Every law Congress has passed

881 laws of the 61st Congress, 1909–1911

1. 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. 162 · 36 Stat. 1658 · April 14, 1910 · Private law · Original text

2. 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. 163 · 36 Stat. 1671 · April 14, 1910 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act To parole juvenile offenders.

   Ch. 164 · 36 Stat. 300 · April 15, 1910 · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the towns of Warren and Barrington, Rhode Island, or either of them, to construct a bridge across Palmers or Warren River, in the State of Rhode Island.

   Ch. 165 · 36 Stat. 300 · April 15, 1910 · Original text

5. An Act To authorize Leonard J. Hackney, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Frank L. Littleton, of Indianapolis, Indiana, to construct a bridge across the Wabash River near the city of Mount Carmel, Illinois.

   Ch. 166 · 36 Stat. 300 · April 15, 1910 · Original text

6. An Act To make uniform the law of warehouse receipts in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 167 · 36 Stat. 301 · April 15, 1910 · Original text

7. An Act For the erection of a memorial monument at Fort Recovery, Ohio.

   Ch. 168 · 36 Stat. 311 · April 15, 1910 · Original text

8. 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. 169 · 36 Stat. 1682 · April 15, 1910 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of J. A. Denny

   Ch. 170 · 36 Stat. 1686 · April 16, 1910 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Horace C. Dale, administrator of the estate of Antoine Janis, senior, deceased, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

    Ch. 171 · 36 Stat. 1687 · April 18, 1910 · Private law · Original text

11. 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. 172 · 36 Stat. 1687 · April 18, 1910 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act To refund certain tonnage taxes and light dues levied on the steamship Montara, without register.

    Ch. 173 · 36 Stat. 1696 · April 18, 1910 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 174 · 36 Stat. 312 · April 19, 1910 · Original text

14. An Act To authorize Aransas Terminal Railroad to construct a bridge across Morris and Cumming Channel.

    Ch. 175 · 36 Stat. 324 · April 19, 1910 · Original text

15. An Act To correct the military record of Sumeral Dennis.

    Ch. 176 · 36 Stat. 1697 · April 19, 1910 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act To grant certain lands to the city of Rawlins, Wyoming.

    Ch. 177 · 36 Stat. 325 · April 20, 1910 · Original text

17. An Act Authorizing the extension of Princeton place northwest, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 178 · 36 Stat. 325 · April 20, 1910 · Original text

18. An Act To change the name of the west side of Fifteenth street northwest, between I and K streets, to McPherson place.

    Ch. 179 · 36 Stat. 325 · April 20, 1910 · Original text

19. An Act Permitting Salmon M. Allen to make a second homestead entry.

    Ch. 180 · 36 Stat. 1697 · April 20, 1910 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act To grant authority to the Crosby Transportation Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to change the name of the steamer Naomi to E. G. Crosby.

    Ch. 181 · 36 Stat. 326 · April 21, 1910 · Original text

21. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to provide two new revenue cutters, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 182 · 36 Stat. 326 · April 21, 1910 · Original text

22. An Act To protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,

    Ch. 183 · 36 Stat. 326 · April 21, 1910 · Original text

23. An Act To provide for the payment of expenses involved by the participation of the militia in joint maneuvers with the Regular Army during the season of nineteen hundred and eight.

    Ch. 184 · 36 Stat. 329 · April 21, 1910 · Original text

24. An Act To further amend the Act entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.

    Ch. 185 · 36 Stat. 329 · April 21, 1910 · Original text

25. An Act To provide for payment of the claims of certain religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippine Islands.

    Ch. 186 · 36 Stat. 1697 · April 21, 1910 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain the amount due Taycum-ege-shig, otherwise known as William G. Johnson, and pay the same to his heirs out of the fund known as “For the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians, in the State of Minnesota (reimbursable).”

    Ch. 187 · 36 Stat. 330 · April 22, 1910 · Original text

27. An Act To revive and extend the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the South and Western Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Clinch River and the Holston River, in the States of Virginia and Tennessee.”

    Ch. 188 · 36 Stat. 330 · April 22, 1910 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the Sanford and Everglades Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the eastern end of Lake Jessup.

    Ch. 189 · 36 Stat. 330 · April 22, 1910 · Original text

29. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make allotment to Frank H. Pequette.

    Ch. 190 · 36 Stat. 1698 · April 22, 1910 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, and other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 191 · 36 Stat. 331 · April 26, 1910 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution Providing for a special election in the Territory of Hawaii.

    Public Resolution 22 · 36 Stat. 878 · April 26, 1910 · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Dewitt Eastman.

    Ch. 192 · 36 Stat. 1698 · April 26, 1910 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act To make Baton Rouge, in the State of Louisiana, a subport of entry, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 193 · 36 Stat. 335 · April 27, 1910 · Original text

34. An Act To give a legal status to a submarine cable crossing the Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois, and Bird Point, Missouri.

    Ch. 194 · 36 Stat. 336 · April 27, 1910 · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company.

    Ch. 195 · 36 Stat. 1698 · April 28, 1910 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Walter F. Rogers, executor of the estate of Sarah Edwards.

    Ch. 196 · 36 Stat. 336 · April 29, 1910 · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of E. C. Mansfield.

    Ch. 197 · 36 Stat. 1698 · April 29, 1910 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act To reimburse Ella M. Collins, late postmaster at Goldfield, Nevada, for money expended for clerical assistance and supplies.

    Ch. 198 · 36 Stat. 1699 · April 29, 1910 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 199 · 36 Stat. 337 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize commissions to issue in the cases of officers of the army retired with increased rank.

    Ch. 200 · 36 Stat. 347 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

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

    Ch. 201 · 36 Stat. 347 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

42. An Act Providing for the taxation of the lands of the Omaha Indians in Nebraska.

    Ch. 202 · 36 Stat. 348 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

43. An Act To amend the Act approved December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted lands of the Yakima Indian Reservation in the State of Washington.”

    Ch. 203 · 36 Stat. 348 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

44. An Act Granting lands for reservoirs, and so forth.

    Ch. 204 · 36 Stat. 349 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

45. An Act To give the consent of Congress to the building of a bridge by the cities of Marinette, Wisconsin, and Menominee, Michigan, over the Menominee River.

    Ch. 205 · 36 Stat. 350 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

46. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Town Creek, North Carolina.

    Ch. 206 · 36 Stat. 350 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

47. An Act Providing for the repair and rebuilding of the road from Harrisonville, New Jersey, to the post of Fort Mott, New Jersey, and the national cemetery at Finns Point, New Jersey.

    Ch. 207 · 36 Stat. 350 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

48. An Act Requiring common carriers engaged in interstate and foreign commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and authorizing investigations thereof by said commission.

    Ch. 208 · 36 Stat. 350 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

49. An Act To authorize the President to appoint Guy K. Calhoun as additional professor of mathematics in the navy.

    Ch. 209 · 36 Stat. 352 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

50. An Act To authorize Butler and Stoddard counties of Missouri to construct a bridge across the Saint Francis River at Fisk, Missouri.

    Ch. 210 · 36 Stat. 352 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

51. An Act Authorizing the President to appoint John K. Barton, now a captain on the retired list of the United States Navy, to be an engineer in chief, retired, with rank of rear-admiral on the retired list of the United States Navy.

    Ch. 211 · 36 Stat. 352 · May 6, 1910 · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of William W. Miller, deceased.

    Ch. 212 · 36 Stat. 1699 · May 6, 1910 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Parsey O. Burrough.

    Ch. 213 · 36 Stat. 1699 · May 6, 1910 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Samuel W. Campbell.

    Ch. 214 · 36 Stat. 1700 · May 6, 1910 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Thomas J. Irvin.

    Ch. 215 · 36 Stat. 1700 · May 6, 1910 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act To repeal section eight hundred and sixty of the Revised statutes.

    Ch. 216 · 36 Stat. 352 · May 7, 1910 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution Providing for certain printing and binding for the International Bureau of American Republics.

    Public Resolution 23 · 36 Stat. 878 · May 7, 1910 · Original text

58. An Act Providing for the raising of the United States battle ship Maine, in Habana Harbor, and to provide for the interment of the bodies therein.

    Ch. 217 · 36 Stat. 353 · May 9, 1910 · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Theodore F. Colgrove.

    Ch. 218 · 36 Stat. 1700 · May 9, 1910 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Reed B. Granger.

    Ch. 219 · 36 Stat. 1700 · May 9, 1910 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of James Ovens.

    Ch. 220 · 36 Stat. 1701 · May 9, 1910 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Joseph S. Oakley.

    Ch. 221 · 36 Stat. 1701 · May 9, 1910 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of James O’Brien.

    Ch. 222 · 36 Stat. 1701 · May 9, 1910 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act To provide for the payment of the claim of the Roman Catholic Church of Zamboanga, in the Philippine Islands.

    Ch. 223 · 36 Stat. 1701 · May 9, 1910 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of the Merchants' National Bank of Poughkeepsie, New York.

    Ch. 224 · 36 Stat. 1702 · May 9, 1910 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act To authorize the opening of a road along the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 225 · 36 Stat. 353 · May 10, 1910 · Original text

67. Joint Resolution Disapproving certain laws of the territorial legislative assembly of New Mexico.

    Public Resolution 24 · 36 Stat. 879 · May 10, 1910 · Original text

68. Joint Resolution Disapproving certain laws of the territorial legislative assembly of New Mexico.

    Public Resolution 25 · 36 Stat. 879 · May 10, 1910 · Original text

69. An Act To establish “The Glacier National Park” in the Rocky Mountains south of the international boundary line, in the State of Montana, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 226 · 36 Stat. 354 · May 11, 1910 · Original text

70. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of a fractional tract of land in the Lawton (Oklahoma) land district at appraised value.

    Ch. 227 · 36 Stat. 355 · May 11, 1910 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for printing and binding for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 26 · 36 Stat. 879 · May 11, 1910 · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of Joshua E. Carlton.

    Ch. 228 · 36 Stat. 1702 · May 11, 1910 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act To perfect the title to certain land to the heirs of Henry Hyer and his wife, Julia Hyer, deceased, and other persons.

    Ch. 229 · 36 Stat. 1702 · May 11, 1910 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 230 · 36 Stat. 355 · May 12, 1910 · 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. 231 · 36 Stat. 1703 · May 12, 1910 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of earthquake sufferers in Costa Rica.

    Ch. 232 · 36 Stat. 367 · May 13, 1910 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the sale of certain lands belonging to the Indians on the Siletz Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 233 · 36 Stat. 367 · May 13, 1910 · Original text

78. An Act To amend sections one, two, and three of chapter thirty-two hundred and ninety-eight, Thirty-fourth United States Statutes at Large, with reference to the drainage of certain Indian lands in Richardson County, Nebraska.

    Ch. 234 · 36 Stat. 368 · May 13, 1910 · Original text

79. An Act Authorizing the connecting of a channel with Island End River, in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 235 · 36 Stat. 369 · May 13, 1910 · Original text

80. An Act To amend section sixty-three of the Act of August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page five hundred and sixty-seven).

    Ch. 236 · 36 Stat. 369 · May 13, 1910 · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of the next of kin of C. A. Weed and the legal representatives of A. P. H. Stewart.

    Ch. 237 · 36 Stat. 1713 · May 13, 1910 · Private law · Original text

82. 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. 238 · 36 Stat. 1713 · May 13, 1910 · Private law · Original text

83. 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. 239 · 36 Stat. 1725 · May 13, 1910 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To establish in the Department of the Interior a Bureau of Mines.

    Ch. 240 · 36 Stat. 369 · May 16, 1910 · Original text

85. An Act Transferring Oregon County to the southern division of the western judicial district of Missouri.

    Ch. 241 · 36 Stat. 370 · May 16, 1910 · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of the estate of John H. Fitzhugh, deceased.

    Ch. 242 · 36 Stat. 1734 · May 16, 1910 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Establishing a Commission of Fine Arts.

    Ch. 243 · 36 Stat. 371 · May 17, 1910 · Original text

88. An Act To authorize and direct certain extensions of the City and Suburban Railway of Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 244 · 36 Stat. 371 · May 17, 1910 · Original text

89. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to construct a water main and electric cable across Galveston Channel to furnish water and light to the immigration station.

    Ch. 245 · 36 Stat. 372 · May 17, 1910 · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Major Pierre C. Stevens.

    Ch. 246 · 36 Stat. 1734 · May 17, 1910 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act To provide for the extension of Nineteenth street from Belmont road to Biltmore street, in the District of Columbia, with a uniform width of fifty feet, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 247 · 36 Stat. 373 · May 18, 1910 · Original text

92. 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 eleven, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 248 · 36 Stat. 374 · May 18, 1910 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution To provide for the printing as a House document of five hundred thousand copies of Farmers’ Bulletin Numbered Three hundred and ninety-one.

    Public Resolution 27 · 36 Stat. 880 · May 18, 1910 · Original text

94. 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. 249 · 36 Stat. 1734 · May 18, 1910 · Private law · Original text

95. 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. 250 · 36 Stat. 1743 · May 18, 1910 · Private law · Original text

96. Joint Resolution Authorizing the construction and maintenance of wharves, piers, and other structures in Lake Michigan, adjoining certain lands in Lake County, Indiana.

    Public Resolution 29 · 36 Stat. 880 · May 19, 1910 · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Edward D. Gilbert.

    Ch. 251 · 36 Stat. 1750 · May 19, 1910 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the Pensacola and Southwestern Railroad Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a bridge over and across Perdido Bay from Cummings Point, Escambia County, Florida, to Lillian, Baldwin County, Alabama.

    Ch. 252 · 36 Stat. 415 · May 21, 1910 · Original text

99. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River near the mouth of the San Poil River, in the counties of Ferry and Lincoln, Washington.

    Ch. 253 · 36 Stat. 415 · May 21, 1910 · Original text

100. An Act To repeal section four thousand and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes, providing for the issuance of money-order notices, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 254 · 36 Stat. 415 · May 23, 1910 · Original text