Every law Congress has passed

1,506 laws of the 71st Congress, 1929–1931

1. An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses of the legislative branch incident to the first session of the Seventy-first Congress.

   Ch. 1 · 46 Stat. 1 · April 26, 1929 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of the marine biological station at Key West, Florida.

   Ch. 2 · 46 Stat. 2 · April 29, 1929 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution To provide funds for the eradication, control, and prevention of the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly.

   Ch. 3 · 46 Stat. 2 · May 2, 1929 · Original text

4. An Act Making an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the United States Marine Band in attending the Confederate Veterans’ Reunion to be held at Charlotte, North Carolina, June 4 to June 7, inclusive, 1929.

   Ch. 4 · 46 Stat. 3 · May 9, 1929 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution To extend provisions of Public Resolution Numbered 92, Seventieth Congress, approved February 25, 1929.

   Ch. 5 · 46 Stat. 3 · May 17, 1929 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution To amend Public Resolution Numbered 89, Seventieth Congress, second session, approved February 20, 1929, entitled “Joint resolution to provide for accepting, ratifying, and confirming the cessions of certain islands of the Samoan group to the United States, and for other purposes.”

   Ch. 6 · 46 Stat. 3 · May 22, 1929 · Original text

7. An Act To provide for the study, investigation, and survey, for commemorative purposes, of battle fields in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia.

   Ch. 7 · 46 Stat. 4 · May 23, 1929 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to lend War Department equipment for use at the World Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America.

   Ch. 8 · 46 Stat. 4 · May 28, 1929 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Smithsonian Institution to convey suitable acknowledgment to John Gellatly for his offer to the Nation of his art collection and to include in its estimates of appropriations such sums as may be needful for the preservation and maintenance of the collection.

   Ch. 9 · 46 Stat. 5 · June 5, 1929 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution Extending until June 30, 1930, the availability of the appropriation for enlarging and relocating the Botanic Garden.

    Ch. 10 · 46 Stat. 5 · June 5, 1929 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution To provide an appropriation for payment to the widow of John J. Casey, late a Representative from the State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 11 · 46 Stat. 5 · June 5, 1929 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution Making appropriations for additional compensation for transportation of the mail by railroad routes in accordance with the increased rates fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

    Ch. 12 · 46 Stat. 5 · June 6, 1929 · Original text

13. Joint Resolution To amend the appropriation “Organizing the Naval Reserve, 1930.”

    Ch. 13 · 46 Stat. 6 · June 7, 1929 · Original text

14. An Act To amend subsection (a) of section 26 of the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended by the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, so as to authorize the allocation of the unallocated interest fund in accordance with the records of the Alien Property Custodian.

    Ch. 14 · 46 Stat. 6 · June 11, 1929 · Original text

15. An Act Making appropriations for the payment of certain judgments rendered against the Government by various United States courts.

    Ch. 15 · 46 Stat. 7 · June 12, 1929 · Original text

16. Joint Resolution To provide for the payment of certain expenses of the United States Pulaski Sesquicentennial Commission.

    Ch. 16 · 46 Stat. 8 · June 12, 1929 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation for the International Red Cross and Prisoners of War Conference at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929.

    Ch. 17 · 46 Stat. 8 · June 12, 1929 · Original text

18. An Act To continue, during the fiscal year 1930, Federal aid in rehabilitating farm lands in the areas devastated by floods in 1927.

    Ch. 18 · 46 Stat. 8 · June 13, 1929 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution To make available funds for carrying into effect the public resolution of February 20, 1929, as amended, concerning the cessions of certain islands of the Samoan group to the United States.

    Ch. 19 · 46 Stat. 9 · June 13, 1929 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution Amending an appropriation for a consolidated school at Belcourt, within the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, North Dakota.

    Ch. 20 · 46 Stat. 9 · June 13, 1929 · Original text

21. An Act To amend section 5 of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing Maynard D. Smith, his heirs, successors, and assigns to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Saint Clair River at or near Port Huron, Michigan,” approved March 2, 1929, and being Public Act Numbered 923 of the Seventieth Congress.

    Ch. 21 · 46 Stat. 10 · June 14, 1929 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the extension to the post-office building at Corinth, Mississippi.

    Ch. 22 · 46 Stat. 10 · June 14, 1929 · Original text

23. Joint Resolution To amend the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the American Hospital of Paris,” approved January 30, 1913.

    Ch. 23 · 46 Stat. 11 · June 14, 1929 · Original text

24. Agricultural Marketing Act

    An Act To establish a Federal Farm Board to promote the effective merchandising of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce, and to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other industries.

    Ch. 24 · 46 Stat. 11 · June 15, 1929 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution Making appropriations toward carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a municipal center in the District of Columbia,” approved February 28, 1929.

    Ch. 25 · 46 Stat. 19 · June 15, 1929 · Original text

26. An Act To amend section 5 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended.

    Ch. 26 · 46 Stat. 19 · June 17, 1929 · Original text

27. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 27 · 46 Stat. 20 · June 17, 1929 · Original text

28. An Act To provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress.

    Ch. 28 · 46 Stat. 21 · June 18, 1929 · Original text

29. An Act To authorize the State of West Virginia to acquire a bridge over the Kanawha River at Cabin Creek in said State and to acquire the right to construct a bridge over said river at Saint Albans in said State.

    Ch. 29 · 46 Stat. 27 · June 18, 1929 · Original text

30. An Act Making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the “Agricultural Marketing Act,” approved June 15, 1929.

    Ch. 30 · 46 Stat. 28 · June 18, 1929 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution To provide for the observance of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski.

    Ch. 31 · 46 Stat. 28 · June 18, 1929 · Original text

32. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of certain bridges, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 32 · 46 Stat. 29 · June 20, 1929 · Original text

33. An Act To fix the compensation of officers and employees of the legislative branch of the Government.

    Ch. 33 · 46 Stat. 32 · June 20, 1929 · Original text

34. An Act Extending the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the White River at or near Newport, Arkansas.

    Ch. 34 · 46 Stat. 39 · June 21, 1929 · Original text

35. An Act To extend the time for the construction of the bridge across the Chesapeake Bay.

    Ch. 35 · 46 Stat. 39 · June 21, 1929 · Original text

36. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation for expenses of participation by the United States in the meeting of the International Technical Consulting Committee on Radio Communications to be held at The Hague in September, 1929.

    Ch. 36 · 46 Stat. 39 · June 21, 1929 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution To authorize the President to accept the invitation of the Kingdom of Iceland to participate in the celebration of the one thousandth anniversary of the Althing and in connection therewith to present to the people of Iceland a statue of Leif Ericsson.

    Ch. 37 · 46 Stat. 40 · June 21, 1929 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in the International Petroleum Exposition at Tulsa, Oklahoma, to begin October 5, 1929.

    Ch. 38 · 46 Stat. 40 · June 22, 1929 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize and direct a survey to be made of the Escambia River and its tributaries, Alabama and Florida.

    Ch. 39 · 46 Stat. 41 · June 24, 1929 · Original text

40. An Act To amend subdivision (a) of section 1 of the Act entitled “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,” approved March 4, 1929.

    Ch. 40 · 46 Stat. 41 · June 24, 1929 · Original text

41. An Act To alter and amend an Act entitled “An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound, on the Pacific Coast, by the northern route,” approved July 2, 1864, and to alter and amend a joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution authorizing the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to issue its bonds for the construction of its road and to secure the same by mortgage, and for other purposes,” approved May 31, 1870; to declare forfeited to the United States certain claimed rights asserted by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, or the Northern Pacific Railway Company; to direct the institution and prosecution of proceedings looking to the adjustment of the grant, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 41 · 46 Stat. 41 · June 25, 1929 · Original text

42. Joint Resolution To repeal an Act approved March 2, 1929, entitled “An Act for the relief of C. C. Spiller, deceased,” and to provide for the relief of the estate of C. C. Spiller, deceased.

    Ch. 42 · 46 Stat. 1631 · June 28, 1929 · Private law · Original text

43. Joint Resolution Authorizing the postponement of the date of maturity of the principal of the indebtedness of the French Republic to the United States in respect of the purchase of surplus war supplies.

    Ch. 43 · 46 Stat. 44 · October 17, 1929 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for November, 1929, on the 27th day of that month.

    Ch. 44 · 46 Stat. 45 · November 21, 1929 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution To provide for the compensation of page boys of the Senate and House of Representatives during the entire month of November, 1929.

    Ch. 45 · 46 Stat. 45 · November 22, 1929 · Original text

46. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Wabasha, Minnesota.

    Ch. 1 · 46 Stat. 47 · December 13, 1929 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution Reducing rates of income tax for the calendar year 1929.

    Ch. 2 · 46 Stat. 47 · December 16, 1929 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution To amend the joint resolution establishing a Joint Commission on Airports, approved March 4, 1929.

    Ch. 3 · 46 Stat. 48 · December 16, 1929 · Original text

49. Joint Resolution Amending Public Resolution Numbered 108, Seventieth Congress.

    Ch. 4 · 46 Stat. 48 · December 16, 1929 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for December, 1929, on the 20th day of that month.

    Ch. 5 · 46 Stat. 48 · December 16, 1929 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the settlement of the indebtedness of the French Republic to the United States of America.

    Ch. 6 · 46 Stat. 48 · December 18, 1929 · Original text

52. An Act Continuing the powers and authority of the Federal Radio Commission under the Radio Act of 1927, as amended.

    Ch. 7 · 46 Stat. 50 · December 18, 1929 · Original text

53. Joint Resolution To provide an appropriation for expenses of participation by the United States in the naval conference to be held at London in 1930.

    Ch. 8 · 46 Stat. 50 · December 18, 1929 · Original text

54. An Act To provide for the construction of a building for the Supreme Court of the United States.

    Ch. 9 · 46 Stat. 51 · December 20, 1929 · Original text

55. Joint Resolution To provide additional appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1930 to cover certain emergencies.

    Ch. 10 · 46 Stat. 52 · December 20, 1929 · Original text

56. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Knox County, Tennessee, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Holston River at or near McBees Ferry in Knox County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 11 · 46 Stat. 52 · December 21, 1929 · Original text

57. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Knox County, Tennessee, and Anderson County, Tennessee, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Clinch River at or near Solway in Knox County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 12 · 46 Stat. 52 · December 21, 1929 · Original text

58. Joint Resolution Making an emergency appropriation for the control, prevention of the spread, and eradication of the Mediterranean fruit fly.

    Ch. 13 · 46 Stat. 53 · December 21, 1929 · Original text

59. An Act Providing for the advancement of Commander Richard E. Byrd, United States Navy, retired, to the grade of rear admiral on the retired list of the Navy.

    Ch. 14 · 46 Stat. 1633 · December 21, 1929 · Private law · Original text

60. 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. 15 · 46 Stat. 53 · December 23, 1929 · Original text

61. An Act Providing for a per capita payment of $25 to each enrolled member of the Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota from the funds standing to their credit in the Treasury of the United States.

    Ch. 16 · 46 Stat. 54 · December 23, 1929 · Original text

62. Joint Resolution Amending the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the erection for the sole use of the Pan American Union of an office building on the square of land lying between Eighteenth Street, C Street, and Virginia Avenue northwest, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia,” approved May 16, 1928.

    Ch. 17 · 46 Stat. 55 · December 23, 1929 · Original text

63. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River between Longview, Washington, and Rainier, Oregon.

    Ch. 18 · 46 Stat. 55 · December 26, 1929 · Original text

64. An Act To grant the consent of Congress to the Highway Department of the State of Tennessee to maintain 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. 19 · 46 Stat. 55 · January 11, 1930 · Original text

65. An Act To amend title 28, section 192, United States Code, in respect to the terms of court in the western judicial district of Virginia.

    Ch. 20 · 46 Stat. 56 · January 20, 1930 · Original text

66. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation for participation by the United States in the celebration of the one thousandth anniversary of the Althing, the National Parliament of Iceland.

    Ch. 21 · 46 Stat. 57 · January 20, 1930 · Original text

67. Joint Resolution Authorizing the appointment of an ambassador to Poland.

    Ch. 22 · 46 Stat. 57 · January 22, 1930 · Original text

68. Joint Resolution To authorize additional appropriations for the relief of Porto Rico.

    Ch. 23 · 46 Stat. 57 · January 22, 1930 · Original text

69. An Act Authorizing an appropriation for improvements upon the Government-owned land at Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia, the birthplace of George Washington.

    Ch. 24 · 46 Stat. 58 · January 23, 1930 · Original text

70. An Act To grant extensions of time on oil and gas prospecting permits.

    Ch. 25 · 46 Stat. 58 · January 23, 1930 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution To amend sections 3 and 4 of the Act entitled “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. 26 · 46 Stat. 59 · January 23, 1930 · Original text

72. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Jerome Bridge Company, a corporation, to maintain a bridge already constructed across the Gasconade River near Jerome, Missouri.

    Ch. 27 · 46 Stat. 60 · January 24, 1930 · Original text

73. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to lend to the Governor of Mississippi two hundred and fifty pyramidal tents, complete; fifteen 16 feet by 80 feet by 40 feet assembly tents; thirty 11 feet by 50 feet by 15 feet hospital-ward tents; ten thousand blankets, olive drab, numbered 4; five thousand pillowcases; five thousand canvas cots; five thousand cotton pillows; five thousand bed sacks; ten thousand bed sheets; twenty field ranges, numbered 1; ten field bake ovens; fifty water bags (for ice water); to be used at the encampment of the United Confederate Veterans, to be held at Biloxi, Mississippi, in June, 1930.

    Ch. 28 · 46 Stat. 60 · January 24, 1930 · Original text

74. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the construction of a highway bridge across the Hudson River between the cities of Albany and Rensselaer, New York.

    Ch. 29 · 46 Stat. 61 · January 24, 1930 · Original text

75. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River on the Dayton-Decatur Road between Rhea and Meigs Counties, Tennessee.

    Ch. 30 · 46 Stat. 61 · January 24, 1930 · Original text

76. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the High Way-Department of the State of Tennessee to construct a bridge across the Clinch River near Kingston, in Roane County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 31 · 46 Stat. 62 · January 24, 1930 · Original text

77. An Act To provide books and educational supplies free of charge to pupils of the public schools of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 32 · 46 Stat. 62 · January 31, 1930 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the support of the Federal Radio Commission during the fiscal year 1930 in accordance with the Act approved December 18, 1929.

    Ch. 33 · 46 Stat. 63 · February 1, 1930 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution For the appointment of a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives to investigate 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. 34 · 46 Stat. 63 · February 3, 1930 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution Providing for a study and review of the policies of the United States in Haiti.

    Ch. 35 · 46 Stat. 63 · February 6, 1930 · Original text

81. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Wabash Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Missouri River at or near Saint Charles, Missouri.

    Ch. 36 · 46 Stat. 64 · February 7, 1930 · Original text

82. An Act To legalize a combined sewer and submarine cable constructed under the Grand River near the pumping station on Market Avenue at Grand Rapids, Michigan.

    Ch. 37 · 46 Stat. 64 · February 7, 1930 · Original text

83. An Act To authorize the State of Nebraska to make additional use of Niobrara Island.

    Ch. 38 · 46 Stat. 64 · February 7, 1930 · Original text

84. An Act To extend, the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the water between the mainland at or near Cedar Point and Dauphin Island, Alabama.

    Ch. 39 · 46 Stat. 65 · February 7, 1930 · Original text

85. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of the approaches of the municipal bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 40 · 46 Stat. 65 · February 7, 1930 · Original text

86. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to enable the mothers and widows of the deceased soldiers, sailors, and marines of the American forces now interred in the cemeteries of Europe to make a pilgrimage to these cemeteries,” approved March 2, 1929.

    Ch. 41 · 46 Stat. 65 · February 7, 1930 · Original text

87. Joint Resolution To grant authority for the erection of a permanent building at the headquarters of the American National Red Cross, Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 42 · 46 Stat. 66 · February 7, 1930 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet an emergency caused by an outbreak of the pink bollworm in the State of Arizona.

    Ch. 43 · 46 Stat. 66 · February 7, 1930 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1930 for the cooperative construction of rural post roads.

    Ch. 44 · 46 Stat. 67 · February 7, 1930 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution To amend the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to provide for eradication of pink bollworm and authorizing an appropriation therefor,” approved May 21, 1928.

    Ch. 45 · 46 Stat. 67 · February 8, 1930 · Original text

91. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act granting permission to the State Highway Commission of the State of Tennessee to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River at Savannah, Hardin County, Tennessee, on the Savannah-Selmer Road.”

    Ch. 46 · 46 Stat. 68 · February 17, 1930 · Original text

92. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the Highway Department of the State of Tennessee to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River on the Waverly-Camden Road between Humphreys and Benton Counties, Tennessee.”

    Ch. 47 · 46 Stat. 68 · February 17, 1930 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for personal services in the office of the Treasurer of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930.

    Ch. 48 · 46 Stat. 69 · February 17, 1930 · Original text

94. An Act To amend section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Fort Donelson, Tennessee,” approved March 26, 1928.

    Ch. 49 · 46 Stat. 69 · February 18, 1930 · Original text

95. 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. 50 · 46 Stat. 69 · February 19, 1930 · Original text

96. An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Santa Rosa Sound, Florida.

    Ch. 51 · 46 Stat. 70 · February 19, 1930 · Original text

97. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the county of Armstrong, a county of the State of Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Allegheny River, at Kittanning, in the county of Armstrong, in the State of Pennsylvania,” approved February 16, 1928, and to extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of the bridge authorized thereby.

    Ch. 52 · 46 Stat. 70 · February 19, 1930 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution Authorizing an appropriation to defray the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the Inter-American Congress of Rectors, Deans, and Educators in General to be held at Habana, Cuba, on February 20, 1930.

    Ch. 53 · 46 Stat. 71 · February 19, 1930 · Original text

99. Joint Resolution Authorizing and requesting the President to extend invitations to foreign governments to be represented by delegates at the International Congress for the Blind to be held in the city of New York in 1931.

    Ch. 54 · 46 Stat. 71 · February 19, 1930 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for maintenance of the Senate Office Building

     Ch. 55 · 46 Stat. 71 · February 20, 1930 · Original text