Every law Congress has passed

621 laws of the 60th Congress, 1907–1909

1. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license to certain lands to Boise, Idaho.

   Ch. 28 · 35 Stat. 588 · January 21, 1909 · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of S. R. Green.

   Ch. 29 · 35 Stat. 1402 · January 21, 1909 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of John S. Higgins, paymaster, United States Navy.

   Ch. 30 · 35 Stat. 1402 · January 21, 1909 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To reimburse Anna B. Moore, late postmaster at Rhyolite, Nevada, for money expended for clerical assistance.

   Ch. 31 · 35 Stat. 1402 · January 21, 1909 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Theodore F. Northrop.

   Ch. 32 · 35 Stat. 1403 · January 21, 1909 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of James A. Russell.

   Ch. 33 · 35 Stat. 1403 · January 21, 1909 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Benjamin C. Welch.

   Ch. 34 · 35 Stat. 1403 · January 21, 1909 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of the Davison Chemical Company, of Baltimore, Maryland.

   Ch. 35 · 35 Stat. 1403 · January 21, 1909 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act To reimburse Ulysses G. Winn for money erroneously paid into the Treasury of the United States.

   Ch. 36 · 35 Stat. 1404 · January 22, 1909 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the exchange of certain lands situated in the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, State of Utah, for lands adjacent thereto, between the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Government of the United States.

    Ch. 37 · 35 Stat. 589 · January 23, 1909 · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of D. J. Holmes.

    Ch. 38 · 35 Stat. 1404 · January 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of the owners of the steam lighter Climax and the cargo laden aboard thereof.

    Ch. 39 · 35 Stat. 1404 · January 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of B. Jackman.

    Ch. 40 · 35 Stat. 1405 · January 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of J. de L. Lafitte.

    Ch. 41 · 35 Stat. 1405 · January 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Robert Davis.

    Ch. 42 · 35 Stat. 1405 · January 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the civil war, and to widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 43 · 35 Stat. 1406 · January 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Charles H. Dickson.

    Ch. 44 · 35 Stat. 1407 · January 25, 1909 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Walter W. Keefe.

    Ch. 45 · 35 Stat. 1408 · January 28, 1909 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of George J. Miller, of Wenatchee, Washington.

    Ch. 46 · 35 Stat. 1408 · January 28, 1909 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of the sureties on the official bond of the late Cornelius Van Cott.

    Ch. 47 · 35 Stat. 1408 · January 28, 1909 · Private law · Original text

21. 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. 48 · 35 Stat. 1408 · January 28, 1909 · Private law · Original text

22. 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. 49 · 35 Stat. 1424 · January 28, 1909 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the civil war, and to widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 50 · 35 Stat. 1431 · January 28, 1909 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act To establish two or more fish-cultural stations on Puget Sound.

    Ch. 51 · 35 Stat. 589 · January 29, 1909 · Original text

25. An Act To amend an Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to grant to the Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s Association use of certain property in the city of Washington, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

    Ch. 52 · 35 Stat. 590 · January 29, 1909 · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of the owners of the Mexican steamship Tabasqueno.

    Ch. 26 · 35 Stat. 1402 · January 29, 1909 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act To provide for refunding stamp taxes paid under the Act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, upon foreign bills of exchange drawn between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, against the value of products or merchandise actually exported to foreign countries and authorizing rebate of duties on anthracite coal imported into the United States from October sixth, nineteen hundred and two, to January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 53 · 35 Stat. 590 · February 1, 1909 · Original text

28. An Act To change and fix the time for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee.

    Ch. 54 · 35 Stat. 591 · February 1, 1909 · Original text

29. An Act Granting a franking privilege to Frances F. Cleveland and Mary Lord Harrison.

    Ch. 55 · 35 Stat. 591 · February 1, 1909 · Original text

30. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across Current River, in Missouri.

    Ch. 56 · 35 Stat. 592 · February 1, 1909 · Original text

31. An Act To provide for the payment of certain volunteers who rendered service to the Territory of Oregon in the Cayuse Indian war of eighteen hundred and forty-seven and eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

    Ch. 57 · 35 Stat. 1432 · February 1, 1909 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act To provide for a disbursing officer for the Government Hospital for the Insane.

    Ch. 58 · 35 Stat. 592 · February 2, 1909 · Original text

33. An Act To relieve George W. Black and J. R. Wilson from a certain judgment in favor of the United States and to relieve George W. Black, J. R. Wilson, and W. M. Newell of a certain judgment in favor of the United States.

    Ch. 59 · 35 Stat. 1432 · February 2, 1909 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act To amend an Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States.

    Ch. 60 · 35 Stat. 593 · February 3, 1909 · Original text

35. An Act To repeal section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for a union railroad station in the Districtof Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, and to provide for the location and erection of a substation on the parking at the corner formed by the intersection of the east side of Seventh street and the south side of C street southwest, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, and to provide for the approval of the same by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 61 · 35 Stat. 593 · February 3, 1909 · Original text

36. An Act To refund certain moneys paid into the Treasury of the United States through mistake by Augustus Bannigan.

    Ch. 62 · 35 Stat. 1433 · February 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of the estate of Mark S. Gorrill.

    Ch. 63 · 35 Stat. 1433 · February 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act To refund to the Territory of Hawaii the amount expended in maintaining light-house service on its coasts from the time of the organization of the Territory until said light-house service was taken over by the Federal Government.

    Ch. 64 · 35 Stat. 594 · February 4, 1909 · Original text

39. An Act To impose a tax upon alcoholic compounds coming from Porto Rico, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 65 · 35 Stat. 594 · February 4, 1909 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize t he Secretary of War to donate two condemned brass or bronze cannon or field pieces and cannon balls to the county court of Marshall County, West Virginia.

    Ch. 66 · 35 Stat. 594 · February 4, 1909 · Original text

41. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to donate one condemned bronze field piece and cannon balls to the county of Orange, State of New York.

    Ch. 67 · 35 Stat. 595 · February 4, 1909 · Original text

42. An Act To legalize a bridge across Indian River North, in the State of Florida.

    Ch. 68 · 35 Stat. 595 · February 4, 1909 · Original text

43. An Act To authorize the Lewis Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.

    Ch. 69 · 35 Stat. 595 · February 4, 1909 · Original text

44. An Act Granting to the Norfolk County Water Company the right to lay and maintain a water main through the military reservation on Willoughby Spit, Norfolk County, virginia.

    Ch. 70 · 35 Stat. 596 · February 4, 1909 · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Lawson M. Fuller, major, Ordnance Department United States Army.

    Ch. 71 · 35 Stat. 1434 · February 4, 1909 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act To correct the military record of Corwin M. Holt.

    Ch. 72 · 35 Stat. 1434 · February 4, 1909 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of George M. Voorhees.

    Ch. 73 · 35 Stat. 1434 · February 4, 1909 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To pay to the administratrix of the estate of George W. Fleming for services rendered as letter-box inspector from March twenty-ninth nineteen hundred and two, to June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and three.

    Ch. 74 · 35 Stat. 1434 · February 5, 1909 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act Authorizing the extension of New York avenue from its present terminus near Fourth street northeast, to the Bladensburg road.

    Ch. 75 · 35 Stat. 597 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

50. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell isolated tracts of land within the Nez l’erces Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 76 · 35 Stat. 597 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

51. An Act Authorizing the creation of a land district in the State of South Dakota, to be known as the Bellefourche land district.

    Ch. 77 · 35 Stat. 597 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

52. An Act Authorizing the sale of lands at the head of Cordova Bay, in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 78 · 35 Stat. 598 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

53. An Act To place John Crowley on the retired list of the United States Navy.

    Ch. 79 · 35 Stat. 600 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

54. An Act Relating to affairs in the Territories.

    Ch. 80 · 35 Stat. 600 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

55. An Act To authorize the Edgewater Connecting Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Kansas River at or near Kansas City, Kansas, in the county of Wyandotte, State of Kansas.

    Ch. 81 · 35 Stat. 612 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

56. An Act To provide for the deduction of hatchways and water-ballast space from the gross tonnage of vessels.

    Ch. 82 · 35 Stat. 613 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

57. An Act Extending the time for the construction by James A. Moore, or his assigns, of a canal along the government right of way connecting the waters of Puget Sound with Lake Washington.

    Ch. 83 · 35 Stat. 613 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

58. An Act To build a bridge across the Santee River, South Carolina.

    Ch. 84 · 35 Stat. 613 · February 6, 1909 · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Patrick Conlin.

    Ch. 85 · 35 Stat. 1435 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of L. H. Lewis.

    Ch. 86 · 35 Stat. 1435 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of A. A. Lewis.

    Ch. 87 · 35 Stat. 1435 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Frederick Daubert.

    Ch. 88 · 35 Stat. 1435 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act To correct the naval record of Lieutenant Hilary Williams, United States Navy.

    Ch. 89 · 35 Stat. 1436 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act To reimburse the Eastern Salt Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, for certain excess duty.

    Ch. 90 · 35 Stat. 1436 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of the estate of Charles Fitzgerald.

    Ch. 91 · 35 Stat. 1436 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act To pay John Wagner, of Campbell Hall, New York, for carrying the mails.

    Ch. 92 · 35 Stat. 1436 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act To correct the military record of George W. Hedrick.

    Ch. 93 · 35 Stat. 1437 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Robert S. Dame.

    Ch. 94 · 35 Stat. 1437 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Thomas J. Miller.

    Ch. 95 · 35 Stat. 1437 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act To compensate E. C. Sturges for property lost during the Spanish-American war.

    Ch. 96 · 35 Stat. 1437 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of W. H. Blurock.

    Ch. 97 · 35 Stat. 1438 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of Thomas J. Shocker.

    Ch. 98 · 35 Stat. 1438 · February 6, 1909 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of James R. Wyrick.

    Ch. 99 · 35 Stat. 1438 · February 8, 1909 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes.

    Ch. 100 · 35 Stat. 614 · February 9, 1909 · Original text

75. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 101 · 35 Stat. 614 · February 9, 1909 · Original text

76. An Act To amend section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one.

    Ch. 102 · 35 Stat. 617 · February 9, 1909 · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Chaplain Henry Swift, Thirteenth Infantry, United States Army.

    Ch. 103 · 35 Stat. 1438 · February 9, 1909 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of William H. Houck.

    Ch. 104 · 35 Stat. 1438 · February 9, 1909 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Lafayette L. McKnight.

    Ch. 105 · 35 Stat. 1439 · February 9, 1909 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To correct the military record of George H. Tracy.

    Ch. 106 · 35 Stat. 1439 · February 9, 1909 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish one condemned brass or bronze “Napoleon” gun, carriage, and cannon balls to the State of Iowa.

    Ch. 107 · 35 Stat. 618 · February 11, 1909 · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Captain George Van Orden, United States Marine Corps.

    Ch. 108 · 35 Stat. 1439 · February 11, 1909 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of O. Maury and Company, of Bordeaux, France.

    Ch. 109 · 35 Stat. 1440 · February 11, 1909 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of L. B. Wyatt.

    Ch. 110 · 35 Stat. 1440 · February 11, 1909 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act To refund certain excess duties paid upon importations of absinthe and kirschwasser from Switzerland between June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and December fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

    Ch. 111 · 35 Stat. 1440 · February 11, 1909 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act To create a new division in the middle judicial district of the State of Tennessee.

    Ch. 112 · 35 Stat. 618 · February 13, 1909 · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of the Chicago, Peoria and Saint Louis Railway Company of Illinois.

    Ch. 113 · 35 Stat. 1440 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To reimburse S. R. Green, postmaster of Oregon City, Oregon, for moneys lost by burglary.

    Ch. 114 · 35 Stat. 1441 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Richard A. Proctor.

    Ch. 115 · 35 Stat. 1441 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of J. M. Bloom.

    Ch. 116 · 35 Stat. 1441 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of the Columbus Gas and Fuel Company.

    Ch. 117 · 35 Stat. 1441 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Mandan, North Dakota.

    Ch. 118 · 35 Stat. 1442 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of the Logan Natural Gas and Fuel Company, of Columbus, Ohio.

    Ch. 119 · 35 Stat. 1442 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of William E. Moses.

    Ch. 120 · 35 Stat. 1442 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of John V. Vickers.

    Ch. 121 · 35 Stat. 1443 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Hastings Steamboat Company.

    Ch. 122 · 35 Stat. 1444 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of the Philadelphia Company, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 123 · 35 Stat. 1444 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Cadmus E. Crabill.

    Ch. 124 · 35 Stat. 1444 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Charles S. Blood.

    Ch. 125 · 35 Stat. 1445 · February 13, 1909 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of the Mille Lac band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 126 · 35 Stat. 619 · February 15, 1909 · Original text