Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry B. Conway.

   Ch. 51 · 30 Stat. 1400 · March 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of the Newberry College, Newberry, South Carolina.

   Ch. 52 · 30 Stat. 1400 · March 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act To authorize two additional regiments of artillery.

   Ch. 53 · 30 Stat. 261 · March 8, 1898 · Original text

4. An Act Giving the assent of Congress to a change of the compact entered into between the United States and the State of Arkansas on her admission into the Union.

   Ch. 54 · 30 Stat. 262 · March 8, 1898 · Original text

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

   Ch. 55 · 30 Stat. 262 · March 9, 1898 · Original text

6. 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. 56 · 30 Stat. 273 · March 9, 1898 · Original text

7. An Act To repeal in part and to limit section thirty-four hundred and eighty of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

   Ch. 57 · 30 Stat. 274 · March 11, 1898 · Original text

8. An Act For relief of the Book Agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

   Ch. 58 · 30 Stat. 1401 · March 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act Authorizing the Mississippi River, Hamburg and Western Railway Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Bayou Bartholomew, in Arkansas.

   Ch. 59 · 30 Stat. 275 · March 12, 1898 · Original text

10. 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-nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 60 · 30 Stat. 276 · March 14, 1898 · Original text

11. An Act To increase the pension of William N. Wells.

    Ch. 61 · 30 Stat. 1401 · March 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act To grant a pension to Emeline C. Sewell, widow of Chie; Engineer George Sewell, United States Navy.

    Ch. 62 · 30 Stat. 1401 · March 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William H. Morgan.

    Ch. 63 · 30 Stat. 1401 · March 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Esther Williams.

    Ch. 64 · 30 Stat. 1401 · March 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Granting a pension to Joshua Parker.

    Ch. 65 · 30 Stat. 1402 · March 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act Granting a pension to Annie Fowler.

    Ch. 66 · 30 Stat. 1402 · March 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To increase the pension of John Q. Washburn.

    Ch. 67 · 30 Stat. 1402 · March 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

18. 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-nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 68 · 30 Stat. 277 · March 15, 1898 · Original text

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

    Ch. 69 · 30 Stat. 318 · March 15, 1898 · Original text

20. An Act To extend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company of the city of Washington.

    Ch. 70 · 30 Stat. 327 · March 17, 1898 · Original text

21. An Act To extend the time for the construction of the railway of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company through the Indian Territory.

    Ch. 71 · 30 Stat. 327 · March 17, 1898 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution For the relief of ex-Cadet Engineer J. E. Palmer.

    Public Resolution 15 · 30 Stat. 1495 · March 17, 1898 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Supplemental to the Act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the Columbian College in the District of Columbia, and the Acts amendatory thereof.

    Ch. 72 · 30 Stat. 328 · March 18, 1898 · Original text

24. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Public Printer to use certain Government telegraph poles.

    Resolution 16 · 30 Stat. 736 · March 18, 1898 · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Pom K. Soh, deceased.

    Ch. 73 · 30 Stat. 1402 · March 18, 1898 · Private law · Original text

26. Joint Resolution To authorize the President to appoint as an assistant engineer in the Navy ex-Naval Cadet T. D. Parker.

    Public Resolution 17 · 30 Stat. 1495 · March 18, 1898 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act To permanently locate the capital of the Territory of New Mexico.

    Ch. 74 · 30 Stat. 329 · March 19, 1898 · Original text

28. An Act Relating to leases on the Hot Springs Reservation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 75 · 30 Stat. 329 · March 19, 1898 · Original text

29. An Act Extending the time within which the Pittsburg and Mansfield Railroad Company is authorized to construct a bridge across the Monongahela River.

    Ch. 76 · 30 Stat. 330 · March 19, 1898 · Original text

30. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents to the citizens’ committee of the city of Cincinnati for the use of the thirty-second national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic.

    Resolution 18 · 30 Stat. 737 · March 19, 1898 · Original text

31. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the name of Emanuel Schamp.

    Ch. 77 · 30 Stat. 1403 · March 19, 1898 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Granting a pension to Riley W. Pierce.

    Ch. 78 · 30 Stat. 1403 · March 19, 1898 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of James Eganson, of Henderson, Kentucky.

    Ch. 79 · 30 Stat. 1403 · March 19, 1898 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John A. Worswick.

    Ch. 80 · 30 Stat. 1403 · March 19, 1898 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to quitclaim and release unto Francis Hall and Juriah Hall and their heirs and assigns all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the east twenty feet front by the full depth of one hundred feet of lot two, in square four hundred and ninety-three, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, as laid down on the original plan or plat of said city.

    Ch. 81 · 30 Stat. 1404 · March 19, 1898 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To change name of port of collection of United States customs from Suspension Bridge to Niagara Falls.

    Ch. 82 · 30 Stat. 330 · March 21, 1898 · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of David O. Burleigh.

    Ch. 83 · 30 Stat. 1404 · March 21, 1898 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Orin R. McDaniel.

    Ch. 84 · 30 Stat. 1404 · March 21, 1898 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.

    Ch. 85 · 30 Stat. 330 · March 22, 1898 · Original text

40. An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the licensing of mates on river and ocean steamers.

    Ch. 86 · 30 Stat. 340 · March 23, 1898 · Original text

41. An Act To grant the right of way through the Indian Territory to the Denison, Bonham and New Orleans Railway Company for the purpose of constructing a railway, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 87 · 30 Stat. 341 · March 23, 1898 · Original text

42. An Act Granting a right of way through the naval station, New London, in the State of Connecticut, to the Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company.

    Ch. 88 · 30 Stat. 344 · March 23, 1898 · Original text

43. An Act To require certain writs to be directed to and executed by the marshal of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 89 · 30 Stat. 344 · March 23, 1898 · Original text

44. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Florence W. Buskirk.

    Ch. 90 · 30 Stat. 1404 · March 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Dorence Atwater.

    Ch. 91 · 30 Stat. 1405 · March 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Napoleon U. Breedlove.

    Ch. 92 · 30 Stat. 1405 · March 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Cornelia I. Skiles.

    Ch. 93 · 30 Stat. 1405 · March 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Granting a pension to William D. Lamb.

    Ch. 94 · 30 Stat. 1405 · March 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act To increase the pension of Caroline W. Abney, widow of M. W. Abney, a soldier in the Indian war.

    Ch. 95 · 30 Stat. 1405 · March 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act To increase the pension of Martha S. Harllee, widow of W. W. Harllee, a soldier in the Florida war.

    Ch. 96 · 30 Stat. 1406 · March 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To correct the naval record of and grant an honorable discharge to Thomas H. Holden, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

    Ch. 97 · 30 Stat. 1406 · March 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

52. An Art To relieve John McCarthy from the charge of desertion.

    Ch. 98 · 30 Stat. 1406 · March 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of W. E. Judkins, executor of Lewis McKenzie.

    Ch. 99 · 30 Stat. 1406 · March 25, 1898 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act Granting the right to the Omaha Northern Railway Company to construct a railway across, and establish stations on, the Omaha and Winnebago reservations, in the State of Nebraska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 100 · 30 Stat. 344 · March 26, 1898 · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Eldred G. Davis.

    Ch. 101 · 30 Stat. 1407 · March 26, 1898 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Denison and Northern Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 102 · 30 Stat. 345 · March 29, 1898 · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of the sufferers by the destruction of the United States steamer Maine, in the harbor of Havana, Cuba.

    Ch. 103 · 30 Stat. 346 · March 30, 1898 · Original text

58. An Act Authorizing the Nebraska, Kansas and Gulf Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 104 · 30 Stat. 347 · March 30, 1898 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the relocation and rebuilding of a pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 105 · 30 Stat. 350 · March 30, 1898 · Original text

60. An Act Granting a pension to Mary F. Hawley.

    Ch. 106 · 30 Stat. 1407 · March 31, 1898 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act Granting increase of pension to John J. Boatwright.

    Ch. 107 · 30 Stat. 1407 · March 31, 1898 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph V. Bowie.

    Ch. 108 · 30 Stat. 1407 · March 31, 1898 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Granting a pension to Miss Mary Hayne.

    Ch. 109 · 30 Stat. 1407 · March 31, 1898 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel Phillips.

    Ch. 110 · 30 Stat. 1408 · March 31, 1898 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act Granting a pension to Bethiah H. Rollins.

    Ch. 111 · 30 Stat. 1408 · March 31, 1898 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Orlando J. Hopkins.

    Ch. 112 · 30 Stat. 1408 · March 31, 1898 · Private law · Original text

67. Joint Resolution Providing for the temporary admission free of duty of naval and military supplies procured abroad.

    Resolution 19 · 30 Stat. 737 · April 1, 1898 · Original text

68. An Act To authorize the Monroe Railway and Construction Company to construct a bridge across Red River, at or near Grand Ecore, Louisiana.

    Ch. 113 · 30 Stat. 351 · April 4, 1898 · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Joseph P. Patton.

    Ch. 114 · 30 Stat. 1408 · April 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Sterling T. Austin, deceased.

    Ch. 115 · 30 Stat. 1408 · April 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act To incorporate the National Florence Crittenton Mission.

    Ch. 116 · 30 Stat. 352 · April 9, 1898 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution Grunting permission for the erection of a monument or statue in Washington City, District of Columbia, in honor of the late Albert Pike.

    Resolution 20 · 30 Stat. 737 · April 9, 1898 · Original text

73. An Act To pay the heirs of the late John Roach, deceased, three hundred and thirty thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars and forty-two cents for labor and material, dockage and detention, and occupation of yards and shops for the gunboats Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta.

    Ch. 117 · 30 Stat. 1409 · April 9, 1898 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act Authorizing the Shreveport and Red River Valley Railway Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Loggy Bayou, in Louisiana.

    Ch. 118 · 30 Stat. 352 · April 11, 1898 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Saint Francis River, in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 119 · 30 Stat. 354 · April 11, 1898 · Original text

76. An Act Extending the right of commutation to certain homestead settlers on lands in Oklahoma Territory, opened to settlement under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to ratify and confirm the agreement with the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma Territory, and to make appropriations for carrying the same into effect.”

    Ch. 120 · 30 Stat. 354 · April 11, 1898 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the Shreveport Bridge and Terminal Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Bed River in the State of Louisiana, at or near Shreveport.

    Ch. 121 · 30 Stat. 355 · April 11, 1898 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution Relative to suspension of part of section three hundred and fifty-five of Revised Statutes, relative to erection of forts, fortifications, and so forth.

    Resolution 21 · 30 Stat. 737 · April 11, 1898 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution Relative to the appropriation for the Rouge River, Michigan.

    Resolution 22 · 30 Stat. 738 · April 11, 1898 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation for the improvement of the Anacostia River and the reclamation of its flats.

    Resolution 23 · 30 Stat. 738 · April 11, 1898 · Original text

81. An Act Granting a pension to Sophia J. Chilcott.

    Ch. 122 · 30 Stat. 1409 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Enoch G. Adams.

    Ch. 123 · 30 Stat. 1409 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah M. Spyker.

    Ch. 124 · 30 Stat. 1410 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah E. Cotton.

    Ch. 125 · 30 Stat. 1410 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act To increase the pension of William H. Webster.

    Ch. 126 · 30 Stat. 1410 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George D. Cook.

    Ch. 127 · 30 Stat. 1410 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Bernard Dunn.

    Ch. 128 · 30 Stat. 1410 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Granting a pension to William H. Byrum.

    Ch. 129 · 30 Stat. 1411 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Increasing the pension of William Warner.

    Ch. 130 · 30 Stat. 1411 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elisha M. Luckett.

    Ch. 131 · 30 Stat. 1411 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Increasing the pension of Mary E. Wallick.

    Ch. 132 · 30 Stat. 1411 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act To increase the pension of William P. Cooper.

    Ch. 133 · 30 Stat. 1411 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry F. Rice.

    Ch. 134 · 30 Stat. 1412 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John N. Bruce.

    Ch. 135 · 30 Stat. 1412 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac B. Vail.

    Ch. 136 · 30 Stat. 1412 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Granting a pension to Mary J. Hart.

    Ch. 137 · 30 Stat. 1412 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Granting a pension to Mrs. Weltha Post-Leggett.

    Ch. 138 · 30 Stat. 1412 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Granting an increase of pension to R. A. Browning.

    Ch. 139 · 30 Stat. 1413 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act To permit an increase of the pension of John A. Anderson.

    Ch. 140 · 30 Stat. 1413 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act To place on the pension rolls the name of Minerva Sample.

     Ch. 141 · 30 Stat. 1413 · April 11, 1898 · Private law · Original text