Every law Congress has passed

712 laws of the 53rd Congress, 1893–1895

1. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Monongahela River at Glenwood, Pennsylvania.

   Ch. 51 · 28 Stat. 47 · April 2, 1894 · Original text

2. An Act Authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge the Calcasieu and Sabine rivers in the States of Louisiana and Texas.

   Ch. 52 · 28 Stat. 48 · April 2, 1894 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to cause the settlement of the accounts of Special Agents Moore and Woodson, under the treaty of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, with the Delaware Indians, and so forth.

   Public Resolution 17 · 28 Stat. 580 · April 2, 1894 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Resolution To provide for the printing of a History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to which the United States was a party, and for other purposes.

   Public Resolution 18 · 28 Stat. 580 · April 2, 1894 · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Dwight Hall.

   Ch. 53 · 28 Stat. 983 · April 2, 1894 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Louis L. Williams.

   Ch. 54 · 28 Stat. 983 · April 2, 1894 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act To release and turn over to Mrs. Mary O. Augusta certain property in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 55 · 28 Stat. 983 · April 2, 1894 · Private law · Original text

8. 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 May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by the Act of November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

   Public Resolution 19 · 28 Stat. 581 · April 4, 1894 · Original text

9. An Act Authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge Caddo Lake at or near Mooringsport, Louisiana, and Cross Bayou, near Shreveport, Louisiana.

   Ch. 56 · 28 Stat. 50 · April 5, 1894 · Original text

10. An Act To give effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the purpose of submitting to arbitration certain questions concerning the preservation of the fur seals.

    Ch. 57 · 28 Stat. 52 · April 6, 1894 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution To print Agricultural Report fur eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Public Resolution 20 · 28 Stat. 581 · April 10, 1894 · Original text

12. An Act Authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge the Sulphur River in the State of Arkansas or in the State of Texas.

    Ch. 58 · 28 Stat. 55 · April 21, 1894 · Original text

13. An Act To extend the time authorizing the Saint Louis and Birmingham Railroad to build a bridge across Tennessee River at Clifton. Tennessee.

    Ch. 59 · 28 Stat. 57 · April 21, 1894 · Original text

14. An Act To authorize the West Braddock Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River from the borough of Rankin to Mifflin Township.

    Ch. 60 · 28 Stat. 57 · April 21, 1894 · Original text

15. 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, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 21 · 28 Stat. 58 · April 21, 1894 · Original text

16. An Act Authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge Little River, in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 62 · 28 Stat. 62 · April 21, 1894 · Original text

17. An Act To amend section one of an Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to give effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, under the. treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the purpose of submitting to arbitration certain questions concerning the preservation of the fur seals.”

    Ch. 63 · 28 Stat. 64 · April 24, 1894 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize the construction of a steel bridge over the Saint Louis River, between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

    Ch. 64 · 28 Stat. 64 · April 24, 1894 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize Commander F. W. Dickins, of the United States Navy, to accept the decoration of the cross of naval merit of the third class from the King of Spain.

    Ch. 65 · 28 Stat. 984 · April 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

20. Joint Resolution Providing for the placing of a tablet upon the Capitol to commemorate the laying of the corner stone of the building September eighteenths seventeen hundred and ninety-three.

    Public Resolution 21 · 28 Stat. 581 · April 27, 1894 · Original text

21. An Act To provide for the division of the eastern district of Michigan into the northern and southern divisions, and for holding the circuit, and district courts of the United States therein, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 66 · 28 Stat. 67 · April 30, 1894 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the Saint Louis River Bridge Company and the Duluth Transfer Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge over the Saint Louis River from a point at or near Grassy Point, in the village of West Duluth, Minnesota, to the most available point opposite, in the State of Wisconsin.

    Ch. 67 · 28 Stat. 68 · May 1, 1894 · Original text

23. An Act To ratify the reservation of certain lands made for t he benefit of Oklahoma Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 68 · 28 Stat. 71 · May 4, 1894 · Original text

24. Joint Resolution Providing additional clerical force for the Librarian of Congress.

    Public Resolution 22 · 28 Stat. 582 · May 4, 1894 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to cause an examination to be made to determine if there is probability and danger of the Mississippi River cutting through the space dividing such river from the Saint Francis River in the vicinity of Walnut Bend, Arkansas.

    Public Resolution 23 · 28 Stat. 582 · May 4, 1894 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution Providing for partial payments for work, and so forth, for vessels constructed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

    Public Resolution 24 · 28 Stat. 582 · May 5, 1894 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the reconstruction of a bridge across the Niobrara, River near the village of Niobrara, Nebraska, and making an appropriation therefor.

    Ch. 69 · 28 Stat. 72 · May 7, 1894 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Monongahela River in the city of Pittsburg.

    Ch. 70 · 28 Stat. 72 · May 7, 1894 · Original text

29. An Act To extend the limits of the port of New York.

    Ch. 71 · 28 Stat. 73 · May 7, 1894 · Original text

30. An Act To protect the birds and animals in Yellowstone National Park, and to punish crimes in said park, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 72 · 28 Stat. 73 · May 7, 1894 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution For the proper enrollment of Thomas R. Proctor in the Navy of the United States.

    Private Resolution 25 · 28 Stat. 1017 · May 7, 1894 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia.”

    Ch. 73 · 28 Stat. 75 · May 11, 1894 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution Authorizing the wearing of tint distinctive badge adopted by the Regular Army and Navy Union upon all occasions of ceremony.

    Public Resolution 26 · 28 Stat. 583 · May 11, 1894 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution Instructing the Secretary of War to return to the State of Iowa the flag of Twenty-second Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry.

    Public Resolution 27 · 28 Stat. 583 · May 11, 1894 · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of George W. Barnes.

    Ch. 74 · 28 Stat. 984 · May 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a patent to Mace-Clements’s survey, numbered three hundred and eighty-six, in the Virginia military-district of Ohio.

    Ch. 75 · 28 Stat. 76 · May 12, 1894 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the construction of abridge across the Mississippi River at Red Wing, Minnesota.

    Ch. 76 · 28 Stat. 76 · May 12, 1894 · Original text

38. An Act To provide for the sale of new tickets by the street railway companies of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 77 · 28 Stat. 78 · May 25, 1894 · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of the heirs and creditors of Elizabeth Townsend.

    Ch. 78 · 28 Stat. 984 · May 25, 1894 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act To amend the Act of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the city of Yankton. South Dakota.”

    Ch. 79 · 28 Stat. 78 · May 28, 1894 · Original text

41. An Act Authorizing the Texarkana and Shreveport Railroad Company to bridge Sulphur River, in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 80 · 28 Stat. 78 · May 28, 1894 · Original text

42. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at some point within one mile below and one mile above the present limits of the City of Jefferson, Missouri.

    Ch. 81 · 28 Stat. 80 · May 28, 1894 · Original text

43. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange, in belief of the United States, deeds of land with the Pemaquid Land Company of Maine, in settlement of a disputed boundary of the Pemaquid Point, Maine, light station.

    Ch. 82 · 28 Stat. 82 · May 28, 1894 · Original text

44. An Act To amend an Act approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea.”

    Ch. 83 · 28 Stat. 82 · May 28, 1894 · Original text

45. An Act To construe the Act of Congress passed January sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 84 · 28 Stat. 83 · May 28, 1894 · Original text

46. Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employes of the Senate, and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, on the twenty-ninth day of said month.

    Public Resolution 28 · 28 Stat. 583 · May 28, 1894 · Original text

47. An Act To amend section thirty-eight hundred and sixteen of the Revised Statutes relating to advances made to the Public Printer.

    Ch. 85 · 28 Stat. 84 · May 29, 1894 · Original text

48. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the sale of the remainder of the reservation of the Confederated Otoe and Missotiria Indians in the States of Nebraska and Kansas, and for other purposes.” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.

    Ch. 86 · 28 Stat. 84 · May 30, 1894 · Original text

49. An Act Supplementary to the Act of Congress approved January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An Act defining the manner in which certain land scrip may be assigned and located or applied by actual settlers, and providing for the issue of patents in the name of the locator or his legal representatives.”

    Ch. 87 · 28 Stat. 84 · May 30, 1894 · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Lennes A. Jackson.

    Ch. 88 · 28 Stat. 985 · May 30, 1894 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To confirm to the heirs of Mrs. Courtney Ann Claiborne the title to a certain tract of land in the State of Louisiana.

    Ch. 89 · 28 Stat. 985 · May 30, 1894 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Fannie M. Norman.

    Ch. 90 · 28 Stat. 986 · May 30, 1894 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act Supplementary to an Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the execution of the award rendered at Paris, August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, by The Tribunal of Arbitration constituted under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, in relation to the preservation of the fur seal.

    Ch. 91 · 28 Stat. 85 · June 5, 1894 · Original text

54. An Act To facilitate the entry of steamships.

    Ch. 92 · 28 Stat. 85 · June 5, 1894 · Original text

55. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to defray expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate.

    Public Resolution 29 · 28 Stat. 583 · June 5, 1894 · Original text

56. Joint Resolution Authorizing the purchase or condemnation of land in the vicinity of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

    Public Resolution 30 · 28 Stat. 584 · June 5, 1894 · Original text

57. An Act Defining and permanently fixing the northern boundary line of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 93 · 28 Stat. 86 · June 6, 1894 · Original text

58. An Act To extend mid amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway to construct and operate additional lines of railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-fourth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

    Ch. 94 · 28 Stat. 86 · June 6, 1894 · Original text

59. An Act Granting the right of way to the Albany and Astoria Railroad Company through the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, in t he State of Oregon.

    Ch. 95 · 28 Stat. 87 · June 6, 1894 · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of A. P. H. Stewart.

    Ch. 96 · 28 Stat. 986 · June 6, 1894 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Captain John W. Pullman.

    Ch. 97 · 28 Stat. 986 · June 6, 1894 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Wesley Montgomery.

    Ch. 98 · 28 Stat. 987 · June 6, 1894 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act To grant certain lands to the township board of Inwood Township. Michigan, for cemetery purposes.

    Ch. 99 · 28 Stat. 88 · June 7, 1894 · Original text

64. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Monongahela River, at the foot of Dickson street, in the borough of Homestead, in the State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 100 · 28 Stat. 88 · June 7, 1894 · Original text

65. An Act To authorise the New York and New.Jersey Bridge companies to construct and maintain a bridge across the Hudson River between New York City and the State of New Jersey.

    Ch. 101 · 28 Stat. 89 · June 7, 1894 · Original text

66. An Act To amend section eight of “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge, across the Calumet River,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 102 · 28 Stat. 90 · June 8, 1894 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the Missouri River Power Company of Montana to construct a dam across the Missouri River.

    Ch. 103 · 28 Stat. 91 · June 8, 1894 · Original text

68. An Act To donate to the county of Larande, Wyoming, certain bridges on the abandoned Fort Larande military reservation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 104 · 28 Stat. 91 · June 14, 1894 · Original text

69. An Act To authorize the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Railroad Companies, or either of them, to construct and maintain a bridge over the Delaware River between the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 105 · 28 Stat. 92 · June 14, 1894 · Original text

70. An Act Granting to the village of Dearborn certain land for village purposes.

    Ch. 106 · 28 Stat. 93 · June 14, 1894 · Original text

71. An Act To amend an Act to authorize construction of a bridge at Burlington, Iowa, approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and amended by Act approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety.

    Ch. 107 · 28 Stat. 93 · June 19, 1894 · Original text

72. An Act Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for public printing and binding for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 108 · 28 Stat. 93 · June 19, 1894 · Original text

73. An Act To provide for the closing of part of an alley in square six hundred and twenty-two in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for the relief of the president and directors of Gonzaga College.

    Ch. 109 · 28 Stat. 94 · June 19, 1894 · Original text

74. An Act To supply a deficiency in the grant of public lands to the State of Mississippi for the use of the State University.

    Ch. 110 · 28 Stat. 94 · June 20, 1894 · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Francis M. Tomlin.

    Ch. 111 · 28 Stat. 987 · June 20, 1894 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Edward Morrison and Nellie Morrison, now deceased.

    Ch. 112 · 28 Stat. 987 · June 20, 1894 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting the use of certain lands in the Hot Springs reservation, in the State of Arkansas, to the Barry Hospital.

    Ch. 113 · 28 Stat. 95 · June 21, 1894 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution Granting full permission to the State of Maryland and to the several State courts within the city of Baltimore to occupy the old United States courthouse in the city of Baltimore for the period of five years.

    Public Resolution 31 · 28 Stat. 584 · June 22, 1894 · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Wetmore and Brother, of Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 114 · 28 Stat. 988 · June 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To provide for the adjustment and payment of the claim of Thomas Rhys Smith for work done and materials furnished for the breakwater at Bar Harbor, Maine.

    Ch. 115 · 28 Stat. 988 · June 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act To pension Lucy Brown, dependent foster mother.

    Ch. 116 · 28 Stat. 988 · June 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting to the Eastern Nebraska and Gulf Railway Company right of way through the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservations, in the State of Nebraska.

    Ch. 117 · 28 Stat. 95 · June 27, 1894 · Original text

83. An Act Making Labor Day a legal holiday.

    Ch. 118 · 28 Stat. 96 · June 28, 1894 · Original text

84. An Act To incorporate the Supremo Lodge of the Knights of Pythias.

    Ch. 119 · 28 Stat. 96 · June 29, 1894 · Original text

85. An Act To authorize the city of Hastings, Minnesota, to construct and maintain a wagon bridge over the Mississippi River.

    Ch. 120 · 28 Stat. 97 · June 29, 1894 · Original text

86. Joint Resolution To provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.

    Public Resolution 32 · 28 Stat. 585 · June 29, 1894 · Original text

87. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to appoint a commission of engineers to examine and report upon the cost of deepening the harbors of Superior and Duluth and their entrances to a uniform depth of twenty feet.

    Public Resolution 33 · 28 Stat. 586 · June 29, 1894 · Original text

88. An Act Granting certain rights over Lime Point military reservation in the State of California.

    Ch. 121 · 28 Stat. 98 · July 2, 1894 · Original text

89. An Act To amend section thirteen hundred and seventy-nine, chapter one, Title Fifteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to appointments of assistant paymasters in the Navy.

    Ch. 122 · 28 Stat. 99 · July 3, 1894 · Original text

90. An Act To provide that a term of the circuit and district court of the United. States for the district of Vermont may be held at Montpelier.

    Ch. 123 · 28 Stat. 99 · July 3, 1894 · Original text

91. Joint Resolution To appoint three members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

    Public Resolution 34 · 28 Stat. 586 · July 3, 1894 · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of the sureties of Dennis Murphy.

    Ch. 124 · 28 Stat. 989 · July 3, 1894 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting to the Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway Company a right of way through the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 125 · 28 Stat. 99 · July 6, 1894 · Original text

94. An Act Granting to the State of North Dakota certain lands heretofore set apart as a wood reservation for Fort Totten military reservation, for the use of the militia of North Dakota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 126 · 28 Stat. 100 · July 6, 1894 · Original text

95. An Act Authorizing the Minneapolis Gas Light Company, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, to lay submerged gas pipes across the Mississippi River at Minneapolis.

    Ch. 127 · 28 Stat. 101 · July 6, 1894 · Original text

96. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to continue the employment of certain mechanics and laborers.

    Public Resolution 35 · 28 Stat. 586 · July 9, 1894 · Original text

97. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Wells Johnson.

    Ch. 128 · 28 Stat. 989 · July 9, 1894 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia River, between the State of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road.”

    Ch. 129 · 28 Stat. 101 · July 11, 1894 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Samuel Collins.

    Ch. 130 · 28 Stat. 989 · July 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act To define and establish the units of electrical measure.

     Ch. 131 · 28 Stat. 102 · July 12, 1894 · Original text