Every law Congress has passed

996 laws of the 68th Congress, 1923–1925

1. An Act To provide for the payment of claims of Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for back annuities.

   Ch. 101 · 43 Stat. 95 · April 14, 1924 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the widening of Georgia Avenue between Fairmont Street and Gresham Place northwest.

   Ch. 102 · 43 Stat. 95 · April 14, 1924 · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of J. G. Seupelt.

   Ch. 103 · 43 Stat. 1362 · April 14, 1924 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To provide for the advancement on the retired list of the Regular Army of Second Lieutenant Ambrose I. Moriarty.

   Ch. 104 · 43 Stat. 1362 · April 14, 1924 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act To authorize the Federal Power Commission to amend permit numbered 1, project numbered 1, issued to the Dixie Power Company.

   Ch. 105 · 43 Stat. 96 · April 15, 1924 · Original text

6. An Act Authorizing the conveyance of certain land to the city of Miles City, State of Montana, for park purposes.

   Ch. 106 · 43 Stat. 96 · April 15, 1924 · Original text

7. An Act Granting to the county of Custer, State of Montana, certain land in said county for use as a fair ground.

   Ch. 107 · 43 Stat. 97 · April 15, 1924 · Original text

8. An Act To amend section 84 of the Penal Code of the United States.

   Ch. 108 · 43 Stat. 98 · April 15, 1924 · Original text

9. An Act To complete the construction of the Willow Creek Ranger Station, Montana.

   Ch. 109 · 43 Stat. 98 · April 15, 1924 · Original text

10. An Act To repeal that part of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912,” approved March 4, 1911, relating to the admission of tick-infested cattle from Mexico into Texas.

    Ch. 110 · 43 Stat. 98 · April 15, 1924 · Original text

11. An Act To transfer jurisdiction over a portion of the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, Montana, from the Department of the Interior to the United States Department of Agriculture for experiments in stock raising and growing of forage crops in connection therewith.

    Ch. 111 · 43 Stat. 99 · April 15, 1924 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to lease to the New Orleans Association of Commerce New Orleans Quartermaster Intermediate Depot Unit Numbered 2.

    Ch. 112 · 43 Stat. 100 · April 15, 1924 · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of John H. McAtee.

    Ch. 113 · 43 Stat. 1362 · April 15, 1924 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Ethel Williams.

    Ch. 114 · 43 Stat. 1362 · April 15, 1924 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Fred Hurst.

    Ch. 115 · 43 Stat. 1363 · April 15, 1924 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Thomas Nolan.

    Ch. 116 · 43 Stat. 1363 · April 15, 1924 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act Authorizing the issuance of service medals to officers and enlisted men of the two brigades of Texas cavalry organized under authority from the War Department under date of December 8, 1917, and authorizing an appropriation therefor; and further authorizing the wearing by such officers and enlisted men on occasions of ceremony of the uniform lawfully prescribed to be worn by them during their service.

    Ch. 117 · 43 Stat. 100 · April 16, 1924 · Original text

18. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to grant a right of way over the Government levee at Yuma, Arizona.

    Ch. 118 · 43 Stat. 101 · April 17, 1924 · Original text

19. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of South Dakota for the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River between Hughes County and Stanley County, South Dakota.

    Ch. 119 · 43 Stat. 101 · April 17, 1924 · Original text

20. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Board of Supervisors of Leake County, Mississippi, to construct a bridge across the Pearl River in the State of Mississippi.

    Ch. 120 · 43 Stat. 101 · April 17, 1924 · Original text

21. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Board of Supervisors of Leake County, Mississippi, to construct a bridge across the Pearl River in the state of Mississippi.

    Ch. 121 · 43 Stat. 102 · April 17, 1924 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the City of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said city.

    Ch. 122 · 43 Stat. 102 · April 17, 1924 · Original text

23. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the counties of Aiken, South Carolina, and Richmond, Georgia, to construct a bridge across the Savannah River at or near Augusta, Georgia,” approved August 7, 1919.

    Ch. 123 · 43 Stat. 102 · April 17, 1924 · Original text

24. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River near and above the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

    Ch. 124 · 43 Stat. 103 · April 17, 1924 · Original text

25. An Act To extend the time for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across Detroit River within or near the city limits of Detroit, Michigan.

    Ch. 125 · 43 Stat. 103 · April 17, 1924 · Original text

26. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River approximately midway between the city of Owensboro, Kentucky, and Rockport, Indiana.

    Ch. 126 · 43 Stat. 103 · April 17, 1924 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Fox River in Saint Charles Township, Kane County, Illinois.

    Ch. 127 · 43 Stat. 104 · April 18, 1924 · Original text

28. An Act Authorizing the Court of Claims of the United States to hear and determine the claim of Elwood Grissinger.

    Ch. 128 · 43 Stat. 1363 · April 18, 1924 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act To amend section 4414 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act approved July 2, 1918, to abolish the inspection districts of Apalachicola, Florida, and Burlington, Vermont, Steamboat Inspection Service.

    Ch. 129 · 43 Stat. 104 · April 19, 1924 · Original text

30. An Act To authorize a temporary increase of the Coast Guard for law enforcement.

    Ch. 130 · 43 Stat. 105 · April 21, 1924 · Original text

31. An Act To provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 131 · 43 Stat. 106 · April 23, 1924 · Original text

32. Joint Resolution For the relief of the drought-stricken farm areas of New Mexico.

    Ch. 132 · 43 Stat. 110 · April 26, 1924 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal years 1924 and 1925.

    Ch. 133 · 43 Stat. 110 · April 26, 1924 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution Authorizing appropriations for the maintenance by the United States of membership in the International Statistical Bureau at The Hague.

    Ch. 136 · 43 Stat. 110 · April 28, 1924 · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of dispossessed allotted Indians of the Nisqually Reservation, Washington.

    Ch. 134 · 43 Stat. 111 · April 28, 1924 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the leasing for mining purposes of unallotted lands in the Kaw Reservation in the State of Oklahoma.

    Ch. 135 · 43 Stat. 111 · April 28, 1924 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution Authorizing an appropriation to provide for the representation of the United States at the seventh Pan American Sanitary Conference to be held at Habana, Cuba.

    Ch. 137 · 43 Stat. 112 · April 28, 1924 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution To provide for the representation of the United States at the meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Electrical Communications to be held in Mexico City in 1924.

    Ch. 138 · 43 Stat. 112 · April 28, 1924 · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of George A. Nickles.

    Ch. 139 · 43 Stat. 1364 · April 28, 1924 · Private law · Original text

40. Joint Resolution Granting permission to Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, to accept certain decorations bestowed upon him by the Republics of France and Poland.

    Ch. 140 · 43 Stat. 1364 · April 28, 1924 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Cumberland River in Montgomery County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 141 · 43 Stat. 113 · April 29, 1924 · Original text

42. An Act To grant the consent of Congress to the Southern Railway Company to maintain a bridge across the Tennessee River, at Knoxville, in the county of Knox, State of Tennessee.

    Ch. 142 · 43 Stat. 113 · April 29, 1924 · Original text

43. An Act Authorizing use of Government buildings at Fort Crockett, Texas, for occupancy during State convention of Texas Shriners.

    Ch. 143 · 43 Stat. 113 · April 29, 1924 · Original text

44. An Act To fix the time for the terms of the United States District Courts in the Western District of Virginia.

    Ch. 144 · 43 Stat. 114 · April 30, 1924 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents, cots, and chairs to the executive committee of the United Confederate Veterans for use at the thirty-fourth annual reunion to be held at Memphis, Tennessee, in June, 1924.

    Ch. 145 · 43 Stat. 114 · April 30, 1924 · Original text

46. An Act To amend section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association,” approved March 4, 1911.

    Ch. 146 · 43 Stat. 114 · May 1, 1924 · Original text

47. An Act To loan to the College of William and Mary in Virginia two of the cannon surrendered by the British at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.

    Ch. 147 · 43 Stat. 115 · May 2, 1924 · Original text

48. An Act To change the name of Thirty-seventh Street between Chevy Chase Circle and Reno Road.

    Ch. 148 · 43 Stat. 115 · May 3, 1924 · Original text

49. An Act Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to issue semimonthly cotton crop reports and providing for their publication simultaneously with the ginning reports of the Department of Commerce.

    Ch. 149 · 43 Stat. 115 · May 3, 1924 · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the deferring of payments of reclamation charges.

    Ch. 150 · 43 Stat. 116 · May 9, 1924 · Original text

51. An Act Authorizing the acquiring of Indian lands on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, in Idaho, for reservoir purposes in connection with the Minidoka irrigation project.

    Ch. 151 · 43 Stat. 117 · May 9, 1924 · Original text

52. An Act Authorizing an appropriation to indemnify damages caused by the search for the body of Admiral John Paul Jones.

    Ch. 152 · 43 Stat. 118 · May 13, 1924 · Original text

53. An Act Providing for a study regarding the equitable use of the waters of the Rio Grande below Fort Quitman, Texas, in cooperation with the United States of Mexico.

    Ch. 153 · 43 Stat. 118 · May 13, 1924 · Original text

54. Joint Resolution Requesting the President to invite the Interparliamentary Union to meet in Washington City in 1925, and authorizing an appropriation to defray the expenses of the meeting.

    Ch. 154 · 43 Stat. 119 · May 13, 1924 · Original text

55. Joint Resolution Authorizing an appropriation for the participation of the United States in two international conferences for the control of the traffic in habit-forming narcotic drugs.

    Ch. 155 · 43 Stat. 119 · May 15, 1924 · Original text

56. An Act To extend for the period of one year the provisions of Title II of the Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act, approved October 22, 1919, as amended.

    Ch. 156 · 43 Stat. 120 · May 17, 1924 · Original text

57. World War Adjusted Compensation Act

    An Act To provide adjusted compensation for veterans of the World War, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 157 · 43 Stat. 121 · May 19, 1924 · Original text

58. An Act For the enrollment and allotment of members of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewas, in the State of Wisconsin, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 158 · 43 Stat. 132 · May 19, 1924 · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of the Long Island Railroad Company.

    Ch. 159 · 43 Stat. 1364 · May 19, 1924 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the sale of lands allotted to Indians under the Moses agreement of July 7, 1883.

    Ch. 160 · 43 Stat. 133 · May 20, 1924 · Original text

61. An Act Authorizing the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to acquire necessary rights of way across private lands, by purchase or condemnation proceedings, needed in constructing a spillway and drainage ditch to lower and maintain the level of Lake Andes, in South Dakota.

    Ch. 161 · 43 Stat. 133 · May 20, 1924 · Original text

62. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, examine, adjudicate, and enter judgment in any claims which the Seminole Indians may have against the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 162 · 43 Stat. 133 · May 20, 1924 · Original text

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

    Ch. 163 · 43 Stat. 135 · May 21, 1924 · Original text

64. Joint Resolution To provide for the remission of further payments of the annual installments of the Chinese indemnity.

    Ch. 164 · 43 Stat. 135 · May 21, 1924 · Original text

65. An Act To provide for the cleaning of the exterior of the post-office building at Cincinnati, Ohio.

    Ch. 165 · 43 Stat. 135 · May 22, 1924 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing the conveyance to the city of Washington, Missouri, of ten feet of the Federal building site in said city for the extension of the existing public alley through the entire block from Oak to Lafayette Streets.

    Ch. 166 · 43 Stat. 136 · May 22, 1924 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the settlement of the indebtedness of the Kingdom of Hungary to the United States of America.

    Ch. 167 · 43 Stat. 136 · May 23, 1924 · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of the William D. Mullen Company.

    Ch. 168 · 43 Stat. 1365 · May 23, 1924 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of George T. Tobin and Son.

    Ch. 169 · 43 Stat. 1365 · May 23, 1924 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Peter C. Keegan, and others.

    Ch. 170 · 43 Stat. 1365 · May 23, 1924 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of the New Jersey Shipbuilding and Dredging Company, of Bayonne, New Jersey.

    Ch. 171 · 43 Stat. 1365 · May 23, 1924 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act Granting permission to Commander Dorr F. Tozier, United States Coast Guard, retired, to accept a gift from the King of Great Britain.

    Ch. 172 · 43 Stat. 1366 · May 23, 1924 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of the East LaHave Transportation Company, Limited, owner, A. Picard and Company, owner of cargo, and George H. Corkum, Leopold S. Conrad, Wilson Zinck, Freeman Beck, Sidney Knickle, and Norman E. LeGay, crew of the schooner Con Rein, sunk by United States submarine K-4.

    Ch. 173 · 43 Stat. 1366 · May 23, 1924 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Rush O. Fellows.

    Ch. 174 · 43 Stat. 1366 · May 23, 1924 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Edward T. Williams.

    Ch. 175 · 43 Stat. 1367 · May 23, 1924 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes,” approved June 25, 1910.

    Ch. 176 · 43 Stat. 137 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

77. An Act To cancel an allotment of land made to Mary Crane or Hotah-kahwin-kaw, a deceased Indian, embracing land within the Winnebago Indian Reservation in Nebraska.

    Ch. 177 · 43 Stat. 138 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

78. An Act To cancel two allotments made to Richard Bell, deceased, embracing land within the Round Valley Indian Reservation in California.

    Ch. 178 · 43 Stat. 138 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

79. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the payment of the Choctaw and Chickasaw town-site fund, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 179 · 43 Stat. 138 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

80. An Act Authorizing extensions of time for the payment of purchase money due under certain homestead entries and Government land purchases within the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota.

    Ch. 180 · 43 Stat. 139 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

81. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, examine, adjudicate, and enter judgment in any claims which the Creek Indians may have against the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 181 · 43 Stat. 139 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

82. An Act For the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 182 · 43 Stat. 140 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

83. An Act To fix the compensation of officers and employees of the Legislative Branch of the Government.

    Ch. 183 · 43 Stat. 146 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

84. An Act To authorize the President to reconsider the case of Frederic K. Long and to reappoint him a captain in the Regular Army.

    Ch. 184 · 43 Stat. 152 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

85. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to revive, with amendments, an Act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia,” approved July 7, 1838, as amended.

    Ch. 185 · 43 Stat. 153 · May 24, 1924 · Original text

86. An Act Authorizing the removal of the restrictions from forty acres of the allotment of Isaac Jack, a Seneca Indian, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 186 · 43 Stat. 1367 · May 24, 1924 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act To compensate three Comanche Indians of the Kiowa Reservation.

    Ch. 187 · 43 Stat. 1367 · May 24, 1924 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of the Underwood Typewriter Company and Frank P. Trott.

    Ch. 188 · 43 Stat. 1367 · May 24, 1924 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Arthur Frost.

    Ch. 189 · 43 Stat. 1368 · May 24, 1924 · Private law · Original text

90. Immigration Act of 1924

    An Act To limit the immigration of aliens into the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 190 · 43 Stat. 153 · May 26, 1924 · Original text

91. An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 191 · 43 Stat. 170 · May 26, 1924 · Original text

92. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to ascertain the cost to the Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, and the amounts expended by it from December 1, 1906, to November 30, 1907, in closing and controlling the break in the Colorado River, and to render judgment therefor, as herein provided.

    Ch. 192 · 43 Stat. 171 · May 26, 1924 · Original text

93. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Chicago to construct a bridge across the Calumet River in the vicinity of One hundred and thirty-fourth Street, in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois.

    Ch. 193 · 43 Stat. 172 · May 26, 1924 · Original text

94. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Millersburg and Liverpool Bridge Corporation, and its successors, to construct a bridge across the Susquehanna River, at Millersburg, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 194 · 43 Stat. 172 · May 26, 1924 · Original text

95. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois, and the State of Iowa, or either of them, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River, connecting the county of Carroll, Illinois, and the county of Jackson, Iowa.

    Ch. 195 · 43 Stat. 173 · May 26, 1924 · Original text

96. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the North Branch of the Susquehanna River from the city of Wilkes-Barre to the borough of Dorranceton, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 196 · 43 Stat. 173 · May 26, 1924 · Original text

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

    Ch. 197 · 43 Stat. 173 · May 26, 1924 · Original text

98. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Chicago to construct a bridge across the Calumet River at or near One hundredth Street, in the city of Chicago, County of Cook, State of Illinois.

    Ch. 198 · 43 Stat. 174 · May 26, 1924 · Original text

99. An Act To fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 199 · 43 Stat. 174 · May 27, 1924 · Original text

100. An Act To authorize the extension of the period of restriction against alienation on the homestead allotments made to members of the Kansas or Kaw Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.

     Ch. 200 · 43 Stat. 176 · May 27, 1924 · Original text