Every law Congress has passed

881 laws of the 61st Congress, 1909–1911

1. Joint Resolution Repealing joint resolution to provide for the distribution by Members of the Sixtieth Congress of documents, reports, and other publications, approved March second, nineteen hundred and nine.

   Public Resolution 1 · 36 Stat. 182 · April 23, 1909 · Original text

2. Joint Resolution Joint Resolution Making appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-first Congress.

   Public Resolution 2 · 36 Stat. 182 · April 23, 1909 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Relating to the provisions of section ten of the sundry civil Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine.

   Public Resolution 3 · 36 Stat. 182 · June 25, 1909 · Original text

4. An Act Making appropriations for expenses of the Thirteenth Decennial Census, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 1 · 36 Stat. 1 · June 29, 1909 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Amending an Act concerning the recent fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

   Public Resolution 4 · 36 Stat. 183 · July 1, 1909 · Original text

6. An Act To provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses.

   Ch. 2 · 36 Stat. 1 · July 2, 1909 · Original text

7. An Act To make Scranton, in the State of Mississippi, a subport of entry, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 3 · 36 Stat. 11 · July 2, 1909 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan cots, tents, and appliances for the use of the forty-third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Salt Lake City, Utah.

   Public Resolution 5 · 36 Stat. 183 · July 12, 1909 · Original text

9. An Act To amend, an Act entitled “An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes,” approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred.

   Ch. 4 · 36 Stat. 11 · July 15, 1909 · Original text

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

    Ch. 5 · 36 Stat. 1461 · July 15, 1909 · Private law · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

    Proposed Constitutional Amendment 1 · 36 Stat. 184 · July 31, 1909 · Original text

12. An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 6 · 36 Stat. 11 · August 5, 1909 · Original text

13. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 7 · 36 Stat. 118 · August 5, 1909 · Original text

14. An Act To raise revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 8 · 36 Stat. 130 · August 5, 1909 · Original text

15. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of various bridges across and over certain navigable waters, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 9 · 36 Stat. 178 · August 5, 1909 · Original text

16. An Act To authorize the building of a dam across the Savannah River at or near the mouth of Stevens Creek, between the counties of Edgefield, South Carolina, and Columbia, Georgia.

    Ch. 10 · 36 Stat. 180 · August 5, 1909 · Original text

17. An Act To attach Ben Hill County to the Albany division of the southern district of Georgia.

    Ch. 11 · 36 Stat. 181 · August 5, 1909 · Original text

18. An Act To amend an Act relative to the erection of a lock and dam in aid of navigation in the Tennessee River.

    Ch. 12 · 36 Stat. 181 · August 5, 1909 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of reports upon preliminary examinations and surveys, and so forth.

    Public Resolution 6 · 36 Stat. 183 · August 5, 1909 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and nine, on the twentieth day of said month.

    Public Resolution 1 · 36 Stat. 871 · December 20, 1909 · Original text

21. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 1 · 36 Stat. 185 · January 7, 1910 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution Authorizing a portion of the appropriation made for the improvement of Tennessee River to be applied to work at the Colbert and Bee Tree Shoals Canal.

    Public Resolution 2 · 36 Stat. 871 · January 7, 1910 · Original text

23. Joint Resolution Authorizing an investigation of the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus, officers, and employees, and of the Bureau of Forestry, in the Department of Agriculture, and its officers and employees.

    Public Resolution 3 · 36 Stat. 871 · January 19, 1910 · Original text

24. Joint Resolution To remove ice gorges in the Ohio River.

    Public Resolution 4 · 36 Stat. 873 · January 19, 1910 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to pay to the Winnebago tribe of Indians interest accrued since June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Public Resolution 5 · 36 Stat. 873 · January 20, 1910 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States to invite the States to participate in the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography.

    Public Resolution 6 · 36 Stat. 873 · January 24, 1910 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky Railway to construct a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near the town of Gainesboro, Tennessee.

    Ch. 2 · 36 Stat. 185 · January 26, 1910 · Original text

28. 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. 3 · 36 Stat. 186 · January 26, 1910 · Original text

29. An Act To change the times for holding the regular terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States at Greensboro and at Charlotte, in the western district of North Carolina.

    Ch. 4 · 36 Stat. 186 · January 26, 1910 · Original text

30. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to convey certain lands to the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, for street purposes.

    Ch. 5 · 36 Stat. 186 · January 26, 1910 · Original text

31. An Act To extend the time for Ashley County, Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at a point near Morrell.

    Ch. 6 · 36 Stat. 187 · January 27, 1910 · Original text

32. An Act To authorize the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said city.

    Ch. 7 · 36 Stat. 187 · January 27, 1910 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize the counties of Bradley and McMinn, Tennessee, by authority of their county courts, to construct a bridge across the Hiwassee River at Charleston and Calhoun, in said counties.

    Ch. 8 · 36 Stat. 187 · January 27, 1910 · Original text

34. An Act To authorize the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said city.

    Ch. 9 · 36 Stat. 187 · January 27, 1910 · Original text

35. An Act Authorizing the construction of a railroad bridge across the Rio Grande River between Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Republic of Mexico.

    Ch. 10 · 36 Stat. 188 · January 27, 1910 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the Monongahela Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Monongahela River between Fayette and Greene counties, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 11 · 36 Stat. 188 · January 27, 1910 · Original text

37. 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. 12 · 36 Stat. 1463 · January 27, 1910 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act Authorizing a credit in certain accounts of the Treasurer of the United States.

    Ch. 13 · 36 Stat. 1464 · January 27, 1910 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act Extending the time for certain homesteaders to establish residence upon their lands.

    Ch. 14 · 36 Stat. 189 · January 28, 1910 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Red River and to establish it as a post-road.

    Ch. 15 · 36 Stat. 189 · January 28, 1910 · Original text

41. An Act To provide for a change in the bridge authorized by an entitled “An Act to authorize the building of a bridge at Dardanelle, Arkansas,” approved September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety.

    Ch. 16 · 36 Stat. 189 · January 28, 1910 · Original text

42. An Act To extend the time for Ashley County, Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at Portland.

    Ch. 17 · 36 Stat. 190 · January 28, 1910 · Original text

43. An Act To extend the time for Ashley County, Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at Wilmot.

    Ch. 18 · 36 Stat. 190 · January 28, 1910 · Original text

44. An Act Authorizing the town of Bass Brook to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River, in Itasca County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 19 · 36 Stat. 190 · January 28, 1910 · 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. 20 · 36 Stat. 1465 · January 28, 1910 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act To amend section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee to purchasers of Indian lands under any law now existing or hereafter enacted, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 21 · 36 Stat. 190 · January 31, 1910 · Original text

47. An Act To legalize a bridge across the Snake River, between the States of Idaho and Oregon.

    Ch. 22 · 36 Stat. 191 · February 3, 1910 · Original text

48. An Act To extend the time for the commencement and completion of a railroad bridge across the Kansas River at or near Kansas City, Kansas, in the county of Wyandotte, State of Kansas.

    Ch. 23 · 36 Stat. 191 · February 3, 1910 · Original text

49. An Act To authorize Bonners Ferry Bridge Commission to construct a bridge across the Kootenai River at Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

    Ch. 24 · 36 Stat. 192 · February 3, 1910 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution Authorizing the postponement of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography.

    Public Resolution 7 · 36 Stat. 874 · February 3, 1910 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Edward C. Kittle.

    Ch. 75 · 36 Stat. 1548 · February 3, 1910 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Prescribing certain provisions and conditions under which bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the United States may be issued, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 25 · 36 Stat. 192 · February 4, 1910 · Original text

53. 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. 26 · 36 Stat. 1491 · February 4, 1910 · Private law · Original text

54. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of vacancies, which occurred on January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and ten, in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Members of Congress.

    Public Resolution 8 · 36 Stat. 874 · February 11, 1910 · Original text

55. An Act For the establishment of a new land district in the State of Montana.

    Ch. 27 · 36 Stat. 192 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

56. An Act To abolish the United States land office at Des Moines, Iowa.

    Ch. 28 · 36 Stat. 193 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

57. An Act To legalize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Hill City, Aitkin County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 29 · 36 Stat. 193 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

58. An Act To authorize the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said city.

    Ch. 30 · 36 Stat. 193 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

59. An Act To declare One Hundred and Two River in Missouri nonnavigable.

    Ch. 31 · 36 Stat. 194 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

60. An Act To declare Nodaway River in Missouri nonnavigable.

    Ch. 32 · 36 Stat. 194 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

61. An Act To declare Big Tarkio River, in Holt and Atchison counties, nonnavigable.

    Ch. 33 · 36 Stat. 194 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

62. An Act For the establishment of telephone service between the life-saving station at Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and the light-house at Twin River Point, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 34 · 36 Stat. 194 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the Union Railroad and Dock Company to construct and operate a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of West Virginia.

    Ch. 35 · 36 Stat. 195 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

64. An Act To authorize Clay County, Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Current River.

    Ch. 36 · 36 Stat. 195 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

65. Joint Resolution Amending Section Eighteen, of the Act of July second, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses.”

    Public Resolution 9 · 36 Stat. 874 · February 15, 1910 · Original text

66. 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. 37 · 36 Stat. 1500 · February 15, 1910 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the Wilson and Glassport Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Monongahela River between Wilson and Glassport boroughs, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 38 · 36 Stat. 195 · February 16, 1910 · Original text

68. An Act To extend the time for the completion of bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, Missouri, by the Saint Louis Electric Bridge Company.

    Ch. 39 · 36 Stat. 196 · February 16, 1910 · Original text

69. An Act To amend sections seven and eight of the Act of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus and unalloted lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reservations, in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect.”

    Ch. 40 · 36 Stat. 196 · February 17, 1910 · Original text

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

    Ch. 41 · 36 Stat. 197 · February 19, 1910 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize the Thacker Coal Mining Company to construct a footbridge across Tug River, at Thacker, Mingo County, West Virginia.

    Ch. 42 · 36 Stat. 197 · February 19, 1910 · Original text

72. An Act To amend an Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at Kansas City, Missouri.

    Ch. 43 · 36 Stat. 198 · February 19, 1910 · Original text

73. An Act To revive an Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Tug Fork of Big Sandy River, West Virginia.

    Ch. 44 · 36 Stat. 198 · February 19, 1910 · Original text

74. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Black River near Paroquet, Arkansas.

    Ch. 45 · 36 Stat. 198 · February 19, 1910 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Saint Francis River near Parkin, Arkansas.

    Ch. 46 · 36 Stat. 199 · February 19, 1910 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the White River, at Augusta, Arkansas.

    Ch. 47 · 36 Stat. 199 · February 19, 1910 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution Changing the title of the sealer of weights and measures of the District of Columbia to superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.

    Public Resolution 10 · 36 Stat. 874 · February 19, 1910 · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of the Pittsburg Brewing Company.

    Ch. 48 · 36 Stat. 1516 · February 19, 1910 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Thomas B. Pope.

    Ch. 49 · 36 Stat. 1517 · February 19, 1910 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To provide for the removal of present grade crossing, and construction of a new grade crossing on the line of Q street northeast, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 50 · 36 Stat. 199 · February 21, 1910 · Original text

81. An Act To authorize the extension of Park place northwest.

    Ch. 51 · 36 Stat. 199 · February 21, 1910 · Original text

82. An Act For the extension of Franklin street northeast from its present eastern terminus east of Twenty-fourth street to the Bladensburg road.

    Ch. 52 · 36 Stat. 200 · February 21, 1910 · Original text

83. An Act To provide for the extension of Newton place northwest from New Hampshire avenue to Georgia avenue, and to connect Newton place in Gass subdivision with Newton place in Whitney Close subdivision.

    Ch. 53 · 36 Stat. 200 · February 21, 1910 · Original text

84. An Act Authorizing certain changes in the plan for the permanent system of highways for that portion of the District of Columbia lying west of Rock Creek Park, north of Klingle road, east of Connecticut avenue, and south of Ellicott street northwest.

    Ch. 54 · 36 Stat. 201 · February 21, 1910 · Original text

85. 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. 55 · 36 Stat. 1517 · February 21, 1910 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge in and for the district of Maryland.

    Ch. 56 · 36 Stat. 201 · February 24, 1910 · Original text

87. An Act Providing for the appointment of an additional district judge in and for the northern judicial district of the State of Ohio, and an additional district judge in and for the southern judicial district of the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 57 · 36 Stat. 202 · February 24, 1910 · Original text

88. An Act To correct the lineal and relative rank of certain officers of the United States Army.

    Ch. 58 · 36 Stat. 202 · February 24, 1910 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution To donate a brass cannon to the State of Georgia.

    Public Resolution 11 · 36 Stat. 875 · February 24, 1910 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution Authorizing an extension of the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

    Public Resolution 12 · 36 Stat. 875 · February 24, 1910 · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of William Martinson.

    Ch. 59 · 36 Stat. 1528 · February 24, 1910 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 60 · 36 Stat. 1528 · February 24, 1910 · Private law · Original text

93. 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. 61 · 36 Stat. 1541 · February 24, 1910 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 62 · 36 Stat. 202 · February 25, 1910 · Original text

95. An Act To amend section eight of an Act to provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses, approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 63 · 36 Stat. 227 · February 25, 1910 · Original text

96. Joint Resolution Joint Resolution To continue in full force and effect an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the confederate army and navy who died in northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for other purposes.”

    Public Resolution 13 · 36 Stat. 875 · February 25, 1910 · Original text

97. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Connecticut River, in the State of Connecticut, between the towns of Old Saybrook and Old Lyme.

    Ch. 64 · 36 Stat. 228 · February 26, 1910 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the Fort Smith and Van Buren district to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River at Van Buren, in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 65 · 36 Stat. 229 · February 26, 1910 · Original text

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

    Ch. 66 · 36 Stat. 229 · February 26, 1910 · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of John W. Dula and C. M. Cox.

     Ch. 67 · 36 Stat. 229 · February 28, 1910 · Original text