Every law Congress has passed

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

1. Joint Resolution Authorizing the delegation of certain authority within the Department of Agriculture.

   Ch. 700 · 53 Stat. 1417 · August 11, 1939 · Original text

2. Joint Resolution To authorize the sale of surplus agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 701 · 53 Stat. 1418 · August 11, 1939 · Original text

3. An Act To amend the Act of August 26, 1937.

   Ch. 716 · 53 Stat. 1418 · August 11, 1939 · Original text

4. An Act Authorizing construction of water conservation and utilization projects in the Great Plains and arid and semiarid areas of the United States.

   Ch. 717 · 53 Stat. 1418 · August 11, 1939 · Original text

5. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia”, known as the “Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928”, approved February 27, 1929.

   Ch. 718 · 53 Stat. 1419 · August 11, 1939 · Original text

6. An Act To provide for the refund or credit of the internal-revenue tax paid on spirits lost or rendered unmarketable by reason of the floods of 1936 and 1937 where such spirits were in the possession of the original taxpayer or rectifier for bottling or use in rectification under Government supervision as provided by law and regulations.

   Ch. 719 · 53 Stat. 1420 · August 11, 1939 · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Mato, Miljenko, Bozo, and Augustin Cibilic, or Zibilich.

   Ch. 702 · 53 Stat. 1540 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Emil Friedrich Dischleit.

   Ch. 703 · 53 Stat. 1541 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Konstantinos Dionysiou Antiohos (or Gus Pappas).

   Ch. 704 · 53 Stat. 1541 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of William E. Cowen.

    Ch. 705 · 53 Stat. 1541 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of N. F. Glower and Elijah Williams.

    Ch. 706 · 53 Stat. 1541 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act To confer jurisdiction on the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of certain claimants who suffered loss by flood at or near Bean Lake in Platte County, and Sugar Lake in Buchanan County, in the State of Missouri, during the month of March 1934.

    Ch. 707 · 53 Stat. 1543 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Thomas J. Smith.

    Ch. 708 · 53 Stat. 1543 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of the Columbus Iron Works Company.

    Ch. 709 · 53 Stat. 1544 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Caryl Burbank, Preston A. Stanford, and Fire Association of Philadelphia.

    Ch. 710 · 53 Stat. 1544 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act To pay salary of Ruth Dornsife.

    Ch. 711 · 53 Stat. 1545 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Virgie B. Weaver.

    Ch. 712 · 53 Stat. 1545 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act To amend Private Law Numbered 310, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, an Act for the relief of D. E. Sweinhart.

    Ch. 713 · 53 Stat. 1546 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act To amend Private Act Numbered 286, approved June 18, 1934, entitled “An Act for the relief of Carleton-Mace Engineering Corporation.”

    Ch. 714 · 53 Stat. 1546 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of John L. Hicks, rural rehabilitation supervisor, Farm Security Administration, Department of Agriculture, Santa Rosa, New Mexico.

    Ch. 715 · 53 Stat. 1546 · August 11, 1939 · Private law · Original text

21. Joint Resolution To make provision for certain expenses incident to the second session of the Seventy-sixth Congress.

    Ch. 1 · 54 Stat. 3 · October 11, 1939 · Original text

22. Neutrality Act of 1939

    Joint Resolution To preserve the neutrality and the peace of the United States and to secure the safety of its citizens and their interests.

    Ch. 2 · 54 Stat. 4 · November 4, 1939 · Original text

23. An Act To provide for the protection of witnesses appearing before any department, independent establishment, or other agency of the United States, or the Congress of the United States.

    Ch. 1 · 54 Stat. 13 · January 13, 1940 · Original text

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

    Ch. 2 · 54 Stat. 14 · January 17, 1940 · Original text

25. An Act To provide for the refunding of the bonds of municipal corporations and public-utility districts in the Territory of Alaska, to validate bonds which have heretofore been issued by a municipal corporation or any public-utility district in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3 · 54 Stat. 14 · January 17, 1940 · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of certain workers performing emergency work at Cairo, Illinois, in the Ohio River flood of 1937.

    Ch. 4 · 54 Stat. 1241 · January 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of the American Insurance Company of New Jersey.

    Ch. 5 · 54 Stat. 1242 · January 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of the heirs of John Cauley, deceased.

    Ch. 6 · 54 Stat. 1242 · January 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of the estates of Marie R. Morkovsky and Alphons Morkovsky, both deceased.

    Ch. 7 · 54 Stat. 1243 · January 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Major Noe C. Killian.

    Ch. 8 · 54 Stat. 1243 · January 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of George E. Miller.

    Ch. 9 · 54 Stat. 1244 · January 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of the Nevada Silica Sands, Incorporated.

    Ch. 10 · 54 Stat. 1244 · January 17, 1940 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act To provide that the district judge for the western district of Washington, authorized to be appointed under the Act of May 31, 1938, shall be a district judge for the eastern and western districts of Washington.

    Ch. 11 · 54 Stat. 16 · January 20, 1940 · Original text

34. An Act Relating to the filing of affidavits of prejudice in the district court for the District of Alaska.

    Ch. 12 · 54 Stat. 16 · January 25, 1940 · Original text

35. An Act To amend section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

    Ch. 13 · 54 Stat. 17 · January 25, 1940 · Original text

36. An Act Authorizing States owning lands or interests therein acquired from the United States to include the same in certain agreements for the conservation of oil and gas resources.

    Ch. 14 · 54 Stat. 17 · January 26, 1940 · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Charles H. LeGay.

    Ch. 15 · 54 Stat. 1244 · January 26, 1940 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act To provide for the acquisition by the United States of the estate of Patrick Henry in Charlotte County, Virginia, known as Red Hill.

    Ch. 16 · 54 Stat. 18 · January 29, 1940 · Original text

39. Joint Resolution To extend, for three additional months, the time during which articles imported free of duty for exhibition at the Golden Gate International Exposition or the New York World’s Fair, may be sold or abandoned.

    Ch. 17 · 54 Stat. 18 · January 31, 1940 · Original text

40. An Act To amend section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to make permissive the acquisition of legislative jurisdiction over land or interests in land acquired by the United States.

    Ch. 18 · 54 Stat. 19 · February 1, 1940 · Original text

41. An Act To amend the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, as amended.

    Ch. 19 · 54 Stat. 19 · February 1, 1940 · Original text

42. An Act To provide for the transfer of certain land owned by the United States to the State of Texas; and certain other land to the county of Galveston, Texas.

    Ch. 20 · 54 Stat. 20 · February 6, 1940 · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of World War sailors and marines who were discharged from the United States Navy or United States Marine Corps because of minority or misrepresentation of age.

    Ch. 21 · 54 Stat. 21 · February 9, 1940 · Original text

44. An Act Giving the consent of Congress to the addition of lands to the State of Texas and ceding jurisdiction to the State of Texas over certain parcels or tracts of land heretofore acquired by the United States of America from the United Mexican States.

    Ch. 22 · 54 Stat. 21 · February 9, 1940 · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of E. C. Beaver.

    Ch. 23 · 54 Stat. 1244 · February 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act Granting six months’ pay to Sidney M. Bowen.

    Ch. 24 · 54 Stat. 1245 · February 9, 1940 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act To make effective in the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of the United States governing pleading, practice, and procedure in the district courts of the United States.

    Ch. 25 · 54 Stat. 22 · February 12, 1940 · Original text

48. Emergency Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1940

    An Act Making supplemental appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments, Coast Guard, and Federal Bureau of Investigation, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 27 · 54 Stat. 22 · February 12, 1940 · Original text

49. Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940

    An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 28 · 54 Stat. 35 · February 12, 1940 · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of the Missoula Brewing Company.

    Ch. 26 · 54 Stat. 1245 · February 12, 1940 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Roy D. Cook, a minor.

    Ch. 29 · 54 Stat. 1246 · February 12, 1940 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act To amend the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 460), as amended, with regard to the limitation of cost upon the construction of buildings in national parks.

    Ch. 30 · 54 Stat. 36 · February 13, 1940 · Original text

53. Joint Resolution Making available for the fiscal year 1940 an additional amount from the special funds heretofore set up for the payment of compensation benefits authorized by certain Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts.

    Ch. 31 · 54 Stat. 37 · March 1, 1940 · Original text

54. An Act To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to transfer by quitclaim deed to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for right-of-way purposes, a small strip of land at Veterans’ Administration facility, Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 32 · 54 Stat. 37 · March 2, 1940 · Original text

55. An Act To amend the Annual and Sick Leave Acts of March 14, 1936.

    Ch. 33 · 54 Stat. 38 · March 2, 1940 · Original text

56. An Act To provide for increasing the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 34 · 54 Stat. 38 · March 2, 1940 · Original text

57. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1939.

    Ch. 37 · 54 Stat. 38 · March 2, 1940 · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of M. L. Parish.

    Ch. 35 · 54 Stat. 1246 · March 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Katheryn S. Anderson.

    Ch. 36 · 54 Stat. 1246 · March 2, 1940 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act To aid the States and Territories in making provisions for the retirement of employees of the land-grant colleges.

    Ch. 38 · 54 Stat. 39 · March 4, 1940 · Original text

61. An Act To extend until March 4, 1944, the time during which petitions may be filed by farmers under section 75 of the Bankruptcy Act.

    Ch. 39 · 54 Stat. 39 · March 4, 1940 · Original text

62. An Act To establish the Kings Canyon National Park, California, to transfer thereto the lands now included in the General Grant National Park, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 40 · 54 Stat. 41 · March 4, 1940 · Original text

63. 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. 41 · 54 Stat. 44 · March 4, 1940 · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Major Herbert A. Jacob.

    Ch. 42 · 54 Stat. 1247 · March 4, 1940 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of Ben Willie Jones, as legal representative of Thelma Jones, a deceased minor.

    Ch. 43 · 54 Stat. 1247 · March 4, 1940 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act To facilitate the procurement of aircraft for the national defense.

    Ch. 44 · 54 Stat. 45 · March 5, 1940 · Original text

67. An Act To facilitate control of soil erosion and flood damage on lands within the Ozark and Ouachita National Forests in Arkansas.

    Ch. 45 · 54 Stat. 46 · March 5, 1940 · Original text

68. An Act Providing payment to employees, Bureau of Reclamation, for mileage traveled in privately owned automobiles.

    Ch. 46 · 54 Stat. 47 · March 6, 1940 · Original text

69. An Act To amend the Bonneville Project Act.

    Ch. 47 · 54 Stat. 47 · March 6, 1940 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution To authorize the United States Maritime Commission to acquire certain lands at Saint Petersburg, Florida.

    Ch. 48 · 54 Stat. 47 · March 9, 1940 · Original text

71. An Act Authorizing the payment of necessary expenses incurred by certain Indians allotted on the Quinaielt Reservation, State of Washington.

    Ch. 49 · 54 Stat. 48 · March 9, 1940 · Original text

72. An Act Granting easements on Indian lands of the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation, Wyoming, for dam site and reservoir purposes in connection with the Riverton reclamation project.

    Ch. 51 · 54 Stat. 49 · March 14, 1940 · Original text

73. An Act To provide for allowance of expenses incurred by Veterans’ Administration beneficiaries and their attendants in authorized travel for examination and treatment.

    Ch. 52 · 54 Stat. 49 · March 14, 1940 · Original text

74. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes”, approved July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 662), relative to the payment of the commuted rations of enlisted men.

    Ch. 53 · 54 Stat. 50 · March 14, 1940 · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of George H, Eiswald.

    Ch. 50 · 54 Stat. 1248 · March 14, 1940 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Robert Stockman.

    Ch. 54 · 54 Stat. 1248 · March 14, 1940 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of the R. G. Schreck Lumber Company.

    Ch. 55 · 54 Stat. 1248 · March 14, 1940 · Private law · Original text

78. Joint Resolution Creating a commission to arrange for the celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the first United States patent law.

    Ch. 56 · 54 Stat. 50 · March 15, 1940 · Original text

79. An Act To amend section 23 of the Act of March 4, 1909, relating to copyrights.

    Ch. 57 · 54 Stat. 51 · March 15, 1940 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to exchange certain property located at Veterans’ Administration facility, Tuskegee, Alabama, title to which is now vested in the United States, for certain property of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.

    Ch. 58 · 54 Stat. 51 · March 15, 1940 · Original text

81. An Act To protect scenic values along the Catalina Highway within the Coronado National Forest, Arizona.

    Ch. 59 · 54 Stat. 52 · March 15, 1940 · Original text

82. An Act To amend section 9a, National Defense Act, as amended, so as to provide specific authority for the employment of warrant officers of the Regular Army as agents of officers of the finance department for the disbursement of public funds.

    Ch. 60 · 54 Stat. 52 · March 15, 1940 · Original text

83. An Act To amend section 55, National Defense Act, as amended, to provide for enlistment of men up to forty-five years of age in technical units of the Enlisted Reserve Corps.

    Ch. 61 · 54 Stat. 53 · March 15, 1940 · Original text

84. An Act To authorize an exchange of lands between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the United States, at Quantico, Virginia.

    Ch. 62 · 54 Stat. 53 · March 15, 1940 · Original text

85. An Act To authorize the posthumous appointment of the late Arthur Mortimer Fields, Junior, to be an ensign of the United States Navy.

    Ch. 63 · 54 Stat. 1249 · March 15, 1940 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Inez Gillespie.

    Ch. 64 · 54 Stat. 1249 · March 15, 1940 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act To amend the Act of May 4, 1898 (30 Stat. 369), so as to authorize the President to appoint one hundred acting assistant surgeons for temporary service.

    Ch. 65 · 54 Stat. 54 · March 18, 1940 · Original text

88. An Act To amend section 602 (e) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, relating to a study of radio requirements for ships navigating the Great Lakes and inland waters of the United States.

    Ch. 66 · 54 Stat. 54 · March 18, 1940 · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Ernestine Huber Neuheller.

    Ch. 67 · 54 Stat. 1249 · March 18, 1940 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Hubert Richardson.

    Ch. 68 · 54 Stat. 1250 · March 18, 1940 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to settle and adjust the claims of Mary Pierce and John K. Quackenbush.

    Ch. 69 · 54 Stat. 1250 · March 18, 1940 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to settle and adjust the claim of Edith Easton and Alma E. Gates.

    Ch. 70 · 54 Stat. 1251 · March 18, 1940 · Private law · Original text

93. Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1941

    An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 71 · 54 Stat. 55 · March 25, 1940 · Original text

94. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes”, approved June 15, 1917, as amended, to increase the penalties for peacetime violations of such Act.

    Ch. 71 · 54 Stat. 79 · March 28, 1940 · Original text

95. An Act To amend section 45 of the United States Criminal Code to make it applicable to the outlying possessions of the United States.

    Ch. 73 · 54 Stat. 80 · March 28, 1940 · Original text

96. An Act To amend the Act authorizing the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 74 · 54 Stat. 80 · March 29, 1940 · Original text

97. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to delegate certain regulatory functions.

    Ch. 75 · 54 Stat. 81 · April 4, 1940 · Original text

98. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Members of Congress.

    Ch. 76 · 54 Stat. 82 · April 5, 1940 · Original text

99. First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, to provide supplemental appropriations for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 77 · 54 Stat. 82 · April 6, 1940 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution To approve the action of the Secretary of the Interior in deferring the collection of certain irrigation charges against lands under the Blackfeet Indian irrigation project.

     Ch. 78 · 54 Stat. 105 · April 11, 1940 · Original text