Every law Congress has passed

881 laws of the 61st Congress, 1909–1911

1. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States to convey thanks to the Government of Italy for certain gifts.

   Public Resolution 14 · 36 Stat. 875 · March 1, 1910 · Original text

2. An Act Authorizing the acceptance by the United States Government from the Woman’s Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, of a proposed gift of land contiguous to the Andersonville National Cemetery, in the State of Georgia.

   Ch. 68 · 36 Stat. 230 · March 2, 1910 · Original text

3. An Act To authorize the Oregon Trunk Railway of the State of Washington to construct a bridge across the Columbia River and Celilo Canal.

   Ch. 69 · 36 Stat. 230 · March 2, 1910 · Original text

4. An Act To authorize Thomas J. Ewing, George B. Patton, Otto Burger, William Cecil, and Milton E. Foster to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.

   Ch. 70 · 36 Stat. 230 · March 2, 1910 · Original text

5. An Act Amending sections two hundred and forty-six and two hundred and forty-seven, Revised Statutes.

   Ch. 71 · 36 Stat. 231 · March 2, 1910 · Original text

6. An Act To provide for the extension of the underground system of the City and Suburban Railway Company on North Capitol street, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 72 · 36 Stat. 231 · March 2, 1910 · Original text

7. An Act To acquire land in the vicinity of the Connecticut Avenue Bridge for the extension of certain streets.

   Ch. 73 · 36 Stat. 232 · March 2, 1910 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the extension of Twenty-third and R streets southeast, in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 74 · 36 Stat. 232 · March 2, 1910 · Original text

9. An Act To amend in part section six hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes.

   Ch. 76 · 36 Stat. 232 · March 3, 1910 · Original text

10. 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. 77 · 36 Stat. 1548 · March 3, 1910 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of John Reed, alias Michael Flanagan.

    Ch. 78 · 36 Stat. 1555 · March 3, 1910 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Peter Fleming.

    Ch. 79 · 36 Stat. 1555 · March 3, 1910 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of William Keyes.

    Ch. 80 · 36 Stat. 1555 · March 3, 1910 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act To authorize the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company to reconstruct, maintain, and operate its railway bridges across the Escambia Bay, Choctawhatchee River, and Apalachicola River, in the State of Florida.

    Ch. 81 · 36 Stat. 233 · March 5, 1910 · Original text

15. An Act To amend section two of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice in certain civil and criminal cases in the western district of Arkansas.”

    Ch. 82 · 36 Stat. 233 · March 5, 1910 · Original text

16. Joint Resolution For appointment of members of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

    Public Resolution 15 · 36 Stat. 876 · March 5, 1910 · Original text

17. 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. 83 · 36 Stat. 1555 · March 5, 1910 · Private law · Original text

18. 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. 84 · 36 Stat. 1572 · March 5, 1910 · Private law · Original text

19. 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. 85 · 36 Stat. 1584 · March 5, 1910 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act Concerning tonnage duties on vessels entering otherwise than by sea.

    Ch. 86 · 36 Stat. 234 · March 8, 1910 · Original text

21. An Act To authorize the change of name of the steamers A. B. Wolvin and Cambria, owned by the Port Huron and Duluth Steamship Company.

    Ch. 87 · 36 Stat. 234 · March 8, 1910 · Original text

22. An Act To modify the one hundred and twenty-second and one hundred and twenty-fourth articles of war, and to repeal the one hundred and twenty-third article of war.

    Ch. 88 · 36 Stat. 234 · March 8, 1910 · Original text

23. An Act Permitting the Wisconsin Central Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Saint Croix River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

    Ch. 89 · 36 Stat. 235 · March 12, 1910 · Original text

24. An Act Granting unto the Hot Springs Street Railway Company, its successors and assigns, the right to maintain and operate its electric railway along the southern border of that portion of the Hot Springs Reservation, in the State of Arkansas, known as the Whittington Lake Reserve Park.

    Ch. 90 · 36 Stat. 235 · March 12, 1910 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the transfer of the government highway, known as the Alter road, to the city of Detroit, Michigan.

    Ch. 91 · 36 Stat. 235 · March 12, 1910 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to effect an exchange of a certain parcel of land owned by the United States for another parcel owned by the Cave Hill Cemetery Company, of Louisville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 92 · 36 Stat. 236 · March 12, 1910 · Original text

27. An Act Authorizing the chief justice and associate justices of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico to assign the said judges to the several judicial districts of the Territory.

    Ch. 93 · 36 Stat. 237 · March 12, 1910 · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of the Bridgeport National Bank, Bridgeport, Ohio.

    Ch. 94 · 36 Stat. 1596 · March 14, 1910 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act Providing for the sale to Johnson County, in the State of Wyoming, of certain lands.

    Ch. 95 · 36 Stat. 237 · March 15, 1910 · Original text

30. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make temporary withdrawals of public lands for certain purposes.

    Ch. 96 · 36 Stat. 237 · March 15, 1910 · Original text

31. An Act Authorizing the creation of an additional land district in the State of Oregon, to be known as the “Vale land district.”

    Ch. 97 · 36 Stat. 238 · March 15, 1910 · Original text

32. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for the use of the Confederate Veterans’ Reunion, to be held at Mobile, Alabama, in April, nineteen hundred and ten.

    Public Resolution 16 · 36 Stat. 876 · March 15, 1910 · Original text

33. An Act For the erection of a monument over the grave of Brigadier-General James Shields in Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Carrollton, Missouri.

    Ch. 98 · 36 Stat. 1597 · March 15, 1910 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of George W. Flack.

    Ch. 99 · 36 Stat. 1597 · March 15, 1910 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Patrick Shields.

    Ch. 100 · 36 Stat. 1597 · March 15, 1910 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of William H. Hawley.

    Ch. 101 · 36 Stat. 1597 · March 15, 1910 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act To facilitate the use for manufacturing purposes of square numbered three hundred and twenty-eight in the city of Washington, as authorized in the Act of Congress of February first, nineteen hundred and seven.

    Ch. 102 · 36 Stat. 238 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

38. An Act To amend an Act to incorporate the Masonic Temple Association of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 103 · 36 Stat. 239 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Missouri River in the neighborhood of Sibley, Missouri, and to remove the existing structure.

    Ch. 104 · 36 Stat. 239 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

40. An Act To change the name of Twenty-third street north of Calvert street, in the District of Columbia, to Woodley place.

    Ch. 105 · 36 Stat. 240 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

41. An Act To authorize the extension of Forty-first street northwest.

    Ch. 106 · 36 Stat. 240 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

42. An Act To direct that Jefferson street northwest between Fourteenth. street and Colorado avenue be stricken from the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 107 · 36 Stat. 240 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

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

    Ch. 108 · 36 Stat. 241 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

44. An Act To amend an Act approved August thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act relative to recognizances, stipulations, bonds, and undertakings, and to allow certain corporations to be accepted as surety thereon.”

    Ch. 109 · 36 Stat. 241 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize the extension of Columbia road northwest, in District of Columbia.

    Ch. 110 · 36 Stat. 242 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

46. An Act Authorizing the extension of Military road northwest, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 111 · 36 Stat. 242 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the city of Saint Joseph, Michigan, to construct a bridge across Morrison Channel, of the Saint Joseph River, Michigan.

    Ch. 112 · 36 Stat. 243 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

48. An Act Making an appropriation for folding speeches and pamphlets for the Senate.

    Ch. 113 · 36 Stat. 243 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

49. An Act To extend Fourth street southeast.

    Ch. 114 · 36 Stat. 243 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

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

    Ch. 115 · 36 Stat. 243 · March 23, 1910 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of John M. Miller.

    Ch. 116 · 36 Stat. 1598 · March 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of John Oates.

    Ch. 117 · 36 Stat. 1598 · March 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

53. 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. 118 · 36 Stat. 1598 · March 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

54. 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. 119 · 36 Stat. 1604 · March 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Daniel H. Wiggin.

    Ch. 120 · 36 Stat. 1609 · March 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pension 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. 121 · 36 Stat. 1609 · March 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Alexander Everhart.

    Ch. 122 · 36 Stat. 1611 · March 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act Permitting the building of a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at Bemidji, in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 123 · 36 Stat. 262 · March 24, 1910 · Original text

59. An Act Granting certain rights and privileges to the department of fisheries of the State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 124 · 36 Stat. 262 · March 24, 1910 · Original text

60. Joint Resolution Enlarging the scope of inquiry of the schedules relating to population for the Thirteenth Decennial Census.

    Public Resolution 17 · 36 Stat. 877 · March 24, 1910 · 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. 125 · 36 Stat. 1612 · March 24, 1910 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act To authorize the Copper River and Northwestern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Copper River, in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 126 · 36 Stat. 263 · March 26, 1910 · Original text

63. An Act Authorizing the village of Taylors Falls, Minnesota, and the village of Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin, to construct a bridge across the Saint Croix River.

    Ch. 127 · 36 Stat. 263 · March 26, 1910 · Original text

64. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven.

    Ch. 128 · 36 Stat. 263 · March 26, 1910 · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of homestead settlers under the Acts of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and four; June fifth and twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six; March second, nineteen hundred and seven; and May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Ch. 129 · 36 Stat. 265 · March 26, 1910 · Original text

66. 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. 130 · 36 Stat. 267 · March 26, 1910 · Original text

67. 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. 131 · 36 Stat. 1625 · March 26, 1910 · Private law · Original text

68. 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. 132 · 36 Stat. 1636 · March 26, 1910 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Maramon A. Martin.

    Ch. 133 · 36 Stat. 1649 · March 26, 1910 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act To amend section eight hundred and ten of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 134 · 36 Stat. 267 · March 28, 1910 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize the Lawton and Fort Sill Electric Railway Company to construct and operate a railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines through the Fort Sill Military Reservation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 135 · 36 Stat. 268 · March 28, 1910 · Original text

72. An Act To provide for the condemnation of streets or parts of streets under the plan for the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 136 · 36 Stat. 268 · March 30, 1910 · Original text

73. Joint Resolution Authorizing the use of a United States Army transport for certain purposes.

    Public Resolution 18 · 36 Stat. 877 · March 30, 1910 · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of George Baker.

    Ch. 137 · 36 Stat. 1649 · April 1, 1910 · Private law · Original text

75. 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. 138 · 36 Stat. 1649 · April 1, 1910 · Private law · Original text

76. 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. 139 · 36 Stat. 269 · April 2, 1910 · Original text

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

    Ch. 140 · 36 Stat. 269 · April 4, 1910 · Original text

78. An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to accept donations of money and land for the establishment of a branch library in the District of Columbia, to establish a commission to supervise the erection of a branch library building in said District, and to provide for the suitable maintenance of said branch.

    Ch. 141 · 36 Stat. 290 · April 4, 1910 · Original text

79. An Act To enable the city of Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona Territory, to issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring and constructing a waterworks plant in and for said city.

    Ch. 142 · 36 Stat. 290 · April 4, 1910 · Original text

80. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Ch. 143 · 36 Stat. 291 · April 5, 1910 · Original text

81. An Act To grant certain lands to the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

    Ch. 144 · 36 Stat. 291 · April 8, 1910 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize the closing of a part of Forty-first street northwest in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 145 · 36 Stat. 292 · April 8, 1910 · Original text

83. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to appraise certain lands in the State of Minnesota for the purpose of granting the same to the Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad Company for a ballast pit.

    Ch. 146 · 36 Stat. 292 · April 8, 1910 · Original text

84. An Act Granting authority to the city of Saint Francisville, Illinois, to build a bridge across the Wabash River.

    Ch. 147 · 36 Stat. 292 · April 8, 1910 · Original text

85. An Act To authorize the board of commissioners of Lake County, Indiana, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Grand Calumet River, in the city of Hammond, Indiana.

    Ch. 148 · 36 Stat. 293 · April 8, 1910 · Original text

86. An Act To amend an Act approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battlefield of Chickamauga.”

    Ch. 149 · 36 Stat. 293 · April 8, 1910 · Original text

87. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River, in the counties of Okanogan and Douglas, Washington.

    Ch. 150 · 36 Stat. 293 · April 9, 1910 · Original text

88. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Okanogan River in the county of Okanogan, Washington.

    Ch. 151 · 36 Stat. 294 · April 9, 1910 · Original text

89. An Act To amend section seven hundred and seventy-three of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 152 · 36 Stat. 294 · April 9, 1910 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution Fixing the terms of court in the Philippine Islands.

    19 · 36 Stat. 877 · April 9, 1910 · Original text

91. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to divide the judicial district of Nebraska into divisions and to provide for an additional district judge in said district.”

    Ch. 153 · 36 Stat. 294 · April 12, 1910 · Original text

92. An Act Providing that the State of Wyoming be permitted to relinquish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select other lands from the public domain in lieu thereof.

    Ch. 154 · 36 Stat. 295 · April 12, 1910 · Original text

93. An Act To grant right of way over the public domain in the State of Arkansas for oil or gas pipe lines.

    Ch. 155 · 36 Stat. 296 · April 12, 1910 · Original text

94. An Act To amend the Act of April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page three hundred and two), entitled “An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands after allotment,” and all amendments thereto.

    Ch. 156 · 36 Stat. 296 · April 12, 1910 · Original text

95. An Act To reorganize and enlist the members of the United States Naval Academy Band.

    Ch. 157 · 36 Stat. 297 · April 12, 1910 · Original text

96. An Act Granting a right of way to the Milwaukee, Sparta and Northwestern Railway Company, a subsidiary company of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, across the military reservation (United States artillery target range and maneuver grounds) near Sparta, Monroe County, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 158 · 36 Stat. 298 · April 12, 1910 · Original text

97. Joint Resolution Amending a “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,” approved January twentieth, nineteen hundred and ten (Senate Joint Resolution Numbered Fifty-eight).

    Public Resolution 20 · 36 Stat. 877 · April 12, 1910 · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of James J. Elliott.

    Ch. 159 · 36 Stat. 1655 · April 13, 1910 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act To supplement “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving wheel brakes and for other purposes,” and other safety appliance Acts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 160 · 36 Stat. 298 · April 14, 1910 · Original text

100. 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. 161 · 36 Stat. 1655 · April 14, 1910 · Private law · Original text