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Every law Congress has passed

97,863 laws from 1789 to 2026, as printed in the Statutes at Large, the official record of every act of Congress. 51,799 are public laws; 46,064 are private laws, which apply to named people or places, such as pensions, land claims and relief from debts.

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

  1. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Michael J. Fogerty.

    Ch. 609 · 30 Stat. 1483 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act To grant a pension to Theresa Bonnavean.

    Ch. 610 · 30 Stat. 1484 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act Granting a pension to Henrietta Fowler.

    Ch. 611 · 30 Stat. 1484 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act Granting a pension to Pauline Robbins.

    Ch. 612 · 30 Stat. 1484 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Newton W. Cooper.

    Ch. 613 · 30 Stat. 1484 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William B. Murray.

    Ch. 614 · 30 Stat. 1484 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act To increase the pension of George D. Phinney.

    Ch. 615 · 30 Stat. 1485 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act For the relief of the owners of the ship Achilles.

    Ch. 616 · 30 Stat. 1485 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act For the relief of J. Henry Rives.

    Ch. 617 · 30 Stat. 1485 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Hannah Clark.

    Ch. 618 · 30 Stat. 1485 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edson Sullivan.

    Ch. 619 · 30 Stat. 1485 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Watts.

    Ch. 620 · 30 Stat. 1486 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act Granting a pension to Ellen E. Nash.

    Ch. 621 · 30 Stat. 1486 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Warren W. Morgan.

    Ch. 622 · 30 Stat. 1486 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James C. Hervey.

    Ch. 623 · 30 Stat. 1486 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act Granting a pension to James E. Jones.

    Ch. 624 · 30 Stat. 1486 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel H. Beckwith.

    Ch. 625 · 30 Stat. 1487 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act To grant a pension to Junius Alexander.

    Ch. 626 · 30 Stat. 1487 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act Granting a pension to Belle Peter.

    Ch. 627 · 30 Stat. 1487 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act To increase the pension of Ann Gibbons.

    Ch. 628 · 30 Stat. 1487 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alphonzo O. Drake.

    Ch. 629 · 30 Stat. 1487 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act Granting a pension to Foster C. Carl.

    Ch. 630 · 30 Stat. 1488 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Walker.

    Ch. 631 · 30 Stat. 1488 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act Granting a pension to Matilda Waedel.

    Ch. 632 · 30 Stat. 1488 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act For the relief of John C. Coleman, of Emanuel County, Georgia.

    Ch. 633 · 30 Stat. 1488 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act Granting a pension to Martha Jennie Freer.

    Ch. 634 · 30 Stat. 1488 · July 7, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act To authorize the reassessment of water-main taxes in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 635 · 30 Stat. 721 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  28. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to exercise a discretion in certain eases.

    Ch. 636 · 30 Stat. 722 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  29. An Act To provide a steam fog whistle at the entrance to Muskegon Harbor, in the State of Michigan.

    Ch. 637 · 30 Stat. 722 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  30. An Act To amend “An Act for the preservation of the public peace and protection of property in the District of Columbia,” approved July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

    Ch. 638 · 30 Stat. 723 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  31. An Act To amend the criminal laws of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 639 · 30 Stat. 724 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  32. An Act To regulate the construction of barbed-wire fences in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 640 · 30 Stat. 724 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  33. An Act To incorporate the Washington and University Railroad Company of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 641 · 30 Stat. 725 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  34. An Act To increase the number of post quartermaster-sergeants in the United States Army.

    Ch. 642 · 30 Stat. 728 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  35. An Act Providing for the transfer from the circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit to the Supreme Court of certain appeals from the district court for Alaska.

    Ch. 643 · 30 Stat. 728 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  36. An Act Fixing pay and allowances of chaplains for volunteer regiments.

    Ch. 644 · 30 Stat. 729 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  37. An Act Granting right of way through the Pikes Peak Timber Land Reserve and the public lands to the Cripple Creek Short-Line Railway Company.

    Ch. 645 · 30 Stat. 729 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  38. An Act Making appropriations to pay session employees of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 646 · 30 Stat. 730 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  39. 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.

    Ch. 647 · 30 Stat. 731 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  40. Joint Resolution To correct an omission relative to signal officers on the staff of corps commanders, and for other purposes.

    Resolution 57 · 30 Stat. 752 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  41. Joint Resolution Regarding the holding of a Pan-American Exposition in the year nineteen hundred and one upon Cayuga Island, between the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, in the State of New York, to illustrate the development of the Western Hemisphere during the nineteenth century.

    Resolution 58 · 30 Stat. 752 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  42. Joint Resolution Relative to electric-lighting wires west of Rock Creek.

    Resolution 59 · 30 Stat. 753 · July 8, 1898 · Original text

  43. An Act To authorize the President to restore Major Joseph W. Wham, paymaster, United States Army, to duty, his former rank, and status in the United States Army.

    Ch. 648 · 30 Stat. 1489 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  44. An Act To correct the naval record of George W. Sherrard.

    Ch. 649 · 30 Stat. 1489 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  45. An Act For the relief of Mathilda Akerblom Molin.

    Ch. 650 · 30 Stat. 1489 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  46. An Act For the relief of Verona E. Pollock.

    Ch. 651 · 30 Stat. 1489 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  47. An Act To increase the pension of Clark W. Harrington.

    Ch. 652 · 30 Stat. 1490 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  48. An Act Granting a pension to Cassins M. Clay, senior.

    Ch. 653 · 30 Stat. 1490 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  49. An Act Granting a pension to Olive H. South.

    Ch. 654 · 30 Stat. 1490 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  50. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James E. Eaton.

    Ch. 655 · 30 Stat. 1490 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  51. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Diana Clark.

    Ch. 656 · 30 Stat. 1490 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  52. An Act Granting a pension to Mary McLaughlin.

    Ch. 657 · 30 Stat. 1490 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  53. An Act Granting a pension to Alden B. Thompson.

    Ch. 658 · 30 Stat. 1491 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  54. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James S. Chapman.

    Ch. 659 · 30 Stat. 1491 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  55. An Act Granting a pension to Miriam V. Kenny.

    Ch. 660 · 30 Stat. 1491 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  56. An Act granting a pension to Jane E. Zink.

    Ch. 661 · 30 Stat. 1491 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  57. An Act Granting a pension to Virginia C. Fleanor.

    Ch. 662 · 30 Stat. 1491 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  58. An Act Granting a pension to Clarissa A. Dunham

    Ch. 663 · 30 Stat. 1492 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  59. An Act Granting a pension to Herbert W. Leach.

    Ch. 664 · 30 Stat. 1492 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  60. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Ann Sullivan.

    Ch. 665 · 30 Stat. 1492 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  61. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George S. Walton.

    Ch. 666 · 30 Stat. 1492 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  62. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Annie J. Bassett.

    Ch. 667 · 30 Stat. 1492 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  63. An Act Granting a pension to John Connolly.

    Ch. 668 · 30 Stat. 1493 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  64. An Act Granting a pension to Corydon G. Crafts.

    Ch. 669 · 30 Stat. 1493 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  65. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Armenias H. Evans.

    Ch. 670 · 30 Stat. 1493 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  66. An Act Granting a pension to Pryor Perkins.

    Ch. 671 · 30 Stat. 1493 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  67. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eugene A. Shaw.

    Ch. 672 · 30 Stat. 1493 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  68. An Act Granting a pension to Addie L. Ballou.

    Ch. 673 · 30 Stat. 1494 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  69. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah Fry.

    Ch. 674 · 30 Stat. 1494 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  70. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Felix Tait.

    Ch. 675 · 30 Stat. 1494 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  71. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John H. Boyd.

    Ch. 676 · 30 Stat. 1494 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  72. An Act To increase the pension of John N. Wiley.

    Ch. 677 · 30 Stat. 1494 · July 8, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  73. 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-eight, on the twenty-first day of said month.

    Public Resolution 1 · 30 Stat. 1385 · December 20, 1898 · Original text

  74. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George E. Welles.

    Ch. 1 · 30 Stat. 1497 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  75. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Caulfield.

    Ch. 2 · 30 Stat. 1497 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  76. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza J. Mead.

    Ch. 3 · 30 Stat. 1497 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  77. An Act Granting a pension to Catharine McCarty.

    Ch. 4 · 30 Stat. 1498 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  78. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ellen Stack.

    Ch. 5 · 30 Stat. 1498 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  79. An Act Granting a pension to Maggie Morris.

    Ch. 6 · 30 Stat. 1498 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  80. An Act Granting a pension to Lucy Nichols.

    Ch. 7 · 30 Stat. 1498 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  81. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth D. Pittman.

    Ch. 8 · 30 Stat. 1498 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  82. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Monson W. Bliss.

    Ch. 9 · 30 Stat. 1499 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  83. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Freeman.

    Ch. 10 · 30 Stat. 1499 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  84. An Act To increase the pension of Thomas B. Hammond.

    Ch. 11 · 30 Stat. 1499 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  85. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Theodore W. Cobia.

    Ch. 12 · 30 Stat. 1499 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  86. An Act To pension John F. Gates.

    Ch. 13 · 30 Stat. 1499 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  87. An Act Granting a pension to Mary H. Harbour.

    Ch. 14 · 30 Stat. 1500 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  88. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Paul.

    Ch. 15 · 30 Stat. 1500 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  89. An Act Granting a pension to Rachel T. Abbott.

    Ch. 16 · 30 Stat. 1500 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  90. An Act Granting a pension to Della E. Spaulding.

    Ch. 17 · 30 Stat. 1500 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  91. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah E. Ward.

    Ch. 18 · 30 Stat. 1500 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  92. An Act Granting a pension to Isabella Cross.

    Ch. 19 · 30 Stat. 1501 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  93. An Act Granting a pension to A. A. Pinkston.

    Ch. 20 · 30 Stat. 1501 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  94. An Act Increasing the pension of David R. B. Harlan.

    Ch. 21 · 30 Stat. 1501 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  95. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary C. Gardheffner.

    Ch. 22 · 30 Stat. 1501 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  96. An Act Granting a pension to Augusta Troland.

    Ch. 23 · 30 Stat. 1501 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  97. An Act Granting a pension to Joseph Griffith.

    Ch. 24 · 30 Stat. 1502 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  98. An Act Granting a pension to James Burnett.

    Ch. 25 · 30 Stat. 1502 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  99. An Act Granting a pension to Frances E. Utley Davis.

    Ch. 26 · 30 Stat. 1502 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

  100. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George Witter.

    Ch. 27 · 30 Stat. 1502 · December 20, 1898 · Private law · Original text

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From the U.S. Statutes at Large, volumes 1 through 138, published by the Government Publishing Office on GovInfo; laws signed since the latest printed volume come from GovInfo’s public and private law files. Treaties, proclamations and concurrent resolutions, which share those volumes, are not laws and are left out. The oldest volumes were digitized from print, so a few dates could not be read; for those we show the year from the laws printed alongside. Short names come from each law’s own “may be cited as” clause.