Every law Congress has passed

700 laws of the 63rd Congress, 1913–1915

1. An Act Authorizing the fiscal court of Pike County, Kentucky, to construct a bridge across Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, at or near Williamson, West Virginia.

   Ch. 218 · 38 Stat. 581 · July 30, 1914 · Original text

2. 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. 219 · 38 Stat. 1375 · July 30, 1914 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to accept conveyance of title to certain land between the post-office site and Madison Street in the city of Thomasville, Georgia.

   Ch. 220 · 38 Stat. 582 · July 31, 1914 · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Lucien P. Rogers.

   Ch. 221 · 38 Stat. 1391 · July 31, 1914 · Private law · Original text

5. 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 fifteen.

   Ch. 222 · 38 Stat. 582 · August 1, 1914 · Original text

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

   Ch. 223 · 38 Stat. 609 · August 1, 1914 · Original text

7. An Act To provide for the disposal of certain lands in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota.

   Ch. 224 · 38 Stat. 681 · August 3, 1914 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution For the relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens in Europe and for other purposes.

   Public Resolution 30 · 38 Stat. 776 · August 3, 1914 · Original text

9. An Act To amend section twenty-seven of an Act approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and known as the Federal Reserve Act.

   Ch. 225 · 38 Stat. 682 · August 4, 1914 · Original text

10. An Act To increase the limit of cost of the public building at Bangor, Maine.

    Ch. 227 · 38 Stat. 683 · August 5, 1914 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution For the relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens in Europe and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 31 · 38 Stat. 776 · August 5, 1914 · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Thomas G. Running.

    Ch. 228 · 38 Stat. 1392 · August 5, 1914 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act Restoring to the public domain certain lands heretofore reserved for reservoir purposes at the headwaters of the Mississippi River and tributaries.

    Ch. 229 · 38 Stat. 683 · August 6, 1914 · Original text

14. An Act To grant the consent of Congress for the city of Lawrence, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, to construct a bridge across the Merrimac River.

    Ch. 230 · 38 Stat. 684 · August 6, 1914 · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Seth Watson.

    Ch. 231 · 38 Stat. 1392 · August 6, 1914 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Benjamin E. Jones.

    Ch. 232 · 38 Stat. 1392 · August 6, 1914 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Matthew Logan.

    Ch. 233 · 38 Stat. 1392 · August 6, 1914 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act To grant the consent of Congress for the county of Pulaski, State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas.

    Ch. 234 · 38 Stat. 685 · August 7, 1914 · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Waldo H. Coffman.

    Ch. 235 · 38 Stat. 1392 · August 7, 1914 · Private law · Original text

20. 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. 236 · 38 Stat. 1393 · August 7, 1914 · Private law · Original text

21. 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. 237 · 38 Stat. 1399 · August 7, 1914 · Private law · Original text

22. 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. 238 · 38 Stat. 1409 · August 7, 1914 · Private law · Original text

23. 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. 239 · 38 Stat. 1417 · August 7, 1914 · Private law · Original text

24. 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. 240 · 38 Stat. 1423 · August 7, 1914 · Private law · Original text

25. 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. 241 · 38 Stat. 1427 · August 7, 1914 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Clara Dougherty, Ernest Kubel, and Josephine Taylor, owners of lot numbered thirteen, and of Mary Meder, owner of the south seventeen and ten one-hundredths feet front by the full depth thereof of lot numbered fourteen, all of said property in square numbered seven hundred and twenty-four, in Washington, District of Columbia, with regard to assessment and payment for damages on account of change of grade due to the construction of Union Station, in said District.

    Ch. 242 · 38 Stat. 685 · August 8, 1914 · Original text

27. An Act To acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, additional land for the post office, courthouse, and customhouse in the city of Richmond, Virginia.

    Ch. 243 · 38 Stat. 686 · August 8, 1914 · Original text

28. 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. 244 · 38 Stat. 1433 · August 10, 1914 · Private law · Original text

29. 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. 245 · 38 Stat. 1436 · August 10, 1914 · Private law · Original text

30. 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. 246 · 38 Stat. 1439 · August 10, 1914 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act Extending the period of payment under reclamation projects, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 247 · 38 Stat. 686 · August 13, 1914 · Original text

32. 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. 248 · 38 Stat. 1443 · August 13, 1914 · Private law · Original text

33. 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. 249 · 38 Stat. 1444 · August 13, 1914 · Private law · Original text

34. 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. 250 · 38 Stat. 1446 · August 13, 1914 · Private law · Original text

35. 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. 251 · 38 Stat. 1447 · August 13, 1914 · Private law · Original text

36. Joint Resolution To amend an Act entitled “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,” approved May second, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

    Public Resolution 32 · 38 Stat. 1464 · August 13, 1914 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act Proposing an amendment to section nineteen of the Federal reserve Act relating to reserves, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 252 · 38 Stat. 691 · August 15, 1914 · Original text

38. An Act To regulate the taking or catching of sponges in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Florida outside of State jurisdiction; the landing, delivering, curing, selling, or possession of the same; providing means of enforcement of the same; and for other purposes.

    Ch. 253 · 38 Stat. 692 · August 15, 1914 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing the Board of Trade of Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas, to construct a bridge across Sulphur River at or near Pace’s ferry, between the counties of Bowie and Cass, in the State of Texas.

    Ch. 254 · 38 Stat. 693 · August 15, 1914 · Original text

40. Official cotton standards of the United States

    An Act To tax the privilege of dealing on exchanges, boards of trade, and similar places in contracts of sale of cotton for future delivery, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 255 · 38 Stat. 693 · August 18, 1914 · Original text

41. An Act To provide for the admission of foreign-built ships to American registry for the foreign trade, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 256 · 38 Stat. 698 · August 18, 1914 · Original text

42. An Act To increase the limit of cost of public building at Shelbyville, Tennessee.

    Ch. 257 · 38 Stat. 699 · August 20, 1914 · Original text

43. Joint Resolution Granting authority to the American Red. Cross to charter a ship or snips of foreign register for the transportation of nurses and supplies and for all uses in connection with the work of that society.

    Public Resolution 33 · 38 Stat. 773 · August 20, 1914 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to return to the State of Louisiana the original ordinance of secession adopted by said State.

    Public Resolution 34 · 38 Stat. 777 · August 20, 1914 · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Abraham Hoover.

    Ch. 258 · 38 Stat. 1449 · August 20, 1914 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Clarence L. George.

    Ch. 259 · 38 Stat. 1450 · August 20, 1914 · Private law · Original text

47. Joint Resolution For the appointment of George Frederick Kunz as a member of the North American Indian Memorial Commission.

    Public Resolution 35 · 38 Stat. 777 · August 21, 1914 · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Arthur E. Rump.

    Ch. 260 · 38 Stat. 1450 · August 21, 1914 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of William E. Murray.

    Ch. 261 · 38 Stat. 1450 · August 21, 1914 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Mary Cornick.

    Ch. 262 · 38 Stat. 1450 · August 21, 1914 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To satisfy certain claims against the Government arising under the Navy Department.

    Ch. 263 · 38 Stat. 1451 · August 21, 1914 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act To accept the cession by the State of Montana of exclusive jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Glacier National Park, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 264 · 38 Stat. 699 · August 22, 1914 · Original text

53. An Act To amend and reenact section one hundred and thirteen of chapter five of the Judicial Code of the United States.

    Ch. 265 · 38 Stat. 702 · August 22, 1914 · Original text

54. An Act To authorize Bryan Henry and Albert Henry to construct a bridge across a slough, which is a part of the Tennessee River, near Guntersville, Alabama.

    Ch. 266 · 38 Stat. 702 · August 22, 1914 · Original text

55. An Act To amend section one hundred and ninety-five 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. 267 · 38 Stat. 703 · August 22, 1914 · Original text

56. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain unused remnant lands to the Board of County Commissioners of Caddo County, Oklahoma, for fairground and park purposes.

    Ch. 268 · 38 Stat. 704 · August 22, 1914 · Original text

57. An Act To authorize the withdrawal of lands on the Quinaielt Reservation, in the State of Washington, for lighthouse purposes.

    Ch. 269 · 38 Stat. 704 · August 22, 1914 · Original text

58. An Act To provide for leave of absence for homestead entrymen in one or two periods.

    Ch. 270 · 38 Stat. 704 · August 22, 1914 · Original text

59. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to the city of Susanville, in Lassen County, California, for certain lands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 271 · 38 Stat. 705 · August 22, 1914 · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of May Stanley.

    Ch. 272 · 38 Stat. 1452 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Thomas F. Howell.

    Ch. 273 · 38 Stat. 1453 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of T. A. Roseberry.

    Ch. 274 · 38 Stat. 1453 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Ella M. Ewart.

    Ch. 275 · 38 Stat. 1453 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act Granting a patent to George M. Van Leuven for the northeast quarter of section eighteen, township seventeen north, range nineteen east, Black Hills meridian, South Dakota.

    Ch. 276 · 38 Stat. 1453 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act To perfect the title to land belonging to the M. Forster Real Estate Company, of Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 277 · 38 Stat. 1454 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Spencer Roberts, a member of the Metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 278 · 38 Stat. 1454 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act To refund to the Sparrow Gravely Tobacco Company the sum of $176.99, the same having been erroneously paid by them to the Government of the United States.

    Ch. 279 · 38 Stat. 1455 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of E. F. Anderson.

    Ch. 280 · 38 Stat. 1455 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of C. F. Jackson.

    Ch. 281 · 38 Stat. 1455 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Davis Smith.

    Ch. 282 · 38 Stat. 1455 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act To validate the homestead entry of William H. Miller.

    Ch. 283 · 38 Stat. 1456 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of William L. Wallis.

    Ch. 284 · 38 Stat. 1456 · August 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act To reserve certain lands and to incorporate the same and make them a part of the Pike National Forest.

    Ch. 285 · 38 Stat. 705 · August 24, 1914 · Original text

74. An Act Granting public lands to the city and county of Denver, in the State of Colorado, for public park purposes.

    Ch. 286 · 38 Stat. 706 · August 25, 1914 · Original text

75. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to protect the locators in good faith of oil and gas lands who shall have effected an actual discovery of oil or gas on the public lands of the United States, or their successors in interest,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Ch. 287 · 38 Stat. 708 · August 25, 1914 · Original text

76. An Act To present the steam launch Louise, now employed in the construction of the Panama Canal, to the French Government.

    Ch. 288 · 38 Stat. 709 · August 25, 1914 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the Great Western Land Company, of Missouri, to construct a bridge across Black River.

    Ch. 289 · 38 Stat. 709 · August 26, 1914 · Original text

78. An Act To extend the general land laws to the former Fort Bridger Military Reservation in Wyoming.

    Ch. 290 · 38 Stat. 709 · August 27, 1914 · Original text

79. An Act To amend an act of Congress approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred (volume thirty-one, Statutes at Large, page fifty-two), entitled “An act granting to the State of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation, in said State, for the purpose of establishing an experiment station of the Kansas State Agricultural College, and a western branch of the State Normal School thereon, and for a public park.”

    Ch. 291 · 38 Stat. 710 · August 27, 1914 · Original text

80. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act creating a legislative assembly in the Territory of Alaska and conferring legislative power thereon, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 292 · 38 Stat. 710 · August 29, 1914 · Original text

81. An Act To authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department.

    Ch. 293 · 38 Stat. 711 · September 2, 1914 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license for the use of lands adjoining the national cemetery near Nashville, Tennessee, for public-road purposes.

    Public Resolution 36 · 38 Stat. 777 · September 2, 1914 · Original text

83. Joint Resolution Resolution To correct error in H. R. 12046.

    Public Resolution 37 · 38 Stat. 1466 · September 2, 1914 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Providing for second homestead and desert-land entries.

    Ch. 294 · 38 Stat. 712 · September 5, 1914 · Original text

85. An Act To fix the time for holding the term of the district court in the Jonesboro division of the eastern district of Arkansas.

    Ch. 295 · 38 Stat. 713 · September 9, 1914 · Original text

86. 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 as amended by the Acts of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and June sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

    Ch. 296 · 38 Stat. 713 · September 9, 1914 · Original text

87. Joint Resolution To amend an Act entitled “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,” approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

    Public Resolution 38 · 38 Stat. 1466 · September 9, 1914 · Private law · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to accept an invitation to participate in an International Exposition of Sea Fishery Industries.

    Public Resolution 39 · 38 Stat. 773 · September 10, 1914 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution To provide for representation of foreign governments growing out of existing hostilities in Europe and elsewhere, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 40 · 38 Stat. 778 · September 11, 1914 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution To amend an Act entitled “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,” approved July twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

    Public Resolution 41 · 38 Stat. 1467 · September 11, 1914 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act To authorize the installation of mail chutes in the public building at Cleveland, Ohio, and to appropriate money therefor.

    Ch. 297 · 38 Stat. 714 · September 15, 1914 · Original text

92. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish one United States garrison flag to William B. Cushing Camp Numbered Thirty, Sons of Veterans.

    Public Resolution 42 · 38 Stat. 773 · September 15, 1914 · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Samuel Henson.

    Ch. 298 · 38 Stat. 1456 · September 15, 1914 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Edward William Bailey.

    Ch. 299 · 38 Stat. 1456 · September 15, 1914 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of the Snare and Triest Company.

    Ch. 300 · 38 Stat. 1457 · September 15, 1914 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Permitting the Wisconsin Central Railway Company and the Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Sault Sainte Marie Railway Company, its lessee, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Chippewa River at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 301 · 38 Stat. 714 · September 18, 1914 · Original text

97. An Act For the protection of the water supply of the city of Salt Lake City, Utah.

    Ch. 302 · 38 Stat. 714 · September 19, 1914 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution Instructing American delegate to the International Institute of Agriculture to present to the permanent committee for action at the general assembly in nineteen hundred and fifteen certain resolutions.

    Public Resolution 43 · 38 Stat. 779 · September 19, 1914 · Original text

99. An Act To correct the military record of Aaron S. Winner.

    Ch. 303 · 38 Stat. 1457 · September 19, 1914 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Jacob M. Cooper.

     Ch. 304 · 38 Stat. 1457 · September 19, 1914 · Private law · Original text