Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of Lloyd A. Emick.

   Ch. 648 · 56 Stat. 1212 · November 30, 1942 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of N. C. Lloyd.

   Ch. 649 · 56 Stat. 1212 · November 30, 1942 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Authorizing appointments to the United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy of sons of soldiers, sailors, and marines who were killed in action or have died of wounds or injuries received, or disease contracted in active service, during the World War.

   Ch. 650 · 56 Stat. 1024 · December 1, 1942 · Original text

4. An Act To provide for furnishing transportation for certain Government and other personnel necessary for the effective prosecution of the war, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 651 · 56 Stat. 1024 · December 1, 1942 · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of J. C. Baker.

   Ch. 652 · 56 Stat. 1212 · December 1, 1942 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Carolyn D. Griffin.

   Ch. 653 · 56 Stat. 1213 · December 1, 1942 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of the estate of Marlin Croft, deceased.

   Ch. 654 · 56 Stat. 1213 · December 1, 1942 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Earl Carbauh.

   Ch. 655 · 56 Stat. 1214 · December 1, 1942 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act To permit the United States to be made a party defendant in certain cases.

   Ch. 656 · 56 Stat. 1026 · December 2, 1942 · Original text

10. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to transfer certain land to the Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 657 · 56 Stat. 1027 · December 2, 1942 · Original text

11. An Act To provide for granting to the State of New Mexico the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain lands in New Mexico.

    Ch. 658 · 56 Stat. 1027 · December 2, 1942 · Original text

12. An Act To amend the Act of October 9, 1940, entitled “An Act to restrict or regulate the delivery of checks drawn against funds of the United States, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, to addresses outside the United States, its Territories, and possessions, and for other purposes”.

    Ch. 659 · 56 Stat. 1028 · December 2, 1942 · Original text

13. An Act To amend the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942.

    Ch. 669 · 56 Stat. 1037 · December 2, 1942 · Original text

14. An Act To provide benefits for the injury, disability, death, or enemy detention of employees of contractors with the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 668 · 56 Stat. 1039 · December 2, 1942 · Original text

15. An Act To record the lawful admission to the United States for permanent residence of Ona Lovcikiene and children, Edmundos and Regina.

    Ch. 660 · 56 Stat. 1214 · December 2, 1942 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Wilson N. Yost.

    Ch. 661 · 56 Stat. 1214 · December 2, 1942 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To grant the status of quota immigrants to Mr. William B. Fawkner and his wife, Mrs. Ida Fawkner.

    Ch. 662 · 56 Stat. 1215 · December 2, 1942 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of the Home Insurance Company and the American Insurance Company.

    Ch. 663 · 56 Stat. 1215 · December 2, 1942 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Mrs. C. M. W. Hull.

    Ch. 664 · 56 Stat. 1216 · December 2, 1942 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of William S. Chapman, Clyde Gilbert, Paul Scherbel, and Frank Childs.

    Ch. 665 · 56 Stat. 1216 · December 2, 1942 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Mrs. P. R. Yager.

    Ch. 666 · 56 Stat. 1216 · December 2, 1942 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 667 · 56 Stat. 1217 · December 2, 1942 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Authorizing the temporary appointment or advancement of commissioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in time of war or national emergency, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 670 · 56 Stat. 1038 · December 3, 1942 · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Kurt G. Stern.

    Ch. 671 · 56 Stat. 1218 · December 3, 1942 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Katherine S. Arthur.

    Ch. 672 · 56 Stat. 1218 · December 3, 1942 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the benefit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.

    Ch. 673 · 56 Stat. 1039 · December 4, 1942 · Original text

27. An Act To provide a uniform allowance for officers and warrant officers commissioned or appointed in the Army of the United States or any component thereof.

    Ch. 674 · 56 Stat. 1039 · December 4, 1942 · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Luther Chitty and Susie Chitty.

    Ch. 675 · 56 Stat. 1219 · December 4, 1942 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Claud R, Johnston.

    Ch. 676 · 56 Stat. 1219 · December 4, 1942 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of the heirs of John W. Adams.

    Ch. 677 · 56 Stat. 1220 · December 4, 1942 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Anne Berbig and Alfred E. Berbig, Junior.

    Ch. 678 · 56 Stat. 1220 · December 4, 1942 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act To authorize certain corrections in the tribal membership roll of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 679 · 56 Stat. 1040 · December 5, 1942 · Original text

33. An Act To accord free entry to bona fide gifts from members of the armed forces of the United States on duty abroad.

    Ch. 680 · 56 Stat. 1041 · December 5, 1942 · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of W. E. Floding Company.

    Ch. 681 · 56 Stat. 1220 · December 5, 1942 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act To provide compensation for Mrs. Marion Yarnott for injuries sustained by her in a collision between a United States mail truck and a car in which she was riding as a passenger on May 23, 1940, in Venice, California, and to appropriate money therefor, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 682 · 56 Stat. 1221 · December 5, 1942 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of B. H. Wilford.

    Ch. 683 · 56 Stat. 1221 · December 5, 1942 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of the estate of Emily Kraft, deceased.

    Ch. 684 · 56 Stat. 1222 · December 5, 1942 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of M. Ray Waldron.

    Ch. 685 · 56 Stat. 1222 · December 5, 1942 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of the estate of Paul W. Layman.

    Ch. 686 · 56 Stat. 1222 · December 5, 1942 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Mildred G. Gordon.

    Ch. 687 · 56 Stat. 1223 · December 5, 1942 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of David E. Clark.

    Ch. 688 · 56 Stat. 1223 · December 5, 1942 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Claud Tuck and Darrell Claud Tuck, a minor.

    Ch. 689 · 56 Stat. 1224 · December 5, 1942 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Providing for the naturalization of certain alien veterans of the World War.

    Ch. 690 · 56 Stat. 1041 · December 7, 1942 · Original text

44. An Act To authorize the exchange of certain lands in Minnesota.

    Ch. 691 · 56 Stat. 1041 · December 7, 1942 · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Maude C. Massey, Ocala, Florida.

    Ch. 692 · 56 Stat. 1224 · December 7, 1942 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Alfred Lee Poynor.

    Ch. 693 · 56 Stat. 1224 · December 7, 1942 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Michael-Leonard Seed Company.

    Ch. 694 · 56 Stat. 1225 · December 7, 1942 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of D. A. Sullivan and Sons, Incorporated.

    Ch. 695 · 56 Stat. 1225 · December 7, 1942 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act To amend the Nationality Act of 1940, to preserve the nationality of a naturalized wife, husband, or child under twenty-one years of age residing abroad with husband or wife a native-born national of the United States.

    Ch. 696 · 56 Stat. 1043 · December 8, 1942 · Original text

50. An Act To amend subsection (c) of section 19 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 889; U. S. C., title 8, Sec. 155), as amended.

    Ch. 697 · 56 Stat. 1044 · December 8, 1942 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Leslie Charteris (Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin) and Patricia Ann Charteris.

    Ch. 698 · 56 Stat. 1226 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Anthony Famiglietti.

    Ch. 699 · 56 Stat. 1226 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Percy Ray Greer, a minor.

    Ch. 700 · 56 Stat. 1226 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain Navy personnel and former Navy personnel for personal property lost or damaged as a result of the fire which destroyed the Administration Building, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, on January 26, 1941.

    Ch. 701 · 56 Stat. 1227 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Dennis Hall.

    Ch. 702 · 56 Stat. 1227 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Beatriz Milan Vda. de Vazquez.

    Ch. 703 · 56 Stat. 1228 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Camilla C. Moore.

    Ch. 704 · 56 Stat. 1228 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of Victoria Jessie Lodge Skin, now Standing Bear.

    Ch. 705 · 56 Stat. 1228 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Charles E. Naghel.

    Ch. 706 · 56 Stat. 1229 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Cecil Higgenbottom, Mrs. Cecil Higgenbottom, and Basil Hall.

    Ch. 707 · 56 Stat. 1229 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Gerhard R. Fisher.

    Ch. 708 · 56 Stat. 1230 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Emil Lassila, Martha Lassila, Ellen Huhta, and Sylvia Huhta.

    Ch. 709 · 56 Stat. 1230 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Cecile Herzog and Lucille Herzog (an infant).

    Ch. 710 · 56 Stat. 1230 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Mrs. J. R. Bennett.

    Ch. 711 · 56 Stat. 1231 · December 8, 1942 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act To add certain lands to the Sequoia National Forest, California.

    Ch. 712 · 56 Stat. 1044 · December 9, 1942 · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Lillian LaBauve Linney.

    Ch. 713 · 56 Stat. 1231 · December 9, 1942 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Charles Thomason, administrator of the estate of Iverson Thomason and the relief of L. D. Byrd, Junior.

    Ch. 714 · 56 Stat. 1232 · December 9, 1942 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of E. A. Williams.

    Ch. 715 · 56 Stat. 1232 · December 9, 1942 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Werner M. Bertelson and Ellen W. Sessions.

    Ch. 716 · 56 Stat. 1233 · December 9, 1942 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act To suspend for the duration of the war certain requirements of section 11 (a) of the Federal Register Act of 1935.

    Ch. 717 · 56 Stat. 1045 · December 10, 1942 · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of James B. Shuler.

    Ch. 718 · 56 Stat. 1233 · December 10, 1942 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Leonard Almas.

    Ch. 719 · 56 Stat. 1233 · December 10, 1942 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act To discharge more effectively the obligations of the United States under certain treaties relating to the manufacture and distribution of narcotic drugs, by providing for domestic control of the production and distribution of the opium poppy and its products, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 720 · 56 Stat. 1045 · December 11, 1942 · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Fred Walker, Senior; legal guardian for Fred Walker, Junior; the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 721 · 56 Stat. 1234 · December 11, 1942 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Guy E. Mish.

    Ch. 722 · 56 Stat. 1234 · December 11, 1942 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of the Mount Whitney Power and Electric Company.

    Ch. 723 · 56 Stat. 1235 · December 11, 1942 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Hjalmar M. Seby.

    Ch. 724 · 56 Stat. 1235 · December 11, 1942 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of William H. Cogswell, Junior.

    Ch. 725 · 56 Stat. 1236 · December 11, 1942 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Alex Gambia.

    Ch. 726 · 56 Stat. 1236 · December 12, 1942 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of Charles E. Salmons.

    Ch. 727 · 56 Stat. 1237 · December 12, 1942 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act To further amend section 126 of the Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, to authorize travel pay for certain military and naval personnel on discharge or release or relief from active duty.

    Ch. 728 · 56 Stat. 1049 · December 14, 1942 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to designate the titles of certain offices and departments of instruction at the United States Military Academy.

    Ch. 729 · 56 Stat. 1049 · December 14, 1942 · Original text

83. An Act To amend Article of War 114 so as to broaden the power to administer oaths and take acknowledgments.

    Ch. 730 · 56 Stat. 1050 · December 14, 1942 · Original text

84. An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional circuit judge for the fifth circuit.

    Ch. 731 · 56 Stat. 1050 · December 14, 1942 · Original text

85. An Act To amend paragraph 8, section 127a, of the National Defense Act so as to authorize certain service to be counted in determining precedence among officers when dates of rank are the same.

    Ch. 732 · 56 Stat. 1050 · December 14, 1942 · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of the estate of Orion Knox, deceased.

    Ch. 733 · 56 Stat. 1237 · December 14, 1942 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide that all cabs for hire in the District of Columbia be compelled to carry insurance for the protection of passengers, and for other purposes”, approved June 29, 1938.

    Ch. 734 · 56 Stat. 1051 · December 15, 1942 · Original text

88. An Act Amending the first sentence of Article of War 52, relative to execution of court-martial sentences.

    Ch. 735 · 56 Stat. 1051 · December 15, 1942 · Original text

89. An Act To amend the Act of January 24, 1920, so as to authorize the award of a silver star to certain persons serving with the Army of the United States.

    Ch. 736 · 56 Stat. 1052 · December 15, 1942 · Original text

90. An Act To amend the Act approved March 14, 1936, entitled “An Act to provide for vacations for government employees, and for other purposes”.

    Ch. 737 · 56 Stat. 1052 · December 17, 1942 · Original text

91. An Act To authorize the rank of rear admiral in the Dental Corps of the United States Navy.

    Ch. 738 · 56 Stat. 1053 · December 17, 1942 · Original text

92. An Act To expedite the prosecution of war, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 739 · 56 Stat. 1053 · December 17, 1942 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution To amend the Revenue Act of 1942.

    Ch. 740 · 56 Stat. 1054 · December 17, 1942 · Original text

94. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved May 1, 1906, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 762 · 56 Stat. 1054 · December 17, 1942 · Original text

95. An Act To authorize the President to confer decorations and medals upon units of, or persons serving with, the military forces of cobelligerent nations.

    Ch. 763 · 56 Stat. 1056 · December 17, 1942 · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Hyram Colwell.

    Ch. 741 · 56 Stat. 1238 · December 17, 1942 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Catherine Barrett.

    Ch. 742 · 56 Stat. 1238 · December 17, 1942 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Bothilda Stender.

    Ch. 743 · 56 Stat. 1238 · December 17, 1942 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Michael Leo Fitzpatrick.

    Ch. 744 · 56 Stat. 1239 · December 17, 1942 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Gwendolyn Anne Olhava and Anthony L. Olhava.

     Ch. 745 · 56 Stat. 1239 · December 17, 1942 · Private law · Original text