Every law Congress has passed

1,659 laws of the 76th Congress, 1939–1941

1. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for work relief and relief for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939.

   Ch. 1 · 53 Stat. 507 · February 4, 1939 · Original text

2. I. R. C

   An Act To consolidate and codify the internal revenue laws of the United States.

   Ch. 2 · 53 Stat. 1 · February 10, 1939 · Original text

3. An Act To consolidate and codify the internal revenue laws of the United States.

   Ch. 2 · 53 Stat. 510 · February 10, 1939 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Providing additional funds for the expenses of the special joint congressional committee investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 3 · 53 Stat. 510 · February 10, 1939 · Original text

5. An Act To continue the functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 4 · 53 Stat. 510 · March 4, 1939 · Original text

6. An Act To continue the functions of the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 5 · 53 Stat. 510 · March 4, 1939 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution Making additional funds available for salaries and expenses, Federal Housing Administration.

   Ch. 6 · 53 Stat. 511 · March 4, 1939 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to regulate the hours during which streets, alleys, and so forth, shall be lighted.

   Ch. 7 · 53 Stat. 511 · March 6, 1939 · Original text

9. An Act To name the bridge to be erected over the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia after the late “March King”, John Philip Sousa, composer of the “Stars and Stripes Forever”.

   Ch. 8 · 53 Stat. 512 · March 7, 1939 · Original text

10. An Act To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to provide for the reapportionment of cotton acreage allotments not planted by farmers entitled thereto.

    Ch. 9 · 53 Stat. 512 · March 13, 1939 · Original text

11. First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 10 · 53 Stat. 512 · March 15, 1939 · Original text

12. Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1940

    An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 11 · 53 Stat. 524 · March 16, 1939 · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Manuel D. A. Otero, as administrator of the estate of Teresita S. Otero, deceased.

    Ch. 12 · 53 Stat. 1439 · March 20, 1939 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Emma Gomez.

    Ch. 13 · 53 Stat. 1439 · March 20, 1939 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Charles E. Naghel, Special Disbursing Agent, Department of the Interior, and Kammeyer and Medack, contractors, from disallowance of chargee for additional work under a construction contract.

    Ch. 14 · 53 Stat. 1440 · March 21, 1939 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act To amend section 12 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, by authorizing advances for crop insurance.

    Ch. 15 · 53 Stat. 550 · March 25, 1939 · Original text

17. Joint Resolution To authorize the Postmaster General to withhold the awarding of star-route contracts for a period of forty-five days.

    Ch. 16 · 53 Stat. 551 · March 25, 1939 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize the purchase of certain lands for the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico.

    Ch. 17 · 53 Stat. 551 · March 27, 1939 · Original text

19. An Act To repeal section 9 of the Act of March 3, 1875 (18 Stat. L. 450), as amended.

    Ch. 18 · 53 Stat. 551 · March 27, 1939 · Original text

20. An Act To create the office of Military Secretary to the General of the Armies of the United States of America, with the rank of colonel, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 19 · 53 Stat. 551 · March 28, 1939 · Original text

21. An Act To add certain public-domain land in Montana to the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 20 · 53 Stat. 552 · March 28, 1939 · Original text

22. An Act To provide for conveying to the United States the land, buildings, and improvements comprising the Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium and General Hospital.

    Ch. 21 · 53 Stat. 552 · March 28, 1939 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize an appropriation to pay non-Indian claimants whose claims have been extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, but who have been found entitled to awards under said Act as supplemented by the Act of May 31, 1933.

    Ch. 22 · 53 Stat. 553 · March 28, 1939 · Original text

24. Joint Resolution Providing for the participation of the United States in the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal.

    Ch. 24 · 53 Stat. 553 · March 28, 1939 · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Captain Francis H. A. McKeon.

    Ch. 23 · 53 Stat. 1440 · March 28, 1939 · Private law · Original text

26. Joint Resolution To authorize Commander Henry Coyle, United States Coast Guard, to accept the decoration and diploma of the Marine Medal of Class One (gold), conferred upon him by the Government of Greece.

    Ch. 25 · 53 Stat. 1441 · March 28, 1939 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act To exempt all vessels of the United States of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage from the provisions of the Officers’ Competency Certificates Convention, 1936 (being International Labor Conference Treaty, Convention Numbered 53, adopted by the International Labor Conference at Geneva in 1936).

    Ch. 26 · 53 Stat. 554 · March 29, 1939 · Original text

28. An Act To extend the time for commencing and completing bridges across Cross Bayou, Twelve Mile Bayou, and Caddo Lake in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.

    Ch. 27 · 53 Stat. 554 · March 29, 1939 · Original text

29. Joint Resolution To amend the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to provide that the United States extend to foreign governments invitations to participate in the Third International Congress for Microbiology to be held in the United States during the calendar year 1939.”

    Ch. 28 · 53 Stat. 554 · March 29, 1939 · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Benjamin Weisenberg.

    Ch. 29 · 53 Stat. 1441 · March 29, 1939 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Hyman Ginsberg.

    Ch. 30 · 53 Stat. 1441 · March 29, 1939 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Jack Nelson, a minor.

    Ch. 31 · 53 Stat. 1442 · March 29, 1939 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Charles T. Wise.

    Ch. 32 · 53 Stat. 1442 · March 29, 1939 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of C. R. Henderson.

    Ch. 33 · 53 Stat. 1443 · March 29, 1939 · Private law · Original text

35. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1939 for expenditure by the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission in accordance with section 16 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938.

    Ch. 34 · 53 Stat. 555 · April 1, 1939 · Original text

36. An Act To provide more effectively for the national defense by carrying out the recommendations of the President in his message of January 12, 1939, to the Congress.

    Ch. 35 · 53 Stat. 555 · April 3, 1939 · Original text

37. Reorganization Act of 1939

    An Act To provide for reorganizing agencies of the Government, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 36 · 53 Stat. 561 · April 3, 1939 · Original text

38. An Act Relating to banking, banks, and trust companies in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 37 · 53 Stat. 566 · April 5, 1939 · Original text

39. An Act To amend paragraph 57 of section 8 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1913.

    Ch. 38 · 53 Stat. 568 · April 5, 1939 · Original text

40. An Act To provide for the appointment of research assistants in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 39 · 53 Stat. 568 · April 5, 1939 · Original text

41. An Act To provide alternative methods of enforcement of orders, rules, and regulations of the Joint Board and of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 40 · 53 Stat. 569 · April 5, 1939 · Original text

42. An Act To amend paragraphs 31 and 33 of an Act entitled “An Act to amend section 7 of an Act entitled ‘An Act making appropriations to provide for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for other purposes’, approved July 1, 1902, and for other purposes”, approved July 1, 1932.

    Ch. 41 · 53 Stat. 570 · April 5, 1939 · Original text

43. An Act To amend Public Law Numbered 111, Sixty-sixth Congress, entitled “An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia.”.

    Ch. 42 · 53 Stat. 571 · April 5, 1939 · Original text

44. An Act To amend section 9, article V, of an Act known as “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia’, approved June 20, 1906, as amended, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 43 · 53 Stat. 571 · April 5, 1939 · Original text

45. An Act To extend the time for retirement of cotton pool participation trust certificates.

    Ch. 44 · 53 Stat. 572 · April 5, 1939 · Original text

46. An Act Authorizing the Library of Congress to acquire by purchase, or otherwise, the whole, or any part, of the papers of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, including therewith a group of documents relating to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, now in the possession of Harry Stone, of New York City.

    Ch. 45 · 53 Stat. 572 · April 6, 1939 · Original text

47. An Act To authorize and direct the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to reappoint David R. Thompson and Ralph S. Warner as members of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 46 · 53 Stat. 1443 · April 8, 1939 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to pay certain expenses incident to the training, attendance, and participation of the equestrian and modern pentathlon teams in the Twelfth Olympic Games.

    Ch. 47 · 53 Stat. 572 · April 10, 1939 · Original text

49. An Act To repeal subsection (4) of subsection (c) of section 101 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.

    Ch. 48 · 53 Stat. 573 · April 10, 1939 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution Authorizing appropriation for expenses of a representative of the United States and of his assistants, and for one-half of the joint expenses of this Government and the Government of Mexico, in giving effect to the agreement of November 9–12, 1938, between the two Governments providing for the settlement of American claims for damages resulting from expropriations of agrarian properties since August 30, 1927.

    Ch. 49 · 53 Stat. 573 · April 10, 1939 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Fred H. Beauregard.

    Ch. 50 · 53 Stat. 1443 · April 10, 1939 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of John R. Holt.

    Ch. 51 · 53 Stat. 1444 · April 10, 1939 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Malcolm A. Hufty, United States Navy.

    Ch. 52 · 53 Stat. 1444 · April 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To provide an additional sum for the payment of a claim under the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reimbursement of certain officers and enlisted men or former officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps for personal property lost, damaged, or destroyed as a result of the earthquake which occurred at Managua, Nicaragua, on March 31, 1931”, approved January 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 2212).

    Ch. 53 · 53 Stat. 1445 · April 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Alex St. Louis and Doctor J. P. Lake.

    Ch. 54 · 53 Stat. 1445 · April 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act To amend the Canal Zone Code.

    Ch. 58 · 53 Stat. 574 · April 12, 1939 · Original text

57. Public Salary Tax Act of 1939

    An Act Relating to the taxation of the compensation of public officers and employees.

    Ch. 59 · 53 Stat. 574 · April 12, 1939 · Original text

58. 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 the disbursing officers or agents of the Government for payments made to certain employees appointed by the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission.

    Ch. 60 · 53 Stat. 577 · April 12, 1939 · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Dierks Lumber and Coal Company.

    Ch. 55 · 53 Stat. 1446 · April 12, 1939 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of The Ocilla Star.

    Ch. 56 · 53 Stat. 1446 · April 12, 1939 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of The Fitzgerald Leader.

    Ch. 57 · 53 Stat. 1446 · April 12, 1939 · Private law · Original text

62. Joint Resolution Amending the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the construction and maintenance of a National Gallery of Art”, approved March 24, 1937.

    Ch. 61 · 53 Stat. 573 · April 13, 1939 · Original text

63. Joint Resolution Making a further additional appropriation for work relief and relief for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939.

    Ch. 62 · 53 Stat. 578 · April 13, 1939 · Original text

64. 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. 70 · 53 Stat. 578 · April 13, 1939 · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of the Fred Harvey Transportation Department.

    Ch. 63 · 53 Stat. 1446 · April 13, 1939 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Hubert H. Clark and Doctor W. C. Copeland.

    Ch. 64 · 53 Stat. 1446 · April 13, 1939 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Dolores P. de Williamson.

    Ch. 65 · 53 Stat. 1448 · April 13, 1939 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of George H. Pierce and Evelyn Pierce.

    Ch. 66 · 53 Stat. 1448 · April 13, 1939 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company.

    Ch. 67 · 53 Stat. 1448 · April 13, 1939 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of J. G. Mayfield.

    Ch. 68 · 53 Stat. 1449 · April 13, 1939 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of John B. Dow.

    Ch. 69 · 53 Stat. 1449 · April 13, 1939 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the Department of Labor to continue to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 71 · 53 Stat. 581 · April 15, 1939 · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Margaret Rose Uncapher, Milton E. Uncapher, Junior, and Andrew G. Uncapher.

    Ch. 72 · 53 Stat. 1450 · April 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To increase the authorization for appropriations for the administration of State unemployment compensation laws.

    Ch. 73 · 53 Stat. 581 · April 19, 1939 · Original text

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

    Ch. 74 · 53 Stat. 582 · April 20, 1939 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize contingent expenditures, United States Coast Guard Academy.

    Ch. 75 · 53 Stat. 582 · April 20, 1939 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the United Confederate Veterans’ 1939 reunion at Trinidad, Colorado, August 22, 23, 24, and 25, 1939, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 76 · 53 Stat. 582 · April 20, 1939 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution To authorize the painting of the signing of the Constitution for placement in the Capitol Building.

    Ch. 77 · 53 Stat. 583 · April 20, 1939 · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Roscoe C. Prescott, Howard Joslyn, Arthur E. Tuttle, and Robert J. Toulouse.

    Ch. 78 · 53 Stat. 1450 · April 20, 1939 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of Hallie H. Woods.

    Ch. 79 · 53 Stat. 1450 · April 20, 1939 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Macey N. Bevan.

    Ch. 80 · 53 Stat. 1451 · April 20, 1939 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of the Shipowners and Merchants Towboat Company, Limited.

    Ch. 81 · 53 Stat. 1451 · April 20, 1939 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Allen L. Abshier, Verne G. Adams, Oliver D. Chattin, William K. Heath, and Harry B. Jennings.

    Ch. 82 · 53 Stat. 1451 · April 20, 1939 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claim of the Mack Copper Company.

    Ch. 83 · 53 Stat. 1452 · April 20, 1939 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the grading and classification of clerks in the Foreign Service of the United States of America, and providing compensation therefor”, approved February 23, 1931.

    Ch. 84 · 53 Stat. 583 · April 24, 1939 · Original text

86. An Act To provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work.

    Ch. 85 · 53 Stat. 589 · April 24, 1939 · Original text

87. 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 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from August 27 to September 1, inclusive, 1939.

    Ch. 86 · 53 Stat. 590 · April 24, 1939 · Original text

88. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 87 · 53 Stat. 590 · April 25, 1939 · Original text

89. Military Appropriation Act, 1940

    An Act Making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 88 · 53 Stat. 592 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

90. An Act To permit the President to acquire and convert, as well as to construct, certain auxiliary vessels for the Navy.

    Ch. 89 · 53 Stat. 618 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

91. An Act To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station on the east coast of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan.

    Ch. 90 · 53 Stat. 619 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

92. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Youngstown, Ohio, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mahoning River at or near Marshall Street, Youngstown, Ohio.

    Ch. 91 · 53 Stat. 619 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

93. An Act To provide for the assignment of medical officers of the Public Health Service for duty on vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 92 · 53 Stat. 620 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

94. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Youngstown, Ohio, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mahoning River at or near Cedar Street, Youngstown, Ohio.

    Ch. 93 · 53 Stat. 620 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

95. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway intercounty bridge and approaches across the Allegheny River, connecting Valley Camp in Westmoreland County and East Deer Township in Allegheny County, to connect State Highway Routes Numbered 28 and 56.

    Ch. 94 · 53 Stat. 621 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

96. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Ogdensburg, New York.

    Ch. 95 · 53 Stat. 621 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

97. An Act Authorizing the Department of Highways of the State of Ohio to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Ottawa River at or near the city of Toledo, State of Ohio.

    Ch. 96 · 53 Stat. 621 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

98. An Act To provide for the completion of the Navy and Marine Memorial.

    Ch. 97 · 53 Stat. 622 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

99. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Highway Department of Davidson County, of the State of Tennessee, to construct a bridge across Cumberland River, at a point approximately one and three-fourths miles below Clees Ferry, connecting a belt-line highway in Davidson County, State of Tennessee, known as the Old Hickory Boulevard.

    Ch. 98 · 53 Stat. 622 · April 26, 1939 · Original text

100. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of North Carolina to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Waccamaw River between Old Dock and Ash, North Carolina.

     Ch. 99 · 53 Stat. 623 · April 26, 1939 · Original text