Every law Congress has passed

717 laws of the 62nd Congress, 1911–1913

1. An Act For the relief of the estate of Eliza B. Hause.

   Ch. 293 · 37 Stat. 1287 · August 14, 1912 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of the estate of Johanna S. Stoeckle.

   Ch. 294 · 37 Stat. 1287 · August 14, 1912 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Annie R. Schley.

   Ch. 295 · 37 Stat. 1288 · August 14, 1912 · Private law · Original text

4. Joint Resolution To further continue the provisions of a joint resolution approved July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “Joint Resolution extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government under certain contingencies. ”

   Public Resolution 44 · 37 Stat. 642 · August 15, 1912 · Original text

5. An Act To perpetuate and preserve Fort McHenry and the grounds connected therewith as a Government reservation under the control of the Secretary of War.

   Ch. 296 · 37 Stat. 311 · August 16, 1912 · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of the J. Kennard and Sons Carpet Company.

   Ch. 297 · 37 Stat. 1288 · August 16, 1912 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of C. Person’s Sons.

   Ch. 298 · 37 Stat. 1288 · August 16, 1912 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Catherine Grimm.

   Ch. 299 · 37 Stat. 1288 · August 16, 1912 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the liens of judgments and decrees of the courts of the United States.

   Ch. 300 · 37 Stat. 311 · August 17, 1912 · Original text

10. 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 thirteen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 301 · 37 Stat. 311 · August 17, 1912 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Authorizing Federal bureaus doing hygienic and demographic work to participate in the exhibition to be held in connection with the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography.

    Public Resolution 45 · 37 Stat. 642 · August 17, 1912 · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Henry G. Roetzel and Paul Chipman.

    Ch. 302 · 37 Stat. 1288 · August 17, 1912 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Robert E. Burke.

    Ch. 303 · 37 Stat. 1289 · August 17, 1912 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Mary J. Manning.

    Ch. 304 · 37 Stat. 1289 · August 17, 1912 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act To extend the limits of the port of entry of Galveston, Texas, to include Port Bolivar, in that State.

    Ch. 305 · 37 Stat. 313 · August 20, 1912 · Original text

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

    Ch. 306 · 37 Stat. 314 · August 20, 1912 · Original text

17. An Act To amend sections forty-two hundred and fourteen and forty-two hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 307 · 37 Stat. 315 · August 20, 1912 · Original text

18. An Act To regulate the importation of nursery stock and other plants and plant products; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant diseases and insect pests; to permit and regulate the movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 308 · 37 Stat. 315 · August 20, 1912 · Original text

19. An Act To accept and fund the bequest of Gertrude M. Hubbard.

    Ch. 309 · 37 Stat. 319 · August 20, 1912 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to convey to the city of Sulphur Springs, Texas, certain land for street purposes.

    Ch. 310 · 37 Stat. 320 · August 20, 1912 · Original text

21. An Act Supplementing the joint resolution of Congress approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “Joint resolution instructing the Attorney General to institute certain suits,” and so forth.

    Ch. 311 · 37 Stat. 320 · August 20, 1912 · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Martin A. L. Olsen.

    Ch. 312 · 37 Stat. 1289 · August 20, 1912 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Providing for the refund of certain duties incorrectly collected on a certain horse.

    Ch. 313 · 37 Stat. 1290 · August 20, 1912 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of John M. Oak.

    Ch. 314 · 37 Stat. 1290 · August 20, 1912 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of William K. Harvey, alias William K. Hall.

    Ch. 315 · 37 Stat. 1290 · August 20, 1912 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To convey certain real estate in the village of Jonesville, Hillsdale County, Michigan.

    Ch. 316 · 37 Stat. 1290 · August 20, 1912 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the indemnification of Frank Wenzel.

    Ch. 317 · 37 Stat. 1291 · August 20, 1912 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Authorizing the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, to occupy and construct buildings for the use of the fire department of said city on lot numbered three, block numbered one hundred and fifteen, in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas.

    Ch. 318 · 37 Stat. 322 · August 21, 1912 · Original text

29. An Act Making a grant of lands for school purposes in block numbered thirty-one, town site of Powell, Shoshoni reclamation project, Wyoming.

    Ch. 319 · 37 Stat. 322 · August 21, 1912 · Original text

30. An Act To incorporate the Naval History Society.

    Ch. 320 · 37 Stat. 322 · August 21, 1912 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution Appropriating the sum of twenty thousand dollars out of money appropriated by Senate Joint Resolution No. 129, for subsistence of American citizens who shall have fled or who may hereafter flee from threatened danger in the Republic of Mexico into the States of the United States bordering on the Republic of Mexico.

    Public Resolution 47 · 37 Stat. 643 · August 21, 1912 · Original text

32. Joint Resolution Requesting the President to cause an investigation of the Patent Office and make a report with recommendations to Congress.

    Public Resolution 48 · 37 Stat. 643 · August 21, 1912 · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Mary Beal.

    Ch. 321 · 37 Stat. 1291 · August 21, 1912 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of I. S. Rogers and J. L. Worthley.

    Ch. 322 · 37 Stat. 1291 · August 21, 1912 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of John Johnson.

    Ch. 323 · 37 Stat. 1292 · August 21, 1912 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of E. Rosenwald and Brother.

    Ch. 324 · 37 Stat. 1292 · August 21, 1912 · Private law · Original text

37. 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. 325 · 37 Stat. 1292 · August 21, 1912 · Private law · Original text

38. 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. 326 · 37 Stat. 1293 · August 21, 1912 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act To provide for the exchange of national forest timber in New Mexico for private lands lying within the exterior limits of the Zuni National Forest.

    Ch. 327 · 37 Stat. 323 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

40. An Act Granting unsurveyed and unattached islands to the State of Wisconsin for forestry purposes.

    Ch. 328 · 37 Stat. 324 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of soldiers and sailors who enlisted or served under assumed names, while minors or otherwise, in the Army or Navy of the United States during any war with any foreign nation or people.

    Ch. 329 · 37 Stat. 324 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

42. An Act Granting public lands to the cities of Boulder and Canon City, in the State of Colorado, for public-park purposes.

    Ch. 330 · 37 Stat. 325 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

43. An Act Granting certain lands to the town of Yuma, Arizona.

    Ch. 331 · 37 Stat. 325 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

44. An Act To make Fort Covington, New York, a subport of entry.

    Ch. 332 · 37 Stat. 326 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize a change in the location of Fourteenth Street northeast, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 333 · 37 Stat. 326 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

46. An Act To provide for the entry under bond of exhibits of arts, sciences, and industries.

    Ch. 334 · 37 Stat. 327 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

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

    Ch. 335 · 37 Stat. 328 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

48. An Act Amending sections nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, fourteen hundred and twenty, and sixteen hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and to authorize the President, in certain cases, to mitigate or remit the loss of rights of citizenship imposed by law upon deserters from the military or naval service, and to authorize certain reenlistments in the Army and naval service.

    Ch. 336 · 37 Stat. 356 · August 22, 1912 · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of John Treffeisen.

    Ch. 337 · 37 Stat. 1293 · August 22, 1912 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey a certain frame building.

    Ch. 338 · 37 Stat. 1293 · August 22, 1912 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of John J. Troxell.

    Ch. 339 · 37 Stat. 1294 · August 22, 1912 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Stephen Campbell and Isaac Overdorf.

    Ch. 340 · 37 Stat. 1294 · August 22, 1912 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of John P. Risley.

    Ch. 341 · 37 Stat. 1294 · August 22, 1912 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Joe Cook.

    Ch. 342 · 37 Stat. 1294 · August 22, 1912 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to lease to the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway Company a tract of land in the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, in the State of Montana, and for a right of way thereto for the removal of gravel and ballast material.

    Ch. 343 · 37 Stat. 357 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

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

    Ch. 344 · 37 Stat. 357 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

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

    Ch. 345 · 37 Stat. 357 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

58. An Act To repeal section thirteen of the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act amending 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. 346 · 37 Stat. 358 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the cities of Bangor and Brewer, Maine, to construct or reconstruct, wholly or in part, and maintain and operate a bridge across the Penobscot River, between said cities, without a draw.

    Ch. 347 · 37 Stat. 358 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

60. An Act To amend an Act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to authorize Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River.”

    Ch. 348 · 37 Stat. 359 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

61. An Act Amending paragraph ten of section eight of an Act entitled “An Act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected,” approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, as amended by section two of an Act entitled “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,” approved August nineteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Ch. 349 · 37 Stat. 360 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

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

    Ch. 350 · 37 Stat. 360 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

63. An Act To create a Commission on Industrial Relations.

    Ch. 351 · 37 Stat. 415 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

64. An Act To amend section eight of the food and drugs Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 352 · 37 Stat. 416 · August 23, 1912 · Original text

65. 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. 353 · 37 Stat. 1295 · August 23, 1912 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Catherine Ratchford.

    Ch. 354 · 37 Stat. 1325 · August 23, 1912 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 355 · 37 Stat. 417 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

68. An Act To amend sections five, eleven, and twenty-five of an Act entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyrights,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 356 · 37 Stat. 488 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

69. An Act To confer upon the Commissioners of the District of Columbia authority to regulate the operation and equipment of the vehicles of the Metropolitan Coach Company, and to provide for transfers between said company and the Capital Traction Company and the Washington Railway and Electric Company.

    Ch. 357 · 37 Stat. 490 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

70. An Act To authorize the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company, or their successors, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Delaware River.

    Ch. 358 · 37 Stat. 492 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

71. An Act Granting right of way across Port Discovery Bay, United States Military Reservation, to the Seattle, Port Angeles and Lake Crescent Railway, of the State of Washington.

    Ch. 359 · 37 Stat. 492 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the board of county commissioners of Horry County, South Carolina, to construct a bridge across Kingston Lake at Conway, South Carolina.

    Ch. 360 · 37 Stat. 493 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

73. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at the town site of Sartell, Minnesota.

    Ch. 361 · 37 Stat. 494 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

74. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Clearwater River at a point within the corporate limits of the city of Lewiston, Idaho.

    Ch. 362 · 37 Stat. 494 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the Union Pacific Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.

    Ch. 363 · 37 Stat. 494 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

76. An Act Authorizing the towns of Ball Bluff, Libby, and Cornish, in the county of Aitkin, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River, in Aitkin County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 364 · 37 Stat. 495 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the city of Chicago to construct a bridge across the Little Calumet River, at Indiana Avenue, in said city.

    Ch. 365 · 37 Stat. 495 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

78. An Act Conferring upon the Lawton Railway and Lighting Company the privileges, rights, and conditions heretofore granted the Lawton and Fort Sill Electric Company to construct a railroad across certain lands in Comanche County, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 366 · 37 Stat. 495 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

79. An Act To provide for agricultural entries on oil and gas lands.

    Ch. 367 · 37 Stat. 496 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

80. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirty-seven).

    Ch. 368 · 37 Stat. 497 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

81. An Act To amend section two of an Act to authorize the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases, approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten.

    Ch. 369 · 37 Stat. 497 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

82. An Act To make uniform charges for furnishing copies of records of the Department of the Interior and of its several bureaus.

    Ch. 370 · 37 Stat. 497 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of certain homesteaders in Nebraska.

    Ch. 371 · 37 Stat. 499 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

84. An Act To extend the limits of the port of entry of New Orleans, Louisiana.

    Ch. 372 · 37 Stat. 499 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

85. An Act To give effect to the convention between the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia for the preservation and protection of the fur seals and sea otter which frequent the waters of the north Pacific Ocean, concluded at Washington July seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Ch. 373 · 37 Stat. 499 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

86. An Act To amend “An Act to create an Auditor of Railroad Accounts, and for other purposes,” approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as amended by the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and March third, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 374 · 37 Stat. 503 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the elimination of part of North Dakota Avenue from the permanent system of highways plan.

    Ch. 375 · 37 Stat. 503 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

88. An Act Granting a right of way through the Fort Shafter Military Reservation, Territory of Hawaii, to the Pearl Harbor Traction Company (Limited), and for other purposes.

    Ch. 376 · 37 Stat. 503 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

89. An Act To constitute a commission to investigate the purchase of American-grown tobacco by the Governments of foreign countries.

    Ch. 377 · 37 Stat. 504 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

90. An Act To authorize the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway to construct bridges across the Big Sandy River and the branches thereof in the States of Virginia and Kentucky.

    Ch. 378 · 37 Stat. 505 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

91. An Act To authorize the Clinchfield Northern Railway, of Kentucky, to construct bridges across the Big Sandy River and the branches thereof in the States of Kentucky and Virginia.

    Ch. 379 · 37 Stat. 505 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

92. An Act Setting apart a certain tract of land for a public highway, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 380 · 37 Stat. 505 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

93. An Act Validating certain homestead entries.

    Ch. 381 · 37 Stat. 506 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

94. An Act To regulate foreign commerce by prohibiting the admission into the United States of certain adulterated grain and seeds unfit for seeding purposes.

    Ch. 382 · 37 Stat. 506 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

95. An Act To patent certain semiarid lands to Luther Burbank under certain conditions.

    Ch. 383 · 37 Stat. 507 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

96. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to deliver to certain cities and towns condemned bronze or brass cannon, with their carriages and outfit of cannon balls, and so forth.

    Ch. 384 · 37 Stat. 508 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

97. An Act To provide for the establishment of one lifesaving station on the larger of the two Libby Islands, situated at the entrance to Machias Bay, Maine; one lifesaving station at Half Moon Bay, south of Point Montara and near Montara Reef, California; one lifesaving station at Mackinac Island, Michigan; and one lifesaving station at or near Sea Gate, New York Harbor, New York, and to provide increased quarantine facilities at the port of Portland, Maine.

    Ch. 385 · 37 Stat. 511 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the Government of Porto Rico to construct a bridge across the Cano de Martin Pena, an estuary of the harbor of San Juan, Porto Rico.

    Ch. 386 · 37 Stat. 512 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

99. An Act To create a legislative assembly in the Territory of Alaska, to confer legislative power thereon, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 387 · 37 Stat. 512 · August 24, 1912 · Original text

100. 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 thirteen.

     Ch. 388 · 37 Stat. 518 · August 24, 1912 · Original text