Every law Congress has passed

453 laws of the 65th Congress, 1917–1919

1. An Act To provide for the promotion of first lieutenants in the Regular Army and National Guard to the grade of captain, and respecting the Dental Corps of the Army and medical and dental students, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 101 · 40 Stat. 397 · October 6, 1917 · Original text

2. An Act To amend section fifteen hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

   Ch. 102 · 40 Stat. 397 · October 6, 1917 · Original text

3. An Act To establish certain new ratings in the United States Navy, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 103 · 40 Stat. 397 · October 6, 1917 · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the President to organize provisionally as Field Artillery or Infantry and to use as Field Artillery or Infantry during the existing emergency such regiments of Cavalry as he may designate.

   Ch. 104 · 40 Stat. 398 · October 6, 1917 · Original text

5. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 105 · 40 Stat. 398 · October 6, 1917 · Original text

6. An Act To define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 106 · 40 Stat. 411 · October 6, 1917 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of Interior to expend funds in New Mexico and Texas for drainage purposes.

   Ch. 107 · 40 Stat. 426 · October 6, 1917 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the entry of distilled spirits into bonded warehouses under bond, conditioned for the export of such distilled spirits to some foreign country within one year from the date of entry into the United States.

   Ch. 108 · 40 Stat. 427 · October 6, 1917 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution Authorizing the expenditure of money upon lands purchased for use of the Ordnance Department of the Army without reference to section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes.

   Ch. 109 · 40 Stat. 427 · October 6, 1917 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the Government and the people of the United States, and making provision to prosecute the same.

    Ch. 1 · 40 Stat. 429 · December 7, 1917 · Original text

11. An Act Granting six months’ pay to Ida Cottrell Hodgson, widow of Frederick Grady Hodgson, deceased, colonel, United States Army, retired.

    Ch. 2 · 40 Stat. 1357 · December 8, 1917 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 3 · 40 Stat. 429 · December 15, 1917 · Original text

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

    Ch. 4 · 40 Stat. 430 · December 18, 1917 · Original text

14. An Act To increase the number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.

    Ch. 5 · 40 Stat. 430 · December 20, 1917 · Original text

15. An Act To authorize absence by homestead settlers and entrymen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 6 · 40 Stat. 430 · December 20, 1917 · Original text

16. Joint Resolution Extending the commission provided for in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, with the same authorities, powers, and provisions until on or before March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.

    Ch. 7 · 40 Stat. 431 · December 26, 1917 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution Extending until January first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, 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. 8 · 40 Stat. 431 · January 12, 1918 · Original text

18. An Act Amending section thirty-two, Federal Farm Loan Act, approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

    Ch. 9 · 40 Stat. 431 · January 18, 1918 · Original text

19. An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River at or near the city of Fairmont, West Virginia.

    Ch. 10 · 40 Stat. 432 · January 26, 1918 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the calling into the service of the United States the militia and other locally created armed forces in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 11 · 40 Stat. 432 · January 26, 1918 · Original text

21. An Act Providing for the sale of the coal and asphalt deposits in the segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 12 · 40 Stat. 433 · February 8, 1918 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution For the purpose of promoting efficiency, for the utilization of the resources and industries of the United States, for lessening the expenses of the war, and restoring the loss caused by the war by providing for the employment of a discovery or invention called the “Garabed,” claiming to make possible the utilization of free energy.

    Ch. 13 · 40 Stat. 435 · February 8, 1918 · Original text

23. An Act To extend the time for the completion of the municipal bridge approaches, and extensions or additions thereto, by the city of Saint Louis, within the States of Illinois and Missouri.

    Ch. 14 · 40 Stat. 436 · February 11, 1918 · Original text

24. An Act To authorize and empower officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve under the Government of the Dominican Republic, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 15 · 40 Stat. 437 · February 11, 1918 · Original text

25. An Act To amend section four of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an auxiliary reclamation project in connection with the Yuma project Arizona.”

    Ch. 16 · 40 Stat. 437 · February 11, 1918 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution Granting to certain persons in the active war service an extension of time within which application for insurance may be made under section four hundred and one of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.

    Ch. 17 · 40 Stat. 438 · February 12, 1918 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to appoint Harry Graham captain of Infantry.

    Ch. 18 · 40 Stat. 1357 · February 19, 1918 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act To authorize and empower the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to purchase, lease, requisition, or otherwise acquire, and to sell or otherwise dispose of improved or unimproved land, houses, buildings, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 19 · 40 Stat. 438 · March 1, 1918 · Original text

29. An Act To extend protection to the civil rights of members of the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States engaged in the present war.

    Ch. 20 · 40 Stat. 440 · March 8, 1918 · Original text

30. Joint Resolution Providing additional time for the payment of purchase money under homestead entries within the former Colville Indian Reservation, Washington.

    Ch. 21 · 40 Stat. 449 · March 11, 1918 · Original text

31. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the village of East Dundee and the village of West Dundee to construct a bridge across the Fox River.

    Ch. 22 · 40 Stat. 450 · March 13, 1918 · Original text

32. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant furloughs without pay and allowances to enlisted men of the Army of the United States.

    Ch. 23 · 40 Stat. 450 · March 16, 1918 · Original text

33. An Act To save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States.

    Ch. 24 · 40 Stat. 450 · March 19, 1918 · Original text

34. An Act To provide for the operation of transportation systems while under Federal control, for the just compensation of their owners, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 25 · 40 Stat. 451 · March 21, 1918 · Original text

35. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and for prior years, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 26 · 40 Stat. 458 · March 21, 1918 · Original text

36. Joint Resolution Amending the Act of July second, nineteen hundred and nine, governing the holding of civil service examinations.

    Ch. 27 · 40 Stat. 459 · March 27, 1918 · Original text

37. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 28 · 40 Stat. 459 · March 28, 1918 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution Authorizing the assistant to the Secretary of the Interior to sign official papers and documents.

    Ch. 29 · 40 Stat. 499 · March 28, 1918 · Original text

39. An Act To permit the use of certain refined products of petroleum as stores on steam vessels carrying passengers.

    Ch. 30 · 40 Stat. 499 · March 29, 1918 · Original text

40. An Act To provide for the disposition of the effects of deceased persons in the naval service.

    Ch. 31 · 40 Stat. 499 · March 29, 1918 · Original text

41. An Act To amend section fifteen hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 32 · 40 Stat. 499 · March 29, 1918 · Original text

42. An Act To authorize the payment of gun pointers and gun captains while temporarily absent from their regular stations, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 33 · 40 Stat. 500 · March 29, 1918 · Original text

43. Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection of a memorial in Washington to the memory and in honor of the members of the various orders of sisters who gave their services as nurses on battle fields, in hospitals, and on floating hospitals during the Civil War.

    Ch. 34 · 40 Stat. 500 · March 29, 1918 · Original text

44. An Act Authorizing the Postmaster General to cancel or readjust the screen-wagon contract of H. H. Hogan at Kansas City, Missouri.

    Ch. 35 · 40 Stat. 1358 · March 29, 1918 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act To authorize the appointment of officers of the Philippine Scouts as officers in the militia or other locally created armed forces of the Philippine Islands drafted into the service of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 36 · 40 Stat. 500 · March 30, 1918 · Original text

46. An Act To provide for restoration to their former grades of enlisted men discharged to accept commissions, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 37 · 40 Stat. 501 · March 30, 1918 · Original text

47. An Act To extend the time for cutting timber on the Coconino and Tusayan National Forests, Arizona.

    Ch. 38 · 40 Stat. 1358 · April 1, 1918 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the President to drop from the rolls any naval or Marine Corps officer absent without leave for three months, or who has been convicted of any offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary by the civil authorities, and prohibiting such officer’s reappointment.

    Ch. 39 · 40 Stat. 501 · April 2, 1918 · Original text

49. An Act To authorize the President to reduce temporarily the course of instruction at the United States Naval Academy.

    Ch. 40 · 40 Stat. 501 · April 2, 1918 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution Authorizing the granting of insurance under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on application by a person other than the person to be insured.

    Ch. 41 · 40 Stat. 502 · April 2, 1918 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the change of name of the steamship Caldera to A. T. Kinney.

    Ch. 42 · 40 Stat. 502 · April 4, 1918 · Original text

52. An Act Providing for the disposal of certain lands in block thirty-two, in the city of Port Angeles, State of Washington.

    Ch. 43 · 40 Stat. 502 · April 4, 1918 · Original text

53. An Act To amend an Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 44 · 40 Stat. 502 · April 4, 1918 · Original text

54. An Act To provide further for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to provide credits for industries and enterprises in the United States necessary or contributory to the prosecution of the war, and to supervise the issuance of securities, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 45 · 40 Stat. 506 · April 5, 1918 · Original text

55. An Act To amend an Act entitled. “An Act providing for an Assistant Secretary of War,” approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 46 · 40 Stat. 515 · April 6, 1918 · Original text

56. An Act To ratify the compact and agreement between the States of Oregon and Washington regarding concurrent jurisdiction over the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries in connection with regulating, protecting, and preserving fish.

    Ch. 47 · 40 Stat. 515 · April 8, 1918 · Original text

57. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Forsyth special road district of Taney County, Missouri, to construct a bridge across White River at Forsyth, Missouri.

    Ch. 48 · 40 Stat. 516 · April 8, 1918 · Original text

58. An Act To regulate the pay of retired chief warrant officers and warrant officers on active duty.

    Ch. 49 · 40 Stat. 516 · April 10, 1918 · Original text

59. An Act To promote export trade, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 50 · 40 Stat. 516 · April 10, 1918 · Original text

60. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 51 · 40 Stat. 518 · April 11, 1918 · Original text

61. An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.

    Ch. 52 · 40 Stat. 519 · April 15, 1918 · Original text

62. An Act To provide quarters or commutation thereof to commissioned officers in certain cases.

    Ch. 53 · 40 Stat. 530 · April 16, 1918 · Original text

63. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Bonner County, Idaho, to construct a bridge across the Clark Fork River in Bonner County, Idaho.

    Ch. 54 · 40 Stat. 530 · April 16, 1918 · Original text

64. An Act To amend section four thousand and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes by extending its scope to include women.

    Ch. 55 · 40 Stat. 531 · April 16, 1918 · Original text

65. An Act To suspend for the period of the present war sections forty-five, forty-six, and fifty-six of an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 56 · 40 Stat. 531 · April 17, 1918 · Original text

66. An Act To give indemnity for damages caused by American forces abroad.

    Ch. 57 · 40 Stat. 532 · April 18, 1918 · Original text

67. An Act To prevent interference with the use of homing pigeons by the United States, to provide a penalty for such interference, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 58 · 40 Stat. 533 · April 19, 1918 · Original text

68. An Act To punish the willful injury or destruction of warmaterial, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 59 · 40 Stat. 533 · April 20, 1918 · Original text

69. An Act To provide for reimbursement of actual expenses or flat per diem for enlisted men traveling on duty under competent orders.

    Ch. 60 · 40 Stat. 534 · April 20, 1918 · Original text

70. An Act To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.

    Ch. 61 · 40 Stat. 534 · April 20, 1918 · Original text

71. An Act To amend the emergency shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, so as to empower the President and his designated agents to take over certain transportation systems for the transportation of shipyard and plant employees, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 62 · 40 Stat. 535 · April 22, 1918 · Original text

72. An Act To conserve the gold supply of the United States; to permit the settlement in silver of trade balances adverse to the United States; to provide silver for subsidiary coinage and for commercial use; to assist foreign governments at war with the enemies of the United States; and for the above purposes to stabilize the price and encourage the production of silver.

    Ch. 63 · 40 Stat. 535 · April 23, 1918 · Original text

73. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to increase the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 64 · 40 Stat. 537 · April 26, 1918 · Original text

74. An Act To authorize the extension of a spur track or siding from the existing lines of railroad in the District of Columbia across First Street Northeast, between L and M Streets, to the buildings occupied by the field medical supply depot of the Army.

    Ch. 65 · 40 Stat. 538 · April 29, 1918 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the incorporated town of Seward, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $25,000 for the purpose of constructing dikes, flumes, and other works to confine the waters of Lowell Creek for the protection of said town.

    Ch. 66 · 40 Stat. 539 · May 1, 1918 · Original text

76. An Act To provide for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 67 · 40 Stat. 539 · May 6, 1918 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives.

    Ch. 68 · 40 Stat. 541 · May 6, 1918 · Original text

78. An Act To amend the naturalization laws and to repeal certain sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States and other laws relating to naturalization, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 69 · 40 Stat. 541 · May 9, 1918 · Original text

79. An Act Authorizing the President during the existing emergency to sell supplies, materials, equipment, or other property, heretofore or hereafter purchased, acquired, or manufactured by the United States, in connection with, or incidental to, the prosecution of the war.

    Ch. 70 · 40 Stat. 548 · May 10, 1918 · Original text

80. An Act Authorizing postage rates on aeroplane mail.

    Ch. 71 · 40 Stat. 548 · May 10, 1918 · Original text

81. An Act To amend the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An Act to regulate the officering and manning of vessels subject to the inspection laws of the United States.”

    Ch. 72 · 40 Stat. 548 · May 11, 1918 · Original text

82. An Act To fix the age limits for candidates for admission to the United States Naval Academy.

    Ch. 73 · 40 Stat. 550 · May 14, 1918 · Original text

83. An Act To authorize the President to provide housing for war needs.

    Ch. 74 · 40 Stat. 550 · May 16, 1918 · Original text

84. An Act To amend section three, title one, of the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 75 · 40 Stat. 553 · May 16, 1918 · Original text

85. Joint Resolution Providing for the calling into military service of certain classes of persons registered and liable for military service under the terms of the Act of Congress approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”

    Ch. 76 · 40 Stat. 554 · May 16, 1918 · Original text

86. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and an Act in amendment thereto, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.

    Ch. 77 · 40 Stat. 555 · May 20, 1918 · Original text

87. An Act Authorizing the President to coordinate or consolidate executive bureaus, agencies, and offices, and for other purposes, in the interest of economy and the more efficient concentration of the Government.

    Ch. 78 · 40 Stat. 556 · May 20, 1918 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Providing for the registration for military service of all male persons citizens of the United States and all male persons residing in the United States who have, since the fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and on or before the day set for the registration by proclamation by the President, attained the age of twenty-one years, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe under the terms of the Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”

    Ch. 79 · 40 Stat. 557 · May 20, 1918 · Original text

89. An Act Authorizing national banks to subscribe to the American National Red Cross.

    Ch. 80 · 40 Stat. 558 · May 22, 1918 · Original text

90. An Act To prevent in time of war departure from or entry into the United States contrary to the public safety.

    Ch. 81 · 40 Stat. 559 · May 22, 1918 · Original text

91. An Act To regulate the practice of podiatry in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 82 · 40 Stat. 560 · May 23, 1918 · Original text

92. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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 of the District of Columbia,” approved September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

    Ch. 83 · 40 Stat. 560 · May 23, 1918 · Original text

93. An Act To prohibit the sale, manufacture, and importation of intoxicating liquors in the Territory of Hawaii during the period of the war, except as hereinafter provided.

    Ch. 84 · 40 Stat. 560 · May 23, 1918 · Original text

94. An Act To amend section fifteen of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 85 · 40 Stat. 561 · May 25, 1918 · Original text

95. 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 nineteen.

    Ch. 86 · 40 Stat. 561 · May 25, 1918 · Original text

96. An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Bayou Bartholomew, in Ashley County, Wilmot Township, State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 87 · 40 Stat. 592 · May 29, 1918 · Original text

97. An Act To authorize the establishment of a town site on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho.

    Ch. 88 · 40 Stat. 592 · May 31, 1918 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange for lands in private ownership lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company.

    Ch. 89 · 40 Stat. 593 · May 31, 1918 · Original text

99. Joint Resolution To prevent rent profiteering in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 90 · 40 Stat. 593 · May 31, 1918 · Original text

100. An Act To authorize the coinage of fifty-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union.

     Ch. 91 · 40 Stat. 594 · June 1, 1918 · Original text