Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of George W. Hanna and Bertha M. Hanna.

   Ch. 200 · 50 Stat. 959 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Rufus C. Long.

   Ch. 201 · 50 Stat. 960 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of B. W. Winward.

   Ch. 202 · 50 Stat. 960 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Frank Dauwe, Alberto Esparza, Frank Van den Hende, Germain Van der Poorten, and Cesar Van Overbenborger.

   Ch. 203 · 50 Stat. 961 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of E. P. Conroy and Graham Conroy.

   Ch. 204 · 50 Stat. 961 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Commander Chester B. Peake, Supply Corps, United States Navy.

   Ch. 205 · 50 Stat. 962 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Brown.

   Ch. 206 · 50 Stat. 962 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Commander William I. Causey, United States Navy, and Lieutenant Commander Earl LeRoy Bailey, Supply Corps, United States Navy.

   Ch. 207 · 50 Stat. 962 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Captain Benjamin Dutton, Junior, Captain C. H. J. Keppler, Commander Leo H. Thebaud, and Lieutenant Commander Gordon S. Bower, Supply Corps, United States Navy.

   Ch. 208 · 50 Stat. 963 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Edward L. Gockeler.

    Ch. 209 · 50 Stat. 963 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of W. J. Nolan, L. Jacobson, J. A. Higuera, C. H. Damsted, R. Galleguillo, F. G. Grigsby, K. H. Johnson, R. Dupouy, C. J. Degen, W. L. Nolan, R. C. Jensen, M. J. Roderick, L. K. Moore, C. Lederer, M. Kelley, R. Dinkel, A. J. Mouchou, C. R. Taylor, M. Knull, S. W. Ligon, C. C. Johnson, W. P. Brennan, C. F. Siebert, and J. T. Weeks.

    Ch. 210 · 50 Stat. 964 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Edward C. Paxton.

    Ch. 211 · 50 Stat. 964 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Melba Kuehl.

    Ch. 212 · 50 Stat. 965 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of the estate of Grace M. Moore, deceased.

    Ch. 213 · 50 Stat. 965 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Alban C. Sipe.

    Ch. 214 · 50 Stat. 965 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Henry H. Carr; Robert E. Wise, Stanley Wise Ellis, and Peyton L. Ellis; and Hilory Wise and Flora A. Wise.

    Ch. 215 · 50 Stat. 965 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of William E. Graham.

    Ch. 216 · 50 Stat. 966 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of C. A. Jones and Elbert Gentry.

    Ch. 217 · 50 Stat. 966 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of John Mack.

    Ch. 218 · 50 Stat. 967 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of V. P. Johnson.

    Ch. 219 · 50 Stat. 967 · May 15, 1937 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To create the office of Counselor of the Department of State.

    Ch. 220 · 50 Stat. 169 · May 18, 1937 · Original text

22. An Act To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 221 · 50 Stat. 169 · May 18, 1937 · Original text

23. An Act To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station at or near Pass-a-Grille Beach, Florida.

    Ch. 222 · 50 Stat. 169 · May 18, 1937 · Original text

24. An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 223 · 50 Stat. 169 · May 18, 1937 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution Providing for the importation of articles free from tariff or customs duty for the purpose of exhibition at the Golden Gate International Exposition to be held at San Francisco, California, in 1939, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 224 · 50 Stat. 187 · May 18, 1937 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize cooperation in the development of farm forestry in the States and Territories, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 226 · 50 Stat. 188 · May 18, 1937 · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Sallie Gillespie.

    Ch. 225 · 50 Stat. 968 · May 18, 1937 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Amending section 2 of Public Law Numbered 716 of the Seventy-fourth Congress, being an Act entitled “An Act to relieve restricted Indians whose lands have been taxed or have been lost by failure to pay taxes, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 227 · 50 Stat. 188 · May 19, 1937 · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Warren J. Fox.

    Ch. 228 · 50 Stat. 968 · May 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To amend the Communications Act of 1934, approved June 19, 1934, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property at sea through the use of wire and radio communications, to make more effective the international Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 229 · 50 Stat. 189 · May 20, 1937 · Original text

31. An Act Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code with respect to the agent appointed to represent the United States of America in the arbitration proceedings between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada for the final settlement of difficulties arising through complaints of damage done in the State of Washington by fumes discharged from the smelter of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, Trail, British Columbia.

    Ch. 230 · 50 Stat. 198 · May 20, 1937 · Original text

32. Joint Resolution To authorize an appropriation for the expenses of participation by the United States in the Tenth Pan American Sanitary Conference.

    Ch. 231 · 50 Stat. 198 · May 20, 1937 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to convey to the International Young Men’s Christian Association College and to the trustees of the Gunn Realty Trust all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain lands in Hampden County, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 232 · 50 Stat. 969 · May 20, 1937 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act To provide for the issuance of a license to practice the healing art in the District of Columbia to Doctor William Hollister.

    Ch. 233 · 50 Stat. 971 · May 20, 1937 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Charles Somogi, Junior.

    Ch. 234 · 50 Stat. 971 · May 20, 1937 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act Authorizing an appropriation for payment to the Government of Japan for proposed deportation of enemy aliens from China during the World War.

    Ch. 235 · 50 Stat. 199 · May 21, 1937 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for December on the 20th day of that month each year.

    Ch. 236 · 50 Stat. 199 · May 21, 1937 · Original text

38. An Act To provide that graduates of approved school ships may be rated as able seamen upon graduation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 237 · 50 Stat. 199 · May 22, 1937 · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Doctor E. T. Kirkendall.

    Ch. 238 · 50 Stat. 971 · May 22, 1937 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of James M. Winter.

    Ch. 239 · 50 Stat. 972 · May 22, 1937 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Helen Marie Lewis.

    Ch. 240 · 50 Stat. 972 · May 22, 1937 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of George T. Heppenstall.

    Ch. 241 · 50 Stat. 973 · May 22, 1937 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Granting a pension to Helen H. Taft.

    Ch. 242 · 50 Stat. 973 · May 22, 1937 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act To amend the Act of June 23, 1936, authorizing the Secretary of War to set apart as a national cemetery certain lands of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation, Minnesota.

    Ch. 243 · 50 Stat. 200 · May 24, 1937 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the United Confederate Veterans’ 1937 Reunion at Jackson, Mississippi, June 9, 10, 11, and 12, 1937.

    Ch. 244 · 50 Stat. 200 · May 24, 1937 · Original text

46. An Act To authorize the transfer to the Attorney General of a portion of the Fort Reno Quartermaster Depot Military Reservation, Oklahoma, as a permanent site of the United States Southwestern Reformatory.

    Ch. 245 · 50 Stat. 200 · May 24, 1937 · Original text

47. An Act Declaring Park River, Hartford County, Connecticut, to be a nonnavigable waterway.

    Ch. 246 · 50 Stat. 201 · May 24, 1937 · Original text

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

    Ch. 247 · 50 Stat. 201 · May 24, 1937 · Original text

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

    Ch. 248 · 50 Stat. 201 · May 24, 1937 · Original text

50. An Act For the exchange of land in Hudson Falls, New York, for the purpose of the post-office site.

    Ch. 249 · 50 Stat. 202 · May 24, 1937 · Original text

51. An Act To confer jurisdiction on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to hear, determine, and render judgment on the claim of A. Mateos and Sons, owner of the coal hulk Callixene.

    Ch. 250 · 50 Stat. 973 · May 24, 1937 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of the estate of Robert Edwin Lee.

    Ch. 251 · 50 Stat. 974 · May 24, 1937 · Private law · Original text

53. Joint Resolution Designating May 28, 1937, National Aviation Day.

    Ch. 252 · 50 Stat. 202 · May 25, 1937 · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of soldiers who were discharged from the Army during the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Uprising because of minority or misrepresentation of age.

    Ch. 253 · 50 Stat. 203 · May 25, 1937 · Original text

55. An Act Authorizing the conveyance to the State of Virginia, for highway purposes only, of portions of the Fort Myer Military Reservation, Virginia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 254 · 50 Stat. 203 · May 25, 1937 · Original text

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

    Ch. 255 · 50 Stat. 204 · May 25, 1937 · Original text

57. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes”, approved June 22, 1936.

    Ch. 256 · 50 Stat. 204 · May 25, 1937 · Original text

58. An Act To authorize the Director of the Census to collect and publish statistics of red-cedar shingles.

    Ch. 261 · 50 Stat. 204 · May 25, 1937 · Original text

59. An Act To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station on the coast of Georgia at or near Tybee Island.

    Ch. 262 · 50 Stat. 205 · May 25, 1937 · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to sell to the General Motors Corporation a tract of land comprising part of Holabird Quartermaster Depot, Baltimore, Maryland.

    Ch. 263 · 50 Stat. 206 · May 25, 1937 · Original text

61. An Act To provide for the exchange between the United States and The Union Terminal Company of certain properties in connection with the Parcel Post Building site at Dallas, Texas.

    Ch. 264 · 50 Stat. 206 · May 25, 1937 · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of the Union Shipping and Trading Company, Limited.

    Ch. 257 · 50 Stat. 974 · May 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Luvenia Flowers.

    Ch. 258 · 50 Stat. 975 · May 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Donald L. Bookwaiter.

    Ch. 259 · 50 Stat. 975 · May 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of D. B. Carter.

    Ch. 260 · 50 Stat. 976 · May 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of B. B. Odom and Lilia Odom.

    Ch. 265 · 50 Stat. 976 · May 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to transfer to the people of Puerto Rico certain real estate pertaining to the post of San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 266 · 50 Stat. 207 · May 26, 1937 · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Albert Wheeler.

    Ch. 267 · 50 Stat. 977 · May 26, 1937 · Private law · Original text

69. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to proclaim the tercentenary of the birth of Pere Jacques Marquette.

    Ch. 268 · 50 Stat. 207 · May 27, 1937 · Original text

70. An Act To prevent speculation in lands in the Columbia Basin prospectively irrigable by reason of the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam project and to aid actual settlers in securing such lands at the fair appraised value thereof as arid land, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 269 · 50 Stat. 208 · May 27, 1937 · Original text

71. An Act To reimpose a trust on certain lands allotted on the Yakima Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 270 · 50 Stat. 210 · May 27, 1937 · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of May Howard Bloedorn.

    Ch. 271 · 50 Stat. 977 · May 27, 1937 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of William A. McMahan.

    Ch. 272 · 50 Stat. 978 · May 27, 1937 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To repeal a proviso relating to teaching or advocating communism in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and appearing in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936.

    Ch. 273 · 50 Stat. 211 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

75. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to enable the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii to authorize the issuance of certain bonds, and for other purposes”, approved August 3, 1935.

    Ch. 274 · 50 Stat. 211 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

76. Joint Resolution To extend the lending authority of the Disaster Loan Corporation to apply to flood disasters in the year 1936.

    Ch. 275 · 50 Stat. 211 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution To protect the copyrights and patents of foreign exhibitors at the Golden Gate International Exposition, to be held at San Francisco, California, in 1939.

    Ch. 276 · 50 Stat. 211 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

78. Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937

    Joint Resolution 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 years ending June 30, 1937, and June 30, 1938, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 277 · 50 Stat. 213 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to enable the Social Security Board to make payments of grants to States for old-age assistance for the fiscal year 1937.

    Ch. 278 · 50 Stat. 238 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the establishment of a naval air station on San Francisco Bay, California, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 279 · 50 Stat. 238 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

81. An Act To reserve certain lands in the State of Utah for the Kanosh Band of Paiute Indians.

    Ch. 280 · 50 Stat. 239 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

82. An Act To reserve certain lands in the State of Utah for the Shivwitz Band of Paiute Indians.

    Ch. 281 · 50 Stat. 239 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

83. 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 May 1937, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 282 · 50 Stat. 240 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

84. An Act To reserve certain lands in the State of Utah for the Koosharem Band of Paiute Indians.

    Ch. 283 · 50 Stat. 241 · May 28, 1937 · Original text

85. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River at or near Dahlgren, Virginia.

    Ch. 284 · 50 Stat. 241 · May 29, 1937 · Original text

86. An Act To amend existing law to provide privilege of renewing expiring five-year level-premium term policies for another five-year period.

    Ch. 285 · 50 Stat. 241 · June 1, 1937 · Original text

87. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River between Rockport, Indiana, and Owensboro, Kentucky.

    Ch. 286 · 50 Stat. 243 · June 2, 1937 · Original text

88. An Act To accept the cession by the State of Arkansas of jurisdiction over all lands now or hereafter included within the Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, and for others 1 purposes.

    Ch. 287 · 50 Stat. 243 · June 2, 1937 · Original text

89. An Act To declare the Benton Harbor Canal at and above the west line of Ninth Street, Benton Harbor, Michigan, a nonnavigable stream.

    Ch. 288 · 50 Stat. 243 · June 2, 1937 · Original text

90. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near a point between Morgan and Wash Streets in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, and a point opposite thereto in the city of East Saint Louis, Illinois.

    Ch. 289 · 50 Stat. 244 · June 2, 1937 · Original text

91. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mississippi to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Pearl River at or near Jackson, in Hinds County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 290 · 50 Stat. 244 · June 2, 1937 · Original text

92. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of two bridges, one across a part of Lake Michigan at or near the entrance to the Chicago River, Illinois, and the other across the Michigan Canal or Ogden Slip, in city of Chicago, Illinois.

    Ch. 291 · 50 Stat. 244 · June 2, 1937 · Original text

93. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of certain bridges across the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Youghiogheny Rivers in the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 292 · 50 Stat. 245 · June 2, 1937 · Original text

94. An Act Authorizing the obligation of funds for work at Government-owned establishments.

    Ch. 293 · 50 Stat. 245 · June 2, 1937 · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Horace Hutcheson, a minor.

    Ch. 294 · 50 Stat. 978 · June 2, 1937 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act To authorize the Secretary of State to sell, for a price, transfer, and convey the title, rights, and interest of this Government in a lot situated at Sin Lu T’ou Jetty, Kulangsu, Amoy, China.

    Ch. 295 · 50 Stat. 246 · June 3, 1937 · Original text

97. Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937

    An Act To reenact and amend provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, relating to marketing agreements and orders.

    Ch. 296 · 50 Stat. 246 · June 3, 1937 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution To authorize an appropriation for the expenses of participation by the United States in the Eleventh International Dairy Congress, Berlin, Germany, in 1937.

    Ch. 297 · 50 Stat. 249 · June 3, 1937 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Marion McGlothlin, the Baylor Hospital, Doctor F. M. Gilbert, and Doctor T. C. Gilbert.

    Ch. 298 · 50 Stat. 979 · June 3, 1937 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Hedwig Grassman Stehn.

     Ch. 299 · 50 Stat. 979 · June 3, 1937 · Private law · Original text