Every law Congress has passed

947 laws of the 54th Congress, 1895–1897

1. An Act To restore the name of Ethan A. Sellman to the pension roll.

   Ch. 201 · 29 Stat. 798 · February 8, 1897 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act Granting pension to Barton S. Dawson.

   Ch. 202 · 29 Stat. 798 · February 8, 1897 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Granting a pension to Samuel McKinsey.

   Ch. 203 · 29 Stat. 798 · February 8, 1897 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To increase the pension of Adam Dennis.

   Ch. 204 · 29 Stat. 799 · February 8, 1897 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act To amend section forty-eight hundred and twenty-nine of the United States Revised Statutes concerning surgeons, assistant surgeons, and other medical officers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

   Ch. 205 · 29 Stat. 517 · February 9, 1897 · Original text

6. An Act To increase the pension of Ambrose D. Manion.

   Ch. 206 · 29 Stat. 799 · February 9, 1897 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Christopher Ellis.

   Ch. 207 · 29 Stat. 799 · February 9, 1897 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Annie E. Nolan.

   Ch. 208 · 29 Stat. 799 · February 9, 1897 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Silas M. Stevens.

   Ch. 209 · 29 Stat. 800 · February 9, 1897 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act Granting a pension to Harriet F. Herrick.

    Ch. 210 · 29 Stat. 800 · February 9, 1897 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act Granting a pension to Harriet F. Herrick.

    Ch. 211 · 29 Stat. 800 · February 9, 1897 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act To authorize the adjustment and settlement of accounts of John Y. Williams.

    Ch. 211 · 29 Stat. 800 · February 9, 1897 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act Granting a pension to Francis Brown.

    Ch. 212 · 29 Stat. 800 · February 9, 1897 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act To quiet title and possession with respect to certain unconfirmed and located private land claims in the State of Louisiana.

    Ch. 213 · 29 Stat. 517 · February 10, 1897 · Original text

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

    Ch. 214 · 29 Stat. 518 · February 10, 1897 · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Hiram T. Corum and Silas W. Davis, of Oregon.

    Ch. 215 · 29 Stat. 801 · February 10, 1897 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To authorize the entry and patenting of lands containing petroleum and other mineral oils under the placer-mining laws of the United States.

    Ch. 216 · 29 Stat. 526 · February 11, 1897 · Original text

18. An Act To remove the political disabilities of Colonel John Taylor Wood.

    Ch. 217 · 29 Stat. 801 · February 11, 1897 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Wear Crawford.

    Ch. 218 · 29 Stat. 801 · February 12, 1897 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act To correct the military record of Homer C. McCuskey.

    Ch. 219 · 29 Stat. 801 · February 12, 1897 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Peter Young.

    Ch. 220 · 29 Stat. 802 · February 12, 1897 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act To commission passed assistant surgeons in the United States Navy, and to provide for their examination preliminary to their promotion to the grade of surgeon.

    Ch. 221 · 29 Stat. 526 · February 13, 1897 · Original text

23. An Act To provide an American register for bark Vila.

    Ch. 222 · 29 Stat. 527 · February 13, 1897 · Original text

24. An Act To authorize the establishment of a life-saving station at or near Great Boars Head, on the coast of New Hampshire.

    Ch. 223 · 29 Stat. 527 · February 13, 1897 · Original text

25. An Act To provide an American register for the bark E. C. Mowatt, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 224 · 29 Stat. 527 · February 13, 1897 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of the Consular Regulations of eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

    Public Resolution 10 · 29 Stat. 700 · February 13, 1897 · Original text

27. An Act Granting a pension to Mary W. Keeffe.

    Ch. 225 · 29 Stat. 802 · February 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Granting a pension to Nancy T. Duncklee.

    Ch. 226 · 29 Stat. 802 · February 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Peter Cook, of Arkansas.

    Ch. 227 · 29 Stat. 803 · February 13, 1897 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To grant to the Hudson Reservoir and Canal Company the right of way through the Gila River Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 228 · 29 Stat. 527 · February 15, 1897 · Original text

31. An Act To amend so much of chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the Statutes of the United States of America, passed at the third session of the Fifty third Congress, and approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as requires that the lower portion of the Rock Island Bridge shall not be occupied by any street railway company without paying a reasonable rent therefor.

    Ch. 229 · 29 Stat. 528 · February 15, 1897 · Original text

32. An Act To extend and amend an Act entitled “An Act to grant the right of way to the Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern Railway Company through this Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory, and for other purposes,” approved December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 230 · 29 Stat. 528 · February 15, 1897 · Original text

33. An Act To amend “An Act to amend ‘An Act to amend section forty-four hundred of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning the regulation of steam vessels.’ approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,” and also to amend section forty-four hundred and fourteen, title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes, “Regulation of steam vessels.”

    Ch. 231 · 29 Stat. 528 · February 15, 1897 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution For appointment of a member of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

    Public Resolution 11 · 29 Stat. 700 · February 15, 1897 · Original text

35. An Act Granting a pension to James L. Wing.

    Ch. 232 · 29 Stat. 803 · February 15, 1897 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Elnora Shuman.

    Ch. 233 · 29 Stat. 803 · February 15, 1897 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act To provide for appointment by brevet of active or retired officers of the United States Army.

    Ch. 234 · 29 Stat. 528 · February 16, 1897 · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of John N. Quackenbush, late a commander in the United States Navy.

    Ch. 235 · 29 Stat. 803 · February 16, 1897 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” passed finally June third, eighteen hundred, and ninety-six.

    Ch. 236 · 29 Stat. 531 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

40. An Act To permit a part of the Fort Lyon Military Reservation to be occupied, improved, and controlled for a soldiers’ home by the State of Colorado.

    Ch. 237 · 29 Stat. 531 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

41. An Act Authorizing the Cleveland Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River between Pawnee County, Oklahoma, and the Osage Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 238 · 29 Stat. 531 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

42. An Act To authorize a survey for construction of a bridge across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River in line with Massachusetts avenue extended eastward.

    Ch. 239 · 29 Stat. 532 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

43. An Act To authorize the construction by the Duluth and North Dakota Railroad Company of two bridges across the Red River of the North between the States of Minnesota and North Dakota.

    Ch. 240 · 29 Stat. 533 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

44. An Act To enable certain persons in the State of Mississippi to procure title to public lands.

    Ch. 241 · 29 Stat. 534 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

45. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Chattanooga Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Chattanooga,” giving the said company more time in which to begin and complete said bridge.

    Ch. 242 · 29 Stat. 534 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

46. An Act To amend an act authorizing the West Braddock Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River from the borough of Rankin to Mifflin Township.

    Ch. 243 · 29 Stat. 535 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

47. An Act Relating to the improvement of Eastchester Creek, State of New York.

    Ch. 244 · 29 Stat. 535 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution To furnish the daily Congressional Record to members of the press, and so forth.

    Public Resolution 12 · 29 Stat. 700 · February 17, 1897 · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Silas P. Keller.

    Ch. 245 · 29 Stat. 804 · February 17, 1897 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of H. C. Herndon.

    Ch. 246 · 29 Stat. 804 · February 17, 1897 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To cure the title to certain real estate in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 247 · 29 Stat. 804 · February 17, 1897 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Granting pensions to Gray’s Battalion of Arkansas Volunteers.

    Ch. 248 · 29 Stat. 805 · February 17, 1897 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Barzilla C. Hudson.

    Ch. 249 · 29 Stat. 805 · February 17, 1897 · Private law · Original text

54. 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. 250 · 29 Stat. 535 · February 18, 1897 · Original text

55. An Act To provide a life-saving station at or near Point Arena, Mendocino County, in the State of California.

    Ch. 251 · 29 Stat. 536 · February 18, 1897 · Original text

56. Joint Resolution Providing for the distribution of the maps and atlases of the United States Geological Survey.

    Public Resolution 13 · 29 Stat. 701 · February 18, 1897 · Original text

57. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel C. Towne.

    Ch. 252 · 29 Stat. 805 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Nichols.

    Ch. 253 · 29 Stat. 806 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Marion McKibben.

    Ch. 254 · 29 Stat. 806 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Adelaide Morris.

    Ch. 255 · 29 Stat. 806 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act Granting a pension to Robert Kiracofe.

    Ch. 256 · 29 Stat. 806 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Shubael Gould.

    Ch. 257 · 29 Stat. 807 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Dudley F. Brown.

    Ch. 258 · 29 Stat. 807 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act To increase the pension of Elizabeth L. Larrabee, widow of Colonel C. H. Larrabee, late of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers.

    Ch. 259 · 29 Stat. 807 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act Granting an additional pension to Captain Bradbury W. Hight.

    Ch. 260 · 29 Stat. 808 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act Granting a pension to Mary E. Ely.

    Ch. 261 · 29 Stat. 808 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act To increase the pension of Caroline A. Hough, widow of Brigadier-General John Hough.

    Ch. 262 · 29 Stat. 808 · February 18, 1897 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act To amend the Act creating the circuit court of appeals in regard to fees and costs, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 263 · 29 Stat. 536 · February 19, 1897 · Original text

69. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the supreme court of the District of Columbia, having general equity jurisdiction, to decree the sale, lease or surrender of any lease of real estate in said District, belonging to insane persons, for purpose of reinvestment, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 264 · 29 Stat. 536 · February 19, 1897 · Original text

70. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 265 · 29 Stat. 538 · February 19, 1897 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the expenses of the inaugural ceremonies.

    Public Resolution 14 · 29 Stat. 701 · February 19, 1897 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution Authorizing this Secretary of the Navy to transport contributions for the relief of the suffering poor of India.

    Public Resolution 15 · 29 Stat. 701 · February 19, 1897 · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of James Stewart.

    Ch. 266 · 29 Stat. 809 · February 19, 1897 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To extend North Capitol street northward through the property of the Prospect Hill Cemetery, to pay for hind to be taken for such purpose, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 267 · 29 Stat. 578 · February 20, 1897 · Original text

75. An Act Making appropriations for tile diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

    Ch. 268 · 29 Stat. 579 · February 20, 1897 · Original text

76. An Act To reorganize the judicial districts of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 269 · 29 Stat. 590 · February 20, 1897 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution For the relief of farmers and truckmen in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Public Resolution 16 · 29 Stat. 702 · February 20, 1897 · Original text

78. An Act To execute the findings of the Court of Claims m the matter of William B. Isaacs and Company.

    Ch. 270 · 29 Stat. 809 · February 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Granting a pension to Miriam V. Kenney, widow of Samuel W. Kenney.

    Ch. 271 · 29 Stat. 809 · February 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To increase the pension of Mary S. Higgins.

    Ch. 272 · 29 Stat. 809 · February 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act To increase the pension of Clara L. Nichols, widow of Brevet Major-General W. A. Nichols.

    Ch. 273 · 29 Stat. 810 · February 20, 1897 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting a pension to Betsey J. Webber.

    Ch. 274 · 29 Stat. 810 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hans Johnson.

    Ch. 275 · 29 Stat. 810 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George B. Custer.

    Ch. 276 · 29 Stat. 811 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs., Laura A. Nelson.

    Ch. 277 · 29 Stat. 811 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Laura C. Dodge.

    Ch. 278 · 29 Stat. 811 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nettie A. Cheeks.

    Ch. 279 · 29 Stat. 811 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Henry F. Thornton.

    Ch. 280 · 29 Stat. 812 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act To increase the pension of Josiah P. Hill, late of Company F, Eighty-first Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, in the war of the rebellion.

    Ch. 281 · 29 Stat. 812 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act To grant a pension to Uriah Andricks, Fifty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. 282 · 29 Stat. 812 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act To increase the pension of Charles H. Twomey.

    Ch. 283 · 29 Stat. 813 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting a pension to Lauretta L. Prince.

    Ch. 284 · 29 Stat. 813 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting increase of pension to Henry Slaughter.

    Ch. 285 · 29 Stat. 813 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lemuel J. Essex.

    Ch. 286 · 29 Stat. 814 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting a pension to George B. Merchant.

    Ch. 287 · 29 Stat. 814 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act To increase the pension of Mrs. Virginia E. Turtle, of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 288 · 29 Stat. 814 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act To pension James L. McKinney for services in Oregon Indian wars.

    Ch. 289 · 29 Stat. 815 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act To pension Daniel Giles for services in Oregon Indian wars.

    Ch. 290 · 29 Stat. 815 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act To reinstate William Waldrup on pension roll.

    Ch. 291 · 29 Stat. 815 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting a pension to Mellisa Adams, widow of Silas Adams.

     Ch. 292 · 29 Stat. 815 · February 22, 1897 · Private law · Original text