The Register
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.
1,959 laws of the 56th Congress, 1899–1901
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Milbre V. Douglass.
Ch. 914 · 31 Stat. 1800 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Florence L. Stuart.
Ch. 915 · 31 Stat. 1800 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Katy Kurth.
Ch. 916 · 31 Stat. 1800 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Jane Hunter.
Ch. 917 · 31 Stat. 1800 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
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
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
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel Baughman.
Ch. 920 · 31 Stat. 1801 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ella V. Coston.
Ch. 921 · 31 Stat. 1801 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John A. Hardy.
Ch. 922 · 31 Stat. 1801 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of the heirs of Joseph T. Stout.
Ch. 923 · 31 Stat. 1802 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nellie T. P. Koehler.
Ch. 924 · 31 Stat. 1802 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Sallie B. Wilson.
Ch. 925 · 31 Stat. 1802 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eugene Leahy.
Ch. 926 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth M. Killen.
Ch. 927 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Charles E. Binns.
Ch. 928 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Columbus S. Whitaker.
Ch. 929 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John W. Horner.
Ch. 930 · 31 Stat. 1803 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George B. Smith.
Ch. 931 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Tunis.
Ch. 932 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Hannah Martha Dusenberry.
Ch. 933 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William N. Hall.
Ch. 934 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Henry Smith.
Ch. 935 · 31 Stat. 1804 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ezekiel Dawson.
Ch. 936 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Arline E. McNutt.
Ch. 937 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Reynolds.
Ch. 938 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Willis Brady.
Ch. 939 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel A. Needham.
Ch. 940 · 31 Stat. 1805 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. Kerstetter.
Ch. 941 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John F. Carbee.
Ch. 942 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ellen Pratt.
Ch. 943 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Grotius N. Udell.
Ch. 944 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Cornelia Hays.
Ch. 945 · 31 Stat. 1806 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Hickey.
Ch. 946 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel C. F. Seabury.
Ch. 947 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Emily S. Knight.
Ch. 948 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Hix Patterson.
Ch. 949 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Margaret L. B. Parsons.
Ch. 950 · 31 Stat. 1807 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Aquilla J. Daugherty.
Ch. 951 · 31 Stat. 1808 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
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
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Francis M. Thompson.
Ch. 953 · 31 Stat. 1808 · March 3, 1901 · Private law · Original text
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An Act To regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States.
Ch. 1012 · 32 Stat. 1213 · March 3, 1901 · Original text
An Act For the relief of certain homestead settlers in the State of Alabama.
Ch. 1013 · 32 Stat. 1222 · March 3, 1901 · Original text
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- 119th 2025 · 136
- 118th 2023 · 274
- 117th 2021 · 365
- 116th 2019 · 344
- 115th 2017 · 443
- 114th 2015 · 329
- 113th 2013 · 296
- 112th 2011 · 284
- 111th 2009 · 385
- 110th 2007 · 460
- 109th 2005 · 483
- 108th 2003 · 504
- 107th 2001 · 337
- 106th 1999 · 604
- 105th 1997 · 404
- 104th 1995 · 337
- 103rd 1993 · 473
- 102nd 1991 · 610
- 101st 1989 · 666
- 100th 1987 · 761
- 99th 1985 · 688
- 98th 1983 · 677
- 97th 1981 · 529
- 96th 1979 · 736
- 95th 1977 · 805
- 94th 1975 · 729
- 93rd 1973 · 774
- 92nd 1971 · 769
- 91st 1969 · 942
- 90th 1967 · 1,002
- 89th 1965 · 1,283
- 88th 1963 · 1,026
- 87th 1961 · 1,573
- 86th 1959 · 1,292
- 85th 1957 · 1,721
- 84th 1955 · 1,909
- 83rd 1953 · 1,784
- 82nd 1951 · 1,640
- 81st 1949 · 2,000
- 80th 1947 · 1,365
- 79th 1945 · 1,626
- 78th 1943 · 1,157
- 77th 1941 · 1,489
- 76th 1939 · 1,659
- 75th 1937 · 1,760
- 74th 1935 · 1,724
- 73rd 1933 · 975
- 72nd 1931 · 861
- 71st 1929 · 1,506
- 70th 1927 · 1,722
- 69th 1925 · 1,423
- 68th 1923 · 996
- 67th 1921 · 930
- 66th 1919 · 594
- 65th 1917 · 453
- 64th 1915 · 684
- 63rd 1913 · 700
- 62nd 1911 · 717
- 61st 1909 · 881
- 60th 1907 · 621
- 59th 1905 · 7,020
- 58th 1903 · 4,043
- 57th 1901 · 2,773
- 56th 1899 · 1,959
- 55th 1897 · 1,438
- 54th 1895 · 947
- 53rd 1893 · 712
- 52nd 1891 · 721
- 51st 1889 · 2,188
- 50th 1887 · 1,824
- 49th 1885 · 1,452
- 48th 1883 · 970
- 47th 1881 · 761
- 46th 1879 · 650
- 45th 1877 · 746
- 44th 1875 · 578
- 43rd 1873 · 859
- 42nd 1871 · 1,014
- 41st 1869 · 771
- 40th 1867 · 769
- 39th 1865 · 715
- 38th 1863 · 516
- 37th 1861 · 526
- 36th 1859 · 382
- 35th 1857 · 314
- 34th 1855 · 435
- 33rd 1853 · 540
- 32nd 1851 · 308
- 31st 1849 · 171
- 30th 1847 · 456
- 29th 1845 · 356
- 28th 1843 · 279
- 27th 1841 · 525
- 26th 1839 · 147
- 25th 1837 · 533
- 24th 1835 · 459
- 23rd 1833 · 392
- 22nd 1831 · 461
- 21st 1829 · 370
- 20th 1827 · 234
- 19th 1825 · 269
- 18th 1823 · 337
- 17th 1821 · 237
- 16th 1819 · 210
- 15th 1817 · 262
- 14th 1815 · 305
- 13th 1813 · 271
- 12th 1811 · 208
- 11th 1809 · 119
- 10th 1807 · 106
- 9th 1805 · 110
- 8th 1803 · 112
- 7th 1801 · 96
- 6th 1799 · 115
- 5th 1797 · 157
- 4th 1795 · 86
- 3rd 1793 · 133
- 2nd 1791 · 80
- 1st 1789 · 119
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.