Every law Congress has passed

621 laws of the 60th Congress, 1907–1909

1. An Act To amend section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the resignation of judges of the courts of the United States.

   Ch. 127 · 35 Stat. 619 · February 15, 1909 · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Christina Rockwell.

   Ch. 128 · 35 Stat. 1445 · February 15, 1909 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the widening of Bladensburg road, and for other purposes,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven.

   Ch. 129 · 35 Stat. 620 · February 16, 1909 · Original text

4. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee.” approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, as amended by an Act approved February first, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee.’”

   Ch. 130 · 35 Stat. 620 · February 16, 1909 · Original text

5. An Act To promote the administration of justice in the Navy.

   Ch. 131 · 35 Stat. 621 · February 16, 1909 · Original text

6. An Act To amend section eight of the Act approved May twentyeighth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.”

   Ch. 132 · 35 Stat. 623 · February 16, 1909 · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Clark County, Kentucky.

   Ch. 133 · 35 Stat. 1445 · February 16, 1909 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act To change the name and jurisdiction of the inferior court of justice of the peace in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 134 · 35 Stat. 623 · February 17, 1909 · Original text

9. An Act To amend section nineteen of the Act granting the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Company rights to construct, equip, maintain, and operate a canal or canals and appurtenant works between the Ohio River in the State of Pennsylvania and Lake Erie in the State of Ohio, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.

   Ch. 135 · 35 Stat. 625 · February 17, 1909 · Original text

10. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to donate two condemned brass or bronze cannon or Held pieces and cannon balls to the city of Henderson, Kentucky.

    Ch. 136 · 35 Stat. 625 · February 17, 1909 · Original text

11. An Act In relation to the salary of the Secretary of State.

    Ch. 137 · 35 Stat. 626 · February 17, 1909 · Original text

12. An Act Authorizing sales of land within the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation to the Northern Idaho Insane Asylum and to the University of Idaho.

    Ch. 138 · 35 Stat. 626 · February 17, 1909 · Original text

13. An Act To provide for the payment of John M. McDowell for services rendered in preparing a new set of indices of all the records of Council City recording district of the second judicial district of Alaska.

    Ch. 139 · 35 Stat. 1445 · February 17, 1909 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act Granting a pension to Charles H. Balch and others.

    Ch. 140 · 35 Stat. 1446 · February 17, 1909 · Private law · Original text

15. 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. 141 · 35 Stat. 1446 · February 17, 1909 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Francisco Krebs and his heirs and assigns.

    Ch. 142 · 35 Stat. 1447 · February 17, 1909 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To create the Calaveras Bigtree National Forest, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 143 · 35 Stat. 625 · February 18, 1909 · Original text

18. An Act To amend the laws of the United States relating to the registration of trade-marks.

    Ch. 144 · 35 Stat. 627 · February 18, 1909 · Original text

19. An Act To enable the Omaha and Winnebago Indians to protect from overflow their tribal and allotted lands located within the boundaries of any drainage district in Nebraska.

    Ch. 145 · 35 Stat. 628 · February 18, 1909 · Original text

20. An Act For the organization of the militia in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 146 · 35 Stat. 629 · February 18, 1909 · Original text

21. An Act To extend the time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma.

    Ch. 147 · 35 Stat. 636 · February 18, 1909 · Original text

22. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace.”

    Ch. 148 · 35 Stat. 637 · February 18, 1909 · Original text

23. 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. 149 · 35 Stat. 638 · February 18, 1909 · Original text

24. An Act To extend the provisions of section four of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona.

    Ch. 150 · 35 Stat. 638 · February 18, 1909 · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Wyatt O. Selkirk.

    Ch. 151 · 35 Stat. 1448 · February 18, 1909 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 152 · 35 Stat. 1448 · February 18, 1909 · Private law · Original text

27. 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. 153 · 35 Stat. 1455 · February 18, 1909 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 154 · 35 Stat. 1462 · February 18, 1909 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Charles H. Dunning.

    Ch. 155 · 35 Stat. 1463 · February 18, 1909 · Private law · Original text

30. 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. 156 · 35 Stat. 1463 · February 18, 1909 · Private law · Original text

31. 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. 157 · 35 Stat. 1475 · February 18, 1909 · Private law · Original text

32. 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. 158 · 35 Stat. 1493 · February 18, 1909 · Private law · Original text

33. 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. 159 · 35 Stat. 1504 · February 18, 1909 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act To provide for an enlarged homestead.

    Ch. 160 · 35 Stat. 639 · February 19, 1909 · Original text

35. An Act To amend section ten of chapter two hundred and fifty-two, volume twenty-nine, of Public Statutes at Large.

    Ch. 161 · 35 Stat. 640 · February 19, 1909 · Original text

36. An Act To provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Gadsden, Alabama.

    Ch. 162 · 35 Stat. 640 · February 19, 1909 · Original text

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

    Ch. 163 · 35 Stat. 1517 · February 19, 1909 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 164 · 35 Stat. 1525 · February 19, 1909 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act To withdraw from settlement and entry certain lands in the State of California.

    Ch. 165 · 35 Stat. 640 · February 20, 1909 · Original text

40. An Act To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the keeping of employment agencies in the District of Columbia where fees are charged for procuring employment or situations,” approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 166 · 35 Stat. 641 · February 20, 1909 · Original text

41. An Act For the investigation, treatment, and prevention of trachoma among the Indians.

    Ch. 167 · 35 Stat. 642 · February 20, 1909 · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Angeline C. Burgert.

    Ch. 168 · 35 Stat. 1530 · February 20, 1909 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to donate two condemned cannon to Moores Creek Battle Ground Association.

    Ch. 169 · 35 Stat. 643 · February 23, 1909 · Original text

44. An Act Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new immigration station thereon at the city of Boston, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 170 · 35 Stat. 643 · February 23, 1909 · Original text

45. An Act Extending the provisions of the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, concerning transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.

    Ch. 171 · 35 Stat. 643 · February 23, 1909 · Original text

46. An Act To reenact and to amend sections thirty-six hundred and forty-six and thirty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 174 · 35 Stat. 643 · February 23, 1909 · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Willis A. Joy.

    Ch. 173 · 35 Stat. 1531 · February 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To correct the military record of Isaac N. Fordyce.

    Ch. 174 · 35 Stat. 1531 · February 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Marcellus Butler.

    Ch. 175 · 35 Stat. 1531 · February 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act To amend the military record of David H. Dickinson.

    Ch. 176 · 35 Stat. 1531 · February 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Joseph Swisher.

    Ch. 177 · 35 Stat. 1532 · February 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act To pay to C. F. Sugg, of Hales Point, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, seventy-nine dollars and ninety-five cents, for damages inflicted upon gasoline steamer Clyde by light-house tender Oleander.

    Ch. 182 · 35 Stat. 1532 · February 23, 1909 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act To provide for the granting and patenting to the State of Colorado desert lands within the former Ute Indian Reservation in said State.

    Ch. 178 · 35 Stat. 644 · February 24, 1909 · Original text

54. An Act Relating to injured employees on the Isthmian.Canal.

    Ch. 179 · 35 Stat. 645 · February 24, 1909 · Original text

55. An Act For relief of applicants for mineral surveys.

    Ch. 180 · 35 Stat. 645 · February 24, 1909 · Original text

56. An Act To permit change of entry in case of mistake of the description of tracts intended to be entered.

    Ch. 181 · 35 Stat. 645 · February 24, 1909 · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Herman Lehmann.

    Ch. 183 · 35 Stat. 1532 · February 24, 1909 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act Authorizing the Department of State to deliver to Major C. DeW. Willcox decoration and diploma presented by Government of France.

    Ch. 184 · 35 Stat. 1532 · February 24, 1909 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of the estate of Samuel Beatty, deceased.

    Ch. 185 · 35 Stat. 1533 · February 24, 1909 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of John M. Hill.

    Ch. 186 · 35 Stat. 1533 · February 24, 1909 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act To grant to John T. Rivett privilege to make commutation of his homestead entry.

    Ch. 187 · 35 Stat. 1533 · February 24, 1909 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act To reimburse Royal L. Sweany, late deputy collector of internal revenue at Tacoma, Washington.

    Ch. 188 · 35 Stat. 1533 · February 24, 1909 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Authorizing Daniel W. Abbott to make homestead entry.

    Ch. 189 · 35 Stat. 1534 · February 24, 1909 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act To authorize the construction of two bridges across Rock River, State of Illinois.

    Ch. 204 · 35 Stat. 253 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

65. An Act To incorporate the Imperial Palace. Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan.

    Ch. 190 · 35 Stat. 646 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

66. An Act To declare and enforce the forfeiture provided by section four of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- five, entitled “An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States.”

    Ch. 191 · 35 Stat. 647 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

67. An Act Amending chapter five hundred and ninety-one of the United States Statutes at Large, Fifty-sixth Congress, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act to provide for the holding of a term of the circuit and district courts of the United States at Superior, Wisconsin.”

    Ch. 192 · 35 Stat. 647 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

68. An Act Amending 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. 193 · 35 Stat. 648 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

69. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburg, in the State of Illinois, and to establish it as a post-road,” approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.

    Ch. 194 · 35 Stat. 649 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

70. An Act For the widening of Twentieth street northwest, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 195 · 35 Stat. 649 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

71. An Act To amend an Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act for the opening of Mills avenue northeast from Rhode Island avenue to Twenty-fourth street.”

    Ch. 196 · 35 Stat. 650 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

72. An Act Extending the time for final entry of mineral claims within the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.

    Ch. 197 · 35 Stat. 650 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

73. An Act Authorizing the widening and extension of Minnesota avenue southeast from its present terminus near Pennsylvania avenue southeast to the Sheriff road.

    Ch. 198 · 35 Stat. 651 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

74. An Act For the widening and extension of Massachusetts avenue Southeast, from its present terminus near Fortieth street southeast, to Bowen road.

    Ch. 199 · 35 Stat. 651 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

75. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to ratify, approve, and confirm an act duly enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, to authorize and provide for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a telephone system on the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 200 · 35 Stat. 652 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize certain changes in the permanent system of highways, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 201 · 35 Stat. 652 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

77. An Act To amend an Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa.

    Ch. 202 · 35 Stat. 652 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

78. An Act To provide for the extension of Rittenhouse street, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 203 · 35 Stat. 653 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

79. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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 liorough of West Brownsville, Washington County,” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 205 · 35 Stat. 654 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize Behn Brothers, of San Tuan, Porto Rico, to construct a bridge across a portion of the Condado Bay, at the eastern extremity of San Juan Island, Porto Rico.

    Ch. 206 · 35 Stat. 654 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

81. An Act Granting a right of way over a strip of land along the eastern boundary of the Fort McPherson Military Reservation to the commissioners of Fulton Countys Georgia, for road purposes.

    Ch. 207 · 35 Stat. 654 · February 25, 1909 · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of the creditors of the Deposit Savings Association, of Mobile, Alabama.

    Ch. 208 · 35 Stat. 1534 · February 25, 1909 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of C. L. Huey.

    Ch. 209 · 35 Stat. 1535 · February 25, 1909 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of S. R. Hurley.

    Ch. 210 · 35 Stat. 1535 · February 25, 1909 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act To complete the military record of Adolphus Erwin Wells.

    Ch. 211 · 35 Stat. 1535 · February 25, 1909 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a court of private land claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- one, and the Acts amendatory thereto, approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight.

    Ch. 212 · 35 Stat. 655 · February 26, 1909 · Original text

87. An Act Authorizing the extension of Ninth street northwest.

    Ch. 213 · 35 Stat. 655 · February 26, 1909 · Original text

88. An Act Authorizing the extension of Girard street northwest from its western terminus to Fifteenth street northwest.

    Ch. 214 · 35 Stat. 656 · February 26, 1909 · Original text

89. An Act Providing for an additional judge for the western district of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 215 · 35 Stat. 656 · February 26, 1909 · Original text

90. An Act To provide for the sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the northern district of Ohio at the city of Youngstown, in said district.

    Ch. 216 · 35 Stat. 656 · February 26, 1909 · Original text

91. An Act To provide for t he parole of juvenile offenders committed to the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 217 · 35 Stat. 657 · February 26, 1909 · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of E. L. Simpson.

    Ch. 218 · 35 Stat. 1535 · February 26, 1909 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of E. J. Reed.

    Ch. 219 · 35 Stat. 1536 · February 26, 1909 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Benjamin F. Curry.

    Ch. 220 · 35 Stat. 1536 · February 26, 1909 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To reimburse Agnes M. Harrison, postmaster at Wheeler, Mississippi, for loss of money-order remittance.

    Ch. 221 · 35 Stat. 1536 · February 26, 1909 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act To reimburse J. N. Newkirk, postmaster of San Diego, California, for moneys lost by burglary.

    Ch. 222 · 35 Stat. 1536 · February 26, 1909 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Yankton, South Dakota, by the Winnipeg, Yankton and Gulf Railroad Company.

    Ch. 225 · 35 Stat. 225 · February 27, 1909 · Original text

98. An Act To amend an Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia.”

    Ch. 223 · 35 Stat. 657 · February 27, 1909 · Original text

99. An Act Relating to the use, control, and ownership oí lands in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama.

    Ch. 224 · 35 Stat. 658 · February 27, 1909 · Original text

100. An Act For the establishment of a subport of entry at Ranier, Minnesota.

     Ch. 226 · 35 Stat. 659 · February 27, 1909 · Original text