Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To authorize the Public Health Service to provide medical service in the Federal prisons.

   Ch. 256 · 46 Stat. 273 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

2. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Arkansas State Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the White River at or near Sylamore, Arkansas.

   Ch. 257 · 46 Stat. 273 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

3. An Act To authorize the sale of the Government property acquired for a post-office site in Binghamton, New York.

   Ch. 258 · 46 Stat. 273 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the sale of the Government property acquired for a post-office site in Akron, Ohio.

   Ch. 259 · 46 Stat. 274 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

5. An Act To authorize the exchange of certain lands adjoining the Catoosa Springs (Georgia) Target Range.

   Ch. 260 · 46 Stat. 274 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

6. An Act To sell the present post-office site and building at Dover, Delaware.

   Ch. 261 · 46 Stat. 275 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the acquisition for military purposes of land in the county of Montgomery, State of Alabama, for use as an addition to Maxwell Field.

   Ch. 262 · 46 Stat. 275 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

8. An Act Authorizing conveyance to the city of Trenton, New Jersey, of title to a portion of the site of the present Federal building in that city.

   Ch. 263 · 46 Stat. 275 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

9. An Act To dedicate for street purposes a portion of the old post-office site at Wichita, Kansas.

   Ch. 264 · 46 Stat. 276 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

10. An Act To amend the Act of Congress approved May 29, 1928, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to accept title to certain real estate, subject to a reservation of mineral rights in favor of the Blackfeet Tribe of Indians.

    Ch. 265 · 46 Stat. 276 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

11. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Wellsburg, West Virginia.

    Ch. 266 · 46 Stat. 276 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

12. 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 be held October 4 to October 11, 1930, inclusive.

    Ch. 267 · 46 Stat. 277 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

13. Joint Resolution Authorizing the settlement of the case of United States against the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company, pending in the United States District Court in and for the District of Delaware.

    Ch. 268 · 46 Stat. 277 · May 13, 1930 · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Julius Victor Keller.

    Ch. 269 · 46 Stat. 1745 · May 13, 1930 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act To add certain lands to the Fremont National Forest in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 270 · 46 Stat. 278 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

16. An Act To authorize exchanges of lands with owners of private land holdings within the Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona.

    Ch. 271 · 46 Stat. 278 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

17. An Act To establish the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 272 · 46 Stat. 279 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

18. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 273 · 46 Stat. 279 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

19. An Act To reorganize the administration of Federal prisons; to authorize the Attorney General to contract for the care of United States prisoners; to establish Federal jails, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 274 · 46 Stat. 325 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

20. An Act Authorizing the establishment of a national hydraulic laboratory in the Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce and the construction of a building therefor.

    Ch. 275 · 46 Stat. 327 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

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

    Ch. 276 · 46 Stat. 328 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize a necessary increase in the White House police force.

    Ch. 277 · 46 Stat. 328 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 278 · 46 Stat. 329 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

24. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Carrollton, Kentucky.

    Ch. 279 · 46 Stat. 333 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

25. 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 Dandridge-Newport Road, in Jefferson County, Tennessee.

    Ch. 280 · 46 Stat. 333 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution Authorizing and requesting the President to extend to foreign governments and individuals an invitation to join the Government and people of the United States in the observance of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia

    Ch. 281 · 46 Stat. 333 · May 14, 1930 · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Lyma Van Winkle.

    Ch. 282 · 46 Stat. 1745 · May 14, 1930 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Drinkard B. Milner.

    Ch. 283 · 46 Stat. 1745 · May 14, 1930 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Albert L. Loban.

    Ch. 284 · 46 Stat. 1745 · May 14, 1930 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To provide funds for cooperation with the school board at Browning, Montana, in the extension of the high-school building to be available to Indian children of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 285 · 46 Stat. 334 · May 15, 1930 · Original text

31. An Act For the disposal of combustible refuse from places outside of the city of Washington.

    Ch. 286 · 46 Stat. 334 · May 15, 1930 · Original text

32. An Act To amend the Act of March 2, 1929, 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.”

    Ch. 287 · 46 Stat. 334 · May 15, 1930 · Original text

33. An Act Providing for a study regarding the construction of a highway to connect the northwestern part of the United States with British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Alaska in cooperation with the Dominion of Canada.

    Ch. 288 · 46 Stat. 335 · May 15, 1930 · Original text

34. An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 289 · 46 Stat. 335 · May 15, 1930 · Original text

35. An Act Authorizing the erection of a sanitary fireproof hospital at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Togus, Maine.

    Ch. 290 · 46 Stat. 366 · May 16, 1930 · Original text

36. An Act To regulate, the height, exterior design, and construction of private and semipublic buildings in certain areas of the National Capital.

    Ch. 291 · 46 Stat. 366 · May 16, 1930 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the disposal of public land classified as temporarily or permanently unproductive on Federal irrigation projects.

    Ch. 292 · 46 Stat. 367 · May 16, 1930 · Original text

38. An Act To authorize the United States Veterans’ Bureau to pave the road running north and south immediately east of and adjacent to Hospital Numbered 90, at Muskogee, Oklahoma, and to authorize the use of $4,950 of funds appropriated for hospital purposes, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 293 · 46 Stat. 368 · May 16, 1930 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the transfer of Government-owned land at Dodge City, Kansas, for public-building purposes.

    Ch. 294 · 46 Stat. 368 · May 16, 1930 · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Viktor Pettersson.

    Ch. 295 · 46 Stat. 1746 · May 16, 1930 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of A. O. Gibbens.

    Ch. 296 · 46 Stat. 1746 · May 16, 1930 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act To aid the Grand Army of the Republic in its Memorial Day services, May 30, 1930.

    Ch. 297 · 46 Stat. 369 · May 19, 1930 · Original text

43. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to extend the time for cutting and removing timber upon certain revested and reconveyed lands in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 298 · 46 Stat. 369 · May 19, 1930 · Original text

44. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near New Martinsville, West Virginia.

    Ch. 299 · 46 Stat. 369 · May 19, 1930 · Original text

45. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Moundsville, West Virginia.

    Ch. 300 · 46 Stat. 370 · May 19, 1930 · Original text

46. An Act To provide for the sale of the old post office and courthouse building and site at Syracuse, New York.

    Ch. 301 · 46 Stat. 370 · May 19, 1930 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution To carry out certain obligations to certain enrolled Indians under tribal agreement.

    Ch. 302 · 46 Stat. 370 · May 19, 1930 · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the payment of an indemnity to the owner of the British steamship Kyleakin for damages sustained as a result of a collision between that vessel and the United States ship William O’Brien.

    Ch. 303 · 46 Stat. 1746 · May 19, 1930 · Private law · Original text

49. 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. 304 · 46 Stat. 1747 · May 19, 1930 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of A. J. Morgan.

    Ch. 305 · 46 Stat. 1831 · May 19, 1930 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To provide for a five-year construction and maintenance program for the United States Bureau of Fisheries.

    Ch. 306 · 46 Stat. 371 · May 21, 1930 · Original text

52. An Act Providing for the lease of oil and gas deposits in or under railroad and other rights of way.

    Ch. 307 · 46 Stat. 373 · May 21, 1930 · Original text

53. An Act Providing for the erection at Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, of a monument in commemoration of William Rufus King, former Vice President of the United States.

    Ch. 308 · 46 Stat. 374 · May 21, 1930 · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of C. L. Beardsley.

    Ch. 309 · 46 Stat. 1831 · May 21, 1930 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act To provide for the erection of a marker or tablet to the memory of Colonel Benjamin Hawkins at Roberta, Georgia, or some other place in Crawford County, Georgia.

    Ch. 310 · 46 Stat. 375 · May 22, 1930 · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of retired and transferred members of the Naval Reserve Force, Naval Reserve, and Marine Corps Reserve.

    Ch. 311 · 46 Stat. 375 · May 23, 1930 · Original text

57. An Act To provide for plant patents.

    Ch. 312 · 46 Stat. 376 · May 23, 1930 · Original text

58. An Act To extend the provisions of section 2465 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 43, see. 1171), as amended, to coal lands in Alabama.

    Ch. 313 · 46 Stat. 377 · May 23, 1930 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the Postmaster General to impose demurrage charges on undelivered collect-on-delivery parcels.

    Ch. 314 · 46 Stat. 377 · May 23, 1930 · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the transfer of the former naval radio station, Seawall, Maine, as an addition to the Acadia National Park.

    Ch. 315 · 46 Stat. 377 · May 23, 1930 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to dispose of material no longer needed by the Navy.

    Ch. 316 · 46 Stat. 378 · May 23, 1930 · Original text

62. An Act To eliminate certain land from the Tusayan National Forest, Arizona, as an addition to the Western Navajo Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 317 · 46 Stat. 378 · May 23, 1930 · Original text

63. Joint Resolution Authorizing the presentation of medals to the officers and men of the Byrd antarctic expedition.

    Ch. 318 · 46 Stat. 379 · May 23, 1930 · Original text

64. An Act Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and so forth, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.

    Ch. 319 · 46 Stat. 1832 · May 23, 1930 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act To establish and operate a National Institute of Health, to create a system of fellowships in said institute, and to authorize the Government to accept donations for use in ascertaining the cause, prevention, and cure of disease affecting human beings, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 320 · 46 Stat. 379 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

66. An Act Granting certain lands to the city of Sault Sainte Marie, State of Michigan.

    Ch. 321 · 46 Stat. 380 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

67. An Act To enable the Secretary of War to accomplish the construction of approaches and surroundings, together with the necessary adjacent roadways, to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.

    Ch. 322 · 46 Stat. 381 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

68. An Act To legalize a bridge across Saint Johns River two and one-half miles southerly of Green Cove Springs, Florida.

    Ch. 323 · 46 Stat. 381 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

69. An Act To facilitate the administration of the national parks by the United States Department of the Interior, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 324 · 46 Stat. 381 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

70. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the South Fork of the Cumberland River at or near Burnside, Pulaski County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 325 · 46 Stat. 383 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

71. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Burnside, Pulaski County, Kentucky.

    Ch. 326 · 46 Stat. 383 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

72. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Canton, Kentucky.

    Ch. 327 · 46 Stat. 384 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

73. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Eggners Ferry, Kentucky.

    Ch. 328 · 46 Stat. 384 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

74. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Maysville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 329 · 46 Stat. 384 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the appointment of an Assistant Commissioner of Education in the Department of the Interior.

    Ch. 330 · 46 Stat. 384 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

76. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at Mound City, Illinois.

    Ch. 331 · 46 Stat. 385 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

77. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.

    Ch. 332 · 46 Stat. 385 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

78. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease any or all of the remaining tribal lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations for oil and gas purposes, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 333 · 46 Stat. 385 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

79. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the White River at or near Calico Rock, Arkansas.

    Ch. 334 · 46 Stat. 386 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

80. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the White River at or near Clarendon, Arkansas.

    Ch. 335 · 46 Stat. 386 · May 26, 1930 · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of the State of Georgia for damage to and destruction of roads and bridges by floods in 1929.

    Ch. 336 · 46 Stat. 386 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

82. An Act To facilitate and simplify national-forest administration.

    Ch. 337 · 46 Stat. 387 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

83. An Act To provide for a ferry and a highway near the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal.

    Ch. 338 · 46 Stat. 388 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

84. An Act Establishing two institutions for the confinement of United States prisoners.

    Ch. 339 · 46 Stat. 388 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

85. An Act To provide for the diversification of employment of Federal prisoners, for their training and schooling in trades and occupations, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 340 · 46 Stat. 391 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

86. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 341 · 46 Stat. 392 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

87. Prohibition Reorganization Act of 1930

    An Act To transfer to the Attorney General certain functions in the administration of the National Prohibition Act, to create a Bureau of Prohibition in the Department of Justice, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 342 · 46 Stat. 427 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

88. An Act Authorizing reconstruction and improvement of a public road in Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming.

    Ch. 343 · 46 Stat. 430 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

89. An Act To provide for an Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations.

    Ch. 344 · 46 Stat. 430 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for miscellaneous items, contingent fund of the House of Representatives.

    Ch. 345 · 46 Stat. 431 · May 27, 1930 · Original text

91. An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge for the district of Minnesota.

    Ch. 346 · 46 Stat. 431 · May 28, 1930 · Original text

92. An Act To authorize the erection of a marker upon the site of New Echota, capital of the Cherokee Indians prior to their removal west of the Mississippi River, to commemorate its location, and events connected with its history.

    Ch. 347 · 46 Stat. 431 · May 28, 1930 · Original text

93. An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 348 · 46 Stat. 432 · May 28, 1930 · Original text

94. An Act to amend the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,’ approved May 22, 1920, and Acts in amendment thereof,” approved July 3, 1926, as amended.

    Ch. 349 · 46 Stat. 468 · May 29, 1930 · Original text

95. An Act To Authorize the Secretary of the Navy to lease the United States naval destroyer and submarine base, Squantum, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 350 · 46 Stat. 479 · May 29, 1930 · Original text

96. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Illinois River, at or near Peoria, Illinois.

    Ch. 351 · 46 Stat. 479 · May 29, 1930 · Original text

97. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Georgetown, South Carolina, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Pee Dee River and a bridge across the Waccamaw River, both at or near Georgetown, South Carolina.

    Ch. 352 · 46 Stat. 479 · May 29, 1930 · Original text

98. An Act Authorizing the exchange of certain real properties situated in Mobile, Alabama, between the Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the United States Government and the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad Company, by the appropriate conveyances containing certain conditions and reservations.

    Ch. 353 · 46 Stat. 480 · May 29, 1930 · Original text

99. An Act For the acquisition, establishment, and development of the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to the Great Falls, and to provide for the acquisition of lands in the District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Virginia requisite to the comprehensive park, parkway, and playground system of the National Capital.

    Ch. 354 · 46 Stat. 482 · May 29, 1930 · Original text

100. An Act To amend section 939 of the Revised Statutes.

     Ch. 355 · 46 Stat. 485 · May 29, 1930 · Original text