Every law Congress has passed

996 laws of the 68th Congress, 1923–1925

1. An Act Granting public lands to the city of Golden, Colorado, to secure a supply of water for municipal and domestic purposes.

   Ch. 301 · 43 Stat. 538 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

2. An Act Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 302 · 43 Stat. 539 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

3. An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 303 · 43 Stat. 578 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

4. An Act Changing the name of Keokuk Street, in the county of Washington, District of Columbia, to Military Road.

   Ch. 304 · 43 Stat. 593 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

5. An Act To establish the Utah National Park in the State of Utah.

   Ch. 305 · 43 Stat. 593 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

6. An Act Providing for the disposal of certain lands on Crooked and Pickerel Lakes, Michigan, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 306 · 43 Stat. 594 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

7. An Act Authorizing the addition of certain lands to the Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 307 · 43 Stat. 594 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

8. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the United States District Court, Northern District of California, to adjudicate the claims of American citizens.

   Ch. 308 · 43 Stat. 595 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

9. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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,” approved February 14, 1923.

   Ch. 309 · 43 Stat. 595 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

10. An Act Authorizing an appropriation to enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase a tract of land, with sufficient water right attached, for the use and occupancy of the Temoak Band of homeless Indians, located at Ruby Valley, Nevada.

    Ch. 310 · 43 Stat. 596 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of settlers and town-site occupants of certain lands in the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada.

    Ch. 311 · 43 Stat. 596 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

12. An Act To provide for the equitable distribution of captured war devices and trophies to the States and Territories of the United States and to the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 312 · 43 Stat. 597 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the payment of certain taxes to Stevens and Ferry Counties, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 313 · 43 Stat. 599 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

14. An Act To repeal an Act authorizing the construction of bridges across the Great Kanawha River.

    Ch. 314 · 43 Stat. 599 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

15. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the regulation of the practice of dentistry in the District of Columbia, and for the protection of the people from empiricism in relation thereto,” approved June 6, 1892, and Acts amendatory thereof.

    Ch. 315 · 43 Stat. 599 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

16. Oil Pollution Act, 1924

    An Act To protect navigation from obstruction and injury by preventing the discharge of oil into the coastal navigable waters of the United States.

    Ch. 316 · 43 Stat. 604 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

17. An Act Accepting certain tracts of land in the city of Medford, Jackson County, Oregon.

    Ch. 317 · 43 Stat. 606 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

18. An Act Authorizing annual appropriations for the maintenance of that portion of Gallup-Durango Highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation and providing reimbursement therefor.

    Ch. 318 · 43 Stat. 606 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

19. An Act To designate the time and place of holding terms of the United States district court in the first division of the district at Kansas City.

    Ch. 319 · 43 Stat. 607 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

20. World War Veterans’ Act, 1924

    An Act To consolidate, codify, revise, and reenact the laws affecting the establishment of the United States Veterans’ Bureau and the administration of the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended, and the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended.

    Ch. 320 · 43 Stat. 607 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

21. An Act To purchase grounds, erect, and repair buildings for customhouses, offices, and warehouses in Porto Rico.

    Ch. 321 · 43 Stat. 630 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

22. An Act To amend and reenact sections 20, 22, and 50 of the Act of March 2, 1917, entitled “An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 322 · 43 Stat. 631 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

23. An Act To enable the trustees of Howard University to develop an athletic field and gymnasium project, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 323 · 43 Stat. 632 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

24. An Act To amend an Act creating the Custer State Park Game Sanctuary in the State of South Dakota.

    Ch. 324 · 43 Stat. 632 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

25. An Act To amend paragraph (3), section 16, of the Interstate Commerce Act.

    Ch. 325 · 43 Stat. 633 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the withdrawal of lands for the protection of antelope and other game animals and birds.

    Ch. 326 · 43 Stat. 634 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the payment of claims under the provisions of the so-called War Minerals Relief Act.

    Ch. 327 · 43 Stat. 634 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

28. An Act To provide for quarters, fuel, and light for employees of the Indian field service.

    Ch. 328 · 43 Stat. 634 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

29. An Act Relating to the American Academy in Rome.

    Ch. 329 · 43 Stat. 635 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

30. An Act Authorizing transfer of certain abandoned or unused lighthouse reservation lands by the United States to the State of New York for park purposes.

    Ch. 330 · 43 Stat. 635 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

31. An Act To quiet the title to lands within Pueblo Indian land grants, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 331 · 43 Stat. 636 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

32. An Act Designating the State of New Mexico as a judicial district, fixing the time and place for holding terms of court therein, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 332 · 43 Stat. 642 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

33. An Act Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands within Rio Arriba and Taos Counties, New Mexico, known as the Las Trampas grant, by exchanging therefor timber, within the exterior boundaries of any national forest situated within the State of New Mexico.

    Ch. 333 · 43 Stat. 643 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

34. An Act Granting certain public lands to the city of Phoenix, Arizona, for municipal, park, and other purposes

    Ch. 334 · 43 Stat. 643 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

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

    Ch. 335 · 43 Stat. 644 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company to construct a bridge across the White River, near the city of De Valls Bluff, Arkansas.

    Ch. 336 · 43 Stat. 645 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

37. An Act For the abandonment of a portion of the present channel of the south branch of the Chicago River.

    Ch. 337 · 43 Stat. 646 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

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

    Ch. 388 · 43 Stat. 646 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

39. An Act To provide for the inspection of the battle fields in and around Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia.

    Ch. 339 · 43 Stat. 646 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

40. An Act To amend an Act regulating the height of buildings in the District of Columbia, approved June 1, 1910.

    Ch. 340 · 43 Stat. 647 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

41. An Act To amend section 5 of the Trade Mark Act of 1905, as amended, relative to the unauthorized use of portraits.

    Ch. 341 · 43 Stat. 647 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

42. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the counties of Marion and Florence, in the State of South Carolina, to construct a bridge across the Peedee River at or near Savage Landing, South Carolina.

    Ch. 342 · 43 Stat. 647 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

43. An Act To grant the consent of Congress to the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River, in the county of Pulaski, State of Kentucky, near the town of Burnside.

    Ch. 343 · 43 Stat. 648 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

44. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the construction, maintenance, and operation by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, of a line of railroad across the southwesterly portion of the Fort Logan Military Reservation in the State of Colorado

    Ch. 344 · 43 Stat. 648 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

45. An Act For the protection of the northern Pacific halibut fishery.

    Ch. 345 · 43 Stat. 648 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

46. The Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act

    An Act To establish the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge.

    Ch. 346 · 43 Stat. 650 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

47. An Act To extend the insurance and collect-on-delivery service to third-class mail, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 347 · 43 Stat. 652 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

48. An Act To provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor

    Ch. 348 · 43 Stat. 653 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

49. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the incorporated town of Ketchikan, Alaska, to issue its bonds in any sum not to exceed $100,000 for the purpose of constructing a schoolhouse in said town and equipping the same,” approved February 7, 1920.

    Ch. 349 · 43 Stat. 656 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the city of Los Angeles, in the State of California, to construct and operate a line of railroad across the Fort MacArthur Military Reservation, in the State of California

    Ch. 350 · 43 Stat. 656 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the incorporated town of Cordova, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $100,000 for the purpose of constructing and equipping a public school building in said town of Cordova, Alaska.

    Ch. 351 · 43 Stat. 656 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

52. An Act Prohibiting the importation of crude opium for the purpose of manufacturing heroin.

    Ch. 352 · 43 Stat. 657 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

53. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to sell a portion of the Carlisle Barracks Reservation.

    Ch. 353 · 43 Stat. 657 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

54. An Act To regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office.

    Ch. 354 · 43 Stat. 658 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

55. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,”approved February 17, 1911, as amended.

    Ch. 355 · 43 Stat. 659 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

56. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the United States marine hospital reservation and improvements thereon at Detroit, Michigan, and to acquire a suitable site in the same locality and to erect thereon a modern hospital for the treatment of the beneficiaries of the United States Public Health Service, and for other purposes

    Ch. 356 · 43 Stat. 660 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

57. An Act Directing the remission of customs duties on certain property of the United States imported by the War Department.

    Ch. 357 · 43 Stat. 660 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

58. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the counties of Kittitas and Grant, in the State of Washington, to construct a bridge across the Columbia River at or near Vantage Ferry, Washington.

    Ch. 358 · 43 Stat. 660 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

59. An Act To amend section 98 of the Judicial Code.

    Ch. 359 · 43 Stat. 661 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

60. An Act Granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River between Vanderburgh County, Indiana, and Henderson County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 360 · 43 Stat. 662 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

61. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande.

    Ch. 361 · 43 Stat. 662 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

62. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Fullerton and Portsmouth Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Ohio River to connect the city of Portsmouth, Ohio, and the village of Fullerton, Kentucky.

    Ch. 362 · 43 Stat. 663 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

63. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Georgia and Florida, through their respective highway departments, to construct a bridge across the Saint Marys River.

    Ch. 363 · 43 Stat. 663 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

64. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Alabama and Georgia, through their respective highway departments, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Chattahoochee River, at or near Alaga, Alabama, connecting Houston County, Alabama, and Early County, Georgia.

    Ch. 364 · 43 Stat. 663 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

65. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Delaware State Highway Department to construct a bridge across the canal near Rehoboth, Delaware

    Ch. 365 · 43 Stat. 664 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

66. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the North Texas Company, of Saint Jo, Texas, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Texas, to construct a toll bridge across the Red River in the vicinity of Illinois Bend, Texas

    Ch. 366 · 43 Stat. 664 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

67. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Board of Supervisors of Lowndes County, Mississippi, to construct a bridge across Tombigbee River

    Ch. 367 · 43 Stat. 665 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

68. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Georgia, through its highway department, to construct a bridge across the Oconee River

    Ch. 368 · 43 Stat. 665 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

69. Joint Resolution In relation to a monument to commemorate the services and sacrifices of the women of the United States of America, its insular possessions, and the District of Columbia in the World War.

    Ch. 369 · 43 Stat. 665 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution Providing for the appointment of a commission for the purpose of erecting in Potomac Park, in the District of Columbia, a memorial to those members of the armed forces of the United States from the District of Columbia who served in the Great War.

    Ch. 370 · 43 Stat. 666 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution Providing an extension of time for payment by entrymen of lands on the Fort Assinniboine abandoned military reservation in the State of Montana.

    Ch. 371 · 43 Stat. 666 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution Authorizing expenditure of the Fort Peck 4 per centum fund now standing to the credit of the Fort Peck Indians of Montana in the Treasury of the United States.

    Ch. 372 · 43 Stat. 667 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

73. Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection on public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of an equestrian statue of General San Martin which the people of Argentina have presented to the United States.

    Ch. 373 · 43 Stat. 667 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

74. Joint Resolution Authorizing an investigation of the proposed Casper-Alcova irrigation project, Natrona County, Wyoming; the Deschutes project in the State of Oregon, and the Southern Lassen Irrigation project in Lassen County, California.

    Ch. 374 · 43 Stat. 668 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution To provide for the free transmission through the mails of certain publications for the blind

    Ch. 375 · 43 Stat. 668 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

76. Joint Resolution To provide that the powers and duties conferred upon the Governor of Alaska under existing law for the protection of wild game animals and wild birds in Alaska be transferred to and be exercised by the Secretary of Agriculture.

    Ch. 376 · 43 Stat. 668 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution In respect of salaries of original appointees to the Board of Tax Appeals.

    Ch. 377 · 43 Stat. 669 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution To amend section 13 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the classification of civilian positions within the District of Columbia and the field service.”

    Ch. 378 · 43 Stat. 669 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

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

    Ch. 379 · 43 Stat. 669 · June 7, 1924 · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of the Thompson-Vache Boat Company, of Bonnots Mill, Missouri.

    Ch. 380 · 43 Stat. 1374 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of C. C. Carson.

    Ch. 381 · 43 Stat. 1375 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Lena Garagnon Owens.

    Ch. 382 · 43 Stat. 1375 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of V. E. Schermerhorn, E. C. Caley, G. W. Campbell, and Philip Hudspeth.

    Ch. 383 · 43 Stat. 1375 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Bruusgaard Kiosteruds Dampskibs Aktieselskab, a Norwegian corporation of Drammen, Norway.

    Ch. 384 · 43 Stat. 1376 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Daniel A. Spaight, and others.

    Ch. 385 · 43 Stat. 1376 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Henry McGuire.

    Ch. 386 · 43 Stat. 1377 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of D. H. MacAdam.

    Ch. 387 · 43 Stat. 1377 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Charles T. Norman.

    Ch. 388 · 43 Stat. 1377 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Authorizing the health officer of the District of Columbia to issue a permit for the removal of the remains of the late George Mauger Burklin and the remains of the late Anton Lerch Burklin from Glenwood Cemetery, District of Columbia, to Fort Lincoln, Prince Georges County, Maryland.

    Ch. 389 · 43 Stat. 1377 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of James B. Porter.

    Ch. 390 · 43 Stat. 1378 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act To reimburse William H. Flagg and others for property destroyed by mail aeroplane Numbered 73, operated by the Post Office Department.

    Ch. 391 · 43 Stat. 1378 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Hubert Reynolds.

    Ch. 392 · 43 Stat. 1378 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of William H. Nelson.

    Ch. 393 · 43 Stat. 1379 · June 7, 1924 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act To provide for a rearrangement of the public alley facilities in square 616 in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1 · 43 Stat. 671 · December 2, 1924 · Original text

95. Joint Resolution Authorizing an appropriation for the participation of the United States in the preparation and completion of plans for the comprehensive observance of that greatest of all historic events, the bicentennial of the birthday of George Washington.

    Ch. 2 · 43 Stat. 671 · December 2, 1924 · Original text

96. An Act To remit the duty on a carillon of bells to be imported for the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Providence, Rhode Island.

    Ch. 3 · 43 Stat. 1381 · December 2, 1924 · Private law · Original text

97. Second Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1924

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes

    Ch. 4 · 43 Stat. 672 · December 5, 1924 · Original text

98. An Act Making additional appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, to enable the heads of the several departments and independent establishments to adjust the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of the field services.

    Ch. 5 · 43 Stat. 704 · December 6, 1924 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of L. A. Scott.

    Ch. 6 · 43 Stat. 1381 · December 6, 1924 · Private law · Original text

100. 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. 7 · 43 Stat. 1381 · December 8, 1924 · Private law · Original text