Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To create the northwestern division of the northern district of Georgia for judicial purposes and to fix the time and place for holding court therein.

   Ch. 185 · 31 Stat. 73 · April 12, 1900 · Original text

2. An Act To attach the county of Foard, in the State of Texas, to the Fort Worth division of the northern district of Texas, and providing that all process issued against defendants residing in said county shall be returned to Fort Worth.

   Ch. 186 · 31 Stat. 74 · April 12, 1900 · Original text

3. An Act Declaring certain trestles of the Washington County Railroad Company to be lawful structures.

   Ch. 187 · 31 Stat. 74 · April 12, 1900 · Original text

4. An Act To amend an Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.

   Ch. 188 · 31 Stat. 75 · April 12, 1900 · Original text

5. An Act Permitting the building of a dam between Coon Rapids and the north limits of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, across the Mississippi River.

   Ch. 189 · 31 Stat. 75 · April 12, 1900 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize the Shreveport and Red River Valley Railway Company to build and maintain a railway bridge across Red River, at or near the town of Alexandria, in the Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana.

   Ch. 190 · 31 Stat. 76 · April 12, 1900 · Original text

7. An Act Temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 191 · 31 Stat. 77 · April 12, 1900 · Original text

8. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 192 · 31 Stat. 86 · April 17, 1900 · Original text

9. An Act Granting the right of way to the Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad Company across the ceded portion of the Chippewa (Red Lake) Indian Reservation in Minnesota.

   Ch. 193 · 31 Stat. 134 · April 17, 1900 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of a special edition of the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture for eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.

    Public Resolution 17 · 31 Stat. 713 · April 17, 1900 · Original text

11. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George C. Snyder.

    Ch. 194 · 31 Stat. 1497 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Wakefield.

    Ch. 195 · 31 Stat. 1497 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jesse Smith.

    Ch. 196 · 31 Stat. 1497 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Clare M. Ashby, widow of W. W. Ashby, late United States consul at Colon.

    Ch. 197 · 31 Stat. 1497 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Granting a pension to Clara L. Harriman.

    Ch. 198 · 31 Stat. 1497 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act Granting a pension to Fanny M. Hays.

    Ch. 199 · 31 Stat. 1498 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John E. Whinnery.

    Ch. 200 · 31 Stat. 1498 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William H. La Count.

    Ch. 201 · 31 Stat. 1498 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Granting a pension to Helen M. Hull.

    Ch. 202 · 31 Stat. 1498 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act Granting a pension to Lutheria H. Maynard.

    Ch. 203 · 31 Stat. 1499 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To increase the pension of John Houk.

    Ch. 204 · 31 Stat. 1499 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John M. Garrett.

    Ch. 205 · 31 Stat. 1499 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Abner S. Crawford.

    Ch. 206 · 31 Stat. 1499 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza S. Redfield.

    Ch. 207 · 31 Stat. 1499 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Calista F. Hall.

    Ch. 208 · 31 Stat. 1500 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Moses F. Woods.

    Ch. 209 · 31 Stat. 1500 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Louis H. Gein.

    Ch. 210 · 31 Stat. 1500 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George M. Brown.

    Ch. 211 · 31 Stat. 1500 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza H. Getchel.

    Ch. 212 · 31 Stat. 1500 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 213 · 31 Stat. 1501 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas H. Cook.

    Ch. 214 · 31 Stat. 1501 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James W. Kessler.

    Ch. 215 · 31 Stat. 1501 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Timothy B. Eastman.

    Ch. 216 · 31 Stat. 1501 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Pollock.

    Ch. 217 · 31 Stat. 1502 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Bottoms.

    Ch. 218 · 31 Stat. 1502 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Robert Boston.

    Ch. 219 · 31 Stat. 1502 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alfred Dyer.

    Ch. 220 · 31 Stat. 1502 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James S. Jordan.

    Ch. 221 · 31 Stat. 1502 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth C. Rice.

    Ch. 222 · 31 Stat. 1503 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Keiff.

    Ch. 223 · 31 Stat. 1503 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act Granting a pension to Susie E. Johnson.

    Ch. 224 · 31 Stat. 1503 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edward T. Kennedy.

    Ch. 225 · 31 Stat. 1503 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Weed.

    Ch. 226 · 31 Stat. 1504 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel A. Greeley.

    Ch. 227 · 31 Stat. 1504 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act Granting a pension to Lizzie M. Dixon.

    Ch. 228 · 31 Stat. 1504 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth B. Norris.

    Ch. 229 · 31 Stat. 1504 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel Hanson.

    Ch. 230 · 31 Stat. 1504 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John B. Fairchild.

    Ch. 231 · 31 Stat. 1505 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Landegan.

    Ch. 232 · 31 Stat. 1505 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Crawley.

    Ch. 233 · 31 Stat. 1505 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James J. Lyons.

    Ch. 234 · 31 Stat. 1505 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Horace B. Durant.

    Ch. 235 · 31 Stat. 1505 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act Granting a pension to Carrie P. Dale.

    Ch. 236 · 31 Stat. 1506 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frederick E. Vance.

    Ch. 237 · 31 Stat. 1506 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act Granting a pension to Emma B. Reed.

    Ch. 238 · 31 Stat. 1506 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act Granting a pension to John C. Ray.

    Ch. 239 · 31 Stat. 1506 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act Granting a pension to Amelia Taylor.

    Ch. 240 · 31 Stat. 1507 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act Granting an increase of pension to David L. Wentworth.

    Ch. 241 · 31 Stat. 1507 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry Johns.

    Ch. 242 · 31 Stat. 1507 · April 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act To set apart a portion of the Arlington estate for experimental agricultural purposes, and to place said portion under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors in office.

    Ch. 243 · 31 Stat. 135 · April 18, 1900 · Original text

61. An Act Repealing section forty-seven hundred and sixteen of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable to the claims of dependent parents of soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Army or Navy of the United States during the war with Spain.

    Ch. 244 · 31 Stat. 136 · April 18, 1900 · Original text

62. An Act To authorize the holding of a regular term of the district court of the United States for the western district of Virginia in the city of Charlottesville, Virginia.

    Ch. 245 · 31 Stat. 136 · April 18, 1900 · Original text

63. An Act To extend the privileges of the seventh section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to the port of Greenbay, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 246 · 31 Stat. 137 · April 18, 1900 · Original text

64. Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of thirty-five thousand copies of Bulletin Numbered Twenty-four, Department of Agriculture, entitled “A Primer of Forestry,” for the use of Congress and the Department of Agriculture.

    Public Resolution 18 · 31 Stat. 714 · April 18, 1900 · Original text

65. Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of the Report of the Governor of Arizona for Eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.

    Public Resolution 19 · 31 Stat. 714 · April 18, 1900 · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Hiram Johnson and others.

    Ch. 247 · 31 Stat. 1507 · April 18, 1900 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of the heirs and assignees of Philip McLoskey and John Hagan.

    Ch. 248 · 31 Stat. 1509 · April 18, 1900 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ruthven W. Houghton

    Ch. 249 · 31 Stat. 1509 · April 18, 1900 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act To legalize and maintain the iron bridge across Pearl River at Rockport, Mississippi.

    Ch. 250 · 31 Stat. 137 · April 21, 1900 · Original text

70. An Act To extend the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act granting increase of pension to soldiers of the Mexican war in certain cases,” approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

    Ch. 251 · 31 Stat. 137 · April 23, 1900 · Original text

71. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act in relation to taxes and tax sales in the District of Columbia.”

    Ch. 252 · 31 Stat. 138 · April 23, 1900 · Original text

72. An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 253 · 31 Stat. 138 · April 23, 1900 · Original text

73. An Act Providing that the State of Wyoming be permitted to relinquish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select other lands from the public domain in lieu thereof.

    Ch. 254 · 31 Stat. 139 · April 23, 1900 · Original text

74. Joint Resolution For relief of Garfield Hospital.

    Public Resolution 20 · 31 Stat. 714 · April 23, 1900 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution Authorizing the exhibit of Government relics at the New York Printing Exposition from May second to June second, nineteen hundred.

    Public Resolution 21 · 31 Stat. 714 · April 23, 1900 · Original text

76. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Robert Black.

    Ch. 255 · 31 Stat. 1510 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Josephine I. Offley.

    Ch. 256 · 31 Stat. 1510 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Cornelia De Peyster Black

    Ch. 257 · 31 Stat. 1510 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Rhoda A. Foster.

    Ch. 258 · 31 Stat. 1510 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act Granting a pension to Patrick Layhee.

    Ch. 259 · 31 Stat. 1510 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lizzie H. Hyndman.

    Ch. 260 · 31 Stat. 1511 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Allen Buckner.

    Ch. 261 · 31 Stat. 1511 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Arethusa Wright.

    Ch. 262 · 31 Stat. 1511 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting a pension to Henrietta Cummins.

    Ch. 263 · 31 Stat. 1511 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting an increase of pension to David Hunter.

    Ch. 264 · 31 Stat. 1511 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jerusha W. Sturgis.

    Ch. 265 · 31 Stat. 1512 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. Bourne.

    Ch. 266 · 31 Stat. 1512 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry Atkinson.

    Ch. 267 · 31 Stat. 1512 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Casper Miller, junior.

    Ch. 268 · 31 Stat. 1512 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John B. Ritzman.

    Ch. 269 · 31 Stat. 1512 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Jordan.

    Ch. 270 · 31 Stat. 1513 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting a pension to Hattie E. Redfield.

    Ch. 271 · 31 Stat. 1513 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Celia A. Jeffers.

    Ch. 272 · 31 Stat. 1513 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James M. Simeral.

    Ch. 273 · 31 Stat. 1513 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James A. Southard.

    Ch. 274 · 31 Stat. 1513 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah R. Burrell.

    Ch. 275 · 31 Stat. 1514 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Oscar Taylor.

    Ch. 276 · 31 Stat. 1514 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Herman Piel.

    Ch. 277 · 31 Stat. 1514 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ellen C. Abbott.

    Ch. 278 · 31 Stat. 1514 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Annie B. Goodrich.

     Ch. 279 · 31 Stat. 1514 · April 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text