Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Caroline G. Seyfforth.

   Ch. 378 · 26 Stat. 1172 · May 27, 1890 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act to pension Bartola Thebant, a soldier in the Florida Seminole Indian war of eighteen Hundred and forty-nine and eighteen hundred and fifty.

   Ch. 379 · 26 Stat. 1173 · May 27, 1890 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act to pension Mrs. Theodora M. Piatt.

   Ch. 380 · 26 Stat. 1173 · May 27, 1890 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act for the relief of Mary B. Hook.

   Ch. 381 · 26 Stat. 1173 · May 27, 1890 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act to change the route of the Rock Creek Railway Company. and for other purposes.

   Ch. 382 · 26 Stat. 121 · May 28, 1890 · Original text

6. An Act granting a pension to Catharine Simmonds.

   Ch. 383 · 26 Stat. 1173 · May 28, 1890 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act granting a pension to Amelia M. McAllister.

   Ch. 384 · 26 Stat. 1173 · May 28, 1890 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act granting a pension to Mary O. Hall.

   Ch. 385 · 26 Stat. 1174 · May 28, 1890 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act granting a pension to John Carter.

   Ch. 386 · 26 Stat. 1174 · May 28, 1890 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act granting a pension to John Dean.

    Ch. 387 · 26 Stat. 1174 · May 28, 1890 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act to provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Canton, Ohio.

    Ch. 388 · 26 Stat. 123 · June 2, 1890 · Original text

12. An Act for the relief of holders of District of Columbia special assessment certificates, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 389 · 26 Stat. 124 · June 2, 1890 · Original text

13. An Act to provide for the purchase of a site, and the erection of a public building thereon,’at Lynn, in the State of Massachusetts.

    Ch. 390 · 26 Stat. 125 · June 2, 1890 · Original text

14. An Act granting to the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company a right of way through certain Indian reservations in Minnesota.

    Ch. 391 · 26 Stat. 126 · June 2, 1890 · Original text

15. An Act granting a pension to Malvina P. Fletcher, widow of John B. Fletcher, late private Company D, First Michigan Engineers.

    Ch. 392 · 26 Stat. 1174 · June 2, 1890 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act granting a pension to William Clawson.

    Ch. 393 · 26 Stat. 1174 · June 3, 1890 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act granting a pension to Mary Pollock.

    Ch. 394 · 26 Stat. 1175 · June 3, 1890 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act granting a pension to Lydia K. White, a volunteer Army nurse.

    Ch. 395 · 26 Stat. 1175 · June 3, 1890 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Harriet Dada Emens, formerly Miss Hattie A. Dada.

    Ch. 396 · 26 Stat. 1175 · June 3, 1890 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act granting a pension to Juliet Opie H. Ayers.

    Ch. 397 · 26 Stat. 1175 · June 3, 1890 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act granting a pension to Edmund T. Spotswood.

    Ch. 398 · 26 Stat. 1175 · June 3, 1890 · Private law · Original text

22. Joint resolution to print the eulogies upon William D. Kelley.

    Public Resolution 26 · 26 Stat. 674 · June 5, 1890 · Original text

23. Joint resolution to provide for printing the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Richard W. Townshend.

    Public Resolution 27 · 26 Stat. 674 · June 5, 1890 · Original text

24. An Act to provide for the purchase of a site, and the erection of a public building thereon, at Aurora, in the State of Illinois.

    Ch. 399 · 26 Stat. 126 · June 6, 1890 · Original text

25. An Act to change the limit of appropriation for the public building at Jacksonville, Florida.

    Ch. 400 · 26 Stat. 127 · June 9, 1890 · Original text

26. An Act for the erection of a public building at Martinsburgh, West Virginia.

    Ch. 401 · 26 Stat. 127 · June 9, 1890 · Original text

27. An Act for the erection of a public building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

    Ch. 402 · 26 Stat. 128 · June 9, 1890 · Original text

28. An Act to fix the time and places for holding Federal courts in the district of Kansas.

    Ch. 403 · 26 Stat. 129 · June 9, 1890 · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of Caroline M. McDougal, widow of the late Rear-Admiral David McDougal, United States Navy.

    Ch. 404 · 26 Stat. 1176 · June 9, 1890 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to issue ordnance and ordnance stores to the State of Washington in payment for ordnance and ordnance stores borrowed by the State of Oregon of said State whilst a Territory during the Nez Percé Indian war of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 405 · 26 Stat. 130 · June 10, 1890 · Original text

31. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the Mississippi and Louisiana Bridge and Railroad Company of Natchez. Mississippi, to construct a bridge over the Mississippi River at or near Natchez, Mississippi,” approved July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

    Ch. 406 · 26 Stat. 130 · June 10, 1890 · Original text

32. An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues.

    Ch. 407 · 26 Stat. 131 · June 10, 1890 · Original text

33. An Act for the relief of the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, California.

    Ch. 408 · 26 Stat. 142 · June 10, 1890 · Original text

34. An Act to authorize the building of a bridge at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. across tile Arkansas River.

    Ch. 409 · 26 Stat. 143 · June 10, 1890 · Original text

35. An Act donating Lake Contrary, in the State of Missouri, to the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri.

    Ch. 410 · 26 Stat. 144 · June 10, 1890 · Original text

36. An Act for the registry or enrollment of the barges Herdis and Agostino C.

    Ch. 412 · 26 Stat. 145 · June 10, 1890 · Original text

37. An Act for the relief of Leonard Martin.

    Ch. 411 · 26 Stat. 1176 · June 10, 1890 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act to provide for an American register for a steamer to be named Australia, owned by a corporation of the State of California.

    Ch. 413 · 26 Stat. 145 · June 11, 1890 · Original text

39. An Act to provide an American register for the steamer Sacrobosco.

    Ch. 414 · 26 Stat. 145 · June 11, 1890 · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of Horatio Phillips Van Cleve.

    Ch. 415 · 26 Stat. 146 · June 11, 1890 · Original text

41. An Act granting a pension to Arthur D. and Alfred A. Lyford.

    Ch. 416 · 26 Stat. 1176 · June 11, 1890 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of James W. Harvey, as assignee of Joseph Parkins.

    Ch. 417 · 26 Stat. 1176 · June 11, 1890 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act to authorize the sale of timber on certain lands reserved for the use of the Menomonee tribe of Indians, in the State of Wisconsin.

    Ch. 418 · 26 Stat. 146 · June 12, 1890 · Original text

44. An Act to amend section one and section nine of an act entitled, “An act to authorize the Denison and Washita Valley Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.

    Ch. 419 · 26 Stat. 147 · June 12, 1890 · Original text

45. An Act granting a pension to William R. Arey.

    Ch. 421 · 26 Stat. 1177 · June 12, 1890 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check, drawn by O. M. Carter, lieutenant United States Engineer Corps, in favor of Charles C. Ely.

    Ch. 422 · 26 Stat. 148 · June 13, 1890 · Original text

47. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 423 · 26 Stat. 148 · June 13, 1890 · Original text

48. An Act for the relief of Alice E. Robertson.

    Ch. 420 · 26 Stat. 1177 · June 13, 1890 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act for the relief of the board of the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of Louisville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 424 · 26 Stat. 157 · June 16, 1890 · Original text

50. An Act for the erection of a shop at the National Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 425 · 26 Stat. 157 · June 16, 1890 · Original text

51. An Act to prevent desertions from the Army, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 426 · 26 Stat. 157 · June 16, 1890 · Original text

52. An Act to authorize the purchase of certain public lands by the city of Buffalo, Wyoming, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 427 · 26 Stat. 158 · June 17, 1890 · Original text

53. An Act to amand section two hundred and four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 428 · 26 Stat. 159 · June 17, 1890 · Original text

54. An Act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for public printing and binding for the last quarter of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 429 · 26 Stat. 159 · June 17, 1890 · Original text

55. An Act making appropriations to supply deficiences in the appropriations for the payment of pensions and for the expenses of the eleventh census, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 430 · 26 Stat. 160 · June 18, 1890 · Original text

56. An Act to amend section thirty-three hundred and fifty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 431 · 26 Stat. 161 · June 18, 1890 · Original text

57. An Act to provide for the exportation of fermented liquor in bond without payment of internal-revenue tax.

    Ch. 432 · 26 Stat. 162 · June 18, 1890 · Original text

58. An Act for the relief of the Southern Exposition at Louisville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 433 · 26 Stat. 162 · June 18, 1890 · Original text

59. Joint resolution for the relief of the Venezuela Steam Transportation Company.

    Public Resolution 28 · 26 Stat. 674 · June 19, 1890 · Original text

60. An Act for the relief of James H. Bacon.

    Ch. 434 · 26 Stat. 1177 · June 19, 1890 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the erection of a public building at New London, Connecticut.

    Ch. 435 · 26 Stat. 162 · June 20, 1890 · Original text

62. An Act authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to establish new harbor-lines in Portage Lake, Houghton County, Michigan.

    Ch. 436 · 26 Stat. 163 · June 20, 1890 · Original text

63. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

    Ch. 437 · 26 Stat. 163 · June 20, 1890 · Original text

64. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause certain lands heretofore withdrawn from market for reservoir purposes to be restored to the public domain subject to entry under the homestead law with certain restrictions.

    Ch. 438 · 26 Stat. 169 · June 20, 1890 · Original text

65. An Act granting an increase of pension to Henry Strawbridge.

    Ch. 439 · 26 Stat. 1177 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act granting a pension to Mary Ann Schirye.

    Ch. 440 · 26 Stat. 1178 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act for the relief of Humbert Brothers.

    Ch. 441 · 26 Stat. 1178 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act granting a pension to James S. Ferrin.

    Ch. 442 · 26 Stat. 1178 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act granting a pension to Margaret Stewart.

    Ch. 443 · 26 Stat. 1179 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Jane Potts

    Ch. 444 · 26 Stat. 1179 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act granting a pension to Annie E. Lambing.

    Ch. 445 · 26 Stat. 1179 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act granting a pension to Richard D. McKinney.

    Ch. 446 · 26 Stat. 1179 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act granting a pension to Alexander McCormick.

    Ch. 447 · 26 Stat. 1179 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act granting a pension to Joseph K. Hamilton, dependent father of John E. Hamilton, late private Company D, One hundred and third Pennsylvania Volunteers.

    Ch. 448 · 26 Stat. 1180 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act granting a pension to Daniel Sober.

    Ch. 449 · 26 Stat. 1180 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act granting a pension to Bridget Tole.

    Ch. 450 · 26 Stat. 1180 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act granting a pension to Charles H. Perry.

    Ch. 451 · 26 Stat. 1180 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act granting a pension to Jane A. Lusk.

    Ch. 452 · 26 Stat. 1180 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act granting a pension to John A. Miller.

    Ch. 453 · 26 Stat. 1181 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Pauline Hohmann

    Ch. 454 · 26 Stat. 1181 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act granting a pension to Delia T. S. Parnell.

    Ch. 455 · 26 Stat. 1181 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act granting a pension to William Crowford.

    Ch. 456 · 26 Stat. 1181 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act granting a pension to Mary A. Lefebvre, widow of Hiram Goodspeed, late of Company A, Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers.

    Ch. 457 · 26 Stat. 1181 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act granting a pension to William H. Chapman.

    Ch. 458 · 26 Stat. 1182 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Sallie J. Miner.

    Ch. 459 · 26 Stat. 1182 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act granting an increase of pension to John F. Chase.

    Ch. 460 · 26 Stat. 1182 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act granting an increase of pension to Samuel Chandler.

    Ch. 461 · 26 Stat. 1182 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act granting an increase of pension to Margaret A. Blake

    Ch. 463 · 26 Stat. 1183 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act granting an increase of pension to William Thompson.

    Ch. 464 · 26 Stat. 1183 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act granting an increase of pension to George Uhl.

    Ch. 466 · 26 Stat. 1183 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act to increase the pension of Joseph Claire.

    Ch. 466 · 26 Stat. 1183 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act to increase the pension of Isaiah Humrichouser.

    Ch. 467 · 26 Stat. 1184 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act to increase the pension of George C. Quick.

    Ch. 468 · 26 Stat. 1184 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act to increase the pension of Levi H. Utt.

    Ch. 469 · 26 Stat. 1184 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act for the relief of Barent S. Van Buren.

    Ch. 470 · 26 Stat. 1184 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act for the relief of Sarah D. Duke.

    Ch. 471 · 26 Stat. 1184 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act for the relief of Theodore J. Shandal

    Ch. 472 · 26 Stat. 1185 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act for the relief of William A. Benge.

    Ch. 473 · 26 Stat. 1185 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act for the relief of Asher Post.

    Ch. 474 · 26 Stat. 1185 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act increasing the pension of Thomas Ward.

     Ch. 475 · 26 Stat. 1185 · June 20, 1890 · Private law · Original text