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. 350 · 36 Stat. 1825 · June 22, 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. 351 · 36 Stat. 1833 · June 22, 1910 · Private law · Original text

3. 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. 352 · 36 Stat. 1843 · June 22, 1910 · Private law · 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. 353 · 36 Stat. 1843 · June 22, 1910 · Private law · Original text

5. 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. 354 · 36 Stat. 1844 · June 22, 1910 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act Changing the name of the Saint Johns collection district, in the State of Florida, to the Jacksonville collection district.

   Ch. 355 · 36 Stat. 592 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

7. An Act Granting cumulative annual leave of absence to storekeepers, gaugers, and storekeeper-gaugers, with pay.

   Ch. 356 · 36 Stat. 592 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

8. An Act Providing that entrymen for homesteads within reclamation projects may assign their entries upon satisfactory proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation for five years, the same as though said entry had been made under the original homestead Act.

   Ch. 357 · 36 Stat. 592 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

9. An Act Authorizing and directing the Department of State to ascertain and report to Congress damages and losses sustained by certain citizens of the United States on account of the naval operations in and about the town of Apia, in the Samoan Islands, by the United States and Great Britain, in March, April, and May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.

   Ch. 358 · 36 Stat. 592 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

10. An Act To prevent the dumping of refuse material in Lake Michigan at or near Chicago.

    Ch. 359 · 36 Stat. 593 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

11. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters,” approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 360 · 36 Stat. 593 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

12. 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. 361 · 36 Stat. 596 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the appointment of Frank de l. Carrington as a major on the retired list of the United States Army.

    Ch. 362 · 36 Stat. 600 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

14. An Act Granting to the Northern Pacific Railway Company the right to construct and maintain a bridge across the Yellowstone River.

    Ch. 363 · 36 Stat. 600 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

15. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River between the counties of Grant and Kittitas, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 364 · 36 Stat. 600 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

16. An Act To authorize the Saint Louis-Kansas City Electric Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River at or near the town of Saint Charles, Missouri.

    Ch. 365 · 36 Stat. 600 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

17. An Act To authorize the Saint Louis-Kansas City Electric Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River at or near the town of Arrow Rock, Missouri.

    Ch. 366 · 36 Stat. 601 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize the Southern Development Company to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River.

    Ch. 367 · 36 Stat. 601 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize the Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of California, to construct a bridge across the Stockton diverting canal, connecting Mormon Channel with the Calaveras River, in the county of San Joaquin, State of California.

    Ch. 368 · 36 Stat. 601 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell a portion of the unallotted lands in the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, to the Milwaukee Land Company for town-site purposes.

    Ch. 369 · 36 Stat. 602 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

21. An Act To authorize the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, to receive twelve three and two-tenths inch breech-loading field guns, carriages, caissons, limbers, and their pertaining equipment from the State of Massachusetts.

    Ch. 370 · 36 Stat. 602 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

22. An Act To provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the eastern division of the eastern district of Arkansas at the city of Jonesboro in said district.

    Ch. 371 · 36 Stat. 603 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

23. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the American National Red Cross,” approved January fifth, nineteen hundred and five.

    Ch. 372 · 36 Stat. 604 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

24. An Act Relating to liens on vessels for repairs, supplies, or other necessaries.

    Ch. 373 · 36 Stat. 604 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

25. An Act For the erection of a replica of the statue of General Von Steuben.

    Ch. 374 · 36 Stat. 605 · June 23, 1910 · Original text

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

    Ch. 375 · 36 Stat. 1859 · June 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

27. 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. 376 · 36 Stat. 1860 · June 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act To permit William H. Moody, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to retire.

    Ch. 377 · 36 Stat. 1861 · June 23, 1910 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 378 · 36 Stat. 605 · June 24, 1910 · Original text

30. An Act To require apparatus and operators for radio-communication on certain ocean steamers.

    Ch. 379 · 36 Stat. 629 · June 24, 1910 · Original text

31. An Act To provide for the return of undelivered letters and for other purposes.

    Ch. 380 · 36 Stat. 630 · June 24, 1910 · Original text

32. Joint Resolution Creating a commission to represent the United States at the celebration of the first centennial of the Republic of Mexico.

    Public Resolution 35 · 36 Stat. 882 · June 24, 1910 · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of the estate of James Allender, deceased.

    Ch. 381 · 36 Stat. 1861 · June 24, 1910 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 382 · 36 Stat. 630 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

35. An Act To increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 383 · 36 Stat. 676 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

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

    Ch. 384 · 36 Stat. 703 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

37. An Act To establish postal savings depositories for depositing savings at interest with the security of the Government for repayment thereof, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 386 · 36 Stat. 814 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

38. An Act To parole United States prisoners, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 387 · 36 Stat. 819 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

39. An Act Providing for the printing of Daily Consular Reports.

    Ch. 388 · 36 Stat. 821 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the McKeesport and Mifflin Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Monongahela River between McKeesport and Mifflin Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 389 · 36 Stat. 822 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

41. An Act Providing for the erection of a memorial arch at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 390 · 36 Stat. 822 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

42. An Act Transferring swamp lands to the State of Wisconsin.

    Ch. 391 · 36 Stat. 822 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

43. An Act Providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected.

    Ch. 392 · 36 Stat. 822 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of soldiers and sailors who enlisted or served under assumed names, while minors or otherwise, in the army or navy, during the war of the rebellion, the war with Spain, or the Philippine insurrection.

    Ch. 393 · 36 Stat. 824 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

45. An Act To provide for the time and places for holding of the regular terms of the United States circuit and district courts for the western district of the State of Oklahoma, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 394 · 36 Stat. 825 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

46. An Act To further regulate interstate and foreign commerce by prohibiting the transportation therein for immoral purposes of women and girls, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 395 · 36 Stat. 825 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

47. An Act Authorizing the Lone Star Canal Company, of Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas, to erect a dam across the mouth of Turtle Bay, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 396 · 36 Stat. 828 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

48. An Act To make uniform the salaries of United States district attorneys and marshals in Texas.

    Ch. 397 · 36 Stat. 828 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

49. An Act Amending the statutes in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods and merchandise.

    Ch. 398 · 36 Stat. 828 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to place upon the retired list of the United States Navy Lieutenant-Commander James H. Reid, with the rank of commander.

    Ch. 399 · 36 Stat. 829 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of the Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 400 · 36 Stat. 829 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

52. An Act To amend section thirteen of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” and for other naturalization purposes.

    Ch. 401 · 36 Stat. 829 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

53. An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 402 · 36 Stat. 831 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

54. An Act Granting to Savanna Coal Company right to acquire additional acreage to its existing coal lease in the Choctaw Nation, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 403 · 36 Stat. 832 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

55. An Act In relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same and to provide for the punishment thereof.

    Ch. 404 · 36 Stat. 833 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

56. An Act To authorize the cancellation of trust patents in certain cases.

    Ch. 405 · 36 Stat. 833 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

57. An Act Making an appropriation for the survey of public lands lying within the limits of land grants, to provide for the forfeiture to the United States of unsurveyed land grants to railroads, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 406 · 36 Stat. 834 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

58. An Act To authorize advances to the “reclamation fund,” and for the issue and disposal of certificates of indebtedness in reimbursement therefor, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 407 · 36 Stat. 835 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to the city of Anadarko, State of Oklahoma, for a tract of land, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 408 · 36 Stat. 836 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

60. An Act To amend section fourteen of “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

    Ch. 409 · 36 Stat. 837 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

61. An Act To provide for an additional judge of the district court for the eastern district of New York.

    Ch. 410 · 36 Stat. 838 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

62. An Act Providing for an increase of salary for the United States marshal for the eastern district of Louisiana.

    Ch. 411 · 36 Stat. 838 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

63. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as amended by an Act approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and three, and as further amended by an Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 412 · 36 Stat. 838 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

64. 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 eleven, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 413 · 36 Stat. 842 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

65. An Act To repeal section forty-nine hundred and two and to amend section forty-nine hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes, relating to caveats.

    Ch. 414 · 36 Stat. 843 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing the President of the United States to appoint Commander Kenneth McAlpine a commander in the navy on the active list.

    Ch. 415 · 36 Stat. 843 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

67. An Act To provide for an investigation of the surveys by which the southern boundary line of the State of Alabama, between ranges four and fourteen east of the Saint Stephens meridian, in Escambia County, was fixed, and for a report thereon.

    Ch. 416 · 36 Stat. 844 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

68. An Act Granting to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, land for street purposes.

    Ch. 417 · 36 Stat. 844 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Henry L. Woods.

    Ch. 418 · 36 Stat. 845 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

70. An Act To ratify an act of the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii authorizing W. A. Wall, his associates and assigns, to construct and operate a railroad on the island of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 419 · 36 Stat. 845 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

71. An Act Granting certain public lands to the State of Colorado for the use of the State Agricultural College, for agriculture, forestry, and other purposes.

    Ch. 420 · 36 Stat. 847 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases.

    Ch. 421 · 36 Stat. 847 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

73. An Act To create, establish, and enforce a miner’s labor lien in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 422 · 36 Stat. 848 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

74. An Act To provide additional protection for owners of patents of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 423 · 36 Stat. 851 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

75. An Act To provide for the care and support of insane persons in the Territory of Alaska.

    Ch. 424 · 36 Stat. 852 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

76. An Act Act Authorizing the Bowling Green and Northern Railroad Company to bridge Green and Barren rivers.

    Ch. 425 · 36 Stat. 852 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

77. An Act Authorizing the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company to build two bridges across the Rio Grande.

    Ch. 426 · 36 Stat. 853 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

78. 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, as amended.

    Ch. 427 · 36 Stat. 853 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

79. An Act To amend an Act entitled “ An Act to expedite the hearing and determination of suits in equity pending or hereafter brought under the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled ‘An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies,’ ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, or any other Acts having a like purpose that may be hereafter enacted,” approved February eleventh, nineteen hundred and three.

    Ch. 428 · 36 Stat. 854 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the building of bridges across the Saint Marys River, Georgia, and the Kootenai River, Idaho.

    Ch. 429 · 36 Stat. 855 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

81. An Act To authorize the construction and maintenance of a dike on Olalla Slough, Lincoln County, Oregon.

    Ch. 430 · 36 Stat. 855 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

82. An Act To provide for determining the heirs of deceased Indians, for the disposition and sale of allotments of deceased Indians, for the leasing of allotments, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 431 · 36 Stat. 855 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

83. An Act Granting leaves of absence to homesteaders on lands to be irrigated under the provisions of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two.

    Ch. 432 · 36 Stat. 864 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

84. An Act For the establishment of a probation system for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 433 · 36 Stat. 864 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

85. An Act To provide for the payment of overtime claims of letter carriers excluded from judgment as barred by limitation.

    Ch. 434 · 36 Stat. 865 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

86. An Act To amend section one, chapter two hundred and nine, of the United States Statutes at Large, volume twenty-seven, entitled “An Act providing when plaintiff may sue as a poor person and when counsel shall be assigned by the court,” and to provide for the prosecution of writs of error and appeals in forma pauperis, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 435 · 36 Stat. 866 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

87. An Act To confer upon the city of New York the power to obstruct certain navigable waters wholly within its limits.

    Ch. 436 · 36 Stat. 866 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of assignees in good faith of entries of desert lands in Imperial County, California.

    Ch. 437 · 36 Stat. 867 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

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

    Ch. 438 · 36 Stat. 868 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

90. An Act To amend section fifty-four of an Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, as amended by Public Resolution Numbered Thirty-six, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two.

    Ch. 439 · 36 Stat. 868 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

91. An Act To authorize the Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company, its successors or assigns, to construct and maintain a bridge, or bridges, or viaducts, across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point and Dauphin Island, both Little and Big; also to dredge a channel from the deep waters of Mobile Bay into Dauphin Bay, and to dredge the said Dauphin Bay; also to construct and maintain docks and wharves along both Little and Big Dauphin islands.

    Ch. 440 · 36 Stat. 868 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

92. An Act Amendatory of the Act approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, 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 borough of West Brownsville, Washington County.”

    Ch. 441 · 36 Stat. 870 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution Limiting the editions of the publications of the Bureau of Mines.

    Public Resolution 36 · 36 Stat. 883 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tenta to the Appalachian Exposition Company.

    Public Resolution 37 · 36 Stat. 883 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

95. Joint Resolution Joint Resolution Extending the time for the filing of claims under the provisions of the Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two.

    Public Resolution 38 · 36 Stat. 883 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

96. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to permit the President to protect lands and property in Imperial Valley, California.

    Public Resolution 39 · 36 Stat. 883 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

97. Joint Resolution To amend and correct chapter two hundred and seventy-one of volume thirty-five, United States Statutes at Large.

    Public Resolution 40 · 36 Stat. 884 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution For appointment of commission to investigate the matter of employer’s liability and workman’s compensation.

    Public Resolution 41 · 36 Stat. 884 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

99. Joint Resolution Construing section six of the Act of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act authorizing a resurvey of certain townships in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes.”

    Public Resolution 42 · 36 Stat. 885 · June 25, 1910 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution To authorize the appointment of a commission in relation to universal peace.

     Public Resolution 43 · 36 Stat. 885 · June 25, 1910 · Original text