Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To amend the Act approved June 19, 1934, entitled the “Communications Act of 1934.”

   Ch. 296 · 52 Stat. 588 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

2. An Act To amend section 26, title I, chapter 1, of the Act entitled “An Act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved June 6, 1900.

   Ch. 297 · 52 Stat. 588 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

3. An Act To authorize public-utility districts in the Territory of Alaska to incur bonded indebtedness, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 298 · 52 Stat. 589 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

4. An Act To create a Commission to be known as the Alaskan International Highway Commission.

   Ch. 299 · 52 Stat. 590 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

5. An Act To authorize the Territory of Hawaii to convey the present Maalaea Airport on the island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii, to the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, Limited, in part payment for three hundred and seventy-one one-hundredths acres of land at Pulehu-Nui, island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii, to be used as a site for a new airport.

   Ch. 300 · 52 Stat. 590 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

6. An Act Relating to the retirement of the justices of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii and judges of the United States District Court for the Territory of Hawaii.

   Ch. 301 · 52 Stat. 590 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce of the United States to grant and convey to the State of Delaware fee title to certain lands of the United States in Kent County, Delaware, for highway purposes.

   Ch. 302 · 52 Stat. 591 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to lease to the village of Youngstown, New York, a portion of the Fort Niagara Military Reservation, New York.

   Ch. 303 · 52 Stat. 592 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize the withdrawal and reservation of small tracts of the public domain in Alaska for schools, hospitals, and other purposes.

   Ch. 304 · 52 Stat. 593 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution To protect the copyrights and patents of foreign exhibitors at the Pacific Mercado International Exposition, to be held at Los Angeles, California, in 1940.

    Ch. 305 · 52 Stat. 593 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution To increase by $15,000 the amount authorized to be appropriated for the observance of the anniversary of the adoption of the Ordinance of 1787 and the settlement of the Northwest Territory.

    Ch. 306 · 52 Stat. 595 · May 31, 1938 · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Mary Kane, Ella Benz, Muriel Benz, John Benz, and Frank Restis.

    Ch. 307 · 52 Stat. 1319 · May 31, 1938 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act To amend section 30 of the Act of March 2, 1917, entitled “An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 308 · 52 Stat. 595 · June 1, 1938 · Original text

14. An Act To amend section 5 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616).

    Ch. 312 · 52 Stat. 595 · June 1, 1938 · Original text

15. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a juvenile court in and for the District of Columbia”, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 309 · 52 Stat. 596 · June 1, 1938 · Original text

16. An Act To authorize payments in lieu of allotments to certain Indians of the Klamath Indian Reservation in the State of Oregon, and to regulate inheritance of restricted property within the Klamath Reservation.

    Ch. 310 · 52 Stat. 605 · June 1, 1938 · Original text

17. An Act To amend section 402 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to further provide for the settlement of ocean mail contract claims.

    Ch. 311 · 52 Stat. 606 · June 1, 1938 · Original text

18. An Act To refund sums paid by the railroads and other carriers of the United States under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1934.

    Ch. 315 · 52 Stat. 608 · June 1, 1938 · Original text

19. An Act To provide for the creation of the Saratoga National Historical Park in the State of New York, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 316 · 52 Stat. 608 · June 1, 1938 · Original text

20. An Act To provide for the purchase of public lands for home and other sites.

    Ch. 317 · 52 Stat. 609 · June 1, 1938 · Original text

21. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim October 11, 1938, General Pulaski’s Memorial Day for the observance and commemoration of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski.

    Ch. 318 · 52 Stat. 610 · June 1, 1938 · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of List and Clark Construction Company.

    Ch. 313 · 52 Stat. 1320 · June 1, 1938 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Confirming to Louis Labeaume, or his legal representatives, title to a certain tract of land located in Saint Charles County, in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 314 · 52 Stat. 1320 · June 1, 1938 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act To remove certain inequitable requirements for eligibility for detail as a member of the General Staff Corps.

    Ch. 319 · 52 Stat. 610 · June 3, 1938 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to aid in defraying expenses of the observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

    Ch. 320 · 52 Stat. 610 · June 3, 1938 · Original text

26. An Act To provide for the examination and licensing of those engaging in the practice of cosmetology in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 321 · 52 Stat. 611 · June 7, 1938 · Original text

27. An Act To regulate barbers in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 322 · 52 Stat. 620 · June 7, 1938 · Original text

28. Joint Resolution To amend title VI of the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937.

    Ch. 323 · 52 Stat. 624 · June 7, 1938 · Original text

29. An Act Authorizing the President to present the Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral Reginald Vesey Holt, British Navy, and to Captain George Eric Maxia O’Donnell, British Navy, and the Navy Cross to Vice Admiral Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe, British Navy, and to Lieutenant Commander Harry Douglas Barlow, British Navy.

    Ch. 324 · 52 Stat. 625 · June 7, 1938 · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of W. F. Lueders.

    Ch. 325 · 52 Stat. 1320 · June 7, 1938 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To provide for insanity proceedings in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 326 · 52 Stat. 625 · June 8, 1938 · Original text

32. An Act To require the registration of certain persons employed by agencies to disseminate propaganda in the United States and for other purposes.

    Ch. 327 · 52 Stat. 631 · June 8, 1938 · Original text

33. Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938

    An Act To amend the Federal Aid Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 328 · 52 Stat. 633 · June 8, 1938 · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of the Georgia Marble Company.

    Ch. 329 · 52 Stat. 1321 · June 8, 1938 · Private law · Original text

35. Joint Resolution To authorize an appropriation to aid in defraying the expenses of the observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battles of Chickamauga, Georgia, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee; and commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the removal from Tennessee of the Cherokee Indians, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and at Chickamauga, Georgia, from September 18 to 24, 1938, inclusive; and for other purposes.

    Ch. 330 · 52 Stat. 636 · June 10, 1938 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant an easement to the city of Highwood, Lake County, Illinois, in and over certain portions of the Fort Sheridan Military Reservation, for the purpose of constructing a waterworks system.

    Ch. 331 · 52 Stat. 638 · June 10, 1938 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize the registration of certain collective trade-marks.

    Ch. 332 · 52 Stat. 638 · June 10, 1938 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution Supplementing and amending the Act for the incorporation of Washington College of Law, organized under and by virtue of a certificate of incorporation pursuant to class 1, chapter 18, of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 333 · 52 Stat. 639 · June 10, 1938 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize membership on behalf of the United States in the International Criminal Police Commission.

    Ch. 335 · 52 Stat. 640 · June 10, 1938 · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Sallie S. Twilley.

    Ch. 334 · 52 Stat. 1321 · June 10, 1938 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Mrs. C. Doorn.

    Ch. 336 · 52 Stat. 1322 · June 10, 1938 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act To authorize an increase in the basic allotment of enlisted men to the Air Corps within the total enlisted strength provided in appropriations for the Regular Army.

    Ch. 337 · 52 Stat. 641 · June 11, 1938 · Original text

43. An Act To amend the Act of August 9, 1935 (Public, Numbered 259, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session).

    Ch. 338 · 52 Stat. 641 · June 11, 1938 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution For the designation of a street or avenue to be known as “Maine Avenue”.

    Ch. 339 · 52 Stat. 641 · June 11, 1938 · Original text

45. Joint Resolution For the designation of a street to be known as “Oregon Avenue”, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 340 · 52 Stat. 641 · June 11, 1938 · Original text

46. Military Appropriation Act, 1939

    An Act Making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 347 · 52 Stat. 642 · June 11, 1938 · Original text

47. War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1939

    An Act Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 348 · 52 Stat. 667 · June 11, 1938 · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Charles A. Rife.

    Ch. 341 · 52 Stat. 1322 · June 11, 1938 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant T. L. Bartlett.

    Ch. 342 · 52 Stat. 1322 · June 11, 1938 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Konderish.

    Ch. 343 · 52 Stat. 1323 · June 11, 1938 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Orville D. Davis.

    Ch. 344 · 52 Stat. 1323 · June 11, 1938 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Glenn Morrow.

    Ch. 345 · 52 Stat. 1324 · June 11, 1938 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of the Congress Construction Company.

    Ch. 346 · 52 Stat. 1324 · June 11, 1938 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To provide for holding terms of the district court of the United States at Hutchinson, Kansas.

    Ch. 349 · 52 Stat. 673 · June 13, 1938 · Original text

55. An Act To provide for holding terms of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia at Newport News, Virginia.

    Ch. 350 · 52 Stat. 674 · June 13, 1938 · Original text

56. An Act To amend the Act of May 13, 1936, providing for terms of the United States district court at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 351 · 52 Stat. 674 · June 13, 1938 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution To provide that the United States extend an invitation to the governments of the American republics, members of the Pan American Union, to hold the Eighth American Scientific Congress in the United States in 1940 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Pan American Union; to invite these governments to participate in the proposed Congress; and to authorize an appropriation for the expenses thereof.

    Ch. 352 · 52 Stat. 675 · June 13, 1938 · Original text

58. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey to the town of Montgomery, West Virginia, a certain tract of land.

    Ch. 353 · 52 Stat. 675 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

59. An Act To provide a uniform method for examinations for promotion of warrant officers.

    Ch. 354 · 52 Stat. 677 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

60. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to grant to the Coos County Court of Coquille, Oregon, and the State of Oregon an easement with respect to certain lands for highway purposes.

    Ch. 355 · 52 Stat. 677 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

61. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey a certain parcel of land in Tillamook County, Oregon, to the State of Oregon to be used for highway purposes.

    Ch. 356 · 52 Stat. 677 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

62. An Act To aid in providing a permanent mooring for the battleship Oregon.

    Ch. 357 · 52 Stat. 678 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

63. An Act Amending the Act authorizing the collection and publication of cotton statistics by requiring a record to be kept of bales ginned by counties.

    Ch. 358 · 52 Stat. 678 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

64. An Act To authorize the Cairo Bridge Commission, or the successors of said commission, to acquire by purchase, and to improve, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Cairo, Illinois.

    Ch. 359 · 52 Stat. 679 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

65. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge over Lake Sabine at or near Port Arthur, Texas.

    Ch. 360 · 52 Stat. 680 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing the city of Greenville, Mississippi, and Washington County, Mississippi, singly or jointly, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River from a point at or near the city of Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, to a point at or near Lake Village, Chicot County, Arkansas.

    Ch. 361 · 52 Stat. 681 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

67. 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. 362 · 52 Stat. 682 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

68. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge and causeway across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point and Dauphin Island, Alabama.

    Ch. 363 · 52 Stat. 682 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

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

    Ch. 364 · 52 Stat. 682 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

70. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Coosa River at or near Gilberts Ferry in Etowah County, Alabama.

    Ch. 365 · 52 Stat. 683 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

71. An Act To provide for the establishment of a commissary or vending stand in the Washington Asylum and Jail.

    Ch. 381 · 52 Stat. 683 · June 14, 1938 · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of the estate of W. K. Hyer.

    Ch. 366 · 52 Stat. 1324 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Mary Way.

    Ch. 367 · 52 Stat. 1325 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Samuel L. Dwyer.

    Ch. 368 · 52 Stat. 1325 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. James Crawford.

    Ch. 369 · 52 Stat. 1326 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Edith Jennings and Patsy Ruth Jennings, a minor.

    Ch. 370 · 52 Stat. 1326 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Carl Orr, a minor.

    Ch. 371 · 52 Stat. 1327 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of John F. Fahey, United States Marine Corps, retired.

    Ch. 372 · 52 Stat. 1327 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Dorothy Anne Walker, a minor.

    Ch. 373 · 52 Stat. 1327 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of the estate of Raquel Franco.

    Ch. 374 · 52 Stat. 1328 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Felsenthal, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Friedlander, and Mrs. Gus Levy.

    Ch. 375 · 52 Stat. 1328 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of the dependents of the late Lieutenant Robert E. Van Meter, United States Navy.

    Ch. 376 · 52 Stat. 1329 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Joseph D. Schoolfield.

    Ch. 377 · 52 Stat. 1329 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to settle and adjust the claim of Earle Lindsey.

    Ch. 378 · 52 Stat. 1329 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Authorizing the grant of a patent for certain lands in New Mexico to Mitt Taylor.

    Ch. 379 · 52 Stat. 1330 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

86. Joint Resolution Authorizing William Bowie, captain (retired), United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, to accept and wear decoration of the Order of Orange Nassau, bestowed by the Government of the Netherlands.

    Ch. 380 · 52 Stat. 1330 · June 14, 1938 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act To amend the Act of June 25, 1910, relating to the construction of public buildings, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 382 · 52 Stat. 683 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

88. An Act To authorize the United States Golden Gate International Exposition Commission to produce and sell certain articles, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 383 · 52 Stat. 684 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

89. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to proceed with the construction of certain public works in connection with the War Department in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 384 · 52 Stat. 684 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

90. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant rights-of-way for highway purposes and necessary storm sewer and drainage ditches incident thereto upon and across Kelly Field, a military reservation in the State of Texas; to authorize an appropriation for construction of the road, storm sewer, drainage ditches and necessary fence lines.

    Ch. 385 · 52 Stat. 684 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

91. An Act To provide funds for cooperation with School District Numbered 2, Mason County, State of Washington, in the construction of a public-school building to be available to both white and Indian children.

    Ch. 386 · 52 Stat. 685 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of certain officers of the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

    Ch. 387 · 52 Stat. 685 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

93. An Act Providing for the addition of certain lands to the Black Hills National Forest in the State of Wyoming.

    Ch. 388 · 52 Stat. 686 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of the State of Wyoming.

    Ch. 389 · 52 Stat. 687 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

95. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer on the books of the Treasury Department to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota the proceeds of a certain judgment erroneously deposited in the Treasury of the United States as public money.

    Ch. 390 · 52 Stat. 688 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

96. An Act To authorize alterations and repairs to certain naval vessels, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 391 · 52 Stat. 688 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

97. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injuries to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”

    Ch. 392 · 52 Stat. 689 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

98. An Act To amend section 3336 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, pertaining to brewers’ bonds, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 393 · 52 Stat. 689 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

99. An Act To authorize the conveyance to the Lane S. Anderson Post Numbered 297, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, of a parcel of land at lock numbered 6, Kanawha River, South Charleston, West Virginia.

    Ch. 394 · 52 Stat. 690 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

100. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize boring in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.”

     Ch. 395 · 52 Stat. 691 · June 15, 1938 · Original text