Every law Congress has passed

1,438 laws of the 55th Congress, 1897–1899

1. Joint Resolution Making immediately available the appropriations for mileage and stationery of Senators, Representatives and Delegates of the House of Representatives.

   Public Resolution 1 · 30 Stat. 216 · March 24, 1897 · Original text

2. Joint Resolution Making immediately available appropriations for the payment of session employees of the House of Representatives during the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress.

   Public Resolution 2 · 30 Stat. 216 · March 24, 1897 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Directing Secretary of War to furnish tents to the sufferers from the floods in the Mississippi River.

   Public Resolution 3 · 30 Stat. 216 · March 24, 1897 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Regulating the distribution of public documents.

   Public Resolution 4 · 30 Stat. 217 · March 25, 1897 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Amending a 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 5 · 30 Stat. 217 · March 26, 1897 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution Making appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi River from the Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, and to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

   Public Resolution 6 · 30 Stat. 217 · March 31, 1897 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution Making the appropriation for renewal of the patrol system of the District of Columbia immediately available.

   Public Resolution 7 · 30 Stat. 219 · April 7, 1897 · Original text

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

   Public Resolution 8 · 30 Stat. 219 · April 7, 1897 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to use rations for the relief of destitute persons in the district overflowed by the Mississippi River and its tributaries and by the Red River of the North, and making an appropriation to relieve the sufferers by said overflow.

   Public Resolution 9 · 30 Stat. 219 · April 7, 1897 · Original text

10. An Act Making appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

    Ch. 1 · 30 Stat. 1 · April 23, 1897 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Joint Resolution Providing for the expenses of the Congress of the Universal Postal Union.

    Public Resolution 10 · 30 Stat. 220 · May 7, 1897 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution Appropriating fifty thousand dollars for the relief of destitute citizens of the United States in the Island of Cuba.

    Public Resolution 11 · 30 Stat. 220 · May 24, 1897 · Original text

13. Joint Resolution In amendment of the joint resolution of April seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to transport contributions for the relief of the famishing poor of India.

    Public Resolution 12 · 30 Stat. 220 · June 1, 1897 · Original text

14. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriations for public printing and binding for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Public Resolution 13 · 30 Stat. 220 · June 1, 1897 · Original text

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

    Ch. 2 · 30 Stat. 11 · June 4, 1897 · Original text

16. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3 · 30 Stat. 62 · June 7, 1897 · Original text

17. An Act To adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States.

    Ch. 4 · 30 Stat. 96 · June 7, 1897 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Clinch River, Kingston, Tennessee.

    Ch. 5 · 30 Stat. 103 · June 9, 1897 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution Reappropriating the sum of ten thousand dollars not expended for the relief of sufferers by the floods of the Mississippi River.

    Public Resolution 14 · 30 Stat. 221 · June 9, 1897 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution Relating to the payment of salaries in the consular service.

    Public Resolution 15 · 30 Stat. 221 · June 15, 1897 · Original text

21. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a steel bridge over the Saint Louis River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota,” approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as amended by an Act approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to amend an Act to authorize the construction of a steel bridge over the Saint Louis River between the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin.”

    Ch. 6 · 30 Stat. 104 · June 18, 1897 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Pearl River, in the State of Mississippi.

    Ch. 7 · 30 Stat. 104 · June 18, 1897 · Original text

23. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point Carlos Gutierrez, of Salvador.

    Public Resolution 16 · 30 Stat. 221 · June 18, 1897 · Original text

24. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the entry of lands in Greer County, Oklahoma, to give preference rights to settlers, and for other purposes,” approved January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Ch. 8 · 30 Stat. 105 · June 23, 1897 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution To provide for the immediate repair of Dry Dock Numbered Three, at the New York Navy-Yard.

    Public Resolution 17 · 30 Stat. 222 · June 26, 1897 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution Authorizing foreign exhibitors at the Transmississippi and International Exposition, to be held in the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to bring to the United States foreign laborers from their countries, respectively, for the purpose of preparing for and making exhibits.

    Public Resolution 18 · 30 Stat. 222 · June 30, 1897 · Original text

27. Joint Resolution Granting permission for the erection of a temporary studio in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, for use in the construction and completion of the statue of General Sherman.

    Public Resolution 19 · 30 Stat. 223 · July 15, 1897 · Original text

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

    Ch. 9 · 30 Stat. 105 · July 19, 1897 · Original text

29. An Act To allow the distillery of the New England Distilling Company and the rectifying house of Mullins and Crigler, both situated in Covington, Kentucky, to be operated within six hundred feet of each other.

    Ch. 10 · 30 Stat. 151 · July 19, 1897 · Original text

30. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to issue tents for the use of the Grand Army Encampment at Leavenworth, Kansas.

    Public Resolution 20 · 30 Stat. 224 · July 19, 1897 · Original text

31. An Act To provide revenue for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States.

    Ch. 11 · 30 Stat. 151 · July 24, 1897 · Original text

32. An Act To give the consent of Congress to a compact entered into between the States of South Dakota and Nebraska respecting the boundary between said States.

    Ch. 12 · 30 Stat. 214 · July 24, 1897 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize the President to suspend discriminating duties imposed on foreign vessels and commerce.

    Ch. 13 · 30 Stat. 214 · July 24, 1897 · Original text

34. An Act To amend section eight of the Act entitled “An Act providing a civil government for Alaska,” approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to create the office of surveyor-general for Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 14 · 30 Stat. 215 · July 24, 1897 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution Requesting the President to make investigation into the “Regie Contract” system.

    Public Resolution 21 · 30 Stat. 224 · July 24, 1897 · Original text

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

    Public Resolution 22 · 30 Stat. 224 · July 24, 1897 · Original text

37. An Act Making appropriations to provide for certain deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

    Ch. 1 · 30 Stat. 225 · December 16, 1897 · Original text

38. 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-seven, on the seventeenth day of said month.

    Resolution 1 · 30 Stat. 732 · December 16, 1897 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War, in his discretion to purchase subsistence stores, supplies, and materials for the relief of people who are in the Yukon River country, to provide means for their transportation and distribution, and making an appropriation therefor.

    Ch. 2 · 30 Stat. 226 · December 18, 1897 · Original text

40. Joint Resolution Extending limit of cost of the Government building or buildings at the Transmississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, and reducing cost of Government Exhibit.

    Resolution 2 · 30 Stat. 732 · December 18, 1897 · Original text

41. An Act Prohibiting the killing of fur seals in the waters of the North Pacific Ocean.

    Ch. 3 · 30 Stat. 226 · December 29, 1897 · Original text

42. An Act To amend an Act granting to the Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway Company a right of way through the San Carlos Indian Reservation, in Arizona.

    Ch. 4 · 30 Stat. 227 · January 13, 1898 · Original text

43. An Act To confirm certain cash entries of public lands.

    Ch. 5 · 30 Stat. 227 · January 18, 1898 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Director of the Geological Survey to prepare a map of Alaska.

    Resolution 3 · 30 Stat. 732 · January 20, 1898 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution To fill vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Resolution 4 · 30 Stat. 733 · January 24, 1898 · Original text

46. An Act For the regulation of cemeteries and the disposal of dead bodies in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 6 · 30 Stat. 228 · January 25, 1898 · Original text

47. An Act Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to accept the bequest of the late Peter Von Essen for the use of the public white schools of that portion of said District formerly known as Georgetown, and distribute same among the heirs of Peter Von Essen, deceased.

    Ch. 7 · 30 Stat. 231 · January 25, 1898 · Original text

48. An Act To regulate, in the District of Columbia, the disposal of certain refuse, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 8 · 30 Stat. 231 · January 25, 1898 · Original text

49. Joint Resolution Accepting the invitation of the Government of Norway to take part in an International Fisheries Exposition to be held at the city of Bergen, Norway, from May to September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

    Resolution 5 · 30 Stat. 733 · January 25, 1898 · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of William S. Grant.

    Ch. 9 · 30 Stat. 1395 · January 25, 1898 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To amend section twenty-two hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 10 · 30 Stat. 234 · January 27, 1898 · Original text

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

    Ch. 11 · 30 Stat. 234 · January 28, 1898 · Original text

53. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Navahoe.

    Ch. 12 · 30 Stat. 240 · January 31, 1898 · Original text

54. Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of the report of the governor of Alaska, eighteen hundred, and ninety-seven.

    Resolution 6 · 30 Stat. 734 · February 1, 1898 · Original text

55. An Act To amend and reenact section five of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the mayor and city council of Monroe, and the police jury of the parish of Ouachita, Louisiana, to construct a traffic bridge across the Ouachita River, opposite said city,” approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Ch. 13 · 30 Stat. 240 · February 3, 1898 · Original text

56. Joint Resolution For the relief of Wilkinson Call, late United States Senator from the State of Florida.

    Public Resolution 7 · 30 Stat. 1495 · February 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act To provide an American register for the barkentine Sharpshooter, of San Francisco, California.

    Ch. 14 · 30 Stat. 240 · February 9, 1898 · Original text

58. An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge in and for the northern judicial district of the State of Texas.

    Ch. 15 · 30 Stat. 240 · February 9, 1898 · Original text

59. An Act For the purchase or construction of a suitable vessel for service on the Yukon River, Alaska.

    Ch. 16 · 30 Stat. 241 · February 11, 1898 · Original text

60. An Act Authorizing the construction of two bridges across the Choctawhatchee River, a navigable stream, in Dale County, Alabama.

    Ch. 17 · 30 Stat. 241 · February 14, 1898 · Original text

61. An Act Authorizing the Muscogee Coal and Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 18 · 30 Stat. 241 · February 14, 1898 · Original text

62. An Act Granting a pension to Ella D. Cross.

    Ch. 19 · 30 Stat. 1395 · February 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Granting a pension to Emily E. Atherton.

    Ch. 20 · 30 Stat. 1395 · February 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act Granting a pension to Mary W. C. Burgess.

    Ch. 21 · 30 Stat. 1396 · February 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. Tuck.

    Ch. 22 · 30 Stat. 1396 · February 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act declaring a certain bridge across the Tallahatchie River, in Tallahatchie County, State of Mississippi, a lawful structure, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

    Ch. 23 · 30 Stat. 245 · February 15, 1898 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the construction of a steel bridge over the Snake River between the States of Washington and Idaho.

    Ch. 24 · 30 Stat. 245 · February 15, 1898 · Original text

68. An Act Relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 25 · 30 Stat. 246 · February 17, 1898 · Original text

69. An Act To amend the laws relating to navigation.

    Ch. 26 · 30 Stat. 248 · February 17, 1898 · Original text

70. An Act To make available fifteen thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the expense of operating a dredge boat at Sabine Pass, Texas.

    Ch. 27 · 30 Stat. 249 · February 17, 1898 · Original text

71. An Act Making Rockland, Maine, a subport of entry.

    Ch. 28 · 30 Stat. 249 · February 17, 1898 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution Accepting the invitation of the Government of Norway to take part in an International Fisheries Exposition to be held at the city of Bergen, Norway, from May to September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

    Resolution 8 · 30 Stat. 734 · February 17, 1898 · Original text

73. Joint Resolution Providing for a survey and report upon the practicability of securing a navigable channel of adequate width and of thirty-live feet depth at mean low water of the Gulf of Mexico throughout Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River.

    Resolution 9 · 30 Stat. 735 · February 17, 1898 · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Judson Jones.

    Ch. 29 · 30 Stat. 1396 · February 17, 1898 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Leelanaw.

    Ch. 30 · 30 Stat. 249 · February 19, 1898 · Original text

76. An Act Making appropriations for expenses of United States courts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 31 · 30 Stat. 249 · February 19, 1898 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver to the mayor of the city of Milwaukee, for use in ornamenting one of the parks of that city, the Parrott rifled cannon and carriage recently used on the revenue cutter Andrew Johnson.

    Resolution 10 · 30 Stat. 735 · February 19, 1898 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution To provide for recovering the remains of officers and men and property from the wrecked United States ship Maine, and making an appropriation therefor.

    Resolution 11 · 30 Stat. 735 · February 23, 1898 · Original text

79. An Act In relation to taxes and tax sales in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 32 · 30 Stat. 250 · February 28, 1898 · Original text

80. An Act Directing the issue of a check in lieu of a lost check drawn by Bernard R. Green in favor of Frederick MacMonnies.

    Ch. 33 · 30 Stat. 1396 · February 28, 1898 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Marietta Hayes.

    Ch. 34 · 30 Stat. 1396 · March 3, 1898 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act To amend an Act to prohibit the passage of local or special laws in the Territories, to limit Territorial indebtedness, and so forth.

    Ch. 35 · 30 Stat. 252 · March 4, 1898 · Original text

83. An Act Providing for the entry free of customs duties of certain bells presented by the Emperor of Russia to the Orthodox Russian Church of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

    Ch. 36 · 30 Stat. 1397 · March 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Permitting the building of a dam between Coon Rapids and the north limits of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, across the Mississippi River.

    Ch. 37 · 30 Stat. 253 · March 5, 1898 · Original text

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

    Ch. 38 · 30 Stat. 253 · March 5, 1898 · Original text

86. Joint Resolution Relating to the undistributed quotas of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.

    Resolution 12 · 30 Stat. 735 · March 5, 1898 · Original text

87. Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of Bulletin Numbered Nineteen of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture.

    Resolution 13 · 30 Stat. 736 · March 5, 1898 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Providing for estimate of cost of certain improvements at the mouth of Double Bayou and Galveston Bay, Texas.

    Resolution 14 · 30 Stat. 736 · March 5, 1898 · Original text

89. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Captain John W. Dodd.

    Ch. 39 · 30 Stat. 1397 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act To increase the pension of Esther Brown.

    Ch. 40 · 30 Stat. 1398 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting a pension to Hiram H. Palmer.

    Ch. 41 · 30 Stat. 1398 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act To increase the pension of Margaret Custer Calhoun.

    Ch. 42 · 30 Stat. 1398 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Martha Frank.

    Ch. 43 · 30 Stat. 1398 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting a pension to John F. Hathaway.

    Ch. 44 · 30 Stat. 1398 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting pension to Margaret Rowsell.

    Ch. 45 · 30 Stat. 1399 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Charles A. Nazro.

    Ch. 46 · 30 Stat. 1399 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Granting a pension to John Amrein.

    Ch. 47 · 30 Stat. 1399 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Jane L. Fagg, widow of Colonel John A. Fagg.

    Ch. 48 · 30 Stat. 1399 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting a pension to Rachel Kern.

    Ch. 49 · 30 Stat. 1399 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Directing the issue of a duplicate of lost check, drawn by Charles E. McChesney, United States Indian agent, in favor of C. J. Holman and Brother.

     Ch. 50 · 30 Stat. 1400 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text