Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of Thomas Lewellyn and Drusilla Lewellyn.

   Ch. 477 · 54 Stat. 1299 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Don E. Hicks.

   Ch. 478 · 54 Stat. 1300 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Minnie Lowery and Winell Lowery.

   Ch. 479 · 54 Stat. 1300 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Raymond C. Knight.

   Ch. 480 · 54 Stat. 1301 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth L. Riley.

   Ch. 481 · 54 Stat. 1301 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of the Pennsylvania State College.

   Ch. 482 · 54 Stat. 1301 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Charles H. Upton.

   Ch. 483 · 54 Stat. 1302 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Eliza Warren and George T. Warren.

   Ch. 484 · 54 Stat. 1302 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Frances M. Hannah.

   Ch. 485 · 54 Stat. 1303 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of J. Montrose Edrehi.

    Ch. 486 · 54 Stat. 1303 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of C. S. Hobson.

    Ch. 487 · 54 Stat. 1303 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Mary D. Briggs and Simeon G. Rigor.

    Ch. 488 · 54 Stat. 1304 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Nathan A. Buck.

    Ch. 489 · 54 Stat. 1304 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of James L. Kinney.

    Ch. 490 · 54 Stat. 1305 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Harold C. Preble, naval architect.

    Ch. 491 · 54 Stat. 1305 · June 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

16. Joint Resolution Authorizing a reduction in the rate of interest to be paid on certain loans and advances made to the District of Columbia by the United States of America through the Public Works Administration.

    Ch. 494 · 54 Stat. 706 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

17. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act relating to the naturalization of certain women born in Hawaii”, approved July 2, 1932.

    Ch. 495 · 54 Stat. 707 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize the appropriation for payment of the cost of providing additional water for the Wapato Indian irrigation project, Washington.

    Ch. 496 · 54 Stat. 707 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

19. An Act For expenditure of funds for cooperation with the public-school board, Cass County, Minnesota, for the construction, extension, equipment, and improvement of public-school facilities to be available to Indian children in the district.

    Ch. 497 · 54 Stat. 707 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize defraying cost of necessary work between the Yuma project and Boulder Dam.

    Ch. 498 · 54 Stat. 708 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

21. An Act To provide for exercising the right with respect to red cedar shingles reserved in the trade agreement concluded November 17, 1938, between the United States of America and Canada, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 499 · 54 Stat. 708 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

22. An Act Amending the Bankruptcy Act with respect to the basis of property.

    Ch. 500 · 54 Stat. 709 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

23. An Act To amend the Act relating to preventing the publication of inventions in the national interest, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 501 · 54 Stat. 710 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

24. An Act To amend the Immigration Act of 1924 to require aliens admitted into the United States as officials of foreign governments either to maintain their status or to depart from the United States, with the approval of the Secretary of State.

    Ch. 502 · 54 Stat. 711 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

25. An Act To provide a license to the Atlantic Refining Company, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 507 · 54 Stat. 712 · July 1, 1940 · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Gus Roth.

    Ch. 503 · 54 Stat. 1305 · July 1, 1940 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Geraldine Ash.

    Ch. 504 · 54 Stat. 1306 · July 1, 1940 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Anna T. Sifferman Varga.

    Ch. 505 · 54 Stat. 1306 · July 1, 1940 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Louis Rosenstone.

    Ch. 506 · 54 Stat. 1307 · July 1, 1940 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To expedite the strengthening of the national defense.

    Ch. 508 · 54 Stat. 712 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

31. An Act To repatriate native-born women residents of the United States who have heretofore lost their citizenship by marriage to an alien.

    Ch. 509 · 54 Stat. 715 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

32. An Act To amend section 2810 (a), Internal Revenue Code, to exclude petroleum stills from the requirement of registration.

    Ch. 510 · 54 Stat. 715 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

33. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a dam and dike for preventing the flow of tidal waters into North Slough in Coos County, Oregon.

    Ch. 511 · 54 Stat. 715 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

34. An Act To permit certain aliens whose childhood was spent in the United States, if eligible to citizenship, to become naturalized without filing declaration of intention.

    Ch. 512 · 54 Stat. 715 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

35. An Act To amend the Act for the regulation of the practice of dentistry in the District of Columbia, and for the protection of the people from empiricism in relation thereto, approved June 6, 1892, and Acts amendatory thereof.

    Ch. 513 · 54 Stat. 716 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

36. An Act To amend section 5 of the Act of Congress approved June 26, 1906, relative to the Alaska Salmon fishery.

    Ch. 514 · 54 Stat. 723 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

37. An Act To limit the importation of products made, produced, processed, or mined under process covered by unexpired valid United States patents, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 515 · 54 Stat. 724 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

38. An Act To authorize the setting aside of an area within the Canal Zone to preserve and conserve its natural features for scientific study, for providing and maintaining facilities for such study, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 516 · 54 Stat. 724 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing, the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency to transfer certain property in San Francisco, California, to the city and county of San Francisco for street purposes.

    Ch. 517 · 54 Stat. 725 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

40. An Act To amend section 10 of chapter 5 of Public Act Numbered 436, Seventy-third Congress, approved June 19, 1934.

    Ch. 518 · 54 Stat. 726 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

41. An Act To amend section 40, National Defense Act, as amended, relating to the organization of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, so as to provide for an exception with respect to the University of Alaska.

    Ch. 519 · 54 Stat. 726 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

42. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Shawneetown, Illinois.

    Ch. 520 · 54 Stat. 727 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

43. An Act To amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 521 · 54 Stat. 727 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

44. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 522 · 54 Stat. 729 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

45. An Act To enlarge and extend the power and jurisdiction of the Board of Education over degree-conferring institutions operating within the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 523 · 54 Stat. 729 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

46. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act.

    Ch. 524 · 54 Stat. 730 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

47. An Act To amend and clarify section 6, subsection 2, of the Act approved June 1, 1938, known as “Juvenile Court Act of the District of Columbia”, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 525 · 54 Stat. 735 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

48. An Act Extending the jurisdiction of the Civil Aeronautics Authority over certain air-mail services, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 526 · 54 Stat. 735 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

49. An Act To provide for the recording and releasing of liens by entries on certificates of title for motor vehicles and trailers, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 527 · 54 Stat. 736 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

50. An Act Authorizing the county of Lawrence, Ohio, to acquire and operate as a unit certain privately owned toll bridges across the Ohio River adjoining such county.

    Ch. 528 · 54 Stat. 740 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

51. An Act Declaring a forfeiture of certain land heretofore granted by the United States to the board of commissioners of the Orleans Levee District, in the city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, for levee and street purposes.

    Ch. 529 · 54 Stat. 741 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

52. An Act To amend section 13 (d) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act.

    Ch. 530 · 54 Stat. 741 · July 2, 1940 · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of the Black Hills Methodist Hospital of Rapid City, South Dakota.

    Ch. 531 · 54 Stat. 1307 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Malachy Ryan.

    Ch. 532 · 54 Stat. 1307 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Naoma Kinder, a minor.

    Ch. 533 · 54 Stat. 1308 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Evelyn L. Ratcliffe.

    Ch. 534 · 54 Stat. 1308 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Mary S. Arthur, as executrix of the estate of Richard M. Arthur, deceased.

    Ch. 535 · 54 Stat. 1308 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of Beatrice Lola Rucker.

    Ch. 536 · 54 Stat. 1309 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Mrs. E. J. McCardle.

    Ch. 537 · 54 Stat. 1309 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Stuart Bastow.

    Ch. 538 · 54 Stat. 1310 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Morrissey Construction Company.

    Ch. 539 · 54 Stat. 1310 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of T. Jack Neal.

    Ch. 540 · 54 Stat. 1310 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Edward P. Glenn, Junior.

    Ch. 541 · 54 Stat. 1311 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Clarence D. Green.

    Ch. 542 · 54 Stat. 1311 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For relief of Edna Emery.

    Ch. 543 · 54 Stat. 1312 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Simon A. Brieger, as legal representative of the estate of Thomas Gerald Brieger, a deceased minor.

    Ch. 544 · 54 Stat. 1312 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of John Owen.

    Ch. 545 · 54 Stat. 1313 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Charles E. Molster, former disbursing clerk for the Department of Commerce and the National Recovery Administration; J. L. Summers, deceased, former chief disbursing clerk, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department, and Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department.

    Ch. 546 · 54 Stat. 1313 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act Providing for the extension of nonquota status to Frederick Beck.

    Ch. 547 · 54 Stat. 1314 · July 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act Relating to rentals in certain oil and gas leases issued under authority of the Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 548 · 54 Stat. 742 · July 8, 1940 · Original text

71. An Act Authorizing Alabama Bridge Commission (an agency of the State of Alabama) to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge and causeway between Dauphin Island and the mainland at or near Cedar Point, within the State of Alabama.

    Ch. 549 · 54 Stat. 742 · July 8, 1940 · Original text

72. 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. 550 · 54 Stat. 743 · July 8, 1940 · Original text

73. An Act To defray the cost of returning to the United States the remains, families, and effects of officers and employees dying abroad, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 551 · 54 Stat. 743 · July 8, 1940 · Original text

74. An Act For the acquisition of Indian lands for the Parker Dam and Reservoir project, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 552 · 54 Stat. 744 · July 8, 1940 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain of the public lands to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for the extraction of sodium chloride for water-conditioning purposes.

    Ch. 553 · 54 Stat. 745 · July 8, 1940 · Original text

76. An Act To provide for the leasing of restricted allotments of deceased Indians in certain circumstances, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 554 · 54 Stat. 745 · July 8, 1940 · Original text

77. An Act Relating to adoption of minors by Indiana.

    Ch. 555 · 54 Stat. 746 · July 8, 1940 · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of Ethel G. Hamilton.

    Ch. 556 · 54 Stat. 1314 · July 8, 1940 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain personnel or former personnel of the United States Marine Corps for the value of personal effects destroyed as a result of a fire at Raritan Arsenal, Metuchen, New Jersey, on October 10, 1938.

    Ch. 557 · 54 Stat. 1314 · July 8, 1940 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain officers and enlisted men or former officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy for personal property lost in the hurricane and flood at New London, Connecticut, on September 21, 1938.

    Ch. 558 · 54 Stat. 1315 · July 8, 1940 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act To authorize exchanges of lands within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona.

    Ch. 565 · 54 Stat. 746 · July 10, 1940 · Original text

82. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine Hospital Service”, approved February 15, 1893, as amended.

    Ch. 566 · 54 Stat. 747 · July 10, 1940 · Original text

83. An Act To amend the law limiting the operation of statutes of limitations in certain cases.

    Ch. 567 · 54 Stat. 747 · July 10, 1940 · Original text

84. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, as amended.

    Ch. 568 · 54 Stat. 747 · July 10, 1940 · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Black, and Marion Rabren.

    Ch. 559 · 54 Stat. 1315 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of A. A. Ramsay.

    Ch. 560 · 54 Stat. 1315 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Earl P. Collins.

    Ch. 561 · 54 Stat. 1316 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of M. E. MeGivern.

    Ch. 562 · 54 Stat. 1316 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of A. S. Tait.

    Ch. 563 · 54 Stat. 1317 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Harry D. Gann.

    Ch. 564 · 54 Stat. 1317 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act To authorize the cancelation of deportation proceedings in the case of Florence Sinclair Cooper and daughter, Margaret Lavallie, and Philip P. Roy.

    Ch. 569 · 54 Stat. 1317 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Jose Mauri.

    Ch. 570 · 54 Stat. 1318 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Henry Gideon Schiller.

    Ch. 571 · 54 Stat. 1318 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of James George Mayfield.

    Ch. 572 · 54 Stat. 1318 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Dexter and Elizabeth Shiomi.

    Ch. 573 · 54 Stat. 1319 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Louise Thorne

    Ch. 574 · 54 Stat. 1319 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Relating to the citizenship of William Lawrence Tan.

    Ch. 575 · 54 Stat. 1319 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Alfred G. Balls.

    Ch. 576 · 54 Stat. 1319 · July 10, 1940 · Private law · Original text

99. Joint Resolution Authorizing Colonel Donald H. Connolly to hold the office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics in the Department of Commerce.

    Ch. 577 · 54 Stat. 748 · July 11, 1940 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Maryland and West Virginia and the Commonwealths of Virginia and Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia as signatory bodies, to enter into a compact for the creation of a Potomac Valley Conservancy District and the establishment of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River basin.

     Ch. 579 · 54 Stat. 748 · July 11, 1940 · Original text