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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 Thomas S. Menefee.
Ch. 1587 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eliza L. Norwood.
Ch. 1588 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edwin L. Higgins.
Ch. 1589 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah J. Merrill.
Ch. 1590 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to James P. Himes.
Ch. 1591 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ambrose R. Fisher.
Ch. 1592 · 34 Stat. 1763 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sophronia Lofton.
Ch. 1593 · 34 Stat. 1763 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry Gilham.
Ch. 1594 · 34 Stat. 1763 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Anna H. Wagner.
Ch. 1595 · 34 Stat. 1763 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel R. Dummer.
Ch. 1596 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William F. Burks.
Ch. 1597 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John L. Decker.
Ch. 1598 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Orlando W. Frazier.
Ch. 1599 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William W. Howell.
Ch. 1600 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ruth J. McCann.
Ch. 1601 · 34 Stat. 1765 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nathaniel H. Rone.
Ch. 1602 · 34 Stat. 1765 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samantha E. Herald.
Ch. 1603 · 34 Stat. 1765 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Rattray.
Ch. 1604 · 34 Stat. 1765 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eliza A. Bunker.
Ch. 1605 · 34 Stat. 1766 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James H. Posey.
Ch. 1606 · 34 Stat. 1766 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Grizzle.
Ch. 1607 · 34 Stat. 1766 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William S. Nagle.
Ch. 1608 · 34 Stat. 1766 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James B. Cox.
Ch. 1609 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Sparrow.
Ch. 1610 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John T. Cook.
Ch. 1611 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac N. Seal.
Ch. 1612 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Wesley Smith.
Ch. 1613 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Rhoda Kennedy.
Ch. 1614 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mary Palmer.
Ch. 1615 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Lydia A. Keller.
Ch. 1616 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize the Capital City Improvement Company, of Helena, Montana, to construct a dam across the Missouri River.
Ch. 1617 · 34 Stat. 111 · April 12, 1906 · Original text
An Act Granting relief to the estate of James Staley, deceased.
Ch. 1618 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 12, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act To amend and reenact section one of chapter seventy-seven of volume twenty-seven of the United States Statutes at Large, being “An Act to provide for a term of the United States circuit and district courts at Evanston, Wyoming,” approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.
Ch. 1619 · 34 Stat. 111 · April 13, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Tyronza Central Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Little River, in the State of Arkansas.
Ch. 1620 · 34 Stat. 112 · April 13, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the counties of Holmes and Washington to construct a bridge across Yazoo River, Mississippi.
Ch. 1621 · 34 Stat. 112 · April 13, 1906 · Original text
An Act To correct a typographical error in Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act to vest in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia control of street parking in said District.”
Ch. 1622 · 34 Stat. 112 · April 14, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend the provision in an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, imposing a charge for tuition on nonresident pupils in the public schools of the District of Columbia.
Ch. 1623 · 34 Stat. 113 · April 14, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend section nine hundred and twenty-seven of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, relating to insane criminals.
Ch. 1624 · 34 Stat. 113 · April 14, 1906 · Original text
An Act To fix the regular terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the southern division of the northern district of Alabama, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1625 · 34 Stat. 114 · April 14, 1906 · Original text
An Act To provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1626 · 34 Stat. 114 · April 14, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend the seventh section of the Act entitled “An Act to establish circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the several Acts amendatory thereto.
Ch. 1627 · 34 Stat. 116 · April 14, 1906 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Jacob Pickens.
Ch. 1628 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 14, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. Lindsey.
Ch. 1629 · 34 Stat. 1769 · April 14, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James D. Hudson.
Ch. 1630 · 34 Stat. 1769 · April 14, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Providing for the withdrawal from public entry of lands needed for town-site purposes in connection with irrigation projects under the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1631 · 34 Stat. 116 · April 16, 1906 · Original text
An Act To incorporate the Great Council of the United States of the Improved Order of Red Men.
Ch. 1632 · 34 Stat. 117 · April 16, 1906 · Original text
An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1633 · 34 Stat. 118 · April 16, 1906 · Original text
An Act For the relief of certain settlers upon land within the indemnity limits of the present Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company.
Ch. 1634 · 34 Stat. 120 · April 17, 1906 · Original text
An Act To approve certain final proofs in the Chamberlain land district, South Dakota.
Ch. 1635 · 34 Stat. 121 · April 17, 1906 · Original text
An Act To create a new division of the southern judicial district of Texas, and to provide terms of court at Victoria, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1636 · 34 Stat. 121 · April 18, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the maintaining and operating for toll an existing structure across Tugaloo River, known as Knox’s bridge, at a point where said river is the boundary between the States of South Carolina and Georgia.
Ch. 1637 · 34 Stat. 122 · April 18, 1906 · Original text
An Act To reimburse Captain Sydney Layland for sums paid by him while master of the United States transport Mobile in July and August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Ch. 1638 · 34 Stat. 1769 · April 18, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Little Missouri River congregation to certain lands for cemetery purposes.
Ch. 1639 · 34 Stat. 122 · April 19, 1906 · Original text
An Act Providing for the establishment of a life-saving station at or near Neah Bay, in the State of Washington, and for the construction of a first-class ocean-going tug to be used in connection therewith, for life-saving purposes in the vicinity of the north Pacific coast of the United States, and so forth.
Ch. 1640 · 34 Stat. 123 · April 19, 1906 · Original text
Joint Resolution For the relief of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific Coast.
Public Resolution 16 · 34 Stat. 827 · April 19, 1906 · Original text
An Act To provide for the establishment of a public crematorium in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1641 · 34 Stat. 123 · April 20, 1906 · Original text
An Act For the relief of F. H. Driscoll.
Ch. 1642 · 34 Stat. 1769 · April 20, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of John T. Irion.
Ch. 1643 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 20, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of John H. Tharp, of Eversonville, Missouri.
Ch. 1644 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 20, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Trice.
Ch. 1919 · 34 Stat. 1827 · April 20, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize the sale of a portion of the Lower Brule Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1645 · 34 Stat. 124 · April 21, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend section nine of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.
Ch. 1646 · 34 Stat. 126 · April 21, 1906 · Original text
An Act Increasing the penalty for certain offenses in the District of Columbia.
Ch. 1647 · 34 Stat. 126 · April 21, 1906 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create the southern division of the southern district of Iowa for judicial purposes, and to fix the time and place for holding court therein,” approved June first, nineteen hundred, and all Acts amendatory thereof.
Ch. 1648 · 34 Stat. 127 · April 21, 1906 · Original text
Joint Resolution Construing the joint resolution approved April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “Joint Resolution for the relief of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific Coast.”
Public Resolution 17 · 34 Stat. 827 · April 21, 1906 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Zenas Parker.
Ch. 1649 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry Rittenhouse.
Ch. 1650 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William V. Van Ostern.
Ch. 1651 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of James W. Jones.
Ch. 1652 · 34 Stat. 1771 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Joseph Crow.
Ch. 1653 · 34 Stat. 1771 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Carrie A. Conley.
Ch. 1654 · 34 Stat. 1771 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Edward F. Stable.
Ch. 1655 · 34 Stat. 1771 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Wilson.
Ch. 1656 · 34 Stat. 1772 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alice B. Hartshorne.
Ch. 1657 · 34 Stat. 1772 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to Keystone Camp, Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-nine, of the Modern Woodmen of America, to certain lands for cemetery purposes.
Ch. 1658 · 34 Stat. 128 · April 23, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in the borough of West Brownsville, Washington County.
Ch. 1659 · 34 Stat. 128 · April 23, 1906 · Original text
An Act To authorize the North Mississippi Traction Company to construct dams and power stations on the Bear River on the northeast quarter of section thirty-one, township five, range eleven, in Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
Ch. 1660 · 34 Stat. 130 · April 23, 1906 · Original text
An Act Making an appropriation for the improvement of the mouth of the Columbia River.
Ch. 1661 · 34 Stat. 131 · April 23, 1906 · Original text
An Act Making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for bringing home remains of officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die abroad.
Ch. 1662 · 34 Stat. 132 · April 23, 1906 · Original text
Joint Resolution To fill a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
Public Resolution 18 · 34 Stat. 827 · April 23, 1906 · Original text
An Act For the relief of M. A. McCafferty.
Ch. 1663 · 34 Stat. 1772 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of the Methodist Church at New Haven, Kentucky.
Ch. 1664 · 34 Stat. 1772 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of C. R. Williams.
Ch. 1665 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Franklin G. Hawkins.
Ch. 1666 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Blyth.
Ch. 1667 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nathan Hinkle.
Ch. 1668 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel Britton.
Ch. 1669 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Burton.
Ch. 1670 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Abram H. Hicks.
Ch. 1671 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Playford Gregg.
Ch. 1672 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to H. Edward Goetz.
Ch. 1673 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William F. Limpus.
Ch. 1674 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Christian Peterson.
Ch. 1675 · 34 Stat. 1775 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Cora F. Mitchell.
Ch. 1676 · 34 Stat. 1775 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Parmer Stewart.
Ch. 1677 · 34 Stat. 1775 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John N. Moore.
Ch. 1679 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Broad.
Ch. 1680 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edwin A. Botsford.
Ch. 1681 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jonathan E. Floyd.
Ch. 1682 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas G. McLaughlin.
Ch. 1683 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · 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.