Every law Congress has passed

1,489 laws of the 77th Congress, 1941–1943

1. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize black-outs in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved December 26, 1941, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 548 · 56 Stat. 740 · August 6, 1942 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 549 · 56 Stat. 742 · August 6, 1942 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution To authorize the War Shipping Administration to sell or charter two merchant vessels to the Government of Ireland.

   Ch. 550 · 56 Stat. 743 · August 6, 1942 · Original text

4. An Act To amend the Act approved February 4, 1919 (40 Stat. 1056), entitled “An Act to provide for the award of medals of honor, distinguished-service medals, and Navy crosses, and for other purposes”, so as to change the conditions for the award of medals, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 551 · 56 Stat. 743 · August 7, 1942 · Original text

5. An Act To amend section 219 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, by inserting “of part I” after “(12)”, and to amend subsection (b) of section 417 of such Act by changing a reference from “carrier” to “freight forwarder”.

   Ch. 552 · 56 Stat. 746 · August 7, 1942 · Original text

6. An Act To facilitate the disposition of prizes captured by the United States during the present war, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 553 · 56 Stat. 746 · August 18, 1942 · Original text

7. An Act To amend section 107 of the Servicemen’s Dependents Allowance Act of 1942.

   Ch. 554 · 56 Stat. 747 · August 20, 1942 · Original text

8. An Act To suspend temporarily the running of st statutes of limitations applicable to certain offenses.

   Ch. 555 · 56 Stat. 747 · August 24, 1942 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution Providing for the acceptance of title to the Widener art collection of Philadelphia, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 556 · 56 Stat. 748 · September 3, 1942 · Original text

10. An Act To authorize the incorporated town of Petersburg, Alaska, to undertake certain municipal public works, including the construction of a dam and improvements to the hydroelectric plant and system, improvements to the water system, and construction and equipment of a municipal hospital, and for such purposes to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding a total of $125,000.

    Ch. 557 · 56 Stat. 748 · September 3, 1942 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution Transferring the management of the Senate Restaurants to the Architect of the Capitol, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 558 · 56 Stat. 750 · September 9, 1942 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution To authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Secretary of the Interior to make exchanges with the Defense Homes Corporation of certain lands in Northwest Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 559 · 56 Stat. 752 · September 11, 1942 · Original text

13. An Act To suspend in part the processing tax on coconut oil.

    Ch. 560 · 56 Stat. 752 · September 16, 1942 · Original text

14. An Act To provide for a method of voting, in time of war, by members of the land and naval forces absent from the place of their residence.

    Ch. 561 · 56 Stat. 753 · September 16, 1942 · Original text

15. 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”, approved February 27, 1929.

    Ch. 562 · 56 Stat. 757 · September 26, 1942 · Original text

16. An Act To amend section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the American War Mothers”, approved February 24, 1925 (43 Stat. 966; title 36, sec. 97, U. S. C., 1940 edition).

    Ch. 563 · 56 Stat. 758 · September 26, 1942 · Original text

17. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act.

    Ch. 564 · 56 Stat. 759 · September 26, 1942 · Original text

18. An Act To increase the penalty for indecent exposure in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 565 · 56 Stat. 760 · September 26, 1942 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim October 11, 1942, General Pulaski’s Memorial Day for the observance and commemoration of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski.

    Ch. 566 · 56 Stat. 760 · September 26, 1942 · Original text

20. An Act To make transportation and storage facilities available for military use where military necessity exists, by authorizing the removal to other points of merchandise in customs custody.

    Ch. 567 · 56 Stat. 760 · September 29, 1942 · Original text

21. An Act To amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to authorize payments in eases where farmers’ crops are acquired, prior to harvest, in connection with the acquisition of their farms for use in the national war effort, and to provide for the division of such payments.

    Ch. 568 · 56 Stat. 761 · September 29, 1942 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution Authorizing extensions of time for filing return of capital stock tax in 1942.

    Ch. 569 · 56 Stat. 762 · September 29, 1942 · Original text

23. An Act To amend section 61 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, for the purpose of providing State and Territorial military forces with such arms, ammunition, clothing, and equipment as is deemed necessary to enable them to execute their internal security responsibilities within their respective States and Territories, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 570 · 56 Stat. 762 · October 1, 1942 · Original text

24. An Act To amend the Act of May 19, 1926, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to detail officers and enlisted men of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to assist the governments of the Latin-American republics in military and naval matters.”

    Ch. 571 · 56 Stat. 763 · October 1, 1942 · Original text

25. An Act To increase by $600,000,000 the amount authorized to be appropriated for defense housing under the Act of October 14, 1940, as amended.

    Ch. 572 · 56 Stat. 763 · October 1, 1942 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize a reduction in the course of instruction at the United States Military Academy.

    Ch. 573 · 56 Stat. 763 · October 1, 1942 · Original text

27. An Act To amend the Canal Zone Code in relation to the control of marihuana.

    Ch. 574 · 56 Stat. 763 · October 1, 1942 · Original text

28. An Act To amend section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the adult blind”, approved March 3, 1931, as amended.

    Ch. 575 · 56 Stat. 764 · October 1, 1942 · Original text

29. An Act To amend the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board Act.

    Ch. 576 · 56 Stat. 765 · October 2, 1942 · Original text

30. Joint Resolution Extending for two months the period for which overtime rates of compensation may be paid under the Acts of June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 676), October 21, 1940 (54 Stat. 1205), and June 3, 1941 (55 Stat. 241).

    Ch. 577 · 56 Stat. 765 · October 2, 1942 · Original text

31. An Act To amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to aid in preventing inflation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 578 · 56 Stat. 765 · October 2, 1942 · Original text

32. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, in the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1863 (12 Stat. 798).

    Ch. 579 · 56 Stat. 768 · October 3, 1942 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution To remove certain limitations on the cost of construction of Army and Navy living quarters.

    Ch. 580 · 56 Stat. 769 · October 6, 1942 · Original text

34. An Act To amend the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, to extend the relief and benefits provided therein to certain persons, to include certain additional proceedings and transactions therein, to provide further relief for persons in military service, to change certain insurance provisions thereof, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 581 · 56 Stat. 769 · October 6, 1942 · Original text

35. An Act To permit appointment of White House police, in accordance with the civil- service laws, from sources outside the Metropolitan and United States Park Police forces.

    Ch. 582 · 56 Stat. 778 · October 9, 1942 · Original text

36. An Act To abolish the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Commission, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 583 · 56 Stat. 778 · October 9, 1942 · Original text

37. An Act To reorganize the system of land offices and land districts in Alaska.

    Ch. 584 · 56 Stat. 778 · October 9, 1942 · Original text

38. An Act To amend the Nationality Act of 1940 to preserve the nationality of citizens residing abroad.

    Ch. 585 · 56 Stat. 779 · October 9, 1942 · Original text

39. An Act To amend the Act approved August 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 864), entitled “An Act increasing the number of naval aviators in the line of the Regular Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes”.

    Ch. 586 · 56 Stat. 780 · October 10, 1942 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize an exchange of land at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, between Edgar Eberly and the United States.

    Ch. 587 · 56 Stat. 780 · October 10, 1942 · Original text

41. An Act To amend the Act approved March 2, 1933, by suspending the provisions relative to a Navy ration in kind, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 588 · 56 Stat. 780 · October 10, 1942 · Original text

42. An Act To suspend until June 30, 1945, the running of the statute of limitations applicable to violations of the antitrust laws.

    Ch. 589 · 56 Stat. 781 · October 10, 1942 · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Charles H. Koch.

    Ch. 590 · 56 Stat. 1204 · October 10, 1942 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act To provide for medical care and funeral expenses for certain members of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

    Ch. 591 · 56 Stat. 781 · October 13, 1942 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to exchange certain lands of the United States located within the Fort De Russy Military Reservation, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, for certain land at Barbers Point, Oahu, owned by the Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 592 · 56 Stat. 782 · October 13, 1942 · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Joy Montgomery, a minor.

    Ch. 593 · 56 Stat. 1204 · October 13, 1942 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Felix Belanger,

    Ch. 594 · 56 Stat. 1205 · October 13, 1942 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Monroe Short.

    Ch. 595 · 56 Stat. 1205 · October 13, 1942 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of G. C. Barco and W. G. Knowles.

    Ch. 596 · 56 Stat. 1205 · October 13, 1942 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Clara Wrobliski.

    Ch. 597 · 56 Stat. 1206 · October 13, 1942 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of O. R. Maxfield.

    Ch. 598 · 56 Stat. 1206 · October 13, 1942 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Isabelle Fuller.

    Ch. 599 · 56 Stat. 1206 · October 13, 1942 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Minnie C. Sanders.

    Ch. 600 · 56 Stat. 1207 · October 13, 1942 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To amend the law relating to the care and custody of insane residents of Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 601 · 56 Stat. 782 · October 14, 1942 · Original text

55. An Act To provide for the sale by the Superintendent of Documents of copies of certain historical and naval documents printed by the Government Printing Office.

    Ch. 602 · 56 Stat. 785 · October 14, 1942 · Original text

56. An Act To authorize the transportation of dependents and household effects of personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Coast and Geodetic Survey, incident to secret or confidential orders, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 603 · 56 Stat. 786 · October 14, 1942 · Original text

57. An Act To provide that promotions to higher grades of officers of the Army of the United States, or any components thereof, shall be deemed to have been accepted upon the dates of the orders announcing such promotions, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 604 · 56 Stat. 787 · October 14, 1942 · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Marilla C. Gray.

    Ch. 605 · 56 Stat. 1207 · October 14, 1942 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Vernon Van Zandt.

    Ch. 606 · 56 Stat. 1208 · October 14, 1942 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Lyle L. Bressler.

    Ch. 607 · 56 Stat. 1208 · October 15, 1942 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Bayard M. Atwood.

    Ch. 608 · 56 Stat. 1208 · October 15, 1942 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of James H. Lane.

    Ch. 609 · 56 Stat. 1209 · October 15, 1942 · Private law · 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. 610 · 56 Stat. 787 · October 16, 1942 · Original text

64. An Act To suspend restrictions during the present war and for one year thereafter upon the service of certain officers of the Marine Corps in the Marine Corps Head-quarters, Washington, District of Columbia.

    Ch. 613 · 56 Stat. 795 · October 16, 1942 · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of the Rock Hill Stone and Gravel Company, of St. Louis, Missouri.

    Ch. 611 · 56 Stat. 1209 · October 16, 1942 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Ruth D. and Henry L. Brittingham.

    Ch. 612 · 56 Stat. 1209 · October 16, 1942 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act To amend section 10 of Public, Numbered 360, Seventy-seventh Congress, to grant National Service Life Insurance in the cases of certain Navy or Army flying cadets and aviation students who died as the result of aviation accident in line of duty between October 8, 1940, and June 3, 1941.

    Ch. 614 · 56 Stat. 796 · October 17, 1942 · Original text

68. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to approve a standard design for a service flag and a service lapel button.

    Ch. 615 · 56 Stat. 796 · October 17, 1942 · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Henry (Heinz) Gabriel.

    Ch. 616 · 56 Stat. 1210 · October 17, 1942 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act To amend the Act of March 5, 1942, relating to the planting of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants.

    Ch. 617 · 56 Stat. 796 · October 20, 1942 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize the Attorney General to stipulate to the exclusion of certain property from condemnation proceedings.

    Ch. 618 · 56 Stat. 797 · October 21, 1942 · Original text

72. Revenue Act of 1942

    An Act To provide revenue, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 619 · 56 Stat. 798 · October 21, 1942 · Original text

73. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to prevent pernicious political activities”, approved August 2, 1939, as amended, with respect to its application to officers and employees of educational, religious, eleemosynary, philanthropic, and cultural institutions, establishments, and agencies, commonly known as the Hatch Act.

    Ch. 620 · 56 Stat. 986 · October 24, 1942 · Original text

74. An Act To amend the Home Owners’ Loan Act of 1933, as amended.

    Ch. 621 · 56 Stat. 986 · October 24, 1942 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to establish a fuel depot at Middle and Orchard Points, Washington.

    Ch. 622 · 56 Stat. 986 · October 26, 1942 · Original text

76. An Act To provide that certain provisions of law relating to the Navy shall be held applicable to the personnel of the Coast Guard when that service is operating as a part of the Navy.

    Ch. 623 · 56 Stat. 987 · October 26, 1942 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the use of certificates by officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, in connection with pay and allowance accounts of military and civilian personnel under the jurisdiction of the War and Navy Departments.

    Ch. 624 · 56 Stat. 987 · October 26, 1942 · Original text

78. An Act Authorizing the construction of certain public works in the basin of the Connecticut River for flood control.

    Ch. 625 · 56 Stat. 987 · October 26, 1942 · Original text

79. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to expedite national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 676), and “Title IV of the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1941”, approved September 9, 1940 (54 Stat. 883).

    Ch. 626 · 56 Stat. 988 · October 26, 1942 · Original text

80. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service with the Army of the United States”, approved May 14, 1942, to create the grade of field director in such corps, to provide for enrolled grades in such corps comparable to the enlisted grades in the Regular Army, to provide pay and allowances for all members of such corps at the same rates as those payable to members of the Regular Army in corresponding grades, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 627 · 56 Stat. 988 · October 26, 1942 · Original text

81. An Act To amend the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, as amended, so as to enable Filipinos to qualify for service thereunder.

    Ch. 628 · 56 Stat. 990 · October 26, 1942 · Original text

82. Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1943

    An Act Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 629 · 56 Stat. 990 · October 26, 1942 · Original text

83. An Act For the acquisition of Indian lands required in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of electric transmission lines and other works, Parker Dam power project, Arizona-California.

    Ch. 630 · 56 Stat. 1011 · October 28, 1942 · Original text

84. An Act To provide for payment and settlement of mileage accounts of officers and travel allowance of enlisted men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.

    Ch. 631 · 56 Stat. 1011 · October 29, 1942 · Original text

85. An Act To provide for the instruction of meteorological students in weather forecasting.

    Ch. 632 · 56 Stat. 1012 · October 29, 1942 · Original text

86. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate The American Legion”, approved September 16, 1919, so as to extend membership eligibility therein to certain American citizens, honorably discharged from the active military or naval forces of the United States, or of some country allied with the United States during World War II.

    Ch. 633 · 56 Stat. 1012 · October 29, 1942 · Original text

87. An Act To provide for adjusting royalties for the use of inventions for the benefit of the United States, in aid of the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 634 · 56 Stat. 1013 · October 31, 1942 · Original text

88. An Act To provide for the granting of rights-of-way for pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products and for telephone and/or telegraph lines along and across certain parkway lands in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 635 · 56 Stat. 1015 · November 9, 1942 · Original text

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

    Ch. 636 · 56 Stat. 1016 · November 9, 1942 · Original text

90. An Act To amend the Organic Act of Alaska.

    Ch. 637 · 56 Stat. 1016 · November 13, 1942 · Original text

91. An Act To amend the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 by providing for the extension of liability.

    Ch. 638 · 56 Stat. 1018 · November 13, 1942 · Original text

92. An Act To amend the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, as amended, so as to expedite the war effort by providing for releasing officers and men for duty at sea and their replacement by women in the shore establishment of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 639 · 56 Stat. 1020 · November 23, 1942 · Original text

93. An Act To provide for the disposition of trust or restricted estates of Indians dying intestate without heirs.

    Ch. 640 · 56 Stat. 1021 · November 24, 1942 · Original text

94. An Act To amend the Federal Explosives Act, as amended, by removing from the application of the Act explosives or ingredients in transit upon aircraft in conformity with statutory law or rules and regulations of the Civil Aeronautics Board.

    Ch. 641 · 56 Stat. 1022 · November 24, 1942 · Original text

95. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Traffic Act of 1925.

    Ch. 642 · 56 Stat. 1023 · November 25, 1942 · Original text

96. An Act To amend the Act approved July 24, 1941 (34 U. S. C., Supp. I, 350f), so as to adjust the pay status of enlisted personnel appointed to commissioned rank for temporary service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 643 · 56 Stat. 1023 · November 30, 1942 · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Glenn A. Pike.

    Ch. 644 · 56 Stat. 1210 · November 30, 1942 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Irving Cowen.

    Ch. 645 · 56 Stat. 1210 · November 30, 1942 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Shirley Jones.

    Ch. 646 · 56 Stat. 1211 · November 30, 1942 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Charles S. Smith.

     Ch. 647 · 56 Stat. 1211 · November 30, 1942 · Private law · Original text