Every law Congress has passed

700 laws of the 63rd Congress, 1913–1915

1. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives authorized to attend and represent the Senate and House at the unveiling and dedication of the memorial to Thomas Jefferson, at St. Louis, Missouri.

   Public Resolution 1 · 38 Stat. 236 · April 25, 1913 · Original text

2. An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 1 · 38 Stat. 1 · May 1, 1913 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the postal service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.

   Public Resolution 2 · 38 Stat. 236 · May 21, 1913 · Original text

4. An Act Providing certain legislation for the Panama California Exposition to be held in San Diego, California, during the year nineteen hundred and fifteen.

   Ch. 2 · 38 Stat. 3 · May 22, 1913 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to accept an invitation to participate in the International Conference on Education.

   Public Resolution 3 · 38 Stat. 236 · May 22, 1913 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution Extending the leave of absence of Mrs. A. E. Grant.

   Public Resolution 4 · 38 Stat. 1230 · May 29, 1913 · Original text

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

   Ch. 3 · 38 Stat. 4 · June 23, 1913 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution Appropriating $4,000 to defray traveling expenses of soldiers of the Civil War, now residing in the District of Columbia, from Washington, District of Columbia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and return.

   Public Resolution 5 · 38 Stat. 237 · June 27, 1913 · Original text

9. 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 fourteen.

   Ch. 4 · 38 Stat. 77 · June 30, 1913 · Original text

10. An Act Providing for an increase in the number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Ch. 5 · 38 Stat. 103 · July 9, 1913 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for the use of the Confederate Veterans’Reunion, to be held at Brunswick, Georgia, in July, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Public Resolution 6 · 38 Stat. 237 · July 10, 1913 · Original text

12. An Act Providing for mediation, conciliation, and arbitration in controversies between certain employers and their employees.

    Ch. 6 · 38 Stat. 103 · July 15, 1913 · Original text

13. An Act To amend section nineteen of an Act entitled “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,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Ch. 7 · 38 Stat. 109 · August 11, 1913 · Original text

14. Joint Resolution Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-third Congress.

    Public Resolution 7 · 38 Stat. 238 · August 12, 1913 · Original text

15. An Act To authorize the board of county commissioners of Okanogan County, Washington, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Okanogan River at or near the town of Malott.

    Ch. 8 · 38 Stat. 110 · August 28, 1913 · Original text

16. An Act To provide for representation of the United States in the Fourteenth International Congress on Alcoholism, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 9 · 38 Stat. 110 · August 29, 1913 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution To authorize the appointment of Thomas Green Peyton as a cadet in the United States Military Academy.

    Public Resolution 8 · 38 Stat. 1230 · September 3, 1913 · Original text

18. An Act Authorizing the appointment of an ambassador to Spain.

    Ch. 10 · 38 Stat. 110 · September 4, 1913 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to advance to the chairman of the Commission appointed under the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, such sums of money as may be necessary for the carrying on of the Commission, and so forth.

    Public Resolution 9 · 38 Stat. 238 · September 11, 1913 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Sabine River at Orange, Texas.

    Ch. 11 · 38 Stat. 111 · September 16, 1913 · Original text

21. Joint Resolution To provide for the relief and transportation of destitute American citizens in Mexico.

    Public Resolution 10 · 38 Stat. 238 · September 16, 1913 · Original text

22. An Act To provide for the acquiring of station grounds by the Great Northern Railway Company in the Colville Indian Reservation in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 12 · 38 Stat. 111 · September 17, 1913 · Original text

23. An Act Extending to the port of Dallas, Texas, the privileges of section seven of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.

    Ch. 13 · 38 Stat. 112 · September 18, 1913 · Original text

24. An Act Providing for the free importation of articles intended for foreign buildings and exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and for the protection of foreign exhibitors.

    Ch. 14 · 38 Stat. 112 · September 18, 1913 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 15 · 38 Stat. 113 · September 30, 1913 · Original text

26. An Act To reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 16 · 38 Stat. 114 · October 3, 1913 · Original text

27. An Act To fix the times and places of holding district court for the district of Arizona.

    Ch. 17 · 38 Stat. 203 · October 3, 1913 · Original text

28. An Act To amend chapter one, section eighteen, of the Judicial Code.

    Ch. 18 · 38 Stat. 203 · October 3, 1913 · Original text

29. An Act To create an additional land district in the State of Nevada.

    Ch. 19 · 38 Stat. 203 · October 3, 1913 · Original text

30. An Act Extending to the port of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the privileges of section seven of the Act approved. June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.

    Ch. 20 · 38 Stat. 204 · October 3, 1913 · Original text

31. An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Red Lake River in township one hundred and fifty-three north, range forty west, in Red Lake County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 21 · 38 Stat. 204 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

32. An Act To authorize the county of Aitkin, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in Aitkin County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 22 · 38 Stat. 205 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize Robert W. Buskirk, of Matewan, West Virginia, to bridge the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at Matewan, Mingo County, West Virginia, where the same forms the boundary line between the States of West Virginia and Kentucky.

    Ch. 23 · 38 Stat. 205 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

34. An Act To authorize the city of Fairmont to construct and operate a bridge across the Monongahela River at or near the city of Fairmont, in the State of West Virginia.

    Ch. 24 · 38 Stat. 205 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

35. An Act To authorize the county of Hamilton, in the State of Tennessee, to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, in the State of Tennessee.

    Ch. 25 · 38 Stat. 206 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

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

    Ch. 26 · 38 Stat. 206 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation, of a bridge across Black River at or near the section line between sections eight and nine, in township twenty north, range five east, being a short distance south and east of the town of Corning, Clay County, Arkansas.

    Ch. 27 · 38 Stat. 206 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

38. An Act Authorizing Beaufort and Saint Helena Townships, Beaufort County, South Carolina, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across Beaufort River, in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

    Ch. 28 · 38 Stat. 207 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

39. An Act To increase the limit of cost of the United States post-office building at Beloit, Kansas.

    Ch. 29 · 38 Stat. 207 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

40. An Act To increase the limit of cost of the public building at Augusta, Georgia.

    Ch. 30 · 38 Stat. 207 · October 6, 1913 · Original text

41. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across White River at Newport, Arkansas.

    Ch. 31 · 38 Stat. 207 · October 7, 1913 · Original text

42. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to make an exhibit at the Sixth National Corn Exposition, to be held at Dallas, Texas, during the month of February, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

    Public Resolution 11 · 38 Stat. 239 · October 16, 1913 · Original text

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

    Ch. 32 · 38 Stat. 208 · October 22, 1913 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to appoint delegates to attend the Seventh International Congress of the World’s Purity Federation, to be held in the city of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota, November seventh to twelfth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Public Resolution 12 · 38 Stat. 239 · October 22, 1913 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution For the appointment of a joint committee from House and Senate to attend Congress Hall celebration in Philadelphia in October, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Public Resolution 13 · 38 Stat. 239 · October 22, 1913 · Original text

46. An Act Granting permission to the city of Marshfield, Oregon, to close Mill Slough, in said city.

    Ch. 33 · 38 Stat. 233 · October 23, 1913 · Original text

47. An Act To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to employ additional clerks on heirship work in the Indian Office.

    Ch. 34 · 38 Stat. 234 · October 24, 1913 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution To provide for furnishing the additional rooms in the House Office Building.

    Public Resolution 14 · 38 Stat. 240 · October 24, 1913 · Original text

49. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant further extensions of time within which to comply with the law and make proof on desert-land entries in the counties of Grant and Franklin, State of Washington.

    Ch. 35 · 38 Stat. 234 · October 30, 1913 · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Italian Government for the killing of Angelo Albano, an Italian subject.

    Ch. 36 · 38 Stat. 1229 · November 14, 1913 · Private law · Original text

51. Joint Resolution To relieve destitution among the native people and residents of Alaska.

    Public Resolution 15 · 38 Stat. 240 · November 15, 1913 · Original text

52. An Act To authorize the conveyance of the steel bridge over the Snake River, between Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Washington, to the States of Idaho and Washington or local subdivisions thereof.

    Ch. 37 · 38 Stat. 234 · November 27, 1913 · Original text

53. An Act To authorize the county of Miami, Indiana, to construct a bridge across the Wabash River in Miami County, Indiana.

    Ch. 38 · 38 Stat. 235 · November 27, 1913 · Original text

54. An Act To amend section twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to mining claims.

    Ch. 39 · 38 Stat. 235 · December 1, 1913 · Original text

55. An Act Authorizing the appointment of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to each Paraguay and Uruguay.

    Ch. 1 · 38 Stat. 241 · December 6, 1913 · Original text

56. Joint Resolution Extending time for completion of classification and appraisement of surface of segregated coal and asphalt lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations and of the improvements thereon, and making appropriation therefor.

    Public Resolution 1 · 38 Stat. 378 · December 8, 1913 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House, including the Capitol Police, their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and thirteen, on the twentieth day of said month.

    Public Resolution 2 · 38 Stat. 767 · December 15, 1913 · Original text

58. An Act To authorize the sale and issuance of patent for certain land to H. W. O’Melveny.

    Ch. 2 · 38 Stat. 1231 · December 15, 1913 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act To make the tenure of the office of the major general commandant of the Marine Corps for a term of four years.

    Ch. 3 · 38 Stat. 241 · December 19, 1913 · Original text

60. An Act Granting to the city and county of San Francisco certain rights of way in, over, and through certain public lands, the Yosemite National Park, and Stanislaus National Forest, and certain lands in the Yosemite National Park, the Stanislaus National Forest, and the public lands in the State of California, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 4 · 38 Stat. 242 · December 19, 1913 · Original text

61. An Act Amending an Act entitled “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,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Ch. 5 · 38 Stat. 251 · December 22, 1913 · Original text

62. Joint Resolution For recognition of the services of the late David Du B. Gaillard, lieutenant colonel, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, as a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and for the relief of Mrs. Katherine Davis Gaillard.

    Public Resolution 3 · 38 Stat. 1464 · December 22, 1913 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act To provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 6 · 38 Stat. 251 · December 23, 1913 · Original text

64. An Act To provide for expenses of representatives of the United States at the International Maritime Conference for Safety of Life at Sea.

    Ch. 7 · 38 Stat. 275 · December 23, 1913 · Original text

65. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Bayou Bartholomew, at or near Wilmot, Arkansas.

    Ch. 8 · 38 Stat. 275 · January 15, 1914 · Original text

66. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes,” approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 9 · 38 Stat. 275 · January 17, 1914 · Original text

67. An Act Regulating the manufacture of smoking opium within the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 10 · 38 Stat. 277 · January 17, 1914 · Original text

68. 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, being chapter two hundred and thirty-one of Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large.

    Ch. 11 · 38 Stat. 278 · January 20, 1914 · Original text

69. Joint Resolution Providing for the appointment of a commission to consider the need and report a plan for national aid to vocational education.

    Public Resolution 4 · 38 Stat. 767 · January 20, 1914 · Original text

70. An Act To amend the Act approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as amended by the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

    Ch. 12 · 38 Stat. 278 · January 21, 1914 · Original text

71. An Act Providing for the issuance of patent to Joe Joubert.

    Ch. 13 · 38 Stat. 1231 · January 31, 1914 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act Granting to the Emigration Canon Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Utah, permission, in so far as the United States is concerned, to occupy, for a right of way for its railroad track, a certain piece of land now included in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake County, Utah.

    Ch. 14 · 38 Stat. 279 · February 3, 1914 · Original text

73. An Act To regulate the payment of postal money orders.

    Ch. 15 · 38 Stat. 280 · February 6, 1914 · Original text

74. An Act To enjoin and abate houses of lewdness, assignation, and prostitution; to declare the same to be nuisances; to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner or agent of any building used for such purpose; and to assess a tax against the person maintaining said nuisance and against the building and owner thereof.

    Ch. 16 · 38 Stat. 280 · February 7, 1914 · Original text

75. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the Columbia River at or near Vancouver, Washington.

    Ch. 17 · 38 Stat. 282 · February 7, 1914 · Original text

76. Joint Resolution Relating to supervision of the Lincoln Memorial.

    Public Resolution 5 · 38 Stat. 768 · February 7, 1914 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the changing of the names of the steamships Buckman and Watson.

    Ch. 18 · 38 Stat. 282 · February 10, 1914 · Original text

78. An Act To authorize the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River near the city of Hannibal, in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 19 · 38 Stat. 283 · February 10, 1914 · Original text

79. An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge in and for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 20 · 38 Stat. 283 · February 16, 1914 · Original text

80. An Act To promote the efficiency of the Naval Militia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 21 · 38 Stat. 283 · February 16, 1914 · Original text

81. 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. 22 · 38 Stat. 1232 · February 19, 1914 · Private law · Original text

82. 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. 23 · 38 Stat. 1232 · February 19, 1914 · Private law · Original text

83. 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. 24 · 38 Stat. 1239 · February 19, 1914 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of the New England Steamship Company.

    Ch. 25 · 38 Stat. 1244 · February 20, 1914 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Appropriating funds for the purpose of the investigation, treatment, and eradication of hog cholera and dourine.

    Ch. 26 · 38 Stat. 290 · February 23, 1914 · Original text

86. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the navigable waters of Saint Andrews Bay.

    Ch. 27 · 38 Stat. 290 · February 23, 1914 · Original text

87. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to accept an invitation to participate in an International Commission of Phytopathology.

    Public Resolution 6 · 38 Stat. 768 · February 23, 1914 · Original text

88. An Act To regulate the hours of employment and safeguard the health of females employed in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 28 · 38 Stat. 291 · February 24, 1914 · Original text

89. An Act To authorize the Eastern Maine Railroad to construct a bridge across the Penobscot River between the cities of Bangor and Brewer, in the State of Maine.

    Ch. 29 · 38 Stat. 292 · February 25, 1914 · Original text

90. An Act To authorize the reconstruction of the existing toll bridge across the Hudson River at Troy, in the State of New York, and the maintenance of the bridge so reconstructed.

    Ch. 30 · 38 Stat. 292 · February 25, 1914 · Original text

91. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell to the city of Lawton, Oklahoma, a tract of land to be used for watershed and water-supply purposes.

    Ch. 31 · 38 Stat. 293 · March 2, 1914 · Original text

92. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to lease to the city of Port Angeles, Washington, certain property.

    Ch. 32 · 38 Stat. 293 · March 9, 1914 · Original text

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

    Ch. 33 · 38 Stat. 295 · March 9, 1914 · Original text

94. An Act To repeal an Act regulating the construction of bridges across the Muskingum River in Ohio.

    Ch. 34 · 38 Stat. 305 · March 9, 1914 · Original text

95. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Tombigbee River near Old Cotton Gin Port, in Monroe County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 35 · 38 Stat. 305 · March 9, 1914 · Original text

96. An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Mississippi River at the town site of Sartell, Minnesota.

    Ch. 36 · 38 Stat. 305 · March 11, 1914 · Original text

97. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 37 · 38 Stat. 305 · March 12, 1914 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the Hudson River Connecting Railroad Corporation to construct a bridge across the Hudson River in the State of New York.

    Ch. 38 · 38 Stat. 308 · March 13, 1914 · Original text

99. An Act For the protection of the water supply of the city of Baker a municipal corporation of the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 39 · 38 Stat. 308 · March 14, 1914 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution To continue in effect the provisions of the Act of March ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-four, page fifty-six).

     Public Resolution 7 · 38 Stat. 768 · March 14, 1914 · Original text