Every law Congress has passed

1,760 laws of the 75th Congress, 1937–1939

1. Joint Resolution To prohibit the exportation of arms, ammunition, and implements of war from the United States to Spain.

   Ch. 1 · 50 Stat. 3 · January 8, 1937 · Original text

2. Joint Resolution To provide for the quartering, in certain public buildings in the District of Columbia, of troops participating in the inaugural ceremonies.

   Ch. 2 · 50 Stat. 4 · January 14, 1937 · Original text

3. An Act Granting a pension to Grace G. Coolidge.

   Ch. 3 · 50 Stat. 923 · January 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

4. Joint Resolution To exempt from the tax on admissions amounts paid for admission tickets sold by authority of the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in January 1937.

   Ch. 4 · 50 Stat. 4 · January 18, 1937 · Original text

5. An Act To extend the time within which the powers relating to the stabilization fund and alteration of the weight of the dollar may be exercised.

   Ch. 5 · 50 Stat. 4 · January 23, 1937 · Original text

6. An Act To continue the functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 6 · 50 Stat. 5 · January 26, 1937 · Original text

7. An Act To provide for loans to farmers for crop production and harvesting during the year 1937, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 7 · 50 Stat. 5 · January 29, 1937 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution To create a joint congressional committee on Government organization.

   Ch. 8 · 50 Stat. 7 · February 3, 1937 · Original text

9. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 9 · 50 Stat. 8 · February 9, 1937 · Original text

10. An Act To provide for loans made necessary by floods or other catastrophes in the year 1937.

    Ch. 10 · 50 Stat. 19 · February 11, 1937 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite the Pan American Republics and the Dominion of Canada to participate in the proposed Greater Texas and Pan American Exposition.

    Ch. 11 · 50 Stat. 19 · February 12, 1937 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution To extend for a period of two years the guarantee by the United States of debentures issued by the Federal Housing Administrator.

    Ch. 12 · 50 Stat. 20 · February 19, 1937 · Original text

13. An Act To create the Capital Auditorium Commission.

    Ch. 13 · 50 Stat. 20 · February 20, 1937 · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Ralph C. Irwin.

    Ch. 14 · 50 Stat. 923 · February 23, 1937 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Barry, State of Missouri, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the White River at or near Eagle Rock, Missouri.

    Ch. 15 · 50 Stat. 20 · February 24, 1937 · Original text

16. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Delaware River near Trenton, New Jersey.

    Ch. 16 · 50 Stat. 21 · February 24, 1937 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution To make funds available for health and sanitation activities in the areas recently stricken by floods.

    Ch. 17 · 50 Stat. 21 · February 24, 1937 · Original text

18. Joint Resolution Relating to the participation by the United States in the International Exposition of Paris, 1937.

    Ch. 18 · 50 Stat. 22 · February 25, 1937 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution To amend the Act entitled “An Act to levy an excise tax upon carriers and an income tax upon their employees, and for other purposes”, approved August 29, 1935.

    Ch. 19 · 50 Stat. 23 · February 27, 1937 · Original text

20. An Act To extend the period during which direct obligations of the United States may be used as collateral security for Federal Reserve notes.

    Ch. 20 · 50 Stat. 23 · March 1, 1937 · Original text

21. An Act To provide for retirement of Justices of the Supreme Court.

    Ch. 21 · 50 Stat. 24 · March 1, 1937 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution To extend the authority of the President under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.

    Ch. 22 · 50 Stat. 24 · March 1, 1937 · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of James Luker, Senior.

    Ch. 23 · 50 Stat. 923 · March 1, 1937 · Private law · Original text

24. Joint Resolution To authorize the Postmaster General to withhold the awarding of star-route contracts for a period of sixty days.

    Ch. 24 · 50 Stat. 24 · March 2, 1937 · Original text

25. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a free highway bridge across the Missouri River at or near Atchison, Kansas.

    Ch. 25 · 50 Stat. 24 · March 4, 1937 · Original text

26. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept gifts and bequests for the benefit of the Office of Naval Records and Library, Navy Department.

    Ch. 26 · 50 Stat. 25 · March 4, 1937 · Original text

27. 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. 27 · 50 Stat. 25 · March 4, 1937 · Original text

28. An Act To provide a preliminary examination and survey of the Snake River and tributaries in the States of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, with a view to control of flood waters.

    Ch. 28 · 50 Stat. 26 · March 4, 1937 · Original text

29. An Act To authorize the purchase and distribution of products of the fishing industry.

    Ch. 29 · 50 Stat. 27 · March 5, 1937 · Original text

30. An Act To provide for the issuance of a license to practice the healing art in the District of Columbia to Doctor Ralph Charles Stuart.

    Ch. 30 · 50 Stat. 924 · March 5, 1937 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To provide for the issuance of a license to practice the healing art in the District of Columbia to Doctor Clarence Quinton Pair.

    Ch. 31 · 50 Stat. 924 · March 5, 1937 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River near The Dalles, Oregon.

    Ch. 32 · 50 Stat. 27 · March 10, 1937 · Original text

33. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Alabama, or Etowah County, or both, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Coosa River at or near Gilberts Ferry in Etowah County, Alabama.

    Ch. 33 · 50 Stat. 27 · March 10, 1937 · Original text

34. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Savannah River at or near Lincolnton, Georgia.

    Ch. 34 · 50 Stat. 28 · March 10, 1937 · Original text

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

    Ch. 35 · 50 Stat. 28 · March 10, 1937 · Original text

36. An Act Declaring Turtle Bay and Turtle Bayou, Chambers County, Texas, to be non-navigable waterways.

    Ch. 36 · 50 Stat. 28 · March 10, 1937 · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department.

    Ch. 37 · 50 Stat. 924 · March 10, 1937 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Lewis Clark and Freda Mason.

    Ch. 38 · 50 Stat. 926 · March 11, 1937 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Fields B. Arthur and Arthur L. Allen, copartners, Colorado Culvert and Flume Company; Glen Haller, Kenneth Austin, A. B. Hoffman, J. W. Jones, and Lloyd Lasswell.

    Ch. 39 · 50 Stat. 927 · March 11, 1937 · Private law · Original text

40. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to grant further extensions of time for filing returns under title III of the Revenue Act of 1936.

    Ch. 40 · 50 Stat. 29 · March 13, 1937 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution To aid in defraying the expenses of the International Labor Office incident to holding its Technical Tripartite Textile Conference.

    Ch. 41 · 50 Stat. 29 · March 15, 1937 · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Edna M. Callahan and Anna Scott.

    Ch. 42 · 50 Stat. 927 · March 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

43. Uniform Sales Act

    An Act To regulate the sales of goods in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 43 · 50 Stat. 29 · March 17, 1937 · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Brook House, Limited, of Sydney, Australia.

    Ch. 44 · 50 Stat. 928 · March 17, 1937 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of William L. Jenkins.

    Ch. 45 · 50 Stat. 928 · March 18, 1937 · Private law · Original text

46. 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. 46 · 50 Stat. 48 · March 24, 1937 · Original text

47. An Act To further extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River between the towns of Decatur, Nebraska, and Onawa, Iowa.

    Ch. 47 · 50 Stat. 48 · March 24, 1937 · Original text

48. An Act To further extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near the cities of South Sioux City, Nebraska, and Sioux City, Iowa.

    Ch. 48 · 50 Stat. 48 · March 24, 1937 · Original text

49. An Act To amend section 4551 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 ed., Supp. II, title 46, sec. 643).

    Ch. 49 · 50 Stat. 49 · March 24, 1937 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution Providing for the construction and maintenance of a National Gallery of Art.

    Ch. 50 · 50 Stat. 51 · March 24, 1937 · Original text

51. Joint Resolution To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to accept title for the United States to certain real property to be donated by Mr. Henry Ford and wife for Veterans’ Administration facility purposes.

    Ch. 51 · 50 Stat. 54 · March 24, 1937 · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Michael E. Sullivan.

    Ch. 52 · 50 Stat. 929 · March 24, 1937 · Private law · Original text

53. Joint Resolution To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Greater Texas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas, Texas, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 53 · 50 Stat. 55 · March 27, 1937 · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of the estate of Letha F. McCubbin, the estate of Mary B. Hodge, and the estate of Walter H. Mansfield.

    Ch. 54 · 50 Stat. 929 · March 27, 1937 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of John Munroe.

    Ch. 55 · 50 Stat. 929 · March 27, 1937 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of John Edgar White, a minor.

    Ch. 56 · 50 Stat. 930 · March 27, 1937 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Bertha M. Harris.

    Ch. 57 · 50 Stat. 930 · March 27, 1937 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act To amend section 318 of the Communications Act of 1934.

    Ch. 58 · 50 Stat. 56 · March 29, 1937 · Original text

59. Joint Resolution To amend Public Law Numbered 780, Seventy-fourth Congress, to authorize the acquisition of lands in the city of Alameda, county of Alameda, State of California, as a site for a naval air station and to authorize the construction and installation of a naval air station thereon, for the purpose of making a correction therein.

    Ch. 59 · 50 Stat. 56 · March 29, 1937 · Original text

60. Joint Resolution For the payment of certain employees of the United States Government in the District of Columbia and employees of the District of Columbia for January 20, 1937.

    Ch. 60 · 50 Stat. 56 · March 29, 1937 · Original text

61. Joint Resolution Declaring Joseph P. Kennedy eligible for appointment as a member of the United States Maritime Commission.

    Ch. 61 · 50 Stat. 57 · March 30, 1937 · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of C. C. Young.

    Ch. 62 · 50 Stat. 931 · March 31, 1937 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Captain J. H. Merriam, Supply Corps, United States Navy.

    Ch. 63 · 50 Stat. 931 · March 31, 1937 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act To amend section 704 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 (49 U. S. Stat. L 2008–2009).

    Ch. 64 · 50 Stat. 57 · April 1, 1937 · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of Clark F. Potts and Charles H. Barker.

    Ch. 65 · 50 Stat. 931 · April 1, 1937 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Mary Daley.

    Ch. 66 · 50 Stat. 932 · April 3, 1937 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the settlement of individual claims for personal property lost or damaged, arising out of the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which have been approved by the Secretary of War.

    Ch. 67 · 50 Stat. 932 · April 3, 1937 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of E. C. Willis, father of the late Charles R. Willis, a minor.

    Ch. 68 · 50 Stat. 933 · April 3, 1937 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act Making funds available for the control of incipient or emergency outbreaks of insect pests or plant diseases, including grasshoppers, Mormon crickets, and chinch bugs.

    Ch. 69 · 50 Stat. 57 · April 6, 1937 · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of the Baker-Whiteley Coal Company.

    Ch. 70 · 50 Stat. 933 · April 6, 1937 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Malinda J. Mast and William Lee Mast.

    Ch. 71 · 50 Stat. 934 · April 7, 1937 · Private law · Original text

72. Joint Resolution Providing for the participation by the United States in the Greater Texas and Pan American Exposition to be held in the State of Texas during the year 1937.

    Ch. 72 · 50 Stat. 58 · April 9, 1937 · Original text

73. Joint Resolution Providing for a continuance of the participation of the United States in the Great Lakes Exposition in the State of Ohio in 1937, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 74 · 50 Stat. 58 · April 12, 1937 · Original text

74. Joint Resolution To make funds available to carry out the provisions of existing law authorizing the purchase and distribution of products of the fishing industry.

    Ch. 73 · 50 Stat. 61 · April 12, 1937 · Original text

75. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for the classification of cotton, to furnish information on market supply, demand, location, condition, and market prices for cotton, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 75 · 50 Stat. 62 · April 13, 1937 · Original text

76. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim October 11, 1937, General Pulaski’s Memorial Day for the observance and commemoration of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski.

    Ch. 76 · 50 Stat. 62 · April 13, 1937 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution To amend section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for other purposes”, approved July 1, 1902, as amended.

    Ch. 77 · 50 Stat. 63 · April 14, 1937 · Original text

78. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1909, to extend commissary privileges to widows of officers and enlisted men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard and also to officers of the Foreign Service of the United States at foreign stations.

    Ch. 78 · 50 Stat. 63 · April 14, 1937 · Original text

79. An Act To amend that provision of the Act approved March 3, 1879 (20 Stat. L. 412), relating to issue of arms and ammunition for the protection of public money and property.

    Ch. 79 · 50 Stat. 63 · April 14, 1937 · Original text

80. An Act To provide for the appointment of two additional circuit judges for the ninth judicial circuit.

    Ch. 80 · 50 Stat. 64 · April 14, 1937 · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of J. H. Richards.

    Ch. 81 · 50 Stat. 934 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of the estate of Alice W. Miller, deceased.

    Ch. 82 · 50 Stat. 935 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of A. D. Hampton.

    Ch. 83 · 50 Stat. 935 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Harry King.

    Ch. 84 · 50 Stat. 935 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Navy for the value of personal effects destroyed in a fire at the Radio Direction Finder Station, North Truro, Massachusetts, on December 27, 1934.

    Ch. 85 · 50 Stat. 936 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Amelia Corr.

    Ch. 86 · 50 Stat. 936 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Joseph A. Ganong.

    Ch. 87 · 50 Stat. 937 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Cesaria Del Pilar.

    Ch. 88 · 50 Stat. 937 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Norman Hildebrand.

    Ch. 89 · 50 Stat. 938 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Marine Corps for the value of personal effects lost by fire at the Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, on October 5, 1930.

    Ch. 90 · 50 Stat. 938 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Navy for the value of personal effects lost by fire at the Naval Radio Station, Eureka, California, on January 17, 1930.

    Ch. 91 · 50 Stat. 939 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Navy for the value of personal effects destroyed in a fire at the Naval Radio Station, Libugon, Guam, on April 15, 1932.

    Ch. 92 · 50 Stat. 939 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain civilians employed at the Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia, on May 4, 1930, for the value of tools lost in a fire on pier 7, at the naval operating base, on that date.

    Ch. 93 · 50 Stat. 940 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain enlisted men of the Navy for the value of personal effects destroyed in a fire in Building Numbered 125, United States Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, on July 16, 1935.

    Ch. 94 · 50 Stat. 940 · April 14, 1937 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To authorize any Government department to exchange used parts of certain types of equipment for new or reconditioned parts of the same equipment.

    Ch. 95 · 50 Stat. 64 · April 15, 1937 · Original text

96. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of certain portions of Anastasia Island Lighthouse Reservation, Florida, and for other purposes”, approved August 27, 1935, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 100 · 50 Stat. 64 · April 15, 1937 · Original text

97. An Act To enable Coast Guard officers to purchase articles of ordnance property for use in the public service in the same manner as such property may be purchased by officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

    Ch. 101 · 50 Stat. 65 · April 15, 1937 · Original text

98. An Act Authorizing and empowering the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the old post-office building at Oakland, California, and to convey to the city of Oakland portions of the site for street-widening purposes in accordance with the provisions of public Act approved August 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 800).

    Ch. 102 · 50 Stat. 65 · April 15, 1937 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of the State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 103 · 50 Stat. 66 · April 15, 1937 · Original text

100. An Act To provide special rates of postage on matter for the blind.

     Ch. 104 · 50 Stat. 66 · April 15, 1937 · Original text