Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of Margaret Vaughn.

   Ch. 608 · 45 Stat. 2351 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of J. D. Baldwin, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 609 · 45 Stat. 2352 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Minnie A. Travers.

   Ch. 610 · 45 Stat. 2352 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Pedro P. Alvarez.

   Ch. 611 · 45 Stat. 2352 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Charles McCoombe.

   Ch. 612 · 45 Stat. 2352 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of N. P. Nelson and Company.

   Ch. 613 · 45 Stat. 2352 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Captain Walter R. Gherardi, United States Navy.

   Ch. 614 · 45 Stat. 2353 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Ed. Snyder, William Paddock, Ed. Strike, and A. S. Heydeck.

   Ch. 615 · 45 Stat. 2353 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Leon Freidman.

   Ch. 616 · 45 Stat. 2353 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of E. M. Gillett and J. H. Swenarton.

    Ch. 617 · 45 Stat. 2354 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Moore L. Henry.

    Ch. 618 · 45 Stat. 2354 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Timothy Hanlon.

    Ch. 619 · 45 Stat. 2354 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Luc Mathias.

    Ch. 620 · 45 Stat. 2354 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of M. T. Nilan.

    Ch. 621 · 45 Stat. 2355 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of the H. J. Heinz Company, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

    Ch. 622 · 45 Stat. 2355 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of George Simpson and R. C. Dunbar.

    Ch. 623 · 45 Stat. 2355 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Harry C. Tasker.

    Ch. 624 · 45 Stat. 2355 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Ella Mae Rinks.

    Ch. 625 · 45 Stat. 2356 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of H. L. Redlingshafer for payments made in official capacity disallowed by the General Accounting Office.

    Ch. 626 · 45 Stat. 2356 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of H. E. Jones.

    Ch. 627 · 45 Stat. 2356 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Annie M. Lizenby.

    Ch. 628 · 45 Stat. 2356 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of William F. Goode.

    Ch. 629 · 45 Stat. 2357 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of F. M. Gray, Junior, Company.

    Ch. 630 · 45 Stat. 2357 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Maude A. Sanger.

    Ch. 631 · 45 Stat. 2357 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of George Heitkamp.

    Ch. 632 · 45 Stat. 2357 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Bertina Sand.

    Ch. 633 · 45 Stat. 2358 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of T. D. Randall and Company.

    Ch. 634 · 45 Stat. 2358 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Robert S. Ament.

    Ch. 635 · 45 Stat. 2358 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Kirby Hoon.

    Ch. 636 · 45 Stat. 2359 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To authorize the exchange of timber with the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company.

    Ch. 637 · 45 Stat. 2359 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of John F. Fleming.

    Ch. 638 · 45 Stat. 2359 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Chesley P. Key.

    Ch. 639 · 45 Stat. 2359 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of the First National Bank of Porter Oklahoma.

    Ch. 640 · 45 Stat. 2360 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of D. B. Heiner.

    Ch. 641 · 45 Stat. 2360 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Frank L. Merrifield.

    Ch. 642 · 45 Stat. 2360 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Marion M. Clark.

    Ch. 643 · 45 Stat. 2360 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of the Staunton Brick Company.

    Ch. 644 · 45 Stat. 2361 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Charles L. Dewey.

    Ch. 645 · 45 Stat. 2361 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of James J. Dower.

    Ch. 646 · 45 Stat. 2361 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of John R. Butler.

    Ch. 647 · 45 Stat. 2361 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of the widow of Edwin D. Morgan.

    Ch. 648 · 45 Stat. 2362 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Everett A. Dougherty.

    Ch. 649 · 45 Stat. 2362 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Felix Cole for losses incurred by him arising out of the performance of his duties in the American Consular Service.

    Ch. 650 · 45 Stat. 2362 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 651 · 45 Stat. 2362 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of John F O’Neil.

    Ch. 652 · 45 Stat. 2368 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of William C. Schmitt.

    Ch. 653 · 45 Stat. 2368 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Clotilda Freund.

    Ch. 654 · 45 Stat. 2368 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Jack Mattson.

    Ch. 655 · 45 Stat. 2369 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Helen Gray.

    Ch. 656 · 45 Stat. 2369 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act To compensate Eugenia Edwards, of Saluda, South Carolina, for allowances due and unpaid during the World War.

    Ch. 657 · 45 Stat. 2369 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To reimburse or compensate Captain John W. Elkins, junior, for part of salary retained by War Department and money turned over to same by him.

    Ch. 658 · 45 Stat. 2369 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of the estate of C. C. Spiller, deceased.

    Ch. 659 · 45 Stat. 2370 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Martha C. Booker, administratrix of the estate of Hunter R. Booker, deceased; H. H. Holt; and Annie V. Groome, administratrix of the estate of Nelson S. Groome, deceased.

    Ch. 660 · 45 Stat. 2370 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Alfred L. Diebolt, senior, and Alfred L. Diebolt, junior.

    Ch. 661 · 45 Stat. 2370 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of John Bowie.

    Ch. 662 · 45 Stat. 2371 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Dale S. Rice.

    Ch. 663 · 45 Stat. 2371 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth Quinerly Cummings.

    Ch. 664 · 45 Stat. 2371 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of Hugh Dortch.

    Ch. 665 · 45 Stat. 2372 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of E. Schaaf-Regelman.

    Ch. 665 · 45 Stat. 2372 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to execute a satisfaction of a certain mortgage given by the Twin City Forge and Foundry Company to the United States of America.

    Ch. 667 · 45 Stat. 2372 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Annie McColgan.

    Ch. 668 · 45 Stat. 2372 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Katherine Elizabeth Kerrigan Callaghan.

    Ch. 669 · 45 Stat. 2373 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act To repeal the provision of law granting a pension to Lottie A. Bowhall.

    Ch. 670 · 45 Stat. 2373 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act To repeal the provision of law granting a pension to Annie E. Springer.

    Ch. 671 · 45 Stat. 2373 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of Clyde H. Tavenner.

    Ch. 672 · 45 Stat. 2374 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of J. A. Smith.

    Ch. 673 · 45 Stat. 2374 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of A. Brizard (Incorporated).

    Ch. 674 · 45 Stat. 2374 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Josiah Harden.

    Ch. 675 · 45 Stat. 2374 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act Granting an honorable discharge to Pierce Dale Jackson.

    Ch. 676 · 45 Stat. 2375 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act Granting compensation to William T. Ring.

    Ch. 677 · 45 Stat. 2375 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of B. P. Stricklin.

    Ch. 678 · 45 Stat. 2375 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of James McGourty.

    Ch. 679 · 45 Stat. 2375 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Joseph Lee.

    Ch. 680 · 45 Stat. 2376 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Francis X. Callahan.

    Ch. 681 · 45 Stat. 2376 · March 2, 1929 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act To provide for the relocation of Michigan Avenue adjacent to the southerly boundary of the United States Soldiers’ Home grounds, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 682 · 45 Stat. 1543 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

76. An Act Relating to declarations of intention in naturalization proceedings.

    Ch. 683 · 45 Stat. 1545 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

77. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River at Entiat, Washington.

    Ch. 684 · 45 Stat. 1546 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

78. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Calumet River at or near One hundred and thirtieth Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

    Ch. 685 · 45 Stat. 1546 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

79. An Act Authorizing H. L. Cloud, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Canadian River, at or near Francis, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 686 · 45 Stat. 1546 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

80. An Act To supplement the last three paragraphs of section 5 of the Act of March 4, 1915 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 1161), as amended by the Act of March 21, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 458).

    Ch. 687 · 45 Stat. 1548 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

81. An Act Authorizing the acquisition of land in the District of Columbia and the construction thereon of two modern, high-temperature incinerators for the destruction of combustible refuse, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 688 · 45 Stat. 1549 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

82. An Act To carry into effect the twelfth article of the treaty between the United States and the Loyal Shawnee Indians proclaimed October 14, 1868.

    Ch. 689 · 45 Stat. 1550 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

83. An Act Making it a felony with penalty for certain aliens to enter the United States of America under certain conditions in violation of law.

    Ch. 690 · 45 Stat. 1551 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

84. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River at or near the Great Falls, and to authorize the use of certain Government land.

    Ch. 691 · 45 Stat. 1552 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

85. An Act Authorizing the New York Development Association, Inc., its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River near Alexandria Bay, New York.

    Ch. 692 · 45 Stat. 1552 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

86. An Act To establish the Teton National Park in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 693 · 45 Stat. 1553 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

87. An Act Transferring a portion of the lighthouse reservation, Ship Island, Mississippi, to the jurisdiction and control of the War Department.

    Ch. 694 · 45 Stat. 1556 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of former officers of the United States Naval Reserve Force and the United States Marine Corps Reserve who were released from active duty and disenrolled at places other than their homes or places of enrollment.

    Ch. 695 · 45 Stat. 1556 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

89. An Act To provide recognition for meritorious service by members of the police and fire departments of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 696 · 45 Stat. 1556 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

90. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Cairo, Illinois.

    Ch. 697 · 45 Stat. 1557 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

91. An Act To amend the Act approved June 22, 1926, entitled “An Act to amend that part of the Act approved August 29, 1916, relative to the retirement of captains, commanders, and lieutenant commanders in the line of the Navy.”

    Ch. 698 · 45 Stat. 1557 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

92. An Act To erect a national monument at Cowpens battle ground.

    Ch. 699 · 45 Stat. 1558 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

93. An Act To amend the second paragraph of section 4 of the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended.

    Ch. 700 · 45 Stat. 1558 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

94. An Act Continuing the powers and authority of the Federal Radio Commission under the Radio Act of 1927, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 701 · 45 Stat. 1559 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

95. An Act Authorizing Eugene Rheinfrank, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Maumee River at or near its mouth.

    Ch. 702 · 45 Stat. 1559 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

96. An Act To amend the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, as amended, by reducing the rates of interest on loans made by the Veterans’ Bureau upon the security of adjusted service certificates, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 703 · 45 Stat. 1561 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

97. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Niobrara, Nebraska.

    Ch. 704 · 45 Stat. 1562 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

98. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 705 · 45 Stat. 1562 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

99. First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929

    An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 706 · 45 Stat. 1607 · March 4, 1929 · Original text

100. Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929

     An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1929, and June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 707 · 45 Stat. 1623 · March 4, 1929 · Original text