Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a duplicate bond to Benjamin H. March, executor of the last will and testament of Ruth March, deceased.

   Ch. 402 · 30 Stat. 1547 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of William Henry Johnson.

   Ch. 403 · 30 Stat. 1547 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of George L. Plummer.

   Ch. 404 · 30 Stat. 1548 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of William Henry Woodward.

   Ch. 405 · 30 Stat. 1548 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act To correct the naval record of John Hurley.

   Ch. 406 · 30 Stat. 1548 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act To remove the charge of desertion against William Britton.

   Ch. 407 · 30 Stat. 1548 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For relief of and to correct record of Jacob Covert.

   Ch. 408 · 30 Stat. 1549 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act To authorize Joseph J. Kinyoun, passed assistant surgeon of the Marine-Hospital Service, to accept a medal from the President of the Republic of Venezuela.

   Ch. 409 · 30 Stat. 1549 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of the Berdan Firearms Manufacturing Company.

   Ch. 410 · 30 Stat. 1549 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act To authorize Admiral T. O. Selfridge, United States Navy, Captain G. H. Wadleigh, United States Navy, Lieutenant-Commander E. H. Gheen, United States Navy, Lieutenant-Commander Raymond P. Rodgers, United States Navy, Paymaster J. B. Redfield, United States Navy, Lieutenant J. J. Hunker, United States Navy, Surgeon D. N. Bertolette, United States Navy, and Ensign R. L. Russell, United States Navy, to accept medals presented to them by the Russian Government.

    Ch. 411 · 30 Stat. 1549 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Charles K. Kirby and Edinger Brothers and Jacobi.

    Ch. 412 · 30 Stat. 1550 · March 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act To reorganize and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States.

    Ch. 413 · 30 Stat. 1004 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

13. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to donate one set of life-saving beach apparatus to the Imperial Japanese Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck.

    Ch. 414 · 30 Stat. 1010 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

14. An Act For the punishment of seduction in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 415 · 30 Stat. 1010 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

15. An Act For the allowance of certain claims reported by the accounting officers of the United States Treasury Department.

    Ch. 416 · 30 Stat. 1010 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

16. An Act For the protection of birds, preservation of game, and for the prevention of its sale during certain, closed seasons in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 417 · 30 Stat. 1012 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

17. An Act To prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 418 · 30 Stat. 1013 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

18. An Act To provide for taking the Twelfth and subsequent censuses.

    Ch. 419 · 30 Stat. 1014 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

19. An Act To encourage the holding of a Pan-American Exposition on the Niagara frontier, within the county of Erie or Niagara, in the State of New York, in the year nineteen hundred and one.

    Ch. 420 · 30 Stat. 1022 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

20. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 421 · 30 Stat. 1024 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

21. An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 422 · 30 Stat. 1045 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

22. An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred.

    Ch. 423 · 30 Stat. 1064 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

23. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 424 · 30 Stat. 1074 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

24. An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 425 · 30 Stat. 1121 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

25. An Act For the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly known as the Bowman Act, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 426 · 30 Stat. 1161 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

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

    Ch. 427 · 30 Stat. 1214 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

27. An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 428 · 30 Stat. 1250 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

28. An Act To define and punish crimes in the District of Alaska and to provide a code of criminal procedure for said district.

    Ch. 429 · 30 Stat. 1253 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

29. An Act To amend the Act of Congress approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act to incorporate the Washington and University Railroad Company of the District of Columbia.”

    Ch. 430 · 30 Stat. 1343 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

30. An Act To extend S street, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 431 · 30 Stat. 1344 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

31. An Act To punish the impersonation of weighmasters in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 432 · 30 Stat. 1346 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

32. An Act To confirm title to lots thirteen and fourteen, in square nine hundred and fifty-nine, in Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 433 · 30 Stat. 1346 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

33. An Act To encourage the holding of the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition at the city of Toledo, Ohio.

    Ch. 434 · 30 Stat. 1346 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

34. An Act To amend the internal-revenue laws relating to distilled spirits, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 435 · 30 Stat. 1349 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

35. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to suspend the operation of certain provisions of law relating to the War Department, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 436 · 30 Stat. 1350 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

36. An Act Granting to the Muscle Shoals Power Company right to erect and construct canal and power stations at Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

    Ch. 437 · 30 Stat. 1351 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

37. An Act To enable the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to create certain indebtedness, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 438 · 30 Stat. 1352 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

38. An Act For the erection of public building at Lockport, New York, and New Brighton, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 439 · 30 Stat. 1352 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing the commissioner of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company to pay certain dividends barred by the Act of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.

    Ch. 440 · 30 Stat. 1353 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

40. An Act To amend section nine hundred and forty-one of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 441 · 30 Stat. 1354 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

41. An Act To increase the limit of the cost for the erection of a public building in Stockton, California, and making provision for the acquisition of additional land or a new site therefor, and to provide for an addition to the public building at Los Angeles, California, and appropriating money therefor.

    Ch. 442 · 30 Stat. 1354 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

42. An Act To provide for the purchase of additional land in the square now occupied by the custom-house in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and for the erection of a new public building thereon for the accommodation of the Government service in said city.

    Ch. 443 · 30 Stat. 1355 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

43. An Act To provide for a public building at Cleveland, Ohio.

    Ch. 444 · 30 Stat. 1356 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

44. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to reimburse the governors of States and Territories for expenses incurred by them in aiding the United States to raise and organize and supply and equip the Volunteer Army of the United States in the existing war with Spain,” approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 445 · 30 Stat. 1356 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

45. An Act To provide for the erection of a building for the Department of Justice.

    Ch. 446 · 30 Stat. 1358 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

46. An Act Authorizing the exchange of lot six, of square ten, known as the old custom-house lot, in the city of Saint Augustine, Florida, for lands adjoining that part of the United States military reservation in said city designated as the powder-house lot.

    Ch. 447 · 30 Stat. 1359 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the city of Yankton, South Dakota.

    Ch. 448 · 30 Stat. 1360 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

48. An Act For the erection of a public building at Tampa, Florida.

    Ch. 449 · 30 Stat. 1361 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

49. An Act To ratify agreements with the Indians of the Lower Brule and Rosebud reservations in South Dakota, and making an appropriation to carry the same into effect.

    Ch. 450 · 30 Stat. 1362 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Tennessee River at or near Sheffield.

    Ch. 451 · 30 Stat. 1366 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the appointment of a clerk of the district courts of the United States within and for the eastern district of Virginia, to validate their acts, and prescribe where the records shall be kept.

    Ch. 452 · 30 Stat. 1368 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

52. An Act To authorize the Fort Smith and Western Railroad Company to construct and operate a railway through the Choctaw and Creek nations, in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 453 · 30 Stat. 1368 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

53. An Act Amending the Act entitled “An Act to allow the return free of duty of certain articles exported from the United States for exhibition purposes,” approved May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

    Ch. 454 · 30 Stat. 1372 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

54. An Act To provide a site for a building for the Washington Public Library.

    Ch. 455 · 30 Stat. 1372 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

55. An Act To authorize the Washington and Gettysburg Railway Company, of Maryland, to extend its line of road into and within the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 456 · 30 Stat. 1373 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

56. An Act To distinctively designate parcels of land in the District of Columbia for the purposes of assessment and taxation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 457 · 30 Stat. 1376 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

57. An Act Relative to the control of wharf property and certain public spaces in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 458 · 30 Stat. 1377 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

58. An Act To quiet laud titles in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 459 · 30 Stat. 1379 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

59. An Act To amend section forty-seven hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 460 · 30 Stat. 1379 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

60. An Act For the extension of Pennsylvania avenue southeast, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 461 · 30 Stat. 1380 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

61. An Act To redeem certain outstanding certificates issued by the board of audit and the board of public works of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 462 · 30 Stat. 1383 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

62. An Act For the establishment of a light and fog signal on or near Sabine Bank, Texas.

    Ch. 463 · 30 Stat. 1384 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

63. Joint Resolution To promote the relocation of certain tracks of the City and Suburban Railway Company, of the District of Columbia.

    Public Resolution 27 · 30 Stat. 1391 · March 3, 1899 · Original text

64. An Act To remove the charge of desertion against Gardner Dodge.

    Ch. 464 · 30 Stat. 1550 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act Removing the charge of desertion from the record of William Moore, Company I, Twenty-third Regiment Kentucky Volunteers.

    Ch. 465 · 30 Stat. 1550 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Thomas Hickey.

    Ch. 466 · 30 Stat. 1551 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of the International Cotton Press Company, of New Orleans, Louisiana.

    Ch. 467 · 30 Stat. 1551 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of Brigadier-General John R. Brooke, United States Army,” approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.

    Ch. 468 · 30 Stat. 1551 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth M. Mead.

    Ch. 469 · 30 Stat. 1552 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act Granting a pension to Mary F. Hilliard.

    Ch. 470 · 30 Stat. 1552 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act Granting a pension to Winburn Hicks.

    Ch. 471 · 30 Stat. 1552 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act Granting a pension to John Lindquist.

    Ch. 472 · 30 Stat. 1552 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act Granting a pension to Emma J. McIntire.

    Ch. 473 · 30 Stat. 1552 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act Restoring to the pension roll the name of Samuel S. McDonald.

    Ch. 474 · 30 Stat. 1553 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act Granting a pension to J. K. Hager.

    Ch. 475 · 30 Stat. 1553 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act Granting a pension to Henry C. Bedell.

    Ch. 476 · 30 Stat. 1553 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting a pension to Maria S. Whitney.

    Ch. 477 · 30 Stat. 1553 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act Granting a pension to John W. Lay.

    Ch. 478 · 30 Stat. 1553 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eliza M. Miller.

    Ch. 479 · 30 Stat. 1554 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph F. Mollere.

    Ch. 480 · 30 Stat. 1554 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nancy M. Lindsey.

    Ch. 481 · 30 Stat. 1554 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William O. Torrey.

    Ch. 482 · 30 Stat. 1554 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Edson.

    Ch. 483 · 30 Stat. 1554 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry Hatch.

    Ch. 484 · 30 Stat. 1555 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Annie E. Ruff.

    Ch. 485 · 30 Stat. 1555 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act To increase the pension of Aaron B. Page.

    Ch. 486 · 30 Stat. 1555 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Nevins.

    Ch. 487 · 30 Stat. 1555 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Sharrock.

    Ch. 488 · 30 Stat. 1555 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Emery.

    Ch. 489 · 30 Stat. 1556 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John H. Gearkee.

    Ch. 490 · 30 Stat. 1556 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Bartlett Corniff.

    Ch. 491 · 30 Stat. 1556 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John B. Boggs.

    Ch. 492 · 30 Stat. 1556 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles E. Banfield.

    Ch. 493 · 30 Stat. 1556 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George H. Lamport.

    Ch. 494 · 30 Stat. 1557 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jehiel J. Stevens.

    Ch. 495 · 30 Stat. 1557 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Benjamin F. Vennum, of Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.

    Ch. 496 · 30 Stat. 1557 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Wesley Van Over, late of Company C, One hundred and ninth New York Volunteers, and Company G, Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry.

    Ch. 497 · 30 Stat. 1557 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act To pay the J. S. Stearns Lumber Company three hundred and seventy-nine dollars.

    Ch. 498 · 30 Stat. 1557 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth V. Litzenberg.

    Ch. 499 · 30 Stat. 1558 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sophia W. Buxton.

     Ch. 500 · 30 Stat. 1558 · March 3, 1899 · Private law · Original text