Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of Herbert M. Snapp.

   Ch. 300 · 53 Stat. 1475 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Ida May Lennon.

   Ch. 301 · 53 Stat. 1476 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of F. E. Perkins.

   Ch. 302 · 53 Stat. 1476 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of J. Vernon Phillips.

   Ch. 303 · 53 Stat. 1476 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue to Martha Austin a patent to certain land.

   Ch. 304 · 53 Stat. 1477 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Ivan Charles Grace.

   Ch. 305 · 53 Stat. 1477 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Maria Enriquez, Crisanta, Anselmo, Agustin, and Irineo de los Reyes.

   Ch. 306 · 53 Stat. 1477 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain members or former members of the United States Coast Guard for the value of personal effects lost in the hurricane of September 21, 1938, at several Coast Guard stations on the coasts of New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

   Ch. 307 · 53 Stat. 1478 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act To extend to Sergeant Major Edwin O. Swift, United States Marine Corps (retired), the benefits of the Act of May 7, 1932, providing highest World War rank to retired enlisted men.

   Ch. 308 · 53 Stat. 1479 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Mrs. A. R. Barnard, Charles A. Stephens, Donald W. Prairie, and dependents of Vern A. Needles.

    Ch. 309 · 53 Stat. 1479 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Providing for consideration of a recommendation for decoration of Sergeant Fred W. Stockham, deceased.

    Ch. 310 · 53 Stat. 1480 · July 15, 1939 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act To provide that the annual registration of motor vehicles and the annual licensing of certain public vehicles in the District of Columbia shall be for the period from April 1 in each year to March 31 in the succeeding year.

    Ch. 313 · 53 Stat. 1045 · July 17, 1939 · Original text

13. An Act Authorizing Federal participation in the commemoration and observance of the four-hundredth anniversary of the explorations of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado.

    Ch. 314 · 53 Stat. 1047 · July 17, 1939 · Original text

14. An Act To authorize an exchange of lands at the Fort Francis E. Warren Military Reservation, Wyoming.

    Ch. 315 · 53 Stat. 1048 · July 17, 1939 · Original text

15. An Act To make effective the provisions of the Officers’ Competency Certificates Convention, 1936.

    Ch. 316 · 53 Stat. 1049 · July 17, 1939 · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Ida A. Deaver.

    Ch. 311 · 53 Stat. 1480 · July 17, 1939 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of the Barkman Lumber Company.

    Ch. 312 · 53 Stat. 1481 · July 17, 1939 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of William Carl Laude.

    Ch. 317 · 53 Stat. 1481 · July 17, 1939 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Creating the City of Dubuque Bridge Commission and authorizing said Commission and its successors to purchase and/or construct, maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi River at or near Dubuque, Iowa, and East Dubuque, Illinois.

    Ch. 318 · 53 Stat. 1051 · July 18, 1939 · Original text

20. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River, at or near Poplar, Montana.

    Ch. 319 · 53 Stat. 1057 · July 18, 1939 · Original text

21. An Act Authorizing the city of Chester, Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Chester, Illinois.

    Ch. 320 · 53 Stat. 1058 · July 18, 1939 · Original text

22. An Act Authorizing the county of Gallatin, State of Illinois, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near the city of Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, to a point opposite thereto in the county of Union, State of Kentucky.

    Ch. 321 · 53 Stat. 1058 · July 18, 1939 · Original text

23. An Act To amend section 691-a of the Code of Law of the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1901, and of any Act or Acts amendatory thereof relating to foreign building and loan associations doing business in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 322 · 53 Stat. 1060 · July 18, 1939 · Original text

24. An Act Granting annual and sick leave with pay to substitutes in the Postal Service.

    Ch. 323 · 53 Stat. 1062 · July 18, 1939 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution To provide for the establishment and maintenance of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 324 · 53 Stat. 1062 · July 18, 1939 · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of the West Virginia Company.

    Ch. 325 · 53 Stat. 1482 · July 18, 1939 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act To give proper recognition to the distinguished services of Colonel Ernest Graves.

    Ch. 326 · 53 Stat. 1482 · July 18, 1939 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of S. A. Rourke.

    Ch. 327 · 53 Stat. 1482 · July 18, 1939 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to aid the several States in making, or for having made, certain toll bridges on the system of Federal-aid highways free bridges, and for other purposes”, by providing that funds available under such Act may be used to match regular and secondary Federal-aid road funds, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 328 · 53 Stat. 1066 · July 19, 1939 · Original text

30. An Act To restore certain benefits to World War veterans suffering with paralysis, paresis, or blindness, or who are helpless or bedridden, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 329 · 53 Stat. 1067 · July 19, 1939 · Original text

31. 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, as amended.

    Ch. 330 · 53 Stat. 1067 · July 19, 1939 · Original text

32. An Act To provide certain benefits for World War veterans and their dependents, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 331 · 53 Stat. 1068 · July 19, 1939 · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of the Canvas Decoy Company.

    Ch. 332 · 53 Stat. 1483 · July 19, 1939 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Otis M. Culver, Samuel E. Abbey, Joseph Reger, and August H. Krueger.

    Ch. 333 · 53 Stat. 1483 · July 19, 1939 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act To empower the President of the United States to create new national forest units and make additions to existing national forests in the State of Montana.

    Ch. 334 · 53 Stat. 1071 · July 20, 1939 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize an appropriation to meet such expenses as the President, in his discretion, may deem necessary to enable the United States to cooperate with the Republic of Panama in completing the construction of a national highway between Chorrera and Rio Hato, Republic of Panama, for defense purposes.

    Ch. 335 · 53 Stat. 1071 · July 20, 1939 · Original text

37. An Act To amend the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended.

    Ch. 336 · 53 Stat. 1071 · July 20, 1939 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution Consenting to an interstate oil compact to conserve oil and gas.

    Ch. 337 · 53 Stat. 1071 · July 20, 1939 · Original text

39. An Act To provide for probationary appointments of officers in the Regular Army.

    Ch. 338 · 53 Stat. 1074 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to make contracts, agreements, or other arrangements for the supplying of water to the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District.

    Ch. 339 · 53 Stat. 1075 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

41. An Act To transfer the control and jurisdiction of the Park Field Military Reservation, Shelby County, Tennessee, from the War Department to the Department of Agriculture.

    Ch. 340 · 53 Stat. 1075 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

42. An Act Authorizing the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Saint Croix River at or near Osceola, Wisconsin, and Chisago County, Minnesota.

    Ch. 341 · 53 Stat. 1076 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

43. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mississippi to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Pearl River at or near Georgetown, Mississippi.

    Ch. 342 · 53 Stat. 1076 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

44. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mississippi or Madison County, Mississippi, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Pearl River at or near Ratliffs Ferry in Madison County, Mississippi.

    Ch. 343 · 53 Stat. 1076 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

45. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near a point between Morgan and Wash Streets in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, and a point opposite thereto in the city of East Saint Louis, Illinois.

    Ch. 344 · 53 Stat. 1077 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

46. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River between Saint Louis, Missouri, and Stites, Illinois.

    Ch. 345 · 53 Stat. 1077 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

47. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate free highway bridges across the Monongahela River, in Allegheny County, State of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 346 · 53 Stat. 1078 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States certain land in the city of Seattle, King County, Washington, with improvements thereon.

    Ch. 347 · 53 Stat. 1078 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

49. An Act To authorize major overhauls for certain naval vessels, to authorize the acquisition of two motor vessels for the Navy, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 348 · 53 Stat. 1079 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

50. An Act To amend section 5 of the Act of April 3, 1939 (Public, Numbered 18, Seventy-sixth Congress).

    Ch. 349 · 53 Stat. 1079 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

51. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Arkansas State Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Black River at or near the town of Black Rock, Arkansas.

    Ch. 350 · 53 Stat. 1079 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

52. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Red River at or near a point suitable to the interests of navigation, from a point in Walsh County, North Dakota, at or near the terminus of North Dakota State Highway Numbered 17.

    Ch. 351 · 53 Stat. 1080 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

53. An Act To provide for additional clerk hire in the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 352 · 53 Stat. 1080 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

54. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Minnesota or the Minnesota Department of Highways to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Little Falls, Minnesota.

    Ch. 353 · 53 Stat. 1081 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

55. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Commissioners of Mahoning County, Ohio, to replace a bridge which has collapsed, across the Mahoning River at Division Street, Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio.

    Ch. 354 · 53 Stat. 1081 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

56. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Northern Natural Gas Company of Delaware to construct, maintain, and operate a pipe-line bridge across the Missouri River.

    Ch. 355 · 53 Stat. 1081 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

57. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to create a new division of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas”, approved May 26, 1928 (45 Stat. 747).

    Ch. 356 · 53 Stat. 1082 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

58. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Winona, Minnesota.

    Ch. 357 · 53 Stat. 1082 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

59. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Niagara River at or near the city of Niagara Falls, New York, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 358 · 53 Stat. 1083 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the attendance of the United States Naval Academy Band at the New York World’s Fair on the day designated as Maryland Day at such fair.

    Ch. 359 · 53 Stat. 1083 · July 25, 1939 · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Margaret B. Nonnenberg.

    Ch. 360 · 53 Stat. 1483 · July 25, 1939 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Frank M. Croman.

    Ch. 361 · 53 Stat. 1484 · July 25, 1939 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of H. W. Hamlin.

    Ch. 362 · 53 Stat. 1484 · July 25, 1939 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Captain Robert E. Coughlin.

    Ch. 363 · 53 Stat. 1485 · July 25, 1939 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of John Marinis, Nicolaos Elias, Ihoanis or Jean Demetre Votsitsanos, and Michael Votsitsanos.

    Ch. 364 · 53 Stat. 1485 · July 25, 1939 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act To provide a posthumous advancement in grade for the late Ensign Joseph Hester Patterson, United States Navy.

    Ch. 365 · 53 Stat. 1485 · July 25, 1939 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act Authorizing the State highway departments of North Dakota and Minnesota and the counties of Grand Forks of North Dakota and Polk of Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River near Thompson, North Dakota, and Crookston, Minnesota.

    Ch. 370 · 53 Stat. 1081 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

68. An Act To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.

    Ch. 366 · 53 Stat. 1083 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

69. District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1939

    An Act To provide revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 367 · 53 Stat. 1085 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

70. An Act To provide a right-of-way.

    Ch. 368 · 53 Stat. 1119 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

71. An Act To grant to the State of California a retrocession of jurisdiction over certain rights-of-way granted to the State of California over a certain road about to be constructed in the Presidio of San Francisco Military Reservation.

    Ch. 369 · 53 Stat. 1120 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

72. An Act To amend the Act approved June 25, 1910, authorizing establishment of the Postal Savings System.

    Ch. 371 · 53 Stat. 1121 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

73. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge over Lake Sabine at or near Port Arthur, Texas, to amend the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 1008), and for other purposes.

    Ch. 372 · 53 Stat. 1121 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

74. An Act To authorize the acquisition of additional land for military purposes.

    Ch. 373 · 53 Stat. 1123 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

75. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge and causeway across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point and Dauphin Island, Alabama.

    Ch. 374 · 53 Stat. 1124 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

76. An Act To make uniform in the District of Columbia the law on fresh pursuit and to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to cooperate with the States.

    Ch. 375 · 53 Stat. 1124 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution To provide minimum national allotments for cotton.

    Ch. 376 · 53 Stat. 1125 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution To provide minimum national allotments for wheat.

    Ch. 377 · 53 Stat. 1125 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution Relating to section 322 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.

    Ch. 378 · 53 Stat. 1125 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution To amend section 335 (c) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.

    Ch. 379 · 53 Stat. 1126 · July 26, 1939 · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Marguerite Kuenzi.

    Ch. 380 · 53 Stat. 1485 · July 26, 1939 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Charles G. Clement.

    Ch. 381 · 53 Stat. 1486 · July 26, 1939 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Mary A. Brummal.

    Ch. 382 · 53 Stat. 1486 · July 26, 1939 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To amend section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic Act, approved April 30, 1900, as amended.

    Ch. 383 · 53 Stat. 1126 · July 27, 1939 · Original text

85. An Act To extend the period of restrictions on lands of the Quapaw Indians, Oklahoma, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 384 · 53 Stat. 1127 · July 27, 1939 · Original text

86. An Act To grant to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a retrocession of jurisdiction over the General Clarence R. Edwards Memorial Bridge, bridging Watershops Pond of the Springfield Armory Military Reservation in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts.

    Ch. 385 · 53 Stat. 1127 · July 27, 1939 · Original text

87. An Act Relating to the acquisition of the site for the post-office building to be constructed in Poplarville, Mississippi.

    Ch. 386 · 53 Stat. 1128 · July 27, 1939 · Original text

88. An Act To provide for the distribution of the judgment fund of the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 387 · 53 Stat. 1128 · July 27, 1939 · Original text

89. An Act To improve the efficiency of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 388 · 53 Stat. 1130 · July 27, 1939 · Original text

90. An Act For the protection of the water supply of the city of Ketchikan, Alaska.

    Ch. 389 · 53 Stat. 1131 · July 27, 1939 · Original text

91. An Act To provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States.

    Ch. 390 · 53 Stat. 1133 · July 27, 1939 · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Virginia Guthrie, Jake C. Aaron, and Thomas W. Carter, Junior.

    Ch. 391 · 53 Stat. 1486 · July 27, 1939 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of William S. Huntley.

    Ch. 392 · 53 Stat. 1487 · July 27, 1939 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

    Ch. 393 · 53 Stat. 1134 · July 28, 1939 · Original text

95. An Act Authorizing the President to present a Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell, United States Navy.

    Ch. 394 · 53 Stat. 1487 · July 28, 1939 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act To authorize the addition to Glacier National Park, Montana, of certain property acquired for the establishment of a fish hatchery, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 395 · 53 Stat. 1142 · July 31, 1939 · Original text

97. An Act To transfer jurisdiction over commercial prints and labels, for the purpose of copyright registration, to the Register of Copyrights.

    Ch. 396 · 53 Stat. 1142 · July 31, 1939 · Original text

98. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to classify officers and members of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 397 · 53 Stat. 1143 · July 31, 1939 · Original text

99. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to regulate steam and other operating engineering in the District of Columbia”, approved February 28, 1887, as amended.

    Ch. 398 · 53 Stat. 1143 · July 31, 1939 · Original text

100. An Act To amend section 1860 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (48 U. S. C. 1460), to permit retired officers and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard to hold civil office in any Territory of the United States.

     Ch. 399 · 53 Stat. 1143 · July 31, 1939 · Original text