Joint resolution to permit the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license to use a pier, as petitioned by vessel owners of Chicago, Illinois.

    Public Resolution 60 · 26 Stat. 685 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

37. Joint resolution authorizing the use of a portion of the United States military reservation at Chattanooga for a public park, by the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

    Public Resolution 61 · 26 Stat. 685 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

38. Joint resolution extending the “Act fixing the rate of interest to be charged on arrearages of general and special taxes now due the District of Columbia, if paid within a time specified” to October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety.

    Public Resolution 62 · 26 Stat. 686 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

39. Joint resolution to allow the Postmaster-General to expend ten thousand dollars to test at small towns and villages the system of the free-delivery service, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 63 · 26 Stat. 686 · October 1, 1890 · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of J. L. Cain and others.

    Ch. 1279 · 26 Stat. 1313 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of Snowdon and Mason.

    Ch. 1280 · 26 Stat. 1314 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of the administatrix of the estate of George W. Lawrence.

    Ch. 1281 · 26 Stat. 1314 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act for the relief of Timothy Hennessy.

    Ch. 1282 · 26 Stat. 1315 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act granting a pension to John M. Dunn.

    Ch. 1283 · 26 Stat. 1315 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act granting an increase of pension to Michael McGarvey.

    Ch. 1284 · 26 Stat. 1315 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act granting a pension to Sarah E. Palmer.

    Ch. 1285 · 26 Stat. 1316 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act granting a pension to John C. Morrison.

    Ch. 1286 · 26 Stat. 1316 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act granting a pension to Julia W. Freeman.

    Ch. 1287 · 26 Stat. 1316 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act granting a pension to Emily Onderdonk.

    Ch. 1288 · 26 Stat. 1316 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act granting a pension to Abraham Zimmerman.

    Ch. 1289 · 26 Stat. 1316 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act granting a pension to Nancy J. Dorlos.

    Ch. 1290 · 26 Stat. 1317 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act granting a pension to Arthur Connery.

    Ch. 1291 · 26 Stat. 1317 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act granting a pension to Catlena Lyman.

    Ch. 1292 · 26 Stat. 1317 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act granting a pension to Martha A. Bowling.

    Ch. 1293 · 26 Stat. 1317 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act granting a pension to Eben Muse.

    Ch. 1294 · 26 Stat. 1317 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Mary J. Sanders, the widow of Thomas A. Sanders, who was a scout in the service of the United States Army in the war of the rebellion.

    Ch. 1295 · 26 Stat. 1318 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act granting a pension to Hannah E. Winney

    Ch. 1296 · 26 Stat. 1318 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Susan A. Dean.

    Ch. 1297 · 26 Stat. 1318 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act granting a pension to Thelbert H. Head.

    Ch. 1298 · 26 Stat. 1318 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act granting a pension to John Frohlin.

    Ch. 1299 · 26 Stat. 1318 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act granting a pension to Mira Baldwin.

    Ch. 1300 · 26 Stat. 1319 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act granting a pension to N. W. Leasure.

    Ch. 1301 · 26 Stat. 1319 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act granting a pension to Theodore L. Alexander.

    Ch. 1302 · 26 Stat. 1319 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act granting a pension to Louis P. Noros, late of the Jeannette Expedition to the Arctic Ocean.

    Ch. 1303 · 26 Stat. 1319 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act granting a pension to Samuel S. Humphreys

    Ch. 1304 · 26 Stat. 1319 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act granting a pension to Asa Joiner.

    Ch. 1305 · 26 Stat. 1320 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act granting a pension to Isaac N. Jacobs.

    Ch. 1306 · 26 Stat. 1320 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act granting a pension to Emily Fry.

    Ch. 1307 · 26 Stat. 1320 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act for the relief of Alexander F. Dutton.

    Ch. 1308 · 26 Stat. 1320 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act for the relief of Mary A. Blaisdell.

    Ch. 1309 · 26 Stat. 1321 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act for the relief of Adeline Bly, widow of a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 1310 · 26 Stat. 1321 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act granting an increase of pension to E. T. Hanlon.

    Ch. 1311 · 26 Stat. 1321 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act granting an increase of pension to Joseph M. Wilson.

    Ch. 1312 · 26 Stat. 1321 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act granting an increase of pension to Lovey Aldrich.

    Ch. 1313 · 26 Stat. 1321 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act granting an increase of pension to Edwin Reeder, late a member of Company A, First Tennessee Infantry, in the war with Mexico.

    Ch. 1314 · 26 Stat. 1322 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act to increase the pension of Mrs. Maria B. Judah.

    Ch. 1315 · 26 Stat. 1322 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act to increase the pension of Daniel P. Roberts, late a second lieutenant in Company F, of the Third Regiment of Missouri Volunteers in the war with Mexico.

    Ch. 1316 · 26 Stat. 1322 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act to increase the pension of Mary Y. Dewees.

    Ch. 1317 · 26 Stat. 1322 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act to increase the pension of Noah Bisbee, formerly private Company K, Eighty-ninth Regiment New York Volunteers.

    Ch. 1318 · 26 Stat. 1322 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act to grant a pension to Ann Roberts.

    Ch. 1319 · 26 Stat. 1323 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act increasing the pension of Francis Gilman.

    Ch. 1320 · 26 Stat. 1323 · October 1, 1890 · Private law · Original text

82. Joint resolution authorizing the printing of the annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on Internal Commerce for eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

    Public Resolution 1 · 26 Stat. 1111 · December 5, 1890 · Original text

83. Joint resolution to print the eulogies on Honorable James B. Beck.

    Public Resolution 2 · 26 Stat. 1111 · December 9, 1890 · Original text

84. Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to issue one thousand stands of arms to each of the States of North and South Dakota, Wyoming. Montana, and Nebraska.

    Public Resolution 3 · 26 Stat. 1111 · December 9, 1890 · Original text

85. An act making an appropriation to construct a road and approaches from the city of Alexandria, Virginia, to the National Military Cemetery near that city.

    Ch. 1 · 26 Stat. 687 · December 11, 1890 · Original text

86. An act to detach the county of Grayson, in the State of Texas, from the northern and attach it to the eastern judicial district of said State.

    Ch. 2 · 26 Stat. 687 · December 11, 1890 · Original text

87. An act to authorize the Lake Charles Road and Bridge Company, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, to construct and maintain bridges across English Bayou and Calcasieu River.

    Ch. 3 · 26 Stat. 688 · December 11, 1890 · Original text

88. An act for the relief of General George Stoneman.

    Ch. 4 · 26 Stat. 689 · December 15, 1890 · Original text

89. An act to amend chapter one thousand and sixty-five of the acts of the first session of the Fiftieth Congress.

    Ch. 5 · 26 Stat. 689 · December 15, 1890 · Original text

90. An act to authorize the payment of drawback or rebate in certain cases.

    Ch. 6 · 26 Stat. 689 · December 15, 1890 · Original text

91. An act to authorize the Commissioners to use and occupy as a site for a truck-house the space at the intersection of Fourteenth and C streets and Ohio avenue northwest.

    Ch. 7 · 26 Stat. 690 · December 15, 1890 · Original text

92. An act for the relief of the trustees of Anacostia Lodge, number twenty-one, Free and Accepted Masons, of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 8 · 26 Stat. 690 · December 15, 1890 · Original text

93. An Act granting a pension to John Grant.

    Ch. 9 · 26 Stat. 1327 · December 15, 1890 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act for the relief of Martha A. Foster.

    Ch. 10 · 26 Stat. 1327 · December 15, 1890 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act for the relief of Mrs. Charity P. Harrison.

    Ch. 11 · 26 Stat. 1327 · December 15, 1890 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act for the relief of George R. Wright.

    Ch. 12 · 26 Stat. 1328 · December 15, 1890 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act for the relief of James S Smith.

    Ch. 13 · 26 Stat. 1328 · December 15, 1890 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act granting an increase of pension to James W. Lathe.

    Ch. 14 · 26 Stat. 1328 · December 15, 1890 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act granting a pension to George Everts.

    Ch. 15 · 26 Stat. 1328 · December 15, 1890 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act to increase the pension of Stephen L. Kearney.

     Ch. 16 · 26 Stat. 1329 · December 15, 1890 · Private law · Original text