Every law Congress has passed

594 laws of the 66th Congress, 1919–1921

1. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Red River at or near Moncla, Louisiana.

   Ch. 101 · 41 Stat. 352 · November 8, 1919 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Pocomoke River, at Pocomoke City, Maryland.

   Ch. 102 · 41 Stat. 352 · November 8, 1919 · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Amherst W. Barber.

   Ch. 103 · 41 Stat. 1451 · November 8, 1919 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To regulate further the entry of aliens into the United States.

   Ch. 104 · 41 Stat. 353 · November 10, 1919 · Original text

5. 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. 105 · 41 Stat. 354 · November 12, 1919 · Original text

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

   Ch. 106 · 41 Stat. 354 · November 13, 1919 · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Della James.

   Ch. 107 · 41 Stat. 1451 · November 15, 1919 · Private law · Original text

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

   Ch. 108 · 41 Stat. 355 · November 18, 1919 · Original text

9. An Act Authorizing the sale of inherited and unpartitioned allotments for town-site purposes in the Quapaw Agency, Oklahoma.

   Ch. 109 · 41 Stat. 355 · November 18, 1919 · Original text

10. An Act To establish the Zion National Park in the State of Utah.

    Ch. 110 · 41 Stat. 356 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

11. An Act To amend an Act approved March 4, 1913, entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 111 · 41 Stat. 356 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

12. An Act To amend the Articles of War.

    Ch. 112 · 41 Stat. 356 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

13. An Act To transfer the tract of land known as the Lighthouse Reservation at North Point, Maryland, from the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce to the jurisdiction of the War Department.

    Ch. 113 · 41 Stat. 357 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

14. An Act Transferring the tract of land known as Craney Island from the jurisdiction of the War Department to the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department and transferring the tract of land known as Fishermans Island from the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department to the jurisdiction of the War Department.

    Ch. 114 · 41 Stat. 358 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

15. An Act To authorize the State road department of the State of Florida to construct and maintain a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River, near Caryville, Florida, approximately one hundred and seventy feet south of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Bridge.

    Ch. 115 · 41 Stat. 358 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

16. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of the United States for motive power, cars, and other equipment ordered for railroads and systems of transportation under Federal control, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 116 · 41 Stat. 359 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

17. An Act Authorizing the board of county commissioners of the county of.Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, to construct a bridge across the Connecticut River, between Windsor Locks and East Windsor, at Warehouse Point, in said county and State.

    Ch. 117 · 41 Stat. 360 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

18. An Act To provide for further educational facilities by authorizing the Secretary of War to sell at reduced rates certain machine tools not in use for Government purposes to trade, technical, and public schools and universities, other recognized educational institutions, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 118 · 41 Stat. 360 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

19. An Act Authorizing the return to the sender or the forwarding of undeliverable second, third, and fourth class mail matter.

    Ch. 119 · 41 Stat. 360 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near the city of Decatur, Alabama.

    Ch. 120 · 41 Stat. 361 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

21. Joint Resolution To continue the control of imports of dyes and coal-tar products.

    Ch. 121 · 41 Stat. 361 · November 19, 1919 · Original text

22. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,” approved February 28, 1901, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1 · 41 Stat. 363 · December 5, 1919 · Original text

23. An Act Authorizing the Chincoteague Toll Road and Bridge Company, Incorporated, a corporation created by, and existing under, the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to construct certain bridges to connect Chincoteague Island and the mainland.

    Ch. 2 · 41 Stat. 365 · December 10, 1919 · Original text

24. An Act To authorize the change of the name of the steamer Charlotte Graveraet Breitung to T. K. Maher.

    Ch. 3 · 41 Stat. 365 · December 10, 1919 · Original text

25. An Act Providing additional time for the payment of purchase money under homestead entries of lands within the former Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana.

    Ch. 4 · 41 Stat. 365 · December 11, 1919 · Original text

26. An Act To amend an Act approved March 26, 1908, entitled “An Act to provide for the repayment of certain commissions, excess payments, and purchase moneys paid under the public land laws.”

    Ch. 5 · 41 Stat. 366 · December 11, 1919 · Original text

27. An Act To provide for the payment of six months’ pay to the widow, children, or other designated dependent relative of any officer or enlisted man of the Regular Army whose death results from wounds or disease not the result of his own misconduct.

    Ch. 6 · 41 Stat. 367 · December 17, 1919 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to arrange and participate in an international conference to consider questions relating to international communication.

    Ch. 7 · 41 Stat. 367 · December 17, 1919 · Original text

29. Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, 1919.

    Ch. 8 · 41 Stat. 368 · December 17, 1919 · Original text

30. An Act To authorize the sale of certain lands at or near Minidoka, Idaho, for railroad purposes.

    Ch. 9 · 41 Stat. 1453 · December 17, 1919 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To prohibit the purchase, sale, or possession for the purpose of sale of certain wild birds in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 10 · 41 Stat. 368 · December 18, 1919 · Original text

32. An Act To amend sections 8 and 21 of the Copyright Act, approved March 4, 1909.

    Ch. 11 · 41 Stat. 368 · December 18, 1919 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, 1919.

    Ch. 12 · 41 Stat. 369 · December 20, 1919 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing of the bill to consolidate, codify, revise, and reenact the general and permanent laws of the United States.

    Ch. 13 · 41 Stat. 370 · December 23, 1919 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to construct a pontoon bridge across the Chattahoochee River at West Point, Georgia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 14 · 41 Stat. 370 · December 23, 1919 · Original text

36. An Act To make gold certificates of the United States payable to bearer on demand legal tender.

    Ch. 15 · 41 Stat. 370 · December 24, 1919 · Original text

37. An Act To amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act.

    Ch. 16 · 41 Stat. 371 · December 24, 1919 · Original text

38. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Employees’ Compensation Commission, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and the Public Health Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920.

    Ch. 17 · 41 Stat. 377 · December 24, 1919 · Original text

39. An Act To amend the Act approved December 23, 1913, known as the Federal Reserve Act.

    Ch. 18 · 41 Stat. 378 · December 24, 1919 · Original text

40. Joint Resolution Continuing temporarily certain allowances to officers of the Navy and Marine Corps.

    Ch. 19 · 41 Stat. 384 · December 24, 1919 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution Making immediately available the appropriation for the expenses of regulating further the entry of aliens into the United States.

    Ch. 20 · 41 Stat. 385 · December 24, 1919 · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of James W. Cross.

    Ch. 21 · 41 Stat. 1454 · December 24, 1919 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Catherine Grace.

    Ch. 22 · 41 Stat. 1454 · December 24, 1919 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to grant permission to the municipal authorities of Little Chute, Wisconsin, to construct, maintain, and operate sewers on certain Government property and under the United States canal at Little Chute, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 23 · 41 Stat. 385 · December 30, 1919 · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of John M. Francis.

    Ch. 24 · 41 Stat. 1454 · December 30, 1919 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Henry P. Grant, of Phillips County, Arkansas.

    Ch. 25 · 41 Stat. 1454 · December 30, 1919 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Thomas Sevy.

    Ch. 26 · 41 Stat. 1455 · December 30, 1919 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To reimburse W. B. Graham, late postmaster at Ely, Nevada, for money expended for clerical assistance.

    Ch. 27 · 41 Stat. 1455 · December 30, 1919 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of the Buffalo River Zinc Mining Company.

    Ch. 28 · 41 Stat. 1455 · December 30, 1919 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Albert N. Collins.

    Ch. 29 · 41 Stat. 1456 · December 30, 1919 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the issuance of patent to John Albert Thompson, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 30 · 41 Stat. 1456 · December 30, 1919 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act To relieve the estate of Thomas H. Hall, deceased, late postmaster at Panacea, Florida, and the bondsmen of said Thomas H. Hall, of the payment of money alleged, to have been misappropriated by a clerk in said office.

    Ch. 31 · 41 Stat. 1456 · December 30, 1919 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the construction of a bridge across the Susquehanna River at Laceyville, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 32 · 41 Stat. 385 · December 31, 1919 · Original text

54. An Act To provide for the national welfare by continuing the United States Sugar Equalization Board until December 31, 1920, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 33 · 41 Stat. 386 · December 31, 1919 · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of the Southern States Lumber Company.

    Ch. 34 · 41 Stat. 1457 · December 31, 1919 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act Providing for the refund of taxes collected for stamp tax on certain policies under the Emergency Tax Act of October 22, 1914, under the proviso to which Act such policies were exempt.

    Ch. 35 · 41 Stat. 1457 · December 31, 1919 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of the Arundel Sand and Gravel Company.

    Ch. 36 · 41 Stat. 1457 · December 31, 1919 · Private law · Original text

58. Joint Resolution Extending the time for filing final report of the Joint Commission on Reclassification of Salaries, created by section 9, Public Numbered 314, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved March 1, 1919, to a date not later than March 12, 1920.

    Ch. 37 · 41 Stat. 386 · January 10, 1920 · Original text

59. An Act To amend section 5182, Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 38 · 41 Stat. 387 · January 13, 1920 · Original text

60. An Act For the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 39 · 41 Stat. 387 · January 15, 1920 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the Kingsdale Lumber Corporation to construct a bridge across Lumber River, near the town of Lumberton, North Carolina.

    Ch. 40 · 41 Stat. 390 · January 15, 1920 · Original text

62. An Act To authorize J. L. Anderson and H. M. Duvall to construct a bridge across Great Pee Dee River at or near the town of Cheraw, South Carolina.

    Ch. 41 · 41 Stat. 390 · January 15, 1920 · Original text

63. An Act For the construction of a bridge across Rock River at or near East Grand Avenue, in the city of Beloit, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 42 · 41 Stat. 391 · January 15, 1920 · Original text

64. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Connecticut River Railroad Company, its lessees, successors, and assigns to construct a bridge across the Connecticut River in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

    Ch. 43 · 41 Stat. 391 · January 15, 1920 · Original text

65. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Marion County, State of Mississippi, to construct a bridge across the Pearl River, in Marion County, State of Mississippi.

    Ch. 44 · 41 Stat. 391 · January 15, 1920 · Original text

66. An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Tombigbee River near Iron Wood Bluff, in Itawamba County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 45 · 41 Stat. 391 · January 15, 1920 · Original text

67. An Act To provide for the erection of a Federal office building on the site acquired for the Subtreasury in Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 46 · 41 Stat. 392 · January 17, 1920 · Original text

68. An Act Authorizing local drainage districts to drain certain public lands in the State of Arkansas, counties of Mississippi and Poinsett, and subjecting said lands to taxation.

    Ch. 47 · 41 Stat. 392 · January 17, 1920 · Original text

69. An Act Relating to detached service of officers of the Regular Army.

    Ch. 48 · 41 Stat. 394 · January 17, 1920 · Original text

70. An Act Granting to certain claimants the preferential right to purchase certain alleged public lands in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 49 · 41 Stat. 1458 · January 17, 1920 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act To amend section 97 of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March 3, 1911.

    Ch. 50 · 41 Stat. 394 · January 21, 1920 · Original text

72. An Act Releasing the claim of the United States Government to the block or square of land in the city of Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas, upon which is situated the old Federal Jail, to the city of Fort Smith for a site for a convention hall, community building, or other public purposes.

    Ch. 51 · 41 Stat. 396 · January 23, 1920 · Original text

73. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the terms of the contract for the sale of the old post-office property in New Haven, Connecticut.

    Ch. 52 · 41 Stat. 1458 · January 23, 1920 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To increase the efficiency of the Military Establishment of the United States.

    Ch. 53 · 41 Stat. 396 · January 24, 1920 · Original text

75. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to classify the officers and members of the fire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved June 20, 1906, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 54 · 41 Stat. 396 · January 24, 1920 · Original text

76. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919,” approved July 9, 1918.

    Ch. 55 · 41 Stat. 398 · January 24, 1920 · Original text

77. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States,” approved August 27, 1888, as amended March 2, 1889.

    Ch. 56 · 41 Stat. 399 · January 27, 1920 · Original text

78. An Act To amend the Act establishing the eastern district of Kentucky.

    Ch. 57 · 41 Stat. 400 · January 29, 1920 · Original text

79. An Act To establish a commission on the practicability, feasibility, and place, and to devise plans for the construction of a public bridge over the Niagara River from some point in the city of Buffalo, New York, to some point in the Dominion of Canada, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 58 · 41 Stat. 400 · January 30, 1920 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the county of Fountain, in the State of Indiana, to construct a bridge across the Wabash River at the city of Attica, Fountain County, Indiana.

    Ch. 59 · 41 Stat. 401 · February 3, 1920 · Original text

81. An Act Authorizing the Interstate Construction Corporation to construct a bridge across the Columbia River, between the States of Oregon and Washington, at or within two miles westerly from Cascade Locks, in the State of Oregon, and granting a license to construct and maintain the approach to said bridge over property belonging to the Government of the United States.

    Ch. 60 · 41 Stat. 401 · February 3, 1920 · Original text

82. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the lading or unlading of vessels at night, the preliminary entry of vessels, and for other purposes,” approved February 13, 1911.

    Ch. 61 · 41 Stat. 402 · February 7, 1920 · Original text

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

    Ch. 62 · 41 Stat. 402 · February 7, 1920 · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Thomas McGovern.

    Ch. 63 · 41 Stat. 1459 · February 7, 1920 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan Army rifles to posts of the American Legion.

    Ch. 64 · 41 Stat. 403 · February 10, 1920 · Original text

86. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Whiteville Lumber Company, Goldsboro, North Carolina, to construct a bridge across the Waccamaw River at or near Old Dock, County of Columbus, North Carolina.

    Ch. 65 · 41 Stat. 404 · February 10, 1920 · Original text

87. An Act Making an appropriation to compensate James M. Moore for damages sustained while in the service of the Government of the United States.

    Ch. 66 · 41 Stat. 1459 · February 10, 1920 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To add certain lands to the Ochoco National Forest, Oregon.

    Ch. 67 · 41 Stat. 404 · February 11, 1920 · Original text

89. An Act To confer on the Court of Claims jurisdiction to determine the respective rights of and differences between the Fort Berthold Indians and the Government of the United States.

    Ch. 68 · 41 Stat. 404 · February 11, 1920 · Original text

90. An Act To add to the Oregon, Siuslaw, and Crater National Forests in Oregon 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, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 69 · 41 Stat. 405 · February 11, 1920 · Original text

91. An Act Granting certain rights of way and exchanges of the same across the Fort Douglas Military Reservation in the State of Utah.

    Ch. 70 · 41 Stat. 406 · February 11, 1920 · Original text

92. An Act Authorizing the city of Detroit, Michigan, a municipal corporation, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the American Channel of the Detroit River to Belle Isle.

    Ch. 71 · 41 Stat. 407 · February 11, 1920 · Original text

93. An Act Restoring to Amy E. Hall her homestead rights and, providing that on any homestead entry made by her she shall be given credit for all compliance with the law on her original homestead entry and for all payments made on same.

    Ch. 72 · 41 Stat. 1459 · February 11, 1920 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of the Farmers National Bank of Wilkinson, Indiana.

    Ch. 73 · 41 Stat. 1460 · February 11, 1920 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To authorize a preference right of entry by certain Carey Act entrymen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 74 · 41 Stat. 407 · February 14, 1920 · Original text

96. 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, 1921.

    Ch. 75 · 41 Stat. 408 · February 14, 1920 · Original text

97. Joint Resolution Giving to discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines a preferred right of homestead entry.

    Ch. 76 · 41 Stat. 434 · February 14, 1920 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the incorporated town of Wrangell, Alaska, to issue bonds for the construction, enlargement, and equipment of schools, the acquisition and construction of a water-supply system, the construction of a sewer system, the construction of a city dock and floating dock, and to levy and collect a special tax therefor.

    Ch. 77 · 41 Stat. 435 · February 17, 1920 · Original text

99. An Act To authorize the payment of certain amounts for damages sustained by prairie fire on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota.

    Ch. 78 · 41 Stat. 1460 · February 17, 1920 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of William E. Johnson.

     Ch. 79 · 41 Stat. 1460 · February 17, 1920 · Private law · Original text