Every law Congress has passed

930 laws of the 67th Congress, 1921–1923

1. Joint Resolution Authorizing payment of the salaries of the officers and employes of Congress for December, 1922, on the twentieth day of that month.

   Ch. 11 · 42 Stat. 1064 · December 19, 1922 · Original text

2. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the sale of the marine-hospital reservation in Cleveland, Ohio,” approved July 26, 1916.

   Ch. 12 · 42 Stat. 1064 · December 20, 1922 · Original text

3. An Act To amend section 9 of the Trading with the Enemy Act as amended.

   Ch. 13 · 42 Stat. 1065 · December 27, 1922 · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the Attorney General to convey certain land of the United States to Fulton County, Georgia, to widen McDonough Road in front of the United States penitentiary.

   Ch. 14 · 42 Stat. 1065 · December 27, 1922 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution To permit to remain within the United States certain aliens admitted temporarily under bond in excess of quotas fixed under authority of the Immigration Act of May 19, 1921.

   Ch. 15 · 42 Stat. 1065 · December 27, 1922 · Original text

6. An Act To amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels.

   Ch. 16 · 42 Stat. 1066 · December 28, 1922 · Original text

7. An Act To provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case.

   Ch. 17 · 42 Stat. 1066 · December 28, 1922 · Original text

8. An Act To amend section 5211 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

   Ch. 18 · 42 Stat. 1067 · December 28, 1922 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution Extending the provisions of the Act of February 25, 1919, allowing credit for military sendee during the war with Germany in homestead entries, and of Public Resolution Numbered 29, approved February 14, 1920, allowing a preferred right of entry for at least sixty days after the date of opening in connection with lands opened or restored to entry, to citizens of the United States who served with the allied armies during the World War.

   Ch. 19 · 42 Stat. 1067 · December 28, 1922 · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Lizzie Askeli.

    Ch. 20 · 42 Stat. 1766 · December 28, 1922 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 21 · 42 Stat. 1068 · January 3, 1923 · Original text

12. An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 22 · 42 Stat. 1087 · January 3, 1923 · Original text

13. An Act To consolidate the work of collecting, compiling, and publishing statistics of the foreign commerce of the United States in the Department of Commerce.

    Ch. 23 · 42 Stat. 1109 · January 5, 1923 · Original text

14. An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 24 · 42 Stat. 1110 · January 5, 1923 · Original text

15. An Act To distribute the commissioned line and engineer officers of the Coast Guard in grades, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 25 · 42 Stat. 1130 · January 12, 1923 · Original text

16. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the commissioners of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and their successors in office to construct a bridge across the West Branch of the Susquehanna River from the foot of Arch Street, in the city of Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, to the borough of Duboistown, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania,” approved August 11, 1916.

    Ch. 26 · 42 Stat. 1131 · January 15, 1923 · Original text

17. An Act To amend the Act approved August 25, 1919, entitled “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. 27 · 42 Stat. 1132 · January 22, 1923 · Original text

18. An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 28 · 42 Stat. 1132 · January 22, 1923 · Original text

19. Second Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1923

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

    Ch. 29 · 42 Stat. 1154 · January 22, 1923 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of two vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress.

    Ch. 30 · 42 Stat. 1170 · January 22, 1923 · Original text

21. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Members of Congress.

    Ch. 31 · 42 Stat. 1171 · January 22, 1923 · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of the Tacoma Tug and Barge Company.

    Ch. 32 · 42 Stat. 1767 · January 22, 1923 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Declaring a portion of the West Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River, Cook County, Illinois, to be a nonnavigable stream.

    Ch. 33 · 42 Stat. 1171 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

24. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Little Calumet River, in Cook County, State of Illinois, at or near the village of Riverdale, in said county.

    Ch. 34 · 42 Stat. 1171 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

25. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois, department of public works and buildings, division of highways, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Kankakee River, in the county of Kankakee, State of Illinois, between section 5, township 30 north and section 32, township 31 north, range 13 east, of the third principal meridian.

    Ch. 35 · 42 Stat. 1171 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

26. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois, department of public works and buildings, division of highways, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Kankakee River, in the county of Kankakee, State of Illinois, between section 6, township 30 north, and section 31, township 31 north, range 12 east of the third principal meridian.

    Ch. 36 · 42 Stat. 1172 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the construction of a railroad bridge across the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona.

    Ch. 37 · 42 Stat. 1172 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the enunciation of the Monroe doctrine.

    Ch. 38 · 42 Stat. 1172 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

29. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Sioux City, Iowa, and to Union County, in the State of South Dakota, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Big Sioux River at a point about two and one-half miles north of the mouth of said river, between section 14, township 89, range 48, Woodbury County. Iowa, and section 15, township 89, range 48, Union County, South Dakota.

    Ch. 39 · 42 Stat. 1173 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

30. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of North Dakota and the State of Minnesota, the County of Pembina, North Dakota, and the County of Kittson, Minnesota, or any of them, to construct a bridge across the Red River of the North at or near the city of Pembina, North Dakota.

    Ch. 40 · 42 Stat. 1173 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

31. An Act To authorize the building of a bridge across the Great Pee Dee River in South Carolina.

    Ch. 41 · 42 Stat. 1174 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

32. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 42 · 42 Stat. 1174 · January 24, 1923 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution Providing for pay to clerks to Members of Congress and Delegates.

    Ch. 43 · 42 Stat. 1217 · January 25, 1923 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution To grant authority to continue the use of the temporary buildings of the American Red Cross headquarters in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 44 · 42 Stat. 1218 · January 25, 1923 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution For the appointment of three members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

    Ch. 45 · 42 Stat. 1218 · January 26, 1923 · Original text

36. Joint Resolution Authorizing the appropriation of funds for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property during the convention of the Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine in the District of Columbia June 5, 6, and 7, 1923, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 46 · 42 Stat. 1218 · January 26, 1923 · Original text

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

    Ch. 47 · 42 Stat. 1219 · January 31, 1923 · Original text

38. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, or either of them, to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Red River of the North.

    Ch. 48 · 42 Stat. 1219 · January 31, 1923 · Original text

39. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State highway commission of Missouri, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Saint Francis River in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 49 · 42 Stat. 1220 · January 31, 1923 · Original text

40. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Great Southern Lumber Company, a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania doing business in the State of Mississippi, to construct a railroad bridge across Pearl River at approximately one and one-half miles north of Georgetown in the State of Mississippi.

    Ch. 50 · 42 Stat. 1220 · January 31, 1923 · Original text

41. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Winnebago, the town of Rockford, and the city of Rockford, in said county, in the State of Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Rock River.

    Ch. 51 · 42 Stat. 1220 · January 31, 1923 · Original text

42. An Act To authorize the State road department of the State of Florida to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Escambia River, near Ferry Pass, Florida.

    Ch. 52 · 42 Stat. 1221 · January 31, 1923 · Original text

43. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River.

    Ch. 53 · 42 Stat. 1221 · January 31, 1923 · Original text

44. An Act To correct the naval record of John Sullivan.

    Ch. 54 · 42 Stat. 1767 · February 2, 1923 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act To reimburse certain persons for loss of private funds while they were patients at the United States Naval Hospital, Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia.

    Ch. 55 · 42 Stat. 1767 · February 2, 1923 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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,” approved July 9, 1921.

    Ch. 56 · 42 Stat. 1221 · February 3, 1923 · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Edwin Gantner.

    Ch. 57 · 42 Stat. 1768 · February 3, 1923 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of William B. Lancaster.

    Ch. 58 · 42 Stat. 1768 · February 5, 1923 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act Promoting civilization and self-support among the Indians of the Mescalero Reservation, in New Mexico.

    Ch. 59 · 42 Stat. 1222 · February 6, 1923 · Original text

50. An Act To amend the last paragraph of section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act as amended by the Act of June 3, 1922.

    Ch. 60 · 42 Stat. 1223 · February 6, 1923 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Lucy Paradis.

    Ch. 61 · 42 Stat. 1768 · February 6, 1923 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Winco Block Coal Company a corporation, to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, in Mingo County, West Virginia.

    Ch. 62 · 42 Stat. 1223 · February 8, 1923 · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth Marsh Watkins.

    Ch. 63 · 42 Stat. 1769 · February 8, 1923 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To reimburse the Navajo Timber Company, of Delaware, for a deposit made to cover the purchase of timber.

    Ch. 64 · 42 Stat. 1769 · February 8, 1923 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act To provide for the renting of the first floor of the customhouse at Mobile, Alabama, to the Mobile Chamber of Commerce.

    Ch. 65 · 42 Stat. 1769 · February 8, 1923 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act To amend and supplement the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1871, and Acta supplemental thereto, approved, respectively, May 2, 1872, March 3, 1873, and June 22, 1874.

    Ch. 66 · 42 Stat. 1223 · February 9, 1923 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to require the United States Sugar Equalization Board (Incorporated) to take over and dispose of thirteen thousand nine hundred and two tons of sugar imported from the Argentine Republic.

    Ch. 67 · 42 Stat. 1224 · February 9, 1923 · Original text

58. Joint Resolution To provide for the payment of salaries of Senators appointed to fill vacancies, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 68 · 42 Stat. 1225 · February 10, 1923 · Original text

59. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to abrogate the international agreement embodied in certain Executive orders relating to the Panama Canal.

    Ch. 69 · 42 Stat. 1225 · February 12, 1923 · Original text

60. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to require the United States Sugar Equalization Board (Incorporated) to take over and dispose of five thousand tons of sugar imported from the Argentine Republic.

    Ch. 70 · 42 Stat. 1226 · February 12, 1923 · Original text

61. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to repeal section 3480 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 71 · 42 Stat. 1226 · February 13, 1923 · Original text

62. An Act Making appropriations for the Executive office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 72 · 42 Stat. 1227 · February 13, 1923 · Original text

63. Joint Resolution Authorizing the acceptance of title to certain land within the Shasta National Forest, California.

    Ch. 73 · 42 Stat. 1244 · February 13, 1923 · Original text

64. An Act To permit the State of Montana to exchange cut-over timberlands granted for educational purposes for other lands of like character and approximate value.

    Ch. 74 · 42 Stat. 1245 · February 14, 1923 · Original text

65. An Act Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands situated within certain townships in the Lincoln National Forest, in the State of New Mexico, by exchanging therefor lands on the public domain also within such State.

    Ch. 75 · 42 Stat. 1245 · February 14, 1923 · Original text

66. An Act To extend the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887, as amended, to lands purchased for Indians.

    Ch. 76 · 42 Stat. 1246 · February 14, 1923 · Original text

67. An Act Authorizing an appropriation to meet proportionate expenses of providing a drainage system for Piute Indian Lands in the State of Nevada within the Newlands reclamation project of the Reclamation Service.

    Ch. 77 · 42 Stat. 1246 · February 14, 1923 · Original text

68. An Act To amend section 100 of the Judicial Code of the United States.

    Ch. 78 · 42 Stat. 1246 · February 14, 1923 · Original text

69. An Act Making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 79 · 42 Stat. 1248 · February 14, 1923 · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Fred. G. Leith, United States Navy.

    Ch. 80 · 42 Stat. 1769 · February 14, 1923 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Robert Guy Robinson.

    Ch. 81 · 42 Stat. 1770 · February 14, 1923 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act To grant the military target range of Lincoln County, Oklahoma, to the city of Chandler, Oklahoma, and reserving the right to use for military and aviation purposes.

    Ch. 82 · 42 Stat. 1255 · February 15, 1923 · Original text

73. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, a municipal corporation, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Fox River.

    Ch. 83 · 42 Stat. 1256 · February 15, 1923 · Original text

74. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge over the Columbia River, between the States of Oregon and Washington, at a point approximately five miles upstream from Dalles City, Wasco County, in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 84 · 42 Stat. 1256 · February 15, 1923 · Original text

75. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Delaware State Highway Department to construct a bridge across the Nanticoke River.

    Ch. 85 · 42 Stat. 1257 · February 15, 1923 · Original text

76. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway commissioner of the town of Elgin, Kane County, Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Fox River.

    Ch. 86 · 42 Stat. 1257 · February 15, 1923 · Original text

77. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Oregon-Washington Bridge Company, and its successors, to construct a bridge across the Columbia River at or near the city of Hood River, Oregon.

    Ch. 87 · 42 Stat. 1257 · February 15, 1923 · Original text

78. An Act To grant the consent of Congress for the special commission constituted by an act of the Legislature of Massachusetts to construct a bridge across the Merrimack River.

    Ch. 88 · 42 Stat. 1257 · February 15, 1923 · Original text

79. An Act To revive and to reenact an Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta,” approved October 6, 1917.

    Ch. 89 · 42 Stat. 1258 · February 15, 1923 · Original text

80. An Act Granting a pension to Jacob F. Rosenberger.

    Ch. 90 · 42 Stat. 1770 · February 15, 1923 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to certify to the Secretary of the Interior, for restoration to the public domain, lands in the State of Louisiana not needed for naval purposes.

    Ch. 91 · 42 Stat. 1258 · February 16, 1923 · Original text

82. An Act Providing for the conveyance of certain land to the city of Boise, Idaho, and from the city of Boise, Idaho, to the United States.

    Ch. 92 · 42 Stat. 1260 · February 17, 1923 · Original text

83. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey to the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, marine hospital reservation.

    Ch. 93 · 42 Stat. 1260 · February 17, 1923 · Original text

84. An Act To create a board of accountancy for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 94 · 42 Stat. 1261 · February 17, 1923 · Original text

85. An Act To equalize pensions of retired policemen and firemen of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 95 · 42 Stat. 1263 · February 17, 1923 · Original text

86. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of drawless bridges across a certain portion of the Charles River, in the State of Massachusetts,” approved November 14, 1921.

    Ch. 96 · 42 Stat. 1264 · February 19, 1923 · Original text

87. An Act Providing for the erection of additional suitable and necessary buildings for the National Leper Home.

    Ch. 97 · 42 Stat. 1264 · February 20, 1923 · Original text

88. An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 98 · 42 Stat. 1264 · February 20, 1923 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution To satisfy the award rendered against the United States by the Arbitral Tribunal established under the special agreement concluded June 30, 1921, between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Norway.

    Ch. 99 · 42 Stat. 1280 · February 20, 1923 · Original text

90. An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to close Piney Branch Road between Seventeenth and Taylor Streets and Sixteenth and Allison Streets northwest, rendered useless or unnecessary by reason of the opening and extension of streets called for in the permanent highway plan of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 100 · 42 Stat. 1280 · February 21, 1923 · Original text

91. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate the feasibility of reclamation projects on the Columbia River and various other irrigation projects.

    Ch. 101 · 42 Stat. 1281 · February 21, 1923 · Original text

92. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to deliver to the Daughters of the American Revolution of the State of South Carolina the silver service which was used upon the battleship South Carolina.

    Ch. 102 · 42 Stat. 1281 · February 21, 1923 · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of the owner of Old Dominion Pier A.

    Ch. 103 · 42 Stat. 1770 · February 21, 1923 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Henry Peters.

    Ch. 104 · 42 Stat. 1771 · February 21, 1923 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To amend section 2294, United States Revised Statutes, relating to homesteads.

    Ch. 105 · 42 Stat. 1281 · February 23, 1923 · Original text

96. An Act To amend sections 2, 5, 11, 12, 15, 19, 29, and 30 of the United States Warehouse Act, approved August 11, 1916.

    Ch. 106 · 42 Stat. 1282 · February 23, 1923 · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Ephraim Lederer, collector of internal revenue for the first district of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 107 · 42 Stat. 1771 · February 23, 1923 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

    Ch. 108 · 42 Stat. 1771 · February 23, 1923 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act To provide for a grant to the city of Boise, in the State of Idaho, of the use of a certain part of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation, under certain conditions.

    Ch. 109 · 42 Stat. 1285 · February 24, 1923 · Original text

100. An Act To prohibit the unauthorized wearing, manufacture, or sale of medals and badges awarded by the War Department.

     Ch. 110 · 42 Stat. 1286 · February 24, 1923 · Original text