Every law Congress has passed

712 laws of the 53rd Congress, 1893–1895

1. Joint Resolution Making available appropriations for the payment of Session employees of the House and Semite during the first session of the Fifty-third Congress.

   Public Resolution 1 · 28 Stat. 10 · August 17, 1893 · Original text

2. Joint Resolution Providing for the appropriate commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the laying of the Corner Stone of the Capitol of the United States, September Eighteenth, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-three.

   Public Resolution 2 · 28 Stat. 10 · August 17, 1893 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Making immediately available the appropriations for mileage of Senators and Members of the House of Representatives.

   Public Resolution 3 · 28 Stat. 11 · August 21, 1893 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction, at the Military Academy at West Point, Alberto Guirola, of Salvador.

   Private Resolution 18 · 27 Stat. 838 · August 28, 1893 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act In aid of the California Midwinter International Exposition.

   Ch. 1 · 28 Stat. 1 · September 1, 1893 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution To make the provisions of the act of May Fourteenth, Ono Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety, which provides for townsite entries of lands in a portion of what is known as Oklahoma applicable to the territory known as the “Cherokee Outlet”, and to make the provisions of said act applicable to town-sites in the “Cherokee Outlet.”

   Public Resolution 4 · 28 Stat. 11 · September 1, 1893 · Original text

7. An Act To provide for certain urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 2 · 28 Stat. 2 · September 7, 1893 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution To make the eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three a holiday within the District of Columbia.

   Public Resolution 5 · 28 Stat. 11 · September 9, 1893 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution To permit the use of certain ensigns, flags and signal numbers to decorate the Capitol and its approaches, September eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

   Public Resolution 6 · 28 Stat. 11 · September 9, 1893 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution Providing for the erection of a suitable building for the storage of documents for the use of the Senate.

    Public Resolution 7 · 28 Stat. 12 · September 13, 1893 · Original text

11. An Act To provide for clerical assistance in the Health Department of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 3 · 28 Stat. 2 · October 2, 1893 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution Empowering the National Board of Commissioners of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park to authorize the State Boards, or organizations building monuments in the Park, to use the materials in said Park, agreeably to such regulations as it may adopt.

    Public Resolution 8 · 28 Stat. 12 · October 2, 1893 · Original text

13. An Act To extend the time for completing the work of the Eleventh Census, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 4 · 28 Stat. 3 · October 3, 1893 · Original text

14. Joint Resolution Authorizing the State of Wisconsin to place in Statuary Hall at the Capitol the statue of Pere Marquette.

    Public Resolution 9 · 28 Stat. 12 · October 14, 1893 · Original text

15. Joint Resolution Fixing the qualification to vote and to hold office in the Cherokee Outlet, Oklahoma Territory, at the first municipal elections.

    Public Resolution 10 · 28 Stat. 13 · October 17, 1893 · Original text

16. An Act Granting settlers on certain lands in Oklahoma Territory the right to commute their homestead entries, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 5 · 28 Stat. 3 · October 20, 1893 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution Providing for the disposition of certain personal property and money now in the hands of a receiver of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, appointed by the supreme court of Utah, and authorizing its application to the charitable purposes of said church.

    Private Resolution 11 · 28 Stat. 980 · October 25, 1893 · Private law · Original text

18. Joint Resolution That the acknowledgments of the Government and people of the United States be tendered to various foreign governments of the world who have participated in commemoration of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.

    Public Resolution 12 · 28 Stat. 13 · October 28, 1893 · Original text

19. An Act Providing for the construction of a steam revenue cutter for the New England coast.

    Ch. 6 · 28 Stat. 4 · October 31, 1893 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution For the reporting, marking, and removal of derelicts.

    Public Resolution 13 · 28 Stat. 13 · October 31, 1893 · Original text

21. An Act To amend section six of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An act to repeal timber culture laws, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 7 · 28 Stat. 4 · November 1, 1893 · Original text

22. An Act To repeal a part of an act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 8 · 28 Stat. 4 · November 1, 1893 · Original text

23. An Act To amend an act entitled “An act to provide the times and places for holding terms of United States courts in the States of Idaho and Wyoming,” approved July five, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

    Ch. 9 · 28 Stat. 5 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

24. An Act To provide for the time and place of holding the terms of the United States circuit and district courts in the State of South Dakota.

    Ch. 10 · 28 Stat. 5 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

25. An Act Providing for the construction of a steam revenue cutter for service on the Great Lakes.

    Ch. 11 · 28 Stat. 6 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

26. An Act To amend section numbered twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to mining claims.

    Ch. 12 · 28 Stat. 6 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

27. An Act To increase the number of officers of the Army to be detailed to colleges.

    Ch. 13 · 28 Stat. 7 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

28. An Act To amend an act entitled “An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

    Ch. 14 · 28 Stat. 7 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

29. An Act In aid of the World’s Fair Prize Winners’ Exposition to be held at New York City.

    Ch. 15 · 28 Stat. 8 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

30. An Act To regulate the fees of the clerk of the United States Court for the Indian Territory.

    Ch. 16 · 28 Stat. 9 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution To amend the act approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, relating to the admission of articles intended for the World’s Columbian Exposition.

    Public Resolution 14 · 28 Stat. 13 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

32. Joint Resolution Donating an abandoned cannon to the committee in charge of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in eighteen hundred and ninety-four.

    Public Resolution 15 · 28 Stat. 14 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution Transferring the exhibit of the Navy Department, known as the model battle ship Illinois, to the State of Illinois, as a naval armory for the use of the naval militia of the State of Illinois, on the termination of the World’s Columbian Exposition.

    Public Resolution 16 · 28 Stat. 14 · November 3, 1893 · Original text

34. An Act For relief of W. W. Rollins, late collector, fifth district, North Carolina, for value of stamps destroyed by tire at Winston. North Carolina, on November thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

    Ch. 17 · 28 Stat. 979 · November 3, 1893 · Private law · Original text

35. Joint Resolution Providing for the payment of salaries and expenses of additional Deputy Collectors of Internal Revenue to carry out the provisions of the Chinese Exclusion Act of Hay fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by the Act of November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Public Resolution 1 · 28 Stat. 575 · December 7, 1893 · Original text

36. 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,” approved September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the several Acts amendatory thereof.

    Ch. 1 · 28 Stat. 15 · December 12, 1893 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution Permitting Anson Mills, Colonel of Third Regiment United States Cavalry, to accept and exercise the functions of boundary commissioner on the part of the United States.

    Private Resolution 2 · 28 Stat. 1017 · December 12, 1893 · Private law · Original text

38. Joint Resolution Conferring diplomas upon designers, inventors, and expert artisans.

    Public Resolution 3 · 28 Stat. 575 · December 15, 1893 · Original text

39. 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-three, on the twenty-first day of said month.

    Public Resolution 4 · 28 Stat. 576 · December 19, 1893 · Original text

40. Joint Resolution For the protection of those parties who have heretofore been allowed to make entries for lands within the former Mille Lac Indian Reservation in Minnesota.

    Public Resolution 5 · 28 Stat. 576 · December 19, 1893 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of War to grunt permits for the use of the Monument grounds and reservations or public spaces in the City of Washington, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 6 · 28 Stat. 576 · December 19, 1893 · Original text

42. An Act To provide for further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, mid for other purposes.

    Ch. 2 · 28 Stat. 15 · December 21, 1893 · Original text

43. An Act Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety four, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3 · 28 Stat. 16 · December 21, 1893 · Original text

44. An Act To extend North Capitol street to the Soldiers’ Home.

    Ch. 4 · 28 Stat. 20 · December 21, 1893 · Original text

45. An Act To provide for two additional associate just ices of the supreme court of the Territory of Oklahoma, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 5 · 28 Stat. 20 · December 21, 1893 · Original text

46. An Act Authorizing the fourth Assistant Postmaster-General to approve postmasters’ bonds.

    Ch. 6 · 28 Stat. 21 · December 21, 1893 · Original text

47. An Act To close alleys in square numbered seven hundred and fifty-one, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 7 · 28 Stat. 21 · December 21, 1893 · Original text

48. An Act Granting the right of way for the construction of u railroad and other improvements over and on the West Mountain of the Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs, Arkansas.

    Ch. 8 · 28 Stat. 21 · December 21, 1893 · Original text

49. An Act To grant the right of way to the. Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern Railway Company through the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 9 · 28 Stat. 22 · December 21, 1893 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution Relieving the employees of the Record and Pension Office who were injured in the Ford’s Theater disaster from the operation of the law restricting the amount of sick leave with pay that may be granted by heads of Departments.

    Public Resolution 7 · 28 Stat. 577 · December 25, 1893 · Original text

51. An Act Relating to the disqualification of registers and receivers of the United States land offices, and making provision in case of such disqualification.

    Ch. 10 · 28 Stat. 26 · January 11, 1894 · Original text

52. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the owners of cattle and horses transporting them into Mexico to reimport same into the United States at any time within twelve months from date of the passage of this Resolution, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 8 · 28 Stat. 577 · January 15, 1894 · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of David B. Gottwals.

    Ch. 11 · 28 Stat. 981 · January 15, 1894 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To amend an Act of Congress approved May twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, granting to the Aransas Pass Harbor Company the right to improve Aransas Pass.

    Ch. 12 · 28 Stat. 26 · January 22, 1894 · Original text

55. An Act For the establishment of a light and fog-signal station near Butler Flats. New Bedford. Massachusetts.

    Ch. 13 · 28 Stat. 27 · January 22, 1894 · Original text

56. An Act To extend the time for the construction of the railway of the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company.

    Ch. 14 · 28 Stat. 27 · January 22, 1894 · Original text

57. An Act To authorize the construction and maintenance of a dam or dams across the Kansas River, within Shawnee County, in the State of Kansas.

    Ch. 15 · 28 Stat. 27 · January 22, 1894 · Original text

58. An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and thirty, Title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to inspection of iron or steel boiler plates.

    Ch. 16 · 28 Stat. 28 · January 22, 1894 · Original text

59. An Act To amend section four hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes so us to require original receipts for deposits of postmasters to be sent to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department.

    Ch. 17 · 28 Stat. 28 · January 22, 1894 · Original text

60. An Act To amend an Act approved September fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, authorizing the New Orleans, Natchez and Fort Scott Railroad Company to construct two bridges across Boeuf River, in Louisiana.

    Ch. 18 · 28 Stat. 29 · January 22, 1894 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the Chattanooga Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Chattanooga.

    Ch. 19 · 28 Stat. 29 · January 27, 1894 · Original text

62. An Act Granting certain lands to the Territory of Arizona.

    Ch. 20 · 28 Stat. 30 · January 27, 1894 · Original text

63. An Act To improve the methods of accounting in the Post-Office Department, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 21 · 28 Stat. 30 · January 27, 1894 · Original text

64. An Act To amend section thirty-seven hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes, relating to contracts for supplies in the Departments at Washington.

    Ch. 22 · 28 Stat. 33 · January 27, 1894 · Original text

65. Joint Resolution Authorizing the chief justice and associate justices of the court of appeals and of the supreme court of the District of Columbia to use and take books from the Library of Congress.

    Public Resolution 9 · 28 Stat. 577 · January 27, 1894 · Original text

66. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reserve from sale certain land in the abandoned Fort Cummings military reservation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 23 · 28 Stat. 34 · February 1, 1894 · Original text

67. An Act Authorizing the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Rail way Company to bridge the Neches and Sabine Rivers in the States of Texas and Louisiana.

    Ch. 24 · 28 Stat. 35 · February 2, 1894 · Original text

68. Joint Resolution Providing for the erection of fire-escapee and bridges at the Government Printing Office and fire-escapes at the Maltby Building.

    Public Resolution 10 · 28 Stat. 578 · February 2, 1894 · Original text

69. An Act To repeal all statutes relating to supervisors of elections and special deputy marshals, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 25 · 28 Stat. 36 · February 8, 1894 · Original text

70. An Act Extending the time allowed the Umatilla Irrigation Company for the construction of its ditch across the Umatilla Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 26 · 28 Stat. 37 · February 9, 1894 · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of certain settlers upon the Iowa Reservation, Oklahoma. Territory.

    Ch. 27 · 28 Stat. 37 · February 10, 1894 · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Martha A. Dealy, deceased.

    Ch. 28 · 28 Stat. 981 · February 10, 1894 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act Fixing the limit of indebtedness which may be incurred by Salt Lake City.

    Ch. 29 · 28 Stat. 37 · February 21, 1894 · Original text

74. An Act Granting to the Des Moines Rapids Power Company the right to erect, construct, operate, and maintain a wing dam, canal, and power station in the Mississippi River in Hancock County, Illinois.

    Ch. 30 · 28 Stat. 38 · February 24, 1894 · Original text

75. An Act To extend the time for building a street railway on the military reservation, Fort Riley, Kansas.

    Ch. 31 · 28 Stat. 38 · March 6, 1894 · Original text

76. An Act Providing for the rescue of the armament and wreck of the United States war ship Kearsarge.

    Ch. 32 · 28 Stat. 39 · March 9, 1894 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Arkansas River at or near Van Buren, Arkansas.

    Ch. 33 · 28 Stat. 39 · March 9, 1894 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution Authorizing Major-General Oliver Otis Howard, United States Army, to accept from the President of the French Republic a diploma conferring the decoration of Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.

    Private Resolution 11 · 28 Stat. 1017 · March 9, 1894 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act To establish a port of delivery at Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

    Ch. 34 · 28 Stat. 40 · March 10, 1894 · Original text

80. An Act To continue in force the provisions of an Art approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and entitled “An Act to protect the fish in the Potomac. River in the District of Columbia, and to provide a spawning ground for shad and herring in the said Potomac River.”

    Ch. 35 · 28 Stat. 40 · March 12, 1894 · Original text

81. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men,” being title seventy-three of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 36 · 28 Stat. 41 · March 12, 1894 · Original text

82. An Act Act Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 37 · 28 Stat. 41 · March 12, 1894 · Original text

83. Joint Resolution Providing for the appointment of a commission to the Antwerp International Exposition.

    Public Resolution 12 · 28 Stat. 578 · March 12, 1894 · Original text

84. An Act To transfer the Morris Island Life-Saving Station, near Ch a Heston. South Carolina, to Sullivans Island.

    Ch. 38 · 28 Stat. 43 · March 14, 1894 · Original text

85. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer El Callao.

    Ch. 39 · 28 Stat. 44 · March 14, 1894 · Original text

86. An Act To make service connections with water mains and sewers in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 40 · 28 Stat. 44 · March 14, 1894 · Original text

87. An Act To amend “An Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Hast River, between the city of New York and Long Island,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

    Ch. 41 · 28 Stat. 44 · March 14, 1894 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution To provide for the printing of the report of the Joint Committee of Congress and proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of the Laving of the Corner Stone of the Capitol.

    Public Resolution 13 · 28 Stat. 578 · March 14, 1894 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution To fill a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Resolution 14 · 28 Stat. 579 · March 19, 1894 · Original text

90. An Act To remove the charge of desertion standing against John W. Wacker.

    Ch. 42 · 28 Stat. 982 · March 19, 1894 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Andrew Franklin, alias Andrew McKee.

    Ch. 43 · 28 Stat. 982 · March 19, 1894 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting a pension to Hannah Lyons.

    Ch. 44 · 28 Stat. 982 · March 22, 1894 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge at or near Sioux City, Iowa,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by Acts of April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 45 · 28 Stat. 44 · March 24, 1894 · Original text

94. An Act To amend an act entitled “An act, to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the most accessible point between the city of Kansas and the town of Sibley, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

    Ch. 46 · 28 Stat. 45 · March 29, 1894 · Original text

95. An Act For a charter for the Iowa and Nebraska Pontoon Bridge Company.

    Ch. 47 · 28 Stat. 45 · March 29, 1894 · Original text

96. An Act To repeal section three hundred and eleven of the.Revised Statutes of the United States relating to accounts of the Treasury of the United States.

    Ch. 48 · 28 Stat. 47 · March 29, 1894 · Original text

97. An Act To regulate the making of property returns by officers of the Government.

    Ch. 49 · 28 Stat. 47 · March 29, 1894 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution Authorizing the transfer of furniture and carpets to the rooms now occupied by the United States courts at Chicago.

    Public Resolution 15 · 28 Stat. 579 · March 30, 1894 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Brigadier-General John H. Brooke, United States Amy.

    Ch. 50 · 28 Stat. 982 · March 30, 1894 · Private law · Original text

100. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to receive at the sub-treasury in the city of New York from R. T. Wilson and Company, or assigns, the money amounting to six million seven hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be paid to the Cherokee Nation, and to place the same to the credit of the Cherokee Nation.

     Public Resolution 16 · 28 Stat. 579 · March 31, 1894 · Original text