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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.

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7,020 laws of the 59th Congress, 1905–1907

  1. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas S. Menefee.

    Ch. 1587 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  2. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eliza L. Norwood.

    Ch. 1588 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  3. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edwin L. Higgins.

    Ch. 1589 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  4. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah J. Merrill.

    Ch. 1590 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  5. An Act Granting a pension to James P. Himes.

    Ch. 1591 · 34 Stat. 1762 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  6. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ambrose R. Fisher.

    Ch. 1592 · 34 Stat. 1763 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  7. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sophronia Lofton.

    Ch. 1593 · 34 Stat. 1763 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  8. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry Gilham.

    Ch. 1594 · 34 Stat. 1763 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  9. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Anna H. Wagner.

    Ch. 1595 · 34 Stat. 1763 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  10. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel R. Dummer.

    Ch. 1596 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  11. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William F. Burks.

    Ch. 1597 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  12. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John L. Decker.

    Ch. 1598 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  13. An Act Granting a pension to Orlando W. Frazier.

    Ch. 1599 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  14. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William W. Howell.

    Ch. 1600 · 34 Stat. 1764 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  15. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ruth J. McCann.

    Ch. 1601 · 34 Stat. 1765 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  16. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nathaniel H. Rone.

    Ch. 1602 · 34 Stat. 1765 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  17. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samantha E. Herald.

    Ch. 1603 · 34 Stat. 1765 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  18. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Rattray.

    Ch. 1604 · 34 Stat. 1765 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  19. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eliza A. Bunker.

    Ch. 1605 · 34 Stat. 1766 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  20. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James H. Posey.

    Ch. 1606 · 34 Stat. 1766 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  21. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Grizzle.

    Ch. 1607 · 34 Stat. 1766 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  22. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William S. Nagle.

    Ch. 1608 · 34 Stat. 1766 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  23. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James B. Cox.

    Ch. 1609 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  24. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Sparrow.

    Ch. 1610 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  25. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John T. Cook.

    Ch. 1611 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  26. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac N. Seal.

    Ch. 1612 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  27. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Wesley Smith.

    Ch. 1613 · 34 Stat. 1767 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  28. An Act Granting a pension to Rhoda Kennedy.

    Ch. 1614 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  29. An Act Granting a pension to Mary Palmer.

    Ch. 1615 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  30. An Act Granting a pension to Lydia A. Keller.

    Ch. 1616 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 11, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  31. 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

  32. An Act Granting relief to the estate of James Staley, deceased.

    Ch. 1618 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 12, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. An Act For the relief of Jacob Pickens.

    Ch. 1628 · 34 Stat. 1768 · April 14, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  43. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas J. Lindsey.

    Ch. 1629 · 34 Stat. 1769 · April 14, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  44. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James D. Hudson.

    Ch. 1630 · 34 Stat. 1769 · April 14, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. An Act To approve certain final proofs in the Chamberlain land district, South Dakota.

    Ch. 1635 · 34 Stat. 121 · April 17, 1906 · Original text

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. 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

  53. 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

  54. 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

  55. 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

  56. 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

  57. An Act For the relief of F. H. Driscoll.

    Ch. 1642 · 34 Stat. 1769 · April 20, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  58. An Act For the relief of John T. Irion.

    Ch. 1643 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 20, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  59. An Act For the relief of John H. Tharp, of Eversonville, Missouri.

    Ch. 1644 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 20, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  60. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Trice.

    Ch. 1919 · 34 Stat. 1827 · April 20, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  61. 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

  62. 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

  63. An Act Increasing the penalty for certain offenses in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 1647 · 34 Stat. 126 · April 21, 1906 · Original text

  64. 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

  65. 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

  66. An Act For the relief of Zenas Parker.

    Ch. 1649 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  67. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry Rittenhouse.

    Ch. 1650 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  68. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William V. Van Ostern.

    Ch. 1651 · 34 Stat. 1770 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  69. An Act For the relief of James W. Jones.

    Ch. 1652 · 34 Stat. 1771 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  70. An Act For the relief of Joseph Crow.

    Ch. 1653 · 34 Stat. 1771 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  71. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Carrie A. Conley.

    Ch. 1654 · 34 Stat. 1771 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  72. An Act For the relief of Edward F. Stable.

    Ch. 1655 · 34 Stat. 1771 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  73. An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Wilson.

    Ch. 1656 · 34 Stat. 1772 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  74. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alice B. Hartshorne.

    Ch. 1657 · 34 Stat. 1772 · April 21, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  75. 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

  76. 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

  77. 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

  78. 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

  79. 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

  80. 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

  81. An Act For the relief of M. A. McCafferty.

    Ch. 1663 · 34 Stat. 1772 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  82. 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

  83. An Act For the relief of C. R. Williams.

    Ch. 1665 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  84. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Franklin G. Hawkins.

    Ch. 1666 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  85. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Blyth.

    Ch. 1667 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  86. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nathan Hinkle.

    Ch. 1668 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  87. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel Britton.

    Ch. 1669 · 34 Stat. 1773 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  88. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Burton.

    Ch. 1670 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  89. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Abram H. Hicks.

    Ch. 1671 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  90. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Playford Gregg.

    Ch. 1672 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  91. An Act Granting a pension to H. Edward Goetz.

    Ch. 1673 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  92. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William F. Limpus.

    Ch. 1674 · 34 Stat. 1774 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Christian Peterson.

    Ch. 1675 · 34 Stat. 1775 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  94. An Act Granting a pension to Cora F. Mitchell.

    Ch. 1676 · 34 Stat. 1775 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  95. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Parmer Stewart.

    Ch. 1677 · 34 Stat. 1775 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  96. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John N. Moore.

    Ch. 1679 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  97. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Broad.

    Ch. 1680 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  98. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edwin A. Botsford.

    Ch. 1681 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  99. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jonathan E. Floyd.

    Ch. 1682 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

  100. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas G. McLaughlin.

    Ch. 1683 · 34 Stat. 1776 · April 23, 1906 · Private law · Original text

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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.