Every law Congress has passed

996 laws of the 68th Congress, 1923–1925

1. An Act For the relief of Emma Zembsch.

   Ch. 408 · 43 Stat. 1584 · March 2, 1925 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Edward B. Sappington.

   Ch. 409 · 43 Stat. 1585 · March 2, 1925 · Private law · Original text

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

   Ch. 410 · 43 Stat. 1585 · March 2, 1925 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To define the status of retired officers of the Regular Army who have been detailed as professors and assistant professors of military science and tactics at educational institutions, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 411 · 43 Stat. 1099 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

5. An Act To provide for the appointment of a leader of the Army band.

   Ch. 412 · 43 Stat. 1100 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to reappoint and immediately discharge or retire certain warrant officers of the Army Mine Planter Service.

   Ch. 413 · 43 Stat. 1101 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell to the city of Los Angeles certain lands in California heretofore purchased by the Government for the relief of homeless Indians.

   Ch. 414 · 43 Stat. 1101 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

8. An Act Appropriating money for the relief of the Clallam Tribe of Indians in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 415 · 43 Stat. 1102 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

9. An Act To amend, revise, and reenact section 549 of subchapter 4 of the Code of the District of Columbia relating to the appointment of deputy recorder of deeds, and fixing the compensation therefor.

   Ch. 416 · 43 Stat. 1102 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

10. An Act To amend, revise, and reenact subchapter 3, sections 546 and 547 of the Code of Law of the District of Columbia relating to the recording of deeds of chattels.

    Ch. 417 · 43 Stat. 1103 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

11. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to convey to the States in which located Government owned or controlled approach roads to national cemeteries and national military parks, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 418 · 43 Stat. 1104 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize the collection and editing of official papers of the Territories of the United States now in the national archives.

    Ch. 419 · 43 Stat. 1104 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

13. An Act Authorizing the Postmaster General to make monthly payment of rental for post office premises under lease.

    Ch. 420 · 43 Stat. 1105 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

14. An Act To amend the Printing Act approved January 12, 1895, by discontinuing the printing of certain Government publications, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 421 · 43 Stat. 1105 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

15. An Act To provide for terms of the United States district court at Denton, Maryland.

    Ch. 422 · 43 Stat. 1106 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

16. An Act To create a Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 423 · 43 Stat. 1107 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

17. An Act To authorize the establishment and maintenance of a forest experiment station in California and the surrounding States.

    Ch. 424 · 43 Stat. 1108 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

18. An Act To repeal and reenact chapter 100, 1914, Public, Numbered 108, to provide for the restoration of Fort McHenry, in the State of Maryland, and its permanent preservation as a national park and perpetual national memorial shrine as the birthplace of the immortal “Star-Spangled Banner,” written by Francis Scott Key, for the appropriation of the necessary funds, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 425 · 43 Stat. 1109 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

19. An Act Authorizing the conservation, production, and exploitation of helium gas, a mineral resource pertaining to the national defense, and to the development of commercial aeronautics, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 426 · 43 Stat. 1110 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to sell real property, to wit, a portion of the Fort Revere Reservation, at Hull, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 427 · 43 Stat. 1111 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

21. An Act Authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damage caused by and salvage services rendered to public vessels belonging to the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 428 · 43 Stat. 1112 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

22. An Act To provide for restoration of the Old Fort Vancouver Stockade.

    Ch. 429 · 43 Stat. 1113 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

23. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey by revocable lease to the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, a certain parcel of land within the Springfield Military Armory Reservation, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 430 · 43 Stat. 1113 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

24. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to cancel restricted fee patents covering lands on the Winnebago Indian Reservation and to issue trust patents in lieu thereof.

    Ch. 431 · 43 Stat. 1114 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

25. An Act To provide for the permanent withdrawal of a certain forty-acre tract of public land in New Mexico for the use and benefit of the Navajo Indians.

    Ch. 432 · 43 Stat. 1114 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

26. An Act To provide for exchanges of Government and privately owned lands in the additions to the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, by Executive orders of January 8, 1900, and November 14, 1901.

    Ch. 433 · 43 Stat. 1115 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

27. An Act To extend the time for the exchange of Government lands for privately owned lands in the Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 434 · 43 Stat. 1115 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

28. An Act To amend section 281 of the Revenue Act of 1924.

    Ch. 435 · 43 Stat. 1115 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of certain enlisted men of the Coast Guard.

    Ch. 436 · 43 Stat. 1116 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

30. An Act Authorizing the President to appoint two additional circuit judges for the eighth circuit.

    Ch. 437 · 43 Stat. 1116 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

31. An Act Relating to the use or disposal of vessels or vehicles forfeited to the United States for violation of the customs laws or the National Prohibition Act, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 438 · 43 Stat. 1116 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

32. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Washington to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Columbia River at Vantage Ferry, Washington.

    Ch. 439 · 43 Stat. 1117 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

33. An Act For the exchange of lands in the Custer National Forest, Montana.

    Ch. 440 · 43 Stat. 1117 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

34. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange the present customhouse building and site located in Denver, Colorado.

    Ch. 441 · 43 Stat. 1117 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

35. An Act To modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 442 · 43 Stat. 1118 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

36. District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925

    An Act To provide for the regulation of motor-vehicle traffic in the District of Columbia, increase the number of judges of the police court, and for other purposes

    Ch. 443 · 43 Stat. 1119 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the building of a bridge across the Congaree River in South Carolina

    Ch. 444 · 43 Stat. 1126 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

38. An Act To authorize the building of a bridge across the Catawba River in South Carolina

    Ch. 445 · 43 Stat. 1127 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the building of a bridge across the Broad River in South Carolina

    Ch. 446 · 43 Stat. 1127 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

40. An Act To amend section 2 of the Act of June 7, 1924 (Public 270), entitled “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. 447 · 43 Stat. 1127 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

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

    Ch. 448 · 43 Stat. 1128 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

42. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of North Carolina to construct a bridge across the Chowan River at or near the city of Edenton, North Carolina.

    Ch. 449 · 43 Stat. 1128 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

43. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey certain portions of the military reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco to the city and county of San Francisco for educational, art, exposition, and park purposes.

    Ch. 450 · 43 Stat. 1129 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

44. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Yell and Pope County bridge district, Dardanelle and Russellville, Arkansas, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Arkansas River, at or near the city of Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas.

    Ch. 451 · 43 Stat. 1129 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

45. An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Colorado River near Blythe, California.

    Ch. 452 · 43 Stat. 1130 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

46. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to R. L. Gaster, his successors and assigns, to construct a bridge across the White River.

    Ch. 453 · 43 Stat. 1131 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the States of Indiana and Illinois in the States of Indiana and Illinois to construct a bridge across the Wabash River at the city of Mount Carmel, Wabash County, Illinois, and connecting Gibson County, Indiana.

    Ch. 454 · 43 Stat. 1131 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

48. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Jackson, Arkansas, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the White River, at or near the city of Newport, in the county of Jackson, in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 455 · 43 Stat. 1131 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

49. An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Ohio River between Vanderburg County, Indiana, and Henderson County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 456 · 43 Stat. 1132 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

50. An Act To facilitate and simplify the work of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and to promote reforestation.

    Ch. 457 · 43 Stat. 1132 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands.

    Ch. 458 · 43 Stat. 1133 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

52. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, examine, adjudicate, and enter judgment in any and all claims, of whatever nature, which the Kansas or Kaw Tribe of Indians may have or claim to have, against the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 459 · 43 Stat. 1133 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

53. An Act To provide for commitments to, maintenance in, and discharges from the District Training School, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 460 · 43 Stat. 1135 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

54. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across Pearl River at approximately one and one-half miles north of Georgetown, in the State of Mississippi.

    Ch. 461 · 43 Stat. 1141 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

55. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 462 · 43 Stat. 1141 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

56. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across Humphreys Creek at or near the city of Sparrows Point, Maryland

    Ch. 463 · 43 Stat. 1184 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

57. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing extensions of time for the payment of purchase money due under certain homestead entries and Government-land purchases within the former Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations, North Dakota and South Dakota.”

    Ch. 464 · 43 Stat. 1184 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

58. An Act Authorizing the issuance of patents to the State of South Dakota for park purposes of certain lands within the Custer State Park, now claimed under the United States general mining laws, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 465 · 43 Stat. 1185 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

59. An Act To grant certain public lands to the State of Washington for park and other purposes.

    Ch. 466 · 43 Stat. 1185 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

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

    Ch. 467 · 43 Stat. 1186 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

61. An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 468 · 43 Stat. 1198 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

62. An Act To authorize an appropriation to provide additional hospital and out-patient dispensary facilities for persons entitled to hospitalization under the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924.

    Ch. 469 · 43 Stat. 1212 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

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

    Ch. 470 · 43 Stat. 1213 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

64. An Act To authorize the creation of a national memorial in the Harney National Forest.

    Ch. 471 · 43 Stat. 1214 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

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

    Ch. 472 · 43 Stat. 1214 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

66. An Act To amend section 7 of an Act entitled “An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers,” approved March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 961).

    Ch. 473 · 43 Stat. 1215 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

67. An Act Granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge across the Grand Calumet River on the north and south center line of section 33, township 37 north, and range 9 west of the second principal meridian in Lake County, Indiana, where said river is crossed by what is known as Kennedy Avenue.

    Ch. 474 · 43 Stat. 1215 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

68. An Act Granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge across the Grand Calumet River at Gary, Indiana.

    Ch. 475 · 43 Stat. 1216 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

69. An Act To extend the time for the commencement and completion of the bridge of the American Niagara Railroad Corporation across the Niagara River in the State of New York.

    Ch. 476 · 43 Stat. 1216 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

70. 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, 1926, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 477 · 43 Stat. 1216 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution Approving the action of the Secretary of War in directing the issuance of quartermaster stores for the relief of sufferers from the cyclone at Lagrange and at West Point, Georgia, and vicinity, March, 1920.

    Ch. 478 · 43 Stat. 1252 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution To provide for the loaning to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts of the portraits of Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.

    Ch. 479 · 43 Stat. 1252 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

73. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Joint Committee on the Library to provide for the restoration and completion of the historical frieze in the Rotunda of the Capitol.

    Ch. 480 · 43 Stat. 1252 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

74. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite the States the Union and foreign countries to participate in a permanent international trade exposition at New Orleans, Louisiana, to begin September 15, 1925.

    Ch. 481 · 43 Stat. 1252 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution Providing for the cooperation of the United States in the sesquicentennial exhibition commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 482 · 43 Stat. 1253 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

76. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to modify certain contracts entered into for the sale of boats, barges, tugs, and other transportation facilities intended for operation upon the New York State Barge Canal.

    Ch. 483 · 43 Stat. 1255 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution To provide for the posthumous appointment to commissioned grades of certain enlisted men and the posthumous promotion of certain commissioned officers.

    Ch. 484 · 43 Stat. 1255 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution For the participation of the United States in an international exposition to be held at Seville, Spain, in 1927.

    Ch. 485 · 43 Stat. 1256 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution Authorizing the sale of the old Federal building at Toledo, Ohio

    Ch. 486 · 43 Stat. 1258 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution Providing for an investigation of the official conduct of George W. English, district judge for the eastern district of Illinois.

    Ch. 487 · 43 Stat. 1258 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Agriculture to waive one-half of the grazing fees for the use of the national forests during the calendar year 1925.

    Ch. 488 · 43 Stat. 1259 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution Empowering the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint a Member-elect of the Sixty-ninth Congress as a member of the Commission in Control of the House Office Building.

    Ch. 489 · 43 Stat. 1259 · March 3, 1925 · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Jessie M. White.

    Ch. 490 · 43 Stat. 1585 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Eugene K. Stoudemire.

    Ch. 491 · 43 Stat. 1585 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of settlers and claimants to section 16, lands in the L’Anse and Vieux Desert Indian Reservation, in Michigan, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 492 · 43 Stat. 1586 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Josiah Frederick Dose.

    Ch. 493 · 43 Stat. 1586 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Caleb Aber.

    Ch. 494 · 43 Stat. 1586 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Samuel S. Weaver.

    Ch. 495 · 43 Stat. 1587 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of James F. Jenkins.

    Ch. 496 · 43 Stat. 1587 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Rubie M. Mosley.

    Ch. 497 · 43 Stat. 1587 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of William M. Phillipson.

    Ch. 498 · 43 Stat. 1587 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army.

    Ch. 499 · 43 Stat. 1587 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the British Government on account of losses sustained by the owners of the British steamship Baron Berwick as the result of a collision between that vessel and the United States steamship Iroquois (now Freedom) and a further collision with the United States destroyer Truxtun.

    Ch. 500 · 43 Stat. 1588 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of James E. Jenkins.

    Ch. 501 · 43 Stat. 1588 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Mrs. M. J. Adams.

    Ch. 502 · 43 Stat. 1589 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Francis M. Atherton.

    Ch. 503 · 43 Stat. 1589 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of the Mallory Steamship Company.

    Ch. 504 · 43 Stat. 1589 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Robert B. Sanford.

    Ch. 505 · 43 Stat. 1590 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of James T. Conner.

    Ch. 506 · 43 Stat. 1590 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act To validate certain payments made to George M. Apple and to authorize the General Accounting Office to allow credit to certain disbursing officers for payments of salaries made on properly certified and approved vouchers.

     Ch. 507 · 43 Stat. 1590 · March 3, 1925 · Private law · Original text