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Every law Congress has passed

97,863 laws from 1789 to 2026, as printed in the Statutes at Large, the official record of every act of Congress. 51,799 are public laws; 46,064 are private laws, which apply to named people or places, such as pensions, land claims and relief from debts.

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712 laws of the 53rd Congress, 1893–1895

  1. An Act For the relief of James Berry Duckett.

    Ch. 228 · 28 Stat. 1045 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act To amend the military record of Angus V. Wilson.

    Ch. 229 · 28 Stat. 1046 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act To increase the pension of Alexander Williamson.

    Ch. 230 · 28 Stat. 1046 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act To provide increase of pension to Hosea Brown, of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 231 · 28 Stat. 1046 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act Granting a pension to Alice K. Potter, widow of General Joseph H. Potter, deceased.

    Ch. 232 · 28 Stat. 1046 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act For the relief of Fred Kormann.

    Ch. 233 · 28 Stat. 1046 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas M. Chill.

    Ch. 234 · 28 Stat. 1047 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act Granting a pension to Charles F. Holly.

    Ch. 235 · 28 Stat. 1047 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eugenia R. Sweeny.

    Ch. 236 · 28 Stat. 1047 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act For the relief of James Curran.

    Ch. 237 · 28 Stat. 1047 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  11. Joint Resolution Authorizing Second Lieutenant F. D. Rockenbach, of the Tenth Cavalry, United States Army, to accept the position of commandant of cadets at the Virginia Military Academy, Lexington, Virginia.

    Private Resolution 32 · 28 Stat. 1049 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

  12. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to correct the military record of Captain Edward Wheeler, Fifty-sixth New York Volunteers.

    Private Resolution 33 · 28 Stat. 1049 · March 2, 1895 · Private law · Original text

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From the U.S. Statutes at Large, volumes 1 through 138, published by the Government Publishing Office on GovInfo; laws signed since the latest printed volume come from GovInfo’s public and private law files. Treaties, proclamations and concurrent resolutions, which share those volumes, are not laws and are left out. The oldest volumes were digitized from print, so a few dates could not be read; for those we show the year from the laws printed alongside. Short names come from each law’s own “may be cited as” clause.