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

  1. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Milbre V. Douglass.

    Ch. 914 · 31 Stat. 1800 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Florence L. Stuart.

    Ch. 915 · 31 Stat. 1800 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act Granting a pension to Katy Kurth.

    Ch. 916 · 31 Stat. 1800 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act Granting a pension to Jane Hunter.

    Ch. 917 · 31 Stat. 1800 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act To reimburse J. A. B. Miles, E. D. Kelly, and Rawlings Webster.

    Ch. 918 · 31 Stat. 1801 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act To pay to J. P. Ouzts two hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents for services as deputy collector internal revenue for district of South Carolina.

    Ch. 919 · 31 Stat. 1801 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel Baughman.

    Ch. 920 · 31 Stat. 1801 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ella V. Coston.

    Ch. 921 · 31 Stat. 1801 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John A. Hardy.

    Ch. 922 · 31 Stat. 1801 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Joseph T. Stout.

    Ch. 923 · 31 Stat. 1802 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nellie T. P. Koehler.

    Ch. 924 · 31 Stat. 1802 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act Granting a pension to Sallie B. Wilson.

    Ch. 925 · 31 Stat. 1802 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eugene Leahy.

    Ch. 926 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth M. Killen.

    Ch. 927 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act Granting a pension to Charles E. Binns.

    Ch. 928 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act Granting a pension to Columbus S. Whitaker.

    Ch. 929 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John W. Horner.

    Ch. 930 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George B. Smith.

    Ch. 931 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Tunis.

    Ch. 932 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act Granting a pension to Hannah Martha Dusenberry.

    Ch. 933 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William N. Hall.

    Ch. 934 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act Granting a pension to Henry Smith.

    Ch. 935 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ezekiel Dawson.

    Ch. 936 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act Granting a pension to Arline E. McNutt.

    Ch. 937 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Reynolds.

    Ch. 938 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act Granting a pension to Willis Brady.

    Ch. 939 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel A. Needham.

    Ch. 940 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. Kerstetter.

    Ch. 941 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John F. Carbee.

    Ch. 942 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ellen Pratt.

    Ch. 943 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  31. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Grotius N. Udell.

    Ch. 944 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  32. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Cornelia Hays.

    Ch. 945 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  33. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Hickey.

    Ch. 946 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  34. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel C. F. Seabury.

    Ch. 947 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  35. An Act Granting a pension to Emily S. Knight.

    Ch. 948 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  36. An Act Granting a pension to Hix Patterson.

    Ch. 949 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  37. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Margaret L. B. Parsons.

    Ch. 950 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  38. An Act For the relief of Aquilla J. Daugherty.

    Ch. 951 · 31 Stat. 1808 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  39. An Act To waive and release all claims of the United States by way of escheat to the real estate in the District of Columbia of which Patrick Kavanagh or his sons, Charles W. Kavanagh and William Kavanagh, died seized.

    Ch. 952 · 31 Stat. 1808 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  40. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Francis M. Thompson.

    Ch. 953 · 31 Stat. 1808 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  41. An Act Confirming a lease between J. W. Peglow and the Seneca Nation of New York Indians.

    Ch. 954 · 31 Stat. 1809 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  42. An Act For the relief of the devisees of Casper Barber and their assigns from the operation of the Act restricting the ownership of real estate in the Territories and the District of Columbia to American citizens.

    Ch. 955 · 31 Stat. 1809 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text

  43. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Saint Francis River at or near the town of Saint Francis, Arkansas.

    Ch. 1005 · 32 Stat. 1031 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  44. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1006 · 32 Stat. 1031 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  45. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1007 · 32 Stat. 1083 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  46. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four.

    Ch. 1008 · 32 Stat. 1147 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  47. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1009 · 32 Stat. 1165 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  48. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1010 · 32 Stat. 1177 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  49. An Act To increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1011 · 32 Stat. 1203 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  50. An Act To regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States.

    Ch. 1012 · 32 Stat. 1213 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  51. An Act For the relief of certain homestead settlers in the State of Alabama.

    Ch. 1013 · 32 Stat. 1222 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  52. An Act To amend section one of an Act entitled “An Act to amend sections fifty-one hundred and ninety-one and fifty-one hundred and ninety-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 1014 · 32 Stat. 1223 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  53. An Act To amend section three of the “Act further to prevent counterfeiting or manufacturing of dies, tools, or other implements used in manufacturing,” and so forth, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

    Ch. 1015 · 32 Stat. 1223 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  54. An Act To refund the amount of duties paid on merchandise brought into the United States from Porto Rico between April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and May first, nineteen hundred, and also on merchandise brought into the United States from the Philippine Islands between April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1016 · 32 Stat. 1224 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  55. An Act To confirm the name of Seward square for the space formed by the intersection of C street south and Pennsylvania and North Caroline avenues, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 1017 · 32 Stat. 1224 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  56. An Act To authorize the court of county commissioners of Geneva County, Alabama, to construct a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River, in Geneva County, Alabama.

    Ch. 1018 · 32 Stat. 1225 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  57. An Act To effectuate the provisions of the additional act of the international convention for the protection of industrial property.

    Ch. 1019 · 32 Stat. 1225 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  58. An Act To provide certain souvenir medallions for the benefit of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States.

    Ch. 1020 · 32 Stat. 1227 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

  59. An Act To increase the pension of Mexican war survivors to twelve dollars per month.

    Ch. 1021 · 32 Stat. 1228 · March 3, 1901 · Original text

By Congress

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.