Every law Congress has passed

1,724 laws of the 74th Congress, 1935–1937

1. An Act For the relief of J. Edwin Hemphill

   Ch. 361 · 49 Stat. 2286> · May 6, 1936 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Louis George.

   Ch. 362 · 49 Stat. 2287 · May 6, 1936 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of John A. Baker.

   Ch. 363 · 49 Stat. 2287 · May 6, 1936 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of John Hurston.

   Ch. 364 · 49 Stat. 2288 · May 6, 1936 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Frank Polansky.

   Ch. 365 · 49 Stat. 2288 · May 6, 1936 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of J. P. Moore.

   Ch. 366 · 49 Stat. 2288 · May 6, 1936 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Harry Wallace.

   Ch. 367 · 49 Stat. 2289 · May 6, 1936 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Mary Hemke.

   Ch. 368 · 49 Stat. 2289 · May 6, 1936 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of certain purchasers of lands in the Borough of Brooklawn, State of New Jersey”, approved August 19, 1935.

   Ch. 369 · 49 Stat. 2290 · May 6, 1936 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act To amend the Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees.

    Ch. 370 · 49 Stat. 1266 · May 7, 1936 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Authorizing the recognition of the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Harvard College and the beginning of higher education in the United States and providing for the representation of the Government and people of the United States in the observance of the anniversary.

    Ch. 371 · 49 Stat. 1266 · May 7, 1936 · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of the Bethlehem Fabricators, Incorporated.

    Ch. 372 · 49 Stat. 2290 · May 7, 1936 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Edgar M. Earlier, special disbursing agent, Paris, France, and Leo Martinuzzi, former customs clerk.

    Ch. 373 · 49 Stat. 2291 · May 7, 1936 · Private law · Original text

14. Joint Resolution To provide an additional appropriation for expenses of special and select committees of the House of Representatives for the fiscal year 1936.

    Ch. 374 · 49 Stat. 1267 · May 8, 1936 · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Bernard V. Wolfe and the Dixon Implement Company.

    Ch. 375 · 49 Stat. 2291 · May 8, 1936 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act To aid in defraying the expenses of the Sixteenth Triennial Convention of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union to be held in this country in June 1937.

    Ch. 376 · 49 Stat. 1268 · May 11, 1936 · Original text

17. An Act To authorize the Washington Gas Light Company to alter its corporate structure, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 377 · 49 Stat. 1268 · May 11, 1936 · Original text

18. An Act To provide for the advancement on the retired list of the Navy of Walter M. Graesser, a lieutenant (junior grade), United States Navy, retired.

    Ch. 378 · 49 Stat. 2292 · May 11, 1936 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Alice D. Hollis.

    Ch. 379 · 49 Stat. 2292 · May 12, 1936 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Helen Curtis.

    Ch. 380 · 49 Stat. 2292 · May 12, 1936 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To amend section 981 of title 4, and section 843 of title 6 of the Canal Zone Code.

    Ch. 381 · 49 Stat. 1269 · May 13, 1936 · Original text

22. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, and Acts in amendment thereof.

    Ch. 382 · 49 Stat. 1270 · May 13, 1936 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association to construct and maintain a monument on the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, Salt Lake City, Utah.

    Ch. 383 · 49 Stat. 1270 · May 13, 1936 · Original text

24. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to acquire by donation land at or near Newburgh, in Orange County, New York, for aviation field, military, or other public purposes.

    Ch. 384 · 49 Stat. 1271 · May 13, 1936 · Original text

25. An Act To provide for terms of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to be held at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 385 · 49 Stat. 1271 · May 13, 1936 · Original text

26. An Act To provide for the establishment of a term of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma at Shawnee, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 386 · 49 Stat. 1271 · May 13, 1936 · Original text

27. Joint Resolution To provide an additional appropriation for folding speeches and pamphlets for the Senate for the fiscal year 1936.

    Ch. 387 · 49 Stat. 1272 · May 13, 1936 · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Marcellus E. Wright and Lee, Smith and Vandervoort, Incorporated.

    Ch. 388 · 49 Stat. 2292 · May 13, 1936 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Josephine Russell.

    Ch. 389 · 49 Stat. 2293 · May 13, 1936 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians located in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

    Ch. 390 · 49 Stat. 1272 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

31. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota to submit claims to the Court of Claims”, approved May 14, 1926 (44 Stat. L. 555).

    Ch. 391 · 49 Stat. 1272 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

32. An Act To provide funds for cooperation with Wellpinit School District Numbered 49, Stevens County, Washington, for the construction of a public-school building to be available for Indian children of the Spokane Reservation.

    Ch. 392 · 49 Stat. 1273 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

33. An Act To amend section 13 (c) of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the regulation of motor-vehicle traffic in the District of Columbia and so forth” 1, approved March 3, 1925, as amended.

    Ch. 393 · 49 Stat. 1273 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

34. An Act To provide funds for cooperation with the public-school district at Hays, Montana, for construction and improvement of public-school buildings to be available for Indian children.

    Ch. 394 · 49 Stat. 1274 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

35. An Act To validate payments, and to relieve the accounts of disbursing officers of the Army on account of payments made to Reserve officers on active duty for rental allowances.

    Ch. 395 · 49 Stat. 1274 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

36. An Act To validate payments, and to relieve disbursing officers’ accounts of payments made to Reserve officers promoted while on active duty.

    Ch. 396 · 49 Stat. 1275 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the Bureau of Mines to conduct certain studies, investigations, and experiments with respect to sub-bituminous and lignite coal, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 397 · 49 Stat. 1275 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing certain tribes of Indians to submit claims to the Court of Claims, and for other purposes”, approved May 26, 1920.

    Ch. 398 · 49 Stat. 1276 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

39. Joint Resolution To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the Territorial Government of Wisconsin, and to assist in the celebration of the Wisconsin Centennial during the year of 1936.

    Ch. 399 · 49 Stat. 1276 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the procurement, without advertising, of certain War Department property, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 400 · 49 Stat. 1277 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

41. An Act To provide for a preliminary examination of the Sabine and Neches Rivers, with a view to controlling their floods and regulating, conserving, and utilizing the waters thereof, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 401 · 49 Stat. 1277 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

42. An Act To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a city.

    Ch. 402 · 49 Stat. 1277 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of the State of New Jersey.

    Ch. 403 · 49 Stat. 1278 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Swedes in Delaware.

    Ch. 406 · 49 Stat. 1352 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution To provide for participation by the United States in an Inter-American Conference to be held at Buenos Aires, Argentina, or at the capital of another American republic, in 1936.

    Ch. 407 · 49 Stat. 1353 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

46. Joint Resolution Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 404 · 49 Stat. 1486 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

47. An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 405 · 49 Stat. 1486 · May 15, 1936 · Original text

48. An Act Authorizing the President to present a medal in the name of Congress to Johannes F. Jensen.

    Ch. 408 · 49 Stat. 2293 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Louis H. Cordis.

    Ch. 409 · 49 Stat. 2293 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act Authorizing adjustment of the claims of F. L. Forbes, John L. Abbot, and the Ralph Sollitt and Sons Construction Company.

    Ch. 410 · 49 Stat. 2294 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain the persons entitled to compensation on account of Private Claim 111, Parcel 1, Nambe Pueblo grant.

    Ch. 411 · 49 Stat. 2294 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act Authorizing adjustment of the claim of the Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans.

    Ch. 412 · 49 Stat. 2295 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Dampskib Aktieselshap Roskva.

    Ch. 413 · 49 Stat. 2295 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of George Rabcinski.

    Ch. 414 · 49 Stat. 2296 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Maizee Hamley.

    Ch. 415 · 49 Stat. 2296 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Randall Krauss, a minor.

    Ch. 416 · 49 Stat. 2296 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Ann Rakestraw.

    Ch. 417 · 49 Stat. 2297 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of J. L. Summers.

    Ch. 418 · 49 Stat. 2297 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of the parents of Albert Thesing, Junior.

    Ch. 419 · 49 Stat. 2298 · May 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act To amend section 32 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of certain bridges and to extend the times for commencing and/or completing the construction of other bridges over the navigable waters of the United States, and for other purposes”, approved August 30, 1935.

    Ch. 420 · 49 Stat. 1354 · May 18, 1936 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the acquisition of land for cemeterial purposes in the vicinity of New York City, New York.

    Ch. 421 · 49 Stat. 1354 · May 18, 1936 · Original text

62. An Act To amend section 5 of the Act of March 2, 1919, generally known as the “War Minerals Relief Statutes.”

    Ch. 422 · 49 Stat. 1355 · May 18, 1936 · Original text

63. Joint Resolution To provide for participation by the United States in the Ninth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy in Rumania, in 1937; and to authorize and request the President of the United States to invite the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy to hold its tenth congress in the United States in 1939, and to invite foreign countries to participate in that congress.

    Ch. 423 · 49 Stat. 1355 · May 18, 1936 · Original text

64. Joint Resolution Providing for the importation of articles free from tariff or customs duty for the purpose of exhibition at Great Lakes Exposition to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, beginning in June 1936, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 424 · 49 Stat. 1356 · May 18, 1936 · Original text

65. Joint Resolution To authorize an appropriation for the expenses of participation by the United States in a conference at Brussels to revise the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works concluded at Bern, September 9, 1886, and revised at Rome, June 2, 1928.

    Ch. 425 · 49 Stat. 1357 · May 18, 1936 · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Gladys Hinckley Werlich.

    Ch. 426 · 49 Stat. 2298 · May 18, 1936 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 427 · 49 Stat. 1357 · May 19, 1936 · Original text

68. An Act To create an additional division of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi to be known as the Hattiesburg division.

    Ch. 428 · 49 Stat. 1362 · May 19, 1936 · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Mrs. E. L. Babcock, mother and guardian of Nelson Babcock, a minor.

    Ch. 430 · 49 Stat. 2290 · May 19, 1936 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act Authorizing the reimbursement of Edward B. Wheeler and the State Investment Company for the loss of certain lands in the Mora Grant, New Mexico.

    Ch. 429 · 49 Stat. 2298 · May 19, 1936 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Joseph J. Baylin.

    Ch. 431 · 49 Stat. 2299 · May 19, 1936 · Private law · Original text

72. Rural Electrification Act of 1936

    An Act To provide for rural electrification, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 432 · 49 Stat. 1363 · May 20, 1936 · Original text

73. An Act To amend article 3 of the “Rules Concerning Lights, and so forth”, contained in the Act entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States”, approved June 7, 1897.

    Ch. 433 · 49 Stat. 1367 · May 20, 1936 · Original text

74. An Act To amend section 4321, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 46, sec. 263), and for other purposes.

    Ch. 434 · 49 Stat. 1367 · May 20, 1936 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to lend to the Reunion Committee of the United Confederate Veterans three thousand blankets, olive drab, numbered 4, one thousand five hundred canvas cots, to be used at their annual encampment to be held at Shreveport, Louisiana, in June 1936.

    Ch. 435 · 49 Stat. 1368 · May 20, 1936 · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of H. L. and J. B. McQueen, Incorporated, and John L. Summers, former disbursing clerk, Treasury Department.

    Ch. 436 · 49 Stat. 2300 · May 20, 1936 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Robert J. Mann.

    Ch. 437 · 49 Stat. 2300 · May 20, 1936 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of H. R. Heinicke, Incorporated.

    Ch. 438 · 49 Stat. 2301 · May 20, 1936 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Oliver Faulkner.

    Ch. 439 · 49 Stat. 2301 · May 20, 1936 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To convey certain lands to Clackamas County, Oregon, for public-park purposes.

    Ch. 440 · 49 Stat. 1369 · May 21, 1936 · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Holy Cross Mission Hospital.

    Ch. 441 · 49 Stat. 2302 · May 21, 1936 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act To authorize the President to bestow the Navy Cross upon Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap, United States Marine Corps, deceased.

    Ch. 442 · 49 Stat. 2302 · May 21, 1936 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Frank Cordova.

    Ch. 443 · 49 Stat. 2303 · May 21, 1936 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To supplement the Act of June 25, 1929 (ch. 41, 46 Stat. L. 41), which authorized and directed the Attorney General to institute suit against the Northern Pacific Railway Company and others.

    Ch. 444 · 49 Stat. 1369 · May 22, 1936 · Original text

85. An Act To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station at or near Crescent City, California.

    Ch. 445 · 49 Stat. 1370 · May 22, 1936 · Original text

86. An Act To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station at Port Washington, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 446 · 49 Stat. 1370 · May 22, 1936 · Original text

87. An Act To amend section 4 of Public Act Numbered 286, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 19, 1935, as amended.

    Ch. 447 · 49 Stat. 1370 · May 22, 1936 · Original text

88. An Act Authorizing the erection of a memorial to those who met their death in the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah.

    Ch. 448 · 49 Stat. 1371 · May 22, 1936 · Original text

89. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant to the city of Buffalo, New York, the right and privilege to occupy and use for sewage-disposal facilities part of the lands forming the pier and dikes of the Black Rock Harbor improvement at Buffalo, New York.

    Ch. 449 · 49 Stat. 1371 · May 26, 1936 · Original text

90. An Act To establish an assessed valuation real property tax in the Virgin Islands of the United States.

    Ch. 450 · 49 Stat. 1372 · May 26, 1936 · Original text

91. An Act To provide for the establishment of the Fort Frederica National Monument, at Saint Simon Island, Georgia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 451 · 49 Stat. 1373 · May 26, 1936 · Original text

92. An Act To authorize withholding compensation due Government personnel.

    Ch. 452 · 49 Stat. 1374 · May 26, 1936 · Original text

93. An Act To provide for adjusting the compensation of division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents at large, assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, chief clerks, assistant chief clerks, and clerks in charge of sections in offices of division superintendents in the Railway Mail Service, to correspond to the rates established by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

    Ch. 453 · 49 Stat. 1374 · May 26, 1936 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the transfer of the customhouse at Salem, Massachusetts, from the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department to the Department of the Interior.

    Ch. 454 · 49 Stat. 1374 · May 26, 1936 · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of the Western Electric Company, Incorporated.

    Ch. 455 · 49 Stat. 2303 · May 26, 1936 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Harry P. Hollidge.

    Ch. 456 · 49 Stat. 2304 · May 26, 1936 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of the Snare and Triest Company, now Frederick Snare Corporation

    Ch. 457 · 49 Stat. 2304 · May 26, 1936 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of T. D. Randall and Company.

    Ch. 458 · 49 Stat. 2305 · May 26, 1936 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Sarah Shelton.

    Ch. 459 · 49 Stat. 2305 · May 26, 1936 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Jesse S. Post.

     Ch. 460 · 49 Stat. 2305 · May 26, 1936 · Private law · Original text