Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To authorize the payment of compensation to recess appointees in certain cases.

   Ch. 580 · 54 Stat. 751 · July 11, 1940 · Original text

2. An Act Granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate compact relating to control and reduction of pollution in the Ohio River drainage basin.

   Ch. 581 · 54 Stat. 752 · July 11, 1940 · Original text

3. An Act To provide for the transportation and distribution of mails on motor-vehicle routes

   Ch. 582 · 54 Stat. 756 · July 11, 1940 · Original text

4. An Act Authorizing advancements from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works for the construction of a recorder of deeds building in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 583 · 54 Stat. 757 · July 11, 1940 · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Anne Howard Lay.

   Ch. 578 · 54 Stat. 1320 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

6. Joint Resolution To confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims or the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Mrs. J. W. Marks, of Stephens County, Georgia.

   Ch. 584 · 54 Stat. 1320 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Clarence E. Enders and Gertrude Ray Enders.

   Ch. 594 · 54 Stat. 1320 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Edward Hagenson.

   Ch. 585 · 54 Stat. 1321 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of C. F. Cooley, administrator of the estate of Charles F. Cooley, Junior.

   Ch. 586 · 54 Stat. 1321 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Cothran Motors, Incorporated.

    Ch. 587 · 54 Stat. 1321 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Edmund S. Dennis.

    Ch. 588 · 54 Stat. 1322 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Mary Boyd.

    Ch. 589 · 54 Stat. 1322 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Lloyd S. Harris.

    Ch. 590 · 54 Stat. 1323 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act Authorizing the naturalization of Thomas A. Lambie.

    Ch. 591 · 54 Stat. 1323 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Edward J. Ross, and the legal guardian of Betty Ross, a minor.

    Ch. 592 · 54 Stat. 1323 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Bessie Sharrah.

    Ch. 593 · 54 Stat. 1324 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Twila Snyder.

    Ch. 595 · 54 Stat. 1325 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Velvie W. Smith, and the legal guardian of Glenn Richard Smith.

    Ch. 596 · 54 Stat. 1325 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of the Rodgers Tile Company.

    Ch. 597 · 54 Stat. 1325 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Thomas L. Gardner.

    Ch. 598 · 54 Stat. 1326 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Ina May Everett.

    Ch. 599 · 54 Stat. 1326 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of George O. Elliott and Winslow Farr Smith.

    Ch. 601 · 54 Stat. 1326 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Charles N. Barber, former United States property and disbursing officer, Vermont National Guard, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 600 · 54 Stat. 1327 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Vernon C. Brown and F. L. Copeland.

    Ch. 602 · 54 Stat. 1327 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer. Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department.

    Ch. 603 · 54 Stat. 1328 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To relieve, certain employees of the Veterans’ Administration from financial liability for certain overpayments and allow such credit therefor as is necessary in the accounts of certain disbursing officers, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 604 · 54 Stat. 1328 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Captain David H. Passell and First Lieutenant Paul E. LaMaster.

    Ch. 605 · 54 Stat. 1331 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Lawrence T. Post, G. F. Allen, and D. Buddrus.

    Ch. 606 · 54 Stat. 1331 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of Philip A. Penston, pharmacist’s mate, first class, United States Coast Guard, for the value of personal and household effects lost and destroyed during the hurricane of September 21, 1938, at New London, Connecticut.

    Ch. 607 · 54 Stat. 1332 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth E. Peeples.

    Ch. 608 · 54 Stat. 1332 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of J. H. Wootton.

    Ch. 609 · 54 Stat. 1332 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Alfred Joseph Wright.

    Ch. 610 · 54 Stat. 1333 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of the First National Bank of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as legal guardian of the three minor children of Dale W. Guise and Gladys M. Guise, both deceased, and Sally C. Guise, Martha G. and Arnold E. Orner.

    Ch. 611 · 54 Stat. 1333 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of George L. Sheldon.

    Ch. 612 · 54 Stat. 1334 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Betty Lou Frady, and W. L. Frady.

    Ch. 613 · 54 Stat. 1335 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Clifford J. Williams.

    Ch. 614 · 54 Stat. 1335 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of certain settlers in the town site of Ketchum, Idaho.

    Ch. 615 · 54 Stat. 1335 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of certain purchasers of, and entrymen upon, opened lands of certain Indian reservations.

    Ch. 616 · 54 Stat. 1336 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the Attorney General to donate on behalf of the United States to H. S. Scott, D. W. Collins, Fred M. Gross, trustees, Ashland District Council, Boy Scouts of America, the log house known as the John Secrest home, located on the site of the Federal Correctional Institution near Ashland, Kentucky.

    Ch. 617 · 54 Stat. 1336 · July 11, 1940 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act To provide for the disposition of estates of American citizens who die abroad.

    Ch. 618 · 54 Stat. 758 · July 12, 1940 · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Marjorie Buchek.

    Ch. 619 · 54 Stat. 1337 · July 12, 1940 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Ina Jones.

    Ch. 620 · 54 Stat. 1337 · July 12, 1940 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Edward J. Broggi.

    Ch. 621 · 54 Stat. 1337 · July 12, 1940 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act To enable Sadao Tanaka to remain permanently in the United States.

    Ch. 622 · 54 Stat. 1338 · July 12, 1940 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of John Nicholas Chicouras.

    Ch. 623 · 54 Stat. 1338 · July 12, 1940 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of certain disbursing agents and certifying officers of the Indian Service, the United States Veterans’ Administration, and the Treasury Department.

    Ch. 624 · 54 Stat. 1338 · July 12, 1940 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Hannah S. Bray, Jane Bickers, and Frances Bickers.

    Ch. 625 · 54 Stat. 1339 · July 12, 1940 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Providing for continuing retirement pay, under certain conditions, of officers and former officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States, other than officers of the Regular Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, who incurred physical disability while in the service of the United States during the World War, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 626 · 54 Stat. 760 · July 15, 1940 · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of the Leesburg Welding and Garage Company.

    Ch. 627 · 54 Stat. 1339 · July 15, 1940 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Paul Sanford, a minor.

    Ch. 628 · 54 Stat. 1340 · July 15, 1940 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the use of certain facilities of Indian reservations, national parks, and national monuments for elementary school purposes.

    Ch. 629 · 54 Stat. 761 · July 16, 1940 · Original text

52. An Act To withdraw certain portions of land within the Hawaii National Park and to transfer the same to the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of War for military purposes.

    Ch. 630 · 54 Stat. 761 · July 16, 1940 · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Nile Shaw and Edgar C. Bardin.

    Ch. 631 · 54 Stat. 1340 · July 16, 1940 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act Extending the benefits of the Emergency Officers’ Retirement Act of May 24, 1928, to provisional, probationary, or temporary officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard who served during the World War.

    Ch. 632 · 54 Stat. 762 · July 18, 1940 · Original text

55. An Act To extend the benefits of the United States Employees’ Compensation Act to members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and of the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army who were physically injured in line of duty while performing active duty or engaged in authorized training between dates of February 28, 1925, and July 15, 1939, both inclusive, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 633 · 54 Stat. 762 · July 18, 1940 · Original text

56. An Act To repeal sections 3711, 3712, and 3713 of the Revised Statutes which relate to the purchase in the District of Columbia of coal and wood for public use, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 634 · 54 Stat. 764 · July 18, 1940 · Original text

57. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the disposition, control, and use of surplus real property acquired by Federal agencies, and for other purposes”, approved August 27, 1935 (Public, Numbered 351, Seventy-fourth Congress), and for other purposes.

    Ch. 635 · 54 Stat. 764 · July 18, 1940 · Original text

58. An Act To amend the United States Grain Standards Act, to provide for the grading of soybeans, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 636 · 54 Stat. 765 · July 18, 1940 · Original text

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

    Ch. 637 · 54 Stat. 765 · July 18, 1940 · Original text

60. An Act Relating to the admission to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of persons resident or domiciled in the Virgin Islands of the United States.

    Ch. 638 · 54 Stat. 766 · July 18, 1940 · Original text

61. Joint Resolution Making an appropriation to enable the United States Maritime Commission to establish the marine and war-risk insurance fund.

    Ch. 639 · 54 Stat. 766 · July 18, 1940 · Original text

62. An Act To extend to certain officers and employees in the several States and the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to prevent pernicious political activities”, approved August 2, 1939.

    Ch. 640 · 54 Stat. 767 · July 19, 1940 · Original text

63. An Act To provide for the transfer of certain land in the De Soto National Forest to the Secretary of War for use for military purposes.

    Ch. 641 · 54 Stat. 773 · July 19, 1940 · Original text

64. An Act To encourage travel in the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 642 · 54 Stat. 773 · July 19, 1940 · Original text

65. Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act

    An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate and to put into effect charges for electrical energy generated at Boulder Dam, providing for the application of revenues from said project, authorizing the operation of the Boulder Power Plant by the United States directly or through agents, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 643 · 54 Stat. 774 · July 19, 1940 · Original text

66. An Act To establish the composition of the United States Navy, to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 644 · 54 Stat. 779 · July 19, 1940 · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Katherine M. Drier.

    Ch. 645 · 54 Stat. 1341 · July 19, 1940 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Antal or Anthony or Tony Zaicek or Zaiczek.

    Ch. 646 · 54 Stat. 1341 · July 19, 1940 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act To provide for the rank and title of lieutenant general of the Regular Army in the military departments of Panama and Hawaii.

    Ch. 647 · 54 Stat. 781 · July 31, 1940 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the Tennessee Valley Authority for the fiscal year 1941 to provide facilities to expedite the national defense.

    Ch. 648 · 54 Stat. 781 · July 31, 1940 · Original text

71. An Act To increase the credit resources of Commodity Credit Corporation.

    Ch. 649 · 54 Stat. 782 · August 9, 1940 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the incorporated town of Sitka, Alaska, to purchase and enlarge certain public utilities and for such purpose to issue bonds in the sum of $200,000 in excess of present statutory debt limit.

    Ch. 650 · 54 Stat. 782 · August 9, 1940 · Original text

73. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of bridges across the Monongahela River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 651 · 54 Stat. 784 · August 9, 1940 · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Francis G. McDougall.

    Ch. 652 · 54 Stat. 1341 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Carl Hurt.

    Ch. 653 · 54 Stat. 1342 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Fulton Combs.

    Ch. 654 · 54 Stat. 1342 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Frank Spears.

    Ch. 655 · 54 Stat. 1343 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of the captain and crew of the fishing boat Unione Numbered 1.

    Ch. 656 · 54 Stat. 1343 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of the estate of J. L. Fretwell.

    Ch. 657 · 54 Stat. 1344 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of J. E. Dambach.

    Ch. 658 · 54 Stat. 1344 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Clyde Caietti, a minor.

    Ch. 659 · 54 Stat. 1344 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Rufus K. Sanderlin.

    Ch. 660 · 54 Stat. 1345 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Fred Shelton.

    Ch. 661 · 54 Stat. 1345 · August 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To extend the jurisdiction of the United States District Court, Territory of Hawaii, over the Midway Islands, Wake Island, Johnston Island, Sand Island, Kingman Reef, Kure Island, Baker Island, Howland Island, and Jarvis Island, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 662 · 54 Stat. 784 · August 13, 1940 · Original text

85. An Act To provide for the operation of the recreational facilities within the Chopawamsic recreational demonstration project, near Dumfries, Virginia, by the Secretary of the Interior through the National Park Service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 663 · 54 Stat. 785 · August 13, 1940 · Original text

86. An Act To provide for more uniform coverage of certain persons employed in coal-mining operations with respect to insurance benefits provided for by certain Federal Acts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 664 · 54 Stat. 785 · August 13, 1940 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the construction of certain facilities in Marjorie Park, Davis Island, Tampa, Florida, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 665 · 54 Stat. 787 · August 13, 1940 · Original text

88. An Act To amend the Transportation Act, 1920, as amended.

    Ch. 666 · 54 Stat. 788 · August 13, 1940 · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Thomas Miralia and Betty Miralia.

    Ch. 667 · 54 Stat. 1346 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Robert L. Taylor.

    Ch. 668 · 54 Stat. 1346 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of Clyde E. Malle.

    Ch. 669 · 54 Stat. 1346 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act To correct the military records of DeRosey C. Cabell, McFarland Cockrill, James N. Caperton, Junius H. Houghton, Otto F. Lange, Paul B. Parker, James deB. Walbach, and Victor W. B. Wales.

    Ch. 670 · 54 Stat. 1347 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Theodore R. King.

    Ch. 671 · 54 Stat. 1347 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth Buxton Hospital.

    Ch. 672 · 54 Stat. 1347 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department.

    Ch. 673 · 54 Stat. 1348 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Willie Perry.

    Ch. 674 · 54 Stat. 1348 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Zoe Hoyt Wagner and Io F. Hoyt.

    Ch. 675 · 54 Stat. 1349 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of May C. Taylor.

    Ch. 676 · 54 Stat. 1349 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Thomas R. Fox.

    Ch. 677 · 54 Stat. 1350 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Edna S. Gardiner.

     Ch. 678 · 54 Stat. 1350 · August 13, 1940 · Private law · Original text