Every law Congress has passed

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

1. Joint Resolution Authorizing the granting of permits to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President elect in March, 1929, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 108 · 45 Stat. 1140 · January 26, 1929 · Original text

2. An Act To repeal section 1445 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

   Ch. 109 · 45 Stat. 1142 · January 28, 1929 · Original text

3. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to lend War Department equipment for use at the eleventh national convention of the American Legion.

   Ch. 110 · 45 Stat. 1142 · January 28, 1929 · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Milton Longsdorf.

   Ch. 111 · 45 Stat. 2041 · January 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act To cede certain lands in the State of Idaho, including John Smiths Lake, to the State of Idaho for fish-cultural purposes, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 112 · 45 Stat. 1142 · January 29, 1929 · Original text

6. An Act To amend section 227 of the Judicial Code.

   Ch. 113 · 45 Stat. 1143 · January 29, 1929 · Original text

7. An Act To amend section 10 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes,” approved December 29, 1916 (Public, Numbered 290, Sixty-fourth Congress).

   Ch. 114 · 45 Stat. 1144 · January 29, 1929 · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of E. L. F. Auffurth.

   Ch. 115 · 45 Stat. 2041 · January 29, 1929 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Harry Pincus.

   Ch. 116 · 45 Stat. 2042 · January 29, 1929 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Ray Ernest Smith.

    Ch. 117 · 45 Stat. 2042 · January 29, 1929 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Leo Scheuren.

    Ch. 118 · 45 Stat. 2042 · January 29, 1929 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Loretta Pepper.

    Ch. 119 · 45 Stat. 2042 · January 29, 1929 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the appointment of Master Sergeant August J. Mack as a warrant officer, United States Army.

    Ch. 120 · 45 Stat. 2043 · January 29, 1929 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Carl Holm.

    Ch. 121 · 45 Stat. 2043 · January 29, 1929 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the exchange of lands adjacent to national forests in Montana.

    Ch. 122 · 45 Stat. 1145 · January 30, 1929 · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Edward A. Blair.

    Ch. 123 · 45 Stat. 2043 · January 30, 1929 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Robert B. Murphy.

    Ch. 124 · 45 Stat. 2043 · January 30, 1929 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Bertram Lehman.

    Ch. 125 · 45 Stat. 2044 · January 30, 1929 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act To amend section 279 of the Judicial Code.

    Ch. 126 · 45 Stat. 1145 · January 31, 1929 · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of R. Wilson Selby.

    Ch. 127 · 45 Stat. 2044 · January 31, 1929 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of S. L. Roberts.

    Ch. 128 · 45 Stat. 2044 · January 31, 1929 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Gilbert Faustina and John Alexander.

    Ch. 129 · 45 Stat. 2044 · January 31, 1929 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to donate to the city of Oakland, California, the United States Coast Guard cutter Bear.

    Ch. 130 · 45 Stat. 1145 · February 2, 1929 · Original text

24. An Act To authorize repayment of certain excess amounts paid by purchasers of lots in the town site of Bowdoin, Montana, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 131 · 45 Stat. 1146 · February 2, 1929 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution To provide for the reappointment of Frederic A. Delano and Irwin B. Laughlin the Smithsonian Institution.

    Ch. 132 · 45 Stat. 1146 · February 2, 1929 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property in connection with the presidential inauguration ceremonies in 1929.

    Ch. 133 · 45 Stat. 1146 · February 2, 1929 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the payment to Robert Toquothty of royalties arising from an oil and gas well in the bed of the Red River, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 134 · 45 Stat. 2045 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of John B. Moss.

    Ch. 135 · 45 Stat. 2045 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Clara Percy.

    Ch. 136 · 45 Stat. 2045 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Jess T. Fears.

    Ch. 137 · 45 Stat. 2045 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Peter Shapp.

    Ch. 138 · 45 Stat. 2046 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Michael J. Fraher.

    Ch. 139 · 45 Stat. 2046 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Alonzo Northrup.

    Ch. 140 · 45 Stat. 2046 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of John G. DeCamp.

    Ch. 141 · 45 Stat. 2046 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of B. C. Miller.

    Ch. 142 · 45 Stat. 2047 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Etta B. Leach Johnson.

    Ch. 143 · 45 Stat. 2047 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act To provide an appropriation for the payment of claims of persons who suffered property damage, death, or personal injury due to the explosion at the naval ammunition depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, July 10, 1926, and to provide a means for further investigation and payment in certain cases.

    Ch. 144 · 45 Stat. 2047 · February 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act To authorize the city of Niobrara, Nebraska, to transfer Niobrara Island to the State of Nebraska.

    Ch. 145 · 45 Stat. 1147 · February 4, 1929 · Original text

39. An Act To provide for the transfer of the returns office from the Interior Department to the General Accounting Office, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 146 · 45 Stat. 1147 · February 4, 1929 · Original text

40. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to ascertain, adjust, and pay certain claims of grain elevators and grain firms to cover insurance and interest on wheat during the years 1919 and 1920, as per a certain contract authorized by the President.

    Ch. 147 · 45 Stat. 1148 · February 4, 1929 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cooperate with the other relief creditor Governments in making it possible for Austria to float a loan in order to obtain funds for the furtherance of its reconstruction program, and to conclude an agreement for the settlement of the indebtedness of Austria to the United States.

    Ch. 148 · 45 Stat. 1149 · February 4, 1929 · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Dan A. Morrison.

    Ch. 149 · 45 Stat. 2048 · February 4, 1929 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act To provide for appointing Clarence Ulery, a warrant officer, United States Army.

    Ch. 150 · 45 Stat. 2048 · February 4, 1929 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act To amend section 1396 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relative to the appointment of chaplains in the Navy.

    Ch. 151 · 45 Stat. 1150 · February 5, 1929 · Original text

45. An Act Authorizing the attendance of the Marine Band at the Confederate Veterans’ reunion to be held at Charlotte, North Carolina.

    Ch. 152 · 45 Stat. 1150 · February 5, 1929 · Original text

46. An Act To provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories.

    Ch. 153 · 45 Stat. 1151 · February 5, 1929 · Original text

47. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Wisconsin to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Rock River, at or near Center Avenue, Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 154 · 45 Stat. 1152 · February 5, 1929 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President, under certain conditions, to invite the participation of other nations in the Chicago World’s Fair, providing for the admission of their exhibits, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 155 · 45 Stat. 1152 · February 5, 1929 · Original text

49. Joint Resolution Granting the consent of Congress to the city of New York to enter upon certain United States property for the purpose of constructing a rapid transit railway.

    Ch. 156 · 45 Stat. 1153 · February 5, 1929 · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the Postmaster General to require steamship companies to carry the mail when tendered.

    Ch. 157 · 45 Stat. 1153 · February 6, 1929 · Original text

51. An Act Recognizing the heroic conduct, devotion to duty, and skill on the part of the officers and crew of the United States steamship America, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 158 · 45 Stat. 1154 · February 6, 1929 · Original text

52. An Act Authorizing erection of a memorial to Major General Henry A. Greene at Fort Lewis, Washington.

    Ch. 159 · 45 Stat. 1154 · February 6, 1929 · Original text

53. An Act Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands situated within certain townships in the Lincoln National Forest, in the State of New Mexico, by exchanging therefor lands on the public domain also within such State.

    Ch. 160 · 45 Stat. 1154 · February 7, 1929 · Original text

54. An Act To amend section 3 of Public Act Numbered 230 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 194).

    Ch. 161 · 45 Stat. 1155 · February 7, 1929 · Original text

55. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell certain Government-owned land at Manchester, New Hampshire.

    Ch. 162 · 45 Stat. 1155 · February 8, 1929 · Original text

56. An Act To amend section 321 of the Penal Code.

    Ch. 163 · 45 Stat. 1156 · February 8, 1929 · Original text

57. An Act To provide for establishment of a Coast Guard station at or near the mouth of the Quillayute River in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 164 · 45 Stat. 1156 · February 8, 1929 · Original text

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

    Ch. 165 · 45 Stat. 1156 · February 9, 1929 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to transfer the control of certain land in Oregon to the Secretary of the Interior.

    Ch. 166 · 45 Stat. 1158 · February 9, 1929 · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the President to award, in the name of Congress, gold medals of appropriate design to John H. Towers, Albert C. Read, Elmer F. Stone, Walter Hinton, H. C. Rodd, J. L. Breese, and Eugene Rhodes.

    Ch. 167 · 45 Stat. 1158 · February 9, 1929 · Original text

61. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near the city of Savanna, Illinois, and the city of Sabula, Iowa.

    Ch. 168 · 45 Stat. 1158 · February 9, 1929 · Original text

62. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Danville and Western Railway Company to reconstruct, maintain, and operate the existing railroad bridge across the Dan River in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

    Ch. 169 · 45 Stat. 1159 · February 9, 1929 · Original text

63. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of the bridge across Port Washington Narrows, within the city of Bremerton, State of Washington.

    Ch. 170 · 45 Stat. 1159 · February 9, 1929 · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of the Carlisle Commission Company.

    Ch. 171 · 45 Stat. 2048 · February 9, 1929 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of hay growers in Brazoria, Galveston, and Harris Counties, Texas.

    Ch. 172 · 45 Stat. 1159 · February 11, 1929 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 173 · 45 Stat. 1160 · February 11, 1929 · Original text

67. An Act To reserve certain lands on the public domain in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, for the use and benefit of the Indians of the San Ildefonso Pueblo.

    Ch. 174 · 45 Stat. 1161 · February 11, 1929 · Original text

68. An Act To reserve nine hundred and twenty acres on the public domain for the use and benefit of the Kanosh Band of Indians residing in the vicinity of Kanosh, Utah.

    Ch. 175 · 45 Stat. 1161 · February 11, 1929 · Original text

69. An Act To provide for the improvement and preservation of the land and buildings of the Abraham Lincoln National Park or Reservation.

    Ch. 176 · 45 Stat. 1162 · February 11, 1929 · Original text

70. An Act Authorizing the Cedar Point Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the southeast arm of Sandusky Bay at or near Sandusky, Ohio.

    Ch. 177 · 45 Stat. 1162 · February 11, 1929 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize the payment of interest on certain funds held in trust by the United States for Indian tribes.

    Ch. 178 · 45 Stat. 1164 · February 12, 1929 · Original text

72. An Act Authorizing preliminary examinations of sundry streams with a view to the control of their floods, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 179 · 45 Stat. 1164 · February 12, 1929 · Original text

73. An Act To authorize the construction of certain naval vessels and for other purposes.

    Ch. 180 · 45 Stat. 1165 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

74. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to lend to the Governor of North Carolina three hundred pyramidal tents, complete; nine thousand blankets, olive drab, numbered 4; five thousand pillowcases; five thousand canvas cots; five thousand cotton pillows; five thousand bed sacks; and nine thousand bed sheets to be used at the encampment of the United Confederate Veterans to be held at Charlotte, North Carolina, in June, 1929.

    Ch. 181 · 45 Stat. 1165 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

75. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide relief in cases of contracts connected with the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes,” approved March 2, 1919, as amended.

    Ch. 182 · 45 Stat. 1166 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

76. An Act Reinvesting title to certain lands in the Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians.

    Ch. 183 · 45 Stat. 1167 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

77. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Cumberland River in the vicinity of Harts Ferry, Trousdale County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 184 · 45 Stat. 1167 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

78. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Red River at or near Coushatta, Louisiana.

    Ch. 185 · 45 Stat. 1167 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

79. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Reedsdale Street in the city of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 186 · 45 Stat. 1167 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

80. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the reconstruction of the bridge across the Grand Calumet River at Burnham Avenue, in Cook County, Illinois.

    Ch. 187 · 45 Stat. 1168 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

81. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the commissioners of Mahoning County, Ohio, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mahoning River at or near Cedar Street, Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio.

    Ch. 188 · 45 Stat. 1168 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

82. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Grand Calumet River at East Chicago, Indiana.

    Ch. 189 · 45 Stat. 1168 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

83. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct a bridge across the Youghiogheny River between the borough of Versailles and the village of Boston, in the township of Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 190 · 45 Stat. 1169 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

84. An Act Authorizing the Iowa-Nebraska Amortized Free Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Sioux City, Iowa.

    Ch. 191 · 45 Stat. 1169 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

85. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near McKees Rocks Borough, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”

    Ch. 192 · 45 Stat. 1172 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

86. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Henley Street in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 193 · 45 Stat. 1172 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

87. An Act Authorizing the State of Minnesota and the State of Wisconsin to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Saint Croix River at or near Stillwater, Minnesota.

    Ch. 194 · 45 Stat. 1172 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

88. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Monongahela River, in the city of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 195 · 45 Stat. 1173 · February 13, 1929 · Original text

89. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers, sailors, and marines of said war.

    Ch. 196 · 45 Stat. 2049 · February 13, 1929 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act To provide an additional method for collecting taxes in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 197 · 45 Stat. 1173 · February 14, 1929 · Original text

91. An Act Vacating the alley between lots 16 and 17, square 1083, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 198 · 45 Stat. 1174 · February 14, 1929 · Original text

92. An Act To authorize the Postmaster General to issue receipts to senders for ordinary mail of any character, and to fix the fees chargeable therefor.

    Ch. 199 · 45 Stat. 1175 · February 14, 1929 · Original text

93. An Act To authorize the assignment of railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks to temporary employment as substitute seapost clerks.

    Ch. 200 · 45 Stat. 1175 · February 14, 1929 · Original text

94. An Act To prescribe more definitely the rates of compensation payable to steamships of United States registry for transportation of foreign mails.

    Ch. 201 · 45 Stat. 1175 · February 14, 1929 · Original text

95. An Act To authorize the settlement of the indebtedness of the Hellenic Republic to the United States of America and of the differences arising out of the tripartite loan agreement of February 10, 1918.

    Ch. 202 · 45 Stat. 1176 · February 14, 1929 · Original text

96. An Act To grant freedom of postage in the United States domestic service to the correspondence of the members of the Diplomatic Corps and consuls of the countries of the Pan American Postal Union stationed in the United States.

    Ch. 203 · 45 Stat. 1177 · February 14, 1929 · Original text

97. An Act To extend the collect-on-delivery service and limits of indemnity to sealed domestic mail on which the first-class rate of postage is paid.

    Ch. 204 · 45 Stat. 1177 · February 14, 1929 · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Thomas W. Moore.

    Ch. 205 · 45 Stat. 2255 · February 14, 1929 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Authorizing Elisha N. Goodsell, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Lake Champlain between a point at or near Rouses Point, New York, and a point at or near Alburgh, Vermont.

    Ch. 206 · 45 Stat. 1178 · February 15, 1929 · Original text

100. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Tennessee to construct a bridge across the French Broad River on Tennessee Highway Numbered 9 in Cocke County, Tennessee.

     Ch. 207 · 45 Stat. 1179 · February 15, 1929 · Original text