Every law Congress has passed

453 laws of the 65th Congress, 1917–1919

1. An Act To reserve as a part of the Oregon National Forest certain lands that were revested in the United States pursuant to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Oregon and California Railroad Company against the United States.

   Ch. 192 · 40 Stat. 1015 · October 21, 1918 · Original text

2. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange the present Federal building site at Eatonton, Georgia, for another site on the public square in said city.

   Ch. 193 · 40 Stat. 1015 · October 22, 1918 · Original text

3. An Act To amend section thirty-five of the Criminal Code of the United States.

   Ch. 194 · 40 Stat. 1015 · October 23, 1918 · Original text

4. An Act To amend section three of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes,” approved December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

   Ch. 195 · 40 Stat. 1016 · October 25, 1918 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution To establish a reserve of the Public Health Service.

   Ch. 196 · 40 Stat. 1017 · October 27, 1918 · Original text

6. An Act Providing for the protection of the users of the telephone and telegraph service and the properties and funds belonging thereto during Government operation and control.

   Ch. 197 · 40 Stat. 1017 · October 29, 1918 · Original text

7. An Act Authorizing the construction of a building for the Public Health Service in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

   Ch. 198 · 40 Stat. 1018 · October 30, 1918 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government for the month of November, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 199 · 40 Stat. 1019 · November 1, 1918 · Original text

9. An Act To provide for enlistments in the National Guard of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 200 · 40 Stat. 1019 · November 4, 1918 · Original text

10. First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1919

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 201 · 40 Stat. 1020 · November 4, 1918 · Original text

11. An Act Providing for the sale of certain lands in the original town site Port Angeles, Washington.

    Ch. 202 · 40 Stat. 1528 · November 4, 1918 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act Authorizing the conveyance of the United States jail and land on which the same is located at Guthrie, Oklahoma, to Logan County, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 203 · 40 Stat. 1041 · November 5, 1918 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the construction and maintenance of a dike on Depot Slough, Lincoln County, Oregon.

    Ch. 204 · 40 Stat. 1041 · November 7, 1918 · Original text

14. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across Pearl River, between Pearl River County, Mississippi, and Washington Parish, Louisiana.

    Ch. 205 · 40 Stat. 1041 · November 7, 1918 · Original text

15. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Winnebago, in the State of Illinois, and the town of Rockford, in said county and State, to construct a bridge across Rock River, at or near Camp Grant.

    Ch. 206 · 40 Stat. 1042 · November 7, 1918 · Original text

16. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Little Calumet River, in Cook County, State of Illinois, at or near the village of Riverdale, in said county.

    Ch. 207 · 40 Stat. 1042 · November 7, 1918 · Original text

17. An Act Transferring jurisdiction and control for the period of the war over the Southern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers from the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to the Secretary of War for use for Army hospital purposes.

    Ch. 208 · 40 Stat. 1042 · November 7, 1918 · Original text

18. An Act To provide for the consolidation of national banking associations.

    Ch. 209 · 40 Stat. 1043 · November 7, 1918 · Original text

19. An Act Amending the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, providing for the purchase of a site for a public building at Nogales, Arizona.

    Ch. 210 · 40 Stat. 1044 · November 21, 1918 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the county of Loudon, in the State of Tennessee, to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Loudon, Tennessee.

    Ch. 211 · 40 Stat. 1044 · November 21, 1918 · Original text

21. An Act To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products,” and for other purposes.

    Ch. 212 · 40 Stat. 1045 · November 21, 1918 · Original text

22. An Act To amend section thirty-five hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 1 · 40 Stat. 1051 · December 2, 1918 · Original text

23. An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River, at the foot of Garrison Avenue, at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

    Ch. 2 · 40 Stat. 1051 · January 1, 1919 · Original text

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

    Ch. 3 · 40 Stat. 1052 · January 1, 1919 · Original text

25. An Act Providing for the transportation from the District of Columbia of governmental employees whose services no longer are required.

    Ch. 4 · 40 Stat. 1052 · January 7, 1919 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the sale of certain lande to school district numbered twenty-eight, of Missoula County, Montana.

    Ch. 5 · 40 Stat. 1053 · January 7, 1919 · Original text

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

    Ch. 6 · 40 Stat. 1053 · January 7, 1919 · Original text

28. An Act To provide for the temporary promotion of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps serving with the Army.

    Ch. 7 · 40 Stat. 1054 · January 12, 1919 · Original text

29. An Act Providing for the purchase of uniforms, accouterments, and equipment by officers of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and midshipmen at the Naval Academy from the Government at cost.

    Ch. 8 · 40 Stat. 1054 · January 12, 1919 · Original text

30. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Norman County, Minnesota, and Traill County, North Dakota, to construct a bridge across the Red River of the North on the boundary line between said States.

    Ch. 9 · 40 Stat. 1054 · January 13, 1919 · Original text

31. An Act To amend section three hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the annual report on the statistics of commerce and navigation of the United States with foreign countries.

    Ch. 10 · 40 Stat. 1055 · January 25, 1919 · Original text

32. An Act Authorizing the President to reappoint Major Chalmers G. Hall, retired, to the active list of the Army.

    Ch. 11 · 40 Stat. 1055 · January 25, 1919 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution To amend Senate joint resolution numbered seventy-eight, approved October fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “Joint resolution to suspend requirements of the annual assessment work on mining claims during the year nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.”

    Ch. 12 · 40 Stat. 1055 · January 25, 1919 · Original text

34. An Act For the sale of isolated tracts of the public domain in Minnesota.

    Ch. 13 · 40 Stat. 1055 · February 4, 1919 · Original text

35. An Act To provide for the award of medals of honor, distinguished-service medals, and Navy crosses, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 14 · 40 Stat. 1056 · February 4, 1919 · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Alexander F. McCollam.

    Ch. 15 · 40 Stat. 1529 · February 4, 1919 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Alma Harris.

    Ch. 16 · 40 Stat. 1529 · February 4, 1919 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Ira G. Kilpatrick and Guy D. Dill.

    Ch. 17 · 40 Stat. 1529 · February 4, 1919 · Private law · Original text

39. Revenue Act of 1916

    An Act To provide revenue, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 18 · 40 Stat. 1057 · February 24, 1919 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the sale of certain lands at or near Yellowstone, Montana, for hotel and other purposes.

    Ch. 19 · 40 Stat. 1152 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

41. An Act To authorize the addition of certain lands to the Wyoming National Forest.

    Ch. 20 · 40 Stat. 1152 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

42. An Act To provide for a leave of absence for homestead entrymen in one or two periods, and for longer times.

    Ch. 21 · 40 Stat. 1153 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

43. An Act To authorize the purchase by the city of McMinnville, Oregon, of certain lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested in the United States by the Act approved June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

    Ch. 22 · 40 Stat. 1153 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

44. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make investigations, through the Bureau of Mines, of lignite coals and peat, to determine the practicability of their utilization as a fuel and in producing commercial products.

    Ch. 23 · 40 Stat. 1154 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

45. An Act To amend the public-building Act, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

    Ch. 24 · 40 Stat. 1154 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

46. 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. 25 · 40 Stat. 1155 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

47. An Act Increasing the limit of cost for the acquisition of a public building site at Yonkers, New York.

    Ch. 26 · 40 Stat. 1155 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

48. An Act To convey a strip of land on the site of the Federal building at Princeton, Indiana.

    Ch. 27 · 40 Stat. 1156 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

49. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Great Southern Lumber Company, a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania, doing business in the State of Mississippi, to construct a bridge across Pearl River, at or near the north line of section twenty-two, township eight north, range twenty-one west, west of the basis meridian, in the land district east of Pearl River, in the State of Mississippi.

    Ch. 28 · 40 Stat. 1156 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

50. 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. 29 · 40 Stat. 1156 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

51. An Act To increase the cost of the public building at El Dorado, Kansas.

    Ch. 30 · 40 Stat. 1158 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

52. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 31 · 40 Stat. 1158 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

53. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 32 · 40 Stat. 1159 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

54. An Act Extending the time for construction of a bridge and for the maintenance of a pontoon and pile bridge by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company across the Missouri River at or near Chamberlain, South Dakota, and providing additional requirements for the bridge to be constructed.

    Ch. 33 · 40 Stat. 1159 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

55. An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River near and above the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, or for the construction of a tunnel or tunnels under said river in lieu of said bridge.

    Ch. 34 · 40 Stat. 1160 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

56. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Red River of the North, between Traill County, North Dakota, and Polk County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 35 · 40 Stat. 1160 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

57. 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. 36 · 40 Stat. 1160 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

58. An Act To extend the provisions of the homestead laws touching credit for period of enlistment to the soldiers, nurses, and officers of the Army and the seamen, marines, nurses, and officers of the Navy and the Marine Corps of the United States who have served or will have served with the Mexican border operations or during the war between the United States and Germany and her allies.

    Ch. 37 · 40 Stat. 1161 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

59. An Act Providing for the relief of such populations in Europe, and countries contiguous thereto, outside of Germany, German-Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, as may be determined upon by the President as necessary.

    Ch. 38 · 40 Stat. 1161 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

60. Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1919

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 39 · 40 Stat. 1161 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

61. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 40 · 40 Stat. 1174 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

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

    Ch. 41 · 40 Stat. 1175 · February 25, 1919 · Original text

63. An Act Granting a pension to Edith Carow Roosevelt.

    Ch. 42 · 40 Stat. 1530 · February 25, 1919 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of David E. Gray.

    Ch. 43 · 40 Stat. 1530 · February 25, 1919 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act To establish the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona.

    Ch. 44 · 40 Stat. 1175 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

66. An Act To establish the Lafayette National Park in the State of Maine.

    Ch. 45 · 40 Stat. 1178 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

67. An Act Extending the use of the special fund for vocational education provided by section seven of the vocational rehabilitation Act, approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 46 · 40 Stat. 1179 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

68. An Act To accept from the Southern Oregon Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oregon, a reconveyance of the lands granted to the Stade of Oregon by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled “An Act granting lands to the State of Oregon to aid in the construction of a military wagon road from the navigable waters of Coos Bay to Roseburg, in said State,” commonly known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant, to provide for the disposition of said lands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 47 · 40 Stat. 1179 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

69. An Act To amend section two hundred and sixty-nine of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.”

    Ch. 48 · 40 Stat. 1181 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

70. An Act To fix the salaries of the clerks of the United States district courts and to provide for their office expenses, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 49 · 40 Stat. 1182 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

71. An Act Providing for the appointment of an additional district judge for the northern judicial district of the State of Texas.

    Ch. 50 · 40 Stat. 1183 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

72. An Act To increase the salary of the United States district attorney for the district of Connecticut.

    Ch. 51 · 40 Stat. 1183 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

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

    Ch. 52 · 40 Stat. 1183 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

74. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the accounting officers of the Treasury to allow credit to the disbursing clerk of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in certain cases.

    Ch. 53 · 40 Stat. 1184 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution Providing that one term of the United States District Court for the Eastern Judicial District of Oklahoma shall be held annually at Hugo, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 54 · 40 Stat. 1184 · February 26, 1919 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the counties of Morton and Burleigh, in the State of North Dakota, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River near Bismarck, North Dakota.

    Ch. 55 · 40 Stat. 1184 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

77. An Act For the construction of a bridge across Rock River at or near South Jackson Street in the city of Janesville, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 56 · 40 Stat. 1184 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

78. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Wenatchee-Beebe Orchard Company to construct a bridge across the Columbia River at or within four miles northerly from the town of Chelan Falls, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 57 · 40 Stat. 1185 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

79. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Fall Branch Coal Company to construct a bridge across Tug River.

    Ch. 58 · 40 Stat. 1185 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

80. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Oliver Cabana, junior, Myron S. Hall, E. G. Connette, William F. MacGlashan, John H. Bradley, and M. A. Hurt to construct a bridge across Niagara River within or near the city limits of Buffalo, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 59 · 40 Stat. 1185 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

81. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the counties of Martin and Bertie, in the State of North Carolina, to construct a bridge across the Roanoke River at or near Williamston, North Carolina.

    Ch. 60 · 40 Stat. 1186 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

82. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company to construct, maintain, and operate a combined bridge and dam across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 61 · 40 Stat. 1186 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

83. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Connecticut River between Springfield and West Springfield, in Hampden County, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 62 · 40 Stat. 1187 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

84. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the city of South Sioux City, in the State of Nebraska, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River between the States of Nebraska and Iowa,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve.

    Ch. 63 · 40 Stat. 1187 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

85. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Monongahela River, at or near the borough of Wilson, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 64 · 40 Stat. 1187 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

86. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near McKees Rocks Borough, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 65 · 40 Stat. 1188 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

87. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Allegheny River at or near Millvale Borough, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 66 · 40 Stat. 1188 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

88. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Allegheny River, at or near Sixteenth Street, in the city of Pittsburgh, county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 67 · 40 Stat. 1188 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

89. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the board of supervisors of Itawamba County, Mississippi, to construct a bridge across the Tombigbee River at or near Barr’s Ferry, in said county.

    Ch. 68 · 40 Stat. 1189 · February 27, 1919 · Original text

90. An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 69 · 40 Stat. 1189 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

91. An Act Permitting any person who has served in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps in the present war to retain his uniform and personal equipment, and to wear the same under certain conditions.

    Ch. 70 · 40 Stat. 1202 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

92. An Act To provide for stock-watering privileges on certain unallotted lands on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.

    Ch. 71 · 40 Stat. 1203 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of settlers on certain railroad lands in Montana.

    Ch. 72 · 40 Stat. 1204 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

94. An Act To consolidate certain forest lands within the Cache National Forest, Utah, and to add certain lands thereto.

    Ch. 73 · 40 Stat. 1204 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

95. An Act To authorize an exchange of lands with the State of Montana in connection with Muddy Creek Reservoir site, Sun River project, and Nelson Reservoir site, Milk River project, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 74 · 40 Stat. 1205 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

96. An Act Granting lands for school purposes in lots numbered one hundred and eleven in each of the townsites of Fort Shaw and Simms, Sun River reclamation project, Montana.

    Ch. 75 · 40 Stat. 1206 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

97. An Act Granting to the city of San Diego certain lands in the Cleveland National Forest and the Capitan Grande Indian Reservation for dam and reservoir purposes for the conservation of water, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 76 · 40 Stat. 1206 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

98. An Act To consolidate certain forest lands within the Cache National Forest, Utah, and to add certain lands thereto.

    Ch. 77 · 40 Stat. 1209 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of entrymen within the Castle Peak irrigation project, in Utah.

    Ch. 78 · 40 Stat. 1210 · February 28, 1919 · Original text

100. An Act To authorize the resumption of voluntary enlistment in the Regular Army, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 79 · 40 Stat. 1211 · February 28, 1919 · Original text