Every law Congress has passed

930 laws of the 67th Congress, 1921–1923

1. An Act To repeal sections 2453 and 2454, and to amend sections 2450, 2451, and 2456, Revised Statutes of the United States.

   Ch. 350 · 42 Stat. 857 · September 20, 1922 · Original text

2. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to Lassen County, of California, for certain lands, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 351 · 42 Stat. 858 · September 20, 1922 · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of George R. Campbell, Milton B. Germond, and Walter D. Long.

   Ch. 352 · 42 Stat. 1710 · September 20, 1922 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Perry H. Kennerly for land allotted to him on the Blackfoot Reservation, Montana.

   Ch. 353 · 42 Stat. 1710 · September 20, 1922 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Israel Butts.

   Ch. 354 · 42 Stat. 1710 · September 20, 1922 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Jerome Kennerly for land allotted to him on the Blackfoot Reservation, Montana.

   Ch. 355 · 42 Stat. 1710 · September 20, 1922 · Private law · Original text

7. Tariff Act of 1922

   An Act To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 356 · 42 Stat. 858 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

8. An Act To allow credit for husbands’ military service in case of homestead entries by widows, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 357 · 42 Stat. 990 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

9. An Act Providing for the construction of a spillway and drainage ditch to lower and maintain the level of Lake Andes, South Dakota.

   Ch. 358 · 42 Stat. 990 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

10. An Act To authorize the establishment of a Coast Guard station on the coast of Green Bay at or in the vicinity of Strawberry Passage, in Door County, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 359 · 42 Stat. 991 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

11. An Act To authorize the purchase by the city of Medford, 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 9, 1916.

    Ch. 360 · 42 Stat. 991 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of and purchase of lands for certain of the Apache Indians of Oklahoma lately confined as prisoners of war at Fort Sill Military Reservation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 361 · 42 Stat. 991 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

13. An Act Granting to certain claimants the preference right to purchase unappropriated public lands in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 362 · 42 Stat. 992 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

14. An Act Authorizing the Postmaster General to temporarily reduce the pay of rural carriers for disciplinary purposes instead of suspending them without pay.

    Ch. 363 · 42 Stat. 993 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

15. An Act Granting to the city of Saint Andrews, Florida, the right to remove shells, sand, and gravel from certain public lands for road-building purposes.

    Ch. 364 · 42 Stat. 993 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

16. An Act To confer upon the Territorial courts of Porto Rico concurrent jurisdiction with the United States courts of that district of all offenses under the National Prohibition Act and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

    Ch. 365 · 42 Stat. 993 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

17. An Act Providing for the retention by the Government of the property in Nome, Alaska, known as the Detention Hospital Building, and its use by the Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior.

    Ch. 366 · 42 Stat. 993 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

18. An Act Extending time for allotments on the Crow Reservation; protecting certain members of the Five Civilized Tribes; relief of Indians occupying certain lands in Arizona, New Mexico, and California; issuing patents in certain cases; establishing a revolving fund on the Rosebud Reservation; memorial to Indians of the Rosebud Reservation killed in the World War; conferring authority on the Secretary of the Interior as to alienation in certain Indian allotments, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 367 · 42 Stat. 994 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

19. An Act To provide for the transfer of the lands and buildings of the Federal leprosy investigation station at Kalawao, on the Island of Molokai, in the Territory of Hawaii, to the Territory of Hawaii, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 368 · 42 Stat. 995 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

20. An Act For the prevention and removal of obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in grain, by regulating transactions on grain future exchanges, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 369 · 42 Stat. 998 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

21. An Act To amend sections 7, 8, and 9 of the Panama Canal Act; to amend sections 288, 289, 342, 343, 368, and 461 of the Penal Code of the Canal Zone; and section 2 of the Executive order of July 9, 1914, establishing rules and regulations for the operation and navigation of the Panama Canal and approaches thereto, including all water under its jurisdiction; to amend section 6 of an Act entitled “An Act extending certain privileges of canal employees to other officials on the Canal Zone and authorizing the President to make rules and regulations affecting health, sanitation, quarantine, taxation, public roads, self-propelled vehicles, and police powers on the Canal Zone, and for other purposes, including provision as to certain fees, money orders, and interest deposits,” approved August 21, 1916; and to regulate divorces in the Canal Zone, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 370 · 42 Stat. 1004 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the extension and widening of Ninth Street from Longfellow Street northwest to Underwood Street, and Underwood Street from Ninth Street to Georgia Avenue northwest.

    Ch. 371 · 42 Stat. 1011 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

23. Joint Resolution Favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.

    Ch. 372 · 42 Stat. 1012 · September 21, 1922 · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Aaron Kibler.

    Ch. 373 · 42 Stat. 1711 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of J. A. Leslie.

    Ch. 374 · 42 Stat. 1711 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To provide for the refund of entrance and clearance fees erroneously collected by the customs authorities from the Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Company.

    Ch. 375 · 42 Stat. 1711 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Hubert Reynolds.

    Ch. 376 · 42 Stat. 1712 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Sanford Kirkpatrick.

    Ch. 377 · 42 Stat. 1712 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Arthur J. Burdick.

    Ch. 378 · 42 Stat. 1712 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Annie M. Lepley.

    Ch. 379 · 42 Stat. 1712 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Oliver A. Campbell.

    Ch. 380 · 42 Stat. 1713 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Henry T. Hill.

    Ch. 381 · 42 Stat. 1713 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Robert Russell.

    Ch. 382 · 42 Stat. 1713 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Frank M. Stewart.

    Ch. 383 · 42 Stat. 1713 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of the owners of the British steamship Clearpool.

    Ch. 384 · 42 Stat. 1714 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Abraham Leibovitz.

    Ch. 385 · 42 Stat. 1714 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Horace E. Walker.

    Ch. 386 · 42 Stat. 1714 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Zah Barmon.

    Ch. 387 · 42 Stat. 1715 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell and patent certain lands to William S. N. Calhoun and Zaidee Boatner Calhoun, residents of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.

    Ch. 388 · 42 Stat. 1715 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

    Ch. 389 · 42 Stat. 1715 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of the Kineo Trust Company.

    Ch. 390 · 42 Stat. 1715 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Fitzcharles Dry Goods Company.

    Ch. 391 · 42 Stat. 1716 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Mrs. E. H. Jackson.

    Ch. 392 · 42 Stat. 1716 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of the estate of Frank W. Knight.

    Ch. 393 · 42 Stat. 1716 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of D. V. Bussie.

    Ch. 394 · 42 Stat. 1717 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of William H. Slaine.

    Ch. 395 · 42 Stat. 1717 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

    Ch. 396 · 42 Stat. 1717 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Edward A. Purdy.

    Ch. 397 · 42 Stat. 1717 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Louis Cayet.

    Ch. 398 · 42 Stat. 1717 · September 21, 1922 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act Authorizing the President to dispose of certain arms and ammunition seized in pursuance of the Act approved June 15, 1917, along the Mexican border.

    Ch. 399 · 42 Stat. 1012 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant extensions of time under permits for the development of underground waters within the State of Nevada, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 400 · 42 Stat. 1012 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

52. An Act To authorize the collection in monthly installments of indebtedness due the United States by general prisoners restored to duty, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 401 · 42 Stat. 1013 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

53. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to transfer to the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, certain streets within the Springfield Armory Military Reservation, Massachusetts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 402 · 42 Stat. 1013 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

54. An Act To grant and confirm to the State of Florida title in and to sections sixteen within the exterior limits of the area patented to the State of Florida April 23, 1903, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 403 · 42 Stat. 1017 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of certain persons, their heirs or assigns, who heretofore relinquished lands inside national forests to the United States.

    Ch. 404 · 42 Stat. 1017 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

56. An Act To relieve enlisted men affected thereby from certain hardship incident to the operation of the proviso of section 4b of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920, and to protect disbursing officers in connection therewith.

    Ch. 405 · 42 Stat. 1018 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

57. An Act To authorize the State of Idaho to exchange certain lands heretofore granted for public-school purposes for other Government lands.

    Ch. 406 · 42 Stat. 1018 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

58. An Act To add certain lauds to the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon.

    Ch. 407 · 42 Stat. 1019 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

59. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Masonic Mutual Relief Association of the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1869, as amended.

    Ch. 408 · 42 Stat. 1020 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

60. An Act To amend section 126 of the National Defense Act, approved June 3, 1916, as amended.

    Ch. 409 · 42 Stat. 1021 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

61. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to transfer and convey to the State of Connecticut all right and title now vested in the United States to land and buildings thereon known as Fort Hale.

    Ch. 410 · 42 Stat. 1021 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

62. An Act Relative to the naturalization and citizenship of married women.

    Ch. 411 · 42 Stat. 1021 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

63. An Act To establish a commission to be known as the United States Coal Commission for the purpose of securing information in connection with questions relative to interstate commerce in coal, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 412 · 42 Stat. 1023 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

64. An Act To declare a national emergency to exist in the production, transportation, and distribution of coal and other fuel, granting additional powers to the Interstate Commerce Commission, providing for the appointment of a Federal Fuel Distributor, providing for the declaration of car-service priorities during the present emergency, and to prevent the sale of fuel at unjust and unreasonably high prices.

    Ch. 413 · 42 Stat. 1025 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

65. An Act To give effect to certain provisions of conventions with foreign Governments for facilitating the work of traveling salesmen.

    Ch. 414 · 42 Stat. 1028 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

66. An Act To supplement and amend the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the North River Bridge Company and to authorize the construction of a bridge and approaches at New York City across the Hudson River, to regulate commerce in and over such bridge between the States of New York and New Jersey, and to establish such bridge a military and post road,” approved July 11, 1890.

    Ch. 415 · 42 Stat. 1029 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the acquisition of lands for military purposes in certain cases and making appropriations therefor, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 416 · 42 Stat. 1029 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

68. An Act Fixing the fees of the examining surgeons in the Bureau of Pensions.

    Ch. 417 · 42 Stat. 1030 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

69. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Pearl River at or near Tilton, Lawrence County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 418 · 42 Stat. 1030 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

70. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Warren, in the State of Ohio, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.

    Ch. 419 · 42 Stat. 1031 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize the Gary Tube Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the State of Indiana.

    Ch. 420 · 42 Stat. 1031 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the Chicago, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the State of Indiana.

    Ch. 421 · 42 Stat. 1031 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

73. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county courte of Lafayette and Ray Counties, in the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.

    Ch. 422 · 42 Stat. 1032 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

74. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920.

    Ch. 423 · 42 Stat. 1032 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

75. An Act For the inclusion of certain lands in the Wenatchee National Forest, the Olympic National Forest, and the Snoqualmie National Forest, all in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 424 · 42 Stat. 1036 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to appoint Fred H. Gallup major of Field Artillery in the United States Army.

    Ch. 425 · 42 Stat. 1037 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

77. An Act To provide for the applicability of the pension laws to certain classes of persons in the military and naval services not entitled to the benefits of Article III of the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended.

    Ch. 426 · 42 Stat. 1038 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

78. An Act Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 427 · 42 Stat. 1038 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

79. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920.

    Ch. 428 · 42 Stat. 1047 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

80. First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1923

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

    Ch. 429 · 42 Stat. 1048 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Providing for an additional investigation of the tri-county irrigation project, Nebraska.

    Ch. 430 · 42 Stat. 1057 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution Providing for the consent of the Congress of the United States of America to a compact and agreement between the State of Kansas and the State of Missouri respecting the erection, maintenance, and operation of the water-works plants of the cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri; the taxation thereof, and exercise of eminent domain in connection therewith by each State.

    Ch. 431 · 42 Stat. 1058 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

83. Joint Resolution Authorizing payment of the salaries of officers and employees of Congress for September, 1922, on the twenty-third day of said month.

    Ch. 432 · 42 Stat. 1059 · September 22, 1922 · Original text

84. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 433 · 42 Stat. 1718 · September 22, 1922 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Frances Kelly.

    Ch. 434 · 42 Stat. 1758 · September 22, 1922 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands.

    Ch. 435 · 42 Stat. 1759 · September 22, 1922 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting a pension to Marie Doughty Gorgas.

    Ch. 1 · 42 Stat. 1763 · November 22, 1922 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To provide for certain expenses incident to the third session of the Sixty-seventh Congress.

    Ch. 2 · 42 Stat. 1061 · November 28, 1922 · Original text

89. An Act Conveying the peninsula of Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania, to the State of Pennsylvania, its original owner, for public park purposes.

    Ch. 3 · 42 Stat. 1061 · November 28, 1922 · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of J. Irving Brooks.

    Ch. 4 · 42 Stat. 1763 · November 28, 1922 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act To permit Mahlon Pitney, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to retire.

    Ch. 1 · 42 Stat. 1063 · December 11, 1922 · Original text

92. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to deliver to the custody of the Brooklyn Museum the silver service which was presented to the cruiser Brooklyn by citizens of Brooklyn, New York.

    Ch. 2 · 42 Stat. 1063 · December 14, 1922 · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of the Cornwell Company, Saginaw, Michigan.

    Ch. 3 · 42 Stat. 1765 · December 14, 1922 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Leo Balsam.

    Ch. 4 · 42 Stat. 1765 · December 14, 1922 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Thomas B. Smith.

    Ch. 5 · 42 Stat. 1765 · December 14, 1922 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept completion of Carey segregation numbered eleven and to issue patent therefor.

    Ch. 6 · 42 Stat. 1063 · December 16, 1922 · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Bradley Sykes.

    Ch. 7 · 42 Stat. 1766 · December 16, 1922 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of William Malone.

    Ch. 8 · 42 Stat. 1766 · December 16, 1922 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Leroy Fisher.

    Ch. 9 · 42 Stat. 1766 · December 16, 1922 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Amending subdivision (5) of section 302 of the War Risk Insurance Act.

     Ch. 10 · 42 Stat. 1064 · December 18, 1922 · Original text