Every law Congress has passed

1,423 laws of the 69th Congress, 1925–1927

1. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Louisville, Kentucky, to construct a bridge across the Ohio River at or near said city.

   Ch. 101 · 44 Stat. 232 · April 2, 1926 · Original text

2. An Act To amend section 129 of the Judicial Code relating to appeals in admiralty cases.

   Ch. 102 · 44 Stat. 233 · April 3, 1926 · Original text

3. An Act To amend section 65 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1901, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

   Ch. 103 · 44 Stat. 234 · April 3, 1926 · Original text

4. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in Powell town site, Shoshone reclamation project, Wyoming, to Park County, Wyoming.

   Ch. 104 · 44 Stat. 235 · April 3, 1926 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Authorizing and requesting the President to extend invitations to foreign governments to be represented by delegates at the International Congress of Soil Science to be held in the United States in 1927.

   Ch. 105 · 44 Stat. 235 · April 3, 1926 · Original text

6. An Act To enable the board of supervisors of Santa Barbara County to maintain a free public bathing beach on certain public land.

   Ch. 106 · 44 Stat. 235 · April 5, 1926 · Original text

7. An Act To grant extensions of time under oil and gas permits.

   Ch. 107 · 44 Stat. 236 · April 5, 1926 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to lend tents and camp equipment for the use of the reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, to be held at Birmingham, Alabama, in May, 1926.

   Ch. 108 · 44 Stat. 236 · April 5, 1926 · Original text

9. An Act Amending Act of March 4, 1925, for the relief of employees of the Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

   Ch. 109 · 44 Stat. 1458 · April 6, 1926 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act To change the title of Deputy Assistant Treasurer of the United States to Assistant Treasurer of the United States.

    Ch. 110 · 44 Stat. 237 · April 9, 1926 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Librarian of Congress to return to Solomon’s Lodge, Number 1, Free and Accepted Masons, of Georgia, the minute book of the Savannah, Georgia, Masonic Lodge.

    Ch. 111 · 44 Stat. 237 · April 9, 1926 · Original text

12. An Act To amend section 99 of the Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary, and the amendment to said Act approved July 17, 1916, Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, chapter 248.

    Ch. 112 · 44 Stat. 237 · April 10, 1926 · Original text

13. An Act To amend section 89 of chapter 5 of the Judicial Code of the United States.

    Ch. 113 · 44 Stat. 238 · April 10, 1926 · Original text

14. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved March 12, 1914.

    Ch. 114 · 44 Stat. 239 · April 10, 1926 · Original text

15. An Act To amend section 9 of the Act of May 27, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 312), and for putting in force, in reference to suits involving Indian titles, the statutes of limitations of the State of Oklahoma, and providing for the United States to join in certain actions, and for making judgments binding on all parties, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 115 · 44 Stat. 239 · April 12, 1926 · Original text

16. An Act To authorize the use by the city of Tucson, Arizona, of Certain public lands for a municipal aviation field, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 116 · 44 Stat. 241 · April 12, 1926 · Original text

17. An Act To authorize the exportation from the State or Territory of timber lawfully cut on any national forest or on the public lands in Alaska.

    Ch. 117 · 44 Stat. 242 · April 12, 1926 · Original text

18. An Act Authorizing the use of the funds of any tribe of Indiana for payments of insurance premiums for protection of the property of the tribe against fire, theft, tornado, and hail.

    Ch. 118 · 44 Stat. 242 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

19. An Act To amend section 2 of the Act of June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 653), as amended by the Act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1127), 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. 119 · 44 Stat. 242 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to enter into an agreement with the Clarendon Community Sewerage Company, granting it a right of way for a trunk line sewer through the Fort Myer Military Reservation and across the military highways in Arlington County, Virginia, and to connect with the sewer line serving such reservation.

    Ch. 120 · 44 Stat. 243 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

21. An Act To authorize a departure from the rectangular system of surveys of homestead claims in Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 121 · 44 Stat. 243 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

22. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey certain portions of the military reservation of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to the city of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, for street purposes.

    Ch. 122 · 44 Stat. 244 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

23. An Act To provide for the payment of the retired members of the police and fire departments of the District of Columbia the balance of retirement pay past due to them but unpaid from January 1, 1911, to July 30, 1915.

    Ch. 123 · 44 Stat. 245 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

24. An Act Granting certain public lands to the city of Stockton, California, for flood control, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 124 · 44 Stat. 245 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange the present Federal building and site in the city of Rutland, Vermont, for the so-called memorial building and site in said city.

    Ch. 125 · 44 Stat. 246 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

26. An Act To convey to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, certain Government property.

    Ch. 126 · 44 Stat. 246 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

27. An Act Authorizing the sale of certain abandoned tracts of land and buildings.

    Ch. 127 · 44 Stat. 246 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

28. An Act To dedicate as a public thoroughfare a narrow strip of land owned by the United States in Bardstown, Kentucky.

    Ch. 128 · 44 Stat. 247 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

29. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington in allocation of the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries, and for other purposes, and authorizing an appropriation therefor.

    Ch. 129 · 44 Stat. 247 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

30. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,” approved July 2, 1862, as amended by the Act approved March 3, 1883.

    Ch. 130 · 44 Stat. 247 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

31. An Act Permitting Leo Sheep Company, of Rawlins, Wyoming, to convey certain lands to the United States and to select other lands in lieu thereof, in Carbon County, Wyoming, for the improvement of the Medicine Bow National Forest.

    Ch. 131 · 44 Stat. 248 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

32. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to transfer the Barnegat Light Station to the State of New Jersey.

    Ch. 132 · 44 Stat. 248 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

33. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Wabash River at the city of Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana.

    Ch. 133 · 44 Stat. 249 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with Territories and other possessions of the United States under the provisions of sections 3, 4, and 5 of the Act of Congress 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. 134 · 44 Stat. 250 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution For the amendment of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, to allow the States to quarantine against the shipment therein or through of plants, plant products, and other articles found to be diseased or infested when not covered by a quarantine established by the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 135 · 44 Stat. 250 · April 13, 1926 · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Frank Rector.

    Ch. 136 · 44 Stat. 1458 · April 13, 1926 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Walter L. Watkins, alias Harry Austin.

    Ch. 137 · 44 Stat. 1459 · April 13, 1926 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land and erect a monument on the site of the battle with the Sioux Indians in which the commands of Major Reno and Major Benteen were engaged.

    Ch. 138 · 44 Stat. 251 · April 14, 1926 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing the payment of tuition of Crow Indian children attending Montana State public schools.

    Ch. 139 · 44 Stat. 251 · April 14, 1926 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to permit the delivery of water from the Washington Aqueduct pumping station to the Arlington County sanitary district.

    Ch. 140 · 44 Stat. 251 · April 14, 1926 · Original text

41. An Act Providing for repairs, improvements, and new buildings at the Seneca Indian School at Wyandotte, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 141 · 44 Stat. 252 · April 14, 1926 · Original text

42. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to purchase certain land in California to be added to the Cahuilla Indian Reservation and authorizing an appropriation of funds therefor.

    Ch. 142 · 44 Stat. 252 · April 14, 1926 · Original text

43. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to enter into contracts for the erection of a building for its branch establishment in the city of Detroit, Michigan.

    Ch. 143 · 44 Stat. 253 · April 14, 1926 · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Joseph F. Becker.

    Ch. 144 · 44 Stat. 1459 · April 14, 1926 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act To regulate the sale of kosher meat in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 145 · 44 Stat. 253 · April 15, 1926 · Original text

46. An Act Making appropriations for the military and non military activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 146 · 44 Stat. 253 · April 15, 1926 · Original text

47. An Act To amend section 71 of the Judicial Code as amended.

    Ch. 147 · 44 Stat. 296 · April 16, 1926 · Original text

48. An Act To amend an Act to provide for the appointment of a commission to standardize screw threads.

    Ch. 148 · 44 Stat. 297 · April 16, 1926 · Original text

49. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to acquire a tract of land for use as a landing field at the air intermediate depot, near the city of Little Rock, in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 149 · 44 Stat. 298 · April 16, 1926 · Original text

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

    Ch. 150 · 44 Stat. 298 · April 16, 1926 · Original text

51. An Act To provide for the enlargement of the present customs warehouse at San Juan, Porto Rico.

    Ch. 151 · 44 Stat. 298 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

52. An Act Providing for a grant of land to the county of San Juan, in the State of Washington, for recreational and public-park purposes.

    Ch. 152 · 44 Stat. 298 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

53. An Act Making a grant of land for school purposes, Fort Shaw division, Sun River project, Montana.

    Ch. 153 · 44 Stat. 299 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

54. An Act Extending the provisions of an Act for the relief of settlers and entrymen on Baca Float Numbered 3, in the State of Arizona.

    Ch. 154 · 44 Stat. 299 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

55. An Act To extend the time for the completion of the Alaska Anthracite Railroad Company, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 155 · 44 Stat. 300 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

56. An Act To authorize the leasing for mining purposes of land reserved for Indian agency and school purposes.

    Ch. 156 · 44 Stat. 300 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

57. An Act Authorizing a survey for the control of excess flood waters of the Mississippi River below Point Breeze in Louisiana and on the Atchafalaya Outlet by the construction and maintenance of controlled and regulated spillway or spillways, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 157 · 44 Stat. 300 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

58. An Act To promote the production of sulphur upon the public domain within the State of Louisiana.

    Ch. 158 · 44 Stat. 301 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

59. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond to contract for and erect in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, a building for its Baltimore branch.

    Ch. 159 · 44 Stat. 302 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

60. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to approve the application of the State of Idaho to certain lands under an Act entitled “ An Act to authorize the State of Idaho to exchange certain lands heretofore granted for public-school purposes for other Government lands,” approved September 22, 1922.

    Ch. 160 · 44 Stat. 302 · April 17, 1926 · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Charles Wall.

    Ch. 161 · 44 Stat. 1459 · April 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Frederick S. Easter.

    Ch. 162 · 44 Stat. 1460 · April 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the records of the War Department standing against William J. Dunlap.

    Ch. 163 · 44 Stat. 1460 · April 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act Granting six months’ pay to Anton Kunz, father of Joseph Anthony Kunz, deceased, machinist’s mate, first class, United States Navy, in active service.

    Ch. 164 · 44 Stat. 1460 · April 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act Authorizing an appropriation of not more than $3,000 from the tribal funds of the Indians of the Quinaielt Reservation, Washington, for the construction of a system of water supply at Taholah on said reservation.

    Ch. 165 · 44 Stat. 303 · April 19, 1926 · Original text

66. An Act To appropriate certain tribal funds for the benefit of the Indians of the Fort Peck and Blackfeet Reservations.

    Ch. 166 · 44 Stat. 303 · April 19, 1926 · Original text

67. An Act Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands in San Miguel, Mora, Taos, and Colfax Counties, New Mexico, within the Mora grant, and adjoining one or more national forests, by exchanging therefore lands or timber within the exterior boundaries of any national forest situated within the State of New Mexico or the State of Arizona.

    Ch. 167 · 44 Stat. 303 · April 21, 1926 · Original text

68. An Act To detach Fulton County from the Jonesboro division of the eastern judicial district of the State of Arkansas and attach the same to the Batesville division of the eastern judicial district of said State.

    Ch. 168 · 44 Stat. 304 · April 21, 1926 · Original text

69. An Act To legalize the submarine cable laid in the Saint Louis River at the Spirit Lake Transfer Railway drawbridge, between New Duluth, Minnesota, and Oliver, Wisconsin, and used for the lighting of the village of Oliver, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 169 · 44 Stat. 304 · April 21, 1926 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution For participation of the United States in the Third World’s Poultry Congress to be held at Ottawa, Canada, in 1927.

    Ch. 170 · 44 Stat. 304 · April 21, 1926 · Original text

71. An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 171 · 44 Stat. 305 · April 22, 1926 · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of George Barrett.

    Ch. 172 · 44 Stat. 1460 · April 22, 1926 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act To legalize a pier into the Atlantic Ocean at the foot of Rehoboth Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

    Ch. 173 · 44 Stat. 321 · April 23, 1926 · Original text

74. An Act Authorizing the designation of postmasters by the Postmaster General as disbursing officers for the payment of contractors, emergency carriers, and temporary carriers, for performance of authorized service on power boat and star routes in Alaska.

    Ch. 174 · 44 Stat. 321 · April 23, 1926 · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Hannah Parker.

    Ch. 175 · 44 Stat. 1461 · April 23, 1926 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act Providing for expenses of the offices of recorder of deeds and register of wills of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 176 · 44 Stat. 322 · April 24, 1926 · Original text

77. An Act To provide for the disposition of moneys of the legally adjudged insane of Alaska who have been cared for by the Secretary of the Interior.

    Ch. 177 · 44 Stat. 322 · April 24, 1926 · Original text

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

    Ch. 178 · 44 Stat. 323 · April 24, 1926 · Original text

79. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to deliver to the custody of the State of North Dakota the silver service which was presented to the battleship North Dakota by the citizens of that State.

    Ch. 179 · 44 Stat. 323 · April 24, 1926 · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of Charles Ritzel.

    Ch. 180 · 44 Stat. 1461 · April 24, 1926 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of James Madison Brown.

    Ch. 181 · 44 Stat. 1461 · April 24, 1926 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of the Davis Construction Company.

    Ch. 182 · 44 Stat. 1461 · April 24, 1926 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Fixing the fees of jurors and witnesses in the United States courts, including the District Court of Hawaii, the District Court of Porto Rico, and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 183 · 44 Stat. 323 · April 26, 1926 · Original text

84. An Act Relating to the purchase of quarantine stations from the State of Texas.

    Ch. 184 · 44 Stat. 324 · April 26, 1926 · Original text

85. An Act To amend section 103 of the Judicial Code, as amended.

    Ch. 185 · 44 Stat. 324 · April 26, 1926 · Original text

86. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to regulate foreign commerce by prohibiting the admission into the United States of certain adulterated grain and seeds unfit for seeding purposes,” approved August 24, 1912, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 186 · 44 Stat. 325 · April 26, 1926 · Original text

87. Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of War to allot war trophies to the American Legion Museum.

    Ch. 187 · 44 Stat. 327 · April 26, 1926 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Authorizing the establishment of a commission to be known as the Sesquicentennial of American Independence and the Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission of the United States, in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

    Ch. 188 · 44 Stat. 327 · April 26, 1926 · Original text

89. An Act For the purchase of land as an artillery range at Fort Ethan Alien, Vermont.

    Ch. 190 · 44 Stat. 328 · April 26, 1926 · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of John H. Walker.

    Ch. 189 · 44 Stat. 1462 · April 26, 1926 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act To provide for the appointment of Army field clerks and field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, as warrant officers, United States Army.

    Ch. 191 · 44 Stat. 328 · April 27, 1926 · Original text

92. An Act Providing for the promotion of a professor at the United States Military Academy.

    Ch. 192 · 44 Stat. 328 · April 27, 1926 · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Levin P. Kelly.

    Ch. 193 · 44 Stat. 1462 · April 27, 1926 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the settlement of the indebtedness of the Kingdom of Italy to the United States of America.

    Ch. 194 · 44 Stat. 329 · April 28, 1926 · Original text

95. An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 195 · 44 Stat. 330 · April 29, 1926 · Original text

96. Joint Resolution Authorizing certain military organizations to visit France, England, and Belgium.

    Ch. 196 · 44 Stat. 373 · April 29, 1926 · Original text

97. An Act To amend section 27 of the general leasing Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437).

    Ch. 197 · 44 Stat. 373 · April 30, 1926 · Original text

98. An Act Amending the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital,” approved June 6, 1924.

    Ch. 198 · 44 Stat. 374 · April 30, 1926 · Original text

99. An Act To authorize the settlement of the indebtedness of the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium to the Government of the United States of America.

    Ch. 199 · 44 Stat. 376 · April 30, 1926 · Original text

100. An Act To authorize the settlement of the indebtedness of the Republic of Esthonia to the United States of America.

     Ch. 200 · 44 Stat. 377 · April 30, 1926 · Original text