Every law Congress has passed

684 laws of the 64th Congress, 1915–1917

1. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to A. N. Alford to construct a bridge across the Savannah River.

   Ch. 401 · 39 Stat. 534 · August 23, 1916 · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Nathaniel Monroe.

   Ch. 402 · 39 Stat. 1394 · August 23, 1916 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Nelson T. Saunders.

   Ch. 403 · 39 Stat. 1394 · August 23, 1916 · Private law · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Providing for the relief of flood sufferers in the State of West Virginia.

   Ch. 404 · 39 Stat. 534 · August 24, 1916 · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of John L. Moon.

   Ch. 405 · 39 Stat. 1394 · August 24, 1916 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of C. Horatio Scott.

   Ch. 406 · 39 Stat. 1395 · August 24, 1916 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the maintenance and operation of dams across the Saint Croix River at Baileyville and Grand Falls, Maine.

   Ch. 407 · 39 Stat. 534 · August 25, 1916 · Original text

8. An Act To establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 408 · 39 Stat. 535 · August 25, 1916 · Original text

9. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the board of county commissioners of the county of Hampden, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to construct a bridge across the Connecticut River between Springfield and West Springfield, in said county and Commonwealth.

   Ch. 409 · 39 Stat. 536 · August 25, 1916 · Original text

10. An Act To confirm the entry of John Dowd.

    Ch. 410 · 39 Stat. 1395 · August 25, 1916 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to William H. Ingle for homestead entry in Colorado.

    Ch. 411 · 39 Stat. 1395 · August 25, 1916 · Private law · Original text

12. 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. 412 · 39 Stat. 536 · August 26, 1916 · Original text

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

    Ch. 414 · 39 Stat. 536 · August 26, 1916 · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Mike G. Womack.

    Ch. 413 · 39 Stat. 1395 · August 26, 1916 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Relating to bills of lading in interstate and foreign commerce.

    Ch. 415 · 39 Stat. 538 · August 29, 1916 · Original text

16. An Act To declare the purpose of the people of the United States as to the future political status of the people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for those islands.

    Ch. 416 · 39 Stat. 545 · August 29, 1916 · Original text

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

    Ch. 417 · 39 Stat. 556 · August 29, 1916 · Original text

18. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 418 · 39 Stat. 619 · August 29, 1916 · Original text

19. An Act To provide for the maintenance of a training camp on the military reservation of Fort Douglas, Utah.

    Ch. 419 · 39 Stat. 671 · August 29, 1916 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution Extending the provisions of the Act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

    Ch. 420 · 39 Stat. 671 · August 29, 1916 · Original text

21. An Act To correct the military record of Matthew C. Butler, junior.

    Ch. 421 · 39 Stat. 1396 · August 29, 1916 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Youngstown, Ohio, to construct a bridge across the Mahoning River in the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 422 · 39 Stat. 671 · August 30, 1916 · Original text

23. An Act For erecting a suitable memorial to John Ericsson.

    Ch. 423 · 39 Stat. 671 · August 31, 1916 · Original text

24. An Act To amend the Act of March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted lands of the diminished Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 424 · 39 Stat. 672 · August 31, 1916 · Original text

25. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the payment of drainage assessments on Indian lands in Oklahoma.”

    Ch. 425 · 39 Stat. 673 · August 31, 1916 · Original text

26. An Act To fix standards for Climax baskets for grapes and other fruits and vegetables, and to fix standards for baskets and other containers for small fruits, berries, and vegetables, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 426 · 39 Stat. 673 · August 31, 1916 · Original text

27. Joint Resolution Extending until April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the effective date of section ten of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,” approved October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

    Ch. 427 · 39 Stat. 674 · August 31, 1916 · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Halvor Nilsen.

    Ch. 428 · 39 Stat. 1396 · August 31, 1916 · Private law · Original text

29. 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. 429 · 39 Stat. 1396 · August 31, 1916 · Private law · Original text

30. 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. 430 · 39 Stat. 1411 · August 31, 1916 · Private law · Original text

31. 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. 431 · 39 Stat. 1424 · August 31, 1916 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act To prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 432 · 39 Stat. 675 · September 1, 1916 · Original text

33. 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 seventeen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 433 · 39 Stat. 676 · September 1, 1916 · Original text

34. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment of a district judge, district attorney, and marshal for the western district of South Carolina, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, so as to provide for terms of the district court to be held at Anderson, South Carolina.

    Ch. 434 · 39 Stat. 721 · September 1, 1916 · Original text

35. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to lease to Charleston-Dunbar Traction Company a certain strip or parcel of land owned by the United States Government on the Great Kanawha River in West Virginia.

    Ch. 435 · 39 Stat. 1447 · September 1, 1916 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To establish an eight-hour day for employees of carriers engaged in interstate and foreign commerce, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 436 · 39 Stat. 721 · September 3, 1916 · Original text

37. An Act To amend sections five and six of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the drainage of certain lands in the State of Minnesota,” approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and eight.

    Ch. 437 · 39 Stat. 722 · September 5, 1916 · Original text

38. An Act Authorizing the Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company to make settlement with Crittenden County, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 438 · 39 Stat. 723 · September 5, 1916 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the county commissioners of Aitkin County, Minnesota, and the town board of Logan Township, in said county and said State, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River on the line between sections twenty-six and twenty-seven, township forty-nine north, range twenty-five west, fourth principal meridian.

    Ch. 439 · 39 Stat. 724 · September 5, 1916 · Original text

40. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten.

    Ch. 440 · 39 Stat. 724 · September 5, 1916 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution Proposing to amend section twenty-nine hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 441 · 39 Stat. 725 · September 5, 1916 · Original text

42. 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. 442 · 39 Stat. 1447 · September 5, 1916 · Private law · Original text

43. 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. 443 · 39 Stat. 1449 · September 5, 1916 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Oleanne Marie Zahl Branum.

    Ch. 444 · 39 Stat. 1465 · September 5, 1916 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act To validate title to the town site of McCabe, in the State of Montana.

    Ch. 445 · 39 Stat. 1466 · September 5, 1916 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Martin Huhn.

    Ch. 446 · 39 Stat. 1466 · September 5, 1916 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act To amend section eighty-two, chapter two hundred and thirty-one, of the Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.

    Ch. 447 · 39 Stat. 725 · September 6, 1916 · Original text

48. An Act To amend the Judicial Code; to fix the time when the annual term of the Supreme Court shall commence; and further to define the jurisdiction of that court.

    Ch. 448 · 39 Stat. 726 · September 6, 1916 · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of John P. Sutton.

    Ch. 449 · 39 Stat. 1466 · September 6, 1916 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to extend the time of payment of the amount due the Government by the city of Augusta, Georgia.

    Ch. 450 · 39 Stat. 728 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

51. An Act To establish a United States Shipping Board for the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its Territories and possessions and with foreign countries; to regulate carriers by water engaged in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States; and for other purposes.

    Ch. 451 · 39 Stat. 728 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

52. An Act To amend the Act of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and fifteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and seven), providing for the opening of the Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation.

    Ch. 452 · 39 Stat. 739 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

53. An Act To amend subsection eleven of section thirty-two hundred and forty-four, Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 453 · 39 Stat. 740 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

54. An Act Providing for the sale at public auction of all unsold sub-urban lots not reserved for public purposes in the Government town site of Port Angeles, Washington, and for the issuance of patents for those previously sold under the Act of May second, nineteen hundred and six, on the payment of the price at which the said lots were reappraised under said Act without further condition or delay.

    Ch. 454 · 39 Stat. 740 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

55. An Act Providing that Indian schools may be maintained without restriction as to annual rate of expenditure per pupil.

    Ch. 455 · 39 Stat. 741 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

56. An Act To authorize the incorporated town of Juneau, Alaska, to issue bonds for the construction and equipment of schools therein, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 456 · 39 Stat. 741 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

57. An Act Authorizing the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Madison,.Wisconsin, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 457 · 39 Stat. 742 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

58. An Act To provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the perfomance of their duties, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 458 · 39 Stat. 742 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

59. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to W. H. Crosby; W. H Andrews; E. G. Connette; Daniel Good; Henry May; Robert C. Gaupp; Edward Kener, junior; William F. MacGlashan; Eugene L. Falk; John W. Robinson; John M. Willys; Oliver Cabana, junior; Conrad E. Wettlaufer; H. A. Hurt; George J. Meyer Myron S. Hall; John Lord O’Brian; Frank S. McGraw; and William A. Morgan to construct a bridge across Niagara River within or near the city limits of Buffalo, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 459 · 39 Stat. 751 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania, to construct a bridge across the North Branch of the Susquehanna River from the city of Wilkes-Barre, county of Luzerne, Pennsylvania, to the borough of Dorranceton, county of Luzerne, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 460 · 39 Stat. 751 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

61. An Act To amend certain sections of the Act entitled “Federal reserve Act,” approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Ch. 461 · 39 Stat. 752 · September 7, 1916 · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of John Duggan.

    Ch. 462 · 39 Stat. 1467 · September 7, 1916 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 463 · 39 Stat. 756 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

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

    Ch. 464 · 39 Stat. 801 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

65. An Act Extending the time for the completion of the bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, 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,’” approved August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 465 · 39 Stat. 830 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

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

    Ch. 466 · 39 Stat. 831 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

67. An Act To make available a portion of the appropriation for the immigration station at Baltimore, Maryland, for such counters, booths, screens, railings, seats, bunks, kitchen and laundry equipment, and so forth, as necessary in connection with said station.

    Ch. 467 · 39 Stat. 844 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

68. An Act Making appropriation for the preservation, improvement, and perpetual care of Huron Cemetery, a burial place of the Wyandotte Indians, in the city of Kansas City, Kansas.

    Ch. 468 · 39 Stat. 844 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

69. An Act To reserve certain lands and make them a part of the Pike National Forest.

    Ch. 469 · 39 Stat. 844 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

70. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to increase the pensions of widows, minor children, and so forth, of deceased soldiers and sailors of the late Civil War, the War with Mexico, the various Indian wars, and so forth, and to grant a pension to certain widows of the deceased soldiers and sailors of the late Civil War,” approved April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 470 · 39 Stat. 844 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

71. An Act To consolidate certain forest lands in the Oregon National Forest, in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 471 · 39 Stat. 846 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee simple to the district school board numbered one hundred and twelve, of White Earth Village, Becker County, Minnesota, for a certain tract of land upon payment therefor to the United States in trust for the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.

    Ch. 472 · 39 Stat. 846 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

73. An Act To prevent fraud at public auctions in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 473 · 39 Stat. 846 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

74. An Act Authorizing the addition of certain lands to the Colorado and Pike National Forests, Colorado.

    Ch. 474 · 39 Stat. 848 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

75. An Act To provide for holding sessions of the United States district court in the district of Maine and for dividing said district into divisions, and providing for offices of the clerk and marshal of said district to be maintained in each of said divisions, and for the appointment of a field deputy marshal in the division in which the marshal does not reside.

    Ch. 475 · 39 Stat. 850 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

76. An Act Authorizing an adjustment of the boundaries of the Whitman National Forest, in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 476 · 39 Stat. 852 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

77. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell the unsold and unappropriated portions of lands within the town site of Newell, South Dakota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 477 · 39 Stat. 852 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution Interpreting section fifty of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 478 · 39 Stat. 853 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

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

    Ch. 479 · 39 Stat. 853 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Postmaster General to provide the postmaster of Gulfport, Mississippi, with a special canceling die for the Mississippi Centennial Exposition celebration.

    Ch. 480 · 39 Stat. 853 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Authorizing the transfer of the Government exhibit, or such portion thereof as the President may determine is advisable, now at the Panama-California International Exposition at San Diego, California, to the Mississippi Centennial Exposition at Gulfport, Mississippi.

    Ch. 481 · 39 Stat. 854 · September 8, 1916 · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Eva M. Bowman.

    Ch. 482 · 39 Stat. 1467 · September 8, 1916 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Karen S. Sorenson and James Lyle.

    Ch. 483 · 39 Stat. 1467 · September 8, 1916 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of John E. Keys.

    Ch. 484 · 39 Stat. 1467 · September 8, 1916 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of James L. Yokum.

    Ch. 485 · 39 Stat. 1467 · September 8, 1916 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Captain Harvey H. Young.

    Ch. 1 · 39 Stat. 1469 · December 19, 1916 · Private law · Original text

87. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Department of Labor to make an inquiry into the cost of living in the District of Columbia and to report thereon to Congress as early as practicable.

    Ch. 2 · 39 Stat. 857 · December 20, 1916 · Original text

88. An Act Authorizing the Commissioner of Navigation to cause the sailing vessel Golden Gate to be registered as a vessel of the United States.

    Ch. 3 · 39 Stat. 857 · December 21, 1916 · Original text

89. An Act Granting to the Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company, and to the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, and to the Manufacturers’ Railway Company permission to transfer certain rights of easement for railway purposes heretofore granted by the United States to the Saint Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company and to the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, respectively.

    Ch. 4 · 39 Stat. 857 · December 21, 1916 · Original text

90. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 5 · 39 Stat. 859 · December 22, 1916 · Original text

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

    Ch. 6 · 39 Stat. 861 · December 22, 1916 · Original text

92. 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. 7 · 39 Stat. 861 · December 27, 1916 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Postmaster General to provide the postmaster of Springfield, Illinois, with a special canceling die for the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Federal Union.

    Ch. 8 · 39 Stat. 861 · December 27, 1916 · Original text

94. An Act To provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 9 · 39 Stat. 862 · December 29, 1916 · Original text

95. An Act Providing for the taxation of the lands of the Winnebago Indians and the Omaha Indians in the State of Nebraska.

    Ch. 10 · 39 Stat. 865 · December 30, 1916 · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Thomas M. Jones.

    Ch. 11 · 39 Stat. 1469 · December 30, 1916 · Private law · Original text

97. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to extend the time for payment of the deferred installments due on the purchase of tracts of the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes in Oklahoma.

    Ch. 12 · 39 Stat. 866 · January 11, 1917 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, in the class other than Members of Congress.

    Ch. 13 · 39 Stat. 866 · January 15, 1917 · Original text

99. Joint Resolution To continue and extend the time for making report of the joint subcommittee appointed under a joint resolution entitled “Joint Resolution creating a joint subcommittee from the membership of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce and the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to investigate the conditions relating to interstate and foreign commerce, and the necessity of further legislation relating thereto, and defining the powers and duties of such subcommittee.” approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and providing for the filling of vacancies in said subcommittee.

    Ch. 14 · 39 Stat. 866 · January 15, 1917 · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of James Anderson.

     Ch. 15 · 39 Stat. 1469 · January 16, 1917 · Private law · Original text