Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Treasury Department, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 874 · 54 Stat. 1390 · October 14, 1940 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Verdie Barker and Fred Walter.

   Ch. 880 · 54 Stat. 1391 · October 14, 1940 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Samuel Roberts.

   Ch. 881 · 54 Stat. 1391 · October 14, 1940 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act Granting six months’ pay to Lillian M. Reymonds.

   Ch. 882 · 54 Stat. 1391 · October 14, 1940 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of the late John L. Summers, former disbursing clerk, Treasury Department.

   Ch. 883 · 54 Stat. 1392 · October 14, 1940 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to accept, as loans, from States and political subdivisions thereof, funds to be immediately used in the prosecution of authorized flood-control work, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 884 · 54 Stat. 1176 · October 15, 1940 · Original text

7. An Act To increase the authorized numbers of warrant officers and enlisted men in the Army Mine Planter Service, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 885 · 54 Stat. 1177 · October 15, 1940 · Original text

8. An Act To provide for the completion of certain local protection works at East Hartford, Connecticut.

   Ch. 886 · 54 Stat. 1177 · October 15, 1940 · Original text

9. An Act To extend, for an additional year, the provisions of the Sugar Act of 1937 and the taxes with respect to sugar.

   Ch. 887 · 54 Stat. 1178 · October 15, 1940 · Original text

10. An Act To promote and strengthen the national defense by suspending enforcement of certain civil liabilities of certain persons serving in the Military and Naval Establishments, including the Coast Guard.

    Ch. 888 · 54 Stat. 1178 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

11. An Act To authorize the lease or sale of certain public lands in Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 889 · 54 Stat. 1191 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell or lease for park or recreational purposes, and to sell for cemetery purposes, certain public lands in Alaska.

    Ch. 890 · 54 Stat. 1192 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

13. An Act To amend the Act to provide for the retirement of disabled nurses of the Army and the Navy.

    Ch. 891 · 54 Stat. 1192 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

14. An Act To authorize the exchange of certain patented lands in the Death Valley National Monument for Government lands in the monument.

    Ch. 892 · 54 Stat. 1193 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

15. An Act To amend section 202 (3), World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, to provide more adequate and uniform administrative provisions in veterans’ laws, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 893 · 54 Stat. 1193 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

16. An Act For the protection of the water supply of the town of Petersburg, Alaska.

    Ch. 894 · 54 Stat. 1197 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

17. An Act Authorizing the improvement of certain rivers and harbors in the interest of the national defense, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 895 · 54 Stat. 1198 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

18. An Act To amend section 4551 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 896 · 54 Stat. 1200 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

19. An Act To require the registration of certain organizations carrying on activities within the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 897 · 54 Stat. 1201 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

20. An Act To amend further the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act.

    Ch. 898 · 54 Stat. 1204 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

21. An Act To provide for an extension of the conditions under which a money allowance for quarters may be paid to certain non-commissioned officers of the Army of the United States.

    Ch. 899 · 54 Stat. 1205 · October 17, 1940 · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of J. J. Greenleaf.

    Ch. 900 · 54 Stat. 1392 · October 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Mrs. E. V. Maki.

    Ch. 901 · 54 Stat. 1393 · October 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Adolph Burstein.

    Ch. 902 · 54 Stat. 1393 · October 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act Establishing overtime rates for compensation for employees of the field services of the War Department, and the field services of the Panama Canal, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 903 · 54 Stat. 1205 · October 21, 1940 · Original text

26. An Act To amend section 61 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, by adding a proviso which will permit States to organize military units not a part of the National Guard, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 904 · 54 Stat. 1206 · October 21, 1940 · Original text

27. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps, and for other purposes”, approved June 28, 1937, as amended.

    Ch. 906 · 54 Stat. 1206 · October 21, 1940 · Original text

28. An Act Authorizing and directing the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit in the accounts of Lieutenant Colonel Frank H. Lusse, formerly of the Kentucky National Guard.

    Ch. 905 · 54 Stat. 1393 · October 21, 1940 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of certain Navajo Indians, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 907 · 54 Stat. 1394 · October 21, 1940 · Private law · Original text

30. Joint Resolution To provide for the use and disposition of the bequest of the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes to the United States, and for Other purposes.

    Ch. 908 · 54 Stat. 1206 · October 22, 1940 · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of the widows of the late George A. Meffan and John Glenn.

    Ch. 909 · 54 Stat. 1394 · October 25, 1940 · Private law · Original text

32. Joint Resolution To authorize the acquisition of a suitable frame for the painting of the signing of the Constitution to be used in mounting said painting in the Capitol Building.

    Ch. 910 · 54 Stat. 1209 · October 29, 1940 · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Elliott L. Hovel.

    Ch. 911 · 54 Stat. 1395 · October 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Theodore R. Troendle, sole stockholder of the Dawson Springs Construction Company.

    Ch. 912 · 54 Stat. 1395 · October 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Charles S. Ladinsky and Moe Kanner.

    Ch. 913 · 54 Stat. 1395 · October 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.

    Ch. 914 · 54 Stat. 1209 · November 22, 1940 · Original text

37. An Act To add certain lands to the Siuslaw National Forest in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 915 · 54 Stat. 1210 · November 25, 1940 · Original text

38. An Act To authorize the disposal of tools and equipment on the New England hurricane damage project.

    Ch. 916 · 54 Stat. 1210 · November 25, 1940 · Original text

39. An Act To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 917 · 54 Stat. 1211 · November 25, 1940 · Original text

40. An Act Granting a pension to Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston.

    Ch. 918 · 54 Stat. 1396 · November 25, 1940 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act Extending the classified executive civil service of the United States.

    Ch. 919 · 54 Stat. 1211 · November 26, 1940 · Original text

42. An Act To amend section 107 of the Judicial Code, to redistrict the State of Tennessee, to provide the duties and powers of the district judges of the State of Tennessee, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 920 · 54 Stat. 1216 · November 27, 1940 · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of the Cherokee Indian Nation or Tribe, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 921 · 54 Stat. 1218 · November 27, 1940 · Original text

44. An Act To make the excess land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws inapplicable to the lands of the Washoe County Water Conservation District, Truckee storage project, Nevada, and the Pershing County Water Conservation District, Nevada.

    Ch. 922 · 54 Stat. 1219 · November 29, 1940 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize the discontinuance of professional examinations for promotion in the Regular Army of officers of the Medical, Dental, and Veterinary Corps.

    Ch. 923 · 54 Stat. 1219 · November 29, 1940 · Original text

46. An Act To transfer the jurisdiction of the Arlington Fann, Virginia, to the jurisdiction of the War Department, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 924 · 54 Stat. 1219 · November 29, 1940 · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Mrs. George C. Hamilton and Nanette Anderson.

    Ch. 925 · 54 Stat. 1396 · November 29, 1940 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to punish the willful injury or destruction of war material, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes”, approved April 20, 1918.

    Ch. 926 · 54 Stat. 1220 · November 30, 1940 · Original text

49. An Act To amend the Act of June 25, 1938, entitled “An Act extending the classified civil service to include postmasters of the first, second, and third classes, and for other purposes”.

    Ch. 927 · 54 Stat. 1221 · December 6, 1940 · Original text

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

    Ch. 928 · 54 Stat. 1222 · December 16, 1940 · Original text

51. An Act Authorizing the State of Michigan, acting through The International Bridge Authority of Michigan, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge or series of bridges, causeways, and approaches thereto, across the Saint Marys River, from a point in or near the city of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to a point in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

    Ch. 929 · 54 Stat. 1222 · December 16, 1940 · Original text

52. An Act To legalize the construction by the State Highway Board of Georgia of a free highway bridge across the Withlacoochee River, between Valdosta, Georgia, and Madison, Florida, at Horns Ferry.

    Ch. 930 · 54 Stat. 1223 · December 16, 1940 · Original text

53. An Act Authorizing the President to appoint an Under Secretary of War during national emergencies, fixing the compensation of the Under Secretary of War, and authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe duties.

    Ch. 931 · 54 Stat. 1224 · December 16, 1940 · Original text

54. Joint Resolution Extending the time for submitting the 6nal report of the Temporary National Economic Committee.

    Ch. 932 · 54 Stat. 1225 · December 16, 1940 · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of the estate of Doctor B. L. Pursifull, Grace Pursifull, Eugene Pursifull, Ralph Pursifull, Bobby Pursifull, and Dora Little.

    Ch. 933 · 54 Stat. 1397 · December 16, 1940 · Private law · Original text

56. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the Pan American Cotton Congress.

    Ch. 934 · 54 Stat. 1225 · December 17, 1940 · Original text

57. An Act To provide for the issuance of a license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia to Lou Davis.

    Ch. 935 · 54 Stat. 1397 · December 30, 1940 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act in relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same and to provide for the punishment thereof ”, approved June 25, 1910.

    Ch. 936 · 54 Stat. 1225 · January 3, 1941 · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Herbert Zucker, Emma Zucker, Hanni Zucker, Dorrit Claire Zucker, and Martha Hirsch.

    Ch. 937 · 54 Stat. 1397 · January 3, 1941 · Private law · Original text