Every law Congress has passed

930 laws of the 67th Congress, 1921–1923

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

   Ch. 1 · 42 Stat. 1 · April 18, 1921 · Original text

2. An Act Providing for a “Pageant of Progress Exposition” cancellation stamp to be need by the Chicago post office.

   Ch. 2 · 42 Stat. 3 · April 30, 1921 · Original text

3. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Trumbull Steel Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.

   Ch. 3 · 42 Stat. 3 · May 3, 1921 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution To authorize the President of the United States to appoint a representative of the Executive to cooperate with the Joint Committee on Reorganization.

   Ch. 4 · 42 Stat. 3 · May 5, 1921 · Original text

5. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Ironton and Russell Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Ohio River at or near the city of Ironton, Ohio, and between the county of Lawrence, Ohio, and the county of Greenup, Kentucky.

   Ch. 5 · 42 Stat. 4 · May 6, 1921 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution Making the sum of $150,000 appropriated for the construction of a diversion dam on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, immediately available.

   Ch. 6 · 42 Stat. 4 · May 6, 1921 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, to furnish water to applicants and entry men in arrears for more than one calendar year of payment for maintenance or construction charges, notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of the Act of August 13, 1914.

   Ch. 7 · 42 Stat. 4 · May 17, 1921 · Original text

8. An Act To limit the immigration of aliens into the United States.

   Ch. 8 · 42 Stat. 5 · May 19, 1921 · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of certain ex-service men whose rights to make entries on the North Platte irrigation project, Nebraska-Wyoming, were defeated by intervening claims.

   Ch. 9 · 42 Stat. 7 · May 20, 1921 · Original text

10. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Washington and Old Dominion Railway, a corporation, to construct a bridge across the Potomac River.

    Ch. 10 · 42 Stat. 7 · May 25, 1921 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution To provide funds for the repair of the elevator in the Washington Monument.

    Ch. 11 · 42 Stat. 8 · May 25, 1921 · Original text

12. An Act Relating to the landing and operation of submarine cables in the United States.

    Ch. 12 · 42 Stat. 8 · May 27, 1921 · Original text

13. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1901,” and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

    Ch. 13 · 42 Stat. 8 · May 27, 1921 · Original text

14. An Act Imposing temporary duties upon certain agricultural products to meet present emergencies, and to provide revenue; to regulate commerce with foreign countries; to prevent dumping of foreign merchandise on the markets of the United States; to regulate the value of foreign money; and for other purposes.

    Ch. 14 · 42 Stat. 9 · May 27, 1921 · Original text

15. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Red River of the North, at or near the city of Pembina, North Dakota.

    Ch. 15 · 42 Stat. 19 · May 31, 1921 · Original text

16. An Act Authorizing the construction, maintenance, and operation of a private drawbridge over and across Lock Numbered Four of the canal and locks, Willamette Falls, Clackamas County, Oregon.

    Ch. 16 · 42 Stat. 19 · May 31, 1921 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution For the relief of sufferers in Colorado from the flood due to the overflow of the Arkansas River and its tributaries.

    Ch. 17 · 42 Stat. 19 · June 8, 1921 · Original text

18. Budget and Accounting Act, 1921

    An Act To provide a national budget system and an independent audit of Government accounts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 18 · 42 Stat. 20 · June 10, 1921 · Original text

19. An Act For the public sale of post-office site on the west side of South Main Street, in the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 19 · 42 Stat. 27 · June 10, 1921 · Original text

20. An Act To amend section 407 of the Transportation Act of 1920.

    Ch. 20 · 42 Stat. 27 · June 10, 1921 · Original text

21. An Act For the construction of a bridge across the Des Moines River at or near the city of Dumas, Missouri.

    Ch. 21 · 42 Stat. 28 · June 11, 1921 · Original text

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

    Ch. 22 · 42 Stat. 28 · June 14, 1921 · Original text

23. Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1921

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 23 · 42 Stat. 29 · June 16, 1921 · Original text

24. An Act To constitute Fort Worth, in the State of Texas, a port of entry and to extend to said port the privileges of section 7 of an Act approved June 10, 1880, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 24 · 42 Stat. 64 · June 18, 1921 · Original text

25. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to H. H. Haynes to construct a dike across Mud Slough on Isthmus Inlet, in section twenty-three, township twenty-six south, range thirteen west, of Willamette meridian in Oregon.

    Ch. 25 · 42 Stat. 65 · June 18, 1921 · Original text

26. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Borderland Coal Corporation to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of Big Sandy River, in Mingo County, West Virginia.

    Ch. 26 · 42 Stat. 65 · June 21, 1921 · Original text

27. An Act Granting certain lands to Converse County, Wyoming, for a public park.

    Ch. 27 · 42 Stat. 65 · June 24, 1921 · Original text

28. An Act To exempt from cancellation certain desert-land entries in Riverside County, California.

    Ch. 28 · 42 Stat. 66 · June 24, 1921 · Original text

29. An Act Authorizing the appointment of an additional judge for the district of North Dakota.

    Ch. 29 · 42 Stat. 66 · June 25, 1921 · Original text

30. An Act Providing for the appointment of an additional district judge for the southern judicial district of the State of West Virginia.

    Ch. 30 · 42 Stat. 67 · June 25, 1921 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution Creating a commission to represent the United States in the celebration of the first centennial of the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Peru.

    Ch. 31 · 42 Stat. 67 · June 25, 1921 · Original text

32. An Act To provide for the acquisition by the United States of private rights of fishery in and about Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 32 · 42 Stat. 67 · June 28, 1921 · Original text

33. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 33 · 42 Stat. 68 · June 30, 1921 · Original text

34. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish free transportation and subsistence from Europe and Siberia to the United States for certain destitute discharged soldiers and their wives and children.

    Ch. 34 · 42 Stat. 103 · June 30, 1921 · Original text

35. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the commissioners of Venango County, their successors and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Allegheny River, in the State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 35 · 42 Stat. 104 · June 30, 1921 · Original text

36. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River, in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 36 · 42 Stat. 104 · June 30, 1921 · Original text

37. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River at a point near Webbers Falls, in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 37 · 42 Stat. 104 · June 30, 1921 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution Ratifying the reestablishment of the boundary line between the States of Pennsylvania and Delaware.

    Ch. 38 · 42 Stat. 104 · June 30, 1921 · Original text

39. An Act To amend section 32 of the Act of Congress approved July 17, 1916, known as the Federal Farm Loan Act.

    Ch. 39 · 42 Stat. 105 · July 1, 1921 · Original text

40. Joint Resolution Terminating the state of war between the Imperial German Government and the United States of America and between the Imperial and Royal AustroHungarian Government and the United States of America.

    Ch. 40 · 42 Stat. 105 · July 2, 1921 · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of settlers and entrymen on Baca Float Numbered Three, in the State of Arizona.

    Ch. 41 · 42 Stat. 107 · July 5, 1921 · Original text

42. Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920

    An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii,” approved April 30, 1900, as amended, to establish an Hawaiian Homes Commission, granting certain powers to the board of harbor commissioners of the Territory of Hawaii, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 42 · 42 Stat. 108 · July 9, 1921 · Original text

43. Joint Resolution Ratifying and confirming from and including July 1, 1921 obligations incurred pursuant to the terms of certain appropriations for the fiscal year 1922.

    Ch. 43 · 42 Stat. 121 · July 11, 1921 · Original text

44. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 44 · 42 Stat. 122 · July 12, 1921 · Original text

45. An Act To provide for the retention by the Government of the property in Seward, Alaska, known as the Alaska Northern Railway office building, and its use for court purposes.

    Ch. 45 · 42 Stat. 141 · July 12, 1921 · Original text

46. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Trumbull Steel Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Mahoning River in the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 46 · 42 Stat. 141 · July 15, 1921 · Original text

47. An Act Providing for the appraisal and sale of the Vashon Island Military Reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 47 · 42 Stat. 142 · July 15, 1921 · Original text

48. An Act Granting certain public lands to the city of Phoenix, Arizona, for municipal purposes.

    Ch. 48 · 42 Stat. 143 · July 15, 1921 · Original text

49. An Act To authorize the construction of a dam across Wabash River at Huntington, Indiana.

    Ch. 49 · 42 Stat. 143 · July 18, 1921 · Original text

50. An Act To further reclassify postmasters and employees of the Postal Service and readjust their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 50 · 42 Stat. 143 · July 21, 1921 · Original text

51. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to declare the purpose of the people of the United States as to the future political status of the people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for these islands,” approved August 29, 1916; and to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a standard of value and to provide for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands,” approved March 2, 1903.

    Ch. 51 · 42 Stat. 145 · July 21, 1921 · Original text

52. Joint Resolution To change the name of the Grand River in Colorado and Utah to the Colorado River.

    Ch. 52 · 42 Stat. 146 · July 25, 1921 · Original text

53. 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 · 42 Stat. 146 · July 26, 1921 · Original text

54. An Act Providing for a preliminary examination of the Yazoo River, Mississippi, with a view to the control of its floods.

    Ch. 54 · 42 Stat. 146 · July 29, 1921 · Original text

55. An Act Providing for an exchange of lands between the Swan Land and Cattle Company and the United States.

    Ch. 55 · 42 Stat. 147 · August 9, 1921 · Original text

56. An Act To quiet title to certain tracts of land in the city of Walters, State of Oklahoma.

    Ch. 56 · 42 Stat. 147 · August 9, 1921 · Original text

57. An Act To establish a Veterans’ Bureau and to improve the facilities and service of such bureau, and further to amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act.

    Ch. 57 · 42 Stat. 147 · August 9, 1921 · Original text

58. Joint Resolution For the relief of States in the cotton belt that have given aid to cotton farmers forced from the fields in established nonproduction zones through efforts to eradicate the pink bollworm.

    Ch. 58 · 42 Stat. 158 · August 9, 1921 · Original text

59. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina to hear and determine the claim of the owners of the Danish steamship Flynderborg against the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 59 · 42 Stat. 1565 · August 9, 1921 · Private law · Original text

60. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite foreign nations to take part in an exposition at Portland, Oregon, in 1925.

    Ch. 60 · 42 Stat. 158 · August 10, 1921 · Original text

61. An Act To amend an Act approved February 22, 1889, entitled “An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States.”

    Ch. 61 · 42 Stat. 158 · August 11, 1921 · Original text

62. An Act To extend the provisions of section 2455, Revised Statutes, to the lands within the abandoned Fort Buford Military Reservation in the States of North Dakota and Montana.

    Ch. 62 · 42 Stat. 158 · August 11, 1921 · Original text

63. An Act To amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended.

    Ch. 63 · 42 Stat. 159 · August 13, 1921 · Original text

64. Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921

    An Act To regulate interstate and foreign commerce in live stock, live stock products, dairy products, poultry, poultry products, and eggs, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 64 · 42 Stat. 147 · August 15, 1921 · Original text

65. Joint Resolution Authorizing the appointment of a commission to confer with the Dominion Government of the provincial governments thereof as to certain restrictive orders in council of the said Provinces relative to the exportation of pulp wood and paper therefrom to the United States.

    Ch. 65 · 42 Stat. 169 · August 15, 1921 · Original text

66. Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection on public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a memorial to employees of the United States Department of Agriculture who died in the war with Germany.

    Ch. 66 · 42 Stat. 170 · August 15, 1921 · Original text

67. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Roanoke River in Halifax County, North Carolina.

    Ch. 67 · 42 Stat. 170 · August 16, 1921 · Original text

68. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Pend d’Oreille River, Bonner County, Idaho, at the Newport-Priest River Road crossing, Idaho.

    Ch. 68 · 42 Stat. 171 · August 16, 1921 · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.

    Ch. 69 · 42 Stat. 1566 · August 16, 1921 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act To make a preliminary survey of the Calaveras River in California with a view to the control of its floods.

    Ch. 70 · 42 Stat. 171 · August 18, 1921 · Original text

71. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Huntington and Ohio Bridge Company to construct, maintain, and operate a highway and street railway bridge across the Ohio River, between the city of Huntington, West Virginia, and a point opposite in the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 71 · 42 Stat. 171 · August 18, 1921 · Original text

72. An Act To permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 72 · 42 Stat. 171 · August 19, 1921 · Original text

73. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to release the Kansas City and Memphis Railroad and Bridge Company from reconstructing its highway and approaches across its bridge at Memphis, Tennessee.

    Ch. 73 · 42 Stat. 172 · August 22, 1921 · Original text

74. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Old Trail’s Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.

    Ch. 74 · 42 Stat. 173 · August 22, 1921 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution Permitting the admission of certain aliens who sailed from foreign ports on or before June 8, 1921, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 75 · 42 Stat. 173 · August 22, 1921 · Original text

76. An Act Providing for a grant of land to the State of Washington for a biological station and general research purposes.

    Ch. 76 · 42 Stat. 173 · August 23, 1921 · Original text

77. An Act Granting consent of Congress to an agreement or compact entered into between the State of New York and the State of New Jersey for the creation of the Port of New York District and the establishment of the Port of New York Authority for the comprehensive development of the port of New York.

    Ch. 77 · 42 Stat. 174 · August 23, 1921 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of salaries of officers and employees of Congress for August, 1921.

    Ch. 78 · 42 Stat. 180 · August 23, 1921 · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of the Southern Iron and Metal Company, Jacksonville, Florida.

    Ch. 79 · 42 Stat. 1566 · August 23, 1921 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To amend the War Finance Corporation Act, approved April 5, 1918, as amended, to provide relief for producers of and dealers in agricultural products, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 80 · 42 Stat. 181 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

81. An Act Ratifying, confirming, and approving certain acts of the Legislature of Hawaii granting franchises for the manufacture, distribution, and supply of gas, electric light and power, and the construction, maintenance, and operation of a street railway, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 81 · 42 Stat. 185 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

82. An Act To extend the time for payment of grazing fees for the use of national forests during the calendar year 1921.

    Ch. 82 · 42 Stat. 186 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

83. An Act Authorizing and directing the Postmaster General to permit the use of a special canceling stamp at the post office of Birmingham, Alabama, bearing the words “Birmingham semicentennial, October 24 to 29, 1921.”

    Ch. 83 · 42 Stat. 186 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

84. An Act Changing the period for doing annual assessment work on unpatented mineral claims from the calendar year to the fiscal year beginning July 1 each year.

    Ch. 84 · 42 Stat. 186 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

85. An Act For the disposal of certain lands in the town sites of Fort Madison and Bellevue, Iowa.

    Ch. 85 · 42 Stat. 186 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

86. An Act Taxing contracts for the sale of grain for future delivery, and options for such contracts, and providing for the regulation of boards of trade, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 86 · 42 Stat. 187 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

87. An Act Authorizing bestowal upon the unknown unidentified American to be buried in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, the congressional medal of honor and the distinguished service cross.

    Ch. 87 · 42 Stat. 191 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

88. An Act To control importations of dyes and chemicals.

    Ch. 88 · 42 Stat. 191 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

89. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 89 · 42 Stat. 192 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

90. An Act Granting Parramore Poet Numbered Fifty-seven, American Legion, permission to construct a memorial building on the Federal site at Abilene, Texas.

    Ch. 90 · 42 Stat. 192 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

91. An Act To extend for the period of seven months the provisions of Title 11 of the Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act, approved October 22, 1919, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 91 · 42 Stat. 200 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

92. An Act To Amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish standard weights and measures for the District of Columbia; to define the duties of the superintendent of weights, measures, and markets of the District of Columbia; and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1921.

    Ch. 92 · 42 Stat. 201 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution Changing the name of the Veterans’ Bureau to “United States Veterans’ Bureau.”

    Ch. 93 · 42 Stat. 202 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution To repeal so much of the Act of Congress approved February 28, 1920, as provides for the sale of Camp Eustis, Virginia.

    Ch. 94 · 42 Stat. 202 · August 24, 1921 · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Major Francis M. Maddox, United States Army.

    Ch. 95 · 42 Stat. 1566 · August 24, 1921 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of E. W. McComas.

    Ch. 96 · 42 Stat. 1567 · August 24, 1921 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of the city of West Point, Georgia.

    Ch. 97 · 42 Stat. 1567 · August 24, 1921 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of the owners of the dredge Maryland.

    Ch. 98 · 42 Stat. 1567 · August 24, 1921 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Providing for “Visit the Dunes, Michigan City,” canceling stamp to be used by Michigan City, Indiana, post office.

    Ch. 99 · 42 Stat. 202 · October 5, 1921 · Original text

100. An Act To permit the use in the post office at Cincinnati, Ohio, of special canceling stamps bearing the words “Public Health Exposition, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 15 to 22, 1921.”

     Ch. 100 · 42 Stat. 203 · October 5, 1921 · Original text