Every law Congress has passed

717 laws of the 62nd Congress, 1911–1913

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 each soldiers and sailors.

   Ch. 114 · 37 Stat. 1082 · May 9, 1912 · Private law · Original text

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

   Ch. 115 · 37 Stat. 1088 · May 9, 1912 · 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. 116 · 37 Stat. 1093 · May 9, 1912 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To make the special examiner of drugs, medicines, and chemicals an assistant appraiser at the port of Boston.

   Ch. 117 · 37 Stat. 110 · May 10, 1912 · Original text

5. An Act To establish Holeb, Maine, a subport of entry in the customs collection district of Bangor, Maine, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 118 · 37 Stat. 110 · May 10, 1912 · Original text

6. An Act To increase the limit of cost of the additions to the public building at Salt Lake City, Utah.

   Ch. 119 · 37 Stat. 110 · May 10, 1912 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the construction and maintenance of a dam or dams across the Kansas River in western Shawnee County, or in Wabaunsee County, in the State of Kansas.

   Ch. 120 · 37 Stat. 110 · May 11, 1912 · Original text

8. An Act To provide for the disposal of the unallotted land on the Omaha Indian Reservation, in the State of Nebraska.

   Ch. 121 · 37 Stat. 111 · May 11, 1912 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize the Williamson and Pond Creek Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at or near Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia.

   Ch. 122 · 37 Stat. 112 · May 11, 1912 · Original text

10. An Act Granting pensions to certain enlisted men, soldiers, and officers who served in the Civil War and the War with Mexico.

    Ch. 123 · 37 Stat. 112 · May 11, 1912 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution To authorize Captain John W. Gulick, United States Army, to accept a position under the Government of the Republic of Chile.

    Public Resolution 20 · 37 Stat. 1346 · May 11, 1912 · Private law · Original text

12. Joint Resolution Authorizing the licensing and employment of Otto Neumann Sverdrup as master of vessels of the United States.

    Public Resolution 31 · 37 Stat. 1346 · May 11, 1912 · Private law · Original text

13. Joint Resolution To grant American citizenship to Eugene Prince.

    Public Resolution 34 · 37 Stat. 1346 · May 11, 1912 · Private law · Original text

14. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to permit the continuation of coal-mining operations on certain lands in Wyoming.

    Public Resolution 38 · 37 Stat. 1346 · May 11, 1912 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act To amend “An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia,” approved June first, nineteen hundred and ten.

    Ch. 124 · 37 Stat. 114 · May 20, 1912 · Original text

16. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to convey to the city of Corsicana, Texas, certain land for alley purposes.

    Ch. 125 · 37 Stat. 114 · May 20, 1912 · Original text

17. An Act Providing for the sale of the old post-office property at Providence, Rhode Island, by public auction.

    Ch. 126 · 37 Stat. 115 · May 20, 1912 · Original text

18. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey to the city of Uvalde, Texas, a certain strip of land.

    Ch. 127 · 37 Stat. 115 · May 20, 1912 · Original text

19. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a dam across the Fend Oreille River, Washington.

    Ch. 128 · 37 Stat. 115 · May 20, 1912 · Original text

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

    Ch. 129 · 37 Stat. 116 · May 20, 1912 · Original text

21. An Act To require supervising inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, to submit their annual reports at the end of each fiscal year.

    Ch. 130 · 37 Stat. 116 · May 22, 1912 · Original text

22. An Act To establish Ashtabula, Ohio, a subport of entry in the customs collection district of Cuyahoga, Ohio, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 131 · 37 Stat. 116 · May 27, 1912 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the Great Northern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River in the State of North Dakota.

    Ch. 132 · 37 Stat. 117 · May 27, 1912 · Original text

24. An Act To authorize the Great Northern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Yellowstone River, in the county of Dawson, State of Montana.

    Ch. 133 · 37 Stat. 117 · May 27, 1912 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell certain land to the First Baptist Church of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 134 · 37 Stat. 117 · May 27, 1912 · Original text

26. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to issue certain reports relating to cotton.

    Ch. 135 · 37 Stat. 118 · May 27, 1912 · Original text

27. An Act To amend section ninety of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 136 · 37 Stat. 118 · May 27, 1912 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize levee and drainage district numbered twenty-five, of Dunklin County, Missouri, to construct and maintain a levee across a branch or cut-off of Saint Francis River, and to construct and maintain a levee across the mouth of the Varney River, in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 137 · 37 Stat. 119 · May 27, 1912 · Original text

29. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of Civil War and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 138 · 37 Stat. 1094 · May 27, 1912 · Private law · Original text

30. 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. 139 · 37 Stat. 1099 · May 27, 1912 · Private law · Original text

31. 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. 140 · 37 Stat. 1111 · May 27, 1912 · Private law · Original text

32. 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. 141 · 37 Stat. 1122 · May 27, 1912 · Private law · Original text

33. 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. 142 · 37 Stat. 1130 · May 27, 1912 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convert the regimental Army post at Fort Oglethorpe into a brigade post.

    Ch. 143 · 37 Stat. 119 · May 29, 1912 · Original text

35. An Act To create a new division of the southern judicial district of Texas, and to provide for terms of court at Corpus Christi, Texas, and for a clerk for said court, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 144 · 37 Stat. 120 · May 29, 1912 · Original text

36. An Act Providing for the construction and maintenance by the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, of an intake tower in the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 145 · 37 Stat. 120 · May 29, 1912 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for contingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 21 · 37 Stat. 634 · May 30, 1912 · Original text

38. An Act To extend the time for the completion of dams across the Savannah River by authority granted to Twin City Power Company by an Act approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Ch. 146 · 37 Stat. 120 · June 3, 1912 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital Association to occupy and construct buildings for the use of the corporation on lots numbered three and four, block numbered one hundred and fourteen, in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas.

    Ch. 147 · 37 Stat. 121 · June 3, 1912 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the village of Oslo, in the county of Marshall, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Red River of the North.

    Ch. 148 · 37 Stat. 121 · June 3, 1912 · 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 children of soldiers and sailors of said war.

    Ch. 149 · 37 Stat. 1139 · June 3, 1912 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of scientific institutions or colleges of learning having violated sections thirty-two hundred and ninety-seven and thirty-two hundred and ninety-seven a of the Revised Statutes and the regulations thereunder.

    Ch. 150 · 37 Stat. 122 · June 4, 1912 · Original text

43. An Act To relinquish, release, remise, and quitclaim all right, title, and interest of the United States of America in and to all the lands held under claim or color of title by individuals or private ownership or municipal ownership situated in the State of Alabama which were reserved, retained, or set apart to or for the Creek Tribe or Nation of Indians under or by virtue of the treaty entered into between the United States of America and the Creek Tribe or Nation of Indians on March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and under and by virtue of the treaty between the United States of America and the Creek Tribe or Nation of Indians of the ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen.

    Ch. 151 · 37 Stat. 122 · June 4, 1912 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution To authorize and direct the Great Northern Railway Company and the Spokane and British Columbia Railway Company in the matter of their conflicting claims or rights of way across the Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, in the San Roil River Valley, to readjust their respective locations of rights of way at points of conflict, in such manner as to allow each company an equal right of way through said valley; and in ease of their failure so to do to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to readjust said rights of way.

    Public Resolution 22 · 37 Stat. 634 · June 4, 1912 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution Authorizing Charles F. Riddell, cashier in the office of the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, to sign all checks, requisitions, and papers in the place of U. S. Jackson, Sergeant at Arms, to obtain money appropriated for the salaries and mileage of Members of the House of Representatives during the temporary disability of the said U. S. Jackson.

    Public Resolution 23 · 37 Stat. 636 · June 4, 1912 · Original text

46. An Act To amend an Act to authorize a bridge at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa, approved February first, nineteen hundred and eight, as amended.

    Ch. 152 · 37 Stat. 123 · June 5, 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 of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 158 · 37 Stat. 1149 · June 5, 1912 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To amend section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one and section twenty-two hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to homesteads.

    Ch. 153 · 37 Stat. 123 · June 6, 1912 · Original text

49. An Act To permit the American Academy in Rome to enlarge its purposes, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 154 · 37 Stat. 124 · June 6, 1912 · Original text

50. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to classify and appraise unallotted Indian lands.

    Ch. 155 · 37 Stat. 125 · June 6, 1912 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the construction of a pontoon bridge across the Red River of the North between Pembina, North Dakota, and Saint Vincent, Minnesota.

    Ch. 156 · 37 Stat. 125 · June 6, 1912 · Original text

52. 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. 157 · 37 Stat. 125 · June 6, 1912 · Original text

53. An Act To designate Walhalla, Neche, and Saint John, in the State of North Dakota, subports of entry, and to extend the privileges of the first section of the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to said subports.

    Ch. 159 · 37 Stat. 129 · June 7, 1912 · Original text

54. An Act Granting to the city of Twin Falls, Idaho, certain lands for reservoir purposes.

    Ch. 160 · 37 Stat. 130 · June 7, 1912 · Original text

55. An Act To exempt from cancellation certain desert-land entries in Chukawalla Valley, California.

    Ch. 161 · 37 Stat. 130 · June 7, 1912 · Original text

56. Joint Resolution Making provision for the Fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Commercial and Industrial Associations.

    Public Resolution 24 · 37 Stat. 636 · June 7, 1912 · Original text

57. An Act Granting to the city of Portland, Oregon, certain strips of land from the post-office and customhouse sites in said city for street purposes.

    Ch. 162 · 37 Stat. 130 · June 10, 1912 · Original text

58. An Act Authorizing the Cooper River Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of South Carolina, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across Goose Creek, in Berkeley County, South Carolina.

    Ch. 163 · 37 Stat. 131 · June 10, 1912 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through certain public lands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 164 · 37 Stat. 131 · June 10, 1912 · Original text

60. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography to occupy temporary structures erected by the American Red Cross and to erect temporary structures in Potomac Park, Washington, District of Columbia.

    Public Resolution 25 · 37 Stat. 636 · June 10, 1912 · Original text

61. An Act Authorizing the patenting of certain lands to rural high school district numbered one, of Nez Perce County, Idaho.

    Ch. 165 · 37 Stat. 132 · June 11, 1912 · Original text

62. An Act To amend section one of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 166 · 37 Stat. 132 · June 13, 1912 · Original text

63. An Act To appropriate three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to equip all Army transports with all lifeboats and rafts necessary to accommodate every person for which transportation facilities are now provided on said transports, and the crew of said transports.

    Ch. 167 · 37 Stat. 133 · June 14, 1912 · Original text

64. An Act To establish a subport of entry and delivery at Indiana Harbor, in the State of Indiana.

    Ch. 168 · 37 Stat. 133 · June 15, 1912 · Original text

65. An Act Act To make Bay City, Michigan, a subport of entry.

    Ch. 169 · 37 Stat. 133 · June 15, 1912 · Original text

66. An Act Granting certain lands to the State of California to form a part of California Redwood Park in said State.

    Ch. 170 · 37 Stat. 134 · June 15, 1912 · Original text

67. An Act To provide for the support and maintenance of bastards in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 171 · 37 Stat. 134 · June 18, 1912 · Original text

68. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to convey a certain lot in the city of Alva, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 172 · 37 Stat. 136 · June 18, 1912 · Original text

69. An Act To amend “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; also to construct and maintain docks and wharves along both Little and Big Dauphin Islands.”

    Ch. 173 · 37 Stat. 136 · June 18, 1912 · Original text

70. An Act Limiting the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon work done for the United States, or for any Territory, or for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 174 · 37 Stat. 137 · June 19, 1912 · Original text

71. 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. 175 · 37 Stat. 1150 · June 19, 1912 · Private law · Original text

72. 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. 176 · 37 Stat. 1160 · June 19, 1912 · Private law · Original text

73. 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. 177 · 37 Stat. 1176 · June 19, 1912 · Private law · Original text

74. 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. 178 · 37 Stat. 1191 · June 19, 1912 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 179 · 37 Stat. 1209 · June 19, 1912 · Private law · Original text

76. 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. 180 · 37 Stat. 1226 · June 19, 1912 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Legalizing certain conveyances heretofore made by the Union Pacific Railroad Company.

    Ch. 181 · 37 Stat. 138 · June 24, 1912 · Original text

78. 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 thirteen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 182 · 37 Stat. 139 · June 26, 1912 · Original text

79. An Act To authorize the Saint Louis Southwestern Railway Company to repair, alter, or rebuild certain bridges in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 183 · 37 Stat. 185 · June 26, 1912 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the Norfolk and Western Railway Company to construct sundry bridges across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.

    Ch. 184 · 37 Stat. 185 · June 26, 1912 · Original text

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

    Ch. 185 · 37 Stat. 186 · June 26, 1912 · Original text

82. An Act Authorizing the fiscal court of Pike County, Kentucky, to construct a bridge across Russell Fork of Big Sandy River, at or near Millard, Kentucky.

    Ch. 186 · 37 Stat. 186 · June 26, 1912 · Original text

83. An Act To correct the military record of William Z. Norman.

    Ch. 187 · 37 Stat. 1239 · June 26, 1912 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting a right of way to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company, or such successors or assigns is as may be approved by the Secretary of War, across the Fort Mason Military Reservation in California.

    Ch. 188 · 37 Stat. 186 · June 28, 1912 · Original text

85. Joint Resolution Proposing an international maritime conference.

    Public Resolution 28 · 37 Stat. 637 · June 28, 1912 · Original text

86. An Act To authorize the sale of certain lands within the Umatilla Indian Reservation to the city of Pendleton, Oregon.

    Ch. 189 · 37 Stat. 186 · July 1, 1912 · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska and Wisconsin.

    Ch. 190 · 37 Stat. 187 · July 1, 1912 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government under certain contingencies.

    Public Resolution 29 · 37 Stat. 638 · July 1, 1912 · Original text

89. An Act To increase the limit of cost of the United States post-office building at Huron, South Dakota.

    Ch. 191 · 37 Stat. 187 · July 3, 1912 · Original text

90. An Act Authorizing the President to nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint Lloyd L. R. Krebs, late a captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, a major in the Medical Corps on the retired list, and increasing the retired list by one for the purposes of this Act.

    Ch. 192 · 37 Stat. 187 · July 3, 1912 · Original text

91. An Act To authorize the appointment of Shepler Ward FitzGerald and of Alden George Strong to the grade of second lieutenant in the Army.

    Ch. 193 · 37 Stat. 188 · July 3, 1912 · Original text

92. An Act To authorize the appointment of Harold Hancock Taintor to the grade of second lieutenant in the Army.

    Ch. 194 · 37 Stat. 188 · July 3, 1912 · Original text

93. An Act Excepting certain lands in Lawrence and Pennington Counties, South Dakota, from the operation of the provisions of section four of an Act approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves.”

    Ch. 195 · 37 Stat. 188 · July 3, 1912 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, in the class other than Members of Congress.

    Public Resolution 30 · 37 Stat. 639 · July 3, 1912 · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Robert S. Gill.

    Ch. 196 · 37 Stat. 1239 · July 3, 1912 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Sarah A. Waite.

    Ch. 197 · 37 Stat. 1239 · July 3, 1912 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Douglas B. Thompson.

    Ch. 198 · 37 Stat. 1239 · July 3, 1912 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Slavo Ramadanovitch, of Cettigne, a Montenegrin subject, heir and administrator of Marcus Ramadanovitch, alias Radich, deceased.

    Ch. 199 · 37 Stat. 1240 · July 3, 1912 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act To reimburse the officers and crew of the lighthouse tender Manzanita for personal-property losses sustained by them on the foundering of that tender October sixth, nineteen hundred and five.

    Ch. 200 · 37 Stat. 1240 · July 3, 1912 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of the legal heirs of A. G. Strain.

     Ch. 201 · 37 Stat. 1240 · July 3, 1912 · Private law · Original text