Every law Congress has passed

717 laws of the 62nd Congress, 1911–1913

1. Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point Mr. Manuel Agüero y Junqué, of Cuba.

   Public Resolution 16 · 37 Stat. 628 · April 19, 1911 · Original text

2. Joint Resolution Making appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-second Congress.

   Public Resolution 1 · 37 Stat. 35 · May 8, 1911 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Making immediately available the appropriations for mileage of Senators and of Members of the House of Representatives.

   Public Resolution 2 · 37 Stat. 36 · May 8, 1911 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution To grant authority to the American Red Cross to erect temporary structures in Potomac Park, Washington, District of Columbia.

   Public Resolution 3 · 37 Stat. 36 · May 11, 1911 · Original text

5. An Act To authorize the extension and widening of Colorado Avenue northwest from Longfellow Street to Sixteenth Street, and of Kennedy Street northwest through lot numbered eight hundred, square numbered twenty-seven hundred and eighteen.

   Ch. 1 · 37 Stat. 1 · June 30, 1911 · Original text

6. An Act To supply a deficiency in the appropriations for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 2 · 37 Stat. 1 · July 21, 1911 · Original text

7. An Act To promote reciprocal trade relations with the Dominion of Canada, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 3 · 37 Stat. 4 · July 26, 1911 · Original text

8. An Act To amend paragraph five hundred of the Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.”

   Ch. 4 · 37 Stat. 12 · July 27, 1911 · Original text

9. An Act For the apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States under the Thirteenth Census.

   Ch. 5 · 37 Stat. 13 · August 8, 1911 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution Making appropriations for certain expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives incident to the first session of the Sixty-second Congress, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 4 · 37 Stat. 36 · August 8, 1911 · Original text

11. An Act Permitting the Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Sault Sainte Marie Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Saint Croix River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

    Ch. 6 · 37 Stat. 14 · August 10, 1911 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize the Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad Company and its lessee, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, or either of them, to construct a bridge across the Palmers or Warren River, in the State of Rhode Island.

    Ch. 7 · 37 Stat. 15 · August 10, 1911 · Original text

13. 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 Weldon Springs Landing, Missouri.

    Ch. 8 · 37 Stat. 15 · August 10, 1911 · Original text

14. An Act To authorize the town of Logan, Aitkin County, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in Aitkin County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 9 · 37 Stat. 15 · August 14, 1911 · Original text

15. An Act To authorize the bridge directors of the Jefferson County bridge district to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River at Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

    Ch. 10 · 37 Stat. 16 · August 14, 1911 · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of the city of Crawford, in the State of Nebraska.

    Ch. 11 · 37 Stat. 16 · August 14, 1911 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution To amend certain appropriation Acts approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Public Resolution 5 · 37 Stat. 37 · August 14, 1911 · Original text

18. An Act To define and classify health, accident, and death benefit companies and associations operating in the District of Columbia, and to amend section six hundred and fifty-three of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 12 · 37 Stat. 16 · August 15, 1911 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize the Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company to construct and operate a bridge across the Saint Francis River in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 13 · 37 Stat. 18 · August 15, 1911 · Original text

20. An Act To legalize a bridge across the Pend Oreille River, in Stevens County, Washington.

    Ch. 14 · 37 Stat. 18 · August 16, 1911 · Original text

21. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to legalize and establish a pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, and to authorize the construction of a similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa,” approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

    Ch. 15 · 37 Stat. 19 · August 16, 1911 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across and over the Arkansas River, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 16 · 37 Stat. 19 · August 16, 1911 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the Chicago, Lake Shore and Eastern Bailway Company to construct a bridge across the Calumet River, in the State of Indiana.

    Ch. 17 · 37 Stat. 19 · August 16, 1911 · Original text

24. An Act To authorize the Campbell Lumber Company to construct a bridge across the Saint Francis River from a point in Dunklin County, Missouri, to a point in Clay County, Arkansas.

    Ch. 18 · 37 Stat. 20 · August 16, 1911 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the Levitte Land and Lumber Company to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, in Drew County, Arkansas.

    Ch. 19 · 37 Stat. 20 · August 16, 1911 · Original text

26. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge, and approaches thereto, across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at or near Matewan Station, in Mingo County, West Virginia.

    Ch. 20 · 37 Stat. 20 · August 16, 1911 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to sell the old post-office and courthouse building at Charleston, West Virginia, and, in the event of such sale, to enter into a contract for the construction of a suitable post-office and courthouse building at Charleston, West Virginia, without additional cost to the Government of the United States.

    Ch. 21 · 37 Stat. 21 · August 17, 1911 · Original text

28. An Act Extending the time of payment to certain homesteaders in the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota.

    Ch. 22 · 37 Stat. 21 · August 17, 1911 · Original text

29. An Act To extend the privileges of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to the port of Brownsville, Texas.

    Ch. 23 · 37 Stat. 22 · August 17, 1911 · Original text

30. An Act To reenact an Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across Saint Croix River, and to extend the time for commencing and completing the said structure.

    Ch. 24 · 37 Stat. 22 · August 17, 1911 · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Eliza Choteau Roscamp.

    Ch. 21 · 37 Stat. 1027 · August 17, 1911 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act To amend section six hundred and forty-seven, chapter eighteen, Code of Law for the District of Columbia, relating to annual statements of insurance companies.

    Ch. 26 · 37 Stat. 22 · August 18, 1911 · Original text

33. An Act To provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new public building at Bangor, Maine; also tor the sale of the site and ruins of the former post-office building.

    Ch. 27 · 37 Stat. 23 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

34. An Act Granting leave of absence to certain homesteaders.

    Ch. 28 · 37 Stat. 23 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

35. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge, and approaches thereto, across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at or near Glenhayes Station, in Wayne County, West Virginia.

    Ch. 29 · 37 Stat. 24 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

36. An Act To construct a bridge across Rock River at or near Colona Ferry, in the State of Illinois.

    Ch. 30 · 37 Stat. 24 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

37. An Act Permitting the building of a railroad bridge across the Saint Croix River between Burnett County, Wisconsin, and Pine County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 31 · 37 Stat. 25 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

38. An Act To increase the limit of cost of the public building authorized to be constructed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 32 · 37 Stat. 25 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

39. An Act To amend an act entitled “An act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected” and extending the same to candidates for nomination and election to the offices of Representative and Senator in the Congress of the United States and limiting the amount of campaign expenses.

    Ch. 33 · 37 Stat. 25 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

40. An Act To confirm the name of Commodore Barney Circle for the circle located at the eastern end of Pennsylvania Avenue southeast, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 34 · 37 Stat. 29 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution For appointment of a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

    Public Resolution 6 · 37 Stat. 38 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

42. Joint Resolution Requesting the President of the United States to direct the Secretary of State to issue invitations to foreign Governments to participate in the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene.

    Public Resolution 46 · 37 Stat. 642 · August 19, 1911 · Original text

43. An Act To authorize the counties of Yell and Conway to construct a bridge across the Petit Jean River.

    Ch. 35 · 37 Stat. 29 · August 21, 1911 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution Providing for additional lands for Colorado under the provisions of the Carey Act.

    Public Resolution 7 · 37 Stat. 38 · August 21, 1911 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution Providing for additional lands for Colorado under the provisions of the Carey Act.

    Public Resolution 8 · 37 Stat. 39 · August 21, 1911 · Original text

46. An Act To require the National Monetary Commission to make final report on or before January eighth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and to repeal sections seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the national banking laws,” approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, the repeal to take effect March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 36 · 37 Stat. 30 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the counties of Bradley and McMinn, Tennessee, by authority of their county courts, to construct a bridge across the Hiwassee River at Charleston and Calhoun, in said counties.

    Ch. 37 · 37 Stat. 31 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Snake River at the town of Nyssa, Oregon.

    Ch. 38 · 37 Stat. 31 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

49. An Act To provide for the disposal of the present Federal building site at Newark, Ohio, and for the purchase of a new site for such building.

    Ch. 39 · 37 Stat. 31 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

50. An Act To increase the cost limit of the public building at Lynchburg, Virginia.

    Ch. 40 · 37 Stat. 32 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

51. An Act To improve navigation on Black Warrior River, in the State of Alabama.

    Ch. 41 · 37 Stat. 32 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

52. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to make partial payments for work already done under public contracts.

    Ch. 42 · 37 Stat. 32 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

53. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the passage of local or special laws in the Territories of the United States, to limit Territorial indebtedness, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 43 · 37 Stat. 33 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

54. An Act To extend time of payment of balance due for lands sold under Act of Congress approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten.

    Ch. 44 · 37 Stat. 33 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

55. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the funds of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 45 · 37 Stat. 33 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

56. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Ch. 46 · 37 Stat. 34 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution Extending the operation of the Act for the control and regulation of the waters of Niagara River, for the preservation of Niagara Falls, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 9 · 37 Stat. 43 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

58. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for the use of the Astoria Centennial, to be held at Astoria, Oregon, August tenth to September ninth, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Public Resolution 10 · 37 Stat. 43 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

59. Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make a per capita payment to the enrolled members of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Seminole Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes entitled to share in the funds of said tribes.

    Public Resolution 11 · 37 Stat. 44 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

60. Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of August, nineteen hundred and eleven, on the day of adjournment of the present session.

    Public Resolution 12 · 37 Stat. 44 · August 22, 1911 · Original text

61. An Act Relieving and exempting lot numbered fifty-three in Ann S. Parker’s subdivision of lots in square numbered one hundred and forty of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, from the operation of an Act entitled ”;An Act to restrict the ownership of real estate in the Territories to American citizens,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

    Ch. 47 · 37 Stat. 1027 · August 22, 1911 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act To remit the duty on pictorial windows to be imported by the Gate of Heaven Church, South Boston, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 48 · 37 Stat. 1028 · August 22, 1911 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act To authorize and direct the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to place the name of Annie M. Matthews on the pension roll of the police and firemen’s pension fund.

    Ch. 49 · 37 Stat. 1028 · August 22, 1911 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act To provide a suitable memorial to the memory of the North American Indian.

    Ch. 1 · 37 Stat. 45 · December 8, 1911 · Original text

65. An Act Providing for the punishment of persons in possession of stolen property in the District of Columbia, having stolen the same in any other State or Territory.

    Ch. 2 · 37 Stat. 45 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

66. An Act Extending the time for payment of balance due on purchase price of a certain tract of land.

    Ch. 3 · 37 Stat. 46 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

67. An Act Amending section sixty-seven of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.

    Ch. 4 · 37 Stat. 46 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

68. An Act To amend and reenact paragraph twenty-four of section twenty-four of Chapter Two of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Ch. 5 · 37 Stat. 46 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

69. Joint Resolution Providing for the termination of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-two between the United States and Russia.

    Public Resolution 1 · 37 Stat. 627 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

70. To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nine-teen hundred and eleven, on the twenty-first day of said month.

    Public Resolution 2 · 37 Stat. 627 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution To pay Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, their allowance for clerk hire for December, nineteen hundred and eleven, on the twenty-first day of that month.

    Public Resolution 3 · 37 Stat. 628 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Librarian of Congress to furnish a copy of the daily and bound Congressional Record to the Under Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada in exchange for a copy of the Parliamentary Hansard.

    Public Resolution 14 · 37 Stat. 628 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

73. To amend the joint resolution to prohibit the export of coal or other material used in war front any seaport of the United States.

    Public Resolution 10 · 37 Stat. 630 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

74. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing Charles F. Riddell, cashier in the office of the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, to draw checks, requisitions, and execute all papers necessary to obtain from the United States Treasury the money appropriated for salaries and mileage of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commission era of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 26 · 37 Stat. 637 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution To appoint Andrew D. White a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Resolution 27 · 37 Stat. 637 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

76. Joint Resolution To provide transportation for American citizens fleeing from threatened danger in the Republic of Mexico.

    Public Resolution 42 · 37 Stat. 641 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution

    (none) 51 · 37 Stat. 644 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the city of Washington of a joint memorial to Major Archibald W. Butt and Francia Davis Millet.

    Public Resolution 52 · 37 Stat. 644 · December 21, 1911 · Original text

79. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 6 · 37 Stat. 47 · December 22, 1911 · Original text

80. An Act To amend section eighty-five of the “Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Ch. 7 · 37 Stat. 51 · December 22, 1911 · Original text

81. An Act To amend section ninety-one of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Ch. 8 · 37 Stat. 51 · December 22, 1911 · Original text

82. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.”

    Ch. 9 · 37 Stat. 52 · January 13, 1912 · Original text

83. An Act To provide for the transfer of certain causes and proceedings to the southern division of the middle district of Alabama.

    Ch. 10 · 37 Stat. 53 · January 17, 1912 · Original text

84. An Act To amend the Code of Law for the District of Columbia regarding insurance.

    Ch. 11 · 37 Stat. 53 · January 17, 1912 · Original text

85. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver two condemned cannon to the Grand Army of the Republic.

    Public Resolution 4 · 37 Stat. 628 · January 18, 1912 · Original text

86. An Act To amend section ten hundred and four of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 12 · 37 Stat. 54 · January 22, 1912 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Snake River, between Walla Walla and Franklin Counties, in the State of Washington, by the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company.

    Ch. 13 · 37 Stat. 54 · January 22, 1912 · Original text

88. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Missouri River at or near Sibley, in the State of Missouri,” approved July third, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

    Ch. 14 · 37 Stat. 55 · January 22, 1912 · Original text

89. An Act To authorize the Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway to construct a bridge across Morris and Cummings Channel.

    Ch. 15 · 37 Stat. 55 · January 22, 1912 · Original text

90. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Connecticut River, in the State of Connecticut, between the towns of East Haddam and Haddam.

    Ch. 16 · 37 Stat. 55 · January 25, 1912 · Original text

91. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant further extension of time within which to make proof on desert-land, entries in the counties of Weld and Larimer, Colorado.

    Ch. 17 · 37 Stat. 56 · January 26, 1912 · Original text

92. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, Mr. José Pasos Diaz, of Nicaragua.

    Public Resolution 5 · 37 Stat. 628 · January 26, 1912 · Original text

93. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge, and approaches thereto, across the Tug Fork of Big Sandy River.

    Ch. 18 · 37 Stat. 56 · January 27, 1912 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Caddo Lake, in Louisiana.

    Ch. 19 · 37 Stat. 56 · January 27, 1912 · Original text

95. An Act To authorize the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said city.

    Ch. 20 · 37 Stat. 57 · January 27, 1912 · Original text

96. An Act To authorize the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said city.

    Ch. 21 · 37 Stat. 57 · January 27, 1912 · Original text

97. An Act To extend the time for building a bridge across the Mississippi River at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    Ch. 22 · 37 Stat. 57 · January 27, 1912 · Original text

98. An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Mississippi River at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    Ch. 23 · 37 Stat. 58 · January 27, 1912 · Original text

99. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Little River, at or near Lepanto, Arkansas.

    Ch. 24 · 37 Stat. 58 · January 27, 1912 · Original text

100. An Act To authorize the board of county commissioners for Beltrami County, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River.

     Ch. 25 · 37 Stat. 58 · January 27, 1912 · Original text