Every law Congress has passed

712 laws of the 53rd Congress, 1893–1895

1. An Act To pay for alley condemned in square numbered four hundred and ninety-three, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

   Ch. 226 · 28 Stat. 232 · August 6, 1894 · Original text

2. An Act To amend sections fifty-three hundred find sixty-five and fifty-three hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes relating to barratry on the high seas.

   Ch. 227 · 28 Stat. 233 · August 6, 1894 · Original text

3. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 228 · 28 Stat. 233 · August 6, 1894 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Authorizing proper officers of the Treasury Department to examine and certify claims in favor of certain counties in Arizona.

   Public Resolution 42 · 28 Stat. 589 · August 6, 1894 · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of James L. Townsend.

   Ch. 229 · 28 Stat. 999 · August 6, 1894 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act To exempt the property of the Young Men’s Christian Association of the District of Columbia from taxation.

   Ch. 230 · 28 Stat. 999 · August 6, 1894 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act To amend an Act approved January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to authorize the construction of bridges across the Hiwassee, the Tennessee, and Clinch rivers, in the State of Tennessee.

   Ch. 231 · 28 Stat. 243 · August 7, 1894 · Original text

8. An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 232 · 28 Stat. 243 · August 7, 1894 · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of certain enlisted men of the Marine Corps.

   Ch. 233 · 28 Stat. 262 · August 7, 1894 · Original text

10. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant leases for situs on the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, for cold-water reservoirs.

    Ch. 234 · 28 Stat. 263 · August 7, 1894 · Original text

11. An Act Disposing of four condemned cannon of the Navy.

    Ch. 235 · 28 Stat. 263 · August 7, 1894 · Original text

12. An Act To require railroad companies operating railroads in the Territories over a right of way granted by the Government to establish stations and depots at all town sites on the lines of said roads established by the Interior Department.

    Ch. 236 · 28 Stat. 263 · August 8, 1894 · Original text

13. An Act Granting a certain military reservation to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, to aid the public free schools thereof, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 237 · 28 Stat. 264 · August 8, 1894 · Original text

14. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year eliding June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.

    Ch. 238 · 28 Stat. 264 · August 8, 1894 · Original text

15. An Act Granting an honorable discharge to Cyrus Payne.

    Ch. 239 · 28 Stat. 999 · August 8, 1894 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act To provide for the adjustment and payment of the claim of the American Transportation Company for dredging done at Fairport Harbor, in the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 240 · 28 Stat. 1000 · August 8, 1894 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Charles B. Stivers.

    Ch. 241 · 28 Stat. 1000 · August 8, 1894 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Robert Travila for loss of carbine in late war.

    Ch. 242 · 28 Stat. 1001 · August 8, 1894 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act To authorize sale of lot eight, block ninety-three, city of Hot Springs, by school directors thereof, and use of proceeds for school purposes.

    Ch. 243 · 28 Stat. 274 · August 9, 1894 · Original text

20. An Act To change the lines between the eastern and western judicial districts of North Carolina and fixing time for holding courts in said eastern district.

    Ch. 244 · 28 Stat. 274 · August 9, 1894 · Original text

21. An Act Providing for the resurvey of Grant and Hooker counties, in the State of Nebraska.

    Ch. 245 · 28 Stat. 275 · August 9, 1894 · Original text

22. An Act For the construction of a military road from the city of El Paso to Fort Bliss, Texas.

    Ch. 246 · 28 Stat. 275 · August 9, 1894 · Original text

23. An Act To regulate water-main assessments in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 253 · 28 Stat. 275 · August 9, 1894 · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Mrs. E. S. Luke, widow of John L. Luke, late a soldier in the Black Hawk war.

    Ch. 247 · 28 Stat. 1001 · August 9, 1894 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the record of John A. Jack.

    Ch. 248 · 28 Stat. 1001 · August 9, 1894 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To pension Mrs. Eliza B. Peirce, widow of Charles Peirce, of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 249 · 28 Stat. 1001 · August 9, 1894 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act To remove the charge of desertion standing against Patrick Kelleher, late private Company C, Thirty-eighth Illinois Volunteers.

    Ch. 250 · 28 Stat. 1002 · August 9, 1894 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Susie Conway.

    Ch. 251 · 28 Stat. 1002 · August 9, 1894 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of George B. Cosby.

    Ch. 252 · 28 Stat. 1002 · August 9, 1894 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To provide for the closing of a part of an alley in square one hundred and eighty-five in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 254 · 28 Stat. 276 · August 11, 1894 · Original text

31. An Act Extending the time of payment to purchasers of lands of the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 255 · 28 Stat. 276 · August 11, 1894 · Original text

32. An Act To make the city of Oakland, county of Alameda, State of California, a subport of entry.

    Ch. 256 · 28 Stat. 277 · August 11, 1894 · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of George H. Jewett, of Arlington, Washington County, Nebraska.

    Ch. 257 · 28 Stat. 1002 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Granting a pension to Otis Smith.

    Ch. 258 · 28 Stat. 1002 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Stockwell.

    Ch. 259 · 28 Stat. 1003 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To increase the pension of Mary P. Broughton.

    Ch. 260 · 28 Stat. 1003 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act To increase the pension of John Scott.

    Ch. 261 · 28 Stat. 1003 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Lucinda C. Wheeler, widow of John H. Wheeler.

    Ch. 262 · 28 Stat. 1003 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act To correct the military record of Captain E. M. Ives.

    Ch. 263 · 28 Stat. 1004 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Henry James, residing in the original Hot Springs reservation, in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 264 · 28 Stat. 1004 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act To increase the pension of James Lane.

    Ch. 265 · 28 Stat. 1004 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act Granting a pension to George L. Frymire.

    Ch. 266 · 28 Stat. 1004 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act To pension Ambrose Giseburt.

    Ch. 267 · 28 Stat. 1005 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act To pension Joel A. Walters.

    Ch. 268 · 28 Stat. 1005 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act To increase the pension of Julia Bews.

    Ch. 269 · 28 Stat. 1005 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act To pension Thankful Robbins.

    Ch. 270 · 28 Stat. 1005 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act To pension Mary Trimble.

    Ch. 271 · 28 Stat. 1006 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Oddy.

    Ch. 272 · 28 Stat. 1006 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Ann Donoghue.

    Ch. 273 · 28 Stat. 1006 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act Granting a pension to A. F. Neely.

    Ch. 274 · 28 Stat. 1006 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To pension Harriet R. Tate.

    Ch. 275 · 28 Stat. 1006 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Walter S. McLeod.

    Ch. 276 · 28 Stat. 1007 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act To reimburse E. H. Nebeker, late Treasurer of the United States.

    Ch. 277 · 28 Stat. 1007 · August 11, 1894 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer S. Oteri.

    Ch. 278 · 28 Stat. 277 · August 13, 1894 · Original text

55. An Act To provide for the payment of the eight per centum greenback certificates of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 279 · 28 Stat. 277 · August 13, 1894 · Original text

56. An Act For the protection of persons furnishing materials and labo for the construction of public works.

    Ch. 280 · 28 Stat. 278 · August 13, 1894 · Original text

57. An Act To subject to State taxation national bank notes and United States Treasury notes.

    Ch. 281 · 28 Stat. 278 · August 13, 1894 · Original text

58. An Act Relative to recognizances, stipulations, bonds, and undertakings, and to allow certain corporations to be accepted as surety thereon.

    Ch. 282 · 28 Stat. 279 · August 13, 1894 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the construction of a wagon and foot bridge across the Chattahoochee River at or near the town of Columbia, Alabama.

    Ch. 283 · 28 Stat. 280 · August 13, 1894 · Original text

60. An Act Relating to lights on fishing vessels.

    Ch. 284 · 28 Stat. 281 · August 13, 1894 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize a bridge across the Perdido River between the States of Florida and Alabama.

    Ch. 285 · 28 Stat. 282 · August 13, 1894 · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Benjamin Alford.

    Ch. 286 · 28 Stat. 1007 · August 13, 1894 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act To provide on immediate revision and equalization of real-estate values in the District of Columbia; also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 287 · 28 Stat. 282 · August 14, 1894 · Original text

64. An Act To further amend section twenty-three hundred and ninety-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United Status.

    Ch. 288 · 28 Stat. 285 · August 15, 1894 · Original text

65. An Act Making an appropriation and providing for the construction of a United states revenue cutter for service in the harbor of San Francisco, State of California.

    Ch. 289 · 28 Stat. 286 · August 15, 1894 · Original text

66. An Act Making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 290 · 28 Stat. 286 · August 15, 1894 · Original text

67. Joint Resolution Providing for on investigation relating to the effects of machinery on labor.

    Public Resolution 43 · 28 Stat. 590 · August 15, 1894 · Original text

68. Joint Resolution To continue the provisions of existing lawn providing temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.

    Public Resolution 44 · 28 Stat. 590 · August 15, 1894 · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Louis Pelham.

    Ch. 291 · 28 Stat. 1008 · August 15, 1894 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act Granting a pension to Amanda J. Lane.

    Ch. 292 · 28 Stat. 1008 · August 15, 1894 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of the owners of the schooner Henry R. Tilton, and of personal effects thereon.

    Ch. 293 · 28 Stat. 1008 · August 15, 1894 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act To correct the naval record, of James Fay and grant him an honorable discharge.

    Ch. 294 · 28 Stat. 1009 · August 15, 1894 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act Granting a pension to Rebecca H. Chambers.

    Ch. 295 · 28 Stat. 1009 · August 15, 1894 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of James E. North.

    Ch. 296 · 28 Stat. 1009 · August 15, 1894 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay John T. Heard for professional services rendered the “Old Settlers” or Western Cherokee Indians out of the funds of said Indians.

    Ch. 297 · 28 Stat. 1009 · August 15, 1894 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the appointment of James William Abert to the retired list of the Army.

    Ch. 298 · 28 Stat. 1010 · August 17, 1894 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 299 · 28 Stat. 338 · August 18, 1894 · Original text

78. An Act To amend section two of the Act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine-Hospital Service.”

    Ch. 300 · 28 Stat. 372 · August 18, 1894 · Original text

79. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and fir other purposes.

    Ch. 301 · 28 Stat. 372 · August 18, 1894 · Original text

80. An Act To amend sections twenty-four hundred and one and twenty-four hundred and three of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 302 · 28 Stat. 423 · August 20, 1894 · Original text

81. An Act Granting a pension to Nettie N. Seaver.

    Ch. 303 · 28 Stat. 1010 · August 20, 1894 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act To amend an Act granting a pension to Elizabeth Voss.

    Ch. 304 · 28 Stat. 1011 · August 20, 1894 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza Holmes.

    Ch. 305 · 28 Stat. 1011 · August 20, 1894 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To perfect the military record of Warren Alonzo Alden.

    Ch. 306 · 28 Stat. 1011 · August 20, 1894 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Making appropriations to supply 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. 307 · 28 Stat. 424 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

86. An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to appoint ii deputy coroner, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 308 · 28 Stat. 488 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

87. An Act Extending the time for the completion of a railroad bridge over the Columbia River at or near Vancouver, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 309 · 28 Stat. 488 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

88. An Act To extend the privileges of the transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement to the city of Ocala, in the State of Florida.

    Ch. 310 · 28 Stat. 488 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

89. An Act Granting to the Northern Mississippi Railway Company right of way through certain Indian reservations in Minnesota.

    Ch. 311 · 28 Stat. 489 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

90. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Contentuea Creek at Grifton, Lenoir County, North Carolina, and to establish it as a post road.

    Ch. 312 · 28 Stat. 489 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

91. An Act To authorize the construction of a lifesaving station at or near Rocky Point or East Marion. Long Island, New York.

    Ch. 313 · 28 Stat. 491 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

92. An Act To provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 314 · 28 Stat. 491 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

93. An Act To repeal House Resolution numbered one hundred and four, first session Fifty-first Congress, granting to Secretary of War n permit to license to use a pier at mouth of Chicago River.

    Ch. 315 · 28 Stat. 491 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

94. An Act To amend section forty-eight hundred and thirty-three, Revised Statutes, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 316 · 28 Stat. 492 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

95. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway.”

    Ch. 317 · 28 Stat. 492 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

96. An Act To authorize the Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railway Company to extend its line of road into and within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 318 · 28 Stat. 494 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

97. An Act Empowering fourth-class postmasters to administer oaths to pensioners.

    Ch. 319 · 28 Stat. 499 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the Saint Louis, Avoyelles and Southwestern Railway Company to bridge Bayou Des Glaises and Atchafalaya River in the State of Louisiana.

    Ch. 320 · 28 Stat. 499 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

99. Joint Resolution To extend the charter of the Maryland and Washington Railway Company.

    Public Resolution 45 · 28 Stat. 590 · August 23, 1894 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution Providing for clerical assistance in the Health Department of the District of Columbia.

     Public Resolution 46 · 28 Stat. 591 · August 23, 1894 · Original text