Every law Congress has passed

947 laws of the 54th Congress, 1895–1897

1. Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of the Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and Exports of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department.

   Public Resolution 1 · 29 Stat. 459 · December 18, 1895 · Original text

2. 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-five, on the twentieth day of said mouth.

   Public Resolution 2 · 29 Stat. 459 · December 20, 1895 · Original text

3. An Act Making an appropriation for the expanses of a commission to investigate and report on the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana.

   Ch. 1 · 29 Stat. 1 · December 21, 1895 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Granting the State of Pennsylvania permission to use the United States court-house at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and at Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

   Public Resolution 3 · 29 Stat. 459 · December 23, 1895 · Original text

5. An Act To amend section twenty-six hundred and one of the Revised Statutes relative to Ports of Entry.

   Ch. 2 · 29 Stat. 1 · December 27, 1895 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution Ratifying the use of the appropriation for materials and Miscellaneous Expenses for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six for the purchase of articles provided for in the appropriation for the miscellaneous expenses of the Treasury Department, and authorizing the continued use of the same for the remaining portion of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

   Public Resolution 4 · 29 Stat. 460 · December 27, 1895 · Original text

7. An Act Fixing the times for holding the Circuit and District Courts of the Northern District of Iowa, and of the Southern District of Iowa.

   Ch. 3 · 29 Stat. 2 · January 4, 1896 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the acceptance of the ram Katahdin, thereby making said ram a part of the United States Navy.

   Public Resolution 5 · 29 Stat. 460 · January 4, 1896 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution To transfer certain offices of the United States in the Territory of Utah to the officers of the State of Utah.

   Public Resolution 6 · 29 Stat. 461 · January 4, 1896 · Original text

10. An Act To make Palm Beach, Florida, a subport of entry and delivery.

    Ch. 4 · 29 Stat. 2 · January 6, 1896 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution For filling vacancy on Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Resolution 7 · 29 Stat. 461 · January 14, 1896 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution Concerning the completion of the United States Court House and Post office building at Mankato, Minnesota.

    Public Resolution 8 · 29 Stat. 461 · January 17, 1896 · Original text

13. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of (Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 5 · 29 Stat. 2 · January 21, 1896 · Original text

14. An Act For improving Aransas Pass.

    Ch. 6 · 29 Stat. 3 · January 21, 1896 · Original text

15. Joint Resolution To extend the time for making an assessment of real estate in the District of Columbia.

    Public Resolution 9 · 29 Stat. 461 · January 21, 1896 · Original text

16. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Miami.

    Ch. 7 · 29 Stat. 3 · January 22, 1896 · Original text

17. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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. 8 · 29 Stat. 4 · January 23, 1896 · Original text

18. Joint Resolution Authorizing the distribution of copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in Congressional Districts where distribution has not been made.

    Public Resolution 11 · 29 Stat. 462 · January 30, 1896 · Original text

19. An Act To reconvene the delegates of the United Status to the International Marine Conference of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

    Ch. 9 · 29 Stat. 4 · February 5, 1896 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution Concerning the erection and completion (except heating apparatus) of the United States Post Office Building at Bloomington, Illinois.

    Public Resolution 12 · 29 Stat. 463 · February 5, 1896 · Original text

21. An Act To incorporate the Post Graduate School of Medicine of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 10 · 29 Stat. 4 · February 7, 1896 · Original text

22. An Act To provide American registers for the barks Minde and Johan Ludwig.

    Ch. 11 · 29 Stat. 5 · February 7, 1896 · Original text

23. An Act To prohibit prize-fighting and pugilism and fights between men and animals and to provide penalties therefor, in the Territories and District of Columbia.

    Ch. 12 · 29 Stat. 5 · February 7, 1896 · Original text

24. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to use a portion of the appropriation for new iron roof for foundry at navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes,” for repairs to the walls of said foundry.

    Public Resolution 13 · 29 Stat. 463 · February 7, 1896 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution To supply the Department of State with documents.

    Public Resolution 14 · 29 Stat. 463 · February 7, 1896 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution To amend the Act approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and so forth.

    Public Resolution 49 · 29 Stat. 472 · February 7, 1896 · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of the Independence National Bank of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 13 · 29 Stat. 707 · February 7, 1896 · Private law · Original text

28. Joint Resolution To authorize the Attorney General to transfer to William Henry Clifford a portrait of the late Mr. Justice Clifford, now in the Department of Justice.

    Private Resolution 15 · 29 Stat. 758 · February 7, 1896 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act To extend the jurisdiction of the United States circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, over certain suits now pending therein on appeal and writ of error from the United States court in the Indian Territory.

    Ch. 14 · 29 Stat. 6 · February 8, 1896 · Original text

30. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Eva Davis Cogswell, widow of Brigadier-General William Cogswell.

    Ch. 15 · 29 Stat. 708 · February 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James H. Osgood.

    Ch. 16 · 29 Stat. 708 · February 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Granting a pension to Annie M. Greene.

    Ch. 17 · 29 Stat. 708 · February 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act To amend section four of an Act to provide for the adjustment of land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads and for the forfeiture of unearned lands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 18 · 29 Stat. 6 · February 12, 1896 · Original text

34. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad Company to construct and operate a railroad, telegraph, and telephone line through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 19 · 29 Stat. 6 · February 13, 1896 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution Granting use of White Lot and Monument Grounds to “The Committee of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six.”

    Public Resolution 16 · 29 Stat. 464 · February 13, 1896 · Original text

36. An Act To amend chapter seventy-six, laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 20 · 29 Stat. 7 · February 15, 1896 · Original text

37. An Act To extend the time for the completion of the incline railway on West Mountain, Hot Springs Reservation.

    Ch. 21 · 29 Stat. 7 · February 15, 1896 · Original text

38. An Act To amend section thirteen hundred and nine, Revised Statutes, providing a chaplain for the Military Academy.

    Ch. 22 · 29 Stat. 8 · February 18, 1896 · Original text

39. An Act To incorporate The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

    Ch. 23 · 29 Stat. 8 · February 20, 1896 · Original text

40. An Act To extend the mineral-land laws of the United States to lands embraced in the north half of the Colville Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 24 · 29 Stat. 9 · February 20, 1896 · Original text

41. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to punish false swearing before trial boards of the Metropolitan police force and fire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

    Ch. 25 · 29 Stat. 10 · February 20, 1896 · Original text

42. An Act To amend section twenty-one of an Act entitled “An Act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations, and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

    Ch. 26 · 29 Stat. 10 · February 20, 1896 · Original text

43. An Act Extending the time within which the Maryland and Washington Railway Company shall be required to complete the building of the road of said company, under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by an Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.

    Ch. 27 · 29 Stat. 11 · February 20, 1896 · Original text

44. An Act To open forest, reservations in the State of Colorado for the location of mining claims.

    Ch. 28 · 29 Stat. 11 · February 20, 1896 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to defray the joint expense of locating the boundary line between the Territory of Alaska and the British North American territory.

    Public Resolution 17 · 29 Stat. 464 · February 20, 1896 · Original text

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

    Ch. 29 · 29 Stat. 12 · February 24, 1896 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 30 · 29 Stat. 13 · February 24, 1896 · Original text

48. An Act Granting leave of absence for one year to homestead settlers upon the Yankton Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 31 · 29 Stat. 16 · February 26, 1896 · Original text

49. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota.”

    Ch. 32 · 29 Stat. 17 · February 26, 1896 · Original text

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

    Ch. 33 · 29 Stat. 17 · February 26, 1896 · Original text

51. An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Ch. 34 · 29 Stat. 28 · February 26, 1896 · Original text

52. Joint Resolution Providing for certain surveys in the State of Florida.

    Public Resolution 18 · 29 Stat. 464 · February 26, 1896 · Original text

53. Joint Resolution Extending the provisions of section seventy-nine of “An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, so as to include monographs, bulletins, and reports of the Geological Survey published in eighteen hundred and ninety-four and succeeding years.

    Public Resolution 19 · 29 Stat. 465 · February 26, 1896 · Original text

54. An Act To change and fix the time for holding the district and circuit courts of the United States for the northern division of the eastern district of Tennessee.

    Ch. 35 · 29 Stat. 39 · February 27, 1896 · Original text

55. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate one condemned cannon mid four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to W. H. Wallace Poet, Numbered Sixty-six, Grand Army of the Republic, of Eldorado, Kansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 36 · 29 Stat. 39 · February 27, 1896 · Original text

56. An Act To amend section fifty-two hundred and ninety-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States relative to the power of the Secretary of the Treasury to remit or mitigate fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 37 · 29 Stat. 39 · March 2, 1896 · Original text

57. An Act To grant the Fort Smith and Western Coal Railroad Company a right of way through the Indian Territory, and for oilier purposes.

    Ch. 38 · 29 Stat. 40 · March 2, 1896 · Original text

58. An Act To provide for the extension of the time within which suits may be brought to vacate and annul land patents, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 39 · 29 Stat. 42 · March 2, 1896 · Original text

59. Joint Resolution Calling upon the Secretary of War for certain information in relation to the harbor at Manitowoc, in the State of Wisconsin.

    Public Resolution 20 · 29 Stat. 465 · March 2, 1896 · Original text

60. An Act Relating to final proof in timber-culture entries.

    Ch. 40 · 29 Stat. 43 · March 4, 1896 · Original text

61. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to grant to the Gainesville, McAlester and Saint Louis Railroad Company a right of way through the Indian Territory.”

    Ch. 41 · 29 Stat. 44 · March 4, 1896 · Original text

62. An Act Granting a pension to George W. Case, late private, Company B, Twenty-second New York Cavalry.

    Ch. 43 · 29 Stat. 708 · March 4, 1896 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Granting a pension to Anna Kelley.

    Ch. 44 · 29 Stat. 709 · March 4, 1896 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Jane Dulany.

    Ch. 45 · 29 Stat. 709 · March 4, 1896 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act Granting to the Columbia and Red Mountain Railway Company a right of way through the Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 42 · 29 Stat. 44 · March 6, 1896 · Original text

66. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 46 · 29 Stat. 44 · March 6, 1896 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Lake Saint Francis, in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 47 · 29 Stat. 46 · March 6, 1896 · Original text

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

    Ch. 48 · 29 Stat. 46 · March 6, 1896 · Original text

69. An Act Relating to the anchorage and movements of vessels in Saint Marys River.

    Ch. 49 · 29 Stat. 54 · March 6, 1896 · Original text

70. An Act Granting a pension to Julia A. Hill.

    Ch. 50 · 29 Stat. 709 · March 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act Granting to Lincoln Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Hope Valley, Rhode Island, one condemned cannon; also, to the Woman’s Relief Corps of Taylorville. Illinois, four condemned cannon and four condemned cannon balls for the purpose of decorating a soldiers’ monument lately erected there by said corps; and, also, to the town of Newton, in the State of New Jersey, four pieces of condemned cannon and twenty cannon halls for the decoration of the new soldiers’ and sailors’ monument in that town.

    Ch. 51 · 29 Stat. 55 · March 7, 1896 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution To authorize Lieutenant Sidney S. Jordan. Fifth United States Artillery, and Captain Edward C. Carter, assistant surgeon, United States Army, to accept medals from the British Government.

    Private Resolution 21 · 29 Stat. 758 · March 7, 1896 · Private law · Original text

73. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit estimates for work upon Newtown Creek, New York.

    Public Resolution 22 · 29 Stat. 465 · March 11, 1896 · Original text

74. An Act To repeal section five hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, requiring the district judge for the southern district of Florida to reside at Key West.

    Ch. 52 · 29 Stat. 55 · March 13, 1896 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Chamberlain, South Dakota.

    Ch. 53 · 29 Stat. 55 · March 13, 1896 · Original text

76. An Act Regulating proof of death in certain Pension cases.

    Ch. 54 · 29 Stat. 57 · March 13, 1896 · Original text

77. An Act Granting to the First Regiment North Carolina State Guard two condemned cannon.

    Ch. 55 · 29 Stat. 57 · March 13, 1896 · Original text

78. An Act To incorporate the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree of Scottish Rite Masonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.

    Ch. 56 · 29 Stat. 58 · March 13, 1896 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution To print the Annual Report of the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service.

    Public Resolution 23 · 29 Stat. 466 · March 13, 1896 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to distribute the medals and diplomas awarded by the World’s Columbian Commission to the exhibitors entitled thereto.

    Public Resolution 24 · 29 Stat. 466 · March 13, 1896 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Granting the county of Cole, Missouri, permission to use certain rooms in the United States building at Jefferson City, Missouri.

    Public Resolution 25 · 29 Stat. 466 · March 13, 1896 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit a plan and estimate for the further improvement of Conneaut Harbor, in the State of Ohio.

    Public Resolution 26 · 29 Stat. 467 · March 13, 1896 · Original text

83. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase and distribute seeds, bulbs, and so forth, as has been done in preceding years.

    Public Resolution 27 · 29 Stat. 427 · March 14, 1896 · Original text

84. An Act To incorporate the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the diocese of Washington.

    Ch. 57 · 29 Stat. 58 · March 16, 1896 · Original text

85. An Act To reorganize the customs collection district of Alaska.

    Ch. 58 · 29 Stat. 60 · March 16, 1896 · Original text

86. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Ch. 59 · 29 Stat. 60 · March 16, 1896 · Original text

87. Joint Resolution For the return to the State of New Hampshire of the flag of the Eleventh Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.

    Public Resolution 28 · 29 Stat. 467 · March 16, 1896 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Authorizing the National Dredging Company to proceed with the work of dredging the channel of Mobile Harbor, under the direction of the Secretary of War.

    Public Resolution 29 · 29 Stat. 467 · March 16, 1896 · Original text

89. An Act To authorize the Saint Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 60 · 29 Stat. 69 · March 18, 1896 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution Relating to the Federal census.

    Public Resolution 30 · 29 Stat. 467 · March 19, 1896 · Original text

91. Joint Resolution Directing the Public Printer to supply the Senate and House Libraries each with ten additional copies of the Congressional Record.

    Public Resolution 31 · 29 Stat. 468 · March 19, 1896 · Original text

92. An Act To authorize the Auditor for the War Department to audit certain quartermaster’s vouchers alleged to belong to John Finn, of Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 61 · 29 Stat. 709 · March 19, 1896 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act To extend the limits of the port of entry of New Orleans.

    Ch. 62 · 29 Stat. 72 · March 20, 1896 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the First National Bank of Sprague, Washington, to change its location and name.

    Ch. 63 · 29 Stat. 73 · March 20, 1896 · Original text

95. An Act Donating one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to Stone River Post, Numbered Seventy-four, Grand Army of the Republic, Sedan, Kansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 64 · 29 Stat. 73 · March 20, 1896 · Original text

96. An Act To provide for printing and binding for the Navy Department.

    Ch. 65 · 29 Stat. 73 · March 20, 1896 · Original text

97. Joint Resolution Resolution For the relief of ex-Naval Cadets John P. J. Ryan, John R. Morris, and Chester Wells.

    Public Resolution 32 · 29 Stat. 468 · March 20, 1896 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to make a survey and submit an estimate for a breakwater in Marquette Bay.

    Public Resolution 33 · 29 Stat. 469 · March 20, 1896 · Original text

99. An Act To repeal section six of an Act entitled “An Act to define the duties of pension agents, to prescribe the manner of paying pensions, and for other purposes,” approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and now being section forty-seven hundred and eighty-four, Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 66 · 29 Stat. 74 · March 23, 1896 · Original text

100. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River, in the county of Aitkin, State of Minnesota.

     Ch. 67 · 29 Stat. 74 · March 23, 1896 · Original text