Every law Congress has passed

975 laws of the 73rd Congress, 1933–1935

1. An Act To provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 1 · 48 Stat. 1 · March 9, 1933 · Original text

2. Joint Resolution To provide for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Seventy-third Congress.

   Ch. 2 · 48 Stat. 8 · March 17, 1933 · Original text

3. An Act To maintain the credit of the United States Government.

   Ch. 3 · 48 Stat. 8 · March 20, 1933 · Original text

4. An Act To provide revenue by the taxation of certain nonintoxicating liquor, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 4 · 48 Stat. 16 · March 22, 1933 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution To authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make loans for financing the repair or reconstruction of buildings damaged by earthquake in 1933.

   Ch. 5 · 48 Stat. 20 · March 23, 1933 · Original text

6. An Act Confirming the claim of Francis R. Sanchez, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 6 · 48 Stat. 1295 · March 23, 1933 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act Providing for an exchange of lands between the Colonial Realty Company and the United States, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 7 · 48 Stat. 1295 · March 23, 1933 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act To provide for direct loans by Federal reserve banks to State banks and trust companies in certain cases, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 8 · 48 Stat. 20 · March 24, 1933 · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of the Holy Family Hospital, Saint Ignatius, Montana.

   Ch. 9 · 48 Stat. 1296 · March 24, 1933 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant a right of way to the Alameda Belt Line across the Benton Field Military Reservation, Alameda, California.

    Ch. 10 · 48 Stat. 1296 · March 24, 1933 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act To convey certain land in the county of Los Angeles, State of California.

    Ch. 11 · 48 Stat. 1297 · March 24, 1933 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Agnes M. Angle.

    Ch. 12 · 48 Stat. 1298 · March 28, 1933 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Daisy Anderson.

    Ch. 13 · 48 Stat. 1298 · March 28, 1933 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of W. H. Hendrickson.

    Ch. 14 · 48 Stat. 1298 · March 28, 1933 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of A. Y. Martin.

    Ch. 15 · 48 Stat. 1299 · March 28, 1933 · Private law · Original text

16. Joint Resolution To provide for the acceptance of sums donated for the construction of a swimming exercise tank for the use of the President.

    Ch. 16 · 48 Stat. 22 · March 30, 1933 · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 17 · 48 Stat. 22 · March 31, 1933 · Original text

18. An Act Relating to the prescribing of medicinal liquors.

    Ch. 18 · 48 Stat. 23 · March 31, 1933 · Original text

19. An Act To provide revenue for the District of Columbia by the taxation of beverages, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 19 · 48 Stat. 25 · April 5, 1933 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution To provide for the payment of pages for the Senate and House of Representatives for the first session of the Seventy-third Congress.

    Ch. 20 · 48 Stat. 29 · April 14, 1933 · Original text

21. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Allegheny River at or near Parkers Landing in the county of Armstrong, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 21 · 48 Stat. 29 · April 29, 1933 · Original text

22. An Act Graning 1 the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Allegheny River, at a point near the Forest-Venango County line, in Tionesta Township, and in the county of Forest, and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 22 · 48 Stat. 30 · April 29, 1933 · Original text

23. Joint Resolution To amend section 2 of the Act approved February 4, 1933, to provide for loans to farmers for crop production and harvesting during the year 1933, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 23 · 48 Stat. 30 · May 1, 1933 · Original text

24. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Attorney General, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Navy, to release claims of the United States upon certain assets of the Pan American Petroleum Company and the Richfield Oil Company of California and others in connection with collections upon a certain judgment in favor of the United States against the Pan American Petroleum Company heretofore duly entered.

    Ch. 24 · 48 Stat. 30 · May 3, 1933 · Original text

25. An Act To relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agricultural purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agricultural indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 25 · 48 Stat. 31 · May 12, 1933 · Original text

26. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Kansas City, Kansas.

    Ch. 26 · 48 Stat. 54 · May 12, 1933 · Original text

27. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Pee Dee River and a bridge across the Waccamaw River, both at or near Georgetown, South Carolina.

    Ch. 27 · 48 Stat. 54 · May 12, 1933 · Original text

28. An Act To extend the time for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Waccamaw River near Conway, South Carolina.

    Ch. 28 · 48 Stat. 55 · May 12, 1933 · Original text

29. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Board of County Commissioners of Mahoning County, Ohio, to construct a free overhead viaduct across the Mahoning River, at Struthers, Mahoning County, Ohio.

    Ch. 29 · 48 Stat. 55 · May 12, 1933 · Original text

30. Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933

    An Act To provide for cooperation by the Federal Government with the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia in relieving the hardship and suffering caused by unemployment, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 30 · 48 Stat. 55 · May 12, 1933 · Original text

31. An Act To amend section 1025 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 31 · 48 Stat. 58 · May 18, 1933 · Original text

32. Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933

    An Act To improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands in the Tennessee Valley; to provide for the agricultural and industrial development of said valley; to provide for the national defense by the creation of a corporation for the operation of Government properties at and near Muscle Shoals in the State of Alabama, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 32 · 48 Stat. 58 · May 18, 1933 · Original text

33. An Act Providing for the suspension of annual assessment work on mining claims held by location in the United States and Alaska.

    Ch. 33 · 48 Stat. 72 · May 18, 1933 · Original text

34. An Act To amend section 207 of the Bank Conservation Act with respect to bank reorganizations.

    Ch. 34 · 48 Stat. 72 · May 20, 1933 · Original text

35. An Act To amend sections 5200 and 5202 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to remove the limitations on national banks in certain cases.

    Ch. 35 · 48 Stat. 72 · May 20, 1933 · Original text

36. Joint Resolution Designating May 22 as National Maritime Day.

    Ch. 36 · 48 Stat. 73 · May 20, 1933 · Original text

37. An Act To confer the degree of bachelor of science upon graduates of the Naval, the Military, and the Coast Guard Academies.

    Ch. 37 · 48 Stat. 73 · May 25, 1933 · Original text

38. An Act To provide full and fair disclosure of the character of securities sold in interstate and foreign commerce and through the mails, and to prevent frauds in the sale thereof, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 38 · 48 Stat. 74 · May 27, 1933 · Original text

39. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Virginia to replace and maintain a bridge across Northwest River in Norfolk County, Virginia, on State Highway Route Numbered 27.

    Ch. 39 · 48 Stat. 96 · May 27, 1933 · Original text

40. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Virginia to maintain a bridge already constructed to replace a weak structure in the same location, across the Staunton and Dan Rivers, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on United States Route Numbered 15.

    Ch. 40 · 48 Stat. 96 · May 27, 1933 · Original text

41. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Savannah River at or near Burtons Ferry, near Sylvania, Georgia.

    Ch. 41 · 48 Stat. 96 · May 27, 1933 · Original text

42. Third Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 42 · 48 Stat. 97 · May 29, 1933 · Original text

43. An Act To authorize the Comptroller General to allow claim of district numbered 13, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, for payment of tuition for Indian pupils.

    Ch. 43 · 48 Stat. 105 · May 29, 1933 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution Granting the consent of Congress to a compact or agreement between the State of Kansas and the State of Missouri authorizing the acceptance for and on behalf of the States of Kansas and Missouri of title to a toll bridge across the Missouri River from a point in Platte County, Missouri, to a point at or near Kansas City, in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and specifying the conditions thereof.

    Ch. 44 · 48 Stat. 105 · May 29, 1933 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize appropriations to pay in part the liability of the United States to the Indian pueblos herein named, under the terms of the Act of June 7, 1924, and the liability of the United States to non-Indian claimants on Indian pueblo grants whose claims, extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, have been found by the Pueblo Lands Board to have been claims in good faith; to authorize the expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior of the sums herein authorized and of sums heretofore appropriated, in conformity with the Act of June 7, 1924, for the purchase of needed lands and water rights and the creation of other permanent economic improvements as contemplated by said Act; to provide for the protection of the watershed within the Carson National Forest for the Pueblo de Taos Indians of New Mexico and others interested, and to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to contract relating thereto and to amend the Act approved June 7, 1924, in certain respects.

    Ch. 45 · 48 Stat. 108 · May 31, 1933 · Original text

46. An Act Authorizing a per capita payment of $100 to the members of the Menominee Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin from funds on deposit to their credit in the Treasury of the United States.

    Ch. 46 · 48 Stat. 112 · June 3, 1933 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Posheng Yen, a citizen of China.

    Ch. 47 · 48 Stat. 112 · June 5, 1933 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution To assure uniform value to the coins and currencies of the United States.

    Ch. 48 · 48 Stat. 112 · June 5, 1933 · Original text

49. An Act To provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 49 · 48 Stat. 113 · June 6, 1933 · Original text

50. An Act To amend the Act approved July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 1005), authorizing commissioners or members of international tribunals to administer oaths, and so forth.

    Ch. 50 · 48 Stat. 117 · June 7, 1933 · Original text

51. An Act To amend an Act (Public, Numbered 431, Seventy-second Congress) to identify The Dalles Bridge Company.

    Ch. 51 · 48 Stat. 118 · June 9, 1933 · Original text

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

    Ch. 52 · 48 Stat. 118 · June 9, 1933 · Original text

53. An Act Amending section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes”, approved December 29, 1916 (ch. 9, par. 1, 39 Stat. 862), and as amended February 28, 1931 (ch. 328. 46 Stat. 1454).

    Ch. 53 · 48 Stat. 119 · June 9, 1933 · Original text

54. An Act To authorize the acceptance of certain lands in the city of San Diego, California, by the United States, and the transfer by the Secretary of the Navy of certain other lands to said city of San Diego.

    Ch. 54 · 48 Stat. 1299 · June 9, 1933 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act To authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to subscribe for preferred stock and purchase the capital notes of insurance companies, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 55 · 48 Stat. 119 · June 10, 1933 · Original text

56. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Levy Court of Sussex County, Delaware, to reconstruct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Deeps Creek at Cherry Tree Landing, Sussex County, Delaware.

    Ch. 56 · 48 Stat. 122 · June 10, 1933 · Original text

57. An Act For the protection of Government records.

    Ch. 57 · 48 Stat. 122 · June 10, 1933 · Original text

58. An Act To amend existing law in order to obviate the payment of one year’s sea pay to surplus graduates of the Naval Academy.

    Ch. 58 · 48 Stat. 123 · June 10, 1933 · Original text

59. An Act To promote the foreign trade of the United States in apples and/or pears, to protect the reputation of American-grown apples and pears in foreign markets, to prevent deception or misrepresentation as to the quality of such products moving in foreign commerce, to provide for the commercial inspection of such products entering such commerce, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 59 · 48 Stat. 123 · June 10, 1933 · Original text

60. Joint Resolution Extending for one year the time within which American claimants may make application for payment, under the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, of awards of the Mixed Claims Commission and of the Tripartite Claims Commission.

    Ch. 60 · 48 Stat. 125 · June 12, 1933 · Original text

61. An Act To amend sections 4399, 4418, 4428, 4429, 4430, 4431, 4432, 4433, and and 1 4434 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, relating to the construction and inspection of boilers, unfired pressure vessels, and the appurtenances thereof.

    Ch. 61 · 48 Stat. 125 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

62. An Act To provide for the redemption of national-bank notes, Federal Reserve bank notes, and Federal Reserve notes which cannot be identified as to the bank of issue.

    Ch. 62 · 48 Stat. 127 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the creation of a game refuge in the Ouachita National Forest in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. 63 · 48 Stat. 128 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

64. Home Owners’ Loan Act of 1933

    An Act To provide emergency relief with respect to home mortgage indebtedness, to refinance home mortgages, to extend relief to the owners of homes occupied by them and who are unable to amortize their debt elsewhere, to amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, to increase the market for obligations of the United States and for other purposes.

    Ch. 64 · 48 Stat. 128 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

65. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Oregon to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Umpqua River at or near Reedsport, Douglas County, Oregon.

    Ch. 65 · 48 Stat. 135 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

66. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Oregon to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across Yaquina Bay at or near Newport, Lincoln County, Oregon.

    Ch. 66 · 48 Stat. 136 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

67. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Oregon to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across Coos Bay at or near North Bend, Coos County, Oregon.

    Ch. 67 · 48 Stat. 137 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

68. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Oregon to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Siuslaw River at or near Florence, Lane County, Oregon.

    Ch. 68 · 48 Stat. 137 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

69. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, to construct, maintain, and operate bridges across the navigable waters in Monroe County, Florida, from Lower Matecumbe Key to No Name Key.

    Ch. 69 · 48 Stat. 138 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

70. An Act To extend the mining laws of the United States to the Death Valley National Monument in California.

    Ch. 70 · 48 Stat. 139 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

71. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act creating the Great Lakes Bridge Commission and authorizing said Commission and its successors to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Saint Clair River at or near Port Huron, Michigan”, approved June 25, 1930, and to extend the times for commencing and completing construction of said bridge.

    Ch. 71 · 48 Stat. 139 · June 13, 1933 · Original text

72. An Act To amend the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, to provide for loans to closed building and loan associations.

    Ch. 72 · 48 Stat. 141 · June 14, 1933 · Original text

73. An Act Creating the Saint Lawrence Bridge Commission and authorizing said Commission and its successors to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Ogdensburg, New York.

    Ch. 73 · 48 Stat. 141 · June 14, 1933 · Original text

74. An Act Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to convey certain lands to Harrison County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 74 · 48 Stat. 1300 · June 14, 1933 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act Giving credit for water charges paid on damaged land.

    Ch. 75 · 48 Stat. 1300 · June 14, 1933 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act Providing for per capita payments to the Seminole Indians in Oklahoma from funds standing to their credit in the Treasury.

    Ch. 76 · 48 Stat. 146 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

77. An Act Providing for the establishment of a term of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida at Orlando, Florida.

    Ch. 77 · 48 Stat. 147 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

78. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant a right of way to The Dalles Bridge Company.

    Ch. 78 · 48 Stat. 147 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

79. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes”, approved March 9, 1933.

    Ch. 79 · 48 Stat. 147 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

80. An Act Amending section 74 of the Judicial Code, as amended (U.S.C., Annotated title 28, sec. 147).

    Ch. 80 · 48 Stat. 148 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

81. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Oregon to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across Alsea Bay at or near Waldport, Lincoln County, Oregon.

    Ch. 81 · 48 Stat. 148 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary in 1936 of the independence of Texas, and of the noble and heroic sacrifices of her pioneers, whose revered memory has been an inspiration to her sons and daughters during the past century.

    Ch. 82 · 48 Stat. 149 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

83. An Act Providing for the sale to Joe Graham Post Numbered 119, American Legion, of the lands lying within the Ship Island Military Reservation in the State of Mississippi.

    Ch. 83 · 48 Stat. 150 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

84. An Act Authorizing Farris Engineering Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Monongahela River at or near California, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 84 · 48 Stat. 150 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

85. An Act To amend section 289 of the Criminal Code.

    Ch. 85 · 48 Stat. 152 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

86. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Washington, Missouri, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Missouri River at or near Washington, Missouri.

    Ch. 86 · 48 Stat. 152 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

87. An Act To amend the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended.

    Ch. 87 · 48 Stat. 153 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

88. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act authorizing Jed P. Ladd, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Lake Champlain from East Alburg, Vermont, to West Swanton, Vermont”, approved March 2, 1929.

    Ch. 88 · 48 Stat. 162 · June 15, 1933 · Original text

89. An Act To provide for the safer and more effective use of the assets of banks, to regulate interbank control, to prevent the undue diversion of funds into speculative operations, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 89 · 48 Stat. 162 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

90. National Industrial Recovery Act

    An Act To encourage national industrial recovery, to foster fair competition, and to provide for the construction of certain useful public works, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 90 · 48 Stat. 195 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

91. Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, 1933

    An Act To relieve the existing national emergency in relation to interstate railroad transportation, and to amend sections 5, 15a, and 19a of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended.

    Ch. 91 · 48 Stat. 211 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

92. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the French Broad River on the proposed Morristown-Newport Road between Jefferson and Cocke Counties, Tennessee.

    Ch. 92 · 48 Stat. 222 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

93. 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, 1934, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 93 · 48 Stat. 222 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

94. An Act To transfer Bedford County from the Nashville division to the Winchester division of the middle Tennessee judicial district.

    Ch. 94 · 48 Stat. 253 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

95. An Act Providing for payment of $50 to each enrolled Chippewa Indian of the Red Lake-Band of Minnesota from the timber funds standing to their credit in the Treasury of the United States.

    Ch. 95 · 48 Stat. 254 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

96. An Act To extend the gasoline tax for one year, to modify postage rates on mail matter, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 96 · 48 Stat. 254 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

97. An Act To amend the probation law.

    Ch. 97 · 48 Stat. 256 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

98. Farm Credit Act of 1933

    An Act To provide for organizations within the Farm Credit Administration to make loans for the production and marketing of agricultural products, to amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act, to provide a market for obligations of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 98 · 48 Stat. 257 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

99. An Act To extend the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the period of time during which final proof may be offered by homestead entrymen”, approved May 13, 1932, to desert-land entrymen, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 99 · 48 Stat. 274 · June 16, 1933 · Original text

100. Fourth Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933

     An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 100 · 48 Stat. 274 · June 16, 1933 · Original text