Every law Congress has passed

930 laws of the 67th Congress, 1921–1923

1. An Act To provide additional compensation for certain civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923.

   Ch. 250 · 42 Stat. 712 · June 29, 1922 · Original text

2. An Act To abolish the office of Superintendent of the Library-Building and Grounds and to transfer the duties thereof to the Architect of the Capitol and the Librarian of Congress.

   Ch. 251 · 42 Stat. 715 · June 29, 1922 · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of John M. Green.

   Ch. 252 · 42 Stat. 1595 · June 29, 1922 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 253 · 42 Stat. 716 · June 30, 1922 · Original text

5. An Act Creating the positions of Second Assistant Secretary and private secretary in the Department of Labor.

   Ch. 254 · 42 Stat. 766 · June 30, 1922 · Original text

6. An Act To continue certain land offices, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 255 · 42 Stat. 766 · June 30, 1922 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to detail four persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs.

   Ch. 256 · 42 Stat. 767 · June 30, 1922 · Original text

8. An Act To amend section 5136, Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to corporate powers of associations, so as to provide succession thereof for a period of ninety-nine years or until dissolved, and to apply said section as so amended to all national banking associations.

   Ch. 257 · 42 Stat. 767 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

9. Third Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1922

   An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and prior fiscal years, supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 258 · 42 Stat. 767 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

10. An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 259 · 42 Stat. 786 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

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

    Ch. 260 · 42 Stat. 812 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

12. An Act To legalize a bridge across the south arm of Pokegama Lake in Itasca County, State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 261 · 42 Stat. 813 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Rio Grande between the cities of Del Rio, Texas, and Las Vacas, Mexico.

    Ch. 262 · 42 Stat. 813 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

14. An Act Authorizing the President to scrap certain vessels in conformity with the provisions of the treaty limiting naval armament, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 263 · 42 Stat. 814 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

15. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across White River in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 264 · 42 Stat. 815 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

16. An Act Amending existing law which authorizes the construction of a public building at Paris, Texas, so as to authorize and empower the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire a new site for same by exchanging therefor land and property now owned by the United States Government in said city; and to authorize the erection on said new site, when acquired, of a public building suitable for post-office purposes; and for other purposes.

    Ch. 265 · 42 Stat. 815 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

17. An Act Declaring Tchula Lake, Holmes County, Mississippi, to be a nonnavigable stream.

    Ch. 266 · 42 Stat. 816 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

18. An Act To provide for the printing and distribution of the Supreme Court Reports, and amending sections 225, 226, 227, and 228 of the Judicial Code.

    Ch. 267 · 42 Stat. 816 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

19. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines.”

    Ch. 268 · 42 Stat. 818 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

20. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Norman and the town and village of Halstad, in said county, in the State of Minnesota, and the county of Traill and the town of Herberg, in said county, in the State of North Dakota, to construct a bridge across the Red River of the North on the boundary line between said States.

    Ch. 269 · 42 Stat. 819 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

21. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Development Company to construct a bridge across the Red River at or near Grand Ecore, Louisiana.

    Ch. 270 · 42 Stat. 819 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

22. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county court of Lafayette County, in the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.

    Ch. 271 · 42 Stat. 820 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

23. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the County Court of Saline County, in the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.

    Ch. 272 · 42 Stat. 820 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

24. An Act Regulating the issuance of checks, drafts, and orders for the payment of money within the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 273 · 42 Stat. 820 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

25. An Act To amend the proviso in paragraph 10 of section 9 of the Federal Reserve Act amended by the Act of June 21, 1917, amending the Federal Reserve Act.

    Ch. 274 · 42 Stat. 821 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the Niagara River Bridge Company to reconstruct its present bridge across the Niagara River between the State of New York and the Dominion of Canada, or to remove its present bridge and construct, maintain, and operate a new bridge across the said river.

    Ch. 275 · 42 Stat. 821 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

27. Joint Resolution Requesting the Presidentof the United States to cal] a conference of maritime nations with a view to the adoption of effective means for the prevention of pollution of navigable waters by oil-burning and oil-carrying steamers by the dumping into such waters of oil waste, fuel oil, oil sludge, oil slop, tar residue, and water ballast.

    Ch. 276 · 42 Stat. 821 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

28. Joint Resolution Granting consent of Congress and authority to the Port of New York Authority to execute the comprehensive plan approved by the States of New York and New Jersey by chapter 43, Laws of New York, 1922, and chapter 9, Laws of New Jersey, 1922.

    Ch. 277 · 42 Stat. 822 · July 1, 1922 · Original text

29. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents, cots, chairs, and so forth, to the executive committee of the Louisiana Department of the American Legion for use at the national convention of the American Legion, to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, in October, 1922.

    Ch. 278 · 42 Stat. 826 · July 8, 1922 · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of F. E. Taylor and B. C. Broom.

    Ch. 279 · 42 Stat. 1595 · July 8, 1922 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To amend section 22 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended.

    Ch. 280 · 42 Stat. 827 · August 18, 1922 · Original text

32. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to convey certain land to the county of Muscatine, Iowa.

    Ch. 281 · 42 Stat. 827 · August 22, 1922 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to the State of Michigan, in trust, of a certain described tract of land to be used as a game refuge.

    Ch. 282 · 42 Stat. 828 · August 24, 1922 · Original text

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

    Ch. 283 · 42 Stat. 828 · August 24, 1922 · Original text

35. An Act To authorize the California Débris Commission to reimburse the city of Sacramento, California, for money expended by said city in the construction of the Sacramento weir.

    Ch. 284 · 42 Stat. 829 · August 24, 1922 · Original text

36. An Act To permit adjustment of conflicting claims to certain lands in Mohave County, Arizona.

    Ch. 285 · 42 Stat. 829 · August 24, 1922 · Original text

37. An Act Amending the proviso of the Act approved August 24, 1912, with reference to educational leave to employees of the Indian Service.

    Ch. 286 · 42 Stat. 829 · August 24, 1922 · Original text

38. An Act Providing for the confirmation of title of certain purchasers from the State of Louisiana of lands formerly included in the Fort Sahine Military Reservation, in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, now abandoned.

    Ch. 287 · 42 Stat. 830 · August 24, 1922 · Original text

39. An Act To rebuild the school building of the Indian school near Tomah, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 288 · 42 Stat. 830 · August 24, 1922 · Original text

40. An Act To validate certain deeds executed by members of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 289 · 42 Stat. 831 · August 24, 1922 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution Authorizing the reappointment of Frederick Mears as a commissioned officer of the Regular Army and making him available, when so reappointed, for service as chairman and chief engineer of the Alaskan Engineering Commission.

    Ch. 290 · 42 Stat. 831 · August 24, 1922 · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Emmett Otto Cooney.

    Ch. 291 · 42 Stat. 1595 · August 24, 1922 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Forrest R. Black.

    Ch. 292 · 42 Stat. 1596 · August 24, 1922 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Mattie Alexander.

    Ch. 293 · 42 Stat. 1596 · August 24, 1922 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Seth J. Hams, Jimmie Lou Martin, Mary Holloman, and William Henry Coleman.

    Ch. 294 · 42 Stat. 1596 · August 25, 1922 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to dedicate and set apart as a national monument certain lands in Riverside County, California.

    Ch. 295 · 42 Stat. 832 · August 26, 1922 · Original text

47. An Act Relating to the appointment of the Chief of Staff of the Army.

    Ch. 296 · 42 Stat. 832 · August 28, 1922 · Original text

48. An Act Permitting Frances Mack Mann to purchase certain public lands.

    Ch. 297 · 42 Stat. 1597 · August 28, 1922 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Alfred P. Reck.

    Ch. 298 · 42 Stat. 1597 · August 28, 1922 · Private law · Original text

50. Joint Resolution To approve the holding of a national and international exhibition in the city of Philadelphia in 1926 upon the Fairmount Park and parkway site selected by The Sesquicentennial Exhibition Association, and lands contiguous thereto that may be acquired for that purpose, as an appropriate celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

    Ch. 299 · 42 Stat. 833 · August 29, 1922 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Liberty loan subscribers of the North Penn Bank, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Santa Rosa National Bank, Santa Rosa, California; and Mineral City Bank, Mineral City, Ohio; Robbinsdale State Bank, Robbinsdale, Minnesota; and Farmers and Merchants State Bank, Kenmare, North Dakota.

    Ch. 300 · 42 Stat. 1597 · August 30, 1922 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act To regulate foreign commerce in the importation into the United States of the adult honeybee (Apis mellifica).

    Ch. 301 · 42 Stat. 833 · August 31, 1922 · Original text

53. An Act Granting relief to soldiers and sailors of the War with Spain, Philippine insurrection, and Chinese Boxer rebellion campaign; to widows, former widows, and dependent parents of such soldiers and sailors; and to certain Army nurses; and to amend section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to pension the survivors of certain Indian wars from January 1, 1859, to January, 1891, inclusive, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1917.

    Ch. 302 · 42 Stat. 834 · September 1, 1922 · Original text

54. An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to close upper Water Street between Twenty-first and Twenty-second Streets northwest.

    Ch. 303 · 42 Stat. 836 · September 6, 1922 · Original text

55. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comforts, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys of the District of Columbia,” approved September 25, 1914.

    Ch. 304 · 42 Stat. 837 · September 6, 1922 · Original text

56. An Act To amend the Judicial Code, in reference to appeals and writs of error.

    Ch. 305 · 42 Stat. 837 · September 14, 1922 · Original text

57. An Act For the appointment of an additional circuit judge for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, for the appointment of additional district judges for certain districts, providing for an annual conference of certain judges, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 306 · 42 Stat. 837 · September 14, 1922 · Original text

58. An Act Amending the Act of June 30, 1922, making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 307 · 42 Stat. 840 · September 14, 1922 · Original text

59. An Act To create the White House police force, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 308 · 42 Stat. 841 · September 14, 1922 · Original text

60. Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of War to grant revocable licenses for the quarrying and removal of stone from the Mariveles Military Reservation, Philippine Islands.

    Ch. 309 · 42 Stat. 843 · September 14, 1922 · Original text

61. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to grant a permit to erect and maintain a hotel upon the Fort Monroe Military Reservation in Virginia.

    Ch. 310 · 42 Stat. 843 · September 14, 1922 · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Mande H. Mosher.

    Ch. 311 · 42 Stat. 1598 · September 14, 1922 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Virgil O. McWhorter.

    Ch. 312 · 42 Stat. 1598 · September 14, 1922 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act To provide for the marking of anchorage grounds in waters of the United States.

    Ch. 313 · 42 Stat. 844 · September 15, 1922 · Original text

65. An Act To extend the provisions of section 18a of an Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 437), to certain lands in Utah.

    Ch. 314 · 42 Stat. 844 · September 15, 1922 · Original text

66. An Act To amend sections 34 and 40 of the organic act of the Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 315 · 42 Stat. 844 · September 15, 1922 · Original text

67. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell and patent to parties named herein certain lands in Louisiana.

    Ch. 316 · 42 Stat. 1599 · September 15, 1922 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act Authorizing the sale and patent of certain alleged public lands in Louisiana.

    Ch. 317 · 42 Stat. 1599 · September 15, 1922 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act Providing for the removal of snow and ice from the paved sidewalks of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 318 · 42 Stat. 845 · September 16, 1922 · Original text

70. An Act To exempt from taxation certain property of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 319 · 42 Stat. 846 · September 16, 1922 · Original text

71. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River to connect the city of Benwood, West Virginia, and the city of Bellaire, Ohio.

    Ch. 320 · 42 Stat. 847 · September 18, 1922 · Original text

72. An Act To accept the cession by the State of Arkansas of exclusive jurisdiction over a tract of land within the Hot Springs National Park, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 321 · 42 Stat. 847 · September 18, 1922 · Original text

73. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept a certain tract of land donated as a site for an administration building for the Rocky Mountain National Bark.

    Ch. 322 · 42 Stat. 847 · September 18, 1922 · Original text

74. An Act Authorizing the sale of surplus power developed under the Salt River reclamation project, Arizona.

    Ch. 323 · 42 Stat. 847 · September 18, 1922 · Original text

75. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to receive for instruction at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis Mr. Willem van Doorn, a subject of the Netherlands.

    Ch. 324 · 42 Stat. 848 · September 18, 1922 · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Richard J. Easton.

    Ch. 325 · 42 Stat. 1600 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Welch, Fairchild and Company (Incorporated).

    Ch. 326 · 42 Stat. 1600 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of Leonidas Sawyer.

    Ch. 327 · 42 Stat. 1600 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of the owners of the barge Havana.

    Ch. 328 · 42 Stat. 1600 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of the owner of the vessel Maria Artau.

    Ch. 329 · 42 Stat. 1601 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of the Cortez Oil Company.

    Ch. 330 · 42 Stat. 1601 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of F. R. Messenger.

    Ch. 331 · 42 Stat. 1601 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of James E. Connors.

    Ch. 332 · 42 Stat. 1602 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Authorizing the Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company to sue the United States to recover damages resulting from collision.

    Ch. 333 · 42 Stat. 1602 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of the Mary Ann Shipping Company.

    Ch. 334 · 42 Stat. 1603 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Vivian Hood.

    Ch. 335 · 42 Stat. 1603 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Edward J. Schaefer.

    Ch. 336 · 42 Stat. 1603 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Mrs. D. Montgomery.

    Ch. 337 · 42 Stat. 1603 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Frank William Brown and Clara Bryan Brown.

    Ch. 338 · 42 Stat. 1604 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Cora T. Bering.

    Ch. 339 · 42 Stat. 1604 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.

    Ch. 340 · 42 Stat. 1604 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of James Kelly.

    Ch. 341 · 42 Stat. 1709 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Rear Admiral J. S. Carpenter, Supply Corps, United States Navy.

    Ch. 342 · 42 Stat. 1709 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Rear Admiral Livingston Hunt, Supply Corps, United States Navy.

    Ch. 343 · 42 Stat. 1709 · September 18, 1922 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To amend section 876 of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 344 · 42 Stat. 848 · September 19, 1922 · Original text

96. An Act To amend section 51 of chapter 4 of the Judicial Code.

    Ch. 345 · 42 Stat. 849 · September 19, 1922 · Original text

97. An Act To authorize the creation of corporations for the purpose of engaging in business within China.

    Ch. 346 · 42 Stat. 849 · September 19, 1922 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the leasing for mining purposes of unallotted lands on the Fort Peck and Blackfeet Indian Reservations in the State of Montana

    Ch. 347 · 42 Stat. 857 · September 20, 1922 · Original text

99. An Act Validating and confirming a certain indemnity school-land selection of the State of Florida.

    Ch. 348 · 42 Stat. 857 · September 20, 1922 · Original text

100. An Act For the protection of timber owned by the United States from fire, disease, or the ravages of beetles or other insects.

     Ch. 349 · 42 Stat. 857 · September 20, 1922 · Original text