Every law Congress has passed

881 laws of the 61st Congress, 1909–1911

1. Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of the message of the President, together with the report of the agent of the United States in the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration at The Hague.

   Public Resolution 8 · 36 Stat. 1456 · February 23, 1911 · Original text

2. An Act To amend the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, limiting the compensation of storekeepers, gaugers, and storekeepergaugers in certain cases to two dollars a day, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 149 · 36 Stat. 928 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

3. An Act To authorize J. W. Vance, L. L. Allen, C. F. Helwig, and H. V. Worley, of Pierce City, Missouri; A. B. Durnil, D. H. Kemp, Sig Soloman, J. J. Davis, S. A. Chappell, and W. M. West, of Monett, Missouri; M. L. Coleman, M. T. Davis, Jared R. Woodfill, junior, J. H. Jarrett, and William H. Standish, of Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri; and L. S. Meyer, F. S. Heffernan, Robert A. Moore, William H. Johnson, J. P. McCammon, M. W. Colbaugh, and W. H. Schreiber, of Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, to construct a dam across the James River, in Stone County, Missouri, and to divert a portion of its waters through a tunnel into the said river again to create electric power.

   Ch. 150 · 36 Stat. 929 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

4. An Act Providing for the naturalization of the wife and minor children of insane aliens, making homestead entries under the land laws of the United States.

   Ch. 151 · 36 Stat. 929 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

5. An Act For establishing a light and fog-signal station on the San Pedro breakwater, California.

   Ch. 152 · 36 Stat. 929 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant a right of way through lands of the United States to the Buckhannon and Northern Railroad Company.

   Ch. 153 · 36 Stat. 930 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the Argenta Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas.

   Ch. 154 · 36 Stat. 930 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

8. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for the withdrawal from public entry of lands needed for town-site purposes in connection with irrigation projects under the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes,” approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six.

   Ch. 155 · 36 Stat. 930 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize the Rainy River Improvement Company to construct a dam across the outlet of Namakan Lake at Kettle Falls, in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.

   Ch. 156 · 36 Stat. 931 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

10. An Act Providing for aids to navigation along the Livingstone Channel, Detroit River, Michigan.

    Ch. 157 · 36 Stat. 931 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

11. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi River at or near the village of Sauk Rapids, Benton County, Minnesota,” approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four.

    Ch. 158 · 36 Stat. 931 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize the Minnesota River Improvement and Power Company to construct dams across the Minnesota River.

    Ch. 159 · 36 Stat. 932 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

13. An Act To provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the northern district of Mississippi at the city of Clarksdale, in said district.

    Ch. 160 · 36 Stat. 932 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

14. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive, for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point, two Chinese subjects, to be designated hereafter by the Government of China.

    Public Resolution 9 · 36 Stat. 1456 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

15. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for the use of the Confederate Veterans’ Reunion, to be held at Little Rock, Arkansas, in May, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Public Resolution 10 · 36 Stat. 1456 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

16. Joint Resolution Creating a commission to investigate and report on the advisability of the establishment of permanent maneuvering grounds, camp of inspection, rifle and artillery ranges for troops of the United States at or near the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park, and to likewise report as to certain lands in the State of Tennessee proposed to be donated to the United States for said purposes.

    Public Resolution 11 · 36 Stat. 1457 · February 24, 1911 · Original text

17. An Act Providing for the releasing of the claim of the United States Government to Arpent lot numbered forty-four, in the old city of Pensacola, Florida.

    Ch. 161 · 36 Stat. 1997 · February 24, 1911 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Hans N. Anderson.

    Ch. 162 · 36 Stat. 1997 · February 24, 1911 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Francis E. Rosier.

    Ch. 163 · 36 Stat. 1998 · February 24, 1911 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act To restore to the public domain certain lands withdrawn for reservoir purposes in Millard County, Utah.

    Ch. 164 · 36 Stat. 932 · February 25, 1911 · Original text

21. Joint Resolution Authorizing the delivering to the commander in chief of the United Spanish War Veterans of one or two dismounted bronze cannon.

    Public Resolution 12 · 36 Stat. 1457 · February 25, 1911 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the construction of drawless bridges across a certain portion of the Charles River in the State of Massachusetts.

    Ch. 165 · 36 Stat. 933 · February 27, 1911 · Original text

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

    Ch. 166 · 36 Stat. 933 · February 27, 1911 · Original text

24. An Act For rebuilding and improving the present light and fog signal at Lincoln Rock, Alaska, or for building another light and fog-signal station upon a different site near by.

    Ch. 167 · 36 Stat. 957 · February 27, 1911 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway company; a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a bridge over and across the Mobile River and its navigable channels above the city of Mobile, Alabama.

    Ch. 168 · 36 Stat. 958 · February 27, 1911 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the board of supervisors oi the town of Highlanding, Red Lake County, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Red Lake River.

    Ch. 169 · 36 Stat. 958 · February 27, 1911 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the Saint Paul Railway Promotion Company, a corporation, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River, near Nininger, Minnesota.

    Ch. 170 · 36 Stat. 958 · February 27, 1911 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Delaware River from Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to Ewing Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.

    Ch. 171 · 36 Stat. 959 · February 27, 1911 · Original text

29. Joint Resolution Modifying certain laws relating to the military records certain soldiers and sailors.

    Public Resolution 13 · 36 Stat. 1458 · February 27, 1911 · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Charles T. Gallagher and Samuel H. Proctor.

    Ch. 172 · 36 Stat. 1998 · February 27, 1911 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of James M. Sweat.

    Ch. 173 · 36 Stat. 1998 · February 27, 1911 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of David Jay Jennings.

    Ch. 174 · 36 Stat. 1998 · February 27, 1911 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of James Jones.

    Ch. 175 · 36 Stat. 1999 · February 27, 1911 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Thomas Seals.

    Ch. 176 · 36 Stat. 1999 · February 27, 1911 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Thomas C. Clark.

    Ch. 177 · 36 Stat. 1999 · February 27, 1911 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of James Donovan.

    Ch. 178 · 36 Stat. 1999 · February 27, 1911 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the city of Seattle, Washington, to purchase certain lands for the protection of the source of its water supply.

    Ch. 179 · 36 Stat. 959 · February 28, 1911 · Original text

38. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant further extensions of time within which to make proof on desert-land entries in the counties of Benton, Yakima, and Klickitat.

    Ch. 180 · 36 Stat. 960 · February 28, 1911 · Original text

39. An Act To consolidate certain forest lands in the Kansas National Forest.

    Ch. 181 · 36 Stat. 960 · February 28, 1911 · Original text

40. 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. 182 · 36 Stat. 2000 · February 28, 1911 · Private law · Original text

41. 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. 183 · 36 Stat. 2001 · February 28, 1911 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Michael B. Ryan, son and administrator de bonis non of John S. Ryan, deceased.

    Ch. 184 · 36 Stat. 2010 · February 28, 1911 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act To authorize the city of Shreveport to construct a bridge across Red River.

    Ch. 185 · 36 Stat. 961 · March 1, 1911 · Original text

44. An Act To enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers.

    Ch. 186 · 36 Stat. 961 · March 1, 1911 · Original text

45. An Act To protect the dignity and honor of the uniform of the United States.

    Ch. 187 · 36 Stat. 963 · March 1, 1911 · Original text

46. An Act Authorizing the Moline, East Moline and Watertown Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the South Branch of the Mississippi River from a point in the village of Watertown, Rock Island County, Illinois, to the island known as Campbells Island.

    Ch. 188 · 36 Stat. 964 · March 1, 1911 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the establishment of a marine biological station on the Gulf coast of the State of Florida.

    Ch. 189 · 36 Stat. 964 · March 1, 1911 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy which will occur on March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress.

    Public Resolution 14 · 36 Stat. 1458 · March 1, 1911 · Original text

49. An Act To amend section six of the currency Act of March fourteenth, nineteen hundred, as amended by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven.

    Ch. 190 · 36 Stat. 964 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the receipt of certified checks drawn on national and State banks for duties on imports and internal taxes, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 191 · 36 Stat. 965 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

51. 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 twelve, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 192 · 36 Stat. 966 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

52. An Act To authorize the Sheridan Railway and Light Company to construct and operate railway, telegraph, telephone, electric power, and trolley lines through the Fort Mackenzie Military Reservation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 193 · 36 Stat. 1011 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

53. An Act Granting certain rights of way on the Fort D. A. Russell Military Reservation at Cheyenne, Wyoming, for railroad and county-road purposes.

    Ch. 194 · 36 Stat. 1012 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

54. An Act To restrain the Secretary of the Treasury from receiving bonds issued to provide money for the building of the Panama Canal as security for the issue of circulating notes to national banks, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 195 · 36 Stat. 1013 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

55. An Act To authorize the county of Ouachita, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Ouachita River.

    Ch. 196 · 36 Stat. 1013 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

56. An Act To fix the time of holding the circuit and district courts for the northern district of West Virginia.

    Ch. 197 · 36 Stat. 1013 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

57. An Act To amend the internal-revenue laws relating to distilled spirits, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 198 · 36 Stat. 1014 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

58. An Act To amend section thirty-two hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by section six of chapter one hundred and eight of an Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty, page one hundred and forty-five, volume twenty-one, United States Statutes at Large.

    Ch. 199 · 36 Stat. 1014 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

59. An Act Limiting the privileges of the Government free bathhouse on the public reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, to persons who are without and unable to obtain the. means to pay for baths.

    Ch. 200 · 36 Stat. 1014 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

60. An Act To protect the locators in good faith of oil and gas lands who shall have effected an actual discovery of oil or gas on the public lands of the United States, or their successors in interest.

    Ch. 201 · 36 Stat. 1014 · March 2, 1911 · Original text

61. An Act Granting pensions and increases of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 202 · 36 Stat. 2011 · March 2, 1911 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of M. N. Swofford, deceased.

    Ch. 203 · 36 Stat. 2020 · March 2, 1911 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of John Marshall.

    Ch. 204 · 36 Stat. 2021 · March 2, 1911 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Charles A. Caswell.

    Ch. 205 · 36 Stat. 2021 · March 2, 1911 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of Henry Halteman.

    Ch. 206 · 36 Stat. 2021 · March 2, 1911 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 207 · 36 Stat. 1014 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

67. An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 208 · 36 Stat. 1027 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

68. An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 209 · 36 Stat. 1037 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

69. 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 twelve.

    Ch. 210 · 36 Stat. 1058 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

70. An Act Providing for the taking over by the United States Government of the confederate cemetery at Springfield, Missouri.

    Ch. 211 · 36 Stat. 1077 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize the extension of Van Buren Street northwest.

    Ch. 212 · 36 Stat. 1078 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

72. An Act To remove cloud from the title of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-three, township forty-seven, range twenty-three west of the fifth principal meridian, except ten acres off of the north side thereof, in Pettis County, Missouri, and to release the title of the United States therein to George R. Shelley, his heirs and assigns.

    Ch. 213 · 36 Stat. 1079 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of William H. Walsh.

    Ch. 214 · 36 Stat. 1079 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

74. An Act To authorize additional aids to navigation in the Lighthouse Establishment, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 215 · 36 Stat. 1079 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Passed Assistant Paymaster Edwin M. Hacker.

    Ch. 216 · 36 Stat. 1080 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

76. An Act To designate Saint Andrews, Florida, as a subport of entry.

    Ch. 217 · 36 Stat. 1080 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

77. An Act To amend section three of the Act of Congress of May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and extend the provisions of section twenty-three hundred and one of the Revised Statutes of the United States to certain lands in the State of Montana embraced within the provisions of said Act, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 218 · 36 Stat. 1080 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

78. An Act To promote the erection of a memorial in conjunction with a Perry’s victory centennial celebration on Put-in-Bay Island during the year nineteen hundred and thirteen in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie and the northwestern campaign of General William Henry Harrison in the War of Eighteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 219 · 36 Stat. 1081 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

79. An Act To authorize the Greeley-Arizona Irrigation Company to build a dam across the Colorado River at or near Head Gate Rock, near Parker, in Yuma County, Arizona.

    Ch. 220 · 36 Stat. 1081 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

80. An Act To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across Missouri River at or near Yankton, South Dakota, by the Winnipeg, Yankton and Gulf Railroad Company.

    Ch. 221 · 36 Stat. 1082 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

81. An Act Authorizing the Erie Railroad Company to construct a canal connecting the Hackensack River and Berrys Creek, Bergen County, New Jersey, as an aid to navigation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 222 · 36 Stat. 1082 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

82. An Act Amending section seventeen hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 223 · 36 Stat. 1083 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

83. An Act To amend section nine hundred and ninety-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the Act of February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

    Ch. 224 · 36 Stat. 1083 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

84. An Act Providing for the validation of certain homestead entries.

    Ch. 225 · 36 Stat. 1084 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

85. An Act To prevent the disclosure of national defense secrets.

    Ch. 226 · 36 Stat. 1084 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

86. 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 twelve, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 227 · 36 Stat. 1085 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

87. An Act To constitute Birmingham, in the State of Alabama, a subport of entry.

    Ch. 228 · 36 Stat. 1086 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

88. An Act To authorize Park C. Abell, George B. Lloyd, and Andrew B. Sullivan, of Indian Head, Charles County, Maryland, to construct a bridge across the Mattawoman Creek, near the village of Indian Head, Maryland.

    Ch. 229 · 36 Stat. 1086 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

89. An Act To amend section one of the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, being an Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act conferring jurisdiction upon United States commissioners over offenses committed on a portion of the permanent Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, Arkansas.”

    Ch. 230 · 36 Stat. 1086 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

90. An Act To codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.

    Ch. 231 · 36 Stat. 1087 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

91. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point Mr. Melchor Batista, of Cuba.

    Public Resolution 15 · 36 Stat. 1458 · March 3, 1911 · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of John M. Bonine.

    Ch. 232 · 36 Stat. 2021 · March 3, 1911 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Charles J. Smith.

    Ch. 233 · 36 Stat. 2022 · March 3, 1911 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of S. H. Robinson, of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 234 · 36 Stat. 2022 · March 3, 1911 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To waive the age limit for admission to the Pay Corps of the United States Navy for one year in the case of Paymaster’s Clerk Arthur Henry Mayo.

    Ch. 235 · 36 Stat. 2022 · March 3, 1911 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of certain persons having supplied labor and materials for the prosecution of the work of making the main canal of the Belle Fourche irrigation project.

    Ch. 236 · 36 Stat. 1170 · March 4, 1911 · Original text

97. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 237 · 36 Stat. 1170 · March 4, 1911 · Original text

98. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 238 · 36 Stat. 1235 · March 4, 1911 · Original text

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

    Ch. 239 · 36 Stat. 1265 · March 4, 1911 · Original text

100. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven and for prior years, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 240 · 36 Stat. 1289 · March 4, 1911 · Original text