Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To amend the Act of February 8, 1895, entitled “An Act to regulate navigation on the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters.”

   Ch. 601 · 45 Stat. 593 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the appropriation for use by the Secretary of Agriculture of certain funds for wool standards, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 602 · 45 Stat. 593 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

3. An Act To amend the Air Mail Act of February 2, 1925, as amended by the Act of June 3, 1926.

   Ch. 603 · 45 Stat. 594 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

4. An Act To amend section 11 of an Act approved February 28, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1064, United States Code, title 39, section 823), granting sick leave to employees in the Postal Service, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 604 · 45 Stat. 594 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

5. An Act Providing for the confirmation of grant of lands formerly the United States barracks at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to the board of supervisors of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.

   Ch. 605 · 45 Stat. 595 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

6. An Act To revise and codify the laws of the Canal Zone.

   Ch. 606 · 45 Stat. 596 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

7. An Act To provide for the completion and repair of customs buildings in Porto Rico.

   Ch. 607 · 45 Stat. 596 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

8. An Act Amending section 5 of the Act approved June 9, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 218), so as to authorize the sale of timber on class three of the Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay wagon-road grant lands.

   Ch. 608 · 45 Stat. 597 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

9. An Act To provide for the membership of the Board of Visitors, United States Military Academy, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 609 · 45 Stat. 597 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

10. An Act To amend chapter 137 of volume 39 of the United States Statutes at Large, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session.

    Ch. 610 · 45 Stat. 597 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

11. An Act To add certain lands to the Missoula National Forest, Montana.

    Ch. 611 · 45 Stat. 598 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

12. An Act To provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 612 · 45 Stat. 600 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

13. An Act To transfer to the city of Duluth, Minnesota, the old Federal Building, together with the site thereof.

    Ch. 613 · 45 Stat. 600 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

14. An Act To change the boundaries of the Tule River Indian Reservation, California.

    Ch. 614 · 45 Stat. 600 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

15. Joint Resolution Granting an easement to the city of Duluth, Minnesota.

    Ch. 615 · 45 Stat. 601 · May 17, 1928 · Original text

16. An Act Validating homestead entry of Englehard Sperstad for certain public land in Alaska.

    Ch. 616 · 45 Stat. 1851 · May 17, 1928 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Francis Sweeney.

    Ch. 617 · 45 Stat. 1852 · May 17, 1928 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Elmer J. Nead.

    Ch. 618 · 45 Stat. 1852 · May 17, 1928 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to allow Norman P. Ives, junior, credit on other lands for compliances made in homestead entry, Gainesville, 021032.

    Ch. 619 · 45 Stat. 1852 · May 17, 1928 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Sallie E. McQueen and Janie McQueen Parker.

    Ch. 620 · 45 Stat. 1852 · May 17, 1928 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell to W. H. Walker, Ruth T. Walker, and Queen E. Walker, upon the payment of $1.25 per acre, the southeast quarter section 34, township 2 north, range 14 east, Choctaw meridian, Clarke County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 621 · 45 Stat. 1853 · May 17, 1928 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents to Ethel L. Saunders, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 622 · 45 Stat. 1853 · May 17, 1928 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act To confer additional jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims under an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota to submit claims to the Court of Claims,” approved May 14, 1926.

    Ch. 623 · 45 Stat. 601 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

24. An Act Authorizing the attorney general of the State of California to bring suit in the Court of Claims on behalf of the Indians of California.

    Ch. 624 · 45 Stat. 602 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

25. An Act To extend medical and hospital relief to retired officers and retired enlisted men of the United States Coast Guard.

    Ch. 625 · 45 Stat. 603 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

26. An Act Authorizing an appropriation to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions of the Act of May 26, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 655), to make additions to the Absaroka and Gallatin National Forests, and to improve and extend the winter-feed facilities of the elk, antelope, and other game animals of Yellowstone National Park and adjacent land.

    Ch. 626 · 45 Stat. 603 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

27. An Act Authorizing the Calhoun Bridge Company, an Illinois corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Illinois River at or near Grafton, Illinois.

    Ch. 627 · 45 Stat. 604 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

28. 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 the Newport-Asheville (North Carolina) Road near the town of Del Rio in Cocke County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 628 · 45 Stat. 606 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

29. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near the mouth of Clarks River.

    Ch. 629 · 45 Stat. 607 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

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

    Ch. 630 · 45 Stat. 607 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

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

    Ch. 631 · 45 Stat. 608 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

32. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Eggners Ferry, Kentucky.

    Ch. 632 · 45 Stat. 608 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

33. An Act Authorizing H. L. McKee, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Lake Sabine at or near Port Arthur, Texas.

    Ch. 633 · 45 Stat. 609 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

34. An Act Authorizing the State of Texas and the State of Louisiana to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River at or near Pendleton’s Ferry.

    Ch. 634 · 45 Stat. 611 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

35. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the South Fork of the Cumberland River at or near Burnside, Pulaski County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 635 · 45 Stat. 612 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

36. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Neelys Ferry in Cumberland County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 636 · 45 Stat. 612 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

37. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Burkesville, Cumberland County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 637 · 45 Stat. 613 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

38. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River, at or near Arat, Cumberland County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 638 · 45 Stat. 614 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Center Point in Monroe County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 639 · 45 Stat. 614 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

40. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Creelsboro, in Russell County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 640 · 45 Stat. 615 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

41. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Burnside, Pulaski County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 641 · 45 Stat. 615 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

42. An Act Authorizing the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near the mouth of Indian Creek in Russell County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 642 · 45 Stat. 616 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

43. Joint Resolution Designating May 1 as Child Health Day.

    Ch. 643 · 45 Stat. 617 · May 18, 1928 · Original text

44. An Act To authorize allotments to unallotted Indians on the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming.

    Ch. 644 · 45 Stat. 617 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

45. An Act Authorizing the construction of a fence along the east boundary of the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona.

    Ch. 645 · 45 Stat. 617 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

46. An Act For the purchase of land in the vicinity of Winnemucca, Nevada, for an Indian colony, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 646 · 45 Stat. 618 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

47. An Act To amend the second paragraph of section 5 of the National Defense Act, as amended by the Act of September 22, 1922, by adding thereto a provision that will authorize the names of certain graduates of the General Service Schools and of the Army War College, not at present eligible for selection to the General Staff Corps eligible list, to be added to that list.

    Ch. 647 · 45 Stat. 618 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

48. 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 bell in use on the cruiser New Orleans.

    Ch. 648 · 45 Stat. 619 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

49. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to equitably adjust disputes and claims of settlers and others against the United States and between each other arising from incomplete or faulty surveys in township 19 south, range 26 east, and in sections 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 30, 31, township 19 south, range 27 east, Tallahassee meridian, Lake County, in the State of Florida.

    Ch. 649 · 45 Stat. 619 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

50. An Act To enable an enlisted man in the naval service to make good time lost in excess of one day under certain conditions.

    Ch. 650 · 45 Stat. 620 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

51. An Act Authorizing the Detroit River Canadian Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Detroit River at or near Stony Island, Wayne County, State of Michigan.

    Ch. 651 · 45 Stat. 620 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

52. An Act Withdrawing from entry the northwest quarter section 12, township 30 north, range 19 east, Montana meridian.

    Ch. 652 · 45 Stat. 621 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

53. An Act To repeal an Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of the homestead laws to certain lands in the Yellowstone forest reserve,” approved March 15, 1906.

    Ch. 653 · 45 Stat. 622 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

54. An Act To repeal the proviso of section 6 and the last proviso of section 7 of “An Act to establish the Mount McKinley National Park, in the Territory of Alaska,” approved February 26, 1917.

    Ch. 654 · 45 Stat. 622 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

55. An Act To provide for the acquisition of certain property in the District of Columbia for the Library of Congress, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 655 · 45 Stat. 622 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

56. An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 656 · 45 Stat. 624 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

57. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to accept a deed to certain land and issue patent therefor to the city of Buhl, Twin Falls County, Idaho.

    Ch. 657 · 45 Stat. 644 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

58. An Act To acquire an area of State land situate in Lassen Volcanic National Park, State of California, by exchange.

    Ch. 658 · 45 Stat. 644 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

59. 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, 1929, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 659 · 45 Stat. 645 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

60. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes,” approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 660 · 45 Stat. 683 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

61. An Act To fix the compensation of registers of local land offices, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 661 · 45 Stat. 684 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

62. An Act To continue the allowance of Sioux benefits.

    Ch. 662 · 45 Stat. 684 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

63. An Act To set aside certain lands for the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 663 · 45 Stat. 684 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

64. An Act To fix standards for hampers, round stave baskets, and splint baskets for fruits and vegetables, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 664 · 45 Stat. 685 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

65. Joint Resolution To provide for eradication of pink bollworm and authorizing an appropriation therefor.

    Ch. 665 · 45 Stat. 688 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

66. Joint Resolution Authorizing the president and fellows of Harvard College to erect on public grounds in the District of Columbia a monument to Major General Artemas Ward.

    Ch. 666 · 45 Stat. 689 · May 21, 1928 · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Cromwell L. Barsley.

    Ch. 667 · 45 Stat. 1853 · May 21, 1928 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of William Roderick Dorsey and other officers of the Foreign Service of the United States, who, while serving abroad, suffered by theft, robbery, fire, embezzlement, or bank failures losses of official funds.

    Ch. 668 · 45 Stat. 1853 · May 21, 1928 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Maurice P. Dunlap.

    Ch. 669 · 45 Stat. 1855 · May 21, 1928 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Frank E. Ridgely, deceased.

    Ch. 670 · 45 Stat. 1855 · May 21, 1928 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon certain courts of the United States to hear and determine the claim by the owner of the steamship City of Beaumont against the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 671 · 45 Stat. 1855 · May 21, 1928 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act To correct the military record of Charles E. Lowe.

    Ch. 672 · 45 Stat. 1856 · May 21, 1928 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Albert Campbell.

    Ch. 673 · 45 Stat. 1856 · May 21, 1928 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To authorize the purchase at private sale of a tract of land in Louisiana, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 674 · 45 Stat. 1856 · May 21, 1928 · Private law · Original text

75. Merchant Marine Act, 1928

    An Act To further develop an American merchant marine, to assure its permanence in the transportation of the foreign trade of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 675 · 45 Stat. 689 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the collection, in monthly installments, of indebtedness due the United States from enlisted men, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 676 · 45 Stat. 698 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

77. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to transfer and convey to the Portland Water District, a municipal corporation, the water pipe line including the submarine water main connecting Fort McKinley, Maine, with the water system of the Portland Water District, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 677 · 45 Stat. 699 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

78. An Act To insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 678 · 45 Stat. 699 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

79. An Act Authorizing the Saint Croix Interstate Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Saint Croix River near Grantsburg, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 679 · 45 Stat. 702 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the adjustment and settlement of claims for armory drill pay.

    Ch. 680 · 45 Stat. 704 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

81. 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 Kansas City, Kansas.

    Ch. 681 · 45 Stat. 704 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

82. An Act Authorizing Henry Horsey, Winfield Scott, A. L. Ballegoin, and Frank Schee, their heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Des Moines River at or near Croton, Iowa.

    Ch. 682 · 45 Stat. 706 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

83. An Act Authorizing H. A. Hinder, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Niobrara, Nebraska.

    Ch. 683 · 45 Stat. 708 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

84. An Act To create a board of local inspectors, Steamboat Inspection Service, at Hoquiam, Washington.

    Ch. 684 · 45 Stat. 710 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

85. An Act To authorize payment of six months’ death gratuity to dependent relative of officers, enlisted men, or nurses whose death results from wounds or disease not resulting from their own misconduct.

    Ch. 685 · 45 Stat. 710 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

86. An Act To add certain lands to the Montezuma National Forest, Colorado, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 686 · 45 Stat. 711 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

87. An Act To provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of the Act entitled “An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,” approved July 2, 1862, and al Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture.

    Ch. 687 · 45 Stat. 711 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

88. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to advance public funds to naval personnel under certain conditions.

    Ch. 688 · 45 Stat. 712 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

89. An Act To provide for the paving of the Government road, known as the Ringgold Road, extending from Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, in the State of Georgia, to the town of Ringgold, Georgia, constituting an approach road to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.

    Ch. 689 · 45 Stat. 712 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States to accept a monumental urn to be presented by the Republic of Cuba, and providing for its erection on an appropriate site on the public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 690 · 45 Stat. 713 · May 22, 1928 · Original text

91. An Act To approve a deed of conveyance of certain land in the Seneca Oil Spring Reservation, New York.

    Ch. 691 · 45 Stat. 1857 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Louie June.

    Ch. 692 · 45 Stat. 1857 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting relief to Havert S. Sealy and Porteus R. Burke.

    Ch. 693 · 45 Stat. 1857 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Charles R. Sies.

    Ch. 694 · 45 Stat. 1858 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of the Press Publishing Company, Marianna, Arkansas.

    Ch. 695 · 45 Stat. 1858 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of John P. Stafford.

    Ch. 696 · 45 Stat. 1858 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Jesse W. Boisseau.

    Ch. 697 · 45 Stat. 1858 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Granting six months’ pay to Constance D. Lathrop.

    Ch. 698 · 45 Stat. 1858 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Joseph F. Friend.

    Ch. 699 · 45 Stat. 1859 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act To ratify the action of a local board of sales control in respect of contracts between the United States and the West Point Wholesale Grocery Company, of West Point, Georgia.

     Ch. 700 · 45 Stat. 1859 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text