Every law Congress has passed

996 laws of the 68th Congress, 1923–1925

1. An Act To amend section 196 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 8 · 43 Stat. 713 · December 13, 1924 · Original text

2. An Act To provide for the examination and registration of architects and to regulate the practice of architecture in the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 9 · 43 Stat. 713 · December 13, 1924 · Original text

3. An Act To authorize the widening of Fourth Street, south of Cedar Street northwest, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 10 · 43 Stat. 718 · December 13, 1924 · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Geston P. Hunt.

   Ch. 11 · 43 Stat. 1381 · December 16, 1924 · Private law · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Authorizing payment of salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for December, 1924, on the 20th day of that month.

   Ch. 12 · 43 Stat. 718 · December 17, 1924 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize alterations to certain naval vessels and to provide for the construction of additional vessels.

   Ch. 13 · 43 Stat. 719 · December 18, 1924 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the settlement of the indebtedness of the Republic of Lithuania to the United States of America.

   Ch. 14 · 43 Stat. 719 · December 22, 1924 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the settlement of the indebtedness of the Republic of Poland to the United States of America, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 15 · 43 Stat. 720 · December 22, 1924 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution Extending appropriation in connection with Columbia Basin investigation.

   Ch. 16 · 43 Stat. 721 · December 22, 1924 · Original text

10. 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. 17 · 43 Stat. 1416 · December 23, 1924 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act To amend section 98 of the Judicial Code, providing for the holding of the United States District Court at Shelby, North Carolina.

    Ch. 18 · 43 Stat. 721 · December 24, 1924 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution Providing for the control and eradication of the European fowl pest and similar diseases in poultry.

    Ch. 19 · 43 Stat. 722 · December 24, 1924 · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Lebanon National Bank.

    Ch. 20 · 43 Stat. 1535 · January 5, 1925 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of the estate of C. M. Cole, of Butler County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 21 · 43 Stat. 1535 · January 5, 1925 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of the Maryland Casualty Company, the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore, Maryland, and the National Surety Company.

    Ch. 22 · 43 Stat. 1536 · January 5, 1925 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of the Maryland Casualty Company, the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, and the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore, Maryland.

    Ch. 23 · 43 Stat. 1536 · January 5, 1925 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Bertram Gardner, former collector of internal revenue for the first district of New York.

    Ch. 24 · 43 Stat. 1537 · January 5, 1925 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Albert E. Laxton.

    Ch. 25 · 43 Stat. 1537 · January 5, 1925 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of the estate of Charles L. Freer, deceased.

    Ch. 26 · 43 Stat. 1537 · January 5, 1925 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act To extend relief to the claimants in township 16 north, ranges 32 and 33 east, Montana meridian, Montana.

    Ch. 27 · 43 Stat. 722 · January 6, 1925 · Original text

21. An Act To perfect the title of purchasers of Indian lands sold under the provisions of the Act of Congress of March 3, 1909 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 751), and the regulations pursuant thereto as applied to Indians of the Quapaw Agency.

    Ch. 28 · 43 Stat. 722 · January 6, 1925 · Original text

22. An Act To amend an Act approved March 3, 1909, entitled “An Act for the removal of the restrictions on alienation of lands of allottees of the Quapaw Agency, Oklahoma, and the sale of all tribal lands, school, agency, or other buildings on any of the reservations within the jurisdiction of such agency, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 29 · 43 Stat. 723 · January 6, 1925 · Original text

23. An Act Granting permission to Colonel Harry F. Rethers, Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, to accept the gift of a Sevres statuette entitled “Le Courage Militaire,” tendered by the President of the French Republic.

    Ch. 30 · 43 Stat. 1538 · January 6, 1925 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Alabama, through its highway department, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Coosa River at or near Leesburg, Alabama.

    Ch. 31 · 43 Stat. 723 · January 7, 1925 · Original text

25. An Act For the establishment of a United States Industrial Reformatory.

    Ch. 32 · 43 Stat. 724 · January 7, 1925 · Original text

26. An Act To provide for the disposition of moneys paid to or received by any official as a bribe, which may be used as evidence in any case growing out of any such transaction.

    Ch. 33 · 43 Stat. 726 · January 7, 1925 · Original text

27. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the disposal of the unallotted lands on the Omaha Indian Reservation, in the State of Nebraska.”

    Ch. 34 · 43 Stat. 726 · January 7, 1925 · Original text

28. An Act To provide for the construction of a vessel for the Coast Guard.

    Ch. 35 · 43 Stat. 728 · January 7, 1925 · Original text

29. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914,’ approved June 30, 1913,” approved May 26, 1920.

    Ch. 36 · 43 Stat. 728 · January 7, 1925 · Original text

30. An Act To authorize and direct issuance of patents to purchasers of lots in the town site of Bowdoin, Montana.

    Ch. 37 · 43 Stat. 728 · January 7, 1925 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution Providing for the procurement of a design for the use of grounds in the vicinity of the Mall by the United States Botanic Garden.

    Ch. 38 · 43 Stat. 729 · January 7, 1925 · Original text

32. An Act Granting six months’ gratuity pay to Stansfield A. and Elizabeth G. Fuller.

    Ch. 39 · 43 Stat. 1538 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of the Fred E. Jones Dredging Company.

    Ch. 40 · 43 Stat. 1538 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Henry A. Kessel Company (Incorporated).

    Ch. 41 · 43 Stat. 1538 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Joseph P. Ryan.

    Ch. 42 · 43 Stat. 1538 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of the Stone Towing Line.

    Ch. 43 · 43 Stat. 1538 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of William J. McGee.

    Ch. 44 · 43 Stat. 1540 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of J. Jessop and sons.

    Ch. 45 · 43 Stat. 1540 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Mrs. E. L. Guess.

    Ch. 46 · 43 Stat. 1540 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of J. W. Cook.

    Ch. 47 · 43 Stat. 1540 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Christina Conniff

    Ch. 48 · 43 Stat. 1541 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Cornelia M. A. Tower.

    Ch. 49 · 43 Stat. 1541 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Fred W. Stickney and H. A. Reynolds.

    Ch. 50 · 43 Stat. 1541 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Edward S. Scheibe.

    Ch. 51 · 43 Stat. 1541 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Orville Paul.

    Ch. 52 · 43 Stat. 1541 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant E. J. McAllister.

    Ch. 53 · 43 Stat. 1542 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of John Baumen.

    Ch. 54 · 43 Stat. 1542 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of John W. Dilks.

    Ch. 55 · 43 Stat. 1542 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Jim Hennessee.

    Ch. 56 · 43 Stat. 1542 · January 7, 1925 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to hold sitting at San Juan, Porto Rico.

    Ch. 57 · 43 Stat. 729 · January 8, 1925 · Original text

51. An Act Authorizing the Ponca Tribe of Indians residing in the States of Oklahoma and Nebraska to submit claims to the Court of Claims.

    Ch. 58 · 43 Stat. 729 · January 9, 1925 · Original text

52. An Act Conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to determine and report upon the interest, title, ownership, and right of possession of the Yankton Band of Santee Sioux Indians to the Red Pipestone Quarries, Minnesota.

    Ch. 59 · 43 Stat. 730 · January 9, 1925 · Original text

53. An Act To place the name of Paul Crum on the muster rolls of Company E, First Regiment Nebraska Infantry, United States Volunteers.

    Ch. 60 · 43 Stat. 1543 · January 9, 1925 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Edward N. McCarty.

    Ch. 61 · 43 Stat. 1543 · January 9, 1925 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of John T. Eaton.

    Ch. 62 · 43 Stat. 1543 · January 9, 1925 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Nelly McCanna, residuary legatee and devisee under last will and testament of P. F. McCanna, deceased.

    Ch. 63 · 43 Stat. 1543 · January 9, 1925 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent in fee simple to the Board of Regents of the University of Arizona, State of Arizona, of Tucson, Arizona, for a certain described tract of land.

    Ch. 64 · 43 Stat. 1544 · January 9, 1925 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of F. J. Belcher, junior, trustee for Ed Fletcher.

    Ch. 65 · 43 Stat. 1544 · January 9, 1925 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Mrs. John D. Hall.

    Ch. 66 · 43 Stat. 1544 · January 9, 1925 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of William Henry Boyce, senior.

    Ch. 67 · 43 Stat. 1545 · January 9, 1925 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act To amend the Act establishing the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to establish a term of the United States District Court for the Eastern Judicial District of Oklahoma at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 68 · 43 Stat. 730 · January 10, 1925 · Original text

62. An Act Providing for the holding of the United States district and circuit courts at Poteau, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 69 · 43 Stat. 731 · January 10, 1925 · Original text

63. An Act Giving the consent of Congress to a boundary agreement between the States of New York and Connecticut.

    Ch. 70 · 43 Stat. 731 · January 10, 1925 · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Louis Leavitt.

    Ch. 71 · 43 Stat. 1545 · January 10, 1925 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Delaware River.

    Ch. 72 · 43 Stat. 738 · January 12, 1925 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to determine and confirm by patent in the nature of a deed of quitclaim the title to lots in the city of Pensacola, Florida.

    Ch. 73 · 43 Stat. 738 · January 12, 1925 · Original text

67. An Act Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands within Taos County, New Mexico, known as the Santa Barbara grant, by exchanging therefor timber, or lands and timber, within the exterior boundaries of any national forest situated within the State of New Mexico.

    Ch. 74 · 43 Stat. 739 · January 12, 1925 · Original text

68. An Act To establish an Alaska Game Commission to protect game animals, land fur-bearing animals, and birds, in Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 75 · 43 Stat. 739 · January 13, 1925 · Original text

69. An Act To amend section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide the necessary organization of the customs service for an adequate administration and enforcement of the Tariff Act of 1922 and all other customs revenue laws,” approved March 4, 1923.

    Ch. 76 · 43 Stat. 748 · January 13, 1925 · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Janie Beasley Glisson.

    Ch. 78 · 43 Stat. 1546 · January 13, 1925 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 77 · 43 Stat. 748 · January 14, 1925 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution Establishing a commission for the participation of the United States in the observance of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, authorizing an appropriation to be utilized in connection with such observance, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 79 · 43 Stat. 749 · January 14, 1925 · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Robert Laird, senior.

    Ch. 80 · 43 Stat. 1546 · January 14, 1925 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To provide for the widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street southeast.

    Ch. 81 · 43 Stat. 750 · January 15, 1925 · Original text

75. An Act To quiet title to original lot 4, square 116, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia

    Ch. 82 · 43 Stat. 1546 · January 15, 1925 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the appointment of an additional district judge in and for the district of Indiana and to establish judicial divisions therein, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 83 · 43 Stat. 751 · January 16, 1925 · Original text

77. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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,” approved May 27, 1924.

    Ch. 84 · 43 Stat. 752 · January 17, 1925 · Original text

78. First Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1925

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

    Ch. 85 · 43 Stat. 753 · January 20, 1925 · Original text

79. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to create a commission authorized under certain conditions to refund or convert obligations of foreign Governments held by the United States of America, and for other purposes,” approved February 9, 1922, as amended February 28, 1923

    Ch. 86 · 43 Stat. 763 · January 21, 1925 · Original text

80. An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes

    Ch. 87 · 43 Stat. 763 · January 22, 1925 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution To accept the gift of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge for the construction of an auditorium in connection with the Library of Congress, and to provide for the erection thereof.

    Ch. 88 · 43 Stat. 788 · January 23, 1925 · Original text

82. An Act Granting a certain right of way, with authority to improve the same, across the old canal right of way between Lakes Union and Washington, King County, Washington.

    Ch. 89 · 43 Stat. 789 · January 24, 1925 · Original text

83. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the White River at or near Batesville, Arkansas.

    Ch. 90 · 43 Stat. 789 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

84. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Hannibal, Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near the city of Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri

    Ch. 91 · 43 Stat. 790 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

85. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River to connect the city of Portsmouth, Ohio, and the village of Fullerton, Kentucky.

    Ch. 92 · 43 Stat. 790 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

86. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River near Arrow Rock, Missouri

    Ch. 93 · 43 Stat. 790 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

87. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River near Saint Charles, Missouri

    Ch. 94 · 43 Stat. 790 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

88. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ouachita River at or near Monroe, Louisiana

    Ch. 95 · 43 Stat. 791 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

89. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Washington to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Columbia River at Kettle Falls, Washington

    Ch. 96 · 43 Stat. 791 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

90. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River between the municipalities of Ambridge and Woodlawn, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

    Ch. 97 · 43 Stat. 791 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

91. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Huntington and Ohio Bridge Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River between the city of Huntington, West Virginia, and a point opposite in the State of Ohio

    Ch. 98 · 43 Stat. 792 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

92. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau to grant a right of way over United States Veterans’ Bureau hospital reservation at Knoxville, Iowa.

    Ch. 99 · 43 Stat. 792 · January 26, 1925 · Original text

93. An Act To authorize the appointment of Thomas James Camp as a major of Infantry, Regular Army

    Ch. 100 · 43 Stat. 792 · January 27, 1925 · Original text

94. An Act To amend the law relating to timber operations on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin

    Ch. 101 · 43 Stat. 793 · January 27, 1925 · Original text

95. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to punish the unlawful breaking of seals of railroad cars containing interstate or foreign shipments, the unlawful entering of such cars, the stealing of freight and express packages or baggage or articles in process of transportation in interstate shipment, and the felonious asportation of such freight or express packages or baggage or articles therefrom into another district of the United States, and the felonious possession or reception of the same,” approved February 13, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 670).

    Ch. 102 · 43 Stat. 793 · January 28, 1925 · Original text

96. An Act To enlarge the powers of the Washington Hospital for Foundlings and to enable it to accept the devise and bequest contained in the will of Randolph T. Warwick

    Ch. 103 · 43 Stat. 794 · January 28, 1925 · Original text

97. An Act To amend section 81 of the Judicial Code

    Ch. 104 · 43 Stat. 794 · January 28, 1925 · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of the Great Lakes Engineering Works.

    Ch. 105 · 43 Stat. 1547 · January 28, 1925 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of the First International Bank of Sweetgrass, Montana.

    Ch. 106 · 43 Stat. 1547 · January 28, 1925 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Aktieselskabet Marie di Giorgio, a Norwegian corporation of Christiania, Norway.

     Ch. 107 · 43 Stat. 1547 · January 28, 1925 · Private law · Original text