Every law Congress has passed

621 laws of the 60th Congress, 1907–1909

1. An Act To amend an Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.”

   Ch. 227 · 35 Stat. 659 · February 27, 1909 · Original text

2. An Act To provide for improving the navigable capacity of the Sabine and Neches rivers, and the canal connecting the Sabine and Neches rivers with the mouth of Taylors Bayou.

   Ch. 228 · 35 Stat. 659 · February 27, 1909 · Original text

3. An Act To amend an Act to authorize a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa, approved February first, nineteen hundred and eight.

   Ch. 229 · 35 Stat. 660 · February 27, 1909 · Original text

4. 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. 230 · 35 Stat. 1536 · February 27, 1909 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act To repeal the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, granting a pension to Jackson Adkins.

   Ch. 231 · 35 Stat. 1538 · February 27, 1909 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 232 · 35 Stat. 660 · March 1, 1909 · Original text

7. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,” relative to gambling, bucket shops, and bucketing.

   Ch. 233 · 35 Stat. 670 · March 1, 1909 · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Niels P. Larsen.

   Ch. 234 · 35 Stat. 1538 · March 1, 1909 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.

   Ch. 235 · 35 Stat. 672 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

10. An Act Granting to the Montana, Wyoming and Southern Railway Company a right of way across the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, Montana.

    Ch. 236 · 35 Stat. 683 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

11. An Act To extend the time for the completion of the Alaska Central Railway, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 237 · 35 Stat. 683 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of certain occupants of unsurveyed public lands in Craighead County, Arkansas.

    Ch. 238 · 35 Stat. 684 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

13. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to extend the time for the completion of the Valdez, Marshall Pass and Northern Railroad, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven.

    Ch. 239 · 35 Stat. 684 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

14. An Act To provide for holding sessions of the United States circuit and district courts at Springfield, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 240 · 35 Stat. 685 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

15. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to exchange property.

    Ch. 241 · 35 Stat. 685 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

16. An Act Providing for an additional judge for the southern district of New York, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 242 · 35 Stat. 685 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

17. An Act To provide for the appointment of one additional district judge in and for the western district of Washington, and one additional district judge in and for the district of Oregon.

    Ch. 243 · 35 Stat. 686 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

18. An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 244 · 35 Stat. 686 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

19. An Act To attach Dawson County, in the State of Texas, to the Abilene division of the northern judicial district of said State and to detach it from the Fort Worth division of said court.

    Ch. 245 · 35 Stat. 687 · March 2, 1909 · Original text

20. An Act To grant pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and to certain widows and dependent relatives of said soldiers.

    Ch. 246 · 35 Stat. 1538 · March 2, 1909 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 247 · 35 Stat. 1544 · March 2, 1909 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 248 · 35 Stat. 1550 · March 2, 1909 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 249 · 35 Stat. 1556 · March 2, 1909 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 250 · 35 Stat. 688 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

25. An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 251 · 35 Stat. 728 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

26. An Act Making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.

    Ch. 252 · 35 Stat. 732 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

27. An Act For the removal of the restrictions on alienation of lands of allottees of the Quapaw Agency, Oklahoma, and the sale of all tribal lands, school, agency, or other buildings on any of the reservations within the jurisdiction of such agency, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 253 · 35 Stat. 751 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the city of Shreveport to construct a bridge across Red River.

    Ch. 254 · 35 Stat. 752 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

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

    Ch. 255 · 35 Stat. 753 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

30. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell part or all of the surplus lands of members of the Kaw or Kansas and Osage tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 256 · 35 Stat. 778 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

31. An Act To amend an Act authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland to enter the District of Columbia, approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven.

    Ch. 257 · 35 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

32. An Act To provide for the sale of isolated tracts of public land in Imperia County, California.

    Ch. 258 · 35 Stat. 779 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize the sale of certain public lands.

    Ch. 259 · 35 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

34. An Act To extend the time for construction and beginning construction of the Alaska Short Line Railroad in Alaska.

    Ch. 260 · 35 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

35. An Act To make Corry, Pennsylvania, a port of delivery in the district of Erie, Pennsylvania, and extending to it the privileges of section seven of the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.

    Ch. 261 · 35 Stat. 780 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the Chicago, Iake Shore and Eastern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Calumet River in the State of Indiana.

    Ch. 262 · 35 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

37. 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 ten.

    Ch. 263 · 35 Stat. 781 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

38. An Act To provide for the repair, maintenance, and preservation of public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 264 · 35 Stat. 815 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

39. An Act To correct the records and authorize the reenlistment of certain noncommissioned officers and enlisted men belonging to Companies B, C, and D of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry who were discharged without honor under Special Orders, Numbered Two hundred and sixty-six, War Department, November ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and the restoration to them or all rights of which they have been deprived on account thereof.

    Ch. 265 · 35 Stat. 836 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

40. An Act Authorizing the Attorney-General to appoint as special peace officers such employees of the Alaska school service as may be named by the Secretary of the Interior.

    Ch. 266 · 35 Stat. 837 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

41. An Act To change the name of the Washington Hospital for Foundlings.

    Ch. 267 · 35 Stat. 838 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

42. An Act Requiring reports of the Hospital for Foundlings to he made to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 268 · 35 Stat. 838 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

43. An Act To amend section eighty-six of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, to provide for additional judges, and for other judicial purposes.

    Ch. 269 · 35 Stat. 838 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

44. An Act For the protection of the surface rights of entrymen.

    Ch. 270 · 35 Stat. 844 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

45. An Act Authorizing the necessary resurvey of public lands.

    Ch. 271 · 35 Stat. 845 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

46. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to donate one condemned brass or bronze cannon and cannon balls to the soldiers’ plot in Forest Hill Cemetery, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 272 · 35 Stat. 845 · March 3, 1909 · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of F. S. Jette and Son, of Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, for damage done to their wharf by United States dredge Cumberland.

    Ch. 273 · 35 Stat. 1557 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of James H. De Coster.

    Ch. 274 · 35 Stat. 1557 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Henry A. Tolbert.

    Ch. 275 · 35 Stat. 1557 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Jackson Pryor.

    Ch. 276 · 35 Stat. 1557 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Charles Lennig and Company.

    Ch. 277 · 35 Stat. 1558 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Ellis W. Joy.

    Ch. 278 · 35 Stat. 1558 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of John T. Freeman.

    Ch. 279 · 35 Stat. 1558 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Nathaniel Huntley.

    Ch. 280 · 35 Stat. 1558 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of the estate of William J. Cussen.

    Ch. 281 · 35 Stat. 1559 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of John Shull.

    Ch. 282 · 35 Stat. 1559 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of J. C. Haggard, of White County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 283 · 35 Stat. 1559 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

58. 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. 284 · 35 Stat. 1559 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

59. 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. 285 · 35 Stat. 1573 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

60. 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. 286 · 35 Stat. 1575 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

61. 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. 287 · 35 Stat. 1586 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

62. 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. 288 · 35 Stat. 1598 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

63. 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. 289 · 35 Stat. 1606 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · 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. 290 · 35 Stat. 1610 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 291 · 35 Stat. 1616 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 292 · 35 Stat. 1616 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

67. 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 and helpless relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 293 · 35 Stat. 1617 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of R. J. B. Newcombe.

    Ch. 294 · 35 Stat. 1618 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, of Virginia.

    Ch. 295 · 35 Stat. 1618 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of the Herman Andrae Electrical Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 296 · 35 Stat. 1618 · March 3, 1909 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 297 · 35 Stat. 845 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

72. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 298 · 35 Stat. 907 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

73. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 299 · 35 Stat. 945 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

74. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 300 · 35 Stat. 1028 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

75. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.

    Ch. 301 · 35 Stat. 1039 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

76. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other, pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 302 · 35 Stat. 1057 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

77. An Act To amend section six hundred and ninety-one of subchapter seven, building associations, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 303 · 35 Stat. 1058 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

78. An Act To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, South Dakota, by the Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company.

    Ch. 304 · 35 Stat. 1059 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

79. An Act Relative to outward alien manifests on certain vessels.

    Ch. 305 · 35 Stat. 1060 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

80. An Act To provide for the payment of certain claims against the District of Columbia in accordance with the Act of Congress approved January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and as amended July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Ch. 306 · 35 Stat. 1060 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

81. An Act To construct a road along the south bank of the Anacostia River.

    Ch. 307 · 35 Stat. 1062 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

82. An Act To grant two cannons to Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio.

    Ch. 308 · 35 Stat. 1062 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

83. An Act Providing for the relinquishment by the United States of certain lands to the county of Kootenai, in the State of Idaho.

    Ch. 309 · 35 Stat. 1063 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

84. An Act Empowering the juvenile court of the District of Columbia to issue execution on forfeited recognizances.

    Ch. 310 · 35 Stat. 1063 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

85. An Act Withdrawing from entry and sale and granting unto the city of Los Angeles, in the State of California, certain lands therein described.

    Ch. 311 · 35 Stat. 1063 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

86. An Act To restore to the active list of the United States Marine Corps the name of Robert Morgan Gilson.

    Ch. 312 · 35 Stat. 1064 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to cooperate, through the Bureau of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of Fisheries, with the fish commissioner of the State of North Carolina in making surveys of the waters of North Carolina where fishing is prohibited by law.

    Ch. 313 · 35 Stat. 1064 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

88. An Act Fixing the compensation of certain officials in the custom service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 314 · 35 Stat. 1065 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

89. An Act To amend sections eleven and twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway 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. 315 · 35 Stat. 1066 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of pensioners of the Metropolitan police fund.

    Ch. 316 · 35 Stat. 1066 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

91. An Act To provide for the distribution of the Congressional Record and public bills, documents, and so forth, to the governor-general of the Philippine Islands at Manila, Philippine Islands.

    Ch. 317 · 35 Stat. 1067 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

92. An Act To grant additional authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out certain provisions of public building Acts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 318 · 35 Stat. 1067 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

93. An Act Granting certain obsolete ordnance for ornamental purposes.

    Ch. 319 · 35 Stat. 1069 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

94. An Act To amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright.

    Ch. 320 · 35 Stat. 1075 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

95. An Act To codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States.

    Ch. 321 · 35 Stat. 1088 · March 4, 1909 · Original text

96. An Act To correct the naval record of Peter H. Brodie, alias Patrick Torbett.

    Ch. 322 · 35 Stat. 1619 · March 4, 1909 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act To reimburse Garrett R. Bradley, late postmaster at Tonopah, Nevada, for money expended for clerical assistance.

    Ch. 323 · 35 Stat. 1619 · March 4, 1909 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Harry G. Rupp.

    Ch. 324 · 35 Stat. 1619 · March 4, 1909 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Joseph Schrembs.

    Ch. 325 · 35 Stat. 1619 · March 4, 1909 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Howard B. Carpenter.

     Ch. 326 · 35 Stat. 1619 · March 4, 1909 · Private law · Original text