Every law Congress has passed

881 laws of the 61st Congress, 1909–1911

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

   Ch. 53 · 36 Stat. 903 · February 13, 1911 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Saint John River, Maine.

   Ch. 54 · 36 Stat. 904 · February 13, 1911 · Original text

3. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to exchange the site for the immigrant station at the port of Boston.

   Ch. 55 · 36 Stat. 904 · February 13, 1911 · Original text

4. An Act Granting to Herman L. Hartenstein the right to construct a dam across the Saint Joseph River, near Mottville, Saint Joseph County, Michigan.

   Ch. 56 · 36 Stat. 904 · February 13, 1911 · Original text

5. An Act Extending the provisions of the Act approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to authorize A. J. Smith and his associates to erect a dam across the Choctawhatchee River in Dale County, Alabama.”

   Ch. 57 · 36 Stat. 905 · February 13, 1911 · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Edward Forbes Greene.

   Ch. 58 · 36 Stat. 905 · February 13, 1911 · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Arthur H. Barnes.

   Ch. 59 · 36 Stat. 1906 · February 13, 1911 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of the estate of James Mitchell, deceased.

   Ch. 60 · 36 Stat. 1906 · February 13, 1911 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Douglas C. McDougal.

   Ch. 61 · 36 Stat. 1907 · February 13, 1911 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Malcolm Gillis.

    Ch. 62 · 36 Stat. 1907 · February 13, 1911 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Charles F. Atwood and Ziba H. Nickerson.

    Ch. 63 · 36 Stat. 1907 · February 13, 1911 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of the heirs of George A. Armstrong.

    Ch. 64 · 36 Stat. 1908 · February 13, 1911 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of S. S. Somerville.

    Ch. 65 · 36 Stat. 1908 · February 13, 1911 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act To reimburse Charles K. Darling for moneys necessarily expended by him as clerk of the court of appeals for the first circuit.

    Ch. 66 · 36 Stat. 1908 · February 13, 1911 · Private law · Original text

15. 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. 67 · 36 Stat. 1909 · February 13, 1911 · Private law · Original text

16. Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of two thousand copies of Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-seven, for use of the Department of State.

    Public Resolution 4 · 36 Stat. 1454 · February 14, 1911 · Original text

17. An Act To authorize S. G. Guerrier, of Atchison, Kansas, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River near the city of Atchison, Kansas.

    Ch. 68 · 36 Stat. 905 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

18. An Act Authorizing the Hot Springs Lodge, Numbered Sixty-two, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas, to occupy and construct buildings for the use of the organization on lots numbered one and two, in block numbered one hundred and fourteen, in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas.

    Ch. 69 · 36 Stat. 906 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

19. An Act To extend the time for commencing and completing bridges and approaches thereto across the Waccamaw River, South Carolina.

    Ch. 70 · 36 Stat. 906 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

20. An Act To transfer the military reservation known as Fort Trumbull, situated at New London, Connecticut, from the War Department to the Treasury Department, for the use of the Revenue-Cutter Service.

    Ch. 71 · 36 Stat. 906 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

21. An Act To authorize the Fargo and Moorhead Street Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Red River of the North.

    Ch. 72 · 36 Stat. 907 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company, a corporation, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Paul, Minnesota.

    Ch. 73 · 36 Stat. 907 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the Great Western Land Company, of Missouri, to construct a bridge across Black River.

    Ch. 74 · 36 Stat. 907 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

24. 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. 75 · 36 Stat. 908 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the county of Hamilton, in the State of Tennessee, to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

    Ch. 76 · 36 Stat. 908 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the county of Hamilton, in the State of Tennessee, to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

    Ch. 77 · 36 Stat. 908 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

27. An Act Extending the time for commencing and completing the bridge authorized by an 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. 78 · 36 Stat. 909 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the Chucawalla Development Company to build a dam across the Colorado River at or near the mouth of Pyramid Canyon, Arizona; also a diversion intake dam at or near Black Point, Arizona, and Blythe, California.

    Ch. 79 · 36 Stat. 909 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

29. An Act Authorizing the town of Blackberry to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in Itasca County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 80 · 36 Stat. 910 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

30. An Act Providing for the quadrennial election of members of the Philippine Assembly and Resident Commissioners to the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 81 · 36 Stat. 910 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in nineteen hundred and fifteen, at San Francisco, California.

    Public Resolution 5 · 36 Stat. 1454 · February 15, 1911 · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Alfred Childers.

    Ch. 82 · 36 Stat. 1918 · February 15, 1911 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act Granting an annuity to John R. Kissinger.

    Ch. 83 · 36 Stat. 1919 · February 15, 1911 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Laura A. Wagner.

    Ch. 84 · 36 Stat. 1919 · February 15, 1911 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of William Doherty.

    Ch. 85 · 36 Stat. 1919 · February 15, 1911 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To appoint Warren C. Beach a captain in the army and place him on the retired list.

    Ch. 86 · 36 Stat. 910 · February 16, 1911 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the employment of letter carriers at certain post-offices.

    Ch. 87 · 36 Stat. 911 · February 16, 1911 · Original text

38. An Act Providing for the levy of taxes by the taxing officers of the Territory of Arizona, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 88 · 36 Stat. 911 · February 16, 1911 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to transfer the lighthouse tender Wistaria to the Secretary of the Treasury.

    Ch. 89 · 36 Stat. 912 · February 16, 1911 · Original text

40. An Act Extending the provisions of section four of the Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and Acts amendatory thereto, to the Fort Bridger abandoned ihilitary reservation in Wyoming.

    Ch. 90 · 36 Stat. 913 · February 16, 1911 · Original text

41. An Act Authorizing homestead entries on certain lands formerly a part of the Red Lake Indian Reservation, in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 91 · 36 Stat. 913 · February 16, 1911 · Original text

42. Joint Resolution Reaffirming the boundary line between Texas and the Territory of New Mexico.

    Public Resolution 6 · 36 Stat. 1454 · February 16, 1911 · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of E. C. Young.

    Ch. 92 · 36 Stat. 1919 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Eugene Martin.

    Ch. 93 · 36 Stat. 1920 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of William C. Rich.

    Ch. 94 · 36 Stat. 1920 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Horace D. Bennett.

    Ch. 95 · 36 Stat. 1920 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

47. 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. 96 · 36 Stat. 1921 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Phoebe Clark.

    Ch. 97 · 36 Stat. 1930 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

49. 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. 98 · 36 Stat. 1930 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act Providing for the sale of certain lands to the city of Buffalo, Wyoming.

    Ch. 99 · 36 Stat. 1942 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

51. 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. 100 · 36 Stat. 1942 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

52. 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. 101 · 36 Stat. 1966 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

53. 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. 102 · 36 Stat. 1972 · February 16, 1911 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto.

    Ch. 103 · 36 Stat. 913 · February 17, 1911 · Original text

55. An Act To convey to the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a portion of the national cemetery reservation in said city.

    Ch. 104 · 36 Stat. 917 · February 17, 1911 · Original text

56. An Act Providing for the purchase or erection, within certain limits of cost, of embassy, legation, and consular buildings abroad.

    Ch. 105 · 36 Stat. 917 · February 17, 1911 · Original text

57. 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. 106 · 36 Stat. 1972 · February 17, 1911 · Private law · Original text

58. 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. 107 · 36 Stat. 1982 · February 17, 1911 · 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 soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 108 · 36 Stat. 1984 · February 17, 1911 · 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. 109 · 36 Stat. 1985 · February 17, 1911 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Willard W. Alt.

    Ch. 110 · 36 Stat. 1993 · February 17, 1911 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act To amend section five of the Act of Congress of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “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. 111 · 36 Stat. 917 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Oliva J. Baker, widow of Julian G. Baker, late quartermaster, United States Navy.

    Ch. 112 · 36 Stat. 918 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

64. An Act Revising and amending the statutes relative to trade-marks.

    Ch. 113 · 36 Stat. 918 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of the sufferers from famine in China.

    Ch. 114 · 36 Stat. 919 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

66. An Act To reserve certain lands and to incorporate the same and make them a part of the Pocatello National Forest.

    Ch. 115 · 36 Stat. 919 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

67. An Act To amend the charter of the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 116 · 36 Stat. 920 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

68. An Act Permitting the building of a dam across Rock River at Lyndon, Illinois.

    Ch. 117 · 36 Stat. 920 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

69. An Act Granting five years’ extension of time to Charles H. Cornell, his assigns, assignees, successors, and grantees, in which to construct a dam across the Niobrara River, on the Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, and to construct electric light and power wires and telephone line and trolley or electric railway, with telegraph and telephone lines, across said reservation.

    Ch. 118 · 36 Stat. 920 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

70. An Act Permitting the building of a wagon and trolley-car bridge across the Saint Croix River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

    Ch. 119 · 36 Stat. 921 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company to build a dam across the New River near Foster Falls, Wythe County, Virginia.

    Ch. 120 · 36 Stat. 921 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

72. An Act Authorizing the building of a dam across the Savannah River at Cherokee Shoals.

    Ch. 121 · 36 Stat. 922 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

73. An Act Permitting the building of a dam across Rock River near Byron, Illinois.

    Ch. 122 · 36 Stat. 922 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

74. An Act Authorizing the Ivanhoe Furnace Corporation, of Ivanhoe, Wythe County, Virginia, to erect a dam across New River.

    Ch. 123 · 36 Stat. 922 · February 18, 1911 · Original text

75. An Act To pay Thomas P. Morgan, junior, amount found due him by Court of Claims.

    Ch. 124 · 36 Stat. 1994 · February 18, 1911 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of William P. Drummon.

    Ch. 125 · 36 Stat. 1994 · February 18, 1911 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of R. A. Sisson.

    Ch. 126 · 36 Stat. 1994 · February 18, 1911 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of the owners of the schooner Walter B. Chester.

    Ch. 127 · 36 Stat. 1995 · February 18, 1911 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent to certain lands to Charles E. Miller.

    Ch. 128 · 36 Stat. 1995 · February 18, 1911 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To relinquish the title of the United States in New Madrid location and survey numbered twenty-eight hundred and eighty.

    Ch. 129 · 36 Stat. 923 · February 20, 1911 · Original text

81. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell a certain forty-acre tract of land to the Masonic Order in Oklahoma.

    Ch. 130 · 36 Stat. 923 · February 20, 1911 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to purchase certain lands for lighthouse purposes.

    Ch. 131 · 36 Stat. 923 · February 20, 1911 · Original text

83. An Act To authorize the erection upon the Crown Point Lighthouse Reservation, New York, of a memorial to commemorate the discovery of Lake Champlain.

    Ch. 132 · 36 Stat. 924 · February 20, 1911 · Original text

84. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to exchange a certain right of way.

    Ch. 133 · 36 Stat. 924 · February 20, 1911 · Original text

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

    Ch. 134 · 36 Stat. 924 · February 20, 1911 · Original text

86. An Act To authorize the extension of Thirteenth street northwest from its present terminus north of Madison street to Piney Branch road.

    Ch. 135 · 36 Stat. 925 · February 20, 1911 · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of William M. Wightman, deceased.

    Ch. 136 · 36 Stat. 1995 · February 20, 1911 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of John G. Stauffer and Son.

    Ch. 137 · 36 Stat. 1995 · February 20, 1911 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Captain Evan M. Johnson, United States Army.

    Ch. 138 · 36 Stat. 1996 · February 20, 1911 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of the Sanitary Water-Still Company.

    Ch. 139 · 36 Stat. 1996 · February 20, 1911 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of F. W. Mueller.

    Ch. 140 · 36 Stat. 1996 · February 20, 1911 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act To authorize the Government to contract for impounding, storing, and carriage of water, and to cooperate in the construction and use of reservoirs and canals under reclamation projects, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 141 · 36 Stat. 925 · February 21, 1911 · Original text

93. An Act To authorize E. J. Bomer and S. B. Wilson to construct and operate an electric railway over the National Cemetery road at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

    Ch. 142 · 36 Stat. 926 · February 21, 1911 · Original text

94. An Act To ratify a certain lease with the Seneca Nation of Indians.

    Ch. 143 · 36 Stat. 927 · February 21, 1911 · Original text

95. An Act To authorize United States marshals and their respective chief office deputies to administer certain oaths.

    Ch. 144 · 36 Stat. 927 · February 21, 1911 · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of the relatives of William Mitchell, deceased.

    Ch. 145 · 36 Stat. 1996 · February 21, 1911 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Mary Wind French.

    Ch. 146 · 36 Stat. 1997 · February 21, 1911 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Horace P. Rugg.

    Ch. 147 · 36 Stat. 1997 · February 21, 1911 · Private law · Original text

99. Joint Resolution For the relief of Thomas Hoyne.

    Private Resolution 7 · 36 Stat. 2125 · February 21, 1911 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Amending an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to provide the times and places for holding terms of the United States court in the States of Idaho and Wyoming,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

     Ch. 148 · 36 Stat. 927 · February 23, 1911 · Original text