Every law Congress has passed

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

1. Joint Resolution To provide for the proper observance of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.

   Ch. 397 · 55 Stat. 665 · August 21, 1941 · Original text

2. 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. 398 · 55 Stat. 666 · August 21, 1941 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy which will occur August 6, 1941, in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Members of Congress.

   Ch. 399 · 55 Stat. 666 · August 21, 1941 · Original text

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

   Ch. 400 · 55 Stat. 666 · August 21, 1941 · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Franklin Stencil and Domonic Stencil.

   Ch. 401 · 55 Stat. 952 · August 21, 1941 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Gilbert E. Jackson and Helen Jackson, individually, and to the legal guardian of Edwin Jackson, a minor.

   Ch. 402 · 55 Stat. 952 · August 21, 1941 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of William F. Kliewe.

   Ch. 403 · 55 Stat. 952 · August 21, 1941 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Wade H. Erwin and Vonnie Erwin.

   Ch. 404 · 55 Stat. 953 · August 21, 1941 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of John S. Small.

   Ch. 405 · 55 Stat. 953 · August 21, 1941 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Raymond W. Reed and Rose Reed.

    Ch. 406 · 55 Stat. 954 · August 21, 1941 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Margaret S. Holten.

    Ch. 407 · 55 Stat. 954 · August 21, 1941 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of John Henry Hester.

    Ch. 408 · 55 Stat. 955 · August 21, 1941 · Private law · Original text

13. First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942

    Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 409 · 55 Stat. 669 · August 25, 1941 · Original text

14. An Act To amend the National Housing Act, as amended.

    Ch. 410 · 55 Stat. 686 · September 2, 1941 · Original text

15. Joint Resolution Authorizing the printing, with illustrations, of the proceedings of the national encampments of various veterans’ organizations in the United States as separate House documents.

    Ch. 411 · 55 Stat. 686 · September 18, 1941 · Original text

16. Revenue Act of 1941

    An Act To provide revenue, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 412 · 55 Stat. 687 · September 20, 1941 · Original text

17. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a dam and dike for preventing the flow of tidal waters into North Slough in Coos County, Oregon.

    Ch. 413 · 55 Stat. 728 · September 22, 1941 · Original text

18. Joint Resolution To authorize temporary appointments of officers in the Army of the United States.

    Ch. 414 · 55 Stat. 728 · September 22, 1941 · Original text

19. An Act Authorizing the transfer of land owned by the United States back to the Spring Park Club, of Richfield Springs, New York.

    Ch. 415 · 55 Stat. 729 · September 24, 1941 · Original text

20. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registry of pursers and surgeons as staff officers on vessels of the United States, and for other purposes”, approved August 1, 1939.

    Ch. 416 · 55 Stat. 729 · September 24, 1941 · Original text

21. An Act Relating to the manning of vessels.

    Ch. 417 · 55 Stat. 730 · September 24, 1941 · Original text

22. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to proceed with the construction of certain public works in connection with the War Department in the District of Columbia”, approved June 15, 1938.

    Ch. 418 · 55 Stat. 731 · September 24, 1941 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the sale of certain Indian lands to the city of Cut Bank, Montana.

    Ch. 419 · 55 Stat. 731 · September 24, 1941 · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Louise Holcombe, a minor, and George Holcombe.

    Ch. 420 · 55 Stat. 955 · September 24, 1941 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act To permit the steamship Port’ Saunders, official number 220150, and steamship Hawk, official number 220149, to engage in the fisheries.

    Ch. 424 · 55 Stat. 423 · September 25, 1941 · Original text

26. An Act To amend section 8 of the Copyright Act of March 4, 1909, as amended, so as to preserve the rights of authors during the present emergency, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 421 · 55 Stat. 732 · September 25, 1941 · Original text

27. An Act Relating to the manning of certain seagoing barges.

    Ch. 422 · 55 Stat. 732 · September 25, 1941 · Original text

28. An Act To dispense with the requirement of clearance and entry for certain United States vessels on the Great Lakes which touch at Canadian ports for bunker fuel only.

    Ch. 423 · 55 Stat. 733 · September 25, 1941 · Original text

29. An Act To provide retirement pay and hospital benefits to certain Reserve officers, Army of the United States, disabled while on active duty.

    Ch. 425 · 55 Stat. 733 · September 26, 1941 · Original text

30. An Act To ratify and confirm certain right of purchase leases, special homestead agreements, cash freehold agreements, certificates of occupation, homestead leases, and patents issued under or in purported compliance with section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic Act and the laws of the Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 426 · 55 Stat. 734 · September 26, 1941 · Original text

31. An Act To increase the amount authorized by the Act of July 11, 1940, for the construction of a building for the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 427 · 55 Stat. 735 · September 26, 1941 · Original text

32. An Act To amend an Act to provide for a Union Railroad Station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 428 · 55 Stat. 735 · October 8, 1941 · Original text

33. An Act Relating to allowances for rental quarters of certain naval officers stationed in the Canal Zone.

    Ch. 430 · 55 Stat. 735 · October 13, 1941 · Original text

34. An Act Relating to the payment of fees and costs of witnesses and jurors and the accounting therefor.

    Ch. 431 · 55 Stat. 736 · October 13, 1941 · Original text

35. An Act To amend the Alien Registration Act, 1940, by making it a criminal offense to reproduce alien registration receipt cards.

    Ch. 432 · 55 Stat. 736 · October 13, 1941 · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Thatcher and their two minor children, Marjorie Thatcher and Bobby Thatcher.

    Ch. 429 · 55 Stat. 955 · October 13, 1941 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Frank P. Walden in his individual capacity and as husband and legal representative of the estate of Anice Walden, deceased, and Viola Harp in her individual capacity and as legal guardian of her daughter, Marjorie Gayle Harp, a minor.

    Ch. 433 · 55 Stat. 956 · October 13, 1941 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Mrs. A. B. Tanner.

    Ch. 434 · 55 Stat. 957 · October 13, 1941 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Victor M. Lenzer, former special disbursing agent, Department of Labor.

    Ch. 435 · 55 Stat. 957 · October 13, 1941 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act To authorize employees of the United States to testify on behalf of the District of Columbia and employees of the District of Columbia to testify on behalf of the United States and of the District of Columbia without loss of salary or annual leave.

    Ch. 436 · 55 Stat. 737 · October 14, 1941 · Original text

41. An Act To further amend the Acts for promoting the circulation of reading matter among the blind.

    Ch. 437 · 55 Stat. 737 · October 14, 1941 · Original text

42. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and for other purposes”, approved September 19, 1918.

    Ch. 438 · 55 Stat. 738 · October 14, 1941 · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Pherne Miller.

    Ch. 439 · 55 Stat. 958 · October 14, 1941 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Homer J. Swope.

    Ch. 440 · 55 Stat. 958 · October 14, 1941 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Elinor Leugers.

    Ch. 441 · 55 Stat. 958 · October 14, 1941 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina to hear, determine, and render judgments upon the claims against the United States of I. M. Cook, J. J. Allen, Radiator Specialty Company, and the R. and W. Motor Lines, Incorporated.

    Ch. 442 · 55 Stat. 958 · October 14, 1941 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act Relating to the traveling and subsistence expenses of judges and retired judges of the Court of Claims.

    Ch. 443 · 55 Stat. 741 · October 16, 1941 · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the sale of certain Government-owned lands in the Territory of Hawaii to the Honolulu Plantation Company.

    Ch. 444 · 55 Stat. 741 · October 16, 1941 · Original text

49. An Act To authorize the President of the United States to requisition property required for the defense of the United States.

    Ch. 445 · 55 Stat. 742 · October 16, 1941 · Original text

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

    Ch. 446 · 55 Stat. 743 · October 16, 1941 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of W. W. Carlton.

    Ch. 447 · 55 Stat. 959 · October 16, 1941 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Eva Mueller.

    Ch. 448 · 55 Stat. 959 · October 16, 1941 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of The Neal Storage Company.

    Ch. 449 · 55 Stat. 960 · October 16, 1941 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To authorize the payment of certain claims of employees of the Bureau of Reclamation arising out of loss of tools destroyed by fire at Parker Dam, Arizona.

    Ch. 450 · 55 Stat. 960 · October 16, 1941 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Harry F. Baker.

    Ch. 451 · 55 Stat. 961 · October 16, 1941 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act To repeal sections 512; 513; 514; 515, as amended, of the Revised Statutes; sections 1 and 3 of the Act approved February 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1147); and section 3744, as amended; 3745, 3746, and 3747 of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 452 · 55 Stat. 743 · October 21, 1941 · Original text

57. An Act To amend the Act reorganizing the administration of Federal prisons.

    Ch. 453 · 55 Stat. 743 · October 21, 1941 · Original text

58. An Act To authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to issue notes, bonds, and debentures in the sum of $1,500,000,000 in excess of existing authority.

    Ch. 454 · 55 Stat. 744 · October 23, 1941 · Original text

59. An Act To prescribe the time basis for computing pay for overtime work performed by laborers in the Railway Mail Service.

    Ch. 457 · 55 Stat. 744 · October 23, 1941 · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Otis Thompson.

    Ch. 455 · 55 Stat. 961 · October 23, 1941 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Reginald H. Carter, Junior.

    Ch. 456 · 55 Stat. 961 · October 23, 1941 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to provide salvage facilities, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 458 · 55 Stat. 745 · October 24, 1941 · Original text

63. An Act To permit mining within the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona.

    Ch. 459 · 55 Stat. 745 · October 27, 1941 · Original text

64. Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942

    An Act Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1942, and June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 460 · 55 Stat. 745 · October 28, 1941 · Original text

65. An Act To amend Public Law Numbered 718, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved June 25, 1938.

    Ch. 461 · 55 Stat. 756 · October 29, 1941 · Original text

66. An Act To provide for the admission to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of insane persons belonging to the Foreign Service of the United States.

    Ch. 462 · 55 Stat. 756 · October 29, 1941 · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Susannah Sanchez.

    Ch. 463 · 55 Stat. 962 · October 29, 1941 · Private law · Original text

68. Joint Resolution To amend section 124 of the Internal Revenue Code by extending the time for applications, and changing the procedure, for certification of national-defense facilities and contracts for amortization purposes.

    Ch. 464 · 55 Stat. 757 · October 30, 1941 · Original text

69. An Act To authorize Army officers designated by the Secretary of War to take final action on reports of survey and vouchers pertaining to the loss, damage, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of Government property.

    Ch. 465 · 55 Stat. 758 · October 30, 1941 · Original text

70. An Act To provide for pay and allowances and mileage or transportation for certain officers and enlisted men of the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve and retired officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps.

    Ch. 466 · 55 Stat. 758 · October 30, 1941 · Original text

71. An Act To amend the United States Housing Act, as amended.

    Ch. 467 · 55 Stat. 759 · October 30, 1941 · Original text

72. An Act To provide for the pay of aviation pilots in the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 468 · 55 Stat. 759 · November 5, 1941 · Original text

73. An Act To authorize the Federal Security Administrator to accept gifts for Saint Elizabeths Hospital and to provide for the administration of such gifts.

    Ch. 469 · 55 Stat. 760 · November 7, 1941 · Original text

74. An Act To provide for apportioning Representatives in Congress among the several States by the equal proportions method.

    Ch. 470 · 55 Stat. 761 · November 15, 1941 · Original text

75. An Act Providing for the security of United States naval vessels, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 471 · 55 Stat. 763 · November 15, 1941 · Original text

76. An Act To amend the Criminal Code in respect to fires on the public domain or Indian lands or on certain lands owned or leased by, or under the partial, concurrent, or exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.

    Ch. 472 · 55 Stat. 763 · November 15, 1941 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution To repeal sections 2, 3, and 6 of the Neutrality Act of 1939, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 473 · 55 Stat. 764 · November 17, 1941 · Original text

78. Defense Highway Act of 1941

    An Act To supplement the Federal Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations during the national emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941, for the immediate construction of roads urgently needed for the national defense, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 474 · 55 Stat. 765 · November 19, 1941 · Original text

79. An Act To authorize the incorporated city of Ketchikan, Alaska, to undertake certain public works and for such purpose to issue bonds in a sum not exceeding $250,000.

    Ch. 475 · 55 Stat. 770 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize maintenance and use of a banking house upon the United States military reservation at Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaii.

    Ch. 476 · 55 Stat. 772 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

81. An Act To authorize an appropriation for the purpose of establishing a national cemetery at Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 477 · 55 Stat. 772 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant a right-of-way to Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company, across the Kalamazoo National Guard Target Range, Michigan.

    Ch. 478 · 55 Stat. 772 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

83. An Act To repeal the prohibition against the filling of a vacancy in the office of district judge for the district of Massachusetts.

    Ch. 749 · 55 Stat. 773 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

84. An Act To provide for the alteration, reconstruction, or relocation of certain highway and railroad bridges by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

    Ch. 480 · 55 Stat. 773 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

85. An Act To repeal the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of bridges across a portion of the Minnesota River in the State of Minnesota”, approved March 15, 1904.

    Ch. 481 · 55 Stat. 774 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

86. An Act To reimburse the city of McMinnville, Oregon, for damages assessed to it by the United States for innocent trespass upon land belonging to the United States.

    Ch. 482 · 55 Stat. 774 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize transportation of employees of the United States on vessels of the Army transport service.

    Ch. 483 · 55 Stat. 775 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

88. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Memphis, Tennessee.

    Ch. 484 · 55 Stat. 775 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

89. An Act To amend section 9 (b) of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, as amended by section 14 of the Act of August 31, 1935.

    Ch. 485 · 55 Stat. 775 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

90. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Susquehanna River at Bridge Street in Plymouth Borough, between Plymouth and Hanover Townships, in the county of Luzerne, and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 486 · 55 Stat. 776 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

91. An Act To empower the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii to authorize the County of Kauai to issue improvement bonds.

    Ch. 487 · 55 Stat. 776 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

92. An Act To approve Act numbered 112 of the Session Laws of 1941 of the Territory of Hawaii, entitled “An Act to amend Act 101 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1921, relating to the manufacture, maintenance, distribution, and supply of electric current for light and power within the districts of North and South Hilo and Puna, in the County of Hawaii, so as to extend the franchise to the districts of Kau and South Kohala in said county, and extend the term thereof as to the town of Hilo”.

    Ch. 488 · 55 Stat. 777 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

93. An Act To authorize the Treasurer of the United States to make settlements with payees of lost or stolen checks, which have been paid on forged indorsements, in advance of reclamation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 489 · 55 Stat. 777 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of the remaining portion of the Grosse Point Lighthouse Reservation by deed to the city of Evanston, Illinois.

    Ch. 490 · 55 Stat. 778 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

95. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction, by the Alabama Bridge Commission, an agency of the State of Alabama, of a toll bridge and causeway between Dauphin Island and the mainland at or near Cedar Point, within the State of Alabama.

    Ch. 491 · 55 Stat. 778 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

96. An Act To extend the provisions of the Act of February 24, 1933, and of the Act of June 29, 1940, to proceedings to punish for criminal contempt of court.

    Ch. 492 · 55 Stat. 779 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

97. An Act To constitute an Army Chaplains’ Corps with a brigadier general as Chief.

    Ch. 493 · 55 Stat. 779 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the transportation of employees of the Alaska Road Commission, and to validate payments made for that and other purposes.

    Ch. 494 · 55 Stat. 779 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

99. An Act Providing an appropriation for additional members of the Metropolitan Police force of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 495 · 55 Stat. 779 · November 21, 1941 · Original text

100. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

     Ch. 496 · 55 Stat. 780 · November 21, 1941 · Original text