Every law Congress has passed

621 laws of the 60th Congress, 1907–1909

1. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war with Spain and other wars, and to the widows of such soldiers and sailors.

   Ch. 85 · 35 Stat. 1219 · March 13, 1908 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act To grant certain land, part of the Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, Nebraska, to the village of Valentine for a site for a reservoir or tank to hold water to supply the public of said village.

   Ch. 86 · 35 Stat. 43 · March 16, 1908 · Original text

3. An Act To provide additional station grounds and terminal facilities for the Arizona and California Railway Company in the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona Territory.

   Ch. 87 · 35 Stat. 43 · March 16, 1908 · Original text

4. An Act To make the provisions of an Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page seven hundred and ninety-six), applicable to the Territory of New Mexico.

   Ch. 88 · 35 Stat. 44 · March 16, 1908 · Original text

5. An Act To provide for the extension of time within which homestead entrymen may establish their residence upon certain lands within the limits of the Huntley irrigation project, in the county of Yellowstone, in the State of Montana.

   Ch. 89 · 35 Stat. 44 · March 16, 1908 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize the town of Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine to maintain a free bridge across tide waters.

   Ch. 90 · 35 Stat. 44 · March 16, 1908 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize T. H. Friel or assigns to construct a dam across Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.

   Ch. 91 · 35 Stat. 45 · March 16, 1908 · Original text

8. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of Pennsylvania by the Liberty Bridge Company,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven.

   Ch. 92 · 35 Stat. 45 · March 16, 1908 · Original text

9. An Act To establish a United States land district in the Territory of New Mexico to be known as the Tucumcari land district.

   Ch. 93 · 35 Stat. 45 · March 16, 1908 · Original text

10. An Act Allowing Chandler Bassett to perfect final proof in his homestead entry.

    Ch. 94 · 35 Stat. 1222 · March 16, 1908 · Private law · Original text

11. Granting authority for the use of certain balances of appropriations for the Light-House Establishment to be available for certain named purposes.

    Public Resolution 13 · March 23, 1908

12. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain widows and dependent children of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 95 · 35 Stat. 1222 · March 23, 1908 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act To carry into effect the international convention of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, relating to the exemption in time of war of hospital ships from dues and taxes on vessels.

    Ch. 96 · 35 Stat. 46 · March 24, 1908 · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of John P. Hunter.

    Ch. 97 · 35 Stat. 1226 · March 24, 1908 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of George S. Patten, of Williams, Coconino County, Arizona.

    Ch. 98 · 35 Stat. 1226 · March 24, 1908 · Private law · Original text

16. Authorizing the Secretary of War to establish harbor lines in Wilmington Harbor, California.

    Public Resolution 14 · March 26, 1908

17. An Act To increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Life-Saving Service of the United States.

    Ch. 99 · 35 Stat. 46 · March 26, 1908 · Original text

18. An Act Authorizing and empowering the Secretary of War to locate a right of way for and granting the same and a right to operate and maintain a line of railroad through the Three Tree Point Military Reservation, in the State of Washington, to the Grays Harbor and Columbia River Railway Company, its successors and assigns.

    Ch. 100 · 35 Stat. 47 · March 26, 1908 · Original text

19. An Act To validate certain entries of public lands in the State of Colorado.

    Ch. 101 · 35 Stat. 48 · March 26, 1908 · Original text

20. An Act To provide for the repayment of certain commissions, excess payments, and purchase moneys paid under the public laws.

    Ch. 102 · 35 Stat. 48 · March 26, 1908 · Original text

21. An Act Providing for second desert-land entries.

    Ch. 103 · 35 Stat. 48 · March 26, 1908 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a bridge over and across the Mobile River and its navigable channels on a line approximately east of the north boundary line of the city of Mobile, Alabama.

    Ch. 104 · 35 Stat. 49 · March 26, 1908 · Original text

23. An Act To provide for payment of the claims of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippine Islands.

    Ch. 105 · 35 Stat. 1227 · March 26, 1908 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Providing for the platting and selling of the south half of section thirty, township two north, range eleven west of the Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma, for town-site purposes.

    Ch. 106 · 35 Stat. 49 · March 27, 1908 · Original text

25. An Act Providing for the disposal of the interests of Indian minors in real estate in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington.

    Ch. 107 · 35 Stat. 49 · March 27, 1908 · Original text

26. An Act To amend section thirteen of an Act entitled “An Act to divide the State of Texas into four judicial districts,” approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and two.

    Ch. 108 · 35 Stat. 50 · March 27, 1908 · Original text

27. An Act Authorizing the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, of Saint Maries, Idaho, to purchase not to exceed forty acres of land in the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho.

    Ch. 109 · 35 Stat. 50 · March 27, 1908 · Original text

28. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the extension of Meridian place northwest,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven.

    Ch. 110 · 35 Stat. 51 · March 27, 1908 · Original text

29. Authorizing the Secretary of War to secure a suitable design for a statue of the late Commodore John D). Sloat at Monterey, California.

    Public Resolution 15 · March 28, 1908

30. An Act To authorize the cutting of timber, the manufacture and sale of lumber, and the preservation of the forests on the Menominee Indian Reservation in the State of Wisconsin.

    Ch. 111 · 35 Stat. 51 · March 28, 1908 · Original text

31. An Act Limiting and restricting the right of entry and assignment under the desert-land law and authorizing an extension of time within which to make final proof.

    Ch. 112 · 35 Stat. 52 · March 28, 1908 · Original text

32. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to donate to the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, Confederate Veterans of San Antonio, Texas, not to exceed fifty obsolete Springfield rifles, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same.

    Ch. 113 · 35 Stat. 53 · March 28, 1908 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent in fee simple for certain lands of the Santee Reservation, in Nebraska, to school district numbered thirty-six, in Knox County, Nebraska.

    Ch. 114 · 35 Stat. 53 · March 31, 1908 · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Henry Rustan.

    Ch. 115 · 35 Stat. 1227 · March 31, 1908 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of John V. Johnson.

    Ch. 116 · 35 Stat. 1227 · March 31, 1908 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To validate certain acts of the thirty-seventh legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.

    Ch. 117 · 35 Stat. 53 · April 1, 1908 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the county of Ashley, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Portland.

    Ch. 118 · 35 Stat. 54 · April 1, 1908 · Original text

38. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew at Parkdale, Ashley County, Arkansas.

    Ch. 119 · 35 Stat. 54 · April 1, 1908 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the county of Ashley in the State of Arkansas to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Wilmot.

    Ch. 120 · 35 Stat. 54 · April 1, 1908 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish four condemned brass cannon and cannon balls to the Confederate Monument Association, at Franklin, Tennessee.

    Ch. 121 · 35 Stat. 55 · April 2, 1908 · Original text

41. An Act Prescribing what shall constitute a legal cord of wood in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 122 · 35 Stat. 55 · April 2, 1908 · Original text

42. An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes, relating to the complement of crews of vessels, and for the better protection of life.

    Ch. 123 · 35 Stat. 55 · April 2, 1908 · Original text

43. An Act To amend section seventy-three of the Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 124 · 35 Stat. 56 · April 2, 1908 · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of George H. Penrose.

    Ch. 125 · 35 Stat. 1228 · April 2, 1908 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 126 · 35 Stat. 1228 · April 2, 1908 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Roman Scholter.

    Ch. 127 · 35 Stat. 1232 · April 2, 1908 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of A. E. Couch.

    Ch. 128 · 35 Stat. 1232 · April 2, 1908 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of J. Edmund Strong.

    Ch. 129 · 35 Stat. 1233 · April 2, 1908 · Private law · Original text

49. For the relief of Archibald G. Stirling, recently midshipman, United States Navy.

    Public Resolution 16 · April 3, 1908

50. An Act To authorize the counties of Allegheny and Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, to change the site of the joint county bridge which now crosses the Monongahela River. at Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, and to construct a new bridge across said river in the place of said present bridge upon a new site.

    Ch. 130 · 35 Stat. 56 · April 3, 1908 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the appointment of a deputy clerk at Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

    Ch. 131 · 35 Stat. 57 · April 3, 1908 · Original text

52. An Act To authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Cumberland River.

    Ch. 132 · 35 Stat. 57 · April 3, 1908 · Original text

53. An Act To authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River.

    Ch. 133 · 35 Stat. 58 · April 3, 1908 · Original text

54. An Act To place the name of William S. Shacklette on the retired list of the Navy as pharmacist.

    Ch. 134 · 35 Stat. 58 · April 3, 1908 · Original text

55. An Act To extend to Port Arthur, in the State of Texas, the privilege of immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.

    Ch. 135 · 35 Stat. 58 · April 6, 1908 · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Copiah County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 136 · 35 Stat. 1233 · April 6, 1908 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act Making appropriations to supply certain additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Ch. 137 · 35 Stat. 59 · April 7, 1908 · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of James Behan.

    Ch. 138 · 35 Stat. 1233 · April 7, 1908 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of the estate of D. S. Phelan.

    Ch. 139 · 35 Stat. 1233 · April 8, 1908 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act To correct the military record of Micaiah R. Evans.

    Ch. 140 · 35 Stat. 1234 · April 8, 1908 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish two condemned brass or bronze cannon and cannon balls to the city of Winchester, Virginia.

    Ch. 141 · 35 Stat. 60 · April 10, 1908 · Original text

62. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to make certain disposition of obsolete Springfield rifles, caliber forty-five, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same.

    Ch. 142 · 35 Stat. 60 · April 11, 1908 · Original text

63. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 143 · 35 Stat. 60 · April 13, 1908 · Original text

64. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 144 · 35 Stat. 1234 · April 13, 1908 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act To increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Revenue-Cutter Service.

    Ch. 145 · 35 Stat. 61 · April 16, 1908 · Original text

66. An Act For completing the pediment of the House wing of the Capitol.

    Ch. 146 · 35 Stat. 63 · April 16, 1908 · Original text

67. An Act To increase the pension of widows, minor children, and so forth, of deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, the war with Mexico, the various Indian wars, and so forth, and to grant a pension to certain widows of the deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war.

    Ch. 147 · 35 Stat. 64 · April 19, 1908 · Original text

68. An Act To regulate the establishment and maintenance of private hospitals and asylums in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 148 · 35 Stat. 64 · April 20, 1908 · Original text

69. An Act Relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases.

    Ch. 149 · 35 Stat. 65 · April 22, 1908 · Original text

70. An Act To increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army.

    Ch. 150 · 35 Stat. 66 · April 23, 1908 · Original text

71. An Act To provide for safety of life on navigable waters during regattas or marine parades.

    Ch. 151 · 35 Stat. 69 · April 28, 1908 · Original text

72. An Act To repeal an Act approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to regulate shipping in trade between ports of the United States and ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, between ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, and for other purposes,” and for other purposes.

    Ch. 152 · 35 Stat. 70 · April 29, 1908 · Original text

73. Providing for assistance to the people of the storm- swept States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

    Public Resolution 17 · April 30, 1908

74. Instructing the Attorney-General to institute certain suits, and so forth.

    Public Resolution 18 · April 30, 1908

75. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 153 · 35 Stat. 70 · April 30, 1908 · Original text

76. An Act To confer title in fee and to authorize the disposition of certain lots now situate on Hot Springs Reservation, in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 154 · 35 Stat. 98 · April 30, 1908 · Original text

77. An Act Granting to the city of Woodward, in the State of Oklahoma, lot two, in block forty-eight, for park and other public purposes.

    Ch. 155 · 35 Stat. 98 · April 30, 1908 · Original text

78. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war, and to certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 156 · 35 Stat. 1243 · April 30, 1908 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act To grant to the city of Seattle, in the State of Washington, certain rights of way for sewer and street purposes through and along the military reservation of Fort Lawton, Washington, and through the reservations for the Lake Washington Canal.

    Ch. 157 · 35 Stat. 99 · May 2, 1908 · Original text

80. An Act Authorizing the purchase of a steel ferryboat for use between Angel Island and San Francisco, California, and a steel cutter for use of immigration officials at San Francisco, California.

    Ch. 158 · 35 Stat. 100 · May 2, 1908 · Original text

81. Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for use at the national convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks to be held at Dallas, Texas, in July, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Public Resolution 19 · May 4, 1908

82. An Act To relinquish, release, and confirm the title of certain lands in California to the Western Power Company.

    Ch. 159 · 35 Stat. 100 · May 5, 1908 · Original text

83. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 160 · 35 Stat. 1261 · May 5, 1908 · Private law · Original text

84. For the relief of the sufferers from the cyclone which occurred in the States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana on April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Public Resolution 20 · May 11, 1908

85. Amending the Joint Resolution for the relief of storm sufferers in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Public Resolution 21 · May 11, 1908

86. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States,” approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 161 · 35 Stat. 101 · May 11, 1908 · Original text

87. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June seventh, nineteen hundred and two.

    Ch. 162 · 35 Stat. 102 · May 11, 1908 · H. R. 14789 · Original text

88. An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 163 · 35 Stat. 106 · May 11, 1908 · Original text

89. An Act To increase the membership of the Philippine Commission by one member, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 164 · 35 Stat. 125 · May 11, 1908 · Original text

90. Disapproving certain laws enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.

    Public Resolution 22 · May 13, 1908

91. Authorizing the widening of the channel of Michigan City Harbor.

    Public Resolution 23 · May 13, 1908

92. An Act To provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District.

    Ch. 165 · 35 Stat. 126 · May 13, 1908 · Original text

93. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 166 · 35 Stat. 127 · May 13, 1908 · Original text

94. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war, and to certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 167 · 35 Stat. 1270 · May 13, 1908 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 168 · 35 Stat. 160 · May 14, 1908 · Original text

96. An Act Granting a pension to James M. Fitch.

    Ch. 169 · 35 Stat. 1324 · May 15, 1908 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Ch. 170 · 35 Stat. 163 · May 16, 1908 · Original text

98. An Act To create the office of captain in the Philippine Scouts.

    Ch. 171 · 35 Stat. 163 · May 16, 1908 · Original text

99. An Act For the widening of Benning road, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 172 · 35 Stat. 163 · May 16, 1908 · Original text

100. An Act Providing tor the restoration of the motto “In God we trust” on certain denominations of the gold and silver coins of the United States.

     Ch. 173 · 35 Stat. 164 · May 18, 1908 · Original text