Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to deliver to the State of Georgia the silver service presented to the United States for the battleship Georgia.

   Ch. 301 · 44 Stat. 557 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

2. An Act To provide for forfeiture of pay of persons in the military and naval services of the United States who are absent from duty on account of the direct effects of the intemperate use of alcoholic liquor or habit-forming drugs or because of venereal disease.

   Ch. 302 · 44 Stat. 557 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

3. An Act To authorize acting registers of United States land offices to administer oaths at any time in public land matters.

   Ch. 303 · 44 Stat. 558 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

4. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the purchase by the city of McMinnville, Oregon, of certain lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916,” approved February 25, 1919 (Fortieth Statutes, page 1153).

   Ch. 304 · 44 Stat. 558 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

5. An Act Extending the period of time for homestead entries on the south half of the diminished Colville Indian Reservation.

   Ch. 305 · 44 Stat. 558 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

6. An Act To amend section 87 of the Judicial Code.

   Ch. 306 · 44 Stat. 559 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the heroism of the fathers and mothers who traversed the Oregon Trail to the Far West with great hardship, daring, and loss of life, which not only resulted in adding new States to the Union but earned a well-deserved and imperishable fame for the pioneers; to honor the twenty thousand dead that lie buried in unknown graves along two thousand miles of that great highway of history; to rescue the various important points along the old trail from oblivion; and to commemorate by suitable monuments, memorial or otherwise, the tragic events associated with that emigration—erecting them either along the trail itself or elsewhere, in localities appropriate for the purpose, including the city of Washington.

   Ch. 307 · 44 Stat. 559 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

8. An Act To provide for an adequate water-supply system at the Dresslerville Indian Colony.

   Ch. 308 · 44 Stat. 560 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize the deposit and expenditure of various revenues of the Indian Service as Indian moneys, proceeds of labor.

   Ch. 309 · 44 Stat. 560 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

10. An Act To detach Hickman County from the Nashville division of the middle judicial district of the State of Tennessee, and attach the same to the Columbia division of the middle judicial district of said State.

    Ch. 310 · 44 Stat. 561 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

11. An Act To amend section 96, chapter 5, of the Act of Congress of March 3, 1911, entitled “The Judicial Code.”

    Ch. 311 · 44 Stat. 561 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

12. An Act To confirm the title to certain lands in the State of Oklahoma to the Sac and Fox Nation or Tribe of Indians.

    Ch. 312 · 44 Stat. 561 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant easements in and upon public military reservations and other lands under his control.

    Ch. 313 · 44 Stat. 562 · May 17, 1926 · Original text

14. An Act Granting a patent to certain land to Benjamin A. J. Funnemark.

    Ch. 314 · 44 Stat. 1471 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Providing for the issuance of patent to the Boyle Commission Company for block numbered 223, town site of Heyburn, Idaho.

    Ch. 315 · 44 Stat. 1471 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue letters patent to George K. Hughes.

    Ch. 316 · 44 Stat. 1472 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To correct the military record of Lester A. Rockwell.

    Ch. 317 · 44 Stat. 1472 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Luther H. Phipps.

    Ch. 318 · 44 Stat. 1472 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of the estate of Charles M. Underwood.

    Ch. 319 · 44 Stat. 1473 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of William D. McKeefrey.

    Ch. 320 · 44 Stat. 1473 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of John W. King.

    Ch. 321 · 44 Stat. 1474 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of the heirs of the late Louis F. Meissner.

    Ch. 322 · 44 Stat. 1474 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Neffs’ Bank, of McBride, Michigan.

    Ch. 323 · 44 Stat. 1475 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of the Custer Electric Light, Heat, and Power Company, of Custer, South Dakota.

    Ch. 324 · 44 Stat. 1475 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Ivy L. Merrill.

    Ch. 325 · 44 Stat. 1475 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of First Lieutenant Harry L. Rogers, junior.

    Ch. 326 · 44 Stat. 1475 · May 17, 1926 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act Granting an extension of patent to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

    Ch. 327 · 44 Stat. 562 · May 18, 1926 · Original text

28. An Act For the erection of tablets or markers upon the Revolutionary battle field of White Plains, State of New York.

    Ch. 328 · 44 Stat. 562 · May 18, 1926 · Original text

29. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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,” approved June 7, 1924.

    Ch. 329 · 44 Stat. 563 · May 18, 1926 · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of H. R. Butcher.

    Ch. 330 · 44 Stat. 1476 · May 18, 1926 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Jane Coates, widow of Leonard R. Coates.

    Ch. 331 · 44 Stat. 1476 · May 18, 1926 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act To correct the status of certain commissioned officers of the Navy appointed thereto pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 4, 1920.

    Ch. 332 · 44 Stat. 564 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

33. An Act To amend the National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920, relating to retirement.

    Ch. 333 · 44 Stat. 564 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

34. An Act To authorize the President to detail officers and enlisted men of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to assist the governments of the Latin-American Republics in military and naval matters.

    Ch. 334 · 44 Stat. 565 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of members of the band of the United States Marine Corps who were retired prior to June 30, 1922, and for the relief of members transferred to the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve.

    Ch. 335 · 44 Stat. 565 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

36. An Act For the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the United States target range, at Auburn, Maine.

    Ch. 336 · 44 Stat. 565 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

37. An Act Extending the provisions of section 2455 of the United States Revised Statutes to ceded lands of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 337 · 44 Stat. 566 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

38. An Act To allot lands to living children on the Crow Reservation, Montana.

    Ch. 338 · 44 Stat. 566 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

39. An Act Granting certain public lands to the city of Altus, Oklahoma, for reservoir and incidental purposes.

    Ch. 339 · 44 Stat. 566 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

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

    Ch. 340 · 44 Stat. 567 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Cherokee Indians, the Seminole Indians, the Creek Indians, and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians to prosecute claims, jointly or severally, in one or more petitions, as each of said Indian nations or tribes may elect.

    Ch. 341 · 44 Stat. 568 · May 19, 1926 · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of J. H. Toulouse.

    Ch. 342 · 44 Stat. 1476 · May 19, 1926 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 343 · 44 Stat. 1476 · May 19, 1926 · Private law · Original text

44. Air Commerce Act of 1926

    An Act To encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 344 · 44 Stat. 568 · May 20, 1926 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize payment of expenses of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System out of receipts of such system as an operating expense.

    Ch. 345 · 44 Stat. 576 · May 20, 1926 · Original text

46. An Act To regulate the interstate transportation of black bass, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 346 · 44 Stat. 576 · May 20, 1926 · Original text

47. An Act To provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 347 · 44 Stat. 577 · May 20, 1926 · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the granting of leave to ex-service men and women to attend the annual convention of the American Legion in Paris, France, in 1927.

    Ch. 348 · 44 Stat. 587 · May 20, 1926 · Original text

49. An Act Authorizing Rear Admiral Edwin A. Anderson, United States Navy, retired, to accept the silver service tendered by the Government of Panama.

    Ch. 349 · 44 Stat. 1479 · May 20, 1926 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act Providing for an inspection of the Kennesaw Mountain and Lost Mountain and other battle fields in the State of Georgia.

    Ch. 350 · 44 Stat. 588 · May 21, 1926 · Original text

51. An Act Granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge across the Delaware River at or near Burlington, New Jersey.

    Ch. 351 · 44 Stat. 588 · May 21, 1926 · Original text

52. 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. 352 · 44 Stat. 590 · May 21, 1926 · Original text

53. An Act To repeal the Act approved January 27, 1922, providing for change of entry, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 353 · 44 Stat. 591 · May 21, 1926 · Original text

54. An Act To provide for conveyance of certain lands in the State of Michigan for State park purposes.

    Ch. 354 · 44 Stat. 591 · May 21, 1926 · Original text

55. An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 355 · 44 Stat. 591 · May 21, 1926 · Original text

56. An Act To amend the second section of the Act entitled “An Act to pension the survivors of certain Indian wars from January 1, 1859, to January, 1891, inclusive, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1917, as amended.

    Ch. 356 · 44 Stat. 614 · May 21, 1926 · Original text

57. An Act To provide for the permanent withdrawal of certain lands adjoining the Makah Indian Reservation in Washington for the use and occupancy of the Makah and Quileute Indians.

    Ch. 357 · 44 Stat. 614 · May 21, 1926 · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of the Chamber of Commerce of Montgomery, Alabama, Jack Thorington, and thirty-nine others.

    Ch. 358 · 44 Stat. 1479 · May 21, 1926 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act Permitting the sale of lot 9, sixteen and sixty-three one-hundredths acres, in section 31, township 2 south, range 17 west, in Bay County, Florida, to P. C. Black.

    Ch. 359 · 44 Stat. 1480 · May 21, 1926 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Merritt W. Blair, of Abbott, Harding County, New Mexico, or his transferees.

    Ch. 360 · 44 Stat. 1480 · May 21, 1926 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Katherine Rorison.

    Ch. 361 · 44 Stat. 1480 · May 21, 1926 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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,” approved June 7, 1924.

    Ch. 362 · 44 Stat. 615 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

63. An Act To provide for the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park in the State of Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in the States of North Carolina and Tennessee, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 363 · 44 Stat. 616 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

64. An Act To carry into effect provisions of the convention between the United States and Great Britain to regulate the level of Lake of the Woods concluded on the 24th day of February, 1925.

    Ch. 364 · 44 Stat. 617 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

65. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire and maintain dams in the Minnesota National Forest needed for the proper administration of the Government land and timber.

    Ch. 365 · 44 Stat. 618 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

66. An Act Granting the consent of Congress for the construction of dam or dams in Neches River, Texas.

    Ch. 366 · 44 Stat. 618 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

67. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to O. Emmerson Smith, F. F. Priest, W. P. Jordan, H. W. West, C. M. Jordan, and G. Hubard Massey to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the southern branch of the Elizabeth River, at or near the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, in the county of Norfolk, in the State of Virginia.

    Ch. 367 · 44 Stat. 619 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

68. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to delegate to supervisory officers the power to make temporary and emergency appointments.

    Ch. 368 · 44 Stat. 620 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

69. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Alfred L. McCawley to construct, maintain, and operate bridges across the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, at Alton, Illinois, on the Mississippi and at or near Bellefontaine on the Missouri River.

    Ch. 369 · 44 Stat. 620 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

70. An Act Providing an additional wing to the District Jail.

    Ch. 370 · 44 Stat. 622 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of certain lighthouse reservations, and to increase the efficiency of the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 371 · 44 Stat. 622 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

72. An Act To provide for transfer of jurisdiction over the Conduit Road in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 372 · 44 Stat. 627 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

73. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to lend three hundred and fifty cots, three hundred and fifty bed sacks, and seven hundred blankets for the use of the National Custer Memorial Association, at Crow Agency, Montana, at the semicentennial of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 24, 25, and 26, 1926.

    Ch. 373 · 44 Stat. 627 · May 22, 1926 · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of George Turner.

    Ch. 374 · 44 Stat. 1481 · May 22, 1926 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of John R. Anderson.

    Ch. 375 · 44 Stat. 1481 · May 22, 1926 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act To approve Act 235 of the Session Laws of 1923 of the Territory of Hawaii, entitled “An Act to authorize and provide for the manufacture, maintenance, distribution, and supply of electric current for light and power within the District of Hana, on the island and county of Maui, Territory of Hawaii.”

    Ch. 376 · 44 Stat. 627 · May 24, 1926 · Original text

77. An Act To prohibit offering for sale as Federal farm loan bonds any securities not issued under the terms of the Farm Loan Act, to limit the use of the words “Federal,” “United States,” or “reserve,” or a combination of such words, to prohibit false advertising, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 377 · 44 Stat. 628 · May 24, 1926 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution Extending the time during which cattle which have crossed the boundary line into foreign countries may be returned duty free.

    Ch. 378 · 44 Stat. 629 · May 24, 1926 · Original text

79. An Act To authorize the issuance of deeds to certain Indians or Eskimos for tracts set apart to them in surveys of town sites in Alaska, and to provide for the survey and subdivision of such tracts and of Indian or Eskimo towns or villages.

    Ch. 379 · 44 Stat. 629 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

80. An Act To provide for the construction of certain public buildings, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 380 · 44 Stat. 630 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

81. An Act Granting relief to the Metropolitan police, and to the officers and members of the fire department of. the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 381 · 44 Stat. 635 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

82. An Act To provide for the establishment of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 382 · 44 Stat. 635 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

83. An Act To adjust water-right charges, to grant certain other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 383 · 44 Stat. 636 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

84. An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of Norway on account of the losses sustained by the owners of the Norwegian bark Janna as a result of a collision between it and the United States ship Westwood.

    Ch. 384 · 44 Stat. 651 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

85. An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of Sweden on account of losses sustained by the owners of the Swedish steamship Olivia as a result of a collision between it and the United States ship Lake Saint Clair.

    Ch. 385 · 44 Stat. 651 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

86. An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of Norway on account of the losses sustained by the owners of the Norwegian steamship John Blumer as a result of a collision between it and a barge in tow of the United States Army tug Britannia.

    Ch. 386 · 44 Stat. 651 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the Government of Denmark on account of losses sustained by the owners of the Danish steamship Masnedsund as the result of collisions between it and the United States ship Siboney and the United States Army tug Numbered 21, at Saint Nazaire, France.

    Ch. 387 · 44 Stat. 651 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

88. An Act To validate certain declarations of intentions.

    Ch. 388 · 44 Stat. 652 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

89. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to deliver to the custody of the State of Minnesota the silver service set in use on the battleship Minnesota.

    Ch. 389 · 44 Stat. 652 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution Establishing a commission for the participation of the United States in the observance of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversaries of the independence of Vermont and the Battle of Bennington, and authorizing an appropriation to be utilized in connection with such observance.

    Ch. 390 · 44 Stat. 652 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

91. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year 1926.

    Ch. 391 · 44 Stat. 653 · May 25, 1926 · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Ernest F. Church.

    Ch. 392 · 44 Stat. 1481 · May 25, 1926 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of C. T. Kitchen.

    Ch. 393 · 44 Stat. 1481 · May 25, 1926 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of R. E. Neumann and wife.

    Ch. 394 · 44 Stat. 1482 · May 25, 1926 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To cancel water-right charges and release liens on the Buford-Trenton and Williston irrigation projects, North Dakota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 395 · 44 Stat. 653 · May 26, 1926 · Original text

96. An Act To amend section 220 of the Criminal Code.

    Ch. 396 · 44 Stat. 653 · May 26, 1926 · Original text

97. An Act To validate payments for commutation of quarters, heat, and light, and of rental allowances on account of dependents.

    Ch. 397 · 44 Stat. 654 · May 26, 1926 · Original text

98. An Act To admit to the United States, and to extend naturalization privileges to, alien veterans of the World War.

    Ch. 398 · 44 Stat. 654 · May 26, 1926 · Original text

99. An Act To make additions to the Absaroka and Gallatin National Forests, and the Yellowstone National Park, and to improve and extend the winter feed facilities of the elk, antelope, and other game animals of Yellowstone National Park and adjacent land, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 399 · 44 Stat. 655 · May 26, 1926 · Original text

100. An Act Exempting from the provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924 certain Spanish subjects residents of Porto Rico on April 11, 1899.

     Ch. 400 · 44 Stat. 657 · May 26, 1926 · Original text