Every law Congress has passed

700 laws of the 63rd Congress, 1913–1915

1. An Act For the relief of Philip Cook.

   Ch. 305 · 38 Stat. 1457 · September 19, 1914 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Herman von Werthern.

   Ch. 306 · 38 Stat. 1458 · September 19, 1914 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Mirick Burgess.

   Ch. 307 · 38 Stat. 1458 · September 19, 1914 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To amend the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to establish postal savings depositories for depositing savings at interest with the security of the Government for repayment thereof, and for other purposes.”

   Ch. 308 · 38 Stat. 716 · September 23, 1914 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to designate two officers connected with the Public Health Service to represent the United States at the Sixth International Sanitary Conference of American States to be held at Montevideo, Uruguay, in December, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and making an appropriation to pay the expenses of said representatives, and for other purposes.

   Public Resolution 44 · 38 Stat. 779 · September 23, 1914 · Original text

6. An Act To relocate the headquarters of the customs district, of Florida.

   Ch. 309 · 38 Stat. 716 · September 24, 1914 · Original text

7. An Act To provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 310 · 38 Stat. 716 · September 25, 1914 · Original text

8. An Act To create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 311 · 38 Stat. 717 · September 26, 1914 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize and require an extension of the street railway lines of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 312 · 38 Stat. 724 · September 29, 1914 · Original text

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

    Ch. 313 · 38 Stat. 725 · October 2, 1914 · Original text

11. An Act Granting to The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company a right of way through the Fort Wingate Military Reservation, New Mexico, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 314 · 38 Stat. 725 · October 3, 1914 · Original text

12. An Act Ratifying the establishment of the boundary line between the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts.

    Ch. 315 · 38 Stat. 727 · October 3, 1914 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the reservation of public lands for country parks and community centers within reclamation projects, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 316 · 38 Stat. 727 · October 5, 1914 · Original text

14. 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 45 · 38 Stat. 1467 · October 5, 1914 · Private law · Original text

15. Joint Resolution To correct an error in H. R. 12914.

    Public Resolution 46 · 38 Stat. 1467 · October 5, 1914 · Private law · Original text

16. Joint Resolution To correct an error in H. R. 12914.

    Public Resolution 47 · 38 Stat. 1468 · October 5, 1914 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To authorize the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company and the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Paul, Minnesota.

    Ch. 317 · 38 Stat. 728 · October 7, 1914 · Original text

18. An Act To amend section ninety-eight 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. 318 · 38 Stat. 728 · October 7, 1914 · Original text

19. An Act Authorizing the health officer of the District of Columbia to issue a permit for the removal of the remains of the late Earl A. Bancroft from Glenwood Cemetery, District of Columbia, to Mantorville, Minnesota.

    Ch. 319 · 38 Stat. 1458 · October 7, 1914 · Private law · Original text

20. Joint Resolution To authorize the President to grant leave of absence to two commissioned officers of the line of the Navy for the purpose of accepting an appointment under the Government of Brazil as instructors in naval strategy and tactics in the Naval War College of Brazil.

    Public Resolution 48 · 38 Stat. 780 · October 13, 1914 · Original text

21. An Act To provide for sale of portion of post-office site in Gastonia, North Carolina.

    Ch. 320 · 38 Stat. 729 · October 14, 1914 · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Wilhelmina Rohe.

    Ch. 321 · 38 Stat. 1458 · October 14, 1914 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Donating the old iron fence around Vance Park, Charlotte, North Carolina, to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Chapter, to be placed around Craighead Cemetery, near Sugar Creek Church, in Mecklenburg County.

    Ch. 322 · 38 Stat. 1459 · October 14, 1914 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act To supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 323 · 38 Stat. 730 · October 15, 1914 · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Thomas Haycock.

    Ch. 324 · 38 Stat. 1459 · October 15, 1914 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To provide for certificate of title to homestead entry by a female American citizen who has intermarried with an alien.

    Ch. 325 · 38 Stat. 740 · October 17, 1914 · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Benjamin A. Sanders.

    Ch. 326 · 38 Stat. 1459 · October 17, 1914 · Private law · Original text

28. Joint Resolution For the appointment of five members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

    Public Resolution 49 · 38 Stat. 780 · October 19, 1914 · Original text

29. An Act To remove the charge of desertion against John Mitchell.

    Ch. 327 · 38 Stat. 1459 · October 19, 1914 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To increase the limit of cost of public building at La Junta, Colorado.

    Ch. 328 · 38 Stat. 740 · October 20, 1914 · Original text

31. An Act For the enlargement, and so forth, of the Wall Street front of the assay office in the city of New York.

    Ch. 329 · 38 Stat. 740 · October 20, 1914 · Original text

32. An Act To provide for the leasing of coal lands in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 330 · 38 Stat. 741 · October 20, 1914 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution To correct an error in the enrollment of certain Indiana enumerated in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and seventy-eight, Sixty-third Congress, second session, enacted into law in the Indian appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

    Public Resolution 50 · 38 Stat. 780 · October 20, 1914 · Original text

34. An Act To increase the internal revenue, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 331 · 38 Stat. 745 · October 22, 1914 · Original text

35. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Saint Francis River, at or near Saint Francis, Arkansas.

    Ch. 332 · 38 Stat. 764 · October 22, 1914 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize Frank H. Gardiner to construct a bridge across the waters of Pistakee Lake and Nippersink Lake at or near their point of intersection.

    Ch. 333 · 38 Stat. 765 · October 22, 1914 · Original text

37. An Act To amend section forty-one hundred and thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States of America as amended by the Act of Congress approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, relating to the renewal of licensee.

    Ch. 334 · 38 Stat. 765 · October 22, 1914 · Original text

38. An Act To provide for issuing of patents for public lands claimed under the homestead laws by deserted wives.

    Ch. 335 · 38 Stat. 766 · October 22, 1914 · Original text

39. An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 336 · 38 Stat. 766 · October 22, 1914 · Original text

40. Joint Resolution Relating to the awards and payments thereon in what are commonly known as the Plaza cases.

    Public Resolution 51 · 38 Stat. 770 · October 22, 1914 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to appoint delegates to attend the Ninth International Congress of the World’s Purity Federation, to be held in the city of San Francisco, State of California, July eighteenth to twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.

    Public Resolution 52 · 38 Stat. 782 · October 22, 1914 · Original text

42. Joint Resolution Ceding to the State of California temporary jurisdiction over certain lands in the Presidio of San Francisco and Fort Mason (California) Military Reservations.

    Public Resolution 53 · 38 Stat. 783 · October 22, 1914 · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of H. C. Hodges, H. A. Powell, John Smith, and Joseph Ridley.

    Ch. 337 · 38 Stat. 1460 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of T. S. Williams.

    Ch. 338 · 38 Stat. 1460 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act Providing for the refund of certain duties incorrectly collected on wild-celery seed.

    Ch. 339 · 38 Stat. 1460 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to cause patent to issue to Erik J. Aanrud upon his homestead entry for the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section fifteen, township one hundred and fifty-nine north, range seventy-three west, in the Devils Lake land district, North Dakota.

    Ch. 340 · 38 Stat. 1461 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Frederick J. Ernst.

    Ch. 341 · 38 Stat. 1461 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell certain land to the trustees of the charity fund of Star in the East Lodge, of Old Town, Maine.

    Ch. 342 · 38 Stat. 1461 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Patrick McGee, alias Patrick Gallagher.

    Ch. 343 · 38 Stat. 1462 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Mary Macon Howard.

    Ch. 344 · 38 Stat. 1462 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Kinder and Nicol.

    Ch. 345 · 38 Stat. 1462 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Leon Greenbaum.

    Ch. 346 · 38 Stat. 1463 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Doctor L. W. Culbreath.

    Ch. 347 · 38 Stat. 1463 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of R. G. Arrington.

    Ch. 348 · 38 Stat. 1463 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

55. Joint Resolution To correct certain errors in H. R. 12045, H, R. 12914, H. R. 13542, II. R. 14234, H. R. 14738, H. R. 15692, and H. R. 16294, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 54 · 38 Stat. 1467 · October 22, 1914 · Private law · Original text

56. Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of October salaries to officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the day of adjournment of the present session.

    Public Resolution 55 · 38 Stat. 783 · October 23, 1914 · Original text

57. An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1 · 38 Stat. 785 · December 17, 1914 · Original text

58. 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 fourteen, on the twenty-second day of said month.

    Ch. 1 · 38 Stat. 1221 · December 22, 1914 · Original text

59. 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.

    Ch. 2 · 38 Stat. 790 · December 23, 1914 · Original text

60. An Act To increase and fix the compensation of the collector of customs for the customs collection district of Omaha.

    Ch. 3 · 38 Stat. 790 · December 28, 1914 · Original text

61. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Norfolk-Berkley Bridge Corporation, of Virginia, to construct a bridge across the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Virginia.

    Ch. 4 · 38 Stat. 790 · January 2, 1915 · Original text

62. An Act To authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio Northern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Ohio River a short distance above the mouth of the Little Scioto River, between Scioto County, Ohio, and Greenup County, Kentucky, at, or near Sciotoville, Ohio.

    Ch. 5 · 38 Stat. 791 · January 2, 1915 · Original text

63. An Act To reimburse Edward B. Kelley for moneys expended while superintendent of the Rosebud Indian Agency in South Dakota.

    Ch. 6 · 38 Stat. 1471 · January 7, 1915 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the adjudication and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

    Ch. 7 · 38 Stat. 791 · January 11, 1915 · Original text

65. An Act Providing for the purchase and disposal of certain lands containing the minerals kaolin, kaolinite, fuller’s earth, china clay, and ball clay, in Tripp County, formerly a part of the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

    Ch. 8 · 38 Stat. 792 · January 11, 1915 · Original text

66. An Act Validating locations of deposits of phosphate rock heretofore made in good faith under the placer-mining laws of the United States.

    Ch. 9 · 38 Stat. 792 · January 11, 1915 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at Metropolis, Illinois.

    Ch. 10 · 38 Stat. 792 · January 11, 1915 · Original text

68. An Act To authorize the Government Exhibit Board for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to install any part or parts of the Government exhibit at the said exposition either in the exhibit palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company or in the Government building at said exposition.

    Ch. 11 · 38 Stat. 793 · January 11, 1915 · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Charles A. Coulson.

    Ch. 12 · 38 Stat. 1471 · January 11, 1915 · Private law · Original text

70. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to present the bell of the late United States steamship Princeton to the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey.

    Ch. 2 · 38 Stat. 1221 · January 12, 1915 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to exchange printed copies of United States patents with the Dominion of Canada.

    Ch. 3 · 38 Stat. 1221 · January 14, 1915 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution To provide for the detail of an officer of the Army for duty with the Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, California.

    Ch. 4 · 38 Stat. 1221 · January 15, 1915 · Original text

73. An Act For the coinage of certain gold and silver coins in commemoration of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 13 · 38 Stat. 793 · January 16, 1915 · Original text

74. An Act To increase the limit of cost for the construction of a public building at Marlin, Texas.

    Ch. 14 · 38 Stat. 794 · January 16, 1915 · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of the King Theological Hall, and authorizing the conveyance of real estate to the Howard University and other grantees.

    Ch. 15 · 38 Stat. 795 · January 20, 1915 · Original text

76. Joint Resolution Directing the selection of a site for the erection of a statue in Washington, District of Columbia, to the memory of the late Major General George Gordon Meade.

    Ch. 5 · 38 Stat. 1222 · January 21, 1915 · Original text

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

    Ch. 16 · 38 Stat. 795 · January 25, 1915 · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of the Atlantic Canning Company.

    Ch. 17 · 38 Stat. 1472 · January 25, 1915 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act To increase the limit of cost of the United States public building at Grand Junction, Colorado.

    Ch. 18 · 38 Stat. 798 · January 26, 1915 · Original text

80. An Act To establish the Rocky Mountain National Park in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 19 · 38 Stat. 798 · January 26, 1915 · Original text

81. An Act To create the Coast Guard by combining therein the existing Life-Saving Service and Revenue-Cutter Service.

    Ch. 20 · 38 Stat. 800 · January 28, 1915 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Niagara River, in the town of Lewiston, in the county of Niagara and State of New York.

    Ch. 21 · 38 Stat. 802 · January 28, 1915 · Original text

83. 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.

    Ch. 22 · 38 Stat. 802 · January 28, 1915 · Original text

84. An Act For the improvement of the foreign service.

    Ch. 23 · 38 Stat. 805 · February 5, 1915 · Original text

85. An Act Extending the time for completion of the bridge across the Delaware River authorized by an Act entitled “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,” approved the twenty-fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 24 · 38 Stat. 807 · February 6, 1915 · Original text

86. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to survey the lands of the abandoned Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation and open the same to settlement.

    Ch. 25 · 38 Stat. 807 · February 11, 1915 · Original text

87. An Act To extend the time for the completion of the municipal bridge at Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 26 · 38 Stat. 810 · February 15, 1915 · Original text

88. An Act To authorize the Brunot Island Bridge Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the back channel of the Ohio River.

    Ch. 27 · 38 Stat. 810 · February 15, 1915 · Original text

89. An Act Extending the time for completion of the bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee,” approved August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 28 · 38 Stat. 810 · February 15, 1915 · Original text

90. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to sell the present old post office and the site thereof in the city of Jersey City, New Jersey.

    Ch. 29 · 38 Stat. 811 · February 17, 1915 · Original text

91. An Act To increase the limit of cost of the United States post-office building and site at Saint Petersburg, Florida.

    Ch. 30 · 38 Stat. 811 · February 17, 1915 · Original text

92. An Act To correct the military record of John T. Haines.

    Ch. 31 · 38 Stat. 1472 · February 17, 1915 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Fixing the date of reenlistment of Gustav Hertfelder, first-class fireman, United States Navy.

    Ch. 32 · 38 Stat. 1472 · February 17, 1915 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Pay Inspector F. T. Arms, United States Navy.

    Ch. 33 · 38 Stat. 1472 · February 17, 1915 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Charles Richter.

    Ch. 34 · 38 Stat. 1473 · February 17, 1915 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Byron W. Canfield.

    Ch. 35 · 38 Stat. 1473 · February 17, 1915 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Alfred S. Lewis.

    Ch. 36 · 38 Stat. 1473 · February 17, 1915 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of George P. Chandler.

    Ch. 37 · 38 Stat. 1473 · February 17, 1915 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Chris Kuppler.

    Ch. 38 · 38 Stat. 1473 · February 17, 1915 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Charles M. Clark.

     Ch. 39 · 38 Stat. 1474 · February 17, 1915 · Private law · Original text