Every law Congress has passed

717 laws of the 62nd Congress, 1911–1913

1. An Act For the relief of William Kaiser.

   Ch. 77 · 37 Stat. 1377 · February 25, 1913 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of David Crowther.

   Ch. 78 · 37 Stat. 1378 · February 25, 1913 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Relating to proof of signatures and handwriting.

   Ch. 79 · 37 Stat. 683 · February 26, 1913 · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the Buckhannon and Northern Railroad Company to construct and operate a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of West Virginia.

   Ch. 80 · 37 Stat. 683 · February 26, 1913 · Original text

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

   Ch. 81 · 37 Stat. 683 · February 26, 1913 · Original text

6. An Act Granting the Fifth-Third National Bank, of Cincinnati, Ohio, the right to use original charter numbered twenty.

   Ch. 82 · 37 Stat. 1378 · February 26, 1913 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act To quiet title and possession with, respect to a certain unconfirmed and located private land claim in Baldwin County, Alabama, in so far as the records of the General Land Office show said claim to be free from conflict.

   Ch. 83 · 37 Stat. 684 · February 27, 1913 · Original text

8. An Act For the protection of the water supply of the city of Colorado Springs and the town of Manitou, Colorado.

   Ch. 84 · 37 Stat. 684 · February 27, 1913 · Original text

9. An Act To provide for selection by the State of Idaho of phosphate and oil lands.

   Ch. 85 · 37 Stat. 687 · February 27, 1913 · Original text

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

    Ch. 86 · 37 Stat. 688 · February 28, 1913 · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Gibbes Lykes.

    Ch. 87 · 37 Stat. 697 · February 28, 1913 · Original text

12. An Act To relinquish the claim of the United States against the grantees, their legal representatives and assigns, for timber cut on Petaca land grant.

    Ch. 88 · 37 Stat. 697 · February 28, 1913 · Original text

13. An Act To amend section seventy 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. 89 · 37 Stat. 698 · February 28, 1913 · Original text

14. An Act Divesting intoxicating liquors of their interstate character in certain cases.

    Ch. 90 · 37 Stat. 699 · March 1, 1913 · Original text

15. An Act To authorize the use of certain unclaimed moneys now in the registry of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for the improvement of the libraries of the United States courts for said district.

    Ch. 91 · 37 Stat. 700 · March 1, 1913 · Original text

16. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts commendatory thereof by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities.

    Ch. 92 · 37 Stat. 701 · March 1, 1913 · Original text

17. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

    Ch. 93 · 37 Stat. 704 · March 2, 1913 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize the collection of the military and naval records of the Revolutionary War with a view to their publication.

    Ch. 94 · 37 Stat. 723 · March 2, 1913 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize the Virginia and Carolina Southern Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Lumber River at or near the town of Lumberton, North Carolina.

    Ch. 95 · 37 Stat. 724 · March 2, 1913 · Original text

20. An Act To extend and widen Western Avenue northwest, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 96 · 37 Stat. 724 · March 2, 1913 · Original text

21. An Act To amend section fifty-five of “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 97 · 37 Stat. 724 · March 2, 1913 · Original text

22. An Act For the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

    Ch. 98 · 37 Stat. 725 · March 2, 1913 · Original text

23. An Act Granting two condemned cannon to the Wallkill Valley Cemetery Association, of Orange County, New York.

    Ch. 99 · 37 Stat. 725 · March 2, 1913 · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of William H. Seward.

    Ch. 100 · 37 Stat. 1378 · March 2, 1913 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act To correct the military record of Barkley S. Denison.

    Ch. 101 · 37 Stat. 1378 · March 2, 1913 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of John C. Sullivan.

    Ch. 102 · 37 Stat. 1379 · March 2, 1913 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Robert Ross.

    Ch. 103 · 37 Stat. 1379 · March 2, 1913 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of James Parsons.

    Ch. 104 · 37 Stat. 1379 · March 2, 1913 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Charles S. Kincaid.

    Ch. 105 · 37 Stat. 1379 · March 2, 1913 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act Relating to the limitation of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon a public work of the United States and of the District of Columbia, and of all persons employed in constructing, maintaining, or improving a river or harbor of the United States and of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 106 · 37 Stat. 726 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

31. An Act To amend Subchapter II of Chapter XIX of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 107 · 37 Stat. 727 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

32. An Act To amend Subchapter II of Chapter XIX of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 108 · 37 Stat. 727 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

33. An Act To provide assistance to persons in Alaska who are indigent and incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness, or accident, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 109 · 37 Stat. 728 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

34. An Act To protect the monuments already erected on the battle fields of Bull Run, Virginia, and other monuments that may be there erected.

    Ch. 110 · 37 Stat. 729 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

35. An Act To provide for the extension of New Hampshire Avenue, in the District of Columbia, on a straight line, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 111 · 37 Stat. 729 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

36. An Act To provide for a bridge across Snake River, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

    Ch. 112 · 37 Stat. 730 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

37. An Act To amend section one hundred and three 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. 113 · 37 Stat. 730 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

38. An Act Providing for publicity in taking evidence under Act of July second, eighteen hundred and ninety.

    Ch. 114 · 37 Stat. 731 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the town of Okanogan, Washington, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Okanogan River.

    Ch. 115 · 37 Stat. 731 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

40. An Act Relating to supervision of the Lincoln Memorial.

    Ch. 116 · 37 Stat. 731 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

41. An Act To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,” approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 117 · 37 Stat. 732 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

42. An Act To regulate the officering and manning of vessels subject to the inspection laws of the United States.

    Ch. 118 · 37 Stat. 732 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

43. An Act To extend the authority to receive certified checks drawn on national and State banks and trust companies in payment for duties on imports and internal taxes and all public dues.

    Ch. 119 · 37 Stat. 733 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

44. An Act To provide for refund or abatement under certain conditions of penalty taxes imposed by section thirty-eight of the Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, known as the special excise corporation-tax law.

    Ch. 120 · 37 Stat. 734 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

45. An Act Authorizing the President to convey certain land to the State of Texas.

    Ch. 121 · 37 Stat. 734 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

46. An Act To amend section eighty-one 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. 122 · 37 Stat. 734 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

47. 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 fourteen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 123 · 37 Stat. 736 · March 3, 1913 · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Samuel Butter and Company.

    Ch. 124 · 37 Stat. 1380 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act To legalize titles in the District of Columbia to certain citizens.

    Ch. 125 · 37 Stat. 1380 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Alice V. Houghton.

    Ch. 126 · 37 Stat. 1380 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

51. 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. 127 · 37 Stat. 1381 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

52. 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. 128 · 37 Stat. 1387 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy and of wars other than the Civil War, and to certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 129 · 37 Stat. 1393 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

54. 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. 130 · 37 Stat. 1394 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the reimbursement of Ralph E. Hess for two horses lost while hired by the United States Geological Survey.

    Ch. 131 · 37 Stat. 1399 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act To refund certain taxes paid by the Louisiana Distillery Company (Limited), of New Orleans, Louisiana.

    Ch. 132 · 37 Stat. 1399 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Mathew T. Fuller.

    Ch. 133 · 37 Stat. 1400 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of W. A. Kelly.

    Ch. 134 · 37 Stat. 1400 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act Granting pension 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. 135 · 37 Stat. 1400 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act Granting a pension to Mary MacArthur.

    Ch. 136 · 37 Stat. 1413 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

61. 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. 137 · 37 Stat. 1414 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

62. 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. 138 · 37 Stat. 1440 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

63. 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. 139 · 37 Stat. 1442 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

64. 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. 140 · 37 Stat. 1444 · March 3, 1913 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act To create a Department of Labor.

    Ch. 141 · 37 Stat. 736 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

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

    Ch. 142 · 37 Stat. 739 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

67. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 143 · 37 Stat. 791 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

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

    Ch. 144 · 37 Stat. 801 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

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

    Ch. 145 · 37 Stat. 828 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

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

    Ch. 146 · 37 Stat. 856 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

71. An Act To increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 147 · 37 Stat. 866 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

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

    Ch. 148 · 37 Stat. 891 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

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

    Ch. 149 · 37 Stat. 912 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

74. 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 fourteen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 150 · 37 Stat. 938 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

75. An Act To provide American register for the steam yacht Diana.

    Ch. 151 · 37 Stat. 1007 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

76. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease to the operators of coal mines in Oklahoma additional acreage from the unleased segregated coal land of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.

    Ch. 152 · 37 Stat. 1007 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Indians occupying railroad lands in Arizona, New Mexico, or California.

    Ch. 153 · 37 Stat. 1007 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

78. An Act To reinstate Robert N. Campbell as a first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps, United States Army.

    Ch. 154 · 37 Stat. 1008 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Charles Dudley Daly.

    Ch. 155 · 37 Stat. 1008 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

80. An Act To exempt from cancellation certain desert-land entries in the Chuckawalla Valley and Palo Verde Mesa, Riverside County, California.

    Ch. 156 · 37 Stat. 1008 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

81. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to make certain donations of condemned cannon and cannon balls.

    Ch. 157 · 37 Stat. 1009 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize the Northern Pacific Railway Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 158 · 37 Stat. 1012 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

83. An Act To create a board of local inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, for the port of Los Angeles, California.

    Ch. 159 · 37 Stat. 1013 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

84. An Act Restricting the issuance of interlocutory injunctions to suspend the enforcement of the statute of a State or of an order made by an administrative board or commission created by and acting under the statute of a State.

    Ch. 160 · 37 Stat. 1013 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

85. An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Missouri River at or near the town of Weldon Springs Landing, Missouri.

    Ch. 161 · 37 Stat. 1014 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

86. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River in Beltrami County, in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 162 · 37 Stat. 1014 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the Saint Louis and Western Traction Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River near Weldon Springs Landing, in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 163 · 37 Stat. 1015 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

88. An Act To authorize the Saint Louis Belt, Illinois and Eastern Traction Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River near the mouth of the Missouri River.

    Ch. 164 · 37 Stat. 1015 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

89. An Act To authorize the sale of burnt timber on the public domain.

    Ch. 165 · 37 Stat. 1015 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

90. An Act To amend section thirty-one hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 166 · 37 Stat. 1016 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

91. An Act To amend section seventy-seven 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. 167 · 37 Stat. 1017 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

92. An Act To authorize aids to navigation and other works in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 168 · 37 Stat. 1017 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

93. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act granting a service pension to certain defined veterans of the Civil War and the War with Mexico,” approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 169 · 37 Stat. 1019 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Twelve Mile Bayou in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.

    Ch. 170 · 37 Stat. 1019 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

95. An Act To amend the Act approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Caddo Lake, in Louisiana.”

    Ch. 171 · 37 Stat. 1020 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

96. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Saint John River between the town of Van Buren, Maine, and the parish of Saint Leonards, Province of New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada.

    Ch. 172 · 37 Stat. 1020 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

97. Joint Resolution Authorizing payment of December salaries to officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the day of adjournment for the holiday recess.

    Public Resolution 1 · 37 Stat. 1021 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver a condemned cannon to the Army and Navy Union, United States of America.

    Public Resolution 2 · 37 Stat. 1021 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

99. Joint Resolution Appropriating $40,000 for expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate.

    Public Resolution 3 · 37 Stat. 1021 · March 4, 1913 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property in connection with the presidential inaugural ceremonies in nineteen hundred and thirteen.

     Public Resolution 5 · 37 Stat. 1021 · March 4, 1913 · Original text