Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the removal of suits from the courts of the State of Texas to the courts of the United States in the State of Texas.

   Ch. 236 · 30 Stat. 397 · May 4, 1898 · Original text

2. An Act To provide for a survey of Elk River, in Tennessee and Alabama.

   Ch. 237 · 30 Stat. 397 · May 4, 1898 · Original text

3. An Act Permitting the building of a dam across Rainy Lake River.

   Ch. 238 · 30 Stat. 398 · May 4, 1898 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Relative to the medal of honor authorized by the Acts of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

   Resolution 30 · 30 Stat. 741 · May 4, 1898 · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of John Rustman.

   Ch. 239 · 30 Stat. 1430 · May 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act Removing the charge of desertion from the record of Sylvester H. Mase, a musician, Fifty-sixth New York Infantry.

   Ch. 240 · 30 Stat. 1430 · May 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act To prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 241 · 30 Stat. 398 · May 5, 1898 · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Charlotte J. Gottwals from the operation of the Act restricting the ownership of real estate in the Territories and the District of Columbia to American citizens.

   Ch. 242 · 30 Stat. 1430 · May 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of John Fox.

   Ch. 243 · 30 Stat. 1431 · May 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Robert Kennish.

    Ch. 244 · 30 Stat. 1431 · May 5, 1898 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act To authorize the Washington and Glen Echo Railroad Company to obtain a right of way and construct tracks into the District of Columbia six hundred feet.

    Ch. 245 · 30 Stat. 399 · May 7, 1898 · Original text

12. An Act To amend section nine of an Act entitled “An Act to grant to the Arkansas, Texas and Mexican Central Railway Company a right of way through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 246 · 30 Stat. 399 · May 7, 1898 · Original text

13. An Act Granting to the Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company the right to cross with its track the Dry Valley road to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park.

    Ch. 247 · 30 Stat. 399 · May 7, 1898 · Original text

14. 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. 248 · 30 Stat. 400 · May 7, 1898 · Original text

15. An Act For the survey of the pass leading from the Gulf of Mexico into Horn Island Harbor, Mississippi, and a survey of said harbor.

    Ch. 249 · 30 Stat. 403 · May 7, 1898 · Original text

16. Joint Resolution For the improvement of Humboldt Harbor, California.

    Resolution 31 · 30 Stat. 741 · May 7, 1898 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit plans and estimates for the proposed improvement of Hillsboro Bay, Florida, from its confluence with Tampa Bay, through Hillsboro Bay and River, to the city of Tampa.

    Resolution 32 · 30 Stat. 741 · May 7, 1898 · Original text

18. An Act To pay to the Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works its claim for damages and losses incurred in the construction of the armored battle ship Texas.

    Ch. 250 · 30 Stat. 1431 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Granting an increased pension to Isaiah F. Force.

    Ch. 251 · 30 Stat. 1431 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act Granting a pension to Anna M. Tate.

    Ch. 252 · 30 Stat. 1431 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lovenia Bayles.

    Ch. 253 · 30 Stat. 1432 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Granting a pension to Francis Shetais, alias Frank Stay.

    Ch. 254 · 30 Stat. 1432 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act To grant an increase of pension to Nathaniel Haughton.

    Ch. 255 · 30 Stat. 1432 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah E. Ingham.

    Ch. 256 · 30 Stat. 1432 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act To grant a pension to Samuel L. Busick.

    Ch. 257 · 30 Stat. 1432 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To increase the pension of Victor Beauboucher.

    Ch. 258 · 30 Stat. 1433 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John W. Channing.

    Ch. 259 · 30 Stat. 1433 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah E. Daub.

    Ch. 260 · 30 Stat. 1433 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act Granting an increase of pension to David C. Waring.

    Ch. 261 · 30 Stat. 1433 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To grant a pension to Sarah A. Blazer.

    Ch. 262 · 30 Stat. 1433 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To pension Laura E. Davenport.

    Ch. 263 · 30 Stat. 1434 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lucy Ord Mason.

    Ch. 264 · 30 Stat. 1434 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act Granting an increase of pension to A. V. Bloodgood.

    Ch. 265 · 30 Stat. 1434 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Granting a pension to George G. Vogel.

    Ch. 266 · 30 Stat. 1434 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph Montieth.

    Ch. 267 · 30 Stat. 1435 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To correct the naval history of John C. Dull.

    Ch. 268 · 30 Stat. 1435 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Spangler.

    Ch. 269 · 30 Stat. 1435 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act Increasing the pension of William S. Demott.

    Ch. 270 · 30 Stat. 1435 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act Granting a pension to Lovezila L. Patterson.

    Ch. 271 · 30 Stat. 1435 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act Granting a pension to Thomas S. Hancox.

    Ch. 272 · 30 Stat. 1436 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Bolivar J. Pridgen.

    Ch. 273 · 30 Stat. 1436 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Holt.

    Ch. 274 · 30 Stat. 1436 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act To pension Gratia H. Martin.

    Ch. 275 · 30 Stat. 1436 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act Granting a pension to Charles A. Foster.

    Ch. 276 · 30 Stat. 1436 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act Granting a pension to Margaret H. Townsend.

    Ch. 277 · 30 Stat. 1437 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alphonso Freeman.

    Ch. 278 · 30 Stat. 1437 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Connelly.

    Ch. 279 · 30 Stat. 1437 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza B. Lowry.

    Ch. 280 · 30 Stat. 1437 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act Granting a pension to Daniel J. Melvin.

    Ch. 281 · 30 Stat. 1437 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary Speier.

    Ch. 282 · 30 Stat. 1438 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act Granting a pension to William Iott.

    Ch. 283 · 30 Stat. 1438 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Granting a pension to Catherine Wiltse.

    Ch. 284 · 30 Stat. 1438 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Rogers.

    Ch. 285 · 30 Stat. 1438 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To increase the pension of Susan Brownlow Boynton.

    Ch. 286 · 30 Stat. 1438 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act To increase the pension of William H. Savage.

    Ch. 287 · 30 Stat. 1439 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act To repeal chapter one hundred and sixty-four, laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- one, being an Act entitled “An Act grunting a pension to Hiram R. Rhea.”

    Ch. 288 · 30 Stat. 1439 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act Granting a pension to Gemima Millsap.

    Ch. 289 · 30 Stat. 1439 · May 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act Authorizing the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias to erect and maintain a sanitarium and bath house on the Government reservation at the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas.

    Ch. 290 · 30 Stat. 403 · May 9, 1898 · Original text

59. Joint Resolution Tendering the thanks of Congress to Commodore George Dewey, United States Navy, and to the officers and men of the squadron under his command.

    Resolution 33 · 30 Stat. 742 · May 10, 1898 · Original text

60. An Act To amend the military record of George F. Miller.

    Ch. 291 · 30 Stat. 1439 · May 10, 1898 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act To amend an Act to permit the use of the right of way through public lands for tramroads, canals, and reservoirs, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 292 · 30 Stat. 404 · May 11, 1898 · Original text

62. An Act To provide for organizing a naval battalion in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 293 · 30 Stat. 404 · May 11, 1898 · Original text

63. An Act To provide for a volunteer brigade of engineers and an additional force of ten thousand enlisted men specially accustomed to tropical climates.

    Ch. 294 · 30 Stat. 405 · May 11, 1898 · Original text

64. An Act To amend section five of an Act entitled “An Act to punish the carrying or selling of deadly or dangerous weapons within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

    Ch. 295 · 30 Stat. 405 · May 11, 1898 · Original text

65. An Act To increase the number of surgeons in the United States Army.

    Ch. 296 · 30 Stat. 406 · May 12, 1898 · Original text

66. Joint Resolution Providing for the adjustment of certain claims of the United States against the State of Tennessee, and certain claims of the State of Tennessee against the United States.

    Resolution 34 · 30 Stat. 742 · May 12, 1898 · Original text

67. An Act To provide a life-saving station on the westerly side of the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 297 · 30 Stat. 406 · May 14, 1898 · Original text

68. An Act Authorizing the Campbell-Lynch Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River at or near Webbers Falls, Indian Territory.

    Ch. 298 · 30 Stat. 407 · May 14, 1898 · Original text

69. An Act Extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 299 · 30 Stat. 409 · May 14, 1898 · Original text

70. An Act Granting a pension to Annie Saffell.

    Ch. 312 · 30 Stat. 1142 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act Granting a pension to W. L. Faxon.

    Ch. 300 · 30 Stat. 1439 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hannah Letcher Stevenson.

    Ch. 301 · 30 Stat. 1440 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Wise.

    Ch. 302 · 30 Stat. 1440 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act Granting a pension to Simpson Everett Stilwell.

    Ch. 303 · 30 Stat. 1440 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Betsey B. Olin.

    Ch. 304 · 30 Stat. 1440 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lafayette Tibbetts.

    Ch. 305 · 30 Stat. 1440 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Oliver P. Silvey.

    Ch. 306 · 30 Stat. 1441 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William H. H. Wright.

    Ch. 307 · 30 Stat. 1441 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Louise M. Rice.

    Ch. 308 · 30 Stat. 1441 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act Granting a pension to “Itewayaka,” or “One-armed Jim.”

    Ch. 309 · 30 Stat. 1441 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James H. Kile.

    Ch. 310 · 30 Stat. 1441 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Martha Ann Hynes.

    Ch. 311 · 30 Stat. 1442 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting a pension to Benjamin F. Moulton.

    Ch. 313 · 30 Stat. 1442 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To increase the pension of Frederick G. Moore.

    Ch. 314 · 30 Stat. 1442 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting a pension to Annie Wittenmyer.

    Ch. 315 · 30 Stat. 1442 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act Granting a pension to Ellon O’Rorke.

    Ch. 316 · 30 Stat. 1443 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting a pension to Susan A. Huber.

    Ch. 317 · 30 Stat. 1443 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Granting a pension to Sallie Work.

    Ch. 318 · 30 Stat. 1443 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Granting a pension to Mary C. Case.

    Ch. 319 · 30 Stat. 1443 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Calista Hadley.

    Ch. 320 · 30 Stat. 1443 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Garrison.

    Ch. 321 · 30 Stat. 1444 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Increasing the pension of Katherine L. Cushing.

    Ch. 322 · 30 Stat. 1444 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William D. Seamans.

    Ch. 323 · 30 Stat. 1444 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting a pension to Hannah C. Pile.

    Ch. 324 · 30 Stat. 1444 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting a pension to Lewis K. Whitmore.

    Ch. 325 · 30 Stat. 1444 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Granting a pension to Charles E. Taylor.

    Ch. 326 · 30 Stat. 1445 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Granting a pension to Grace Gudgell.

    Ch. 327 · 30 Stat. 1445 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Granting a pension to Janet Wemple.

    Ch. 328 · 30 Stat. 1445 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eva Seeley.

    Ch. 329 · 30 Stat. 1445 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting a pension to Emory T. Hippie.

     Ch. 330 · 30 Stat. 1445 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text