Every law Congress has passed

721 laws of the 52nd Congress, 1891–1893

1. An Act for the relief of Quincy McNeil.

   Ch. 371 · 27 Stat. 801 · August 3, 1892 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act for the relief of Samuel Howard.

   Ch. 372 · 27 Stat. 801 · August 3, 1892 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act for the relief of Neil Fisher.

   Ch. 373 · 27 Stat. 802 · August 3, 1892 · Private law · Original text

4. An act changing the date for the dedication of the buildings of the World’s Columbian Exposition.

   Ch. 374 · 27 Stat. 347 · August 4, 1892 · Original text

5. An act to authorize the entry of lands chiefly valuable for building stone under the placer mining laws.

   Ch. 375 · 27 Stat. 348 · August 4, 1892 · Original text

6. An act for the relief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

   Ch. 376 · 27 Stat. 348 · August 4, 1892 · Original text

7. Joint resolution to continue the provisions of existing laws providing temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.

   Public Resolution 31 · 27 Stat. 401 · August 4, 1892 · Original text

8. An Act granting a pension to Ellen Carpenter.

   Ch. 377 · 27 Stat. 802 · August 4, 1892 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act for the relief of Mrs Laura E. Skeels.

   Ch. 378 · 27 Stat. 802 · August 4, 1892 · Private law · Original text

10. An act granting pensions to army nurses.

    Ch. 379 · 27 Stat. 348 · August 5, 1892 · Original text

11. An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 380 · 27 Stat. 349 · August 5, 1892 · Original text

12. An act to aid in carrying out the act of Congress approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “Au act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, by holding an international exposition of arts, industries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mine, and sea. in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois,” and appropriating money therefor.

    Ch. 381 · 27 Stat. 389 · August 5, 1892 · Original text

13. An act for the relief of settlers upon certain lands in the States of North Dakota and South Dakota.

    Ch. 382 · 27 Stat. 390 · August 5, 1892 · Original text

14. An act to regulate the times for holding the terms of the United States Courts in the State of South Dakota.

    Ch. 383 · 27 Stat. 392 · August 5, 1892 · Original text

15. Joint resolution extending an invitation to the King and Queen of Spain and the descendants of Columbus to participate in the World’s Columbian Exposition.

    Public Resolution 32 · 27 Stat. 401 · August 5, 1892 · Original text

16. Joint resolution authorizing foreign exhibitors at the World’s Columbian Exposition to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits.

    Public Resolution 33 · 27 Stat. 402 · August 5, 1892 · Original text

17. Joint resolution to permit the railroads of the District to lay extra tracks, to accommodate the travelling public during the Grand Army Republic Encampment.

    Public Resolution 34 · 27 Stat. 402 · August 5, 1892 · Original text

18. Joint resolution providing for the payment of the salaries of officers and employees of Congress for the month of August, 1892.

    Public Resolution 35 · 27 Stat. 403 · August 5, 1892 · Original text

19. An Act granting a pension to Annie Davis.

    Ch. 384 · 27 Stat. 802 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act granting a pension to James McCammon.

    Ch. 385 · 27 Stat. 803 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act to restore to the pension rolls the name of Minnie Hall.

    Ch. 386 · 27 Stat. 803 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act granting an increase of pension to Walter Barrett.

    Ch. 387 · 27 Stat. 803 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act to pension Mrs Caroline A. Smith, widow of Philander Smith, of West Tisbury, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 388 · 27 Stat. 803 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act for the relief of Joseph C. Williams.

    Ch. 389 · 27 Stat. 803 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act granting an honorable discharge to John H. Randleman.

    Ch. 390 · 27 Stat. 804 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act to correct the military record of Jesse C. Taylor, Sixth Tennessee Cavalry.

    Ch. 391 · 27 Stat. 804 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Davis B. Bonfoey and Emma

    Ch. 392 · 27 Stat. 804 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act granting a pension to W. W. Harllee

    Ch. 393 · 27 Stat. 804 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act granting a pension to John A. Dean.

    Ch. 394 · 27 Stat. 804 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act granting a pension to Bertha Test.

    Ch. 395 · 27 Stat. 805 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act granting a pension to Thomas Cooper.

    Ch. 396 · 27 Stat. 805 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Esther J. Boone.

    Ch. 397 · 27 Stat. 805 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act granting an increase of pension to Jonas Deyo.

    Ch. 398 · 27 Stat. 805 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act granting an increase of pension to George W. Clark.

    Ch. 399 · 27 Stat. 806 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act to increase the pension of Ambrose B. Carlton.

    Ch. 400 · 27 Stat. 806 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act for the relief of Henry Cozad.

    Ch. 401 · 27 Stat. 806 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

37. Joint Resolution for the relief of Major Henry A. Read.

    Private Resolution 35 · 27 Stat. 808 · August 5, 1892 · Private law · Original text

38. Joint Resolution relating to the discharge of certain official duties in the office of Register of the Treasury.

    Public Resolution 1 · 27 Stat. 752 · December 13, 1892 · Original text

39. An Act terminating the reduction in the numbers of the Engineer Corps of the Navy.

    Ch. 1 · 27 Stat. 405 · December 16, 1892 · Original text

40. An Act granting an increase of pension to John Hallam.

    Ch. 2 · 27 Stat. 809 · December 16, 1892 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act granting increase of pension to Mary North, a widow of a soldier of war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and who is one hundred years old.

    Ch. 3 · 27 Stat. 809 · December 16, 1892 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of R. B. Woodson.

    Ch. 4 · 27 Stat. 809 · December 16, 1892 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act granting a pension to Tendoy, chief of the Bannocks, Shoshones, and Sheepeaters tribe of Indians.

    Ch. 5 · 27 Stat. 810 · December 19, 1892 · Private law · Original text

44. Joint Resolution to pay the officers and employes of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, on the twenty first day of said month.

    Public Resolution 2 · 27 Stat. 752 · December 20, 1892 · Original text

45. An Act making Saturday a half holiday for banking and trust company purposes in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 6 · 27 Stat. 405 · December 22, 1892 · Original text

46. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to reconvey to Lucius U. Maltby and Louise W. Maltby, his wife, Margaret Elizabeth Lucas, and the Sea Girt Laud Improvement Company a piece of laud selected as a site for the Squan Inlet light station. New Jersey, but found to be unsuitable for the purpose of said station.

    Ch. 7 · 27 Stat. 406 · December 22, 1892 · Original text

47. An Act to make Punta Gorda a subport of entry.

    Ch. 8 · 27 Stat. 407 · December 22, 1892 · Original text

48. An Act to provide for the sale of Navy-yard lands in the city of Brooklyn.

    Ch. 9 · 27 Stat. 407 · December 22, 1892 · Original text

49. An Act to provide an American register for the barge Sea Bird, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

    Ch. 10 · 27 Stat. 408 · December 22, 1892 · Original text

50. An Act to provide for the disposal of certain abandoned military reservations in the State of Wyoming.

    Ch. 12 · 27 Stat. 408 · December 22, 1892 · Original text

51. An Act to extend to Duluth, Minnesota, the privileges of the first section of an act entitled “An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,” approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.

    Ch. 11 · 27 Stat. 480 · December 22, 1892 · Original text

52. An Act for the relief of William H Taylor.

    Ch. 13 · 27 Stat. 810 · December 22, 1892 · Private law · Original text

53. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point Francisco Alcantara, of Venezuela.

    Private Resolution 3 · 27 Stat. 838 · December 22, 1892 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act to amend and enlarge the act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An act to provide for the distribution of the awards made under the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, concluded on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.”

    Ch. 14 · 27 Stat. 409 · December 28, 1892 · Original text

55. An Act to amend and enlarge the act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An act to provide for the distribution of the awards made under the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, concluded on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.”

    Ch. 15 · 27 Stat. 410 · December 28, 1892 · Original text

56. An Act to authorize the Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad Company to bridge across the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers.

    Ch. 16 · 27 Stat. 412 · December 28, 1892 · Original text

57. An Act to provide for the removal of the remains of the late Ensign D. F. Terrell, United States Navy, from Sitka. Alaska, to his home in the State of Mississippi.

    Ch. 17 · 27 Stat. 413 · January 5, 1893 · Original text

58. An Act granting increase of pension to soldiers of the Mexican war in certain cases.

    Ch. 18 · 27 Stat. 413 · January 5, 1893 · Original text

59. An Act for the relief of the Old Dominion Steamship Company.

    Ch. 19 · 27 Stat. 810 · January 5, 1893 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 20 · 27 Stat. 414 · January 6, 1893 · Original text

61. An Act authorizing the sale of land in the vicinity of Fort Mifflin on the river Delaware.

    Ch. 21 · 27 Stat. 414 · January 6, 1893 · Original text

62. An Act for relief of the Citadel Academy, of Charleston, South Carolina.

    Ch. 22 · 27 Stat. 415 · January 6, 1893 · Original text

63. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the sale of title of the United States in lot three in square south of square nine hundred and ninety,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

    Ch. 23 · 27 Stat. 415 · January 7, 1893 · Original text

64. Joint Resolution to print and bind two thousand extra copies each of the drill regulations for infantry, cavalry and artillery.

    Public Resolution 4 · 27 Stat. 752 · January 7, 1893 · Original text

65. An Act to amend an act approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety, authorizing the Natchitoches Cane River Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Cane River, in Louisiana.

    Ch. 24 · 27 Stat. 415 · January 9, 1893 · Original text

66. An Act to amend an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Red River, Louisiana, by the Rapides Bridge Company, limited.

    Ch. 25 · 27 Stat. 416 · January 9, 1893 · Original text

67. Joint Resolution to fill vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Resolution 5 · 27 Stat. 752 · January 9, 1893 · Original text

68. An Act granting a pension to Delzell R. Bradford, Twenty-fourth Michigan Volunteers.

    Ch. 26 · 27 Stat. 810 · January 9, 1893 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act to increase the pension of John Malloy.

    Ch. 27 · 27 Stat. 811 · January 9, 1893 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 28 · 27 Stat. 416 · January 10, 1893 · Original text

71. An Act to admit free of duty the wreckage of the ships Trenton and Vandalia, presented by the United States to the King of Samoa.

    Ch. 29 · 27 Stat. 417 · January 10, 1893 · Original text

72. An Act granting a pension to Margaret M. Rice.

    Ch. 30 · 27 Stat. 811 · January 11, 1893 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act granting an increase of pension to Samuel M. Campbell.

    Ch. 31 · 27 Stat. 811 · January 11, 1893 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act granting to the Blue Mountain Irrigation and Improvement Company a right of way for reservoir and canals through the Umatilla Indian Reservation in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 32 · 27 Stat. 417 · January 12, 1893 · Original text

75. An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Jennie Gray.

    Ch. 33 · 27 Stat. 811 · January 12, 1893 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act granting an increase of pension to John M. Roberts.

    Ch. 34 · 27 Stat. 811 · January 12, 1893 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act granting an increase of pension to William C. Tarkington.

    Ch. 35 · 27 Stat. 812 · January 12, 1893 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act for the relief of George W. McKinney.

    Ch. 36 · 27 Stat. 812 · January 12, 1893 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act for the relief of E. Darwin Gage, late lieutenant-colonel of One hundred and forty-eighth New York Infantry.

    Ch. 37 · 27 Stat. 812 · January 12, 1893 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act to amend the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for the relief of the Columbian University, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 38 · 27 Stat. 420 · January 14, 1893 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution providing for the printing of the Agricultural Report for eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

    Public Resolution 6 · 27 Stat. 753 · January 16, 1893 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cover back into the Treasury forty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars of the appropriation to Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians.

    Public Resolution 7 · 27 Stat. 753 · January 18, 1893 · Original text

83. An Act granting to the Yuma Pumping Irrigation Company the right of way for two ditches across that part of the Yuma Indian Reservation lying in Arizona.

    Ch. 39 · 27 Stat. 420 · January 20, 1893 · Original text

84. An Act for the relief of the estate of Isaac W. Talkington, deceased.

    Ch. 40 · 27 Stat. 813 · January 20, 1893 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act to amend the proviso to be found in connection with the free-delivery service, page five hundred and sixty-nine, twenty-fourth volume, Statutes at Large.

    Ch. 41 · 27 Stat. 421 · January 23, 1893 · Original text

86. An Act to remit the penalties on the light-house steamer Pansy.

    Ch. 42 · 27 Stat. 421 · January 23, 1893 · Original text

87. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to convey to school district, numbered twelve, of Kittery, Maine, a portion of Fort McClary military reservation, in exchange for other land.

    Ch. 43 · 27 Stat. 421 · January 23, 1893 · Original text

88. An Act to amend “An act to promote the construction of a safe deep-water harbor on the coast of Texas,” approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

    Ch. 44 · 27 Stat. 422 · January 23, 1893 · Original text

89. An Act for the relief of E. L. Jennings, late postmaster at Marshall, Texas.

    Ch. 45 · 27 Stat. 813 · January 24, 1893 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act for the relief of M. P. Deady.

    Ch. 46 · 27 Stat. 422 · January 25, 1893 · Original text

91. Joint Resolution making an appropriation of five thousand dollars for clearing the Potomac River of ice.

    Public Resolution 8 · 27 Stat. 753 · January 25, 1893 · Original text

92. An Act to authorize the construction of bridges across the Hiwassee, the Tennessee, and the Clinch rivers, in the State of Tennessee.

    Ch. 47 · 27 Stat. 422 · January 26, 1893 · Original text

93. An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River above New Orleans.

    Ch. 48 · 27 Stat. 424 · January 26, 1893 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to grant permits for the use of reservations and public spaces in the city of Washington, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 9 · 27 Stat. 754 · January 26, 1893 · Original text

95. An Act for the relief of Elisha Brown

    Ch. 49 · 27 Stat. 813 · January 26, 1893 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act to establish a lifesaving station at Gay Head, on the coast of Massachusetts.

    Ch. 50 · 27 Stat. 426 · January 27, 1893 · Original text

97. An Act relating to post traderships.

    Ch. 51 · 27 Stat. 426 · January 28, 1893 · Original text

98. An Act to authorize the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claims of certain New York Indians against the United States.

    Ch. 52 · 27 Stat. 426 · January 28, 1893 · Original text

99. An Act to amend “An act authorizing the construction of a railway, street railway, motor, wagon, and pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, and to extend the time for the completion of the bridge therein provided for.”

    Ch. 53 · 27 Stat. 427 · January 28, 1893 · Original text

100. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes.”

     Ch. 54 · 27 Stat. 427 · January 31, 1893 · Original text