Every law Congress has passed

947 laws of the 54th Congress, 1895–1897

1. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Williams, of Monroe County, Tennessee.

   Ch. 345 · 29 Stat. 745 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth A. Sargent.

   Ch. 346 · 29 Stat. 745 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas M. Scott.

   Ch. 347 · 29 Stat. 745 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Caroline E. Purdum.

   Ch. 348 · 29 Stat. 746 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act To increase the pension of Peter Rafferty.

   Ch. 349 · 29 Stat. 746 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William T. Applegate.

   Ch. 350 · 29 Stat. 746 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act Granting a pension to Catharine Dillon.

   Ch. 351 · 29 Stat. 746 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act Granting a pension to Ada J. Schwatka, widow of the late Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka.

   Ch. 352 · 29 Stat. 746 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Eleanor Carroll Poe.

   Ch. 353 · 29 Stat. 747 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth W. Sutherland.

    Ch. 354 · 29 Stat. 747 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act Granting a pension to Lue R. Brown.

    Ch. 355 · 29 Stat. 747 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. H. J. Kiernan.

    Ch. 356 · 29 Stat. 747 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act To increase the pension of Ann Catherine Hull.

    Ch. 357 · 29 Stat. 747 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act To increase the pension of Harriet C. Gregg, widow of Colonel and Brevet Major-General John Irvin Gregg, from thirty dollars to fifty dollars per month.

    Ch. 358 · 29 Stat. 748 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Granting a pension to Elvin J. Brown.

    Ch. 359 · 29 Stat. 748 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act Granting a pension to Carrie H. Greene.

    Ch. 360 · 29 Stat. 748 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act Granting a pension to Elmira E. Dustin.

    Ch. 361 · 29 Stat. 748 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act To remove the charge of desertion now standing against Henry H. Bailey.

    Ch. 362 · 29 Stat. 748 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Granting a pension to Thomas Brewer.

    Ch. 363 · 29 Stat. 749 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act Granting a pension to Delia A. Marsh.

    Ch. 364 · 29 Stat. 749 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act Granting a pension to Nancy Gentry.

    Ch. 365 · 29 Stat. 749 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Julia A. Jameson.

    Ch. 366 · 29 Stat. 749 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Marshall.

    Ch. 367 · 29 Stat. 749 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Solomon Hyams.

    Ch. 368 · 29 Stat. 750 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Michael S. Pettit.

    Ch. 369 · 29 Stat. 750 · June 6, 1896 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To regulate mail matter of the fourth class.

    Ch. 370 · 29 Stat. 262 · June 8, 1896 · Original text

27. An Act To expedite the delivery of imported parcels and packages not exceeding five hundred dollars in value.

    Ch. 371 · 29 Stat. 263 · June 8, 1896 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 372 · 29 Stat. 264 · June 8, 1896 · Original text

29. An Act Making appropriations to supply 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. 373 · 29 Stat. 267 · June 8, 1896 · Original text

30. Joint Resolution To authorize a scientific investigation of the fur-seal fisheries.

    Public Resolution 58 · 29 Stat. 475 · June 8, 1896 · Original text

31. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Emily M. Van Derveer, widow of the late Brigadier-General Ferdinand Van Derveer.

    Ch. 374 · 29 Stat. 750 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. William Loring Spencer.

    Ch. 375 · 29 Stat. 750 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of George Hager.

    Ch. 376 · 29 Stat. 750 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act To relieve the North Georgia Agricultural College from the payment of four hundred and fifty dollars for damaged gun.

    Ch. 377 · 29 Stat. 751 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Granting an honorable discharge to John B. Besler.

    Ch. 378 · 29 Stat. 751 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act Granting a pension to Jerusha H. Brown.

    Ch. 379 · 29 Stat. 751 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Abraham H. Parker.

    Ch. 380 · 29 Stat. 751 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Hazlip.

    Ch. 381 · 29 Stat. 752 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lambert L. Mulford.

    Ch. 382 · 29 Stat. 752 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act Granting a pension to Cyrus Thomas.

    Ch. 383 · 29 Stat. 752 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act Granting a pension to Richard P. Pilkington.

    Ch. 384 · 29 Stat. 752 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act Granting a pension to Jesse McMillan.

    Ch. 385 · 29 Stat. 753 · June 8, 1896 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Ch. 386 · 29 Stat. 313 · June 9, 1896 · Original text

44. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska.”

    Ch. 387 · 29 Stat. 316 · June 9, 1896 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the day following adjournment.

    Public Resolution 59 · 29 Stat. 476 · June 9, 1896 · Original text

46. An Act To increase the pension of Mrs. Emily E. Cash.

    Ch. 388 · 29 Stat. 753 · June 9, 1896 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza Sandford.

    Ch. 389 · 29 Stat. 753 · June 9, 1896 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Sophia Sparks and Julia C. Sparks, of Annapolis, Maryland.

    Ch. 390 · 29 Stat. 753 · June 9, 1896 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act Granting a pension to Henry Prince.

    Ch. 391 · 29 Stat. 754 · June 9, 1896 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act To pension the minor children of Patrick F. Reynolds.

    Ch. 392 · 29 Stat. 754 · June 9, 1896 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act Granting a pension to Rhoda Angusta Thompson, daughter of the late Thaddeus Thompson, a private in the Revolutionary war.

    Ch. 393 · 29 Stat. 754 · June 9, 1896 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Changing the time for holding circuit court of the United States at Hartford, in the district of Connecticut.

    Ch. 394 · 29 Stat. 317 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

53. An Act To extend the routes of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railway Company and of the Belt Railway Company, of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 395 · 29 Stat. 318 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

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

    Ch. 396 · 29 Stat. 321 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

55. An Act Disposing of two condemned cannon.

    Ch. 397 · 29 Stat. 321 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

56. 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 June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 398 · 29 Stat. 321 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

57. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 399 · 29 Stat. 361 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

58. An Act To establish a site for the erection of a penitentiary on the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 400 · 29 Stat. 380 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

59. 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. 401 · 29 Stat. 381 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

60. An Act To authorize and encourage the holding of a transmississippi and international exposition at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety eight.

    Ch. 402 · 29 Stat. 382 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

61. An Act To provide for subports of entry and delivery in the State of Florida.

    Ch. 403 · 29 Stat. 384 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

62. An Act To make the city of Santa Barbara, county of Santa Barbara, State of California, a subport of entry.

    Ch. 404 · 29 Stat. 384 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to improve and maintain the public roads within the limits of the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 405 · 29 Stat. 384 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

64. An Act To establish a life-saving station on the coast of New Hampshire or Massachusetts between the Hampton and the Merrimac rivers.

    Ch. 406 · 29 Stat. 385 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

65. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls to certain posts of the Grand Army of the Republic.

    Ch. 407 · 29 Stat. 385 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to furnish to George F. Fuller Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Manistique, Michigan, a condemned cannon.

    Ch. 408 · 29 Stat. 385 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

67. An Act To grant a right of way through the new Fort Bliss Military Reservation to the El Paso and Northeastern Railroad Company.

    Ch. 409 · 29 Stat. 386 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

68. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to place a bronze tablet or inscription on the Government building now being erected in Detroit, Michigan.

    Public Resolution 60 · 29 Stat. 476 · June 10, 1896 · Original text

69. An Act Increasing the pension of Daniel D. Jennings, late of Company C, Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteers.

    Ch. 410 · 29 Stat. 754 · June 10, 1896 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of James A. Moore.

    Ch. 411 · 29 Stat. 755 · June 10, 1896 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act To correct the military record of Charles W. Rinehardt and to grant him an honorable discharge.

    Ch. 412 · 29 Stat. 755 · June 10, 1896 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act Granting a pension to Francis E. Hoover.

    Ch. 413 · 29 Stat. 755 · June 10, 1896 · Private law · Original text

73. Joint Resolution For the relief of James P. Veach.

    Private Resolution 61 · 29 Stat. 759 · June 10, 1896 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Warrior River by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.

    Ch. 414 · 29 Stat. 386 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Cahaba River, in Bibb County, Alabama, by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.

    Ch. 415 · 29 Stat. 387 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize tin: construction of a bridge across the Alabama River by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.

    Ch. 416 · 29 Stat. 391 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the Butler and Pittsburg Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Allegheny River.

    Ch. 417 · 29 Stat. 391 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

78. An Act To make the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, a port of immediate transportation.

    Ch. 418 · 29 Stat. 393 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

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

    Ch. 419 · 29 Stat. 393 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

80. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expanses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 420 · 29 Stat. 413 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

81. An Act To authorize the county of Saint Louis, in the State of Minnesota, to build or authorize the building of a foot and wagon bridge across the Saint Louis River between Minnesota and Wisconsin, at a point near Fond du Lac, in said State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 421 · 29 Stat. 455 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

82. An Act To change the time and places for the district and circuit courts of the northern district of Texas.

    Ch. 422 · 29 Stat. 456 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

83. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for expenses of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

    Ch. 423 · 29 Stat. 457 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

84. An Act To amend section one of “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act authorising the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire or other unavoidable casualty,’” approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

    Ch. 424 · 29 Stat. 458 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

85. Joint Resolution Extending the benefits of sections fourteen hundred and twenty-six and fifteen hundred and seventy-three of the Revised Statutes to all enlisted persons in the Navy.

    Public Resolution 62 · 29 Stat. 476 · June 11, 1896 · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Edward Rice.

    Ch. 425 · 29 Stat. 756 · June 11, 1896 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of William H. Scofield, Jacob Brady, James Ketcham, Annie Booth, as administratrix of the goods, chattels, and credits of George W. Booth, deceased; Wilson P. Billar, Ezra L. Waterhouse, Moses C. Bell, George W. Byles, and George A. Scofield.

    Ch. 426 · 29 Stat. 756 · June 11, 1896 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Captain James Regan, United States Army.

    Ch. 427 · 29 Stat. 756 · June 11, 1896 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Arthur P. Selby.

    Ch. 428 · 29 Stat. 757 · June 11, 1896 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of B. J. Van Vleck, administrator of Henry Van Vleck, deceased.

    Ch. 429 · 29 Stat. 757 · June 11, 1896 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza G. Pyne.

    Ch. 430 · 29 Stat. 757 · June 11, 1896 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act To pension Mrs. Martha M. Gibson.

    Ch. 431 · 29 Stat. 757 · June 11, 1896 · Private law · Original text

93. Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the mouth of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, on the eighteenth day of said month.

    Public Resolution 1 · 29 Stat. 697 · December 21, 1896 · Original text

94. An Act To aid and encourage the holding of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville, Tennessee, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and making an appropriation therefor.

    Ch. 1 · 29 Stat. 477 · December 22, 1896 · Original text

95. 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-eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 2 · 29 Stat. 479 · December 22, 1896 · Original text

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

    Ch. 3 · 29 Stat. 479 · December 22, 1896 · Original text

97. An Act To amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes, relating to copyrights.

    Ch. 4 · 29 Stat. 481 · January 6, 1897 · Original text

98. An Act Authorizing the issuing and loaning of the ensigns, flags, signal numbers, and so forth, of the United States for the purpose of decorating the streets of the city of Washington on the occasion of inaugural ceremonies on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Ch. 5 · 29 Stat. 482 · January 6, 1897 · Original text

99. An Act Extending the time within which the University of Utah shall occupy hinds heretofore granted to it.

    Ch. 7 · 29 Stat. 483 · January 8, 1897 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution Continuing in force section two of the Act approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled “An Act to repeal section sixty-one of ‘An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,’” which became a law August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.

     Public Resolution 2 · 29 Stat. 697 · January 8, 1897 · Original text