Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Federal Government for the last half of the month of July 1937.

   Ch. 500 · 50 Stat. 514 · July 16, 1937 · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Ellen Taylor.

   Ch. 501 · 50 Stat. 1032 · July 16, 1937 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Alexander E. Kovner.

   Ch. 502 · 50 Stat. 1032 · July 16, 1937 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of J. E. Sammons.

   Ch. 503 · 50 Stat. 1033 · July 16, 1937 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Halle D. McCullough.

   Ch. 504 · 50 Stat. 1033 · July 16, 1937 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of H. G. Harmon.

   Ch. 505 · 50 Stat. 1034 · July 16, 1937 · Private law · Original text

7. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation for the control of outbreaks of insect pests.

   Ch. 506 · 50 Stat. 514 · July 17, 1937 · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of the Sheehy Drilling Company.

   Ch. 507 · 50 Stat. 1034 · July 17, 1937 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of the Goldenberg Furniture Company.

   Ch. 508 · 50 Stat. 1035 · July 17, 1937 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of John A. Ensor.

    Ch. 509 · 50 Stat. 1035 · July 17, 1937 · Private law · Original text

11. War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1938

    An Act Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 511 · 50 Stat. 515 · July 19, 1937 · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of James H. Smith.

    Ch. 510 · 50 Stat. 1036 · July 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Eva Markowitz.

    Ch. 512 · 50 Stat. 1036 · July 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Joseph M. Clagett, Junior.

    Ch. 513 · 50 Stat. 1037 · July 21, 1937 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Noah Spooner.

    Ch. 514 · 50 Stat. 1037 · July 21, 1937 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Walter T. Karshner. Katherine Karshner, Anna M. Karshner, and Mrs. James E. McShane.

    Ch. 515 · 50 Stat. 1038 · July 21, 1937 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To extend for one additional year the 3½-per-centum interest rate on certain Federal land-bank loans, to provide a 4-per-centum interest rate on such loans for the period July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939, and to provide for a 4-per-centum interest rate on Land Bank Commissioner’s loans for a period of two years.

    Ch. 516 · 50 Stat. 521 · July 22, 1937 · Original text

18. The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act

    An Act To create the Farmers’ Home Corporation, to promote more secure occupancy of farms and farm homes, to correct the economic instability resulting from some present forms of farm tenancy, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 517 · 50 Stat. 522 · July 22, 1937 · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of William Sulem.

    Ch. 518 · 50 Stat. 1038 · July 22, 1937 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. David Stoppel.

    Ch. 519 · 50 Stat. 1039 · July 22, 1937 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and enter judgment upon the claims of contractors for excess costs incurred while constructing navigation dams and locks on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

    Ch. 520 · 50 Stat. 533 · July 23, 1937 · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Venice La Prad.

    Ch. 521 · 50 Stat. 1039 · July 23, 1937 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act To amend the Civil Service Act approved January 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403), and for other purposes.

    Ch. 522 · 50 Stat. 533 · July 26, 1937 · Original text

24. An Act To amend the Act approved June 7, 1935 (Public, Numbered 116, Seventy-fourth Congress; 49 Stat. 332), to provide for an additional number of cadets at the United States Military Academy, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 523 · 50 Stat. 534 · July 26, 1937 · Original text

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

    Ch. 524 · 50 Stat. 534 · July 27, 1937 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to sell, loan, or give samples of supplies and equipment to prospective manufacturers.

    Ch. 525 · 50 Stat. 535 · July 27, 1937 · Original text

27. An Act Authorizing The Maine-New Hampshire Interstate Bridge Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Piscataqua River at or near Portsmouth, State of New Hampshire.

    Ch. 526 · 50 Stat. 535 · July 28, 1937 · Original text

28. An Act To extend the boundaries of the Papago Indian Reservation in Arizona.

    Ch. 527 · 50 Stat. 536 · July 28, 1937 · Original text

29. An Act To authorize the assignment of officers of the line of the Marine Corps to assistant quartermaster and assistant paymaster duty only, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 528 · 50 Stat. 537 · July 28, 1937 · Original text

30. An Act Providing for the sale of the two dormitory properties belonging to the Chickasaw Nation or Tribe of Indians, in the vicinity of the Murray State School of Agriculture at Tishomingo, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 529 · 50 Stat. 537 · July 28, 1937 · Original text

31. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to a compact entered into by the States of Maine and New Hampshire for the creation of The Maine-New Hampshire Interstate Bridge Authority.

    Ch. 530 · 50 Stat. 538 · July 28, 1937 · Original text

32. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Montana, or the counties of Roosevelt, Richland, and McCone, singly or jointly, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Missouri River, at or near Poplar, Montana.

    Ch. 531 · 50 Stat. 542 · July 28, 1937 · Original text

33. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Carroll, in the State of Indiana, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Wabash River at or near Lockport, Indiana.

    Ch. 532 · 50 Stat. 542 · July 28, 1937 · Original text

34. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, and the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, or any two of them, or any one of them, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Merrimack River at Lowell.

    Ch. 533 · 50 Stat. 543 · July 28, 1937 · Original text

35. 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 Madison, Wisconsin, September 5 to 10, inclusive, 1937.

    Ch. 534 · 50 Stat. 543 · July 28, 1937 · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Emory M. McCool, United States Navy, retired.

    Ch. 535 · 50 Stat. 1039 · July 28, 1937 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act To amend section 4450 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act of May 27, 1936 (49 Stat. 1380, 1383; U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 239).

    Ch. 536 · 50 Stat. 544 · July 29, 1937 · Original text

38. An Act To authorize the construction of certain auxiliary vessels for the Navy.

    Ch. 537 · 50 Stat. 544 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the conveyance by the United States to the State of Wisconsin of a portion of the Twin River Point Lighthouse Reservation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 538 · 50 Stat. 545 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

40. An Act To amend section 107, as amended, of the Judicial Code so as to eliminate the requirement that suitable accommodations for holding court at Columbia, Tennessee, be provided by the local authorities.

    Ch. 539 · 50 Stat. 546 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

41. An Act To authorize a preliminary examination and survey of Cayuga, Buffalo, and Cazenovia Creeks, New York, with a view to the control of their floods.

    Ch. 540 · 50 Stat. 546 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

42. An Act To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station at or near Beaver Bay, Minnesota.

    Ch. 541 · 50 Stat. 546 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

43. An Act To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station at or near Saint Augustine, Florida.

    Ch. 542 · 50 Stat. 546 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

44. An Act To provide for the relinquishment of an easement granted to the United States by the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company.

    Ch. 543 · 50 Stat. 547 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

45. An Act To repeal the limitation on the sale price on the old post office and courthouse site and building at Fourth and Chestnut Streets, Louisville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 544 · 50 Stat. 547 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

46. An Act To amend the laws relating to enlistments in the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 545 · 50 Stat. 547 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to convey to the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park, a body politic of the State of New York, certain portions of the Stony Point Light Station Reservation, Rockland County, New York, including certain appurtenant structures, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 546 · 50 Stat. 549 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

48. An Act To adjust the pay of certain Coast Guard officers on the retired list who were retired because of physical disability originating in line of duty in time of war.

    Ch. 547 · 50 Stat. 550 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

49. Joint Resolution Authorizing Federal participation in the Seventh World’s Poultry Congress and Exposition to be held in the United States in 1939.

    Ch. 548 · 50 Stat. 550 · July 30, 1937 · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Weymouth Kirkland and Robert N. Golding.

    Ch. 549 · 50 Stat. 1040 · July 30, 1937 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Joseph A. Rudy.

    Ch. 550 · 50 Stat. 1040 · July 30, 1937 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of N. C. Nelson.

    Ch. 551 · 50 Stat. 1041 · July 30, 1937 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Montana and Wyoming to negotiate and enter into a compact or agreement for division of the waters of the Yellowstone River.

    Ch. 552 · 50 Stat. 551 · August 2, 1937 · Original text

54. Marihuana Tax Act of 1937

    An Act To impose an occupational excise tax upon certain dealers in marihuana, to impose a transfer tax upon certain dealings in marihuana, and to safeguard the revenue therefrom by registry and recording.

    Ch. 553 · 50 Stat. 551 · August 2, 1937 · Original text

55. An Act To permit the erection of the Shenandoah Memorial in or near Ava, Ohio.

    Ch. 554 · 50 Stat. 557 · August 2, 1937 · Original text

56. An Act For the protection of oyster culture in Alaska.

    Ch. 556 · 50 Stat. 557 · August 2, 1937 · Original text

57. An Act To authorize the construction of a Federal reclamation project to furnish a water supply for the lands of the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico.

    Ch. 557 · 50 Stat. 557 · August 2, 1937 · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of J. R. Collie and Eleanor Y. Collie.

    Ch. 555 · 50 Stat. 1041 · August 2, 1937 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Asa J. Hunter.

    Ch. 558 · 50 Stat. 1041 · August 3, 1937 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Marion Shober Phillips.

    Ch. 559 · 50 Stat. 1042 · August 3, 1937 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of G. L. Tarlton.

    Ch. 560 · 50 Stat. 1042 · August 3, 1937 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of the Frazier-Davis Construction Company.

    Ch. 561 · 50 Stat. 1043 · August 3, 1937 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act Relating to the citizenship of certain classes of persons born in the Canal Zone or the Republic of Panama.

    Ch. 563 · 50 Stat. 558 · August 4, 1937 · Original text

64. An Act To incorporate the Marine Corps League.

    Ch. 564 · 50 Stat. 558 · August 4, 1937 · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of Dewey Jack Krauss, a minor.

    Ch. 562 · 50 Stat. 1043 · August 4, 1937 · Private law · Original text

66. National Cancer Institute Act

    An Act To provide for, foster, and aid in coordinating research relating to cancer; to establish the National Cancer Institute; and for other purposes.

    Ch. 565 · 50 Stat. 559 · August 5, 1937 · Original text

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

    Ch. 566 · 50 Stat. 562 · August 5, 1937 · Original text

68. An Act To amend provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937.

    Ch. 567 · 50 Stat. 563 · August 5, 1937 · Original text

69. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River at Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon.

    Ch. 568 · 50 Stat. 563 · August 5, 1937 · Original text

70. An Act To amend section 22 of the Act approved March 4, 1925, entitled “An Act providing for sundry matters affecting the naval service, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 569 · 50 Stat. 563 · August 6, 1937 · Original text

71. Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1938

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 570 · 50 Stat. 564 · August 9, 1937 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the sale of surplus War Department real property.

    Ch. 571 · 50 Stat. 616 · August 10, 1937 · Original text

73. Joint Resolution Consenting to an interstate oil compact to conserve oil and gas.

    Ch. 572 · 50 Stat. 617 · August 10, 1937 · Original text

74. An Act To provide retirement annuities for certain former employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company on the Isthmus of Panama.

    Ch. 573 · 50 Stat. 619 · August 10, 1937 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize exchange of lands at military reservations, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 574 · 50 Stat. 620 · August 10, 1937 · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Josephine M. Scott.

    Ch. 575 · 50 Stat. 1044 · August 10, 1937 · Private law · Original text

77. 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. 576 · 50 Stat. 1044 · August 10, 1937 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of R. L. McLachlan.

    Ch. 577 · 50 Stat. 1045 · August 10, 1937 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Authorizing credits to disbursing officers for expenses incident to the creation of subsistence homesteads corporations.

    Ch. 578 · 50 Stat. 620 · August 11, 1937 · Original text

80. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia”, known as the “Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928”, approved February 27, 1929.

    Ch. 579 · 50 Stat. 620 · August 11, 1937 · Original text

81. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1911.

    Ch. 580 · 50 Stat. 621 · August 11, 1937 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize the administration of oaths by the Chief Clerk and the Assistant Chief Clerk of the Office of the United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 581 · 50 Stat. 621 · August 11, 1937 · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Ethel Smith McDaniel.

    Ch. 582 · 50 Stat. 1045 · August 11, 1937 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Maude P. Gresham and Agnes M. Driscoll.

    Ch. 583 · 50 Stat. 1046 · August 11, 1937 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act To provide for the holding of an examination by the Board of Optometry of the District of Columbia for a license to practice optometry in the District of Columbia for Welton B. Hutton.

    Ch. 584 · 50 Stat. 1046 · August 11, 1937 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act To provide for the issuance of a license to practice the healing art in the District of Columbia to Doctor Frederick W. Didier.

    Ch. 585 · 50 Stat. 1047 · August 11, 1937 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 586 · 50 Stat. 1047 · August 11, 1937 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To provide for the issuance of a license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia to Doctor Russell V. Pemberton.

    Ch. 587 · 50 Stat. 1047 · August 11, 1937 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act To add certain lands to the Columbia National Forest in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 588 · 50 Stat. 622 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

90. An Act To amend section 77B of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, as amended.

    Ch. 589 · 50 Stat. 622 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

91. An Act Granting a renewal of patent numbered 60731 relating to the badge of the Girl Scouts, Incorporated.

    Ch. 590 · 50 Stat. 623 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

92. An Act Providing for the establishment of a term of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York at Malone, New York.

    Ch. 591 · 50 Stat. 623 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

93. An Act To authorize the city of Chamberlain, South Dakota, to construct, equip, and maintain tourist cabins on American Island, South Dakota, to operate and maintain a tourist camp and certain amusement and recreational facilities on such island, to make charges in connection therewith, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 592 · 50 Stat. 623 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize and direct the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit for all outstanding disallowances and suspensions in the accounts of disbursing officers or agents of the Government for payments made pursuant to certain adjustments and increases in compensation of Government officers and employees.

    Ch. 593 · 50 Stat. 624 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

95. An Act To provide for a term of court at Benton, Illinois.

    Ch. 594 · 50 Stat. 624 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

96. An Act Relating to the accommodations for holding court at Shawnee, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 595 · 50 Stat. 625 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

97. An Act To increase the age of consent for marriage in the District of Columbia to eighteen years of age in the case of males and sixteen years of age in the case of females.

    Ch. 596 · 50 Stat. 626 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

98. An Act To protect the buyers of potatoes in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 597 · 50 Stat. 626 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

99. An Act To increase the punishment of second, third, and subsequent offenders against the narcotic laws.

    Ch. 598 · 50 Stat. 627 · August 12, 1937 · Original text

100. An Act To amend subchapter 2 of chapter 19 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, relating to offenses against property.

     Ch. 599 · 50 Stat. 628 · August 12, 1937 · Original text