Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act Authorizing the payment to the State of Oklahoma the sum of $4,955.36 in settlement for rent for United States Veterans’ Hospital Numbered 90 at Muskogee, Oklahoma.

   Ch. 308 · 45 Stat. 2326 · February 23, 1929 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of F. Stanley Millichamp.

   Ch. 309 · 45 Stat. 2326 · February 23, 1929 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of James J. Welsh, Edward C. F. Webb, Francis A. Meyer, Mary S. Bennett, William McMullin, junior, Margaret McMullin, R. B. Carpenter, McCoy Yearsley, Edward Yearsley, George H. Bennett, junior, Stewart L. Beck, William P. McConnell, Elizabeth J. Morrow, William B. Jester, Josephine A. Haggan, James H. S. Gam, Herbert Nicoll, Shallcross Brothers, E. C, Buckson, Wilbert Rawley, R. Rickards, Junior, Dredging Company.

   Ch. 310 · 45 Stat. 2326 · February 23, 1929 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Herman C. Davis.

   Ch. 311 · 45 Stat. 2327 · February 23, 1929 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act To authorize alterations and repairs to certain naval vessels.

   Ch. 312 · 45 Stat. 1261 · February 25, 1929 · Original text

6. An Act To improve the efficiency of the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 313 · 45 Stat. 1261 · February 25, 1929 · Original text

7. An Act Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 314 · 45 Stat. 1262 · February 25, 1929 · Original text

8. An Act Creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers.

   Ch. 315 · 45 Stat. 1300 · February 25, 1929 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 316 · 45 Stat. 1301 · February 25, 1929 · Original text

10. An Act To provide for the paving of the Government road, known as the Dry Valley Road, commencing where said road leaves the La Fayette Road, in the city of Rossville, Georgia, and extending to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, constituting an approach road to said park.

    Ch. 317 · 45 Stat. 1305 · February 25, 1929 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution For the relief of farmers in the storm and flood stricken areas of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

    Ch. 318 · 45 Stat. 1306 · February 25, 1929 · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Margaret W. Pearson and John R. Pearson, her husband.

    Ch. 319 · 45 Stat. 2327 · February 25, 1929 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey title to Lucile Scarborough for section 29, township 26 south, range 37 east, New Mexico principal meridian, upon the payment to the Government of $1.25 per acre.

    Ch. 320 · 45 Stat. 2327 · February 25, 1929 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Gilpin Construction Company.

    Ch. 321 · 45 Stat. 2328 · February 25, 1929 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act To provide for the sale of the old post-office property at Birmingham, Alabama.

    Ch. 322 · 45 Stat. 1307 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

16. An Act To repeal that portion of the Act of August 24, 1912, imposing a limit on agency salaries of the Indian Service.

    Ch. 323 · 45 Stat. 1307 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

17. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to erect headstones over the graves of soldiers who served in the Confederate Army and to direct him to preserve in the records of the War Department the names and places of burial of all soldiers for whom such headstones shall have been erected, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 324 · 45 Stat. 1307 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

18. An Act For the erection of a tablet or marker to be placed at some suitable point between Hartwell, Georgia, and Alfords Bridge in the county of Hart, State of Georgia, on the national highway between the States of Georgia and South Carolina, to commemorate the memory of Nancy Hart.

    Ch. 325 · 45 Stat. 1308 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize an additional appropriation of $150,000 for construction of a hospital annex at Marion Branch.

    Ch. 326 · 45 Stat. 1308 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

20. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River, at or near Carondelet, Missouri.

    Ch. 327 · 45 Stat. 1308 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

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

    Ch. 328 · 45 Stat. 1309 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

22. An Act Authorizing Thomas E. Brooks, of Camp Walton, Florida, and his associates and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the mouth of Garniers Bayou, at a point where State road numbered 10, in the State of Florida, crosses the mouth of said Garniers Bayou, between Smack Point on the west and White Point on the east, in Okaloosa County, Florida.

    Ch. 329 · 45 Stat. 1311 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

23. An Act Authorizing V. Calvin Trice, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Choptank River at a point at or near Cambridge, Maryland.

    Ch. 330 · 45 Stat. 1313 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

24. An Act To establish the Grand Teton National Park in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 331 · 45 Stat. 1314 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

25. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Carrollton, Kentucky.

    Ch. 332 · 45 Stat. 1316 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

26. An Act To create an additional judge in the District of South Dakota.

    Ch. 333 · 45 Stat. 1317 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

27. An Act To provide for the appointment of three additional judges of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

    Ch. 334 · 45 Stat. 1317 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

28. An Act Authorizing the acquisition of land and water rights for forest-tree nurseries.

    Ch. 335 · 45 Stat. 1318 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

29. An Act To establish Federal prison camps.

    Ch. 336 · 45 Stat. 1318 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

30. An Act To provide for the appointment of one additional district judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of South Carolina.

    Ch. 337 · 45 Stat. 1319 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

31. An Act Authorizing Richard H. Klein, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near the borough of Liverpool, Perry County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 338 · 45 Stat. 1319 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

32. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize credit upon the construction charges of certain water-right applicants and purchasers on the Yuma and Yuma Mesa auxiliary projects, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 339 · 45 Stat. 1321 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

33. An Act To revise and reenact the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge across the Saint John River between Fort Kent, Maine, and Clairs, Province of New Brunswick, Canada,” approved March 18, 1924.

    Ch. 340 · 45 Stat. 1321 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

34. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 341 · 45 Stat. 1321 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

35. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River at or near Dahlgren, Virginia.

    Ch. 342 · 45 Stat. 1322 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

36. An Act Authorizing E. T. Franks, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River approximately midway between the cities of Owensboro, Kentucky, and Rockport, Indiana.

    Ch. 343 · 45 Stat. 1322 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution Providing for an investigation of Francis A. Winslow, United States district judge for the southern district of New York.

    Ch. 344 · 45 Stat. 1325 · February 26, 1929 · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of the persons suffering loss on account of the Lawton, Oklahoma, fire, 1017.

    Ch. 345 · 45 Stat. 2328 · February 26, 1929 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of G. J. Bell.

    Ch. 346 · 45 Stat. 2328 · February 26, 1929 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Doctor Andrew J. Baker.

    Ch. 347 · 45 Stat. 2329 · February 26, 1929 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Joe D. Donisi.

    Ch. 348 · 45 Stat. 2329 · February 26, 1929 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of F. R. Barthold.

    Ch. 349 · 45 Stat. 2329 · February 26, 1929 · Private law · Original text

43. Joint Resolution For the relief of special disbursing agents of the Alaska Railroad.

    Ch. 350 · 45 Stat. 2329 · February 26, 1929 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant to the city of Salt Lake, Utah, a portion of the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, Utah, for street purposes.

    Ch. 351 · 45 Stat. 1325 · February 27, 1929 · Original text

45. Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928

    An Act To regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 352 · 45 Stat. 1326 · February 27, 1929 · Original text

46. An Act Authorizing the use of certain land owned by the United States in the District of Columbia for street purposes.

    Ch. 353 · 45 Stat. 1341 · February 27, 1929 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the consolidation and coordination of Government purchase, to enlarge the functions of the General Supply Committee, to authorize the erection of a public warehouse for the storage of Government supplies, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 354 · 45 Stat. 1341 · February 27, 1929 · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Simon A. Richardson.

    Ch. 355 · 45 Stat. 2330 · February 27, 1929 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Fred Elias Horton.

    Ch. 356 · 45 Stat. 2330 · February 27, 1929 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act To amend certain sections of the Teachers’ Salary Act, approved June 4, 1924, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 357 · 45 Stat. 1343 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to appoint an additional judge of the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of the State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 358 · 45 Stat. 1344 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

52. An Act Authorizing the Federal Power Commission to issue permits and licenses on Fort Apache and White Mountain Indian Reservations, Arizona.

    Ch. 359 · 45 Stat. 1344 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

53. An Act To amend section 110 of the Judicial Code.

    Ch. 360 · 45 Stat. 1345 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of certain officers of the Dental Corps of the United States Navy.

    Ch. 361 · 45 Stat. 1345 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

55. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Momence conservancy district, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, repair, and improve a dam across the Kankakee River at Momence, in Kankakee County, Illinois.

    Ch. 362 · 45 Stat. 1345 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

56. An Act To amend sections 116, 118, and 126 of the Judicial Code, as amended, to divide the eighth judicial circuit of the United States, and to create a tenth judicial circuit.

    Ch. 363 · 45 Stat. 1346 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

57. An Act To repeal paragraphs 127 and 128 of the Act entitled “An Act to discontinue certain reports now required by law to be made to Congress,” approved May 29, 1928.

    Ch. 364 · 45 Stat. 1348 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

58. An Act To amend the Act of Congress of June 26, 1906, entitled “An Act for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 365 · 45 Stat. 1348 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

59. An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 366 · 45 Stat. 1349 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

60. An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 367 · 45 Stat. 1387 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

61. An Act Authorizing Llewellyn Evans, J. F. Hickey, and B. A. Lewis, their heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across Puget Sound, within the county of Pierce, State of Washington, at or near a point commonly known as the Narrows.

    Ch. 368 · 45 Stat. 1403 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

62. An Act To amend the Air Commerce Act of 1926 with reference to the examination and rating of schools giving instruction in flying.

    Ch. 369 · 45 Stat. 1404 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

63. An Act To amend section 1, rule 3, subdivision (e), of an Act to regulate navigation on the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters, enacted February 8, 1895, as amended May 17, 1928.

    Ch. 370 · 45 Stat. 1405 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

64. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue to the city of Bozeman, Montana, a patent to certain public lands.

    Ch. 371 · 45 Stat. 1405 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

65. An Act To include in the credit for time served allowed substitute clerks in first and second class post offices and letter carriers in the City Delivery Service time served as special-delivery messengers.

    Ch. 372 · 45 Stat. 1405 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

66. An Act To extend the provisions of section 18a of an Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 437), to certain lands in Utah, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 373 · 45 Stat. 1406 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

67. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to employ engineers and economists for consultation purposes on important reclamation work.

    Ch. 374 · 45 Stat. 1406 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

68. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing Roy Clippinger, Ulys Pyle, Edgar Leathers, Groves K. Flescher, Carmen Flescher, their heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Wabash River at or near McGregors Ferry in White County, Illinois,” approved May 1, 1928.

    Ch. 375 · 45 Stat. 1406 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

69. An Act To authorize the improvement of the Oregon Caves in the Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.

    Ch. 376 · 45 Stat. 1407 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

70. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, adjudicate, and render judgment in claims which the northwestern bands of Shoshone Indians may have against the United States.

    Ch. 377 · 45 Stat. 1407 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

71. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the paying of the Federal strip known as International Street adjacent to Nogales, Arizona,” approved May 16, 1928.

    Ch. 378 · 45 Stat. 1408 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

72. An Act To provide for the establishment of a municipal center in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 379 · 45 Stat. 1408 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

73. An Act To provide for the appointment of two additional judges of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York.

    Ch. 380 · 45 Stat. 1409 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

74. An Act To recognize the high public service rendered by Major Walter Reed and those associated with him in the discovery of the cause and means of transmission of yellow fever.

    Ch. 381 · 45 Stat. 1409 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey or transfer certain water rights in connection with the Boise reclamation project.

    Ch. 382 · 45 Stat. 1410 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the assessment of levee, road, drainage, and other improvement-district benefits against certain lands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 383 · 45 Stat. 1410 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

77. An Act Amending the Act approved May 4, 1926, providing for the construction and maintenance of bathing pools or beaches in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 384 · 45 Stat. 1411 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

78. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the collection and editing of official papers of the Territories of the United States now in the national archives,” approved March 3, 1925.

    Ch. 385 · 45 Stat. 1412 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of the San Francisco, Napa, and Calistoga Railway.

    Ch. 386 · 45 Stat. 1413 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution To authorize the President of the United States to appoint a Yellowstone National Park Boundary Commission to inspect the areas involved in the proposed adjustment of the southeast, south, and southwest boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park.

    Ch. 387 · 45 Stat. 1413 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Authorizing the acceptance of title to certain lands in the counties of Benton and Walla Walla, Washington, adjacent to the Columbia River bird refuge in said State established in accordance with the authority contained in Executive Order Numbered 4501, dated August 28, 1926.

    Ch. 388 · 45 Stat. 1413 · February 28, 1929 · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of certain officers and former officers of the Army of the United States, and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department.

    Ch. 389 · 45 Stat. 2330 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of J. H. Sanborn.

    Ch. 390 · 45 Stat. 2334 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Etta C. Sanborn.

    Ch. 391 · 45 Stat. 2334 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of William F. Kallweit.

    Ch. 392 · 45 Stat. 2334 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Loretta Kallweit.

    Ch. 393 · 45 Stat. 2334 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of lieutenant L. A. Williams, Supply Corps, United States Navy.

    Ch. 394 · 45 Stat. 2335 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of contractors and subcontractors for the post offices and other buildings and work under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and for other purposes,” approved August 25, 1919, as amended by Act of March 6, 1920.

    Ch. 395 · 45 Stat. 2335 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Frank C. Messenger.

    Ch. 396 · 45 Stat. 2335 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Ruth B. Lincoln.

    Ch. 397 · 45 Stat. 2335 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of Hugh Anthony McGuigan.

    Ch. 398 · 45 Stat. 2336 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Robert O’Hagan, Supply Corps, United States Navy.

    Ch. 399 · 45 Stat. 2336 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Louise A. Wood.

    Ch. 400 · 45 Stat. 2336 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Johns-Manville Corporation.

    Ch. 401 · 45 Stat. 2336 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Oliver C. Macey and Marguerite Macey.

    Ch. 402 · 45 Stat. 2337 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of R. H. King.

    Ch. 403 · 45 Stat. 2337 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Gilliam Grissom.

    Ch. 404 · 45 Stat. 2337 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Mina Bintliff.

    Ch. 405 · 45 Stat. 2337 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Harry E. Good, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Ephraim N. Good, deceased.

    Ch. 406 · 45 Stat. 2338 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting a pension to Edith Bolling Wilson.

     Ch. 407 · 45 Stat. 2338 · February 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text