Every law Congress has passed

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

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

   Ch. 701 · 45 Stat. 1859 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of F. C. Wallace.

   Ch. 702 · 45 Stat. 1860 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of R. P. Washam, F. A. Slate, W. H. Sanders, W. A. McGinnis, J. E. Lindsay, and J. T. Pearson.

   Ch. 703 · 45 Stat. 1860 · May 22, 1928 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To amend sections 57 and 61 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright,” approved March 4, 1909.

   Ch. 704 · 45 Stat. 713 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

5. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to widows and former widows of certain soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Civil War, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 705 · 45 Stat. 714 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize an appropriation to provide additional hospital, domiciliary, and out-patient dispensary facilities for persons entitled to hospitalization under the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 706 · 45 Stat. 715 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

7. An Act To reserve certain lands on the public domain in Valencia County, New Mexico, for the use and benefit of the Acoma Pueblo Indians.

   Ch. 707 · 45 Stat. 717 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

8. An Act To provide for the construction or purchase of one heavy seagoing Air Corps retriever for the War Department.

   Ch. 708 · 45 Stat. 717 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

9. An Act To provide for the construction or purchase of two motor mine yawls for the War Department.

   Ch. 709 · 45 Stat. 717 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

10. An Act To provide for the construction or purchase of two L boats for the War Department.

    Ch. 710 · 45 Stat. 718 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

11. An Act Authorizing an appropriation of $2,500 for the erection of a tablet or marker at Lititz, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the burial place of one hundred and ten American soldiers who were wounded in the Battle of Brandywine and died in the military hospital at Lititz.

    Ch. 711 · 45 Stat. 718 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

12. An Act To erect a tablet or marker to mark the site of the Battle of Kettle Creek, in Wilkes County, Georgia, where, on February 14, 1779, Elijah Clarke, of Georgia, and Colonel Pickens, of South Carolina, overtook the Tories under Colonel Boyd, killing him and many of his followers, thus ending British dominion in Georgia.

    Ch. 712 · 45 Stat. 718 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

13. An Act To amend an Act of Congress approved March 4, 1927 (Public, numbered 795, Sixty-ninth Congress), to provide for appointment as warrant officers of the Regular Army of such persons as would have been eligible therefor but for the interruption of their status, caused by military service rendered by them as commissioned officers during the World War.

    Ch. 713 · 45 Stat. 718 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

14. An Act To authorize the erection at Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, of a tablet or marker in commemoration of William Rufus King, former Vice President of the United States.

    Ch. 714 · 45 Stat. 719 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

15. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service.”

    Ch. 715 · 45 Stat. 719 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

16. An Act To recognize commissioned service in the Philippine Constabulary in determining rights of officers of the Regular Army.

    Ch. 716 · 45 Stat. 720 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

17. An Act For the construction of a private conduit across Lincoln Road northeast, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 717 · 45 Stat. 720 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

18. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the United States target range at Auburn, Maine,” approved May 19, 1926.

    Ch. 718 · 45 Stat. 720 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize and direct the survey, construction, and maintenance of a memorial highway to connect Mount Vernon, in the State of Virginia, with the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Washington.

    Ch. 719 · 45 Stat. 721 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of the land-grant railroad operated between the station formerly known as East Portland, in the State of Oregon, and Roseville, in the State of California.

    Ch. 720 · 45 Stat. 722 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

21. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to appoint three delegates to the Twenty-third International Congress of Americanists, and making an appropriation for the expenses of such congress.

    Ch. 721 · 45 Stat. 723 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution Providing for the participation of the United States in the celebration in 1929 and 1930 of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the conquest of the Northwest Territory by General George Rogers Clark and his army, and authorizing an appropriation for the construction of a permanent memorial of the Revolutionary War in the West, and of the accession of the Old Northwest to the United States on the site of Fort Sackville, which was captured by George Rogers Clark and his men February 25, 1779.

    Ch. 722 · 45 Stat. 723 · May 23, 1928 · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of the Lagrange Grocery Company.

    Ch. 723 · 45 Stat. 1860 · May 23, 1928 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Granting allowances for rent, fuel, light, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 724 · 45 Stat. 724 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

25. An Act To provide a differential in pay for night work in the Postal Service.

    Ch. 725 · 45 Stat. 725 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

26. An Act Amending the Act approved April 30, 1926, entitled “An Act amending the Act entitled ‘An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital,’ approved June 6, 1924.”

    Ch. 726 · 45 Stat. 726 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

27. An Act Authorizing Elmer J. Cook, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Bear Creek at or near Lovel Point, Baltimore County, Maryland.

    Ch. 727 · 45 Stat. 727 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the leasing of public lands for use as public aviation fields.

    Ch. 728 · 45 Stat. 728 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

29. An Act Authorizing The Kansas City Southern Railway Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River near Randolph, Missouri.

    Ch. 729 · 45 Stat. 729 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

30. An Act Amending the Statutes of the United States with respect to reissue of defective patents.

    Ch. 730 · 45 Stat. 732 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

31. An Act To extend the time for completing the constructing of a bridge across the Mississippi River near and above the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

    Ch. 731 · 45 Stat. 732 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

32. An Act Authorizing the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and the city of Omaha, Nebraska, or either of them, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Missouri River between Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska.

    Ch. 732 · 45 Stat. 733 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

33. An Act To amend section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the period of restrictions in lands of certain members of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes,” approved May 10, 1928.

    Ch. 733 · 45 Stat. 733 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

34. An Act To provide for the eradication or control of the European corn borer.

    Ch. 734 · 45 Stat. 734 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

35. An Act Making eligible for retirement, under certain conditions, officers and former officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States, other than officers of the Regular Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, who incurred physical disability in line of duty while in the service of the United States during the World War.

    Ch. 735 · 45 Stat. 735 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

36. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive, for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, two Siamese subjects, to be designated hereafter by the Government of Siam.

    Ch. 736 · 45 Stat. 737 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive, for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, two Chinese subjects, to be designated hereafter by the Government of China.

    Ch. 737 · 45 Stat. 737 · May 24, 1928 · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of James K. P. Welch.

    Ch. 738 · 45 Stat. 1861 · May 24, 1928 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of E. H. Jennings, F. L. Johanns, and Henry Blank, officers and employees of the post office at Charleston, South Carolina.

    Ch. 739 · 45 Stat. 1861 · May 24, 1928 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 740 · 45 Stat. 1861 · May 24, 1928 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act To provide for the extension of the time of certain mining leases of the coal and asphalt deposits in the segregated mineral land of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, and to permit an extension of time to the purchasers of the coal and asphalt deposits within the segregated mineral lands of the said nations to complete payments of the purchase price, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 741 · 45 Stat. 737 · May 25, 1928 · Original text

42. An Act Authorizing surveys and investigations to determine the best methods and means of utilizing the waters of the Gila River and its tributaries above the San Carlos Reservoir in New Mexico and Arizona.

    Ch. 742 · 45 Stat. 739 · May 25, 1928 · Original text

43. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer the Okanogan project, in the State of Washington, to the Okanogan irrigation district upon payment of charges stated.

    Ch. 743 · 45 Stat. 739 · May 25, 1928 · Original text

44. An Act Authorizing the State of Indiana, acting by and through the State highway commission, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Wabash River, at or near Vincennes, Indiana.

    Ch. 744 · 45 Stat. 740 · May 25, 1928 · Original text

45. An Act Authorizing the New Cumberland Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near New Cumberland, West Virginia.

    Ch. 745 · 45 Stat. 741 · May 25, 1928 · Original text

46. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Red River at or near Garland City, Arkansas.

    Ch. 746 · 45 Stat. 742 · May 25, 1928 · Original text

47. An Act To amend section 2 of an Act approved, February 14, 1926, granting consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge across Red River at or near Fulton, Arkansas.

    Ch. 747 · 45 Stat. 743 · May 25, 1928 · Original text

48. An Act To amend section 2 of an Act approved March 12, 1928, granting consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge across the Ouachita River at or near Calion, Arkansas.

    Ch. 748 · 45 Stat. 743 · May 25, 1928 · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Ella G. Richter, daughter of Henry W. Richter.

    Ch. 749 · 45 Stat. 1979 · May 25, 1928 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Higgins Lumber Company (Incorporated).

    Ch. 750 · 45 Stat. 1980 · May 25, 1928 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To authorize certain officers of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to accept such decorations, orders, and medals as have been tendered them by foreign governments in appreciation of services rendered.

    Ch. 751 · 45 Stat. 744 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

52. An Act To create a new division of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas.

    Ch. 752 · 45 Stat. 747 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

53. An Act To authorize a per capita payment to the Pine Ridge Sioux Indians of South Dakota.

    Ch. 753 · 45 Stat. 747 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

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

    Ch. 754 · 45 Stat. 748 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

55. 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. 755 · 45 Stat. 750 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

56. An Act To authorize an appropriation for roads on Indian reservations.

    Ch. 756 · 45 Stat. 750 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

57. An Act Granting certain land to the congregation of Saint Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

    Ch. 757 · 45 Stat. 751 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

58. An Act Authorizing the South Carolina and the Georgia State highway departments to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Savannah River at or near Burtons Ferry, near Sylvania, Georgia.

    Ch. 758 · 45 Stat. 751 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

59. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the boards of county commissioners of the counties of Escambia and Santa Rosa, in the State of Florida, to construct, maintain, and operate a free bridge across Santa Rosa Sound in the State of Florida.

    Ch. 759 · 45 Stat. 752 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to transfer or loan aeronautical equipment to museums and educational institutions.

    Ch. 760 · 45 Stat. 753 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the construction of a temporary railroad bridge across Bogue Chitto River at or near a point in township 5 south, range 13 east, Saint Helena meridian, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana.

    Ch. 761 · 45 Stat. 753 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

62. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Alabama State Bridge Corporation to construct, maintain, and operate bridges across the Tennessee, Tombigbee, Warrior, Alabama, and Coosa Rivers, within the State of Alabama.

    Ch. 762 · 45 Stat. 753 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

63. An Act Authorizing T. S. Hassell, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Clifton, Wayne County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 763 · 45 Stat. 755 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

64. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State highway commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Iuka, Kentucky.

    Ch. 764 · 45 Stat. 756 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

65. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Arkansas, through its State highway department, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across White River at or near Augusta, Arkansas.

    Ch. 765 · 45 Stat. 757 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

66. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to convey to the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a portion of the Baton Rouge national cemetery for use as a public street.

    Ch. 766 · 45 Stat. 758 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to accept title to the State camp for veterans at Bath, New York.

    Ch. 767 · 45 Stat. 758 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

68. An Act Providing for the transfer of a portion of the military reservation known as Camp Sherman, Ohio, to the Department of Justice.

    Ch. 768 · 45 Stat. 759 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

69. An Act Authorizing B. F. Peek, G. A. Shallberg, and C. I. Josephson, of Moline, Illinois; J. W. Bettendorf, A. J. Russell, and J. L. Hecht, of Bettendorf and Davenport, Iowa, their heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River, at or near Tenth Street in Bettendorf, State of Iowa.

    Ch. 769 · 45 Stat. 759 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

70. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of an overhead viaduct across the Mahoning River at or near Niles, Ohio.

    Ch. 770 · 45 Stat. 761 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

71. 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 Aitkin, Minnesota.

    Ch. 771 · 45 Stat. 761 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

72. An Act Authorizing D. T. Hargraves and John W. Dulaney, their heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Helena, Arkansas.

    Ch. 772 · 45 Stat. 762 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

73. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Cook, State of Illinois, to widen, maintain, and operate the existing bridge across the Little Calumet River in Cook County, State of Illinois.

    Ch. 773 · 45 Stat. 763 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

74. An Act To legalize a pier and wharf in Deer Island thoroughfare on the northerly side at the southeast end of Buckmaster Neck at the town of Stonington, Maine.

    Ch. 774 · 45 Stat. 764 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

75. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the Gateway Bridge Company for construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico,” approved February 26, 1926.

    Ch. 775 · 45 Stat. 764 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

76. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande at or near a point two miles south of the town of Tornillo, Texas.

    Ch. 776 · 45 Stat. 765 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

77. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Fisher Lumber Corporation to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Tensas River in Louisiana.

    Ch. 777 · 45 Stat. 765 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

78. An Act Authorizing the sale of all of the interest and rights of the United States of America in the Columbia Arsenal property, situated in the ninth civil district of Maury County, Tennessee, and providing that the net fund be deposited in the military post construction fund.

    Ch. 778 · 45 Stat. 766 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

79. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to provide an escort for the bodies of deceased officers, enlisted men, and nurses.

    Ch. 779 · 45 Stat. 767 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

80. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River, at or near Starks, Louisiana.

    Ch. 780 · 45 Stat. 767 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

81. An Act Authorizing J. H. Harvell, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across New River at or near McCreery, Raleigh County, West Virginia.

    Ch. 781 · 45 Stat. 767 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

82. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Allegheny River at or near the borough of Eldred, McKean County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 782 · 45 Stat. 769 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

83. An Act Authorizing the Ripley Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Ripley, Ohio.

    Ch. 783 · 45 Stat. 769 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

84. An Act Authorizing the Northwest Florida Corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Perdido Bay, at or near Inerarity Point in Escambia County, Florida, to the mainland of Baldwin County, Alabama.

    Ch. 784 · 45 Stat. 771 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

85. An Act To amend an Act to authorize the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to make certain disposition of condemned ordnance, guns, projectiles, and other condemned material in their respective departments.

    Ch. 785 · 45 Stat. 773 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

86. An Act To amend section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the use for permanent construction at military posts of the proceeds from the sale of surplus War Department real property, and authorizing the sale of certain military reservations, and for other purposes,” approved March 12, 1926.

    Ch. 786 · 45 Stat. 773 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

87. An Act To amend section 17 of the Act of June 10, 1922, entitled “An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service,” as amended.

    Ch. 787 · 45 Stat. 774 · May 26, 1928 · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of the widow of Surgeon Mervin W. Glover, United States Public Health Service, deceased.

    Ch. 788 · 45 Stat. 1980 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of A. F. Gallagher.

    Ch. 789 · 45 Stat. 1980 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Frank E. Shults.

    Ch. 790 · 45 Stat. 1980 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of the Pocahontas Fuel Company (Incorporated).

    Ch. 791 · 45 Stat. 1980 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting six months’ pay to Alexander Gingras, father of Louis W. Gingras, deceased private, United States Marine Corps, in active service.

    Ch. 792 · 45 Stat. 1981 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting six months’ pay to Lucy B. Knox.

    Ch. 793 · 45 Stat. 1981 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Daniel Mangan.

    Ch. 794 · 45 Stat. 1981 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting six months’ pay to Frank A. Grab.

    Ch. 795 · 45 Stat. 1981 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of William Morin.

    Ch. 796 · 45 Stat. 1982 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Emile Genireux.

    Ch. 797 · 45 Stat. 1982 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Joseph S. Carroll.

    Ch. 798 · 45 Stat. 1982 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting six months’ pay to Vincentia V. Irwin.

    Ch. 799 · 45 Stat. 1983 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of the owners of the schooner William Melbourne.

     Ch. 800 · 45 Stat. 1983 · May 26, 1928 · Private law · Original text