Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To purchase lauds for addition to the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona.

   Ch. 701 · 44 Stat. 775 · June 28, 1926 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize credit upon the construction charges of certain water-right applicants and purchasers on the Yuma and Yuma Mesa auxiliary reclamation projects, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 702 · 44 Stat. 776 · June 28, 1926 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution To secure a replica of the Houdon bust of Washington for lodgment in the Pan American Building.

   Ch. 703 · 44 Stat. 776 · June 28, 1926 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to employ engineers for consultation in connection with the construction of dams for irrigation purposes.

   Ch. 704 · 44 Stat. 776 · June 28, 1926 · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Immaculate Carlino, widow of Alexander Carlino.

   Ch. 705 · 44 Stat. 1621 · June 28, 1926 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act Authorizing an appropriation of $2,500 for the erection of an appropriate tablet or marker at Providence, Rhode Island, to commemorate the landing of Roger Williams in the State of Rhode Island.

   Ch. 706 · 44 Stat. 777 · June 29, 1926 · Original text

7. An Act To change the name of “The Trustees of Saint Joseph’s Male Orphan Asylum” and amend the Act incorporating the same.

   Ch. 707 · 44 Stat. 777 · June 29, 1926 · Original text

8. An Act To provide for payment of the amount of a war-risk insurance policy to the beneficiaries designated by Lieutenant Lewis Wesley Kitchens, deceased.

   Ch. 708 · 44 Stat. 1622 · June 29, 1926 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Charles W. Reed.

   Ch. 709 · 44 Stat. 1622 · June 29, 1926 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Edward L. Duggan.

    Ch. 710 · 44 Stat. 1622 · June 29, 1926 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of W. B. deYampert.

    Ch. 711 · 44 Stat. 1623 · June 29, 1926 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act To consolidate, codify, and set forth the general and permanent laws of the United States in force December seventh, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

    Ch. 712 · 44 Stat. 777 · June 30, 1926 · Original text

13. An Act To provide for the publication of the Act to consolidate, codify, and set forth the general and permanent laws of the United States in force December 7, 1925, with index, reference tables, appendix, and so forth.

    Ch. 713 · 44 Stat. 778 · June 30, 1926 · Original text

14. An Act To investigate and determine the feasibility of the construction of an irrigation dam on Walker River, Nevada.

    Ch. 714 · 44 Stat. 779 · June 30, 1926 · Original text

15. An Act To acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, additional land for a driveway to the post-office building at Bristol, Rhode Island, and to construct said driveway, and for certain improvements and repairs to the post-office building at Bristol, Rhode Island.

    Ch. 715 · 44 Stat. 779 · June 30, 1926 · Original text

16. An Act To reinstate William R. F. Bleakney in West Point Military Academy.

    Ch. 716 · 44 Stat. 1623 · June 30, 1926 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Aurora, Elgin, and Fox River Electric Company, an Illinois corporation, to construct a bridge across Fox River in Dundee Township, Kane County, and State of Illinois.

    Ch. 717 · 44 Stat. 779 · July 1, 1926 · Original text

18. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the board of county commissioners of Trumbull County, Ohio, to construct a free overhead viaduct across the Mahoning River at Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio.

    Ch. 718 · 44 Stat. 780 · July 1, 1926 · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Addison B. McKinley.

    Ch. 719 · 44 Stat. 1623 · July 1, 1926 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Turpin G. Hovas.

    Ch. 720 · 44 Stat. 1623 · July 1, 1926 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To provide more effectively for the national defense by increasing the efficiency of the Air Corps of the Army of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 721 · 44 Stat. 780 · July 2, 1926 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau to grant an easement to the Tuskegee Railroad Company.

    Ch. 722 · 44 Stat. 790 · July 2, 1926 · Original text

23. An Act To amend the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924.

    Ch. 723 · 44 Stat. 790 · July 2, 1926 · Original text

24. An Act Authorizing the Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians in Oklahoma to submit claims to the Court of Claims.

    Ch. 724 · 44 Stat. 801 · July 2, 1926 · Original text

25. An Act To create a division of cooperative marketing in the Department of Agriculture; to provide for the acquisition and dissemination of information pertaining to cooperation; to promote the knowledge of cooperative principles and practices; to provide for calling advisers to counsel with the Secretary of Agriculture on cooperative activities; to authorize cooperative associations to acquire, interpret, and disseminate crop and market information, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 725 · 44 Stat. 802 · July 2, 1926 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant an easement to the city of New York, State of New York, to the land and land under water in and along the shore of the narrows and bay adjoining the military reservation of Fort Hamilton in said State for highway purposes.

    Ch. 726 · 44 Stat. 804 · July 2, 1926 · Original text

27. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Minnesota, or Dakota County, Washington County, or Ramsey County, in the State of Minnesota, or either or several of them, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near South Saint Paul, Minnesota.

    Ch. 727 · 44 Stat. 805 · July 2, 1926 · Original text

28. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Jackson and Eastern Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Pearl River in the State of Mississippi.

    Ch. 728 · 44 Stat. 805 · July 2, 1926 · Original text

29. An Act Authorizing the sale of lot 2 in square 1113 in the District of Columbia, and the deposit of the net proceeds in the Treasury.

    Ch. 729 · 44 Stat. 1624 · July 2, 1926 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Herbert A. Wilson.

    Ch. 730 · 44 Stat. 1624 · July 2, 1926 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Caleb W. Swink.

    Ch. 731 · 44 Stat. 1624 · July 2, 1926 · Private law · Original text

32. 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. 732 · 44 Stat. 1625 · July 2, 1926 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Civil and Mexican Wars, and to certain widows of said soldiers, sailors, and marines, and to widows of the War of 1812, and Army nurses, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 733 · 44 Stat. 806 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

34. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, examine, adjudicate, and render judgment in claims which the Crow Tribe of Indians may have against the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 734 · 44 Stat. 807 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

35. An Act To establish a term of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 735 · 44 Stat. 809 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

36. An Act To change the name of Dent Place northwest, between Forty-fourth Street and Foxhall Road, to Greenwich Parkway.

    Ch. 736 · 44 Stat. 809 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

37. An Act To regulate in the District of Columbia the traffic in, sale, and use of milk bottles, cans, crates, and other containers of milk and cream, to prevent fraud and deception, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 737 · 44 Stat. 809 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

38. An Act To amend the Immigration Act of 1924.

    Ch. 738 · 44 Stat. 812 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

39. An Act To amend the Act known as the “District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925,” approved March 3, 1925, being Public, Numbered 561, Sixty-eighth Congress, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 739 · 44 Stat. 812 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

40. An Act To relieve persons in the military and naval services of the United States during the war emergency period from claims for overpayment at that time not involving fraud.

    Ch. 740 · 44 Stat. 815 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

41. An Act Granting consent of Congress to the Hidalgo and Reynosa Bridge Company for construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande near Hidalgo, Texas.

    Ch. 741 · 44 Stat. 815 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

42. An Act To readjust the commissioned personnel of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 742 · 44 Stat. 815 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

43. An Act To amend section 15 of pan Act entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright,” amended March 4, 1909.

    Ch. 743 · 44 Stat. 818 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

44. An Act To revise the boundary of the Sequoia National Park, California.

    Ch. 744 · 44 Stat. 818 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

45. An Act To provide for the leasing of public lands in Alaska for fur farming, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 745 · 44 Stat. 821 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

46. An Act To establish a national military park at the battle fields of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia.

    Ch. 746 · 44 Stat. 822 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

47. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to John F. Kenward to construct a bridge and approaches thereto across Lake Washington from a point on the west shore in the city of Seattle, county of King, State of Washington, easterly to a point on the west shore of Mercer Island in the same county and State.

    Ch. 747 · 44 Stat. 824 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

48. An Act To designate the times and places of holding terms of the United States District Court for the District of Montana.

    Ch. 748 · 44 Stat. 825 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

49. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Wabash River at the city of Mount Carmel, Illinois.

    Ch. 749 · 44 Stat. 825 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

50. An Act To amend the Act approved June 4, 1897, by authorizing an increase in the cost of lands to be embraced in the Shiloh National Military Park, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee.

    Ch. 750 · 44 Stat. 826 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

51. An Act To amend the World War Adjusted Compensation Act.

    Ch. 751 · 44 Stat. 826 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

52. An Act To authorize notaries public and other State officers to administer oaths required by the United States.

    Ch. 752 · 44 Stat. 830 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

53. An Act To authorize the sale of the Mesa Target Range, Arizona.

    Ch. 753 · 44 Stat. 831 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

54. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to compacts or agreements between the States of Idaho, Wyoming, Washington, and Oregon with respect to the division and apportionment of the waters of the Snake River and its tributaries.

    Ch. 754 · 44 Stat. 831 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

55. An Act Prohibiting an appeal to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia from any interlocutory order in a criminal action.

    Ch. 755 · 44 Stat. 831 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of the State of North Carolina.

    Ch. 756 · 44 Stat. 831 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

57. An Act To create a sixth great district to include all the collection districts on the Great Lakes, their connecting and tributary waters, as far east as the Raquette River, New York.

    Ch. 757 · 44 Stat. 832 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

58. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant easements in and upon the public lands and properties at Canal Bridge, on the Fox River, in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, to the city of Kaukauna for public-road purposes.

    Ch. 758 · 44 Stat. 832 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

59. An Act To amend sections 5 and 6 of the Act of Congress making appropriations to provide for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, approved July 1, 1902, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 759 · 44 Stat. 832 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

60. An Act Relating to the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital.

    Ch. 760 · 44 Stat. 834 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

61. An Act To amend paragraph (11), section 20, of the Interstate Commerce Act.

    Ch. 761 · 44 Stat. 835 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

62. An Act Relating to contempts.

    Ch. 762 · 44 Stat. 835 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the transfer of surplus books from the Navy Department to the Interior Department.

    Ch. 763 · 44 Stat. 836 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

64. An Act Authorizing the Shipping Board to give a preference rate to alien veterans and their families.

    Ch. 764 · 44 Stat. 837 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

65. An Act To authorize the granting of leave to ex-service men and women employed in the municipal government of the District of Columbia to attend the annual convention of the American Legion in Paris, France, in 1927.

    Ch. 765 · 44 Stat. 837 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

66. An Act To provide for the construction of a bridge to replace the M Street Bridge over Rock Creek, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 766 · 44 Stat. 837 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the establishment and maintenance of a forest experiment station in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.

    Ch. 767 · 44 Stat. 838 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

68. An Act To regulate the manufacture, renovation, and sale of mattresses in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 768 · 44 Stat. 838 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

69. An Act To provide for the establishment of a dairying and livestock experiment station at Mandan, North Dakota.

    Ch. 769 · 44 Stat. 840 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

70. An Act For the establishment and maintenance of a forest experiment station in Pennsylvania and the neighboring States.

    Ch. 770 · 44 Stat. 840 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

71. Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1926, and June 30, 1927, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 771 · 44 Stat. 841 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

72. An Act To regulate the issue and validity of passports, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 772 · 44 Stat. 887 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

73. An Act Authorizing an expenditure of $6,000 from the tribal funds of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for the construction of a road on the Leech Lake Reservation.

    Ch. 773 · 44 Stat. 888 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

74. An Act To prevent delay in the promotion of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps.

    Ch. 774 · 44 Stat. 888 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize disbursing officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to designate deputies.

    Ch. 775 · 44 Stat. 888 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

76. An Act To create within the San Bernardino National Forest in Riverside County, California, a national game preserve under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture, and to authorize an exchange of Government land for privately owned land within the area of said preserve.

    Ch. 776 · 44 Stat. 889 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the extension of the application of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the reservation of public lands for country parks and community centers within reclamation projects, and for other purposes,” approved October 5, 1914.

    Ch. 777 · 44 Stat. 890 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

78. An Act Fixing postage rates on hotel and steamship room keys and tags.

    Ch. 778 · 44 Stat. 890 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

79. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the sale of burnt timber on the public domain,” approved March 4, 1913.

    Ch. 779 · 44 Stat. 890 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

80. An Act To define trespass on coal land of the United States and to provide a penalty therefor.

    Ch. 780 · 44 Stat. 891 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

81. An Act To further amend section 125 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended.

    Ch. 781 · 44 Stat. 891 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

82. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands reserved for park and other purposes in the town of Hennessey, Oklahoma, to said town of Hennessey, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 782 · 44 Stat. 891 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

83. An Act To amend an Act entitled “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,” approved May 20, 1926.

    Ch. 783 · 44 Stat. 892 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

84. An Act To amend section 204 of an 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. 784 · 44 Stat. 892 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

85. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Georgia and South Carolina to construct a bridge across the Savannah River at or near Burtons Ferry to connect up the highway between Allendale, South Carolina, and Sylvania, Georgia.

    Ch. 785 · 44 Stat. 893 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

86. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Brownsville and Matamoros Municipal Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Texas.

    Ch. 786 · 44 Stat. 893 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the leasing of unallotted irrigable land on Indian reservations.

    Ch. 787 · 44 Stat. 894 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

88. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to William H. Armbrecht to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Tombigbee River at or near Gainesville, in the county of Sumter, Alabama.

    Ch. 788 · 44 Stat. 894 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

89. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to William H. Armbrecht to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Tombigbee River at or near Jackson, in the county of Clarke, Alabama.

    Ch. 789 · 44 Stat. 896 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

90. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to William H. Armbrecht to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Tombigbee River at or near Cochrane, in the county of Pickens, Alabama.

    Ch. 790 · 44 Stat. 897 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

91. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to William H. Armbrecht to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Tombigbee River at or near Pickensville, in the county of Pickens, Alabama.

    Ch. 791 · 44 Stat. 898 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

92. An Act To facilitate and simplify the work of the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 792 · 44 Stat. 900 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

93. An Act To amend section 4009 of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 793 · 44 Stat. 900 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

94. An Act Providing for an additional building for the use of the police court of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 794 · 44 Stat. 901 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

95. An Act To increase the clothing and cash gratuity furnished to persons discharged from prisons.

    Ch. 795 · 44 Stat. 901 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

96. An Act To provide for an examination and report on the condition and possible development and reclamation of the swamp lands on the Yazoo, Tallahatchie, and Coldwater Rivers in Mississippi.

    Ch. 796 · 44 Stat. 901 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

97. An Act To authorize an industrial appropriation from the tribal funds of the Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 797 · 44 Stat. 902 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

98. An Act To amend subsection (c) and (o) of section 18 of an Act entitled “An Act for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service, and for other purposes, ” approved May 24, 1924.

    Ch. 798 · 44 Stat. 902 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

99. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Postmaster General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty,” approved March 17, 1882, as amended.

    Ch. 799 · 44 Stat. 903 · July 3, 1926 · Original text

100. An Act To authorize the sale and disposition of the abandoned tract or tracts of lands formerly used as a life-saving station in Florida, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 800 · 44 Stat. 903 · July 3, 1926 · Original text