Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John R. Eggeman.

   Ch. 475 · 31 Stat. 1551 · May 16, 1900 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry H. Neff.

   Ch. 476 · 31 Stat. 1552 · May 16, 1900 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Granting a pension to Rhoda A. Patman.

   Ch. 477 · 31 Stat. 1552 · May 16, 1900 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act Granting a pension to Bertha M. Jordan.

   Ch. 478 · 31 Stat. 1552 · May 16, 1900 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act Providing for free homesteads on the public lands for actual and bona fide settlers, and reserving the public lands for that purpose.

   Ch. 479 · 31 Stat. 179 · May 17, 1900 · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Mary A. Swift.

   Ch. 480 · 31 Stat. 1552 · May 17, 1900 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act To fix the terms of the district and circuit courts of the western judicial district in the State of Louisiana.

   Ch. 481 · 31 Stat. 179 · May 18, 1900 · Original text

8. An Act To provide for sittings of the circuit and district courts of the southern district of Florida in the city of Ocala, in said district.

   Ch. 482 · 31 Stat. 180 · May 18, 1900 · Original text

9. An Act To reimburse sundry collectors of internal revenue for internal-revenue stamps paid for and charged in their accounts and not received by them.

   Ch. 483 · 31 Stat. 1552 · May 18, 1900 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act To provide for the disposal of the Fort Buford abandoned military reservation, in the States of North Dakota and Montana.

    Ch. 484 · 31 Stat. 180 · May 19, 1900 · Original text

11. An Act To establish light-house and fog signal in State of Washington.

    Ch. 485 · 31 Stat. 180 · May 19, 1900 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize the purchase of certain lands in the district of Alaska.

    Ch. 486 · 31 Stat. 180 · May 21, 1900 · Original text

13. An Act To amend section three thousand and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 487 · 31 Stat. 181 · May 21, 1900 · Original text

14. An Act To grant an honorable discharge to George W. Shank.

    Ch. 488 · 31 Stat. 1553 · May 21, 1900 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act To constitute Durham, North Carolina, a port of delivery in the customs collection district of Pamlico, and to extend the privileges of the seventh section of the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to said port.

    Ch. 489 · 31 Stat. 181 · May 22, 1900 · Original text

16. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emma G. Sargent.

    Ch. 490 · 31 Stat. 1553 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frances C. De Russy.

    Ch. 491 · 31 Stat. 1554 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act Granting a pension to Adelaide Sessions.

    Ch. 492 · 31 Stat. 1554 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Granting a pension to John B. Turchin.

    Ch. 493 · 31 Stat. 1554 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Louann A. Perry.

    Ch. 494 · 31 Stat. 1554 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act Granting a pension to Levi C. Faught.

    Ch. 495 · 31 Stat. 1555 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Juliet Gregory.

    Ch. 496 · 31 Stat. 1555 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Martha Maddocks.

    Ch. 497 · 31 Stat. 1555 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Granting a pension to Matthew Redmond.

    Ch. 498 · 31 Stat. 1555 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Wilhelmina Hippier.

    Ch. 499 · 31 Stat. 1555 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act Granting increase of pension to William C. Stockton.

    Ch. 500 · 31 Stat. 1556 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Julia A. Taylor.

    Ch. 501 · 31 Stat. 1556 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Granting a pension to Catharine Harris.

    Ch. 502 · 31 Stat. 1556 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas H. Kearney.

    Ch. 503 · 31 Stat. 1556 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Orpha W. Reynolds.

    Ch. 504 · 31 Stat. 1556 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act Granting a pension to Jacob Saladin.

    Ch. 505 · 31 Stat. 1557 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Annie E. Joseph.

    Ch. 506 · 31 Stat. 1557 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Campbell, alias George W. Smith.

    Ch. 507 · 31 Stat. 1557 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Thornton.

    Ch. 508 · 31 Stat. 1557 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John W. Kaump.

    Ch. 509 · 31 Stat. 1557 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Richard L. Titsworth.

    Ch. 510 · 31 Stat. 1558 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act Granting a pension to Mary B. Christopher.

    Ch. 511 · 31 Stat. 1558 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Cecilia A. Price.

    Ch. 512 · 31 Stat. 1558 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John E. Higgins.

    Ch. 513 · 31 Stat. 1558 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act Granting a pension to Edward L. Ruby.

    Ch. 514 · 31 Stat. 1558 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William A. Owens.

    Ch. 515 · 31 Stat. 1559 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John W. Blake.

    Ch. 516 · 31 Stat. 1559 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Granting a pension to Felix G. Sitton.

    Ch. 517 · 31 Stat. 1559 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ellen Leddy.

    Ch. 518 · 31 Stat. 1559 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Caroline C. Townsend.

    Ch. 519 · 31 Stat. 1559 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John M. Swift.

    Ch. 520 · 31 Stat. 1560 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Katharine Taylor Dodge.

    Ch. 521 · 31 Stat. 1560 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Louisa E. Baylor.

    Ch. 522 · 31 Stat. 1560 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Murphy.

    Ch. 523 · 31 Stat. 1560 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Parker.

    Ch. 524 · 31 Stat. 1561 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac H. Lynn.

    Ch. 525 · 31 Stat. 1561 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Fanny F. Robertson.

    Ch. 526 · 31 Stat. 1561 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William J. Wallace.

    Ch. 527 · 31 Stat. 1561 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act Granting a pension to John P. Hinsley.

    Ch. 528 · 31 Stat. 1561 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Moses King, junior.

    Ch. 529 · 31 Stat. 1562 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Kersey.

    Ch. 530 · 31 Stat. 1562 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hamilton K. Williams.

    Ch. 531 · 31 Stat. 1562 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act Granting a pension to John Holland.

    Ch. 532 · 31 Stat. 1562 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act Granting a pension to Elisabeth Whisler.

    Ch. 533 · 31 Stat. 1562 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edward F. Phelps.

    Ch. 534 · 31 Stat. 1563 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jacob N. Smith.

    Ch. 535 · 31 Stat. 1563 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Washington Baker.

    Ch. 536 · 31 Stat. 1563 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Anna M. Collier.

    Ch. 537 · 31 Stat. 1563 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John H. Streeter.

    Ch. 538 · 31 Stat. 1563 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac Gause.

    Ch. 539 · 31 Stat. 1564 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act Granting a pension to Helen M. Glenny.

    Ch. 540 · 31 Stat. 1564 · May 22, 1900 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act To amend section eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to taking depositions de bene esse.

    Ch. 541 · 31 Stat. 182 · May 23, 1900 · Original text

68. An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Esther, of New Orleans.

    Ch. 542 · 31 Stat. 182 · May 23, 1900 · Original text

69. An Act Granting a pension to Susanna Marion.

    Ch. 543 · 31 Stat. 1564 · May 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act Granting a pension to Henry B. Lambe.

    Ch. 544 · 31 Stat. 1564 · May 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act Granting a pension to James Richardson.

    Ch. 545 · 31 Stat. 1564 · May 23, 1900 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act To amend section eight of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to authorize the Fort Smith and Western Railroad Company to construct and operate a railway through the Choctaw and Creek nations, in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 546 · 31 Stat. 182 · May 24, 1900 · Original text

73. An Act To detach the county of Dyer from the eastern division of the western district of Tennessee and to attach the same to the western division of the western district of said State of Tennessee.

    Ch. 549 · 31 Stat. 183 · May 24, 1900 · Original text

74. An Act To amend section five of an Act to relieve certain appointed or enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps from the charge of desertion, approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

    Ch. 550 · 31 Stat. 183 · May 24, 1900 · Original text

75. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Margaret B. Shipp.

    Ch. 547 · 31 Stat. 1565 · May 24, 1900 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah E. Tradewell.

    Ch. 548 · 31 Stat. 1565 · May 24, 1900 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Marie J. Blaisdell.

    Ch. 551 · 31 Stat. 1565 · May 24, 1900 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 552 · 31 Stat. 183 · May 25, 1900 · Original text

79. An Act To enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 553 · 31 Stat. 187 · May 25, 1900 · Original text

80. An Act To provide for the construction of a bridge by the Duluth, Pierre and Black Hills Railroad Company across the Missouri River at Pierre, South Dakota.

    Ch. 554 · 31 Stat. 189 · May 25, 1900 · Original text

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

    Ch. 555 · 31 Stat. 191 · May 25, 1900 · Original text

82. An Act Providing for the transfer to Post Thirty-nine, Grand Army of the Republic, at Lawrence, Massachusetts, of certain guns now in possession of Battery C, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.

    Ch. 556 · 31 Stat. 204 · May 25, 1900 · Original text

83. Joint Resolution To print the annual reports of the American Historical Association.

    Public Resolution 27 · 31 Stat. 717 · May 25, 1900 · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of James H. Latham.

    Ch. 557 · 31 Stat. 1565 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Corinne Strickland.

    Ch. 558 · 31 Stat. 1566 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act Granting a pension to Lucy D. Young.

    Ch. 559 · 31 Stat. 1566 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting a pension to Edward Harris.

    Ch. 560 · 31 Stat. 1566 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary B. Douglass.

    Ch. 561 · 31 Stat. 1566 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Granting a pension to Ida Wiederhold.

    Ch. 562 · 31 Stat. 1567 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Erasmus Darwin Steen.

    Ch. 563 · 31 Stat. 1567 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Cecelia B. Chauncey.

    Ch. 564 · 31 Stat. 1567 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Freeman H. Farr.

    Ch. 565 · 31 Stat. 1567 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary A. C. Kaigler.

    Ch. 566 · 31 Stat. 1567 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elisey A. Sloane.

    Ch. 567 · 31 Stat. 1568 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jeremiah Lockwood.

    Ch. 568 · 31 Stat. 1568 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William H. Brookins.

    Ch. 569 · 31 Stat. 1568 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Oren E. Barber.

    Ch. 570 · 31 Stat. 1568 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Granting a pension to Julius Vogt.

    Ch. 571 · 31 Stat. 1569 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Harriet L. Hughes.

    Ch. 572 · 31 Stat. 1569 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting a pension to William Bates.

     Ch. 573 · 31 Stat. 1569 · May 25, 1900 · Private law · Original text