Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.

   Ch. 396 · 52 Stat. 691 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

2. An Act To add certain lands to the Ochoco National Forest, Oregon.

   Ch. 397 · 52 Stat. 692 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

3. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of material of the Bureau of Lighthouses to the Sea Scout Department of the Boy Scouts of America.

   Ch. 398 · 52 Stat. 692 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

4. An Act To permit sales of surplus scrap materials of the Navy to certain institutions of learning.

   Ch. 399 · 52 Stat. 693 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

5. An Act To require that, horses and mules belonging to the United States which have become unfit for service be destroyed or put to pasture.

   Ch. 400 · 52 Stat. 693 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to lend War Department equipment for use at the 1938 National Encampment of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States to be held in Columbus, Ohio, from August 21 to August 26, 1938.

   Ch. 401 · 52 Stat. 693 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

7. Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938

   An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers”, approved February 25, 1929, as amended.

   Ch. 402 · 52 Stat. 694 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held at Des Moines, Iowa, September 4 to 8, inclusive, 1938.

   Ch. 403 · 52 Stat. 695 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution To provide for the transfer of the Cape Henry Memorial site in Fort Story, Virginia, to the Department of the Interior.

   Ch. 404 · 52 Stat. 695 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Members of Congress.

    Ch. 405 · 52 Stat. 696 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

11. An Act To amend section 2139 of the Revised Statutes, as amended.

    Ch. 435 · 52 Stat. 696 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

12. An Act To divide the funds of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota between the Red Lake Band and the remainder of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, organized as the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

    Ch. 436 · 52 Stat. 697 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

13. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved May 14, 1898 (30 Stat. 409, 414).

    Ch. 437 · 52 Stat. 699 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

14. An Act To facilitate the control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests in Riverside County, California.

    Ch. 438 · 52 Stat. 699 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

15. An Act To amend certain provisions of law relative to the production of wines, brandy, and fruit spirits so as to remove therefrom certain unnecessary restrictions; to facilitate the collection of internal-revenue taxes thereupon; and to provide abatement of certain taxes upon wines, brandy, and fruit spirits where lost or evaporated while in the custody and under the control of the Government without any fault of the owner.

    Ch. 439 · 52 Stat. 699 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

16. An Act To provide for allowing to the Gem Irrigation District and Ontario-Nyssa Irrigation District of the Owyhee project terms and payment dates for charges deferred under the Reclamation Moratorium Acts similar to these applicable to the deferred construction charges of other projects under said Acts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 440 · 52 Stat. 703 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of the holders of the unpaid notes and warrants of the Verde River Irrigation and Power District, Arizona

    Ch. 453 · 52 Stat. 703 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

18. An Act To relinquish the title or interest of the United States in certain lands in Houston (formerly Dale) County, Alabama, in favor of Jesse G. Whitfield or other lawful owners thereof.

    Ch. 454 · 52 Stat. 703 · June 15, 1938 · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Lawson N. Dick

    Ch. 406 · 52 Stat. 1330 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Alceo Govoni.

    Ch. 407 · 52 Stat. 1331 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Josephine Russell.

    Ch. 408 · 52 Stat. 1331 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of A. D. Weikert.

    Ch. 409 · 52 Stat. 1332 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of William J. Schwarze.

    Ch. 410 · 52 Stat. 1332 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act To authorize the payment of certain obligations contracted by the Perry’s Victory Memorial Commission.

    Ch. 411 · 52 Stat. 1332 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth F. Quinn and Sarah Ferguson.

    Ch. 412 · 52 Stat. 1333 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Herman F. Krafft.

    Ch. 413 · 52 Stat. 1334 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of the estate of Lillie Liston, and Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Trent.

    Ch. 414 · 52 Stat. 1334 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Griffith L. Owens.

    Ch. 415 · 52 Stat. 1335 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Pearl Bundy.

    Ch. 416 · 52 Stat. 1335 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Doctors M. H. DePass and John E. Maines, Junior, and the Alachua County Hospital.

    Ch. 417 · 52 Stat. 1335 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of William A. Fleek.

    Ch. 418 · 52 Stat. 1336 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Antonio Masci.

    Ch. 419 · 52 Stat. 1336 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Barber-Hoppen Corporation.

    Ch. 420 · 52 Stat. 1337 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Hugh O’Farrell, and the estate of Thomas Gaffney.

    Ch. 421 · 52 Stat. 1337 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of James Shimkunas.

    Ch. 422 · 52 Stat. 1338 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of LeRoy W. Henry.

    Ch. 423 · 52 Stat. 1338 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Martin Bevilacque.

    Ch. 424 · 52 Stat. 1339 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Gladys Legrow.

    Ch. 425 · 52 Stat. 1339 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Doctor A. J. Cottrell.

    Ch. 426 · 52 Stat. 1339 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of George Rendell, Alice Rendell, and Mabel Rendell.

    Ch. 427 · 52 Stat. 1340 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of the Berkeley County Hospital and Doctor J. N. Walsh.

    Ch. 428 · 52 Stat. 1340 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of E. D. Frye.

    Ch. 429 · 52 Stat. 1341 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of A. L. Eldridge

    Ch. 430 · 52 Stat. 1341 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Frieda White.

    Ch. 431 · 52 Stat. 1341 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Herbert Joseph. Dawson.

    Ch. 432 · 52 Stat. 1342 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Fred H. Kocor.

    Ch. 433 · 52 Stat. 1342 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of the Robert E, Lee Hotel.

    Ch. 434 · 52 Stat. 1342 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of John H. Owens.

    Ch. 441 · 52 Stat. 1343 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of the Blue Rapids Gravel Company, of Blue Rapids, Kansas.

    Ch. 442 · 52 Stat. 1343 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of the Ouachita National Bank of Monroe, Louisiana; the Milner-Fuller, Incorporated, Monroe, Louisiana; estate of John C. Bass, of Lake Providence, Louisiana; Richard Bell, of Lake Providence, Louisiana; and Mrs. Cluren Surles, of Lake Providence, Louisiana.

    Ch. 443 · 52 Stat. 1344 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Arthur T. Miller.

    Ch. 444 · 52 Stat. 1344 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Miles A. Barclay.

    Ch. 445 · 52 Stat. 1345 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Emily Gertrude Toby.

    Ch. 446 · 52 Stat. 1345 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Mrs. W. E. Bouchey.

    Ch. 447 · 52 Stat. 1346 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Marie Frantzen McDonald.

    Ch. 448 · 52 Stat. 1346 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Joseph McDonnell.

    Ch. 449 · 52 Stat. 1346 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Al D. Romine and Ann Romine.

    Ch. 450 · 52 Stat. 1347 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of Sibbald Smith.

    Ch. 451 · 52 Stat. 1347 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of the Long Bell Lumber Company.

    Ch. 452 · 52 Stat. 1348 · June 15, 1938 · Private law · Original text

60. Joint Resolution To create a joint congressional committee to investigate the adequacy and use of the phosphate resources of the United States.

    Ch. 455 · 52 Stat. 704 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

61. Joint Resolution To create a temporary national economic committee.

    Ch. 456 · 52 Stat. 705 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

62. Joint Resolution To provide for a floor stock tax on distilled spirits, except brandy.

    Ch. 457 · 52 Stat. 707 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

63. An Act To provide for placing educational orders to familiarize private manufacturing establishments with the production of munitions of war of special or technical design, noncommercial in character.

    Ch. 458 · 52 Stat. 707 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

64. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of surplus buffalo and elk of the Wind Cave National Park herd, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 459 · 52 Stat. 708 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

65. An Act To provide for the ratification of all joint resolutions of the Legislature of Puerto Rico and of the former legislative assembly.

    Ch. 460 · 52 Stat. 708 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

66. An Act To exempt the property of the Young Women’s Christian Association in the District of Columbia from national and municipal taxation.

    Ch. 461 · 52 Stat. 709 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

67. An Act To extend for two additional years the 3½-per-centum interest rate on certain Federal land-bank loans, and to provide for a 4-per-centum interest rate on Land Bank Commissioner’s loans until July 1, 1940.

    Ch. 462 · 52 Stat. 709 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

68. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 464 · 52 Stat. 710 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

69. An Act Defining the compensation of persons holding positions as deputy clerks and commissioners of United States district courts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 465 · 52 Stat. 752 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

70. An Act To authorize a survey of the old Indian trail and the highway known as “Oglethorpe Trail” with a view of constructing a national roadway on this route to be known as “The Oglethorpe National Trail and Parkway.”

    Ch. 466 · 52 Stat. 752 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

71. An Act To except yachts, tugs, towboats, and unrigged vessels from certain provisions of the Act of June 25, 1936, as amended.

    Ch. 467 · 52 Stat. 753 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

72. An Act To amend the Veterans’ Regulation Numbered 10 pertaining to “line of duty” for peacetime veterans, their widows, and dependents, and for other purposes.’

    Ch. 468 · 52 Stat. 754 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

73. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States certain land in the city of Los Angeles, California, with Improvements thereon.

    Ch. 469 · 52 Stat. 755 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

74. An Act To create a commission to procure a design for a flag for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 470 · 52 Stat. 755 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

75. An Act To amend the National Firearms Act.

    Ch. 471 · 52 Stat. 756 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the conveyance of the old lighthouse keeper’s residence in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to the Otto Oas Post Numbered 659, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 472 · 52 Stat. 756 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

77. An Act To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Seventh World’s Poultry Congress and Exposition, Cleveland, Ohio, 1939, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 473 · 52 Stat. 756 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

78. An Act To amend section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and to define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and for other purposes”, approved September 19, 1918 (40 Stat. 960, Sixty-fifth Congress).

    Ch. 474 · 52 Stat. 758 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

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

    Ch. 475 · 52 Stat. 758 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

80. An Act To amend section 4197 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 91), and section 4200 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 92), and for other purposes.

    Ch. 476 · 52 Stat. 758 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

81. An Act To amend certain sections of the Act entitled “An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents”, approved January 12, 1895, as amended.

    Ch. 477 · 52 Stat. 760 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

82. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Natchez, Mississippi, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 478 · 52 Stat. 761 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

83. 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. 479 · 52 Stat. 762 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

84. An Act Relating to the manner of securing written consent for the reconcentration of cotton under section 383 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.

    Ch. 480 · 52 Stat. 762 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

85. An Act Authorizing the North Dakota State Highway Department and the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River.

    Ch. 481 · 52 Stat. 763 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

86. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Piscataqua River at or near Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

    Ch. 482 · 52 Stat. 763 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

87. 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. 483 · 52 Stat. 764 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

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

    Ch. 484 · 52 Stat. 764 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

89. An Act Providing that excess-land provisions of Federal reclamation laws shall not apply to certain lands that will receive a supplemental water supply from the Colorado-Big Thompson project.

    Ch. 485 · 52 Stat. 764 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

90. The Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act

    An Act To provide for the care and treatment of juvenile delinquents.

    Ch. 486 · 52 Stat. 764 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

91. An Act To amend section 1 of an Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the county of Pierce, a legal subdivision of the State of Washington, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across Puget Sound, State of Washington, at or near a point commonly known as ‘The Narrows’ ”, and to extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of such bridge.

    Ch. 487 · 52 Stat. 766 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

92. Joint Resolution To provide for the erection of a monument to the memory of General Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg.

    Ch. 488 · 52 Stat. 767 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution Amending paragraph (4) of subsection (n) of section 12B of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended.

    Ch. 489 · 52 Stat. 767 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution Creating the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission and authorizing said Commission and its successors to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Niagara River at or near the city of Niagara Falls, New York.

    Ch. 490 · 52 Stat. 767 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

95. An Act To quiet title and possession to certain islands in the Tennessee River in the counties of Colbert and Lauderdale, Alabama.

    Ch. 514 · 52 Stat. 771 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

96. An Act To quiet title and possession to certain lands in the Tennessee River in the counties of Colbert and Lauderdale, Alabama.

    Ch. 515 · 52 Stat. 772 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

97. An Act To quiet title and possession to a certain island in the Tennessee River in the County of Lauderdale, Alabama.

    Ch. 516 · 52 Stat. 774 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of certain persons at certain projects of the Farm Security Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.

    Ch. 517 · 52 Stat. 774 · June 16, 1938 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of the Federal Land Bank of Berkeley, California, and A. E. Colby.

    Ch. 463 · 52 Stat. 1348 · June 16, 1938 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Annie Mary Wilmuth.

     Ch. 491 · 52 Stat. 1348 · June 16, 1938 · Private law · Original text