Every law Congress has passed

1,157 laws of the 78th Congress, 1943–1945

1. An Act To provide a right-of-way for an oil pipe line over the Ogden Ordnance Depot Military Reservation.

   Ch. 117 · 58 Stat. 118 · March 21, 1944 · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Irving L. Jones.

   Ch. 118 · 58 Stat. 966 · March 21, 1944 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Kenneth E. Shepard.

   Ch. 119 · 58 Stat. 967 · March 21, 1944 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Henry Grossi.

   Ch. 120 · 58 Stat. 967 · March 21, 1944 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel Jason McVay Austin.

   Ch. 121 · 58 Stat. 967 · March 21, 1944 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Homer C. Chapman.

   Ch. 122 · 58 Stat. 968 · March 21, 1944 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act To permit prosecutions after the lapse of a temporary statute for offenses committed prior to its expiration.

   Ch. 123 · 58 Stat. 118 · March 22, 1944 · Original text

8. An Act For the protection of the water supply of the city of Sitka, Alaska.

   Ch. 124 · 58 Stat. 119 · March 22, 1944 · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Gladys M. Greenleaf and the estate of Ralph Alton Greenleaf deceased.

   Ch. 125 · 58 Stat. 968 · March 22, 1944 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Carl Oplinger, City Hospital of Akron, Ohio, and to Doctor Walter A. Hoyt.

    Ch. 126 · 58 Stat. 969 · March 22, 1944 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act To authorize the War Food Administrator to sell and convey to Mrs. Andrew J. Frey, and her heirs, a certain tract of land, situated in the county of San Joaquin, State of California, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 127 · 58 Stat. 969 · March 22, 1944 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act To relieve former postal employees who performed postal duties after induction into the military service.

    Ch. 128 · 58 Stat. 120 · March 24, 1944 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the city of New York certain lands within the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the city of New York.

    Ch. 129 · 58 Stat. 120 · March 24, 1944 · Original text

14. An Act To provide titles for heads of staff departments of the United States Marine Corps, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 130 · 58 Stat. 121 · March 24, 1944 · Original text

15. An Act To grant increases in compensation to substitute employees in the Postel Service, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 134 · 58 Stat. 121 · March 24, 1944 · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Mathilde B. Meister.

    Ch. 131 · 58 Stat. 970 · March 24, 1944 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of the dependents of Doctor Arthur B. Wyse, and others.

    Ch. 132 · 58 Stat. 970 · March 24, 1944 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Clinton A. Clauson.

    Ch. 133 · 58 Stat. 971 · March 24, 1944 · Private law · Original text

19. Joint Resolution To enable the United States to participate in the work of the United Nations relief and rehabilitation organization.

    Ch. 135 · 58 Stat. 122 · March 28, 1944 · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Clarence Waverly Morgan.

    Ch. 136 · 58 Stat. 971 · March 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Marie Geiler.

    Ch. 137 · 58 Stat. 971 · March 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Charles J. Goff, as administrator of the estate of Judson E. Goff, deceased.

    Ch. 138 · 58 Stat. 972 · March 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Lloyd L. Johnson and P. B. Hume.

    Ch. 139 · 58 Stat. 972 · March 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act To amend section 4 of the Act approved June 13, 1940.

    Ch. 140 · 58 Stat. 128 · March 29, 1944 · Original text

25. An Act To amend the provision of the Act authorizing payment of six months’ death gratuity to widow, child, or dependent relative of officers, enlisted men, or nurses of the Navy or Marine Corps, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 141 · 58 Stat. 129 · March 29, 1944 · Original text

26. An Act To eliminate a pay discrimination against the teacher of music at the United States Military Academy.

    Ch. 142 · 58 Stat. 130 · March 29, 1944 · Original text

27. An Act To place postmasters at fourth-class post offices on an annual-salary basis, and fix their rate of pay; and provide allowances for rent, fuel, light, and. equipment, and fix the rates thereof.

    Ch. 143 · 58 Stat. 130 · March 29, 1944 · Original text

28. An Act To extend for an additional ninety days the period during which certain grains and other products to be used for livestock and poultry feed may be imported from foreign countries free of duty.

    Ch. 144 · 58 Stat. 131 · March 29, 1944 · Original text

29. An Act To promote sustained-yield forest management in order thereby (a) to stabilize communities, forest industries, employment, and taxable forest-wealth; (b) to assure a continuous and ample supply of forest products; and (c) to secure the benefits of forests in regulation of water supply and stream flow, prevention of soil erosion, amelioration of climate, and preservation of wildlife.

    Ch. 146 · 58 Stat. 132 · March 29, 1944 · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Robert Beckwith, Julius Buettner, and Emma M. Buettner.

    Ch. 145 · 58 Stat. 973 · March 29, 1944 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to accept gifts and bequests for the United States Naval Academy, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 147 · 58 Stat. 135 · March 31, 1944 · Original text

32. An Act To amend the Act approved March 2, 1895, as amended.

    Ch. 148 · 58 Stat. 135 · March 31, 1944 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, for the purpose of further regulating interstate and foreign commerce in tobacco, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 149 · 58 Stat. 136 · March 31, 1944 · Original text

34. An Act To facilitate voting, in time of war, by members of the land and naval forces, members of the merchant marine, and others, absent from the place of their residence, and to amend the Act of September 16, 1942, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 150 · 58 Stat. 136 · April 1, 1944 · Original text

35. An Act To amend chapter 7 of the Criminal Code.

    Ch. 151 · 58 Stat. 149 · April 1, 1944 · Original text

36. First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1944

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 152 · 58 Stat. 150 · April 1, 1944 · Original text

37. An Act To authorize pensions for certain physically or mentally helpless children, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 153 · 58 Stat. 186 · April 1, 1944 · Original text

38. An Act To ratify and confirm act 16 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1943, extending the time within which revenue bonds may be issued and delivered under act 174 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1935.

    Ch. 154 · 58 Stat. 186 · April 3, 1944 · Original text

39. An Act To fix the annual compensation of the secretary of the Territory of Alaska.

    Ch. 155 · 58 Stat. 187 · April 3, 1944 · Original text

40. Joint Resolution Providing for the employment of Government employees for folding speeches and pamphlets, House of Representatives.

    Ch. 156 · 58 Stat. 187 · April 3, 1944 · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Isabella Tucker.

    Ch. 157 · 58 Stat. 973 · April 3, 1944 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Joseph Langhorne Walker.

    Ch. 158 · 58 Stat. 973 · April 3, 1944 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Authorizing the President to present, in the name of Congress, a Distinguished Service Medal to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, United States Navy.

    Ch. 159 · 58 Stat. 974 · April 3, 1944 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete payment of awards in connection with the war minerals relief statutes.

    Ch. 160 · 58 Stat. 187 · April 4, 1944 · Original text

45. An Act To clarify the application of section 1 (b) of Public Law 17, Seventy-eighth Congress, to certain services performed by seamen as employees of the United States through the War Shipping Administration.

    Ch. 161 · 58 Stat. 188 · April 4, 1944 · Original text

46. An Act To amend the Act making it a misdemeanor to stow away on vessels.

    Ch. 162 · 58 Stat. 188 · April 4, 1944 · Original text

47. An Act To exempt certain officers and employees of the Office of Price Administration from certain provisions of the Criminal Code and Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 163 · 58 Stat. 189 · April 4, 1944 · Original text

48. An Act To amend section 6 of the Defense Highway Act of 1941, as amended.

    Ch. 164 · 58 Stat. 189 · April 4, 1944 · Original text

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

    Ch. 165 · 58 Stat. 189 · April 4, 1944 · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Walter Ervin and Cora Ervin.

    Ch. 166 · 58 Stat. 974 · April 4, 1944 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Paul B. Lingle.

    Ch. 167 · 58 Stat. 974 · April 4, 1944 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Christine Hansen.

    Ch. 168 · 58 Stat. 975 · April 4, 1944 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of E. C. Fudge.

    Ch. 169 · 58 Stat. 975 · April 4, 1944 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of C. C. Evensen.

    Ch. 170 · 58 Stat. 975 · April 4, 1944 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of John Joseph Defeo.

    Ch. 171 · 58 Stat. 976 · April 4, 1944 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act Authorizing the construction and operation of demonstration plants to produce synthetic liquid fuels from coal, oil shales, agricultural and forestry products, and other substances, in order to aid the prosecution of the war, to conserve and increase the oil resources of the Nation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 172 · 58 Stat. 190 · April 5, 1944 · Original text

57. An Act To amend the Fire and Casualty Act of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 173 · 58 Stat. 192 · April 22, 1944 · Original text

58. An Act To regulate the placing of children in family homes, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 174 · 58 Stat. 193 · April 22, 1944 · Original text

59. Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 175 · 58 Stat. 195 · April 22, 1944 · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Avid Evers.

    Ch. 176 · 58 Stat. 976 · April 22, 1944 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act To fix the compensation of registers of the district land offices in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

    Ch. 177 · 58 Stat. 215 · April 24, 1944 · Original text

62. An Act To amend Subtitle—Insurance of Title II of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to authorize suspension of the statute of limitations in certain cases, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 178 · 58 Stat. 216 · April 24, 1944 · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holehan.

    Ch. 179 · 58 Stat. 977 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Frank Knowles.

    Ch. 180 · 58 Stat. 977 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of Clarence A. Giddens.

    Ch. 181 · 58 Stat. 977 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Walter Eugene Hayes.

    Ch. 182 · 58 Stat. 978 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Staff Sergeant Marion Johnson, United States Marine Corps, and Sergeant George B. Kress, United States Marine Corps Reserve.

    Ch. 183 · 58 Stat. 978 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act To provide for reimbursement of certain Navy personnel and former Navy personnel for personal property lost or damaged as the result of a fire in building B. O, Q, O-3 at the United States naval construction training center, Davis- ville, Rhode Island, on March 27, 1943.

    Ch. 184 · 58 Stat. 979 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Captain S. E. McCarty (Supply Corps), United States Navy.

    Ch. 185 · 58 Stat. 979 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Sergeant Major Richard Shaker, United States Marine Corps.

    Ch. 186 · 58 Stat. 980 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Newt A, Smith, United States Naval Reserve, for the value of personal property lost or damaged as the result of a fire occurring on August 11, 1943, in quarters occupied by him in the armory of Aviation Free Gunnery Unit, Dam Neck, Virginia.

    Ch. 187 · 58 Stat. 980 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act To provide for reimbursement of certain Marine Corps personnel attached to Marine Utility Squadron 152 for personal property lost or damaged as the result of a fire in officers’ quarters on February 9, 1943.

    Ch. 188 · 58 Stat. 980 · April 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act To amend section 3 of the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 653; 16 U. S. C. 566).

    Ch. 189 · 58 Stat. 216 · May 5, 1944 · Original text

74. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia”.

    Ch. 190 · 58 Stat. 217 · May 5, 1944 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution To limit the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code, and sections 361, 365, and 366 of the Revised Statutes, and certain other provisions of law.

    Ch. 191 · 58 Stat. 217 · May 5, 1944 · Original text

76. An Act Relating to the status of retired judges.

    Ch. 192 · 58 Stat. 218 · May 11, 1944 · Original text

77. An Act To amend part II of Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a).

    Ch. 193 · 58 Stat. 219 · May 11, 1944 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution To establish a Board of Visitors for the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

    Ch. 194 · 58 Stat. 220 · May 11, 1944 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior to conduct a survey of the marine and fresh-water fishery resources of the United States, its Territories, and possessions.

    Ch. 195 · 58 Stat. 220 · May 11, 1944 · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of Austin L. Tierney.

    Ch. 196 · 58 Stat. 981 · May 11, 1944 · Private law · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1944 for emergency maternity and infant care for wives of enlisted men in the armed forces.

    Ch. 197 · 58 Stat. 222 · May 12, 1944 · Original text

82. An Act To extend for one year the provisions of an Act to promote the defense of the United States, approved March 11, 1941, as amended.

    Ch. 198 · 58 Stat. 222 · May 17, 1944 · Original text

83. An Act To amend the Act of April 29, 1943, to authorize the return to private ownership of Great Lakes vessels and vessels of one thousand gross tons or less, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 199 · 58 Stat. 223 · May 18, 1944 · Original text

84. An Act Relating to the appointment of postmasters.

    Ch. 200 · 58 Stat. 224 · May 20, 1944 · Original text

85. Joint Resolution To provide assistance to farmers whose property was destroyed or damaged, in whole or in part, by floods and windstorms in 1944, in order to enable them to continue farming operations to produce food for the war effort.

    Ch. 201 · 58 Stat. 224 · May 20, 1944 · Original text

86. An Act To regulate the furnishing of artificial limbs or other appliances to retired officers and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard and to certain civilian employees of the military and naval forces of the Regular Establishment.

    Ch. 202 · 58 Stat. 225 · May 23, 1944 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to furnish seeing-eye dogs for blind veterans.

    Ch. 203 · 58 Stat. 226 · May 24, 1944 · Original text

88. An Act To amend the Acts of August 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 866), May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347), June 15, 1938 (52 Stat. 699), and June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1205), which authorizes the appropriation of receipts from certain national forests for the purchase of lands within the boundaries of such forests, to provide that any such receipts not appropriated or appropriated but not expended or obligated shall be disposed of in the same manner as other national-forest receipts, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 204 · 58 Stat. 227 · May 26, 1944 · Original text

89. An Act Authorizing appropriations for the United States Navy for additional ordnance manufacturing and production facilities, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 205 · 58 Stat. 229 · May 26, 1944 · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Edward Gillam.

    Ch. 206 · 58 Stat. 981 · May 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act To increase the service-connected disability rates of compensation or pension payable to veterans of World War I and World War II and veterans entitled to wartime rates based on service on or after September 16, 1940, for service-connected disabilities, and to increase the rates for widows and children under Public Law 484, Seventy-third Congress, as amended, and to include widows and children of World War II veterans for benefits under the latter Act.

    Ch. 207 · 58 Stat. 229 · May 27, 1944 · Original text

92. An Act To increase the rate of pension for World War veterans from $40 to $50 per month, to $60 per month in certain specified cases, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 208 · 58 Stat. 230 · May 27, 1944 · Original text

93. An Act To provide for payment of pensions and compensation to certain persons who are receiving retired pay.

    Ch. 209 · 58 Stat. 230 · May 27, 1944 · Original text

94. Individual Income Tax Act of 1944

    An Act To provide for simplification of the individual income tax.

    Ch. 210 · 58 Stat. 231 · May 29, 1944 · Original text

95. JOIN RESOLUTION To provide for the disposition of the proceeds to accrue as a result of the interlocutory judgment of the Court of Claims in the suit brought against the United States by the Menominee Tribe of Indians, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 211 · 58 Stat. 255 · May 29, 1944 · Original text

96. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain lands within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona.

    Ch. 212 · 58 Stat. 257 · May 29, 1944 · Original text

97. An Act To provide for emergency flood-control work made necessary by recent floods, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 213 · 58 Stat. 257 · May 29, 1944 · Original text

98. An Act To provide for the recognition of the services of the civilian officials and employees, citizens of the United States, engaged in and about the construction of the Panama Canal.

    Ch. 214 · 58 Stat. 257 · May 29, 1944 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Paul Barrere.

    Ch. 215 · 58 Stat. 982 · May 29, 1944 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act To withdraw and restore to their previous status under the control of the Territory of Hawaii certain Hawaiian home lands required for use for airplane landing fields, and to amend sections 202, 203, and 207 of title 2 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 216 · 58 Stat. 260 · May 31, 1944 · Original text