Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act Granting a pension to William S. Adams.

   Ch. 331 · 30 Stat. 1446 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act Granting a pension to William C. Ryan.

   Ch. 332 · 30 Stat. 1446 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Granting a pension to Mary B. Hulings.

   Ch. 333 · 30 Stat. 1446 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ann M. Smith.

   Ch. 334 · 30 Stat. 1446 · May 14, 1898 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act Granting a pension to Ira Ingraham.

   Ch. 335 · 30 Stat. 1446 · May 16, 1898 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James F. McKinley.

   Ch. 336 · 30 Stat. 1447 · May 16, 1898 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Michael H. J. Crouch.

   Ch. 337 · 30 Stat. 1447 · May 16, 1898 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the protection of fish in the District of Columbia, for the maintenance of a permanent spawning ground in the Potomac River in said District, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 338 · 30 Stat. 415 · May 17, 1898 · Original text

9. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the circuit courts in certain cases.

   Ch. 339 · 30 Stat. 416 · May 17, 1898 · Original text

10. An Act Declaring the Federal jail at the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a national prison for certain purposes.

    Ch. 340 · 30 Stat. 417 · May 17, 1898 · Original text

11. An Act To provide for the disposition of abandoned imported merchandise.

    Ch. 341 · 30 Stat. 417 · May 17, 1898 · Original text

12. An Act To organize a volunteer signal corps.

    Ch. 342 · 30 Stat. 417 · May 18, 1898 · Original text

13. An Act Granting the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad Company right of way for railroad purposes through the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve in northern Arizona.

    Ch. 343 · 30 Stat. 418 · May 18, 1898 · Original text

14. An Act To abolish the distinction between offered and unoffered lands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 344 · 30 Stat. 418 · May 18, 1898 · Original text

15. An Act To provide assistance to the inhabitants of Cuba, and arms, munitions, and military stores to the people of the Island of Cuba, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 345 · 30 Stat. 419 · May 18, 1898 · Original text

16. An Act To provide for the increased volume of work in the Adjutant-General’s Department of the Army, due to the calling out of volunteers and the increase of the Regular Army.

    Ch. 346 · 30 Stat. 419 · May 18, 1898 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to rent lighting apparatus for Government building at Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition.

    Resolution 35 · 30 Stat. 743 · May 18, 1898 · Original text

18. Joint Resolution To readmit Nellie Grant Sartoris to the character and privileges of a citizen of the United States.

    Public Resolution 36 · 30 Stat. 1496 · May 18, 1898 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act To amend the postal laws relating to use of postal cards.

    Ch. 347 · 30 Stat. 419 · May 19, 1898 · Original text

20. An Act To establish an assay office at Seattle, Washington.

    Ch. 348 · 30 Stat. 420 · May 21, 1898 · Original text

21. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Catania.

    Ch. 349 · 30 Stat. 420 · May 21, 1898 · Original text

22. An Act To provide an American register for the steamship Centennial.

    Ch. 350 · 30 Stat. 420 · May 21, 1898 · Original text

23. An Act To correct the military record of Peter Buckley.

    Ch. 351 · 30 Stat. 1447 · May 21, 1898 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Russell R. King.

    Ch. 352 · 30 Stat. 1447 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act Granting a pension to Michael Bassett.

    Ch. 353 · 30 Stat. 1447 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act Granting a pension to Mary I. Valentine.

    Ch. 354 · 30 Stat. 1448 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Taylor.

    Ch. 355 · 30 Stat. 1448 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act To pension Henderson H. Boggs.

    Ch. 356 · 30 Stat. 1448 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Myntie L. Hamilton.

    Ch. 357 · 30 Stat. 1448 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Marcia C. Barnes.

    Ch. 358 · 30 Stat. 1448 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To pension F. L. Botkin.

    Ch. 359 · 30 Stat. 1449 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act To increase the pension of Franklin Hull.

    Ch. 360 · 30 Stat. 1449 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act Granting a pension to J. S. Waggener.

    Ch. 361 · 30 Stat. 1449 · May 23, 1898 · Private law · Original text

34. Joint Resolution Appointing four members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

    Resolution 37 · 30 Stat. 744 · May 24, 1898 · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Samuel McKee.

    Ch. 362 · 30 Stat. 1449 · May 24, 1898 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act Providing for the payment and maintenance of volunteers during the interval between their enrollment and muster into the United States service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 363 · 30 Stat. 420 · May 26, 1898 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution Providing for the organization and enrollment of the United States Auxiliary Naval Force.

    Resolution 38 · 30 Stat. 744 · May 26, 1898 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution Ratifying and confirming certain temporary appointments of officers of the Navy.

    Resolution 39 · 30 Stat. 745 · May 26, 1898 · Original text

39. An Act To provide an American register for the steamship Zealandia.

    Ch. 364 · 30 Stat. 421 · May 27, 1898 · Original text

40. Join Resolution Declaring the lands within the former Mille Lac Indian Reservation, in Minnesota, to be subject to entry under the land laws of the United States.

    Resolution 40 · 30 Stat. 745 · May 27, 1898 · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of George M. Anderson, of the State of Nebraska.

    Ch. 365 · 30 Stat. 1449 · May 27, 1898 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act Extending the time for the construction of a wagon and motor bridge across the Missouri River at Saint Charles, Missouri, as provided by an Act approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

    Ch. 366 · 30 Stat. 421 · May 28, 1898 · Original text

43. An Act To amend sections ten and thirteen of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for temporarily increasing the military establishment of the United States in time of war, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

    Ch. 367 · 30 Stat. 421 · May 28, 1898 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution Calling upon the Secretary of War for information concerning the port of Sabine Pass.

    Resolution 41 · 30 Stat. 745 · May 28, 1898 · Original text

45. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the payment of pensions, and for other objects, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 368 · 30 Stat. 422 · May 31, 1898 · Original text

46. An Act To amend “An Act to provide the times and places for holding terms of the United States courts in the States of Idaho and Wyoming,” approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by the amendatory Act approved November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 369 · 30 Stat. 423 · June 1, 1898 · Original text

47. An Act Concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees.

    Ch. 370 · 30 Stat. 424 · June 1, 1898 · Original text

48. An Act To suspend certain provisions of law relating to hospital stewards in the United States Army, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 371 · 30 Stat. 428 · June 2, 1898 · Original text

49. An Act To grant a right of way to the village of Flandreau, South Dakota.

    Ch. 372 · 30 Stat. 429 · June 2, 1898 · Original text

50. An Act To correct naval record of Charles F. Brown.

    Ch. 373 · 30 Stat. 1450 · June 2, 1898 · Private law · Original text

51. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to present a sword of honor to Commodore George Dewey, and to cause to be struck bronze medals commemorating the battle of Manila Bay, and to distribute such medals to the officers and men of the ships of the Asiatic Squadron of the United States.

    Resolution 42 · 30 Stat. 746 · June 3, 1898 · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of John Roach, deceased.

    Ch. 374 · 30 Stat. 1450 · June 3, 1898 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Joseph R. Findley.

    Ch. 375 · 30 Stat. 1450 · June 3, 1898 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the appointment of a commission to make allotments of lands in severalty to Indians upon the Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah, and to obtain the cession to the United States of all lands within said reservation not so allotted.

    Ch. 376 · 30 Stat. 429 · June 4, 1898 · Original text

55. An Act Granting to the Washington Improvement and Development Company a right of way through the Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 377 · 30 Stat. 430 · June 4, 1898 · Original text

56. An Act Granting additional powers to railroad companies operating lines in the Indian Territory.

    Ch. 378 · 30 Stat. 431 · June 4, 1898 · Original text

57. An Act Appointing commissioners to revise the statutes relating to patents, trade and other marks, and trade and commercial names.

    Ch. 379 · 30 Stat. 431 · June 4, 1898 · Original text

58. Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-six, relating to the beet-sugar industry in the United States.

    Resolution 43 · 30 Stat. 746 · June 4, 1898 · Original text

59. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit plans and estimates for the improvement of Tampa Hay, Florida, from Port Tampa to its mouth, in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Resolution 44 · 30 Stat. 746 · June 4, 1898 · Original text

60. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John P. Thomas.

    Ch. 380 · 30 Stat. 1450 · June 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act Granting a pension to Maria E. Hess.

    Ch. 381 · 30 Stat. 1451 · June 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act Granting a pension to George Barnes.

    Ch. 382 · 30 Stat. 1451 · June 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Calvin P. Lynn.

    Ch. 383 · 30 Stat. 1451 · June 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act Granting a pension to Florence N. Waldron.

    Ch. 384 · 30 Stat. 1451 · June 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John X. Griffith.

    Ch. 385 · 30 Stat. 1451 · June 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act Granting a pension to John B. Hays.

    Ch. 386 · 30 Stat. 1451 · June 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George H. Baldwin.

    Ch. 387 · 30 Stat. 1452 · June 4, 1898 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act To authorize the establishment of post-offices at military posts or camps.

    Ch. 388 · 30 Stat. 432 · June 6, 1898 · Original text

69. An Act To remove the disability imposed by section three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

    Ch. 389 · 30 Stat. 432 · June 6, 1898 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution Donating a condemned cannon to the Thirty-second National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic.

    Resolution 45 · 30 Stat. 747 · June 6, 1898 · Original text

71. An Act To provide an American register for the steamship China.

    Ch. 390 · 30 Stat. 432 · June 7, 1898 · Original text

72. An Act To amend section eight of the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, granting a right of way to the Fort Smith and Western Coal Railroad Company through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 391 · 30 Stat. 433 · June 7, 1898 · Original text

73. An Act To suspend the operation of certain provisions of law relating to the War Deportment, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 392 · 30 Stat. 433 · June 7, 1898 · Original text

74. An Act Authorizing certain life-saving stations to he opened and manned during June and July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

    Ch. 393 · 30 Stat. 434 · June 7, 1898 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Colombia to locate a cab service, and for other purposes.

    Resolution 46 · 30 Stat. 747 · June 7, 1898 · Original text

76. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George Van Vliet.

    Ch. 414 · 30 Stat. 409 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Conferring on the supreme court of the District of Columbia jurisdiction to take proof of the execution of wills affecting real estate, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 394 · 30 Stat. 434 · June 8, 1898 · Original text

78. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the support of the Military and Naval establishments for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 395 · 30 Stat. 437 · June 8, 1898 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution For a survey of the harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

    Resolution 47 · 30 Stat. 747 · June 8, 1898 · Original text

80. An Act To restore a pension to Harriet M. Knowlton.

    Ch. 396 · 30 Stat. 1452 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Benjamin.

    Ch. 397 · 30 Stat. 1452 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Merlin C. Harris.

    Ch. 398 · 30 Stat. 1452 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting a pension to Ida Emmott.

    Ch. 399 · 30 Stat. 1452 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting a pension to Zolman Tyrrell.

    Ch. 403 · 30 Stat. 1452 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting a pension to Adelaide H. Lambertson.

    Ch. 400 · 30 Stat. 1453 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act To construe an Act approved June third, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, rerating and including the disability of Alonzo B. Chatfield, late of Company B, Thirty-third Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. 401 · 30 Stat. 1453 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting a pension to Henry H. K. Elliott.

    Ch. 402 · 30 Stat. 1453 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To increase the pension of David Parker.

    Ch. 404 · 30 Stat. 1454 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Increasing the pension of William P. Haskell.

    Ch. 405 · 30 Stat. 1454 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Benjamin Beach.

    Ch. 406 · 30 Stat. 1454 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting a pension to C. S. Alvord.

    Ch. 407 · 30 Stat. 1454 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John T. Brewster.

    Ch. 408 · 30 Stat. 1454 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Olivia Betton.

    Ch. 409 · 30 Stat. 1455 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eliza Miller.

    Ch. 410 · 30 Stat. 1455 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Increasing the pension of Gustavus A. Kindblade.

    Ch. 411 · 30 Stat. 1455 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Granting a pension to Bettie Gresham.

    Ch. 412 · 30 Stat. 1455 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Beckwith.

    Ch. 413 · 30 Stat. 1455 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act To increase the pension of Charles Hoffman.

    Ch. 415 · 30 Stat. 1456 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William D. Foote.

    Ch. 416 · 30 Stat. 1456 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sidney J. Hare.

     Ch. 417 · 30 Stat. 1456 · June 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text