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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.
2,773 laws of the 57th Congress, 1901–1903
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Simeon Deno.
Ch. 808 · 32 Stat. 1663 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Philip Caslow.
Ch. 809 · 32 Stat. 1663 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John T. Deweese.
Ch. 810 · 32 Stat. 1663 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Leman A. Brace.
Ch. 811 · 32 Stat. 1663 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alman J. Houston.
Ch. 812 · 32 Stat. 1664 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mary J. Parker.
Ch. 813 · 32 Stat. 1664 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Lemuel Kingsbury.
Ch. 814 · 32 Stat. 1664 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Eliza Gallagher.
Ch. 815 · 32 Stat. 1664 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Timothy Loughlin.
Ch. 816 · 32 Stat. 1664 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James O’Neil.
Ch. 817 · 32 Stat. 1665 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Oscar H. Prink.
Ch. 818 · 32 Stat. 1665 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to David N. Tolles.
Ch. 819 · 32 Stat. 1665 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel G. Towle.
Ch. 820 · 32 Stat. 1665 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Thompson.
Ch. 821 · 32 Stat. 1666 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George Davis.
Ch. 822 · 32 Stat. 1666 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John S. Milam.
Ch. 823 · 32 Stat. 1666 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Alvira Randall.
Ch. 824 · 32 Stat. 1666 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Bassett.
Ch. 825 · 32 Stat. 1666 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Archibald McIntire.
Ch. 826 · 32 Stat. 1667 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Phineas L. Squires.
Ch. 827 · 32 Stat. 1667 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Oliver G. Wright.
Ch. 828 · 32 Stat. 1667 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Orlando S. Osborn.
Ch. 829 · 32 Stat. 1667 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ephraim Cunningham.
Ch. 830 · 32 Stat. 1668 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Betsey Jones.
Ch. 831 · 32 Stat. 1668 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Hamilton, second.
Ch. 832 · 32 Stat. 1668 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frank A. Olney.
Ch. 833 · 32 Stat. 1668 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emmet C. Hill.
Ch. 834 · 32 Stat. 1668 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Addison Arnold.
Ch. 835 · 32 Stat. 1669 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Cassius B. Fisher.
Ch. 836 · 32 Stat. 1669 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Doberrer.
Ch. 837 · 32 Stat. 1669 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James M. White.
Ch. 838 · 32 Stat. 1669 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Andrew C. Smith.
Ch. 839 · 32 Stat. 1670 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Annie P. Pinney.
Ch. 840 · 32 Stat. 1670 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Emma D. Goslin.
Ch. 841 · 32 Stat. 1670 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Stephen G. Cole.
Ch. 842 · 32 Stat. 1670 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Deborah Edwards.
Ch. 843 · 32 Stat. 1670 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Phillips.
Ch. 844 · 32 Stat. 1671 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John U. Allen.
Ch. 845 · 32 Stat. 1671 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James McMorrow.
Ch. 846 · 32 Stat. 1671 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Grace E. Ash.
Ch. 847 · 32 Stat. 1671 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas L. Smith.
Ch. 848 · 32 Stat. 1672 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hampton B. Farmer.
Ch. 849 · 32 Stat. 1672 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jasper N. Acree.
Ch. 850 · 32 Stat. 1672 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jarrot F. Rigg.
Ch. 851 · 32 Stat. 1672 · February 25, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act To exempt from taxation certain property of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, District of Columbia.
Ch. 852 · 32 Stat. 907 · February 27, 1903 · Original text
An Act Providing for the interment of the remains of Marie Irene Donaldson and her daughter, Marie Irene Donaldson.
Ch. 853 · 32 Stat. 908 · February 27, 1903 · Original text
An Act To provide for the erection at Washington, District of Columbia, of statues to the memory of Brigadier-General Count Pulaski and Major-General Baron von Steuben, of the Continental Army.
Ch. 854 · 32 Stat. 908 · February 27, 1903 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to the city of Buffalo, Wyoming, for certain tracts of land.
Ch. 855 · 32 Stat. 908 · February 27, 1903 · Original text
Joint Resolution Granting to the New York and Jersey Railroad Company the right to construct and operate an underground railway under land owned by the United States in the city of New York.
Public Resolutions 10 · 32 Stat. 1232 · February 27, 1903 · Original text
An Act To provide for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Ch. 856 · 32 Stat. 909 · February 28, 1903 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River and to establish it as a post road.
Ch. 857 · 32 Stat. 918 · February 28, 1903 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act amending section forty-seven hundred and eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to pensions to remarried widows," approved March third, nineteen hundred and one.
Ch. 858 · 32 Stat. 920 · February 28, 1903 · Original text
An Act Confirming and ceding jurisdiction to the State of Arkansas over certain lands formerly in the Fort Smith Reservation in said State, and asserting and retaining Federal jurisdiction over certain other lands in said reservation.
Ch. 859 · 32 Stat. 921 · February 28, 1903 · Original text
An Act To authorize the building of a railroad bridge across the Tennessee River at a point between Lewis Bluff, in Morgan County, Alabama, and Guntersville, in Marshall County, Alabama.
Ch. 860 · 32 Stat. 921 · February 28, 1903 · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah J. Warren.
Ch. 861 · 32 Stat. 1672 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George J. Cheney.
Ch. 862 · 32 Stat. 1673 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. Cornman.
Ch. 863 · 32 Stat. 1673 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emma R. Cropsey.
Ch. 864 · 32 Stat. 1673 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph Twycross.
Ch. 865 · 32 Stat. 1673 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Charlotte J. Closser.
Ch. 866 · 32 Stat. 1674 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry Sickels.
Ch. 867 · 32 Stat. 1674 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ole Hexom, alias Ole H. Olson.
Ch. 868 · 32 Stat. 1674 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John W. Slack.
Ch. 869 · 32 Stat. 1674 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elijah A. Woodward.
Ch. 870 · 32 Stat. 1674 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William E. Fehrenback.
Ch. 871 · 32 Stat. 1675 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Julia A. Jordan.
Ch. 872 · 32 Stat. 1675 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nathaniel A. Winks.
Ch. 873 · 32 Stat. 1675 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Andrew Jackson.
Ch. 874 · 32 Stat. 1675 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John A. Barcus.
Ch. 875 · 32 Stat. 1676 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas G. Forrester.
Ch. 876 · 32 Stat. 1676 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Herbert Whitworth.
Ch. 877 · 32 Stat. 1676 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Robert P. McRae.
Ch. 878 · 32 Stat. 1676 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Allen B. Evans.
Ch. 879 · 32 Stat. 1676 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Catharine A. Russell.
Ch. 880 · 32 Stat. 1677 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Orange Sells.
Ch. 881 · 32 Stat. 1677 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Margaret J. McCranie.
Ch. 882 · 32 Stat. 1677 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry O. McClure.
Ch. 883 · 32 Stat. 1677 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry L. Davenport.
Ch. 884 · 32 Stat. 1678 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Ann M. Green.
Ch. 885 · 32 Stat. 1678 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Craig.
Ch. 886 · 32 Stat. 1678 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Barrett.
Ch. 887 · 32 Stat. 1678 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James G. Davis.
Ch. 888 · 32 Stat. 1678 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary Ann Sears.
Ch. 889 · 32 Stat. 1679 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William J. Chitwood.
Ch. 890 · 32 Stat. 1679 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Rebecca A. Glass.
Ch. 891 · 32 Stat. 1679 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eliza Little.
Ch. 892 · 32 Stat. 1679 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Orson Nickerson.
Ch. 893 · 32 Stat. 1680 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Barnes.
Ch. 894 · 32 Stat. 1680 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edward Straub.
Ch. 895 · 32 Stat. 1680 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hester A. R. Landers.
Ch. 896 · 32 Stat. 1680 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hattie Connell.
Ch. 897 · 32 Stat. 1680 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elvira C. Compton.
Ch. 898 · 32 Stat. 1681 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel L. Thompson.
Ch. 899 · 32 Stat. 1681 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Austin H. Patterson.
Ch. 900 · 32 Stat. 1681 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nannie Cushman.
Ch. 901 · 32 Stat. 1681 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Walter G. Tebbetts.
Ch. 902 · 32 Stat. 1682 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Patrick W. O’Donnell.
Ch. 903 · 32 Stat. 1682 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles C. Chesley.
Ch. 904 · 32 Stat. 1682 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Rachel E. Bullard.
Ch. 905 · 32 Stat. 1682 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Russell.
Ch. 906 · 32 Stat. 1682 · February 28, 1903 · Private law · 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.