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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 a pension to Sarah A. Carter.
Ch. 488 · 32 Stat. 1331 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mary Sweeney.
Ch. 489 · 32 Stat. 1331 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edward H. Armstrong.
Ch. 490 · 32 Stat. 1331 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frances Gurley Elderkin.
Ch. 491 · 32 Stat. 1332 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Frances Taft.
Ch. 492 · 32 Stat. 1332 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles W. Foster.
Ch. 493 · 32 Stat. 1332 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles C. Dudley.
Ch. 494 · 32 Stat. 1332 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John McDonald.
Ch. 495 · 32 Stat. 1332 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to John S. Nelson.
Ch. 496 · 32 Stat. 1333 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Augusta Turner.
Ch. 497 · 32 Stat. 1333 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Martha A. Greenleaf.
Ch. 498 · 32 Stat. 1333 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Myra W. Robinson.
Ch. 499 · 32 Stat. 1333 · April 11, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act To repeal war-revenue taxation, and for other purposes.
Ch. 500 · 32 Stat. 96 · April 12, 1902 · Original text
An Act To promote the efficiency of the Revenue-Cutter Service.
Ch. 501 · 32 Stat. 100 · April 12, 1902 · Original text
An Act To authorize the establishment of a life-saving station on Ocracoke Island, on the coast of North Carolina.
Ch. 502 · 32 Stat. 101 · April 12, 1902 · Original text
An Act To provide for the extension of the charters of national banks.
Ch. 503 · 32 Stat. 102 · April 12, 1902 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Parkville, Missouri.
Ch. 504 · 32 Stat. 102 · April 15, 1902 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a traffic bridge across the Savannah River from the mainland within the corporate limits of the city of Savannah to Hutchinsons Island, in the county of Chatham, State of Georgia.
Ch. 505 · 32 Stat. 104 · April 15, 1902 · Original text
An Act Confirming title to the State of Nebraska of certain selected indemnity school lands.
Ch. 506 · 32 Stat. 105 · April 15, 1902 · Original text
An Act For the relief of bona fide settlers in forest reserves.
Ch. 507 · 32 Stat. 106 · April 15, 1902 · Original text
An Act To establish and provide for a clerk for the circuit and district courts of the United States held at Wilmington, North Carolina.
Ch. 508 · 32 Stat. 106 · April 15, 1902 · Original text
Joint Resolution To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to issue certain temporary permits.
Public Resolution 14 · 32 Stat. 738 · April 15, 1902 · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John S. Raulett.
Ch. 509 · 32 Stat. 1334 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John E. White.
Ch. 510 · 32 Stat. 1334 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Horatio N. Warren.
Ch. 511 · 32 Stat. 1334 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Dewit C. McCoy.
Ch. 512 · 32 Stat. 1334 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Otillia M. Smoot.
Ch. 513 · 32 Stat. 1334 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edward S. Dickinson.
Ch. 514 · 32 Stat. 1335 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Dennis Dyer.
Ch. 515 · 32 Stat. 1335 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alfred H. Van Vliet.
Ch. 516 · 32 Stat. 1335 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Kelly.
Ch. 517 · 32 Stat. 1335 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Josephine M. Dustin.
Ch. 518 · 32 Stat. 1336 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Freeman R. E. Chanaberry.
Ch. 519 · 32 Stat. 1336 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Uriah Reams.
Ch. 520 · 32 Stat. 1336 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William B. Rowe.
Ch. 521 · 32 Stat. 1336 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Barbara McDonald.
Ch. 522 · 32 Stat. 1336 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to John W. Moore.
Ch. 523 · 32 Stat. 1337 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Sarah H. H. Lowe.
Ch. 525 · 32 Stat. 1337 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Eliza Stewart.
Ch. 526 · 32 Stat. 1337 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Charles F. Merrill.
Ch. 527 · 32 Stat. 1338 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Abraham N. Bradfield.
Ch. 528 · 32 Stat. 1338 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Hollister.
Ch. 529 · 32 Stat. 1338 · April 16, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Providing for an additional circuit judge in the second judicial circuit.
Ch. 530 · 32 Stat. 106 · April 17, 1902 · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Ida S. McKinley.
Ch. 531 · 32 Stat. 1338 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Christina Heitz.
Ch. 532 · 32 Stat. 1339 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry F. Benson.
Ch. 533 · 32 Stat. 1339 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thompson B. Moore.
Ch. 534 · 32 Stat. 1339 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Augustus E. Hodges.
Ch. 535 · 32 Stat. 1339 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edwin J. Godfrey.
Ch. 536 · 32 Stat. 1339 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas H. H. Gibbs.
Ch. 537 · 32 Stat. 1340 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Jacob Golden.
Ch. 538 · 32 Stat. 1340 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Margaret M. Boyd.
Ch. 539 · 32 Stat. 1340 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Young.
Ch. 540 · 32 Stat. 1340 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah E. Allen.
Ch. 541 · 32 Stat. 1341 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Theophile A. Dauphin.
Ch. 542 · 32 Stat. 1341 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Erastus C. Moderwell.
Ch. 543 · 32 Stat. 1341 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry E. De Marse.
Ch. 544 · 32 Stat. 1341 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Berry.
Ch. 545 · 32 Stat. 1341 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George R. Chaney.
Ch. 546 · 32 Stat. 1342 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nathan W. Snee.
Ch. 547 · 32 Stat. 1342 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Robert L. Ackridge.
Ch. 548 · 32 Stat. 1342 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lizzie B. Green.
Ch. 549 · 32 Stat. 1342 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Marion Barnes.
Ch. 550 · 32 Stat. 1343 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Evaline Wilson.
Ch. 551 · 32 Stat. 1343 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles S. Wilson.
Ch. 552 · 32 Stat. 1343 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Clara B. Townsend.
Ch. 553 · 32 Stat. 1343 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to John S. James.
Ch. 554 · 32 Stat. 1343 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frances E. Scott.
Ch. 555 · 32 Stat. 1344 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Stockings.
Ch. 556 · 32 Stat. 1344 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. Carlile.
Ch. 557 · 32 Stat. 1344 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Andrew B. Spurling.
Ch. 558 · 32 Stat. 1344 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Amelia A Russell.
Ch. 559 · 32 Stat. 1344 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Ruth Bartlett.
Ch. 560 · 32 Stat. 1345 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph Culbreath.
Ch. 561 · 32 Stat. 1345 · April 17, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act To construct a light-house keeper’s dwelling at Calumet Harbor.
Ch. 562 · 32 Stat. 107 · April 18, 1902 · Original text
An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three.
Ch. 563 · 32 Stat. 107 · April 21, 1902 · Original text
Joint Resolution Granting permission for the erection of a monument in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the ornamentation of the public grounds in that city.
Public Resolution 15 · 32 Stat. 739 · April 21, 1902 · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William C. David.
Ch. 564 · 32 Stat. 1345 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jane K. Hill.
Ch. 565 · 32 Stat. 1345 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lavalette D. Dickey.
Ch. 566 · 32 Stat. 1346 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Ambrook.
Ch. 567 · 32 Stat. 1346 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George H. Smith.
Ch. 568 · 32 Stat. 1346 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Steele.
Ch. 569 · 32 Stat. 1346 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles B. Wingfield.
Ch. 570 · 32 Stat. 1346 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Wheeler.
Ch. 571 · 32 Stat. 1347 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Hoag.
Ch. 572 · 32 Stat. 1347 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Peter Bittman.
Ch. 573 · 32 Stat. 1347 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emma Sophia Harper Cilley.
Ch. 574 · 32 Stat. 1347 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Susan Hays.
Ch. 575 · 32 Stat. 1348 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Anne Harris.
Ch. 576 · 32 Stat. 1348 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Peterson.
Ch. 577 · 32 Stat. 1348 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Allen.
Ch. 578 · 32 Stat. 1348 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. H. Luce.
Ch. 579 · 32 Stat. 1348 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Susan E. Clark.
Ch. 580 · 32 Stat. 1349 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Annie E. Brown.
Ch. 581 · 32 Stat. 1349 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Otto H. Hasselman.
Ch. 582 · 32 Stat. 1349 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Albertine Schoenecker.
Ch. 583 · 32 Stat. 1349 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Pheobe L. Peyton.
Ch. 584 · 32 Stat. 1350 · April 21, 1902 · Private law · Original text
An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes.
Ch. 585 · 32 Stat. 118 · April 22, 1902 · Original text
An Act Granting to the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Company the right to use for railroad purposes the tract of land at Choctaw Point, Mobile County, Alabama, and now held for light-house purposes.
Ch. 586 · 32 Stat. 119 · April 23, 1902 · Original text
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- 96th 1979 · 736
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- 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
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- 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.