Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of the Southeastern University of the Young Men’s Christian Association of the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 700 · 50 Stat. 697 · August 19, 1937 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the exchange of certain lands within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for lands within the Cherokee Indian Reservation, North Carolina, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 701 · 50 Stat. 699 · August 19, 1937 · Original text

3. An Act To authorize the acquisition by the United States of certain tribally owned lands of the Indians of the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming, for the Wind River irrigation project.

   Ch. 702 · 50 Stat. 700 · August 19, 1937 · Original text

4. An Act To direct the Secretary of the Interior to notify the State of Virginia that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Shenandoah National Park, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 703 · 50 Stat. 700 · August 19, 1937 · Original text

5. Farm Credit Act of 1937

   An Act To amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, to amend the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1933, to amend the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation Act, to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 704 · 50 Stat. 703 · August 19, 1937 · Original text

6. An Act To provide for studies and plans for the development of reclamation projects on the Cimarron River in Cimarron County, Oklahoma; the Washita River in Oklahoma, and the North Canadian River in Oklahoma.

   Ch. 705 · 50 Stat. 718 · August 19, 1937 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution Granting the consent of Congress to a compact between the States of New York and New Jersey providing for the creation of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission as a joint corporate municipal instrumentality of said States with appropriate rights, powers, duties, and immunities, for the transfer to said commission of certain functions, jurisdiction, rights, powers, and duties together with the properties of the bodies politic now existing in each State known as “Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park”, and for the continuance of the Palisades Interstate Park.

   Ch. 706 · 50 Stat. 719 · August 19, 1937 · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of James O. Cook.

   Ch. 707 · 50 Stat. 1066 · August 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Robert Coates.

   Ch. 708 · 50 Stat. 1066 · August 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Wayne M. Cotner.

    Ch. 709 · 50 Stat. 1067 · August 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Ralph Reisler.

    Ch. 710 · 50 Stat. 1067 · August 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of W. H. Lenneville.

    Ch. 711 · 50 Stat. 1067 · August 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Marian Malik.

    Ch. 712 · 50 Stat. 1068 · August 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Walter G. Anderson.

    Ch. 713 · 50 Stat. 1068 · August 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Edith Jordan.

    Ch. 714 · 50 Stat. 1069 · August 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Jesse A. LaRue.

    Ch. 715 · 50 Stat. 1069 · August 19, 1937 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To amend Articles of War 50½ and 70.

    Ch. 716 · 50 Stat. 724 · August 20, 1937 · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of sergeant-instructors, National Guard, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 717 · 50 Stat. 724 · August 20, 1937 · Original text

19. An Act To provide a surcharge on certain air mail carried in Alaska.

    Ch. 718 · 50 Stat. 725 · August 20, 1937 · Original text

20. An Act To amend the Act known as the “Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930”, approved June 10, 1930, as amended.

    Ch. 719 · 50 Stat. 725 · August 20, 1937 · Original text

21. An Act To authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of Bonneville project for navigation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 720 · 50 Stat. 731 · August 20, 1937 · Original text

22. An Act To exempt State liquor-dispensing systems from the requirement of keeping certain records and rendering transcripts and summaries of entries with respect to distilled spirits.

    Ch. 721 · 50 Stat. 737 · August 20, 1937 · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of the Rowesville Oil Company.

    Ch. 722 · 50 Stat. 1069 · August 20, 1937 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of the Southern Overall Company.

    Ch. 723 · 50 Stat. 1070 · August 20, 1937 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Fred P. Halbert.

    Ch. 724 · 50 Stat. 1070 · August 20, 1937 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To create a commission and to extend further relief to water users on United States reclamation projects and on Indian irrigation projects.

    Ch. 725 · 50 Stat. 737 · August 21, 1937 · Original text

27. An Act To amend section 24 of the Judicial Code, as amended, with respect to the jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States over suits relating to the collection of State taxes.

    Ch. 726 · 50 Stat. 738 · August 21, 1937 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the revision of the boundaries of the Snoqualmie National Forest, in the State of Washington.

    Ch. 727 · 50 Stat. 739 · August 21, 1937 · Original text

29. An Act To amend section 77 of the Judicial Code, as amended, to create a Brunswick division in the southern district of Georgia, with terms of court to be held at Brunswick.

    Ch. 728 · 50 Stat. 739 · August 21, 1937 · Original text

30. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in the Oil World Exposition at Houston, Texas, to be held October 11 to 16, 1937, inclusive.

    Ch. 729 · 50 Stat. 740 · August 21, 1937 · Original text

31. An Act To authorize the transfer to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury of portions of the property within the West Point Military Reservation, New York, for the construction thereon of certain public buildings, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 731 · 50 Stat. 741 · August 21, 1937 · Original text

32. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of the Everglades National Park in the State of Florida, and for other purposes”, approved May 30, 1934.

    Ch. 732 · 50 Stat. 742 · August 21, 1937 · Original text

33. An Act Authorizing the President to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in the International Petroleum Exposition at Tulsa, Oklahoma, to be held May 14 to May 21, 1938.

    Ch. 733 · 50 Stat. 742 · August 21, 1937 · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Mary Lucia Haven.

    Ch. 730 · 50 Stat. 1070 · August 21, 1937 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Stella Van Dewerker.

    Ch. 734 · 50 Stat. 1071 · August 21, 1937 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To extend further time for naturalization to alien veterans of the World War under the Act approved May 25, 1932 (47 Stat. 165), to extend the same privileges to certain veterans of countries allied with the United States during the World War, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 735 · 50 Stat. 743 · August 23, 1937 · Original text

37. An Act To amend the Act, approved August 4, 1919, as amended, providing additional aid for the American Printing House for the Blind.

    Ch. 736 · 50 Stat. 744 · August 23, 1937 · Original text

38. An Act To amend an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment of an additional district judge for the northern and southern districts of West Virginia”, approved June 22, 1936, by changing the times provided therein for holding the United States district court at various places now fixed by law in the State of West Virginia.

    Ch. 737 · 50 Stat. 744 · August 23, 1937 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing State Highway Commission of Arkansas and State Highway Commission of Mississippi to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Lake Village, Chicot County, Arkansas, and to a place at or near Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 738 · 50 Stat. 745 · August 23, 1937 · Original text

40. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Delaware River between the village of Barry ville, New York, and the village of Shohola, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 739 · 50 Stat. 746 · August 23, 1937 · Original text

41. An Act To authorize the award of a decoration for distinguished service to Acors Rathbun Thompson.

    Ch. 740 · 50 Stat. 1071 · August 23, 1937 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to the State of Montana to be used for the purposes of a public park and recreational site.

    Ch. 741 · 50 Stat. 746 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

43. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in certain lands to the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 742 · 50 Stat. 747 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

44. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to patent certain tracts of land to the State of New Mexico and Cordy Bramblet.

    Ch. 743 · 50 Stat. 747 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents to States under the provisions of section 8 of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), subject to prior leases issued under section 15 of the said Act.

    Ch. 744 · 50 Stat. 748 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

46. An Act To amend subsection (e) of section 9 of the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended.

    Ch. 745 · 50 Stat. 748 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

47. An Act To permit grand-jury extensions to be ordered by any district judge.

    Ch. 746 · 50 Stat. 748 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

48. An Act To amend the bank-robbery statute to include burglary and larceny.

    Ch. 747 · 50 Stat. 749 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

49. Joint Resolution Authorizing an appropriation for the expenses of participation by the United States in the Inter-American Radio Conference to be held in 1937 at Habana, Cuba.

    Ch. 748 · 50 Stat. 749 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution To authorize an appropriation for the expenses of participation by the United States in the Eighth International Road Congress in 1938.

    Ch. 749 · 50 Stat. 750 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

51. An Act To provide for the measurement of vessels using the Panama Canal, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 752 · 50 Stat. 750 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

52. An Act To amend the Act of May 3, 1935, relating to the promotion of safety on the highways of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 753 · 50 Stat. 751 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

53. An Act To provide for intervention by the United States, direct appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States, and regulation of the issuance of injunctions, in certain cases involving the constitutionality of Acts of Congress, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 754 · 50 Stat. 751 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

54. An Act To make available to each State which enacted in 1937 an approved unemployment-compensation law a portion of the proceeds from the Federal employers’ tax in such State for the year 1936.

    Ch. 755 · 50 Stat. 754 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

55. Joint Resolution Expressing the views of the Congress as to a program for the relief and benefit of agriculture.

    Ch. 756 · 50 Stat. 754 · August 24, 1937 · Original text

56. 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 while engaged in emergency relief expeditions during the Ohio Valley flood in January and February 1937.

    Ch. 750 · 50 Stat. 1071 · August 24, 1937 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Rose McGirr.

    Ch. 751 · 50 Stat. 1072 · August 24, 1937 · Private law · Original text

58. Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 757 · 50 Stat. 755 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

59. Joint Resolution Relative to determination and payment of certain claims against the Government of Mexico.

    Ch. 758 · 50 Stat. 783 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

60. An Act Granting pensions and increases of pensions to certain soldiers who served in the Indian Wars from 1817 to 1898, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 759 · 50 Stat. 786 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

61. An Act To define, regulate, and license real-estate brokers, business chance brokers, and real-estate salesmen; to create a Real Estate Commission in the District of Columbia; to protect the public against fraud in real-estate transactions; and for other purposes.

    Ch. 760 · 50 Stat. 787 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

62. An Act To afford protection of pension benefits to peacetime veterans placed on the pension rolls after March 19, 1933, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 761 · 50 Stat. 798 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

63. An Act To incorporate the American Chemical Society.

    Ch. 762 · 50 Stat. 798 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

64. An Act To amend section 76 of the Judicial Code with respect to the terms of the United States District Court at Tallahassee, Florida.

    Ch. 763 · 50 Stat. 800 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

65. An Act Authorizing the State Roads Commission of the State of Maryland to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Sinepuxent Bay in Worcester County, Maryland, at Ocean City, Maryland, to replace a bridge already in existence.

    Ch. 764 · 50 Stat. 801 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

66. An Act To amend section 11 of the Act of Congress approved July 10, 1890 (26 Stat., ch. 664), relating to the admission into the Union of the State of Wyoming.

    Ch. 765 · 50 Stat. 802 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

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

    Ch. 766 · 50 Stat. 802 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

68. An Act Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit in the accounts of disbursing officers for overpayments of wages on Civil Works Administration projects and waiving recovery of such overpayments.

    Ch. 767 · 50 Stat. 804 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

69. An Act To establish the Pipestone National Monument in the State of Minnesota.

    Ch. 768 · 50 Stat. 804 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

70. An Act To increase the extra pay to enlisted men for reporting.

    Ch. 769 · 50 Stat. 805 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

71. An Act Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to counsel in certain cases.

    Ch. 770 · 50 Stat. 805 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the appointment of an additional judge for southern district of Ohio.

    Ch. 771 · 50 Stat. 805 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

73. An Act Providing for the manner of payment of taxes on gross production of minerals, including gas and oil, in Oklahoma.

    Ch. 772 · 50 Stat. 806 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

74. An Act To authorize a modification of the project for the control of floods in Lowell Creek, Alaska.

    Ch. 773 · 50 Stat. 806 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

75. An Act To regulate proceedings in adoption in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 774 · 50 Stat. 806 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of certain applicants for oil and gas permits and leases.

    Ch. 775 · 50 Stat. 808 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

77. An Act To amend paragraph (1) of section 22 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended.

    Ch. 776 · 50 Stat. 809 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

78. An Act To prohibit certain agreements fixing fees or compensation in receivership, bankruptcy, or reorganization proceedings, to prohibit the appointment of certain persons as receiver or trustee, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 777 · 50 Stat. 810 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

79. An Act To authorize the reservation of minerals in future sales of lands of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Indians in Oklahoma.

    Ch. 778 · 50 Stat. 810 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease or sell certain lands of the Agua Caliente or Palm Springs Reservation, California, for public airport use, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 779 · 50 Stat. 811 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

81. An Act To authorize the city of Ketchikan, Alaska, to issue bonds for street improvements, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 780 · 50 Stat. 811 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution To amend the public resolution approved June 5, 1936, entitled “Joint resolution authorizing and requesting the President to extend to the Government of Sweden and individuals an invitation to join the Government and people of the United States in the observance of the three-hundredth anniversary of the first permanent settlement in the Delaware River Valley, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 781 · 50 Stat. 813 · August 25, 1937 · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Lucille McClure.

    Ch. 782 · 50 Stat. 1072 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of F. P. Delahanty.

    Ch. 783 · 50 Stat. 1073 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Charles T. Warner.

    Ch. 784 · 50 Stat. 1073 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Ruth Gaskins.

    Ch. 785 · 50 Stat. 1073 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Carl E. Padgett.

    Ch. 786 · 50 Stat. 1074 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Cliff Snider and W. M. Jordan.

    Ch. 787 · 50 Stat. 1074 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Sue F. Melton.

    Ch. 788 · 50 Stat. 1075 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of W. G. Adams.

    Ch. 789 · 50 Stat. 1075 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of Park B. Brandon and Robert G. Teer.

    Ch. 790 · 50 Stat. 1075 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Robert L. Summers.

    Ch. 791 · 50 Stat. 1076 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Leah P. Rice.

    Ch. 792 · 50 Stat. 1076 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Genevieve E. Daley.

    Ch. 793 · 50 Stat. 1076 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Earl Hill.

    Ch. 794 · 50 Stat. 1077 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Mada Landtiser.

    Ch. 795 · 50 Stat. 1077 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Paul and A. B. Johnson.

    Ch. 796 · 50 Stat. 1077 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to advance on the retired list of the Navy David J. Mahoney, David Bolger, Cleve B. Farran, James Johnson, and Hans Terkelsen, retired, to chief boilermaker, retired.

    Ch. 797 · 50 Stat. 1078 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Lamar Snipes and Luther S. Snipes.

    Ch. 798 · 50 Stat. 1078 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the Delaware Bay Shipbuilding Company, Incorporated.

     Ch. 799 · 50 Stat. 1079 · August 25, 1937 · Private law · Original text