Every law Congress has passed

975 laws of the 73rd Congress, 1933–1935

1. An Act To empower certain members of the Division of Investigation of the Department of Justice to make arrests in certain cases, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 595 · 48 Stat. 1008 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

2. An Act Authorizing the city of Port Arthur, Texas, or the commission hereby created and its successors, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge over Lake Sabine, at or near Port Arthur, Texas.

   Ch. 596 · 48 Stat. 1008 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

3. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Essex County, in the State of Massachusetts, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Merrimack River, in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts.

   Ch. 597 · 48 Stat. 1012 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the reduction of the required distance between liquor distilleries and rectifying plants and to authorize higher fences around distilleries.

   Ch. 598 · 48 Stat. 1013 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

5. An Act Authorizing the Sistersville Bridge Board of Trustees to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Ohio River at Sistersville, Tyler County, West Virginia.

   Ch. 599 · 48 Stat. 1013 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

6. An Act To amend subsection (a) of section 23 of the District Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.

   Ch. 600 · 48 Stat. 1014 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

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

   Ch. 601 · 48 Stat. 1015 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the acquisition of additional land for the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Tish Refuge.

   Ch. 602 · 48 Stat. 1015 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

9. An Act Authorizing the Spencer County Bridge Commission, of Spencer County, Indiana, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Ohio River between Rockport, Indiana, and Owensboro, Kentucky.

   Ch. 603 · 48 Stat. 1016 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

10. An Act Providing for the ratification of Joint Resolution Numbered 59 of the Legislature of Puerto Rico, approved by the Governor May 5, 1930, imposing an import duty on coffee imported into Puerto Rico.

    Ch. 604 · 48 Stat. 1017 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Eloy Alfaro and Jaime Eduardo Alfaro, citizens of Ecuador.

    Ch. 605 · 48 Stat. 1017 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution To amend section 72 of the Printing Act, approved January 12, 1895, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, relative to the allotment of public documents, and section 85 of the same Act fixing the date of the expiration of the franking privilege to Members of Congress.

    Ch. 606 · 48 Stat. 1017 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

13. Joint Resolution Authorizing appropriation for expenses of representatives of United States to meet at Istanbul, Turkey, with representatives of Turkish Republic for purpose of examining claims of either Government against the other and for expense of proceedings before an umpire, if necessary.

    Ch. 607 · 48 Stat. 1018 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

14. Joint Resolution Extending for two years 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 the Tripartite Claims Commission, and extending until March 10, 1936, the time within which Hungarian claimants may make application for payment, under the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, of awards of the War Claims Arbiter.

    Ch. 608 · 48 Stat. 1019 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

15. Joint Resolution Authorizing an appropriation for the participation of the United States in the International Celebration at Fort Niagara, New York.

    Ch. 609 · 48 Stat. 1019 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

16. Joint Resolution To protect the revenue by regulation of the traffic in containers of distilled spirits.

    Ch. 610 · 48 Stat. 1020 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution To protect the revenue by requiring information concerning the disposition of substances used in the manufacture of distilled spirits.

    Ch. 611 · 48 Stat. 1020 · June 18, 1934 · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Charles J. Webb Sons Company, Incorporated.

    Ch. 613 · 48 Stat. 1398 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Pierre E. Teets.

    Ch. 614 · 48 Stat. 1398 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Laura B. Crampton.

    Ch. 615 · 48 Stat. 1399 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Physicians and Surgeons Hospital (Limited).

    Ch. 616 · 48 Stat. 1399 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Morris Spirt.

    Ch. 617 · 48 Stat. 1399 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Clarence A. Wimley.

    Ch. 618 · 48 Stat. 1400 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of John Parker Clark, senior.

    Ch. 619 · 48 Stat. 1400 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of John Parker Clark, junior.

    Ch. 620 · 48 Stat. 1401 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Michael Petrucelli.

    Ch. 621 · 48 Stat. 1401 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Jeanie G. Lyles.

    Ch. 622 · 48 Stat. 1402 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Emma R. H. Taggart.

    Ch. 623 · 48 Stat. 1402 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Paul I. Morris.

    Ch. 624 · 48 Stat. 1402 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Ernest Elmore Hall.

    Ch. 625 · 48 Stat. 1403 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To reimburse Earl V. Larkin for injuries sustained by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of a soldier in the United States Army.

    Ch. 626 · 48 Stat. 1403 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of William Sheldon.

    Ch. 627 · 48 Stat. 1404 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Mary Orinski.

    Ch. 628 · 48 Stat. 1404 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Roland Zolesky.

    Ch. 629 · 48 Stat. 1404 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of John J. Corcoran.

    Ch. 630 · 48 Stat. 1405 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Laura Goldwater.

    Ch. 631 · 48 Stat. 1405 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Mary A. Rockwell.

    Ch. 632 · 48 Stat. 1406 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of E. E. Hall.

    Ch. 632 · 48 Stat. 1406 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Carleton-Mace Engineering Corporation.

    Ch. 634 · 48 Stat. 1407 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Lyman D. Drake, Junior.

    Ch. 635 · 48 Stat. 1407 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of William J. Kenely.

    Ch. 636 · 48 Stat. 1407 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act To provide compensation for Robert Rayford Wilcoxson for injuries received in Citizens’ Military Training Camp.

    Ch. 637 · 48 Stat. 1408 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Mabel Carver.

    Ch. 638 · 48 Stat. 1408 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Arthur Smith.

    Ch. 639 · 48 Stat. 1409 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of William T. Roche.

    Ch. 640 · 48 Stat. 1409 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Captain Frank J. McCormack.

    Ch. 641 · 48 Stat. 1410 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Saint Anthony’s Hospital at Michigan City, Indiana; Doctor Russell A, Gilmore; Emily Molzen, nurse; and the Hummer Mortuary.

    Ch. 642 · 48 Stat. 1410 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Doctor A. W. Pearson, of Peever, South Dakota, and the Peabody Hospital, at Webster, South Dakota, for medical services and supplies furnished to Indians.

    Ch. 643 · 48 Stat. 1411 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of J. B. Hudson.

    Ch. 644 · 48 Stat. 1411 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of John W. Adair.

    Ch. 645 · 48 Stat. 1411 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of May L. Marshall, administratrix of the estate of Jerry A. Litchfield.

    Ch. 646 · 48 Stat. 1412 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

52. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States to present the Distinguished Flying Cross to Emory B. Bronte.

    Ch. 647 · 48 Stat. 1412 · June 18, 1934 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental general and emergency appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1934, and June 30, 1935, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 648 · 48 Stat. 1021 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

54. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make a long-term contract for the supply of water to the United States naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    Ch. 649 · 48 Stat. 1063 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

55. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to amend section 217, as amended, of the Act entitled ‘An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States’, approved March 4, 1909”, approved January 11, 1929, with respect to the use of the mails for the shipment of certain drugs and medicines to cosmetologists and barbers.

    Ch. 650 · 48 Stat. 1063 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

56. An Act To give the Supreme Court of the United States authority to make and publish rules in actions at law.

    Ch. 651 · 48 Stat. 1064 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

57. Communications Act of 1934

    An Act To provide for the regulation of interstate and foreign communication by wire or radio, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 652 · 48 Stat. 1064 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

58. An Act Relating to direct loans for industrial purposes by Federal Reserve banks, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 653 · 48 Stat. 1105 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

59. An Act To amend the Air Commerce Act of 1926 and to increase the efficiency of the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce with respect to the development and regulation of civil aeronautics.

    Ch. 654 · 48 Stat. 1113 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

60. An Act Relating to Philippine currency reserves on deposit in the United States.

    Ch. 655 · 48 Stat. 1115 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

61. An Act To amend section 938 of the Revised Statutes to vest the courts with discretion to refuse to order the return of vessels seized for violation of any law of the United States; and to amend subsection (b) of section 7 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926, as amended, to provide for the forfeiture of aircraft used in violation of customs laws.

    Ch. 656 · 48 Stat. 1116 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

62. An Act Authorizing the President to make rules and regulations in respect to alcoholic beverages in the Canal Zone, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 657 · 48 Stat. 1116 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the President to transfer to the Government of Haiti without charge to that Government certain property of the United States in Haiti.

    Ch. 658 · 48 Stat. 1117 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

64. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande at Boca Chica, Texas.

    Ch. 659 · 48 Stat. 1117 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

65. An Act Donating bronze trophy guns to the Cohoes Historical Society, Cohoes, New York.

    Ch. 660 · 48 Stat. 1117 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

66. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to create the California Débris Commission and regulate hydraulic mining in the State of California”, approved March 1, 1893, as amended.

    Ch. 661 · 48 Stat. 1118 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

67. An Act Amending section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. L. 751), providing for the method of selling real estate under an order or decree of any United States court.

    Ch. 662 · 48 Stat. 1119 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

68. An Act To make provision for suitable quarters for certain Government Services at El Paso, Texas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 663 · 48 Stat. 1119 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

69. An Act To amend section 99 of the Judicial Code (U.S.C., title 28, sec. 180), as amended.

    Ch. 664 · 48 Stat. 1120 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

70. An Act To amend section 3937 of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 665 · 48 Stat. 1120 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

71. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey a part of the post-office site in San Antonio, Texas, to the city of San Antonio, Texas, for street purposes, in exchange for land for the benefit of the Government property.

    Ch. 666 · 48 Stat. 1121 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

72. An Act To establish a Code of Laws for the Canal Zone, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 667 · 48 Stat. 1122 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

73. An Act To establish a National Archives of the United States Government, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 668 · 48 Stat. 1122 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

74. An Act To amend an Act approved June 14, 1932 (47 Stat. 306), entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the States of Montana and Wyoming to negotiate and enter into a compact or agreement for division of the waters of the Yellowstone River.”

    Ch. 669 · 48 Stat. 1124 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to lend War Department equipment for use at the Sixteenth National Convention of the American Legion at Miami, Florida, during the month of October 1934.

    Ch. 670 · 48 Stat. 1124 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

76. An Act Providing educational opportunities for the children of soldiers, sailors, and marines who were killed in action or died during the World War.

    Ch. 671 · 48 Stat. 1125 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

77. Life Insurance Act

    An Act To regulate the business of life insurance in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 672 · 48 Stat. 1125 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

78. An Act To amend section 766 of the Revised Statutes, as amended.

    Ch. 673 · 48 Stat. 1177 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

79. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase silver, issue silver certificates, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 674 · 48 Stat. 1178 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution To provide for the expenses of delegates of the United States to the Ninth Pan American Sanitary Conference.

    Ch. 675 · 48 Stat. 1182 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Providing for membership of the United States in the International Labor Organization.

    Ch. 676 · 48 Stat. 1182 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution To effectuate further the policy of the National Industrial Recovery Act.

    Ch. 677 · 48 Stat. 1183 · June 19, 1934 · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of John T. Garity.

    Ch. 678 · 48 Stat. 1413 · June 19, 1934 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To refund to Caroline M. Eagan income tax erroneously and illegally collected.

    Ch. 679 · 48 Stat. 1413 · June 19, 1934 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of certain claimants at Leavenworth, Kansas, occasioned through damage to property inflicted by escaping prisoners.

    Ch. 680 · 48 Stat. 1414 · June 19, 1934 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Harry E. Good, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Ephraim N. Good, deceased.

    Ch. 681 · 48 Stat. 1414 · June 19, 1934 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Shelby J. Beene, Mrs. Shelby J. Beene, Leroy T. Waller, and Mrs. Leroy T. Waller.

    Ch. 682 · 48 Stat. 1415 · June 19, 1934 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Authorizing adjustment of the claim of the Western Union Telegraph Company.

    Ch. 683 · 48 Stat. 1415 · June 19, 1934 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Charles Farr.

    Ch. 684 · 48 Stat. 1416 · June 19, 1934 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Royce Wells.

    Ch. 685 · 48 Stat. 1416 · June 19, 1934 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of Oswald H. Halford, Hunter M. Henry, William C. Horne, Rupert R. Johnson, David L. Lacey, William Z. Lee, Fenton F. Rodgers, Henry Freeman Seale, Felix M. Smith, Edwin C. Smith, Robert S. Sutherland, and Charles G. Ventress.

    Ch. 686 · 48 Stat. 1417 · June 19, 1934 · Private law · Original text

92. Joint Resolution To amend an Act entitled “An Act to place the cotton industry on a sound commercial basis, to prevent unfair competition and practices in putting cotton into the channels of interstate and foreign commerce, to provide funds for paying additional benefits under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes” (Public, Numbered 169, Seventy-third Congress), approved April 21, 1934.

    Ch. 687 · 48 Stat. 1184 · June 20, 1934 · Original text

93. An Act To authorize the acquisition by the United States of the land upon which the Seneca Indian School, Wyandotte, Oklahoma, is located.

    Ch. 688 · 48 Stat. 1184 · June 21, 1934 · Original text

94. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents to the numbered school sections in place, granted to the States by the Act approved February 22, 1889, by the Act approved January 25, 1927 (44 Stat. 1026), and by any other Act of Congress.

    Ch. 689 · 48 Stat. 1185 · June 21, 1934 · Original text

95. An Act To restore homestead rights in certain cases.

    Ch. 690 · 48 Stat. 1185 · June 21, 1934 · Original text

96. An Act To amend the Railway Labor Act approved May 20, 1926, and to provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees.

    Ch. 691 · 48 Stat. 1185 · June 21, 1934 · Original text

97. An Act To amend section 5 of Public Act Numbered 2 of the Seventy-second Congress, as amended.

    Ch. 692 · 48 Stat. 1198 · June 21, 1934 · Original text

98. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of a portion of the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Reservation, Oregon.

    Ch. 693 · 48 Stat. 1198 · June 21, 1934 · Original text

99. An Act To establish a national military park at the battlefield of Monocacy, Maryland.

    Ch. 694 · 48 Stat. 1198 · June 21, 1934 · Original text

100. An Act To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Colony of Connecticut.

     Ch. 695 · 48 Stat. 1200 · June 21, 1934 · Original text