Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of Tom Rogers, and the heirs of W. A. Bell, Israel Walker, Henry Shaw, Thomas Bailey, and Joseph Watson.

   Ch. 461 · 49 Stat. 2306 · May 26, 1936 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act To provide for the continuation of trading in unlisted securities upon national securities exchanges, for the registration of over-the-counter brokers and dealers, for the filing of current information and periodic reports by issuers, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 462 · 49 Stat. 1375 · May 27, 1936 · Original text

3. An Act To provide for a change in the designation of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, to create a marine casualty investigation board and increase efficiency in administration of the steamboat inspection laws, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 463 · 49 Stat. 1380 · May 27, 1936 · Original text

4. An Act Extending the time for making the report of the commission to study the subject of Hernando De Soto’s Expedition.

   Ch. 464 · 49 Stat. 1386 · May 27, 1936 · Original text

5. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to convey the Charleston Army Base Terminal to the city of Charleston, South Carolina.

   Ch. 465 · 49 Stat. 1387 · May 27, 1936 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the issuance of the charter to the city of Lynchburg, Virginia.

   Ch. 466 · 49 Stat. 1387 · May 28, 1936 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize municipal corporations in the Territory of Alaska to incur bonded indebtedness, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 467 · 49 Stat. 1388 · May 28, 1936 · Original text

8. An Act To grant a renewal of Patent Numbered 59560 relating to the emblem of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War.

   Ch. 468 · 49 Stat. 1389 · May 28, 1936 · Original text

9. An Act Granting a renewal of patent numbered 40029, relating to the badge of The Holy Name Society.

   Ch. 469 · 49 Stat. 1389 · May 28, 1936 · Original text

10. An Act To advance a program of national safety and accident prevention.

    Ch. 470 · 49 Stat. 1389 · May 28, 1936 · Original text

11. An Act To incorporate the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.

    Ch. 471 · 49 Stat. 1390 · May 28, 1936 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection in the Department of Labor Building of a memorial to the officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Immigration Border Patrol who, while on active duty, lost their lives under heroic or tragic circumstances.

    Ch. 472 · 49 Stat. 1392 · May 28, 1936 · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Mull.

    Ch. 473 · 49 Stat. 2306 · May 28, 1936 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Frank P. Ross.

    Ch. 474 · 49 Stat. 2307 · May 29, 1936 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Earl A. Ross.

    Ch. 475 · 49 Stat. 2307 · May 29, 1936 · Private law · Original text

16. Joint Resolution To enable the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission to carry out and give effect to certain approved plans, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 476 · 49 Stat. 1392 · June 1, 1936 · Original text

17. An Act To provide for the creation of the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial National Monument, on Put-in-Bay, South Bass Island, in the State of Ohio, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 477 · 49 Stat. 1393 · June 2, 1936 · Original text

18. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Mississippi State Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Pascagoula River at or near Wilkerson’s Ferry, Mississippi.

    Ch. 478 · 49 Stat. 1395 · June 2, 1936 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution Authorizing the presentation of silver medals to the personnel of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.

    Ch. 479 · 49 Stat. 1395 · June 2, 1936 · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of C. O. Meyer.

    Ch. 480 · 49 Stat. 2307 · June 2, 1936 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the Arkansas Centennial Celebration, at Little Rock, Arkansas, the Texas Centennial, at Dallas, Texas, and the National Confederate Reunion, at Shreveport, Louisiana, between the dates from June 6 to June 16, 1936, inclusive.

    Ch. 481 · 49 Stat. 1395 · June 3, 1936 · Original text

22. An Act To protect the United States against loss in the delivery through the mails of checks in payment of benefits provided for by laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration.

    Ch. 482 · 49 Stat. 1396 · June 3, 1936 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the execution of plans for a permanent memorial to Thomas Jefferson

    Ch. 483 · 49 Stat. 1397 · June 3, 1936 · Original text

24. An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 484 · 49 Stat. 1398 · June 3, 1936 · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of certain officers and employees of the Foreign Service of the United States who, while in the course of their respective duties, suffered losses of personal property by reason of catastrophes of nature.

    Ch. 485 · 49 Stat. 2308 · June 3, 1936 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Odessa Mason.

    Ch. 486 · 49 Stat. 2308 · June 3, 1936 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Doctor F. U. Painter, Doctor H. A. White, Doctor C. P. Yeager, Doctor W. C. Barnard, Mrs. G. C. Oliphant, Amelia A. Daimwood, the Sun Pharmacy, Bruno’s Pharmacy, Viola Doyle Maguire, Louise Harmon, Mrs. J. B. Wilkinson, Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Grace Hinnant, Doctor E. O. Arnold, and Jennie Chapman.

    Ch. 487 · 49 Stat. 2309 · June 3, 1936 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. William O’Brien.

    Ch. 488 · 49 Stat. 2310 · June 3, 1936 · Private law · Original text

29. Joint Resolution To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the International Petroleum Exposition, Tulsa, Oklahoma, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 505 · 49 Stat. 1375 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

30. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 489 · 49 Stat. 1421 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

31. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to arrange with States or Territories for the education, medical attention, relief of distress, and social welfare of Indians, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 490 · 49 Stat. 1458 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

32. An Act To amend the last paragraph, as amended, of the Act entitled “An Act to refer the claims of the Delaware Indians to the Court of Claims, with the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States”, approved February 7, 1925.

    Ch. 491 · 49 Stat. 1459 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize an appropriation to pay non-Indian claimants whose claims have been extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, but who have been found entitled to awards under said Act as supplemented by the Act of May 31, 1933.

    Ch. 492 · 49 Stat. 1459 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

34. An Act To provide for the appointment of substitute postal employees, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 493 · 49 Stat. 1460 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

35. An Act To add certain lands to the Rogue River National Forest in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 494 · 49 Stat. 1460 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

36. An Act To amend certain plant-quarantine laws.

    Ch. 495 · 49 Stat. 1461 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

37. An Act To make lands in drainage, irrigation, and conservancy districts eligible for loans by the Federal land banks and other Federal agencies loaning on farm lands, notwithstanding the existence of prior liens of assessments made by such districts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 496 · 49 Stat. 1461 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

38. An Act To extend the time for applying for and receiving benefits under the Act entitled “An Act to provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States”, approved July 10, 1935.

    Ch. 497 · 49 Stat. 1462 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize an appropriation for improvement of ammunition storage facilities at Aliamanu, Territory of Hawaii, and Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland.

    Ch. 498 · 49 Stat. 1462 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

40. An Act Providing for the examination of the Nueces River and its tributaries in the State of Texas for flood-control purposes.

    Ch. 499 · 49 Stat. 1462 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

41. An Act Authorizing construction, operation, and maintenance of Rio Grande canalization project and authorizing appropriation for that purpose.

    Ch. 500 · 49 Stat. 1463 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

42. An Act To correct an error in section 16 (e) (1) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, with respect to adjustments in taxes on stocks on hand, in the case of a reduction in processing tax.

    Ch. 501 · 49 Stat. 1464 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

43. An Act Granting to the State of Iowa for State park purposes certain land of the United States in Clayton County, Iowa.

    Ch. 502 · 49 Stat. 1464 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

44. An Act To authorize a preliminary examination of Big Blue River and its tributaries with a view to the control of their floods.

    Ch. 503 · 49 Stat. 1471 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution Granting the consent of Congress to the States of New York and Vermont to enter into an agreement amending the agreement between such States consented to by Congress in Public Resolution Numbered 9, Seventieth Congress, relating to the creation of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission.

    Ch. 504 · 49 Stat. 1472 · June 4, 1936 · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Mrs. G. A. Brannan.

    Ch. 506 · 49 Stat. 2310 · June 4, 1936 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Michael Stodolnik.

    Ch. 507 · 49 Stat. 2310 · June 4, 1936 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Ollie Myers.

    Ch. 508 · 49 Stat. 2311 · June 4, 1936 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Ezra Curtis.

    Ch. 509 · 49 Stat. 2311 · June 4, 1936 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Joseph M. Purrington.

    Ch. 510 · 49 Stat. 2311 · June 4, 1936 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act Relating to the allocation of radio facilities.

    Ch. 511 · 49 Stat. 1475 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

52. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, as amended and supplemented.

    Ch. 512 · 49 Stat. 1475 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of the State of Maine.

    Ch. 513 · 49 Stat. 1476 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

54. An Act To further extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Garrison, North Dakota.

    Ch. 514 · 49 Stat. 1476 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

55. An Act Relating to the jurisdiction of the judge for the northern and middle districts of Alabama.

    Ch. 515 · 49 Stat. 1476 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

56. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of certain free highway bridges across the Red River, from Moorhead, Minnesota, to Fargo, North Dakota.

    Ch. 516 · 49 Stat. 1477 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

57. An Act To amend section 28 of the Enabling Act for the State of Arizona, approved June 20, 1910.

    Ch. 517 · 49 Stat. 1477 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

58. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Department of Public Works of Massachusetts to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Connecticut River at or near Northampton, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 518 · 49 Stat. 1478 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the President to designate an Acting High Commismissioner 1 to the Philippine Islands.

    Ch. 519 · 49 Stat. 1478 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

60. An Act Authorizing the State Highway Board of the State of Georgia to replace, reconstruct, or repair the free highway bridge across the Savannah River at or near the city of Augusta, Georgia.

    Ch. 520 · 49 Stat. 1479 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

61. An Act Relative to limitation of shipowners’ liability.

    Ch. 521 · 49 Stat. 1479 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

62. An Act Granting authority to the Secretary of War to license the use of a certain parcel of land situated in Fort Brady Reservation to Ira D. MacLachlan Post Numbered 3, the American Legion, for fifteen years.

    Ch. 522 · 49 Stat. 1481 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

63. An Act To amend Public Law Numbered 425, Seventy-second Congress, providing for the selection of certain lands in the State of California for the use of the California State Park System, approved March 3, 1933.

    Ch. 523 · 49 Stat. 1482 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

64. An Act Extending and continuing to January 12, 1938, the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to determine and confirm by patent in the nature of a deed of quitclaim the title to lots in the city of Pensacola, Florida”, approved January 12, 1925.

    Ch. 524 · 49 Stat. 1482 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

65. An Act To provide for the addition or additions of certain lands to the Colonial National Monument in the State of Virginia.

    Ch. 525 · 49 Stat. 1483 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to furnish transportation to persons in the service of the United States in the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 526 · 49 Stat. 1483 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

67. An Act To eliminate certain lands from the Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho.

    Ch. 527 · 49 Stat. 1484 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

68. An Act To amend the Act of March 3, 1925, relating to Fort McHenry.

    Ch. 528 · 49 Stat. 1484 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

69. An Act To fix the compensation of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

    Ch. 529 · 49 Stat. 1484 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

70. An Act Declaring Bayou Saint John, in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, a nonnavigable stream.

    Ch. 530 · 49 Stat. 1484 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

71. An Act To aid in defraying the expenses for the celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Patrick Henry to be held at Hanover Courthouse, Virginia, July 15, 16, and 17, 1936.

    Ch. 531 · 49 Stat. 1485 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

72. Joint Resolution To amend the joint resolution of July 18, 1935, relating to the Seventieth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in the District of Columbia in September 1936.

    Ch. 532 · 49 Stat. 1485 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

73. Joint Resolution Authorizing and requesting the President to extend to the Government of Sweden and individuals an invitation to join the Government and people of the United States in the observance of the three-hundredth anniversary of the first permanent settlement in the Delaware River Valley, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 533 · 49 Stat. 1486 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

74. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States to award posthumously a Distinguished Service Medal to Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards.

    Ch. 534 · 49 Stat. 1487 · June 5, 1936 · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Charles G. Johnson, State treasurer of the State of California.

    Ch. 535 · 49 Stat. 2312 · June 5, 1936 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Murray A. Hintz.

    Ch. 536 · 49 Stat. 2312 · June 5, 1936 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of John B. Meisinger and Nannie B. Meisinger.

    Ch. 537 · 49 Stat. 2313 · June 5, 1936 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of Earl Elmer Gallatin.

    Ch. 538 · 49 Stat. 2313 · June 5, 1936 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Montie Hermanson.

    Ch. 539 · 49 Stat. 2314 · June 5, 1936 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of Arthur Van Gestel, alias Arthur Goodsell.

    Ch. 540 · 49 Stat. 2314 · June 5, 1936 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act To provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories.

    Ch. 541 · 49 Stat. 1488 · June 8, 1936 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution To enable the States of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, and Ohio to conserve and regulate the flow of and purify the waters of rivers and streams whose drainage basins lie within two or more of the said States.

    Ch. 542 · 49 Stat. 1490 · June 8, 1936 · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of the Thomas Marine Railway Company, Incorporated.

    Ch. 543 · 49 Stat. 2315 · June 8, 1936 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To provide for the appointment of two additional judges for the Southern District of New York.

    Ch. 544 · 49 Stat. 1491 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

85. An Act To amend the Grain Futures Act to prevent and remove obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in grains and other commodities by regulating transactions therein on commodity futures exchanges, to limit or abolish short selling, to curb manipulation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 545 · 49 Stat. 1491 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

86. An Act To incorporate The National Yeomen F.

    Ch. 546 · 49 Stat. 1501 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

87. An Act To make provision for the care and treatment of members of the National Guard, Organized Reserves, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and Citizens’ Military Training Camps who are injured or contract disease while engaged in military training, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 547 · 49 Stat. 1507 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

88. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries and for other purposes”, approved May 15, 1928.

    Ch. 548 · 49 Stat. 1508 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

89. An Act Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to counsel in certain cases.

    Ch. 549 · 49 Stat. 1513 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

90. An Act To provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims for damages resulting from the operation of vessels of the Coast Guard and Public Health Service.

    Ch. 550 · 49 Stat. 1514 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

91. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to set apart as a national cemetery certain lands of the United States Military Reservation of Fort Bliss, Texas.

    Ch. 551 · 49 Stat. 1514 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

92. An Act Authorizing certain 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. 552 · 49 Stat. 1515 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

93. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics and related subjects, and for other purposes”, approved May 22, 1928.

    Ch. 553 · 49 Stat. 1515 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

94. An Act To provide for the extension of the boundaries of the Hot Springs National Park in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 554 · 49 Stat. 1516 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

95. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the New York World’s Fair 1939, Incorporated, in the city of New York during the year 1939.

    Ch. 555 · 49 Stat. 1516 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

96. Joint Resolution Making provision for a national celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, wealthiest signer of the Declaration of Independence.

    Ch. 556 · 49 Stat. 1516 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

97. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the San Francisco Bay Exposition in 1939 at San Francisco, California.

    Ch. 557 · 49 Stat. 1518 · June 15, 1936 · Original text

98. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Elizabeth Kurau.

    Ch. 558 · 49 Stat. 2315 · June 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of John W. Hubbard.

    Ch. 559 · 49 Stat. 2316 · June 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Providing for the posthumous appointment of Ernest E. Dailey as a warrant radio electrician, United States Navy.

     Ch. 560 · 49 Stat. 2316 · June 15, 1936 · Private law · Original text