Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To amend the laws relating to American seamen, for the protection of such seamen, and to promote commerce.

   Ch. 28 · 30 Stat. 755 · December 21, 1898 · Original text

2. An Act Concerning sail vessels of over seven hundred tons, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 29 · 30 Stat. 764 · December 21, 1898 · Original text

3. An Act Regulating the inspection of Hour in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 30 · 30 Stat. 765 · December 21, 1898 · Original text

4. An Act Providing for a national exposition of American products and manufactures at the city of Philadelphia, for the encouragement of the export trade.

   Ch. 31 · 30 Stat. 768 · December 21, 1898 · Original text

5. An Act To regulate the sitting of the United States courts within the district of South Carolina.

   Ch. 32 · 30 Stat. 769 · December 21, 1898 · Original text

6. An Act Authorizing the use of typewriting machines for the recording of deeds and other instruments of writing in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 33 · 30 Stat. 769 · December 21, 1898 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize Commissioners of District of Columbia to extinguish alley in square four hundred and sixty-five.

   Ch. 34 · 30 Stat. 770 · December 21, 1898 · Original text

8. An Act Making an appropriation to execute certain provisions of the Act of Congress for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory.

   Ch. 35 · 30 Stat. 770 · December 21, 1898 · Original text

9. An Act To amend sections sixteen hundred and ninety-seven, sixteen hundred and ninety-eight, and seventeen hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to consul and vice-consul generals, consuls and vice-consuls, and commercial agents.

   Ch. 36 · 30 Stat. 770 · December 21, 1898 · Original text

10. An Act To pay J. and W. Seligman and Company the sum of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty-six cents for certain coupons detached from United States bonds, which said coupons were lost on the Cunard steamship Oregon, sunk at sea March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.

    Ch. 37 · 30 Stat. 1502 · December 21, 1898 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act Granting an honorable discharge to Samuel Johnston.

    Ch. 38 · 30 Stat. 1503 · December 21, 1898 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Theo, von Bremsen.

    Ch. 39 · 30 Stat. 1503 · December 21, 1898 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act To correct the military record of Joseph Graham.

    Ch. 40 · 30 Stat. 1504 · December 21, 1898 · Private law · Original text

14. Joint Resolution Authorizing the employment of a skilled architect to assist the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in preparing the designs, plans, specifications, and other drawings for the public building at Chicago, Illinois.

    Public Resolution 10 · 29 Stat. 462 · December 28, 1898 · Original text

15. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the support of the military and naval establishments for the last six months of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 41 · 30 Stat. 772 · January 5, 1899 · Original text

16. An Act To authorize the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Arkansas and other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 42 · 30 Stat. 782 · January 10, 1899 · Original text

17. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia River, between the State of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road.”

    Ch. 43 · 30 Stat. 783 · January 10, 1899 · Original text

18. An Act Granting the Saginaw Southern Railroad Company a right of way for railroad purposes through the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve.

    Ch. 44 · 30 Stat. 783 · January 10, 1899 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution For the improvement of the harbor at Racine, Wisconsin.

    Public Resolution 2 · 30 Stat. 1385 · January 10, 1899 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution For improvement of the harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin.

    Public Resolution 3 · 30 Stat. 1385 · January 10, 1899 · Original text

21. Joint Resolution Asking for preliminary survey of Ohio River at or near Cincinnati.

    Public Resolution 4 · 30 Stat. 1385 · January 10, 1899 · Original text

22. An Act To remove the charge of desertion against Jacob N. Hamburger.

    Ch. 45 · 30 Stat. 1504 · January 10, 1899 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Granting extra pay to officers and enlisted men of United States Volunteers.

    Ch. 46 · 30 Stat. 784 · January 12, 1899 · Original text

24. An Act Relating to negotiable instruments within the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 47 · 30 Stat. 785 · January 12, 1899 · Original text

25. An Act To provide for the establishment of building lines on certain streets in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 48 · 30 Stat. 802 · January 12, 1899 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution Providing for estimate of cost of certain improvements of Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut.

    Public Resolution 5 · 30 Stat. 1386 · January 12, 1899 · Original text

27. Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of extra copies of the publications of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department.

    Public Resolution 6 · 30 Stat. 1386 · January 12, 1899 · Original text

28. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to submit a report of survey and estimate for the improvement of the east channel in New York Harbor.

    Public Resolution 7 · 30 Stat. 1386 · January 12, 1899 · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Cassius G. Foster.

    Ch. 49 · 30 Stat. 1504 · January 12, 1899 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act Granting a pension to Charles Howard.

    Ch. 50 · 30 Stat. 1504 · January 12, 1899 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of the estate of Abel Adams, deceased.

    Ch. 51 · 30 Stat. 1504 · January 12, 1899 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary Elizabeth Hieskell.

    Ch. 52 · 30 Stat. 1505 · January 12, 1899 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John C. Knapp.

    Ch. 53 · 30 Stat. 1505 · January 12, 1899 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of John Veeley.

    Ch. 54 · 30 Stat. 1505 · January 14, 1899 · Private law · Original text

35. Joint Resolution Providing for the removal of the remains of the late Major-General John A. Rawlins from the Congressional Cemetery to the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, together with the base and granite shaft now marking the spot.

    Public Resolution 8 · 30 Stat. 1387 · January 16, 1899 · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of John W. Lewis, of Oregon.

    Ch. 55 · 30 Stat. 1506 · January 16, 1899 · Private law · Original text

37. Joint Resolution For the improvement of Mystic River, Massachusetts.

    Public Resolution 9 · 30 Stat. 1387 · January 21, 1899 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution To fill vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Resolution 10 · 30 Stat. 1387 · January 24, 1899 · Original text

39. An Act Providing for additional circuit judges in the fifth and sixth judicial circuits.

    Ch. 56 · 30 Stat. 803 · January 25, 1899 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the city of Saginaw, Michigan, to beautify and use as a public park the United States post-office property in said city, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

    Ch. 57 · 30 Stat. 804 · January 25, 1899 · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of William H. King.

    Ch. 58 · 30 Stat. 1506 · January 25, 1899 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act To remove the charge of desertion standing against the name of Patrick Dougherty, Company A, Thirteenth New York Volunteer Infantry.

    Ch. 59 · 30 Stat. 1506 · January 25, 1899 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from and to correct the military record of Captain William Churchill, late a private of Company K, Second Regiment of United States Cavalry.

    Ch. 60 · 30 Stat. 1507 · January 25, 1899 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the establishment of a light-house and fog signal or light ship at a point north of this bell buoy near the broken part of the Pollock Rip Shoals, on the coast of Massachusetts.

    Ch. 61 · 30 Stat. 804 · January 28, 1899 · Original text

45. An Act To remit the time penalties on the light-house tender Rose.

    Ch. 62 · 30 Stat. 804 · January 28, 1899 · Original text

46. An Act To incorporate the American Social Science Association.

    Ch. 63 · 30 Stat. 804 · January 28, 1899 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Oacoma, South Dakota.

    Ch. 64 · 30 Stat. 805 · January 28, 1899 · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 65 · 30 Stat. 806 · January 28, 1899 · Original text

49. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.

    Ch. 66 · 30 Stat. 810 · January 28, 1899 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy, at West Point, Luis Yglesias, of Costa Rica.

    Public Resolution 11 · 30 Stat. 1387 · January 28, 1899 · Original text

51. Joint Resolution To furnish the Congressional Record to the Library of Congress.

    Public Resolution 12 · 30 Stat. 1388 · January 28, 1899 · Original text

52. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Henry Smith.

    Ch. 67 · 30 Stat. 1507 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act To correct the military record of James P. McGee.

    Ch. 68 · 30 Stat. 1507 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act Granting a pension to Herman Dellit.

    Ch. 69 · 30 Stat. 1507 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of R. E. Vaughan.

    Ch. 70 · 30 Stat. 1508 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James W. Jackson.

    Ch. 71 · 30 Stat. 1508 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to remove the charge of desertion and issue to Lewis C. L. Smith, Company D, First Delaware Infantry Volunteers, an honorable discharge.

    Ch. 72 · 30 Stat. 1508 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of Mary J. Cranston, of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 73 · 30 Stat. 1508 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act To correct the military record of James Denny.

    Ch. 74 · 30 Stat. 1509 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act Granting an honorable discharge to Prentice Holmes.

    Ch. 75 · 30 Stat. 1509 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel S. Patterson.

    Ch. 76 · 30 Stat. 1509 · January 28, 1899 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of J. R. Eggleston, of Hinds County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 77 · 30 Stat. 1509 · January 30, 1899 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act To change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 78 · 30 Stat. 811 · January 31, 1899 · Original text

64. An Act For the prevention of smoke in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 79 · 30 Stat. 812 · February 2, 1899 · Original text

65. An Act For the reestablishment and reconstruction of a light-house at or near mouth of Salem Creek, New Jersey.

    Ch. 80 · 30 Stat. 812 · February 2, 1899 · Original text

66. An Act To transfer the county of Menard, in the State of Texas, from the western district of Texas to the northern district of Texas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 81 · 30 Stat. 812 · February 2, 1899 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Savannah River from the mainland of Chatham County, Georgia, to Hutchinsons Island, in said county.

    Ch. 82 · 30 Stat. 813 · February 2, 1899 · Original text

68. An Act To change and fix the time for holding the district and circuit courts of the United States for the northern division of the eastern district of Tennessee.

    Ch. 83 · 30 Stat. 814 · February 2, 1899 · Original text

69. An Act To amend section five of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable goods without appraisement.

    Ch. 84 · 30 Stat. 814 · February 2, 1899 · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Oliver C. Bosbyshell, late superintendent United States mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 85 · 30 Stat. 1510 · February 2, 1899 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act Providing for the construction of a light ship to be located near Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

    Ch. 86 · 30 Stat. 815 · February 4, 1899 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the construction of certain bridges over the waters of Lake Champlain.

    Ch. 87 · 30 Stat. 815 · February 4, 1899 · Original text

73. An Act To authorize the Little River Valley Railway Company to construct and. operate a railway through the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, in the Indian Territory, and branches thereof, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 88 · 30 Stat. 816 · February 4, 1899 · Original text

74. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 89 · 30 Stat. 820 · February 4, 1899 · Original text

75. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John H. Sanborn.

    Ch. 90 · 30 Stat. 1510 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry Wilson.

    Ch. 91 · 30 Stat. 1511 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary Sprague.

    Ch. 92 · 30 Stat. 1511 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act Granting a pension to John D. Coulie.

    Ch. 93 · 30 Stat. 1511 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Granting a pension to Hattie E. Gusler.

    Ch. 94 · 30 Stat. 1511 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To increase the pension of Thaddeus M. Joy.

    Ch. 95 · 30 Stat. 1511 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Napoleon B. Armstrong.

    Ch. 96 · 30 Stat. 1512 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Leah L. Price.

    Ch. 97 · 30 Stat. 1512 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting a pension to Catherine Childers.

    Ch. 98 · 30 Stat. 1512 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Robert W. Haywood.

    Ch. 99 · 30 Stat. 1512 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alexander Keen.

    Ch. 100 · 30 Stat. 1512 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Jordan.

    Ch. 101 · 30 Stat. 1513 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting a pension to Eli M. Conch.

    Ch. 102 · 30 Stat. 1513 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Granting a pension to Adda F. Thompson.

    Ch. 103 · 30 Stat. 1513 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Granting a pension to Ella Hayne Agnew.

    Ch. 104 · 30 Stat. 1513 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting a pension to Ellen Wright.

    Ch. 105 · 30 Stat. 1513 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah A. Halter.

    Ch. 106 · 30 Stat. 1514 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry O. Briggs.

    Ch. 107 · 30 Stat. 1514 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act To remove the charge of desertion against John Willoughby.

    Ch. 108 · 30 Stat. 1514 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Rebecca Otis.

    Ch. 109 · 30 Stat. 1514 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting a pension to Mary J. Brown.

    Ch. 110 · 30 Stat. 1514 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Granting a pension to Jacob N. Atherton.

    Ch. 111 · 30 Stat. 1515 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act To increase the pension of Louis Hirsch.

    Ch. 112 · 30 Stat. 1515 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry K. Opp.

    Ch. 113 · 30 Stat. 1515 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting a pension to George B. Stone.

    Ch. 114 · 30 Stat. 1515 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act To correct the military record of William P. Brassington.

     Ch. 115 · 30 Stat. 1515 · February 4, 1899 · Private law · Original text