Every law Congress has passed

594 laws of the 66th Congress, 1919–1921

1. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919.

   Ch. 1 · 41 Stat. 1 · June 5, 1919 · Original text

2. An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-sixth Congress, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 2 · 41 Stat. 1 · June 17, 1919 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan to the city of Dawson, Georgia, tents and cots for use of Confederate veterans in their State convention, June 17 and 18, 1919.

   Ch. 3 · 41 Stat. 2 · June 17, 1919 · Original text

4. 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 30, 1920.

   Ch. 4 · 41 Stat. 3 · June 30, 1919 · Original text

5. An Act To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for carrying out the Act entitled “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,” approved March 21, 1918.

   Ch. 5 · 41 Stat. 34 · June 30, 1919 · Original text

6. Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 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. 6 · 41 Stat. 35 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

7. An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 7 · 41 Stat. 68 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

8. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 8 · 41 Stat. 104 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

9. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 9 · 41 Stat. 131 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

10. An Act To repeal the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to authorize the President in time of war to supervise or take possession and assume control of any telegraph, telephone, marine cable, or radio system or systems or any part thereof, and to operate the same in such manner as may be needful or desirable for the duration of the war and to provide just compensation therefor,” approved July 16, 1918, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 10 · 41 Stat. 157 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

11. An Act To consent to the proposed compact or agreement between the States of New Jersey and New York for the construction, operation, repair, and maintenance of a tunnel or tunnels under the Hudson River between the cities of Jersey City and New York.

    Ch. 11 · 41 Stat. 158 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

12. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 27, 1918.

    Ch. 12 · 41 Stat. 158 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania, to construct a bridge across the Susquehanna River from the township of Conyngham, county of Luzerne, Pennsylvania, to the borough of Shickshinny, county of Luzerne, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 13 · 41 Stat. 159 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

14. An Act To authorize the county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania, to construct a bridge across the Susquehanna River from the city of Pittston, county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania, to the borough of West Pittston, county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 14 · 41 Stat. 160 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

15. An Act To authorize the county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania, to construct a bridge across the Susquehanna River from the township of Conyngham, county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania, to the township of Salem, county of Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 15 · 41 Stat. 160 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

16. An Act For the construction of a bridge across the Saint John River between Madawaska, Maine, and Edmundston, Province of New Brunswick, Canada.

    Ch. 16 · 41 Stat. 161 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

17. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the Snake River about three miles above its confluence with the Columbia River, near Pasco, Washington.

    Ch. 17 · 41 Stat. 161 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

18. An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

    Ch. 18 · 41 Stat. 161 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

19. 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. 19 · 41 Stat. 162 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

20. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Miller State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Sulphur River, near the Texas and Pacific Railroad bridge, in said county and State.

    Ch. 20 · 41 Stat. 162 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

21. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Miller, State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Sulphur River, at or near Blackmans Point, in said county and State.

    Ch. 21 · 41 Stat. 162 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution Providing for the appointment by each Member of the House of Representatives of two persons, whose names shall be placed on the rolls of employees of the House of Representatives.

    Ch. 22 · 41 Stat. 162 · July 11, 1919 · Original text

23. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to issue permits for the diversion of water from the Niagara River.

    Ch. 23 · 41 Stat. 163 · July 12, 1919 · Original text

24. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 24 · 41 Stat. 163 · July 19, 1919 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive, for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Tao Hung Chang and Zeng Tze Wong, citizens of China.

    Ch. 25 · 41 Stat. 234 · July 19, 1919 · Original text

26. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920.

    Ch. 26 · 41 Stat. 234 · July 24, 1919 · Original text

27. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to extend invitations to other nations to send representatives to the World Cotton Conference to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, October 13 to 16, 1919, inclusive.

    Ch. 27 · 41 Stat. 271 · July 24, 1919 · Original text

28. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents for use at encampments held by veterans of the World War.

    Ch. 28 · 41 Stat. 272 · July 26, 1919 · Original text

29. Joint Resolution To ratify and confirm from and including July 1, 1919, obligations incurred pursuant to the terms of certain appropriations for the fiscal year 1920.

    Ch. 29 · 41 Stat. 272 · July 31, 1919 · Original text

30. An Act Increasing the pay of printers and pressmen employed in the Government Printing Office, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 30 · 41 Stat. 272 · August 2, 1919 · Original text

31. An Act Providing additional aid for the American Printing House for the Blind.

    Ch. 31 · 41 Stat. 272 · August 4, 1919 · Original text

32. An Act To incorporate Near East Relief.

    Ch. 32 · 41 Stat. 273 · August 6, 1919 · Original text

33. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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 2, 1914,’ as amended.”

    Ch. 33 · 41 Stat. 274 · August 6, 1919 · Original text

34. An Act Authorizing the counties of Aiken, South Carolina, and Richmond, Georgia, to construct a bridge across the Savannah River at or near Augusta, Georgia.

    Ch. 34 · 41 Stat. 275 · August 7, 1919 · Original text

35. An Act To authorize the county of Dougherty, State of Georgia, to construct a bridge across the Flint River, connecting Broad Street, in the city of Albany, said State and county, with the Isabella Road, said county and State.

    Ch. 35 · 41 Stat. 275 · August 7, 1919 · Original text

36. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the White River, at or near Forsyth, Missouri.

    Ch. 36 · 41 Stat. 275 · August 7, 1919 · Original text

37. An Act Granting the consent of the Congress to the city of Minneapolis, a municipal corporation, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River.

    Ch. 37 · 41 Stat. 276 · August 7, 1919 · Original text

38. An Act For the construction of a bridge across the Rainy River between Spooner, Minnesota, and Rainy River, Province of Ontario, Canada.

    Ch. 38 · 41 Stat. 276 · August 7, 1919 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Pend Oreille River at the town of Usk, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 39 · 41 Stat. 276 · August 7, 1919 · Original text

40. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across Red River about two miles above its confluence with the Washita River, near Preston, Grayson County, Texas.

    Ch. 40 · 41 Stat. 276 · August 7, 1919 · Original text

41. An Act Further extending the time for the commencement and completion of the bridge or bridges authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to authorize the Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company, its successors or assigns, to construct and maintain a bridge or bridges, or viaducts, across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point, and Dauphin Island, both Little and Big; also to dredge a channel from the deep waters of Mobile Bay into Dauphin Bay; also to construct and maintain docks and wharves along both Little and Big Dauphin Islands,” approved June 18, 1912, as extended by an Act approved June 30, 1916.

    Ch. 41 · 41 Stat. 277 · August 8, 1919 · Original text

42. An Act To authorize the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey to construct a bridge across the navigable waters of the Newark Bay, in the State of New Jersey.

    Ch. 42 · 41 Stat. 277 · August 8, 1919 · Original text

43. An Act To extend the franchise in the parishes and separate congregations of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 43 · 41 Stat. 278 · August 11, 1919 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution To allow the payment of bills lawfully incurred for construction work actually performed or construction material actually purchased and delivered prior to the approval of an Act approved July 11, 1919 (Public Numbered 7, Sixty-sixth Congress, H. R. 5227).

    Ch. 44 · 41 Stat. 278 · August 12, 1919 · Original text

45. An Act To extend the time for the construction of the Broadway Street bridge across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas.

    Ch. 45 · 41 Stat. 278 · August 15, 1919 · Original text

46. An Act To extend the time for the construction of the Main Street Bridge across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas.

    Ch. 46 · 41 Stat. 279 · August 15, 1919 · Original text

47. An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across Flint River, in the State of Georgia.

    Ch. 47 · 41 Stat. 279 · August 15, 1919 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution To authorize the President to convene a meeting of an international labor conference in Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 48 · 41 Stat. 279 · August 15, 1919 · Original text

49. Joint Resolution To suspend the requirements of annual assessment work on certain mining claims during the year 1919.

    Ch. 49 · 41 Stat. 279 · August 15, 1919 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of Labor to lease the Charleston immigration station and dock connected therewith.

    Ch. 50 · 41 Stat. 280 · August 15, 1919 · Original text

51. An Act For the repeal of the daylight-saving law.

    Ch. 51 · 41 Stat. 280 · August 20, 1919 · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of contractors and subcontractors for the post offices and other buildings and work under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 52 · 41 Stat. 281 · August 25, 1919 · Original text

53. An Act Authorizing the county of Montgomery, Tennessee, to construct a bridge across the Cumberland River within seven miles of Clarksville, Tennessee.

    Ch. 53 · 41 Stat. 282 · August 31, 1919 · Original text

54. An Act For the construction of a bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near Falls, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 54 · 41 Stat. 282 · August 31, 1919 · Original text

55. An Act Relating to affidavits required by the Act entitled “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. 55 · 41 Stat. 282 · September 3, 1919 · Original text

56. An Act Relating to the creation of the office of General of the Armies of the United States.

    Ch. 56 · 41 Stat. 283 · September 3, 1919 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution Making Wednesday, September 17, 1919, a legal holiday in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 57 · 41 Stat. 283 · September 15, 1919 · Original text

58. An Act To authorize Hiram I. Sage, a citizen of Baldwin County, Alabama, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Perdido River at or near Nunez Ferry.

    Ch. 58 · 41 Stat. 283 · September 16, 1919 · Original text

59. An Act To incorporate the American Legion.

    Ch. 59 · 41 Stat. 284 · September 16, 1919 · Original text

60. An Act Amending section 25 of the Act approved December 23, 1913, known as the Federal Reserve Act, as amended by the Act approved September 7, 1916.

    Ch. 60 · 41 Stat. 285 · September 17, 1919 · Original text

61. An Act To provide necessary commissioned personnel for the Army until June 30, 1920.

    Ch. 61 · 41 Stat. 286 · September 17, 1919 · Original text

62. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the D. E. Hewit Lumber Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Tug River, connecting Martin County, Kentucky, and Mingo County, West Virginia.

    Ch. 62 · 41 Stat. 287 · September 17, 1919 · Original text

63. An Act To amend sections 4 and 5 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes,” approved December 29, 1916.

    Ch. 63 · 41 Stat. 287 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

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

    Ch. 64 · 41 Stat. 288 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

65. An Act To provide travel allowances for certain retired enlisted men and Regular Army reservists.

    Ch. 65 · 41 Stat. 288 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

66. An Act To extend the cancellation stamp privilege for the Roosevelt Memorial Association.

    Ch. 66 · 41 Stat. 288 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

67. An Act Authorizing the city of Boulder, Colorado, to purchase certain public lands.

    Ch. 67 · 41 Stat. 288 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

68. An Act To authorize the incorporated town of Petersburg, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum, not exceeding $75,000, for the purpose of constructing and installing a municipal electric light and power plant, and for the construction of a public-school building.

    Ch. 68 · 41 Stat. 289 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

69. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan to the city of Atlanta, Georgia, tents, cots, blankets, and other camp equipment for the use of United Confederate Veterans in their convention from October 7 to 10, 1919.

    Ch. 69 · 41 Stat. 290 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution To provide for the payment of travel pay upon discharge to men of the Regular Army enlisted prior to April 2, 1917.

    Ch. 70 · 41 Stat. 291 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution Tendering the thanks of the American people and the Congress of the United States to General John J. Pershing, and to the officers and men of the American Expeditionary Forces.

    Ch. 71 · 41 Stat. 291 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution Authorizing the appointment of an ambassador to Belgium.

    Ch. 72 · 41 Stat. 291 · September 29, 1919 · Original text

73. An Act Granting the consent of the Congress to the county of Hennepin, in the State of Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Minnesota River.

    Ch. 73 · 41 Stat. 291 · October 10, 1919 · Original text

74. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “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,” approved April 5, 1916.

    Ch. 74 · 41 Stat. 292 · October 13, 1919 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to expend certain sums appropriated for the support of the Army for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1919, and June 30, 1920, at Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia.

    Ch. 75 · 41 Stat. 292 · October 14, 1919 · Original text

76. An Act To amend an Act of Congress approved March 12, 1914, authorizing the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 76 · 41 Stat. 293 · October 18, 1919 · Original text

77. An Act To encourage the reclamation of certain arid lands in the State of Nevada, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 77 · 41 Stat. 293 · October 22, 1919 · Original text

78. An Act For the payment of claims for loss of private property on account of the loss of firearms and ammunition taken by the United States troops during the labor strikes in the State of Colorado in 1914.

    Ch. 78 · 41 Stat. 295 · October 22, 1919 · Original text

79. An Act To amend sections 5200 and 5202 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by Acts of June 22, 1906, and September 24, 1918.

    Ch. 79 · 41 Stat. 296 · October 22, 1919 · Original text

80. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August 10, 1917, and to regulate rents in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 80 · 41 Stat. 297 · October 22, 1919 · Original text

81. An Act Authorizing the Union Pacific Railroad Company, or its successors, to convey for public-road purposes, certain parts of its right of way.

    Ch. 81 · 41 Stat. 304 · October 22, 1919 · Original text

82. An Act Extending the provisions for the regulation of steam vessels to vessels owned or operated by the United States Shipping Board, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 82 · 41 Stat. 305 · October 25, 1919 · Original text

83. Joint Resolution To readmit Frances Scoville-Mumm to the character and privileges of a citizen of the United States.

    Ch. 83 · 41 Stat. 1449 · October 25, 1919 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting a franking privilege to Edith Carow Roosevelt.

    Ch. 84 · 41 Stat. 1449 · October 27, 1919 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act To prohibit intoxicating beverages, and to regulate the manufacture, production, use, and sale of high-proof spirits for other than beverage purposes, and to insure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye, and other lawful industries.

    Ch. 85 · 41 Stat. 305 · October 28, 1919 · Original text

86. An Act To improve the administration of the postal service in the Territory of Hawaii, in Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

    Ch. 86 · 41 Stat. 323 · October 28, 1919 · Original text

87. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Paris-Hugo Bridge Company to construct a bridge and approaches thereto across Red River, near Arthur City, Lamar County, Texas.

    Ch. 87 · 41 Stat. 324 · October 28, 1919 · Original text

88. An Act Adding certain lands to the Idaho National Forest and the Payette National Forest, in the State of Idaho.

    Ch. 88 · 41 Stat. 324 · October 29, 1919 · Original text

89. An Act To punish the transportation of stolen motor vehicles in interstate or foreign commerce.

    Ch. 89 · 41 Stat. 324 · October 29, 1919 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare and issue a supplementary report on the condition of the cotton crop.

    Ch. 90 · 41 Stat. 325 · October 30, 1919 · Original text

91. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust disputes or claims by entrymen, selectors, grantees, and patentees of the United States against the United States and between each other, arising from faulty surveys in townships twenty-nine south, range twenty-eight east; also in townships thirty-six, thirty-seven, and thirty-eight south, ranges twenty-nine and thirty east, Tallahassee meridian, in the State of Florida, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 91 · 41 Stat. 325 · October 31, 1919 · Original text

92. An Act Granting lands for school purposes in Government town sites on reclamation projects.

    Ch. 92 · 41 Stat. 326 · October 31, 1919 · Original text

93. First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 93 · 41 Stat. 327 · November 4, 1919 · Original text

94. An Act Authorizing the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to transfer fractional block 6, of Naylor’s addition, Forest Grove, Oregon, to the United States of America, for the use of the Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agriculture.

    Ch. 94 · 41 Stat. 349 · November 6, 1919 · Original text

95. An Act Granting citizenship to certain Indians.

    Ch. 95 · 41 Stat. 350 · November 6, 1919 · Original text

96. An Act Providing for the disinterment and removal of the remains of the infant child, Norman Lee Molzahn, from the temporary burial site in the District of Columbia to a permanent burial place.

    Ch. 96 · 41 Stat. 1450 · November 6, 1919 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Susie Currier.

    Ch. 97 · 41 Stat. 1450 · November 6, 1919 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Charles A. Carey.

    Ch. 98 · 41 Stat. 1450 · November 6, 1919 · Private law · Original text

99. Joint Resolution To provide additional compensation for employees of the Postal Service and making an appropriation therefor.

    Ch. 99 · 41 Stat. 350 · November 7, 1919 · Original text

100. An Act Providing for the exchange of certain legation buildings and grounds owned by the Government of the United States in Bangkok, Siam.

     Ch. 100 · 41 Stat. 352 · November 8, 1919 · Original text