Every law Congress has passed

1,959 laws of the 56th Congress, 1899–1901

1. An Act Granting a pension to Dora Renfro.

   Ch. 426 · 31 Stat. 1713 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act Granting a pension to Albert Wetzel.

   Ch. 427 · 31 Stat. 1713 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Andrew J. Woodman.

   Ch. 428 · 31 Stat. 1713 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Stewart.

   Ch. 429 · 31 Stat. 1713 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Fox.

   Ch. 430 · 31 Stat. 1714 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Cora Van D. Chenoweth.

   Ch. 431 · 31 Stat. 1714 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George P. Beach.

   Ch. 432 · 31 Stat. 1714 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Bernard Wagner.

   Ch. 433 · 31 Stat. 1714 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act Granting a pension to Carrie E. Babcock.

   Ch. 434 · 31 Stat. 1714 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George A. Parker.

    Ch. 435 · 31 Stat. 1715 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William F. Cloud.

    Ch. 436 · 31 Stat. 1715 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emily A. Wentworth.

    Ch. 437 · 31 Stat. 1715 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Merritt.

    Ch. 438 · 31 Stat. 1715 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frederick Vogel.

    Ch. 439 · 31 Stat. 1716 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Granting a pension to Betsey L. Woodman.

    Ch. 440 · 31 Stat. 1716 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Francis H. Buffum.

    Ch. 441 · 31 Stat. 1716 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act Granting a pension to George H. Shapley.

    Ch. 442 · 31 Stat. 1716 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Geibel.

    Ch. 443 · 31 Stat. 1716 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Granting a pension to Lizzie Barrett.

    Ch. 444 · 31 Stat. 1717 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Norton Schermerhorn.

    Ch. 445 · 31 Stat. 1717 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza N. Lord.

    Ch. 446 · 31 Stat. 1717 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph B. Whiting.

    Ch. 447 · 31 Stat. 1717 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Granting a pension to Minerva McClernand.

    Ch. 448 · 31 Stat. 1718 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Granting a pension to Hannah L. Palmer.

    Ch. 449 · 31 Stat. 1718 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John D. Thompson.

    Ch. 450 · 31 Stat. 1718 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jacob Hight.

    Ch. 451 · 31 Stat. 1718 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act Granting a pension to Mary C. Coombs.

    Ch. 452 · 31 Stat. 1718 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Richard O. Greenleaf.

    Ch. 453 · 31 Stat. 1719 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act Granting a pension to Mary R. Pike.

    Ch. 454 · 31 Stat. 1719 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Gordon.

    Ch. 455 · 31 Stat. 1719 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hiram I. Hoyt.

    Ch. 456 · 31 Stat. 1719 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Horatio N. Davis.

    Ch. 457 · 31 Stat. 1719 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of the employees of William M. Jacobs.

    Ch. 458 · 31 Stat. 1720 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Granting a pension to John H. Doremus.

    Ch. 459 · 31 Stat. 1720 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ezra S. Pierce.

    Ch. 460 · 31 Stat. 1720 · February 20, 1901 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act Regulating assessments for water mains in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 461 · 31 Stat. 799 · February 21, 1901 · Original text

37. An Act To correct the naval record of Thomas Dunn.

    Ch. 462 · 31 Stat. 1720 · February 21, 1901 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the establishment of a light-house and fog signal at Point No Point, in Chesapeake Bay, between Cove Point and Smiths Point.

    Ch. 463 · 31 Stat. 800 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

39. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Enterprise.

    Ch. 464 · 31 Stat. 800 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

40. An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and twenty-seven, title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes, relating to inspectors of hulls and boilers.

    Ch. 465 · 31 Stat. 800 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

41. An Act To authorize the Director of the Census to make payments for information concerning cotton gins, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 466 · 31 Stat. 801 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

42. An Act Confirming two locations of Chippewa half-breed scrip in the State (then Territory) of Utah.

    Ch. 467 · 31 Stat. 801 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

43. An Act To authorize the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River at Geneva, Alabama.

    Ch. 468 · 31 Stat. 802 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

44. An Act For the preparation of plans or designs for a memorial or statue of General Ulysses S. Grant on ground belonging to the United States Government in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 469 · 31 Stat. 803 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

45. An Act To declare a branch of the Mississippi River opposite the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and known as West Channel, to be unnavigable, and that the said city be relieved of necessity of maintaining a draw or pontoon bridge over said West Channel.

    Ch. 470 · 31 Stat. 804 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

46. Joint Resolution Providing for the printing annually of the Report on Field Operations of the Division of Soils, Department of Agriculture.

    Public Resolution 8 · 31 Stat. 1462 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution Providing for reprint of Bulletin Numbered Eighty, entitled “The Agricultural Experiment Stations of the United States.”

    Public Resolution 9 · 31 Stat. 1462 · February 23, 1901 · Original text

48. An Act To pay H. P. Dyer for carrying mail.

    Ch. 471 · 31 Stat. 1721 · February 23, 1901 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act To incorporate the National Society of United States Daughters of Eighteen Hundred and Twelve.

    Ch. 472 · 31 Stat. 804 · February 25, 1901 · Original text

50. An Act Granting authority to Alafia, Manatee and Gulf Coast Railroad Company to build railroad bridges across the Manatee River and Gasparilia Sound and to lay railroad tracks thereon.

    Ch. 473 · 31 Stat. 804 · February 25, 1901 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of the Medawakanton band of Sioux Indians, residing in Redwood County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 474 · 31 Stat. 805 · February 25, 1901 · Original text

52. An Act To authorize the Mobile and West Alabama Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Warrior River, between the counties of Walker and Jefferson, in section thirty-five, township seventeen, range seven west, Alabama.

    Ch. 475 · 31 Stat. 806 · February 25, 1901 · Original text

53. An Act To authorize the Mobile and West Alabama Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Tombigbee River between the counties of Marengo and Choctaw, below Demopolis, Alabama.

    Ch. 476 · 31 Stat. 807 · February 25, 1901 · Original text

54. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Little River, at or near mouth of Big Lake, State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 477 · 31 Stat. 808 · February 25, 1901 · Original text

55. An Act Supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Reform School for Girls of the District of Columbia,” approved July ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

    Ch. 478 · 31 Stat. 809 · February 25, 1901 · Original text

56. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James A. Thomas.

    Ch. 479 · 31 Stat. 1721 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act Granting a pension to Aries Butcher.

    Ch. 480 · 31 Stat. 1721 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John R. Joy.

    Ch. 481 · 31 Stat. 1721 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frank F. Carnduff.

    Ch. 482 · 31 Stat. 1722 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel W. Shaw.

    Ch. 483 · 31 Stat. 1722 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Vianna Mallard.

    Ch. 484 · 31 Stat. 1722 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac D. Toll.

    Ch. 485 · 31 Stat. 1722 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Chamness S. Burks.

    Ch. 486 · 31 Stat. 1722 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Francis H. Pike.

    Ch. 487 · 31 Stat. 1723 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William C. Griffin.

    Ch. 488 · 31 Stat. 1723 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act Granting a pension to Melville Oliphant.

    Ch. 489 · 31 Stat. 1723 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Louisa N. Godfrey.

    Ch. 490 · 31 Stat. 1723 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Amanda W. Clancy.

    Ch. 491 · 31 Stat. 1724 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act Granting an increase of pension to David Flinn.

    Ch. 492 · 31 Stat. 1724 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George Mowry.

    Ch. 493 · 31 Stat. 1724 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act Granting a pension to Hiram Stimple.

    Ch. 494 · 31 Stat. 1724 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act Granting a pension to Caroline M. H. Searing.

    Ch. 495 · 31 Stat. 1724 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act Granting a pension to William J. Worthington.

    Ch. 496 · 31 Stat. 1725 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Burdette N. Cleaveland.

    Ch. 497 · 31 Stat. 1725 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act Granting a pension to Minnie Gray.

    Ch. 498 · 31 Stat. 1725 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Maria N. Flint.

    Ch. 499 · 31 Stat. 1725 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John D. Allen.

    Ch. 500 · 31 Stat. 1726 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act Granting a pension to Jakobina Halbertsma.

    Ch. 501 · 31 Stat. 1726 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Granting a pension to James W. Boden.

    Ch. 502 · 31 Stat. 1726 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act Granting a pension to Taylor Hux.

    Ch. 503 · 31 Stat. 1726 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Granting a pension to Ellen Quinn.

    Ch. 504 · 31 Stat. 1726 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jacob W. Kouts.

    Ch. 505 · 31 Stat. 1727 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel S. Stafford.

    Ch. 506 · 31 Stat. 1727 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel Smith.

    Ch. 507 · 31 Stat. 1727 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting a pension to Julia A. Prouty.

    Ch. 508 · 31 Stat. 1727 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William S. Swaney.

    Ch. 509 · 31 Stat. 1727 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hugh Thompson.

    Ch. 510 · 31 Stat. 1728 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Richard P. Mitchell.

    Ch. 511 · 31 Stat. 1728 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Louis Nessell.

    Ch. 512 · 31 Stat. 1728 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting a pension to Virginia R. Friedeborn.

    Ch. 513 · 31 Stat. 1728 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting a pension to Benoni A. McConnell.

    Ch. 514 · 31 Stat. 1728 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William M. Tom.

    Ch. 515 · 31 Stat. 1729 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Cox, alias John Smith.

    Ch. 516 · 31 Stat. 1729 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Michael S. Brockett.

    Ch. 517 · 31 Stat. 1729 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Abram P. Pew.

    Ch. 518 · 31 Stat. 1729 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edwin A. Wilson.

    Ch. 519 · 31 Stat. 1729 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elliott Loomis.

    Ch. 520 · 31 Stat. 1730 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Gustav Rienecker.

    Ch. 521 · 31 Stat. 1730 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Josephine H. Whitehead.

    Ch. 522 · 31 Stat. 1730 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William W. King.

     Ch. 523 · 31 Stat. 1730 · February 25, 1901 · Private law · Original text