Every law Congress has passed

717 laws of the 62nd Congress, 1911–1913

1. An Act To amend section one hundred and ten of “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.

   Ch. 26 · 37 Stat. 58 · February 1, 1912 · Original text

2. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.

   Ch. 27 · 37 Stat. 59 · February 1, 1912 · Original text

3. An Act To amend sections ninety, ninety-nine, one hundred and five, and one hundred and eighty-six 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. 28 · 37 Stat. 59 · February 5, 1912 · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the Twin City and Lake Superior Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Saint Croix River between Chisago County, Minnesota, and Polk County, Wisconsin.

   Ch. 29 · 37 Stat. 61 · February 5, 1912 · Original text

5. An Act To provide for the reconstruction, alteration, and repair of a bridge across the Weymouth Back River, in the State of Massachusetts.

   Ch. 30 · 37 Stat. 61 · February 9, 1912 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize the Lewisburg and Northern Railroad Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River in the State of Tennessee.

   Ch. 31 · 37 Stat. 62 · February 9, 1912 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents and cots for the use of the Confederate Veterans’ Reunion, to be held at Macon, Georgia, in May, nineteen hundred and twelve.

   Public Resolution 6 · 37 Stat. 628 · February 9, 1912 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the change of name of the steamer Henry A. Hawgood.

   Ch. 32 · 37 Stat. 62 · February 10, 1912 · Original text

9. An Act To grant authority to the Inland Steamship Company of Indiana Harbor, Indiana, to change the name of the steamer W. R. Woodford to N. F. Leopold.

   Ch. 33 · 37 Stat. 62 · February 10, 1912 · Original text

10. An Act To grant authority to the Inland Steamship Company of Indiana Harbor, Indiana, to change the name of the steamer Arthur H. Hawgood to Joseph Block.

    Ch. 34 · 37 Stat. 63 · February 10, 1912 · Original text

11. An Act Amending paragraph six of the Act relating to the Metropolitan police force.

    Ch. 35 · 37 Stat. 63 · February 10, 1912 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver to the governor of the State of Arizona, for the use of the State, certain furniture and furnishings.

    Ch. 36 · 37 Stat. 63 · February 10, 1912 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the sale of land within or near the town site of Midvale, Montana, for hotel purposes.

    Ch. 37 · 37 Stat. 64 · February 10, 1912 · Original text

14. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for support of the workhouse of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Public Resolution 7 · 37 Stat. 629 · February 10, 1912 · Original text

15. An Act To amend section one hundred and seventy-one of the penal laws of the United States, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 38 · 37 Stat. 64 · February 15, 1912 · Original text

16. An Act To restore the name of Oregon Avenue, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 39 · 37 Stat. 65 · February 15, 1912 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution Granting the temporary use of certain lands in the Presidio of San Francisco and Fort Mason (California) Military Reservations to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company.

    Public Resolution 8 · 37 Stat. 629 · February 16, 1912 · Original text

18. An Act To amend an Act approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, authorizing J. W. Vance and others to construct and maintain a dam and tunnel on the Big Bend of the James River, in Stone County, Missouri, to create electric power.

    Ch. 40 · 37 Stat. 65 · February 17, 1912 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize the city of Chicago to construct a bascule bridge across the Calumet River at Ninety-second Street, in said city.

    Ch. 41 · 37 Stat. 66 · February 17, 1912 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company to construct a bascule bridge across the Calumet River at South Chicago, Illinois.

    Ch. 42 · 37 Stat. 66 · February 17, 1912 · Original text

21. An Act To authorize Butler and Stoddard Counties of Missouri to construct a bridge across the Saint Francis River at Hodges Ferry, Missouri.

    Ch. 43 · 37 Stat. 67 · February 17, 1912 · Original text

22. An Act To extend the time for the completion of the municipal bridge at Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 44 · 37 Stat. 67 · February 17, 1912 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize Taney County, Missouri, to construct a bridge across the White River at Branson, Missouri.

    Ch. 45 · 37 Stat. 67 · February 17, 1912 · Original text

24. An Act To provide for the sale of the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 46 · 37 Stat. 67 · February 19, 1912 · Original text

25. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to simplify the issue of enrollments and licenses of vessels of the United States.”

    Ch. 47 · 37 Stat. 70 · February 29, 1912 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the extension of Lamont Street northwest, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 48 · 37 Stat. 71 · March 1, 1912 · Original text

27. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the board of county commissioners of Lincoln County, State of Montana, to construct, maintain, and operate three bridges across the Kootenai River in the State of Montana.

    Ch. 49 · 37 Stat. 71 · March 4, 1912 · Original text

28. An Act Relative to members of the Female Nurse Corps serving in Alaska or at places without the limits of the United States.

    Ch. 50 · 37 Stat. 72 · March 4, 1912 · Original text

29. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General to deliver to the governor of the State of New Mexico, for the use of the State, certain furniture and furnishings, law books, and typewriters.

    Ch. 51 · 37 Stat. 72 · March 4, 1912 · Original text

30. An Act To extend the time for completion of a dam across the Savannah River, at or near the mouth of Stevens Creek, between the counties of Edgefield, South Carolina, and Columbia, Georgia, authorized by an Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 52 · 37 Stat. 72 · March 5, 1912 · Original text

31. An Act Authorizing that commission of ensign be given midshipmen upon graduation from the Naval Academy.

    Ch. 53 · 37 Stat. 73 · March 7, 1912 · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Benjamin F. Martz, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 54 · 37 Stat. 1029 · March 7, 1912 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act To amend section fifteen hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States providing for the suspension from promotion of officers of the Navy if not professionally qualified.

    Ch. 55 · 37 Stat. 73 · March 11, 1912 · Original text

34. An Act To authorize the change of the name of the steamer William A. Hawgood.

    Ch. 56 · 37 Stat. 73 · March 11, 1912 · Original text

35. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment,” approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Ch. 57 · 37 Stat. 74 · March 11, 1912 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the change of name of the steamer Salt Lake City.

    Ch. 58 · 37 Stat. 74 · March 12, 1912 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the Minnesota and International Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Bemidji, in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 59 · 37 Stat. 74 · March 12, 1912 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution Making appropriations to meet certain contingent expenses of the Senate.

    Public Resolution 9 · 37 Stat. 630 · March 12, 1912 · Original text

39. An Act Providing for the reappraisement and sale of certain lands in the town site of Port Angeles, Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 60 · 37 Stat. 74 · March 16, 1912 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the board of county commissioners of Baxter County and the board of county commissioners of Marion County, in the State of Arkansas, acting together for the two counties as bridge commissioners, to construct a bridge across the White River at or near the town of Cotter, Arkansas.

    Ch. 61 · 37 Stat. 75 · March 22, 1912 · Original text

41. An Act To authorize the Northern Pacific Railway Company to cross the Government right of way along and adjacent to the canal connecting the waters of Puget Sound with Lake Washington at Seattle, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 62 · 37 Stat. 75 · March 22, 1912 · Original text

42. An Act To amend section one hundred and thirteen of the Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary, approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Ch. 63 · 37 Stat. 76 · March 23, 1912 · Original text

43. An Act Granting the courthouse reserve, at Pond Creek, Oklahoma, to the city of Pond Creek for school and municipal purposes.

    Ch. 64 · 37 Stat. 76 · March 23, 1912 · Original text

44. An Act To amend an Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 65 · 37 Stat. 77 · March 23, 1912 · Original text

45. An Act Authorizing the town of Grand Rapids to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in Itasca County, State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 66 · 37 Stat. 77 · March 23, 1912 · Original text

46. An Act To amend section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to isolated tracts of public land.

    Ch. 67 · 37 Stat. 77 · March 28, 1912 · Original text

47. 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. 68 · 37 Stat. 1029 · March 29, 1912 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Appropriating three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of maintaining and protecting against impending floods the levees on the Mississippi River.

    Ch. 69 · 37 Stat. 78 · April 3, 1912 · Original text

49. Joint Resolution To authorize allotments to Indians of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, of lands valuable for coal.

    Public Resolution 11 · 37 Stat. 631 · April 3, 1912 · Original text

50. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to permit the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Coal Company and the Eastern Coal and Mining Company to exchange certain lands embraced within their existing coal leases in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations for other lands within said nations.

    Ch. 70 · 37 Stat. 78 · April 5, 1912 · Original text

51. 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 12 · 37 Stat. 631 · April 5, 1912 · Original text

52. An Act Providing for an increase of salary of the United States marshal for the district of Connecticut.

    Ch. 71 · 37 Stat. 79 · April 8, 1912 · Original text

53. An Act Making appropriation for repair, preservation, and exhibition of the trophy flags now in store in the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.

    Ch. 72 · 37 Stat. 79 · April 8, 1912 · Original text

54. An Act To establish in the Department of Commerce and Labor a bureau to be known as the Children’s Bureau.

    Ch. 73 · 37 Stat. 79 · April 9, 1912 · Original text

55. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to secure for the United States title to patented lands in the Yosemite National Park, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 74 · 37 Stat. 80 · April 9, 1912 · Original text

56. An Act To provide for a tax upon white phosphorus matches, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 75 · 37 Stat. 81 · April 9, 1912 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution To amend an Act entitled “An Act appropriating three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of maintaining and protecting against impending floods the levees on the Mississippi River,” approved April third, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Public Resolution 13 · 37 Stat. 631 · April 9, 1912 · Original text

58. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point Messrs. Humberto Mencia and Juan Dawson, of Salvador.

    Public Resolution 15 · 37 Stat. 632 · April 10, 1912 · Original text

59. 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 of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 76 · 37 Stat. 1030 · April 12, 1912 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act Extending the time of payment to certain homesteaders on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, and on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota.

    Ch. 77 · 37 Stat. 84 · April 13, 1912 · Original text

61. An Act To provide for an extension of time of payment of all unpaid payments due from homesteaders on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, as provided for under an Act of Congress approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 78 · 37 Stat. 85 · April 15, 1912 · Original text

62. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a dam across Rock River, Illinois.

    Ch. 79 · 37 Stat. 85 · April 15, 1912 · Original text

63. An Act Appropriating three hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of maintaining and protecting against the impending flood the levees on the Mississippi River and rivers tributary thereto.

    Ch. 80 · 37 Stat. 85 · April 16, 1912 · Original text

64. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to donate to the city of Jackson, Mississippi, carriage and cannon or fieldpieces.

    Ch. 81 · 37 Stat. 86 · April 18, 1912 · Original text

65. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Willamette River at or near Newberg, Oregon.

    Ch. 82 · 37 Stat. 86 · April 18, 1912 · Original text

66. An Act Supplementary to and amendatory of the Act entitled “An Act for the division of the lands and funds of the Osage Nation of Indians in Oklahoma,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 83 · 37 Stat. 86 · April 18, 1912 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the San Antonio, Rockport and Mexican Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Morris and Cummings Channel.

    Ch. 84 · 37 Stat. 89 · April 22, 1912 · Original text

68. An Act To authorize the Nebraska-Iowa Interstate Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River near Bellevue, Nebraska.

    Ch. 85 · 37 Stat. 89 · April 22, 1912 · Original text

69. An Act To authorize the city of South Sioux City, in the State of Nebraska, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River between the States of Nebraska and Iowa.

    Ch. 86 · 37 Stat. 89 · April 22, 1912 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for the use of the Grand Army of the Republic encampment, to be held at Pullman, Washington, in June, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Public Resolution 17 · 37 Stat. 633 · April 22, 1912 · Original text

71. An Act Extending the operation of the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, to coal lands in Alabama.

    Ch. 87 · 37 Stat. 90 · April 23, 1912 · Original text

72. An Act Granting school lands to the State of Louisiana.

    Ch. 88 · 37 Stat. 90 · April 23, 1912 · Original text

73. An Act Authorizing the lease of school lands for public-park purposes by the State of Washington for a longer period than five years.

    Ch. 89 · 37 Stat. 90 · April 24, 1912 · Original text

74. An Act To provide for the use of the American National Red Cross in aid of the land and naval forces in time of actual or threatened war.

    Ch. 90 · 37 Stat. 90 · April 24, 1912 · Original text

75. An Act Providing for patents to homesteads on the ceded portion of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.

    Ch. 91 · 37 Stat. 91 · April 27, 1912 · Original text

76. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to subdivide and extend the deferred payments of settlers in the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache ceded lands in Oklahoma.

    Ch. 92 · 37 Stat. 91 · April 27, 1912 · Original text

77. An Act Authorizing the fiscal court of Pike County, Kentucky, to construct a bridge across Russell Fork of Big Sandy River.

    Ch. 93 · 37 Stat. 92 · April 27, 1912 · Original text

78. An Act Granting to El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Territory and State of Arizona, a right of way through the Fort Huachuca Military Reservation, in the State of Arizona, and authorizing said corporation and its successors or assigns to construct and operate a railway through said Fort Huachuca Military Reservation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 94 · 37 Stat. 92 · April 27, 1912 · Original text

79. An Act To authorize the Port Arthur Pleasure Pier Company to construct a bridge across the Sabine-Neches Canal, in front of the town of Port Arthur.

    Ch. 95 · 37 Stat. 93 · April 27, 1912 · Original text

80. An Act Providing for the protection of the interests of the United States in lands and waters comprising any part of the Potomac River, the Anacostia River or Eastern Branch, and Rock Creek and lands adjacent thereto.

    Ch. 96 · 37 Stat. 93 · April 27, 1912 · Original text

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

    Ch. 97 · 37 Stat. 94 · April 30, 1912 · Original text

82. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 98 · 37 Stat. 104 · April 30, 1912 · Original text

83. An Act To supplement the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to provide for agricultural entries on coal lands.”

    Ch. 99 · 37 Stat. 105 · April 30, 1912 · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of homestead entrymen under the reclamation projects in the United States.

    Ch. 100 · 37 Stat. 105 · April 30, 1912 · Original text

85. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant further extension of time within which to make proof on desert-land entries.

    Ch. 101 · 37 Stat. 106 · April 30, 1912 · Original text

86. An Act To authorize the Director of the Census to collect and publish additional statistics of tobacco.

    Ch. 102 · 37 Stat. 106 · April 30, 1912 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the change of the names of the steamers Syracuse and Boston.

    Ch. 103 · 37 Stat. 108 · April 30, 1912 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Relative to the rebuilding of certain levees on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

    Public Resolution 18 · 37 Stat. 633 · April 30, 1912 · Original text

89. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.

    Ch. 104 · 37 Stat. 1031 · May 3, 1912 · Private law · Original text

90. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution providing that Senators shall be elected by the peopled the several States.

    Proposed Constitutional Amendment 39 · May 5, 1912

91. An Act To amend the Act of February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and twenty-six), entitled “An Act to create the Calaveras Big Tree National Forest, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 105 · 37 Stat. 108 · May 7, 1912 · Original text

92. An Act To incorporate the American Numismatic Association.

    Ch. 106 · 37 Stat. 108 · May 9, 1912 · Original text

93. An Act Providing an appropriation to check the inroads of the Missouri River in Dakota County, Nebraska.

    Ch. 107 · 37 Stat. 109 · May 9, 1912 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution Making appropriations for the relief of sufferers from floods in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys.

    Public Resolution 19 · 37 Stat. 633 · May 9, 1912 · Original text

95. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and Bailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers arid sailors.

    Ch. 108 · 37 Stat. 1040 · May 9, 1912 · Private law · Original text

96. 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 · 37 Stat. 1048 · May 9, 1912 · Private law · Original text

97. 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. 110 · 37 Stat. 1056 · May 9, 1912 · Private law · Original text

98. 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. 111 · 37 Stat. 1067 · May 9, 1912 · Private law · Original text

99. 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 certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 112 · 37 Stat. 1075 · May 9, 1912 · Private law · Original text

100. 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. 113 · 37 Stat. 1076 · May 9, 1912 · Private law · Original text