Every law Congress has passed

1,722 laws of the 70th Congress, 1927–1929

1. An Act For the relief of Theodore Herbert.

   Ch. 8 · 45 Stat. 2032 · December 7, 1928 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of James E. Moyer.

   Ch. 9 · 45 Stat. 2032 · December 7, 1928 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Myra Madry.

   Ch. 10 · 45 Stat. 2032 · December 7, 1928 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the Postmaster General to give motor-vehicle service employees credit for actual time served on a basis of one year for each three hundred and six days of eight hours served as substitute.

   Ch. 11 · 45 Stat. 1016 · December 8, 1928 · Original text

5. An Act Authorizing Alex Gonzales, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Rio Grande near the town of Ysleta, Texas.

   Ch. 12 · 45 Stat. 1017 · December 8, 1928 · Original text

6. An Act To grant to the city of Leominster, Massachusetts, an easement over certain Government property.

   Ch. 13 · 45 Stat. 1017 · December 8, 1928 · Original text

7. An Act Providing for the purchase of six hundred and forty acres of land, more or less, immediately adjoining Camp Clark, at Nevada, Missouri, and authorizing an appropriation therefor.

   Ch. 14 · 45 Stat. 1018 · December 8, 1928 · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of James M. Long.

   Ch. 15 · 45 Stat. 2032 · December 8, 1928 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of the Glens Falls Insurance Company, of Glens Falls, New York.

   Ch. 16 · 45 Stat. 2033 · December 8, 1928 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of the Home Insurance Company, of New York, New York.

    Ch. 17 · 45 Stat. 2033 · December 8, 1928 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to assign to the Chief of Naval Operations the public quarters originally constructed for the Superintendent of the Naval Observatory in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 18 · 45 Stat. 1018 · December 10, 1928 · Original text

12. An Act To amend sections 23 and 24 of the General Leasing Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437).

    Ch. 19 · 45 Stat. 1019 · December 11, 1928 · Original text

13. Joint Resolution To appoint a congressional committee to attend the exercises celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first airplane flight made by Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

    Ch. 20 · 45 Stat. 1020 · December 11, 1928 · Original text

14. An Act Authorizing the Court of Claims to hear and determine questions of law involved in the alleged erroneous collection of tonnage taxes in 1920 and 1921 on three vessels operated by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, under bareboat charter from a Danzig corporation.

    Ch. 21 · 45 Stat. 2034 · December 11, 1928 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Authorizing an expenditure of certain funds standing to the credit of the Cherokee Nation in the Treasury of the United States to be paid to one of the attorneys for the Cherokee Nation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 22 · 45 Stat. 2034 · December 11, 1928 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act Providing for a Presidents’ plaza and memorial in the city of Nashville, State of Tennessee, to Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson, former Presidents of the United States.

    Ch. 23 · 45 Stat. 1020 · December 12, 1928 · Original text

17. An Act Amending section 764 of Subchapter XII, fraternal beneficial associations, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 24 · 45 Stat. 1021 · December 12, 1928 · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Horace G. Knowles.

    Ch. 25 · 45 Stat. 2034 · December 12, 1928 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act To amend section 8 of an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Howard University in the District of Columbia,” approved March 2, 1867.

    Ch. 26 · 45 Stat. 1021 · December 13, 1928 · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of the State Bank and Trust Company of Fayetteville, Tennessee.

    Ch. 27 · 45 Stat. 2035 · December 13, 1928 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To provide for issuance of perpetual easement to the department of fish and game, State of Idaho, to certain lands situated within the original boundaries of the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, State of Idaho.

    Ch. 28 · 45 Stat. 1022 · December 15, 1928 · Original text

22. An Act Authorizing L. L. Montague, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Columbia River at or near Arlington, Oregon.

    Ch. 29 · 45 Stat. 1022 · December 15, 1928 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of certain lighthouse reservations and to acquire certain lands for lighthouse purposes.

    Ch. 30 · 45 Stat. 1024 · December 15, 1928 · Original text

24. Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for December, 1928, on the 20th day of that month.

    Ch. 31 · 45 Stat. 1027 · December 15, 1928 · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Russell White Bear.

    Ch. 32 · 45 Stat. 2035 · December 15, 1928 · Private law · Original text

26. Joint Resolution For the relief of Leah Frank, Creek Indian, new born, roll numbered 294.

    Ch. 33 · 45 Stat. 2035 · December 15, 1928 · Private law · Original text

27. Joint Resolution For the relief of Eloise Childers, Creek Indian, minor, roll numbered 354.

    Ch. 34 · 45 Stat. 2035 · December 15, 1928 · Private law · Original text

28. Joint Resolution For the relief of Effa Cowe, Creek Indian, new born, roll numbered 78.

    Ch. 35 · 45 Stat. 2036 · December 15, 1928 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 36 · 45 Stat. 1027 · December 17, 1928 · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of James Hunts Along.

    Ch. 37 · 45 Stat. 2036 · December 17, 1928 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To authorize the President to present the distinguished flying cross to Orville Wright, and to Wilbur Wright, deceased.

    Ch. 38 · 45 Stat. 2036 · December 18, 1928 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 39 · 45 Stat. 1028 · December 20, 1928 · Original text

33. An Act Amending the fraternal beneficial association law for the District of Columbia as to payment of death benefits.

    Ch. 40 · 45 Stat. 1055 · December 20, 1928 · Original text

34. An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 41 · 45 Stat. 1056 · December 20, 1928 · Original text

35. An Act To provide for the construction of works for the protection and development of the Colorado River Basin, for the approval of the Colorado River compact, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 42 · 45 Stat. 1057 · December 21, 1928 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to convey the Federal Point Lighthouse Reservation, North Carolina, to the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, as a memorial to commemorate the Battle of Fort Fisher.

    Ch. 43 · 45 Stat. 1066 · December 21, 1928 · Original text

37. An Act To provide for the submission to the Congress of preliminary plans and estimates of costs for the construction of a building for the Supreme Court of the United States.

    Ch. 44 · 45 Stat. 1066 · December 21, 1928 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution Limiting the operation of sections 198 and 203 of title 18 of the Code of Laws of the United States.

    Ch. 45 · 45 Stat. 1067 · December 21, 1928 · Original text

39. Joint Resolution For the relief of Porto Rico.

    Ch. 46 · 45 Stat. 1067 · December 21, 1928 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents for lands held under color of title.

    Ch. 47 · 45 Stat. 1069 · December 22, 1928 · Original text

41. An Act Authorizing the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to acquire title to land subject to limited rights reserved, and limited rights in land, and authorizing the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital to lease land or existing buildings for limited periods in certains instances.

    Ch. 48 · 45 Stat. 1070 · December 22, 1928 · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Orla W. Robinson.

    Ch. 49 · 45 Stat. 2036 · December 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Ferdinand Young, alias James Williams.

    Ch. 50 · 45 Stat. 2037 · January 5, 1929 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act To authorize an appropriation for completing the new cadet mess hall, United States Military Academy.

    Ch. 51 · 45 Stat. 1071 · January 9, 1929 · Original text

45. An Act To provide for the acquisition of a site and the construction thereon of a fireproof office building or buildings for the House of Representatives.

    Ch. 52 · 45 Stat. 1071 · January 10, 1929 · Original text

46. An Act To amend section 217, as amended, of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March 4, 1909.

    Ch. 53 · 45 Stat. 1072 · January 11, 1929 · Original text

47. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to deliver to the custody of the Louisiana State Museum, of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, the silver service set in use on the battleship Louisiana.

    Ch. 54 · 45 Stat. 1073 · January 11, 1929 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution For the relief of the Iowa Tribe of Indians.

    Ch. 55 · 45 Stat. 1073 · January 11, 1929 · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Alfred St. Dennis.

    Ch. 56 · 45 Stat. 2037 · January 11, 1929 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of William Lentz.

    Ch. 57 · 45 Stat. 2037 · January 11, 1929 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act Providing for the purchase of one thousand one hundred and twenty-four acres of land, more or less, in the vicinity of Camp Bullis, Texas, and authorizing an appropriation therefor.

    Ch. 58 · 45 Stat. 1073 · January 12, 1929 · Original text

52. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey certain portions of the military reservation at Monterey, California, to the city of Monterey, California, for the extension of Alvarado Street.

    Ch. 59 · 45 Stat. 1074 · January 12, 1929 · Original text

53. An Act To authorize the appointment of First Lieutenant Clarence E. Burt, retired, to the grade of captain, retired, in the United States Army.

    Ch. 60 · 45 Stat. 2038 · January 12, 1929 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To legalize the existing railroad bridge across the Ohio River at Steubenville, Ohio.

    Ch. 61 · 45 Stat. 1074 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

55. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Hastings, Minnesota.

    Ch. 62 · 45 Stat. 1075 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

56. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State highway commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ouachita River at a point between the mouth of Saline River and the Louisiana and Arkansas line.

    Ch. 63 · 45 Stat. 1075 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

57. An Act Authorizing the Interstate Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Union, Nebraska.

    Ch. 64 · 45 Stat. 1076 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

58. An Act To legalize a bridge across the Potomac River at or near Paw Paw, West Virginia.

    Ch. 65 · 45 Stat. 1077 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

59. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Aurora, State of Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Fox River within the city of Aurora, State of Illinois.

    Ch. 66 · 45 Stat. 1078 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

60. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Aurora, State of Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Fox River within the city of Aurora, State of Illinois.

    Ch. 67 · 45 Stat. 1078 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

61. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the South Park commissioners and the commissioners of Lincoln Park, separately or jointly, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across that portion of Lake Michigan lying opposite the entrance to Chicago River, Illinois; and granting the consent of Congress to the commissioners of Lincoln Park to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Michigan Canal, otherwise known as the Ogden Slip, in the city of Chicago, Illinois.

    Ch. 68 · 45 Stat. 1078 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

62. An Act To provide for the collection and publication of statistics of tobacco by the Department of Agriculture.

    Ch. 69 · 45 Stat. 1079 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the construction of a telephone line from Flagstaff to Kayenta on the Western Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona.

    Ch. 70 · 45 Stat. 1080 · January 14, 1929 · Original text

64. An Act Authorizing the President to order Oren W. Rynearson before a retiring board for a hearing of his case and upon the findings of such board determine whether or not he be placed on the retired list with the rank and pay held by him at the time of his resignation.

    Ch. 71 · 45 Stat. 2038 · January 16, 1929 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act To create an additional judge for the Southern District of Florida.

    Ch. 72 · 45 Stat. 1081 · January 17, 1929 · Original text

66. An Act For the appointment of an additional circuit judge for the second judicial circuit.

    Ch. 73 · 45 Stat. 1081 · January 17, 1929 · Original text

67. An Act To correct military record of John W. Cleavenger, deceased.

    Ch. 74 · 45 Stat. 2038 · January 18, 1929 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act To revise the boundaries of the Lassen Volcanic National Park, in the State of California, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 75 · 45 Stat. 1081 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

69. An Act Authorizing the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River where Louisiana Highway Numbered 21 meets Texas Highway Numbered 45.

    Ch. 76 · 45 Stat. 1083 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

70. An Act To provide for the extension of the boundary limits of the Lafayette National Park in the State of Maine and for change of name of said park to the Acadia National Park.

    Ch. 77 · 45 Stat. 1083 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

71. An Act To enable electricians, radio electricians, chief electricians, and chief radio electricians to be appointed to the grade of ensign.

    Ch. 78 · 45 Stat. 1084 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

72. An Act To divest goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined by convicts or prisoners of their interstate character in certain cases.

    Ch. 79 · 45 Stat. 1084 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of certain members of the Navy and Marine Corps who were discharged because of misrepresentation of age.

    Ch. 80 · 45 Stat. 1084 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

74. An Act To authorize an increase in the limit of cost of alterations and repairs to certain naval vessels.

    Ch. 81 · 45 Stat. 1085 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

75. An Act To establish two United States narcotic farms for the confinement and treatment of persons addicted to the use of habit-forming narcotic drugs who have been convicted of offenses against the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 82 · 45 Stat. 1085 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize alterations and repairs to the United States ship California.

    Ch. 83 · 45 Stat. 1089 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize an increase in the limit of cost of two fleet submarines.

    Ch. 84 · 45 Stat. 1090 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

78. An Act To provide for the care and treatment of naval patients on the active or retired list, in other Government hospitals when naval hospital facilities are not available.

    Ch. 85 · 45 Stat. 1090 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

79. An Act To limit the date of filing claims for retainer pay.

    Ch. 86 · 45 Stat. 1090 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

80. An Act To provide for the acquisition by Parker I-See-O Post Numbered 12, All American Indian Legion, Lawton, Oklahoma, of the east half northeast quarter northeast quarter northwest quarter of section 20, township 2 north, range 11 west, Indian meridian, in Comanche County, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 87 · 45 Stat. 1091 · January 19, 1929 · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Clarence P. Smith.

    Ch. 88 · 45 Stat. 2039 · January 19, 1929 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Edna E. Snably.

    Ch. 89 · 45 Stat. 2039 · January 19, 1929 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Walter D. Lovell.

    Ch. 90 · 45 Stat. 2039 · January 19, 1929 · Private law · Original text

84. 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. 91 · 45 Stat. 1091 · January 21, 1929 · Original text

85. An Act Making an additional grant of lands for the support and maintenance of the Agricultural College and School of Mines of the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 92 · 45 Stat. 1091 · January 21, 1929 · Original text

86. An Act To provide for the acquisition by Meyer Shield Post Numbered 92, American Legion, Alva, Oklahoma, of lot 19, block 41, the original town site of Alva, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 93 · 45 Stat. 2039 · January 21, 1929 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of L. Pickert Fish Company (Incorporated).

    Ch. 94 · 45 Stat. 2040 · January 22, 1929 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to award a Nicaraguan campaign badge to Captain James P. Williams, in recognition of his services to the United States in the Nicaraguan campaign of 1912 and 1913.

    Ch. 95 · 45 Stat. 2040 · January 24, 1929 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the counties of Lawrence and Randolph, State of Arkansas, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Spring River at or near the town of Black Rock, Arkansas.

    Ch. 96 · 45 Stat. 1093 · January 25, 1929 · Original text

90. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Counties of Lawrence and Randolph, State of Arkansas, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Spring River at or near Imboden, Arkansas.

    Ch. 97 · 45 Stat. 1093 · January 25, 1929 · Original text

91. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

    Ch. 98 · 45 Stat. 1093 · January 25, 1929 · Original text

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

    Ch. 99 · 45 Stat. 1094 · January 25, 1929 · Original text

93. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of the bridge across the Mississippi River at Natchez, Mississippi.

    Ch. 100 · 45 Stat. 1094 · January 25, 1929 · Original text

94. An Act Declaring the purpose of Congress in passing the Act of June 2, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 253), to confer full citizenship upon the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and further declaring that it was not the purpose of Congress in passing the Act of June 4, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 376), to repeal, abridge, or modify the provisions of the former Act as to the citizenship of said Indians.

    Ch. 101 · 45 Stat. 1094 · January 25, 1929 · 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, 1930, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 102 · 45 Stat. 1094 · January 25, 1929 · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of James W. Pringle.

    Ch. 103 · 45 Stat. 2041 · January 25, 1929 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Granting a pension to Lois I. Marshall.

    Ch. 104 · 45 Stat. 2041 · January 25, 1929 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act To amend Public Law Numbered 254, approved June 20, 1906, known as the organic school law, so as to relieve individual members of the Board of Education of personal liability for acts of the board.

    Ch. 105 · 45 Stat. 1139 · January 26, 1929 · Original text

99. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant a right of way to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company across the Benicia Arsenal Military Reservation, California.

    Ch. 106 · 45 Stat. 1139 · January 26, 1929 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection of a Federal reserve bank building in the city of Los Angeles, California.

     Ch. 107 · 45 Stat. 1140 · January 26, 1929 · Original text