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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.
4,043 laws of the 58th Congress, 1903–1905
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Julia C. Vanzant.
Ch. 1180 · 33 Stat. 1535 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Varnes.
Ch. 1181 · 33 Stat. 1535 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John T. Rader.
Ch. 1182 · 33 Stat. 1536 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Horatio P. Abbott.
Ch. 1183 · 33 Stat. 1536 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel Baily.
Ch. 1184 · 33 Stat. 1536 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William M. Tanner.
Ch. 1185 · 33 Stat. 1536 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John A. Brown.
Ch. 1186 · 33 Stat. 1536 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Adrian Terry.
Ch. 1187 · 33 Stat. 1537 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Juliette Nunez.
Ch. 1188 · 33 Stat. 1537 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jesse Maurer.
Ch. 1189 · 33 Stat. 1537 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas McCormick.
Ch. 1190 · 33 Stat. 1537 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Cornelia A. Thompson.
Ch. 1191 · 33 Stat. 1538 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel Taylor.
Ch. 1192 · 33 Stat. 1538 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William C. Griffin.
Ch. 1193 · 33 Stat. 1538 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to John Waarsteson.
Ch. 1194 · 33 Stat. 1538 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emma J. Smith.
Ch. 1195 · 33 Stat. 1538 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles W. Chargo.
Ch. 1196 · 33 Stat. 1539 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Edick.
Ch. 1197 · 33 Stat. 1539 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Agnes Hannon.
Ch. 1198 · 33 Stat. 1539 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Cornelia K. Smith.
Ch. 1199 · 33 Stat. 1539 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Robert S. Rose.
Ch. 1200 · 33 Stat. 1540 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to William E. Coffin.
Ch. 1201 · 33 Stat. 1540 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Susan R. Choat.
Ch. 1202 · 33 Stat. 1540 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Olive Bassett.
Ch. 1203 · 33 Stat. 1540 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Sarah A. McCann.
Ch. 1204 · 33 Stat. 1540 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Leonard M. Johnson.
Ch. 1205 · 33 Stat. 1541 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles N. Burns.
Ch. 1206 · 33 Stat. 1541 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Robert Leach.
Ch. 1207 · 33 Stat. 1541 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to James H. E. Guest.
Ch. 1208 · 33 Stat. 1541 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Celia M. Viven.
Ch. 1209 · 33 Stat. 1541 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alice A. Siverd.
Ch. 1210 · 33 Stat. 1542 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Davison.
Ch. 1211 · 33 Stat. 1542 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James M. Hildreth.
Ch. 1212 · 33 Stat. 1542 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Philip Loney.
Ch. 1213 · 33 Stat. 1542 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Reuben Nightingale.
Ch. 1214 · 33 Stat. 1542 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Rebecca Simpson.
Ch. 1215 · 33 Stat. 1543 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Fanny Tracy.
Ch. 1216 · 33 Stat. 1543 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Berkley.
Ch. 1217 · 33 Stat. 1543 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry N. McLane.
Ch. 1218 · 33 Stat. 1543 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frederick K. Bryan.
Ch. 1219 · 33 Stat. 1544 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George Sluyter.
Ch. 1220 · 33 Stat. 1544 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George F. Major.
Ch. 1221 · 33 Stat. 1544 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Cynthia A. Conant.
Ch. 1222 · 33 Stat. 1544 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Katherine M. Laurence.
Ch. 1223 · 33 Stat. 1545 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James H. Allen.
Ch. 1224 · 33 Stat. 1545 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Conrad Dirschner.
Ch. 1225 · 33 Stat. 1545 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth De Baugh.
Ch. 1226 · 33 Stat. 1545 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Cline Morris.
Ch. 1227 · 33 Stat. 1545 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Eliza Woolard.
Ch. 1228 · 33 Stat. 1546 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary Dougherty.
Ch. 1229 · 33 Stat. 1546 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Robert Conn.
Ch. 1230 · 33 Stat. 1546 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to August Graf.
Ch. 1231 · 33 Stat. 1546 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mary McGill.
Ch. 1232 · 33 Stat. 1547 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Reuben Griffith Porter.
Ch. 1233 · 33 Stat. 1547 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Esther J. Reynolds.
Ch. 1234 · 33 Stat. 1547 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lavalie C. O’Barr.
Ch. 1235 · 33 Stat. 1547 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Milton Graham.
Ch. 1236 · 33 Stat. 1547 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to George Preston Reeves.
Ch. 1237 · 33 Stat. 1548 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Peter Scott.
Ch. 1238 · 33 Stat. 1548 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Juliett Field.
Ch. 1239 · 33 Stat. 1548 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jane Allen.
Ch. 1240 · 33 Stat. 1548 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Henry C. Nash.
Ch. 1241 · 33 Stat. 1548 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Andrew P. McConkey.
Ch. 1242 · 33 Stat. 1549 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel Reed.
Ch. 1243 · 33 Stat. 1549 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Esther J. Lee.
Ch. 1244 · 33 Stat. 1549 · April 11, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Making Vinalhaven, Maine, a subport of entry.
Ch. 1245 · 33 Stat. 171 · April 12, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the establishment of Dayton, Ohio, as a port of delivery.
Ch. 1246 · 33 Stat. 171 · April 12, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Norfolk and Western Railway Company to bridge the Tug Fork of Big Sandy River at certain points where the same forms the boundary line between the States of West Virginia and Kentucky or the boundary line between the States of West Virginia and Virginia.
Ch. 1247 · 33 Stat. 171 · April 12, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Vulcan Coal Company, of Vulcan, West Virginia, to bridge the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at Vulcan, Mingo County, West Virginia, where the same forms the boundary line between the States of West Virginia and Kentucky.
Ch. 1248 · 33 Stat. 172 · April 12, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act approved December sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant additional water rights to hotels and bath houses at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1249 · 33 Stat. 173 · April 12, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the abandonment of W street northeast, Washington, District of Columbia.
Ch. 1250 · 33 Stat. 174 · April 12, 1904 · Original text
An Act To regulate the issue of licenses for Turkish, Russian, or medicated baths in the District of Columbia.
Ch. 1251 · 33 Stat. 174 · April 12, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Amending the law relating to the printing of the Statutes.
Public Resolution 20 · 33 Stat. 587 · April 12, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution To enlarge the scope of an Act entitled “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
Public Resolution 21 · 33 Stat. 587 · April 12, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend section forty-six hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes, relating to soliciting seamen as lodgers.
Ch. 1252 · 33 Stat. 174 · April 13, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Government of the United States to participate in celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the exploration of the Oregon country by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the years eighteen hundred and four, eighteen hundred and five, and eighteen hundred and six, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1253 · 33 Stat. 175 · April 13, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Williamson Coal Company (Incorporated) to bridge the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River near Williamson, West Virginia, where the same forms the boundary line between the States of West Virginia and Kentucky.
Ch. 1254 · 33 Stat. 179 · April 13, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the board of commissioners of Vigo County, Indiana, to construct and maintain a wagon, foot, and trolley-car bridge across the Wabash River at the foot of Wabash avenue, in the city of Terre Haute, in said county and State.
Ch. 1255 · 33 Stat. 180 · April 13, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Providing for the extension of the time for the removal of the temporary dam and construction of locks in Bayou Lafourche, State of Louisiana.
Public Resolution 22 · 33 Stat. 588 · April 13, 1904 · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Rebecca C. Shurlock.
Ch. 1256 · 33 Stat. 1549 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William F. Thompson.
Ch. 1257 · 33 Stat. 1550 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Phillip Duttenhaver.
Ch. 1258 · 33 Stat. 1550 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Woodson R. Daniel.
Ch. 1259 · 33 Stat. 1550 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jacob P. Fishback.
Ch. 1260 · 33 Stat. 1550 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John W. Kling.
Ch. 1261 · 33 Stat. 1550 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lora Milliken.
Ch. 1262 · 33 Stat. 1551 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Julia M. Oakley.
Ch. 1263 · 33 Stat. 1551 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hugh L. Freeman.
Ch. 1264 · 33 Stat. 1551 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Phillip Whyrich.
Ch. 1265 · 33 Stat. 1551 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Carrie K. Baker.
Ch. 1266 · 33 Stat. 1552 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nancy A. King.
Ch. 1267 · 33 Stat. 1552 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary Irene Rosenthal.
Ch. 1268 · 33 Stat. 1552 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alexander S. Bowen.
Ch. 1269 · 33 Stat. 1552 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Marcel Gagnon.
Ch. 1270 · 33 Stat. 1552 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alvin Gray.
Ch. 1271 · 33 Stat. 1553 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to David Walker.
Ch. 1272 · 33 Stat. 1553 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Williams.
Ch. 1273 · 33 Stat. 1553 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah C. Wilson.
Ch. 1274 · 33 Stat. 1553 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nelson Hart.
Ch. 1275 · 33 Stat. 1554 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Zachariah T. Bryant.
Ch. 1276 · 33 Stat. 1554 · April 13, 1904 · Private law · Original text
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- 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.