Every law Congress has passed

947 laws of the 54th Congress, 1895–1897

1. An Act For the relief of A. A. Hosmer.

   Ch. 7 · 29 Stat. 761 · January 8, 1897 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act To refer the claim of the owners of the brig Tally-Ho to the Court of Claims.

   Ch. 8 · 29 Stat. 483 · January 9, 1897 · Original text

3. An Act To amend chapter one hundred and eleven of the Acts of the third session of the Fifty-third Congress.

   Ch. 9 · 29 Stat. 483 · January 9, 1897 · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Emmart, Dunbar and Company.

   Ch. 10 · 29 Stat. 761 · January 9, 1897 · Private law · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Authorizing the building of a telephone Iine in the District of Columbia.

   Public Resolution 3 · 29 Stat. 697 · January 11, 1897 · Original text

6. An Act Providing for the locution and purchase of public lands for reservoir sites.

   Ch. 11 · 29 Stat. 484 · January 13, 1897 · Original text

7. An Act To approve and ratify the construction of a bridge over and across Caddo Lake, at Mooringsport, Louisiana, by the Kansas City, Shreveport and Gulf Railway Company.

   Ch. 12 · 29 Stat. 484 · January 13, 1897 · Original text

8. An Act Authorizing the Kansas City, Watkins and Gulf Railway Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Black River, in Louisiana.

   Ch. 13 · 29 Stat. 484 · January 13, 1897 · Original text

9. An Act Granting increase of pension to John Coombs.

   Ch. 14 · 29 Stat. 762 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act To grant a pension to Armstead M. Rawlings, of Arkansas.

    Ch. 15 · 29 Stat. 762 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act Granting a pension to Phoebe M. Woolley Palmeter.

    Ch. 16 · 29 Stat. 762 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act Granting a pension to Neil McNeil.

    Ch. 17 · 29 Stat. 762 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act To place the name of Robert Smalls on the pension rolls.

    Ch. 18 · 29 Stat. 762 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Martin.

    Ch. 19 · 29 Stat. 763 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Granting a pension to Celestia R. Barry.

    Ch. 20 · 29 Stat. 763 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Samuel Burrell.

    Ch. 21 · 29 Stat. 763 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To increase the pension of Mary C. Thompson.

    Ch. 22 · 29 Stat. 763 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act To increase the pension of Theresa Peebles, of Jefferson County, Georgia.

    Ch. 23 · 29 Stat. 763 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Orleina J. Clark, of Louisville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 24 · 29 Stat. 764 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John L. Britton.

    Ch. 25 · 29 Stat. 764 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To grant a pension to Charlotte O. Van Cleve, widow of General Horatio P. Van Cleve.

    Ch. 26 · 29 Stat. 764 · January 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Granting a pension to Elvira Bachelder.

    Ch. 27 · 29 Stat. 764 · January 14, 1897 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Granting a pension to Jane Fisher.

    Ch. 28 · 29 Stat. 764 · January 14, 1897 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act To reduce the cases in which the penalty of death may be inflicted.

    Ch. 29 · 29 Stat. 487 · January 15, 1897 · Original text

25. An Act Approving certain acts of the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, authorizing the issue of certain bonds of said Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 30 · 29 Stat. 487 · January 16, 1897 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution To permit railroads in the District to occupy additional parts of streets to accommodate the traveling public attending the inaugural ceremonies.

    Public Resolution 4 · 29 Stat. 697 · January 16, 1897 · Original text

27. An Act To remove the charge of desertion now standing against Oscar A. Bulette, known in his military title as Austin Bulette, late private in Company E, Fifty-second Illinois Infantry Volunteers, during late war.

    Ch. 31 · 29 Stat. 765 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Granting a pension to Emeline Filgate.

    Ch. 32 · 29 Stat. 765 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act Granting a pension to Lydia Chapman.

    Ch. 33 · 29 Stat. 765 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act Granting a pension to Ira Harris.

    Ch. 34 · 29 Stat. 765 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act Granting a pension to Frances E. Helfenstein.

    Ch. 35 · 29 Stat. 765 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Arminda White, widow of Israel White.

    Ch. 36 · 29 Stat. 766 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act Granting a pension to Maria Gibbons.

    Ch. 37 · 29 Stat. 766 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Granting a pension to Augustus G. Cary.

    Ch. 38 · 29 Stat. 766 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Granting a pension to Ransom C. Hazelip.

    Ch. 39 · 29 Stat. 766 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Ann Wible.

    Ch. 40 · 29 Stat. 766 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Lucinda Rickards, widow, and the minor children of John D. Rickards, deceased.

    Ch. 41 · 29 Stat. 767 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret J. Young.

    Ch. 42 · 29 Stat. 767 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of M. R. William Grebe.

    Ch. 43 · 29 Stat. 767 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Helen M. Mallery.

    Ch. 44 · 29 Stat. 767 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Hiram P. Pauley.

    Ch. 45 · 29 Stat. 768 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act To increase the pension of Byron Cotton.

    Ch. 46 · 29 Stat. 768 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Weedon Jones.

    Ch. 47 · 29 Stat. 768 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Prince, widow of Ellis Prince.

    Ch. 48 · 29 Stat. 768 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act Granting a pension to Nancy B. Prince, widow of Elbert Prince.

    Ch. 49 · 29 Stat. 769 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act Granting a pension to Catharine Darragh.

    Ch. 50 · 29 Stat. 769 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act Granting a pension to Katherine Zeigenheim, of Louisville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 51 · 29 Stat. 769 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To grant a pension to Mrs. Lucy A. Allen.

    Ch. 52 · 29 Stat. 770 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act Granting a pension to Charlotte A. Welton.

    Ch. 53 · 29 Stat. 770 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Stratton H. Benscoter.

    Ch. 54 · 29 Stat. 770 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To pension William H. Nesbitt.

    Ch. 55 · 29 Stat. 771 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac H. Whetsel, of Louisville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 56 · 29 Stat. 771 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act To increase the pension of Mary L. Bacon, widow of the late George B. Bacon, late lieutenant-commander of the United States Navy.

    Ch. 57 · 29 Stat. 771 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Henry A. F. Worth.

    Ch. 58 · 29 Stat. 772 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act To increase the pension of George V. Barnard.

    Ch. 59 · 29 Stat. 772 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act To increase the pension of Andrew R. Ladd.

    Ch. 60 · 29 Stat. 772 · January 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act Providing for certain requirements for vessels propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha, or electric motors.

    Ch. 61 · 29 Stat. 489 · January 18, 1897 · Original text

58. An Act To provide for the entry of lands in Greer County, Oklahoma, to give preference rights to settlers, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 62 · 29 Stat. 490 · January 18, 1897 · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of William B. Ellis.

    Ch. 63 · 29 Stat. 773 · January 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Patrick Rainey.

    Ch. 64 · 29 Stat. 773 · January 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act To increase the pension of Caroline S. Baker.

    Ch. 65 · 29 Stat. 773 · January 19, 1897 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Kahului.

    Ch. 66 · 29 Stat. 491 · January 20, 1897 · Original text

63. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend section forty-one hundred and seventy-eight, Revised Statutes, in relation to the marking of vessels’ names at how and stern, and also to provide for marking the draft,” approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

    Ch. 67 · 29 Stat. 491 · January 20, 1897 · Original text

64. An Act To withdraw from the Supreme Court jurisdiction of criminal cases not capital and confer the same on the circuit courts of appeals.

    Ch. 68 · 29 Stat. 492 · January 20, 1897 · Original text

65. An Act To approve and ratify the construction of a bridge across the Red River, between the States of Arkansas and Texas, at a point above the town of Fulton, in Arkansas, on said river, built by the Texarkana Northern Railway Company, but now owned and operated by the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company, and to authorize the latter company to maintain said bridge over said waterway, subject to certain stipulations and conditions.

    Ch. 69 · 29 Stat. 492 · January 20, 1897 · Original text

66. An Act To validate the appointments, acts, and services of certain deputy United States marshals in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 70 · 29 Stat. 493 · January 20, 1897 · Original text

67. An Act To remove the charge of desertion and grant an honorable discharge to Helmuth F. Sœckel.

    Ch. 71 · 29 Stat. 773 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of the heirs of D. Fulford.

    Ch. 72 · 29 Stat. 774 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For relief of Augusta Tuller.

    Ch. 73 · 29 Stat. 774 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act Granting a pension to Henderson Marple.

    Ch. 74 · 29 Stat. 774 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act Granting a pension to George William Hodgdon.

    Ch. 75 · 29 Stat. 774 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Anna Wedel.

    Ch. 76 · 29 Stat. 775 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act To grant a pension to Mrs. Keturah Wilson, widow of James Wilson, deceased.

    Ch. 77 · 29 Stat. 775 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Collins.

    Ch. 78 · 29 Stat. 775 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Lydia Boynton Ferris.

    Ch. 79 · 29 Stat. 775 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George Johnson, of Lenox, Iowa.

    Ch. 80 · 29 Stat. 776 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting a pension to Eleanor L. Curtiss.

    Ch. 81 · 29 Stat. 776 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act Granting a pension to Samuel D. Gilman.

    Ch. 82 · 29 Stat. 776 · January 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Construing the Acts of Congress in relation to the award of life-saving medals.

    Ch. 83 · 29 Stat. 494 · January 21, 1897 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution Providing for the erection of a Government building at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.

    Public Resolution 5 · 29 Stat. 698 · January 21, 1897 · Original text

81. An Act Granting a pension to Thomas Pollock.

    Ch. 84 · 29 Stat. 777 · January 21, 1897 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting a pension to Anna P. Johnson.

    Ch. 85 · 29 Stat. 777 · January 21, 1897 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to furnish condemned cannon to Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

    Ch. 86 · 29 Stat. 494 · January 22, 1897 · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of John Kehl and to restore him to his former rating.

    Ch. 87 · 29 Stat. 777 · January 25, 1897 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret A. Kidwell.

    Ch. 88 · 29 Stat. 777 · January 25, 1897 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of George W. Taylor.

    Ch. 89 · 29 Stat. 778 · January 25, 1897 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Monongahela River from the borough of Braddock to the township of Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 90 · 29 Stat. 495 · January 26, 1897 · Original text

88. An Act To authorize the Union Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River.

    Ch. 91 · 29 Stat. 496 · January 26, 1897 · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of telegraph operators who served in the war of the rebellion.

    Ch. 92 · 29 Stat. 497 · January 26, 1897 · Original text

90. An Act To incorporate the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf.

    Ch. 94 · 29 Stat. 499 · January 26, 1897 · Original text

91. An Act To enable the town of Flagstaff, in the Territory of Arizona, to issue bonds to construct a water system.

    Ch. 95 · 29 Stat. 499 · January 26, 1897 · Original text

92. An Act To provide for the payment of certain claims against the District of Columbia by drawback certificates.

    Ch. 96 · 29 Stat. 500 · January 26, 1897 · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Ellis H. Roberts.

    Ch. 97 · 29 Stat. 778 · January 26, 1897 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act To correct the military record of Edward H. Munson, late a private in Company H, Thirty-second New York Regiment Infantry.

    Ch. 98 · 29 Stat. 778 · January 26, 1897 · Private law · Original text

95. Joint Resolution Authorizing Surgeon P. M. Rixey, of the Navy, to accept from the King of Spain the grand cross of naval merit with the white distinction mark, in recognition of services rendered to the officer and sailors of the Santa Maria who were injured by an explosion on that ship.

    Private Resolution 6 · 29 Stat. 837 · January 26, 1897 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Authorizing the Kansas City, Watkins and Gulf Railway Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Red River at the city of Alexandria, Louisiana.

    Ch. 93 · 29 Stat. 4987 · January 26, 1897 · Original text

97. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 99 · 29 Stat. 501 · January 27, 1897 · Original text

98. An Act Granting a pension to George M. Brooks.

    Ch. 100 · 29 Stat. 778 · January 27, 1897 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah E. Comly, widow of Major Clifton Comly.

    Ch. 101 · 29 Stat. 779 · January 27, 1897 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting a pension to Richard Brookins.

     Ch. 102 · 29 Stat. 779 · January 27, 1897 · Private law · Original text