Every law Congress has passed

712 laws of the 53rd Congress, 1893–1895

1. An Act Granting a pension to Maria Hall, widow of Joseph E. Doak, deceased.

   Ch. 321 · 28 Stat. 1012 · August 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act Providing for reconveyance by District Commissioners of certain lauds to Andrew J. Curtis and Mary E. Curtis.

   Ch. 322 · 28 Stat. 1012 · August 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Marlin Parks.

   Ch. 323 · 28 Stat. 1012 · August 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of B. D. Greene.

   Ch. 324 · 28 Stat. 1012 · August 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act Granting a pension to Henry C. Field.

   Ch. 325 · 28 Stat. 1013 · August 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Henry W. Lee.

   Ch. 326 · 28 Stat. 1013 · August 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Johanna Gleason.

   Ch. 327 · 28 Stat. 1013 · August 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

8. Joint Resolution For the relief of W. D. Mack, a clerk in the Record and Pension Division of the War Department.

   Private Resolution 47 · 28 Stat. 1018 · August 23, 1894 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act To open, widen, and extend alleys in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 328 · 28 Stat. 501 · August 24, 1894 · Original text

10. An Act To prevent the recording of subdivisions of land in the District of Columbia in the office of the recorder of deeds.

    Ch. 329 · 28 Stat. 501 · August 24, 1894 · Original text

11. An Act To authorize purchasers of the property and franchises of the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to organize a corporation and to confer upon the same all the powers privileges, and franchises vested in that company.

    Ch. 330 · 28 Stat. 502 · August 24, 1894 · Original text

12. An Act Granting a pension to Jesse Davenport, of Company A, Second Regiment Oregon Mounted Volunteers, in Oregon Indian wars of eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six.

    Ch. 331 · 28 Stat. 1013 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act Granting a pension to Hannah Welch.

    Ch. 332 · 28 Stat. 1014 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act To pension John Maholm, dependent father.

    Ch. 333 · 28 Stat. 1014 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Druzilla J. Rigg, of Macomb, Illinois.

    Ch. 334 · 28 Stat. 1014 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act To pension Margaret A. Woods, widow of William W. Woods, late of Company E, Sixteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. 335 · 28 Stat. 1014 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Mary A. Menefee.

    Ch. 336 · 28 Stat. 1015 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act Granting a pension to Adaline J. Props.

    Ch. 337 · 28 Stat. 1015 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act To grant a pension to Pauline J. Smith.

    Ch. 338 · 28 Stat. 1015 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of P. W. Mitchell, M. C. Felmet, George H. Smathers, and others.

    Ch. 339 · 28 Stat. 1015 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

21. Joint Resolution To correct an error in the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act granting a pension to Elizabeth Voss.”

    Private Resolution 48 · 28 Stat. 1019 · August 24, 1894 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act To reimburse George C. Tanner, late consul, and so forth, the sum of two hundred dollars, paid by him for rent of rooms.

    Ch. 340 · 28 Stat. 1015 · August 25, 1894 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a new division of the northern judicial district of Georgia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

    Ch. 341 · 28 Stat. 504 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

24. An Act Granting to the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company a right of way through the Chippewa and White Earth Indian reservations in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 342 · 28 Stat. 504 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

25. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act granting the right of way Io the Hutchison and Southern Railroad company through the Indian Territory.’”

    Ch. 343 · 28 Stat. 505 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

26. An Act To provide tor the improvement of the building and grounds of the United States court and post-office at Little Rock, Arkansas.

    Ch. 344 · 28 Stat. 506 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Saint Croix River between Wisconsin and Minnesota.

    Ch. 345 · 28 Stat. 506 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

28. An Act Authorizing the issue of a patent to the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions for certain lands on the Omaha Indian reservation for school purposes.

    Ch. 346 · 28 Stat. 507 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

29. An Act For the registry or enrollment of the bark Skudesnaes.

    Ch. 347 · 28 Stat. 508 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

30. An Act To provide for the collection of internal revenue and for other purposes.

    Ch. 348 · 28 Stat. 508 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

31. An Act To reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, the for other purposes.

    Ch. 349 · 28 Stat. 509 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

32. An Act To authorize the Biloxi the Back Bay Bridge Company to construct the maintain a bridge over that portion of the bay of Biloxi, in the State of Mississippi, known as Back Bay.

    Ch. 350 · 28 Stat. 571 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Osage River, in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 351 · 28 Stat. 571 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

34. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Misaouri River at De Witt, Carroll County, Missouri, and to establish it as a post road.

    Ch. 352 · 28 Stat. 573 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to provide rooms for the accommodation of the United States circuit and district courts and their officers, at Meridian, Mississippi.

    Public Resolution 49 · 28 Stat. 591 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

36. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer a certain piece of hind in the State of Michigan to the city of Saginaw.

    Public Resolution 50 · 28 Stat. 591 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution Instructing the Secretary of War to return to the State of Massachusetts the flags of certain regiments of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

    Public Resolution 51 · 28 Stat. 591 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

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

    Public Resolution 52 · 28 Stat. 592 · August 27, 1894 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the heirs or legal representatives of C. P. Gooch certain money due him for carrying the mail.

    Ch. 353 · 28 Stat. 1016 · August 27, 1894 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act Directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check drawn by Captain W. H. Bixby, Engineers United States Army, at Newport, Rhode Island, in favor of Messrs. Hughes Brothers and Bangs.

    Ch. 354 · 28 Stat. 1016 · August 27, 1894 · Private law · Original text

41. Joint Resolution To change the initials of a name in the Indian appropriation bill.

    Public Resolution 53 · 28 Stat. 592 · August 28, 1894 · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of S. E. Hallford, of Alabama.

    Ch. 355 · 28 Stat. 1016 · August 28, 1894 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Granting the right of way through the Arlington reservation for electric railway purposes.

    Ch. 1 · 28 Stat. 593 · December 8, 1894 · Original text

44. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Martin.

    Ch. 2 · 28 Stat. 1021 · December 10, 1894 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act To provide for the location and satisfaction of outstanding military bounty land warrants and certificates of location under section three of the Act approved June second, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

    Ch. 3 · 28 Stat. 594 · December 13, 1894 · Original text

46. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a duplicate of a certain land warrant to Emma A. Ripley.

    Ch. 4 · 28 Stat. 1021 · December 13, 1894 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of B. F. Berry.

    Ch. 5 · 28 Stat. 1021 · December 13, 1894 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Providing for the dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park.

    Ch. 6 · 28 Stat. 595 · December 15, 1894 · Original text

49. An Act To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to remit or mitigate fines, penalties, and forfeitures.

    Ch. 7 · 28 Stat. 595 · December 15, 1894 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, on the twentieth day of said month.

    Public Resolution 1 · 28 Stat. 967 · December 15, 1894 · Original text

51. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River above New Orleans,” approved January twenty-six, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 8 · 28 Stat. 595 · December 24, 1894 · Original text

52. An Act Making an appropriation to supply nil urgent deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for public printing and binding.

    Ch. 9 · 28 Stat. 596 · December 24, 1894 · Original text

53. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the Eleventh Census, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 10 · 28 Stat. 596 · December 24, 1894 · Original text

54. Joint Resolution Extending time for report of Board of Engineers surveying canal routes from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.

    Public Resolution 2 · 28 Stat. 967 · December 24, 1894 · Original text

55. An Act To amend section eight of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Contentnea Creek, at Grifton, Lenoir County, North Carolina, and to establish it as a post road,” approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.

    Ch. 11 · 28 Stat. 596 · December 26, 1894 · Original text

56. An Act To establish a national military park at the battlefield of Shiloh.

    Ch. 12 · 28 Stat. 597 · December 27, 1894 · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of James C. Booth.

    Ch. 13 · 28 Stat. 1022 · December 27, 1894 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act To amend section three of an Act to withdraw certain public lands from private entry, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

    Ch. 14 · 28 Stat. 599 · December 29, 1894 · Original text

59. An Act To perfect the title to a quarter section of land in the town of Yuma, Colorado.

    Ch. 15 · 28 Stat. 599 · December 29, 1894 · Original text

60. An Act To pension Mrs. Ann Bradford, mother of William K. Bradford.

    Ch. 16 · 28 Stat. 1022 · December 29, 1894 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Dollie E. Vedder.

    Ch. 17 · 28 Stat. 1022 · December 29, 1894 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act To correct the military record of Alexander P. Magaan, of Battery H, Fourth United States Artillery.

    Ch. 18 · 28 Stat. 1023 · January 3, 1895 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act establishing a court of appeals for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 19 · 28 Stat. 599 · January 7, 1895 · Original text

64. An Act To exempt the articles of foreign exhibitors at the Portland Universal Exposition, at Portland, Oregon, from the payment of duties.

    Ch. 20 · 28 Stat. 600 · January 8, 1895 · Original text

65. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of n 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,” approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.

    Ch. 21 · 28 Stat. 601 · January 8, 1895 · Original text

66. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Palmer Banks, widow of Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks.

    Ch. 22 · 28 Stat. 1023 · January 9, 1895 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents.

    Ch. 23 · 28 Stat. 601 · January 12, 1895 · Original text

68. Joint Resolution Donating two obsolete cannon to the cities of Allegheny and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Public Resolution 3 · 28 Stat. 967 · January 12, 1895 · Original text

69. An Act To repeal section forty-one hundred and forty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and to amend sections forty-one hundred and forty-six and forty-three hundred and twenty, also section one of the Act amending section forty-two hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 24 · 28 Stat. 624 · January 16, 1895 · Original text

70. An Act To provide registers for the steamers Claribel and Athos.

    Ch. 25 · 28 Stat. 625 · January 16, 1895 · Original text

71. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Empress.

    Ch. 26 · 28 Stat. 626 · January 16, 1895 · Original text

72. An Act To establish a light-house at the entrance to Galveston Harbor, in the county of Galveston, in the State of Texas.

    Ch. 27 · 28 Stat. 626 · January 16, 1895 · Original text

73. An Act To provide American registers for the barks Linda and Archer.

    Ch. 28 · 28 Stat. 626 · January 16, 1895 · Original text

74. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

    Ch. 29 · 28 Stat. 627 · January 16, 1895 · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Zimri Elliott, of Wilsey, Kansas.

    Ch. 30 · 28 Stat. 1023 · January 16, 1895 · Private law · Original text

76. Joint Resolution Authorizing Rear-Admiral S. B. Luce, United States Navy, to accept a decoration from the King of Spain.

    Private Resolution 4 · 28 Stat. 1048 · January 16, 1895 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from William H. H. Cook.

    Ch. 31 · 28 Stat. 1023 · January 17, 1895 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of I. H. Hathaway and Company.

    Ch. 32 · 28 Stat. 1024 · January 17, 1895 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge Little River in the State of Arkansas,” approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.

    Ch. 33 · 28 Stat. 634 · January 19, 1895 · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of homestead settlers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.

    Ch. 34 · 28 Stat. 634 · January 19, 1895 · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Oliver P. Coshow and others.

    Ch. 35 · 28 Stat. 1024 · January 19, 1895 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act To make disposition of the accretions upon the fund received by the Government of the United States upon the account of the payment of the Caracas awards of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and to apply said accretions to the payment of the new awards made in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety under the Washington Commission.

    Ch. 36 · 28 Stat. 635 · January 21, 1895 · Original text

83. An Act To permit the use of the right of way through the public lands for tramroads, canals, and reservoirs, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 37 · 28 Stat. 635 · January 21, 1895 · Original text

84. An Act To provide for the measurement of vessels.

    Ch. 38 · 28 Stat. 636 · January 21, 1895 · Original text

85. Joint Resolution Authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Cotton States and International Exposition to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, in eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries, for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits.

    Public Resolution 5 · 28 Stat. 967 · January 21, 1895 · Original text

86. Joint Resolution Authorizing Commander Dennis W. Mullan, United States Navy, to accept a medal presented to him by the Chilean Government.

    Private Resolution 6 · 28 Stat. 1048 · January 21, 1895 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Authorizing the establishment of lights, fog signal, and beacon on the Kennebec River, Maine.

    Ch. 39 · 28 Stat. 636 · January 22, 1895 · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Moses W. Carpenter, of Johnson County, Arkansas, Mexican war veteran.

    Ch. 40 · 28 Stat. 1025 · January 22, 1895 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act To pension Willis Manasco.

    Ch. 41 · 28 Stat. 1025 · January 22, 1895 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Levans.

    Ch. 42 · 28 Stat. 1025 · January 22, 1895 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 43 · 28 Stat. 636 · January 25, 1895 · Original text

92. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to issue four condemned iron guns and projectiles to the officer in charge of the Government lot in Oakwood Cemetery, near Chicago, Illinois.

    Ch. 44 · 28 Stat. 639 · January 25, 1895 · Original text

93. An Act Authorizing certain officers of the Navy and Marine Corps to administer oaths.

    Ch. 45 · 28 Stat. 639 · January 25, 1895 · Original text

94. An Act Authorizing the Little Rock and Pacific Railway Company, its successors and assigns, to construct and maintain bridges across the Fourche La Fevre and Petit Jean rivers, in Arkansas.

    Ch. 46 · 28 Stat. 640 · January 25, 1895 · Original text

95. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of James McConnell, late private in Company 15, Fifth Regiment Connecticut Infantry

    Ch. 47 · 28 Stat. 1026 · January 25, 1895 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of the widow and legal representatives of the late Orsemus B. Boyd, captain in Eighth United States Cavalry.

    Ch. 48 · 28 Stat. 1026 · January 25, 1895 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Mrs Victor Thunot.

    Ch. 49 · 28 Stat. 1026 · January 25, 1895 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to correct errors where double allotments of land have erroneously been made to an Indian, to correct errors in patents, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 50 · 28 Stat. 641 · January 26, 1895 · Original text

99. An Act Authorizing the sale of title of United States to a tract of land in Montgomery County, in the State of Maryland, to William H. and George Bobinger.

    Ch. 51 · 28 Stat. 1027 · January 26, 1895 · Private law · Original text

100. Joint Resolution For the relief of Peter Hagan.

     Private Resolution 7 · 28 Stat. 1048 · January 26, 1895 · Private law · Original text