Every law Congress has passed

684 laws of the 64th Congress, 1915–1917

1. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Citizens’ Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Burlington, Iowa.

   Ch. 1 · 39 Stat. 1 · December 17, 1915 · Original text

2. An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Saint Francis River at or near Saint Francis, Arkansas.

   Ch. 2 · 39 Stat. 1 · December 17, 1915 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution To transfer the Government exhibit from the Panama Pacific International Exposition to the Panama-California Exposition, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 3 · 39 Stat. 2 · December 17, 1915 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Extending the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the internal revenue, and for other purposes,” approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

   Ch. 4 · 39 Stat. 2 · December 17, 1915 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Authorizing payment of the salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, nineteen hundred and fifteen.

   Ch. 6 · 39 Stat. 2 · December 17, 1915 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

   Ch. 5 · 39 Stat. 3 · December 17, 1915 · Original text

7. An Act Authorizing the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Allegheny River at Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania.

   Ch. 7 · 39 Stat. 4 · December 18, 1915 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution Extending the time for filing the report of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Fiscal Relations between the District of Columbia and the United States.

   Ch. 8 · 39 Stat. 4 · December 18, 1915 · Original text

9. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River at or near Tulsa, Oklahoma.

   Ch. 9 · 39 Stat. 4 · January 12, 1916 · Original text

10. An Act Granting an extension of time to construct a bridge across Rock River at or near Colona Ferry, in the State of Illinois.

    Ch. 10 · 39 Stat. 4 · January 14, 1916 · Original text

11. An Act To authorize Butler County, Missouri, to construct a bridge across Black River.

    Ch. 11 · 39 Stat. 5 · January 14, 1916 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize the Ohio-West Virginia Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Ohio River at the city of Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio.

    Ch. 12 · 39 Stat. 5 · January 17, 1916 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the construction of bridges across the Fox River at Aurora, Illinois.

    Ch. 13 · 39 Stat. 5 · January 18, 1916 · Original text

14. An Act To authorize the county of Bonner, Idaho, to construct a bridge across Pend Oreille River.

    Ch. 14 · 39 Stat. 6 · January 24, 1916 · Original text

15. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to J. P. Jones and others to construct one or more bridges across the Chattahoochee River between the counties of Coweta and Carroll, in the State of Georgia.

    Ch. 15 · 39 Stat. 6 · January 24, 1916 · Original text

16. An Act Authorizing the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, a corporation, to construct and operate a bridge, and approaches thereto, across what is known as “Back River,” a part of the Savannah River, at a point between Jasper County, South Carolina, and Chatham County, Georgia.

    Ch. 16 · 39 Stat. 6 · January 26, 1916 · Original text

17. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at or near Warfield, Kentucky, and Kermit, West Virginia.

    Ch. 17 · 39 Stat. 7 · January 28, 1916 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize Dunklin County, Missouri, and Clay County, Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Saint Francis River.

    Ch. 18 · 39 Stat. 7 · January 28, 1916 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize Butler and Dunklin Counties, Missouri, to construct a bridge across Saint Francis River.

    Ch. 19 · 39 Stat. 7 · January 28, 1916 · Original text

20. An Act To provide for the maintenance of the United States Section of the International High Commission.

    Ch. 20 · 39 Stat. 8 · February 7, 1916 · Original text

21. An Act Directing the Secretary of War to reconvey a parcel of land to the Anshe Chesed Congregation, Vicksburg, Mississippi.

    Ch. 21 · 39 Stat. 1203 · February 10, 1916 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Amending sections four hundred and seventy-six, four hundred and seventy-seven, and four hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 22 · 39 Stat. 8 · February 15, 1916 · Original text

23. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Republic Iron and Steel Company to construct a bridge across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 23 · 39 Stat. 9 · February 15, 1916 · Original text

24. An Act Providing for an increase in number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.

    Ch. 24 · 39 Stat. 9 · February 15, 1916 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan one thousand tents and one thousand cots for the use of the encampment of the United Confederate Veterans to be held at Birmingham, Alabama, in May, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

    Ch. 25 · 39 Stat. 10 · February 15, 1916 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to receive for instruction at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis Mr. Carlos Hevia y Reyes Gavilan, a citizen of Cuba.

    Ch. 26 · 39 Stat. 10 · February 15, 1916 · Original text

27. Joint Resolution Making part of the appropriation, “Construction and machinery, increase of the Navy,” in the naval Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, available for the extension of building ways and equipment at the navy yards at New York and Mare Island, California.

    Ch. 27 · 39 Stat. 10 · February 15, 1916 · Original text

28. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan, issue, or use quartermaster’s and medical supplies for the relief of destitute persons in the districts overflowed by the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

    Ch. 28 · 39 Stat. 11 · February 15, 1916 · Original text

29. An Act To authorize the Gary Land Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the State of Indiana.

    Ch. 29 · 39 Stat. 11 · February 17, 1916 · Original text

30. Joint Resolution To appoint Alexander Graham Bell a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Ch. 30 · 39 Stat. 11 · February 21, 1916 · Original text

31. An Act For the coinage of a McKinley souvenir gold dollar, in commemoration of the erection of a memorial to William McKinley, late President of the United States.

    Ch. 31 · 39 Stat. 11 · February 23, 1916 · Original text

32. An Act To amend chapter two hundred and thirty-one, known as the Judicial Code, Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, volume thirty-six, United States Statutes at Large, section eighty-one, page eleven hundred and eleven.

    Ch. 32 · 39 Stat. 12 · February 23, 1916 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to sell the old post office and site thereof in the city of Dayton, Ohio.

    Ch. 33 · 39 Stat. 13 · February 23, 1916 · Original text

34. An Act To amend an Act relating to the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Ch. 34 · 39 Stat. 13 · February 25, 1916 · Original text

35. An Act To purchase a site and erect thereon a suitable building for post office and other governmental offices at Sandusky, Ohio, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 35 · 39 Stat. 14 · February 26, 1916 · Original text

36. An Act Permitting the Wolf Point Bridge and Development Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River in the State of Montana.

    Ch. 36 · 39 Stat. 14 · February 28, 1916 · Original text

37. An Act Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and prior years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 37 · 39 Stat. 14 · February 28, 1916 · Original text

38. 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 February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.

    Ch. 38 · 39 Stat. 1204 · February 28, 1916 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River between Anoka and Hennepin Counties, in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 39 · 39 Stat. 34 · March 1, 1916 · Original text

40. An Act To extend the time for the completion of dams across the Savannah River by authority granted to Twin City Power Company by an Act approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, as amended by Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 40 · 39 Stat. 34 · March 1, 1916 · Original text

41. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Pend Oreille River, between the towns of Metaline and Metaline Falls, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 41 · 39 Stat. 34 · March 13, 1916 · Original text

42. An Act To authorize the Counties of Minidoka and Cassia, State of Idaho, to construct a bridge across Snake River.

    Ch. 42 · 39 Stat. 34 · March 13, 1916 · Original text

43. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Georgia Lumber Company to construct a bridge across Flint River, Georgia, between Dooly and Sumter Counties.

    Ch. 43 · 39 Stat. 35 · March 16, 1916 · Original text

44. 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. 44 · 39 Stat. 1204 · March 16, 1916 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act Granting to the State of Oklahoma permission to occupy, a certain portion of the Fort Sill Military Reservation, Oklahoma, and to maintain and operate thereon a fish hatchery.

    Ch. 45 · 39 Stat. 35 · March 17, 1916 · Original text

46. Joint Resolution Providing for an increase of the enlisted men of the Army in an emergency.

    Ch. 46 · 39 Stat. 36 · March 17, 1916 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River from a point on its banks in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at or near the locality known as Woods Run, to a point on the opposite shore of said river within the borough of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 47 · 39 Stat. 36 · March 20, 1916 · Original text

48. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Interstate Bridge Company to construct a bridge across Mississippi River.

    Ch. 48 · 39 Stat. 37 · March 20, 1916 · Original text

49. An Act Reserving or excepting all ores or minerals on the lands, with the right of mining the same, on the site of the proposed post-office building at Calumet, Michigan.

    Ch. 49 · 39 Stat. 37 · March 20, 1916 · Original text

50. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Lowell, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, to construct a bridge across the Merrimack River.

    Ch. 50 · 39 Stat. 37 · March 20, 1916 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Michael F. O’Hare.

    Ch. 51 · 39 Stat. 1212 · March 20, 1916 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act To amend section thirty-six hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States as reenacted and amended by Act of February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and nine.

    Ch. 52 · 39 Stat. 37 · March 21, 1916 · Original text

53. An Act To ratify, approve, and confirm an act duly enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii relating to certain gas, electric light and power, telephone, railroad, and street railway companies and franchises in the Territory of Hawaii, and amending the laws relating thereto.

    Ch. 53 · 39 Stat. 38 · March 28, 1916 · Original text

54. An Act To ratify, approve, and confirm sections one, two, and three of an act duly enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii relating to the board of harbor commissioners of the Territory, as herein amended, and amending the laws relating thereto.

    Ch. 54 · 39 Stat. 39 · March 28, 1916 · Original text

55. An Act Making appropriations to supply further additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and prior fiscal years.

    Ch. 55 · 39 Stat. 41 · March 31, 1916 · Original text

56. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.

    Ch. 56 · 39 Stat. 45 · March 31, 1916 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution To cede to the State of Maryland temporary jurisdiction over certain lands in the Fort McHenry Military Reservation.

    Ch. 57 · 39 Stat. 46 · April 3, 1916 · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of the heirs of John Howard Payne, deceased, late United States consul at Tunis.

    Ch. 58 · 39 Stat. 1212 · April 3, 1916 · Private law · Original text

59. 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. 59 · 39 Stat. 1212 · April 3, 1916 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company to rebuild and reconstruct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River near Chattanooga, in Hamilton County, in the State of Tennessee.

    Ch. 60 · 39 Stat. 47 · April 5, 1916 · 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. 61 · 39 Stat. 1223 · April 5, 1916 · Private law · Original text

62. 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. 62 · 39 Stat. 1233 · April 5, 1916 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment in claims of the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians against the United States.

    Ch. 63 · 39 Stat. 47 · April 11, 1916 · Original text

64. An Act To create an additional judge in the district of New Jersey.

    Ch. 64 · 39 Stat. 48 · April 11, 1916 · Original text

65. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of Indiana occupying railroad lands in Arizona, New Mexico, or California,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Ch. 65 · 39 Stat. 48 · April 11, 1916 · Original text

66. An Act To authorize the Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg Railroad Company, its lessees, successors, and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Susquehanna River from the borough of Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, to Monroe Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 66 · 39 Stat. 48 · April 11, 1916 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the Catawissa Railroad Company, its lessees, successors, and assigns to construct a bridge across the west branch of the Susquehanna River from the Borough of Milton, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, to the Borough of West Milton, Union County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 67 · 39 Stat. 49 · April 11, 1916 · Original text

68. An Act Authorizing the Yankton County Bridge Company, a corporation, to construct and maintain a bridge or bridges and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at a point between Yankton County, South Dakota, and Cedar County, Nebraska.

    Ch. 68 · 39 Stat. 49 · April 11, 1916 · Original text

69. An Act To exempt from cancellation certain desert-land entries in Riverside County, California.

    Ch. 69 · 39 Stat. 49 · April 11, 1916 · Original text

70. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to supply tents for temporary use of the sufferers from the recent conflagration in Paris, Texas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 70 · 39 Stat. 50 · April 11, 1916 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, René W. Pintó y Wentworth, a citizen of Cuba.

    Ch. 71 · 39 Stat. 50 · April 11, 1916 · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of Mary E. Nicolson.

    Ch. 72 · 39 Stat. 1242 · April 11, 1916 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act To relieve J. Lawrence Latham, postmaster at Eupora, Webster County, Mississippi, of the payment of cash and funds stolen from the post office.

    Ch. 73 · 39 Stat. 1243 · April 11, 1916 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Beverly E. Whitehead.

    Ch. 74 · 39 Stat. 1243 · April 12, 1916 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the reconstruction of an existing bridge across the Wabash River at Silverwood, in the State of Indiana.

    Ch. 75 · 39 Stat. 50 · April 13, 1916 · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Warren E. Day.

    Ch. 76 · 39 Stat. 1243 · April 14, 1916 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Incorporating the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

    Ch. 77 · 39 Stat. 51 · April 17, 1916 · Original text

78. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Mitchell, or to the county of Baker, both of the State of Georgia, acting jointly or separately, and their successors and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Flint River.

    Ch. 78 · 39 Stat. 52 · April 17, 1916 · Original text

79. 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. 79 · 39 Stat. 52 · April 17, 1916 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution To continue in effect the provisions of the Act of March ninth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 80 · 39 Stat. 52 · April 17, 1916 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Librarian of Congress to return to Williamsburg Lodge, Numbered Six, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Virginia, the original manuscript of the record of the proceedings of said lodge.

    Ch. 81 · 39 Stat. 1243 · April 19, 1916 · 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. 82 · 39 Stat. 1244 · April 20, 1916 · 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. 83 · 39 Stat. 1252 · April 20, 1916 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To renew patent numbered twenty-one thousand and fifty-three.

    Ch. 84 · 39 Stat. 1260 · April 20, 1916 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Warren County, Pennsylvania, to construct a bridge across the Allegheny River in the borough or Warren, county of Warren, in the State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 85 · 39 Stat. 53 · April 21, 1916 · Original text

86. An Act To validate a certain title whereon the purchase money has been paid on a private sale by order of the United States district court for the middle district of Pennsylvania, at number eighty-three, June term, nineteen hundred and ten, sitting in bankruptcy.

    Ch. 86 · 39 Stat. 1261 · April 26, 1916 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of New England Coal and Coke Company, owner of the American barges Emilie and Cassie, and Bruusgaard, Kiosterud Dampskibsaktieselskab, owner of the Norwegian steamship Hesperos.

    Ch. 87 · 39 Stat. 1261 · April 26, 1916 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To establish in the War Department and in the Navy Department, respectively, a roll, designated as “the Army and Navy medal of honor roll,” and for other purposes.

    Ch. 88 · 39 Stat. 53 · April 27, 1916 · Original text

89. An Act Prohibiting the use of the name of any Member of either House of Congress or of any officer of the Government by any person, firm, or corporation practicing before any department or office of the Government.

    Ch. 89 · 39 Stat. 54 · April 27, 1916 · Original text

90. 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.

    Ch. 90 · 39 Stat. 55 · April 27, 1916 · Original text

91. An Act Providing for the establishment of two additional terms of the district court for the eastern district of North Carolina at Raleigh, North Carolina.

    Ch. 91 · 39 Stat. 56 · April 27, 1916 · Original text

92. An Act To emancipate from certain disabilities children who have judgments of conviction for crime of record against them in the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 92 · 39 Stat. 56 · April 27, 1916 · Original text

93. An Act To amend paragraphs one hundred and seventy-seven and one hundred and seventy-eight of an Act entitled “An Act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,” approved October third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, relating to the duty on sugar, molasses, and other articles.

    Ch. 93 · 39 Stat. 56 · April 27, 1916 · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of the United States Drainage and Irrigation Company.

    Ch. 94 · 39 Stat. 1262 · April 27, 1916 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To ratify, approve, and confirm an Act amending the franchise granted to H. P. Baldwin, R. A. Wadsworth, J. N. S. Williams, D. C. Lindsay, C. D. Lufkin, James L. Coke, and W. T. Robinson, and now held under assignment to Island Electric Company, Limited, by extending it to include the Makawao district on the island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii; and extending the control of the public utilities commission of the Territory of Hawaii to said franchise and its holder.

    Ch. 95 · 39 Stat. 57 · April 28, 1916 · Original text

96. An Act To authorize the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.

    Ch. 96 · 39 Stat. 58 · April 28, 1916 · Original text

97. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the counties of Twin Falls and Minidoka, State of Idaho, to construct a bridge across Snake River.

    Ch. 97 · 39 Stat. 59 · April 28, 1916 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution To print as a public document the final report and testimony submitted to Congress by the United States Commission on Industrial Relations.

    Ch. 98 · 39 Stat. 59 · April 28, 1916 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of James Stanton.

    Ch. 99 · 39 Stat. 1262 · April 28, 1916 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Ellis P. Garton, administrator of the estate of H. B. Garton, deceased.

     Ch. 100 · 39 Stat. 1262 · April 28, 1916 · Private law · Original text