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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.
7,020 laws of the 59th Congress, 1905–1907
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William J. Riley.
Ch. 1290 · 34 Stat. 1701 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac Deems.
Ch. 1291 · 34 Stat. 1701 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Hamilton.
Ch. 1292 · 34 Stat. 1701 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mary Edna Cammeron.
Ch. 1293 · 34 Stat. 1702 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Martha J. Wilson.
Ch. 1294 · 34 Stat. 1702 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John P. Vance.
Ch. 1295 · 34 Stat. 1702 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph Pollard.
Ch. 1296 · 34 Stat. 1702 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Allen E. Williams.
Ch. 1297 · 34 Stat. 1702 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Rosa Zurrin.
Ch. 1298 · 34 Stat. 1703 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William E. Fritts.
Ch. 1299 · 34 Stat. 1703 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William H. Joslyn.
Ch. 1300 · 34 Stat. 1703 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Barnes B. Smith.
Ch. 1301 · 34 Stat. 1703 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Chandler, alias Thomas Cooper.
Ch. 1302 · 34 Stat. 1704 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac M. Woodworth.
Ch. 1303 · 34 Stat. 1704 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Reed.
Ch. 1304 · 34 Stat. 1704 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Victoria Bishop.
Ch. 1305 · 34 Stat. 1704 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lizzie Belk.
Ch. 1306 · 34 Stat. 1704 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Marquis D. L. Staley.
Ch. 1307 · 34 Stat. 1705 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Clinton A. Chapman.
Ch. 1308 · 34 Stat. 1705 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to William C. Robison.
Ch. 1309 · 34 Stat. 1705 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Matt Fitzpatrick.
Ch. 1310 · 34 Stat. 1705 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Byard H. Church.
Ch. 1311 · 34 Stat. 1706 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Culver.
Ch. 1312 · 34 Stat. 1706 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James D. Billingsley.
Ch. 1313 · 34 Stat. 1706 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Robert M. Young.
Ch. 1314 · 34 Stat. 1706 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Solomon R. Trueblood.
Ch. 1315 · 34 Stat. 1706 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Calvin D. Weatherman.
Ch. 1316 · 34 Stat. 1707 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary M. Stark.
Ch. 1317 · 34 Stat. 1707 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Reuben I. Turckheim, alias Joseph Adler.
Ch. 1318 · 34 Stat. 1707 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Verelle S. Willard.
Ch. 1319 · 34 Stat. 1707 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph C. Grissom.
Ch. 1320 · 34 Stat. 1708 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George T. Hill.
Ch. 1321 · 34 Stat. 1708 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Foltz.
Ch. 1322 · 34 Stat. 1708 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Tillman T. Herridge.
Ch. 1323 · 34 Stat. 1708 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to J. Frederick Edgell.
Ch. 1324 · 34 Stat. 1708 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Hutchinson.
Ch. 1325 · 34 Stat. 1709 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John H. Crane.
Ch. 1326 · 34 Stat. 1709 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to James S. Randall.
Ch. 1327 · 34 Stat. 1709 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jeremiah Kincaid.
Ch. 1328 · 34 Stat. 1709 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Sarah Duffield.
Ch. 1329 · 34 Stat. 1710 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel T. Ferrier.
Ch. 1330 · 34 Stat. 1710 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Frederick Bierley.
Ch. 1331 · 34 Stat. 1710 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Lyman Critchfield, junior.
Ch. 1332 · 34 Stat. 1710 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Maggie D. Russ.
Ch. 1333 · 34 Stat. 1710 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Cynthia A. Embry.
Ch. 1334 · 34 Stat. 1711 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Martin Nolan.
Ch. 1335 · 34 Stat. 1711 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Evans.
Ch. 1336 · 34 Stat. 1711 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Lydia B. Bevan.
Ch. 1337 · 34 Stat. 1711 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nancy F. Shelton.
Ch. 1338 · 34 Stat. 1712 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to John Reynolds.
Ch. 1339 · 34 Stat. 1712 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Clough.
Ch. 1340 · 34 Stat. 1712 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Davis W. Hatch.
Ch. 1341 · 34 Stat. 1712 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John R. Stalcup.
Ch. 1342 · 34 Stat. 1712 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Gottlieb Spitzer, alias Gottfried Bruner.
Ch. 1343 · 34 Stat. 1713 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William H. Morrow.
Ch. 1344 · 34 Stat. 1713 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hannah A. Preston.
Ch. 1345 · 34 Stat. 1713 · March 26, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of the county of Custer, State of Montana.
Ch. 1346 · 34 Stat. 88 · March 27, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reclassify the public lands of Alabama.
Ch. 1347 · 34 Stat. 88 · March 27, 1906 · Original text
An Act Leasing and demising certain lands in La Plata County, Colorado, to the P. F. U. Rubber Company.
Ch. 1348 · 34 Stat. 88 · March 27, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Madison Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Saint Francis River in Saint Francis County, Arkansas, at or near the town of Madison, in said county and State.
Ch. 1349 · 34 Stat. 90 · March 28, 1906 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the sale of timber on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation for the benefit of the Indians belonging thereto.
Ch. 1350 · 34 Stat. 91 · March 28, 1906 · Original text
Joint Resolution Extending the time for opening to public entry the unallotted lands on the ceded portion of the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.
Public Resolution 12 · 34 Stat. 825 · March 28, 1906 · Original text
An Act To consolidate the city of South McAlester and the town of McAlester, in the Indian Territory.
Ch. 1351 · 34 Stat. 91 · March 29, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate The Eastern Star Home for the District of Columbia,” approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and two.
Ch. 1352 · 34 Stat. 92 · March 30, 1906 · Original text
Joint Resolution To correct abuses in the public printing and to provide for the allotment of cost of certain documents and reports.
Public Resolution 13 · 34 Stat. 825 · March 30, 1906 · Original text
Joint Resolution To prevent unnecessary printing and binding and to correct evils in the present method of distribution of public documents.
Public Resolution 14 · 34 Stat. 826 · March 30, 1906 · Original text
An Act Granting permission to Professor Simon Newcomb, United States Navy, retired, to accept the decoration of the order “Pour le Mérite, für Wissenschaften und Kunste.”
Ch. 1353 · 34 Stat. 1713 · March 30, 1906 · Private law · Original text
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. 1354 · 34 Stat. 92 · March 31, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act permitting the Washington Market Company to lay a conduit and pipes across Seventh street west,” approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and five.
Ch. 1355 · 34 Stat. 93 · March 31, 1906 · Original text
An Act Regulating the retent on contracts with the District of Columbia.
Ch. 1356 · 34 Stat. 94 · March 31, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend section two of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment of a sealer and assistant sealer of weights and measures in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.”
Ch. 1357 · 34 Stat. 94 · March 31, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment of a sealer and assistant sealer of weights and measures in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
Ch. 1358 · 34 Stat. 94 · March 31, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An Act to amend section four of an Act entitled ‘An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,’ approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one.”
Ch. 1359 · 34 Stat. 95 · March 31, 1906 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Major George E. Pickett, paymaster, United States Army.
Ch. 1360 · 34 Stat. 1714 · March 31, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River between Walworth and Dewey counties, in the State of South Dakota.
Ch. 1361 · 34 Stat. 95 · April 2, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge or bridges across the Yellowstone River in Montana.
Ch. 1362 · 34 Stat. 97 · April 2, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Snake River, at or near Lewiston, Idaho.
Ch. 1363 · 34 Stat. 98 · April 2, 1906 · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Stephen D. Hopkins.
Ch. 1364 · 34 Stat. 1714 · April 2, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue duplicate gold certificate, in lieu of one lost, to Lincoln National Bank, of Lincoln, Illinois.
Ch. 1365 · 34 Stat. 1714 · April 3, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act To provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States.
Ch. 1366 · 34 Stat. 99 · April 5, 1906 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the Choctawhatchee Power Company to erect a dam in Dale County, Alabama.
Ch. 1367 · 34 Stat. 102 · April 5, 1906 · Original text
An Act Permitting the building of a dam across the Saint Joseph River near the village of Berrien Springs, Berrien County, Michigan.
Ch. 1368 · 34 Stat. 102 · April 5, 1906 · Original text
An Act To provide for the construction of a bridge across Rainy River, in the State of Minnesota.
Ch. 1369 · 34 Stat. 103 · April 6, 1906 · Original text
An Act Granting authority to the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to dismiss midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy and regulating the procedure and punishment in trials for hazing at the said academy.
Ch. 1370 · 34 Stat. 104 · April 9, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, to receive four three-and-six-tenths-inch breech-loading field guns, carriages, caissons, limbers, and their pertaining equipment from the State of Connecticut.
Ch. 1371 · 34 Stat. 105 · April 9, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, inspectors of hulls and boilers of steam vessels.
Ch. 1372 · 34 Stat. 106 · April 9, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Snake River between Whitman and Columbia counties, in the State of Washington.
Ch. 1373 · 34 Stat. 107 · April 9, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River between Franklin and Benton counties, in the State of Washington.
Ch. 1374 · 34 Stat. 108 · April 9, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River between Douglas and Kittitas counties, in the State of Washington.
Ch. 1375 · 34 Stat. 109 · April 9, 1906 · Original text
An Act For the relief of the French Trans-Atlantic Cable Company.
Ch. 1376 · 34 Stat. 1714 · April 9, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Aaron Everly.
Ch. 1377 · 34 Stat. 1715 · April 10, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Josephine Rogers.
Ch. 1378 · 34 Stat. 1715 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Christopher C. Harlan.
Ch. 1379 · 34 Stat. 1715 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sumner F. Hunnewell.
Ch. 1380 · 34 Stat. 1715 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William H. Nortrip.
Ch. 1381 · 34 Stat. 1716 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Friend.
Ch. 1382 · 34 Stat. 1716 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John G. Wallace.
Ch. 1383 · 34 Stat. 1716 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Katherine F. Wainwright.
Ch. 1384 · 34 Stat. 1716 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Morris B. Drake.
Ch. 1385 · 34 Stat. 1716 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry A. Wheeler.
Ch. 1386 · 34 Stat. 1717 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
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- 114th 2015 · 329
- 113th 2013 · 296
- 112th 2011 · 284
- 111th 2009 · 385
- 110th 2007 · 460
- 109th 2005 · 483
- 108th 2003 · 504
- 107th 2001 · 337
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- 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.