Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To amend section 9 of the Act of May 22, 1928, authorizing and directing a national survey of forest resources.

   Ch. 217 · 58 Stat. 265 · May 31, 1944 · Original text

2. An Act Authorizing the acquisition and conversion or construction of certain landing craft and district craft for the United States Navy, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 218 · 58 Stat. 265 · May 31, 1944 · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Pete Paluck.

   Ch. 219 · 58 Stat. 982 · May 31, 1944 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to incur obligations for the benefit of natives of Alaska in advance of the enactment of legislation making appropriations therefor.

   Ch. 220 · 58 Stat. 266 · June 1, 1944 · Original text

5. An Act Extending the time for repayment and authorizing increase of the revolving fund for the benefit of the Crow Indians.

   Ch. 221 · 58 Stat. 266 · June 1, 1944 · Original text

6. An Act To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Sauk Rapids, Minnesota.

   Ch. 222 · 58 Stat. 266 · June 1, 1944 · Original text

7. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Calcasieu River at or near Lake Charles, Louisiana.

   Ch. 223 · 58 Stat. 267 · June 1, 1944 · Original text

8. An Act To provide for regulation of certain insurance rates in the District of Columbia and for other purposes.

   Ch. 224 · 58 Stat. 267 · June 1, 1944 · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Christian Wenz.

   Ch. 225 · 58 Stat. 982 · June 1, 1944 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Clarence E. Thompson and Mrs. Virginia Thompson.

    Ch. 226 · 58 Stat. 983 · June 1, 1944 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Ruth Coe.

    Ch. 227 · 58 Stat. 983 · June 1, 1944 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of John Hirsch.

    Ch. 228 · 58 Stat. 984 · June 2, 1944 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of William E. Search, and to the legal guardian of Marion Search, Pauline Search, and Virginia Search.

    Ch. 229 · 58 Stat. 984 · June 2, 1944 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Mae Scheidel, Mr. Fred Scheidel, Mr. Charles Totten, and Miss Jean Scheidel.

    Ch. 230 · 58 Stat. 984 · June 2, 1944 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Reese Flight Instruction, Incorporated.

    Ch. 231 · 58 Stat. 985 · June 2, 1944 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Margaret Hamilton, Mrs. Catherine Higgins, Mrs. Rebecca Sallop, and Mrs. Dora Projansky.

    Ch. 232 · 58 Stat. 985 · June 2, 1944 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To amend section 451 of the Tariff Act of 1930, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 233 · 58 Stat. 269 · June 3, 1944 · Original text

18. An Act To provide for the partial construction of the Hungry Horse Dam on the South Fork of the Flathead River in the State of Montana, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 234 · 58 Stat. 270 · June 5, 1944 · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Hamp Gossett Castle, Lois Juanita Gimble, Margaret Carrie Yarbrough, and Roy Martin Lyons.

    Ch. 235 · 58 Stat. 986 · June 5, 1944 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Bernadine Salmons.

    Ch. 236 · 58 Stat. 986 · June 6, 1944 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To provide for the disposition of tribal funds of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe of Indians.

    Ch. 237 · 58 Stat. 271 · June 7, 1944 · Original text

22. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act, approved June 12, 1934, as amended.

    Ch. 238 · 58 Stat. 271 · June 8, 1944 · Original text

23. An Act To amend the Expediting Act.

    Ch. 239 · 58 Stat. 272 · June 9, 1944 · Original text

24. An Act To increase the debt limit of the United States.

    Ch. 240 · 58 Stat. 272 · June 9, 1944 · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Helene Murphy.

    Ch. 241 · 58 Stat. 987 · June 9, 1944 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees, and for other purposes”, approved August 14, 1935, as amended.

    Ch. 242 · 58 Stat. 273 · June 12, 1944 · Original text

27. An Act To add certain lands to the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge.

    Ch. 243 · 58 Stat. 274 · June 13, 1944 · Original text

28. An Act To amend the fourth and fifth provisos of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain”, approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437, 438; 30 U. S. C., secs. 201, 202).

    Ch. 244 · 58 Stat. 275 · June 13, 1944 · Original text

29. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Minnesota Department of Highways and the county of Crow Wing in Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at Mill Street in Brainerd, Minnesota.

    Ch. 245 · 58 Stat. 275 · June 13, 1944 · Original text

30. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the adult blind”.

    Ch. 246 · 58 Stat. 276 · June 13, 1944 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution To extend the statute of limitation in certain cases.

    Ch. 247 · 58 Stat. 276 · June 13, 1944 · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Iver M. Gesteland.

    Ch. 248 · 58 Stat. 987 · June 13, 1944 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Rebecca Collins and W. W. Collins.

    Ch. 249 · 58 Stat. 987 · June 13, 1944 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Fermin Salas.

    Ch. 250 · 58 Stat. 988 · June 13, 1944 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Taylor W. Tonge.

    Ch. 251 · 58 Stat. 988 · June 13, 1944 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of the Bishopville Milling Company.

    Ch. 252 · 58 Stat. 989 · June 13, 1944 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Anne Rebecca Lewis and Mary Lewis.

    Ch. 253 · 58 Stat. 989 · June 13, 1944 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Robert C. Harris.

    Ch. 254 · 58 Stat. 990 · June 13, 1944 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of J. M. Miller, James W. Williams, and Gilbert Theriot.

    Ch. 255 · 58 Stat. 990 · June 13, 1944 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Hugh A. Shiels, United States Naval Reserve.

    Ch. 256 · 58 Stat. 991 · June 13, 1944 · Private law · Original text

41. Aid to Dependent Children Act

    An Act To provide aid to dependent children in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 257 · 58 Stat. 277 · June 14, 1944 · Original text

42. Joint Resolution 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, as amended.

    Ch. 258 · 58 Stat. 279 · June 14, 1944 · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Rebecca A. Knight and Martha A. Christian.

    Ch. 259 · 58 Stat. 991 · June 15, 1944 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District.

    Ch. 260 · 58 Stat. 991 · June 15, 1944 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act To approve a contract negotiated with the Klamath Drainage District and to authorize its execution, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 261 · 58 Stat. 279 · June 17, 1944 · Original text

46. An Act To amend the part of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes”, approved June 4, 1920, as amended, relating to the conservation, care, custody, protection, and operation of the naval petroleum and oil-shale reserves.

    Ch. 262 · 58 Stat. 280 · June 17, 1944 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution Providing for operation of naval petroleum and oil-shale reserves.

    Ch. 263 · 58 Stat. 283 · June 17, 1944 · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Judith H. Sedler, administratrix of the estate of Anthony F. Sedler, deceased.

    Ch. 264 · 58 Stat. 992 · June 17, 1944 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act To provide for the payment of compensation to certain claimants for the taking by the United States of private fishery rights in Pearl Harbor, island of Oahu; Territory of Hawaii.

    Ch. 265 · 58 Stat. 992 · June 17, 1944 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act To extend, for two additional years, the provisions of the Sugar Act of 1937, as amended, and the taxes with respect to sugar.

    Ch. 266 · 58 Stat. 283 · June 20, 1944 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Mildred Maag.

    Ch. 267 · 58 Stat. 993 · June 20, 1944 · Private law · Original text

52. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944

    An Act To provide Federal Government aid for the readjustment in civilian life of returning World War II veterans.

    Ch. 268 · 58 Stat. 284 · June 22, 1944 · Original text

53. An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and additional appropriations therefor for the fiscal year 1944, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 269 · 58 Stat. 301 · June 22, 1944 · Original text

54. Joint Resolution Making appropriations for grants to States under the Social Security Act.

    Ch. 270 · 58 Stat. 323 · June 22, 1944 · Original text

55. An Act Providing for the suspension of certain requirements relating to work on tunnel sites.

    Ch. 271 · 58 Stat. 324 · June 22, 1944 · Original text

56. An Act To authorize temporary appointment as officers in the Army of the United States of members of the Army Nurse Corps, female persons having the necessary qualifications for appointment in such corps, female dietetic and physical-therapy personnel of the Medical Department of the Army (exclusive of students and apprentices), and female persons having the necessary qualifications for appointment in such department as female dietetic or physical-therapy personnel, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 272 · 58 Stat. 324 · June 22, 1944 · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Claude R. Whitlock, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 273 · 58 Stat. 993 · June 22, 1944 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act To amend further the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended.

    Ch. 274 · 58 Stat. 326 · June 26, 1944 · Original text

59. War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 275 · 58 Stat. 327 · June 26, 1944 · Original text

60. An Act Relating to the computation of interest on contributions to the civil service retirement fund returned to employees upon their separation from the service.

    Ch. 276 · 58 Stat. 334 · June 26, 1944 · Original text

61. Legislative and Judiciary Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch and for the Judiciary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 277 · 58 Stat. 334 · June 26, 1944 · Original text

62. An Act To authorize the Soil Conservation Service to lend certain equipment.

    Ch. 278 · 58 Stat. 359 · June 26, 1944 · Original text

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

    Ch. 279 · 58 Stat. 359 · June 26, 1944 · Original text

64. An Act To provide equitable compensation for useful suggestions or inventions by personnel of the Department of the Interior.

    Ch. 280 · 58 Stat. 360 · June 26, 1944 · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Vola Stroud Pokluda, Jesse M. Knowles, and the estate of Lee Stroud.

    Ch. 281 · 58 Stat. 994 · June 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Paul M. Campbell, a minor.

    Ch. 282 · 58 Stat. 994 · June 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of O. W. James.

    Ch. 283 · 58 Stat. 995 · June 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Eugene Holcomb, a minor.

    Ch. 284 · 58 Stat. 995 · June 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Eva M. Delisle.

    Ch. 285 · 58 Stat. 996 · June 26, 1944 · Private law · Original text

70. Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 286 · 58 Stat. 361 · June 27, 1944 · Original text

71. Veterans’ Preference Act of 1944

    An Act To give honorably discharged veterans, their widows, and the wives of disabled veterans, who themselves are not qualified, preference in employment where Federal funds are disbursed.

    Ch. 287 · 58 Stat. 387 · June 27, 1944 · Original text

72. An Act To clarify the law relative to allowances for mileage of graduates of the United States Military Academy and transportation of their dependents on assignment to their first duty station and to the mileage allowance of persons entering the United States Military Academy as cadets.

    Ch. 288 · 58 Stat. 392 · June 27, 1944 · Original text

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

    Ch. 289 · 58 Stat. 996 · June 27, 1944 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To authorize the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska to grant and convey certain lands to the city of Sitka, Alaska, for street purposes.

    Ch. 290 · 58 Stat. 393 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

75. An Act Authorizing the appointment of the Chief of Chaplains to the temporary rank of major general, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 291 · 58 Stat. 393 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

76. An Act To amend section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925.

    Ch. 292 · 58 Stat. 393 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

77. An Act Relating to the use of the penalty mail privilege.

    Ch. 293 · 58 Stat. 394 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

78. Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 294 · 58 Stat. 395 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

79. An Act To amend section 12 (b) of the Act of May 29, 1930, as amended.

    Ch. 295 · 58 Stat. 425 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

80. Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 296 · 58 Stat. 425 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

81. An Act To remove restrictions on establishing post-office branches and stations.

    Ch. 297 · 58 Stat. 463 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

82. Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 298 · 58 Stat. 463 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

83. An Act Relating to issuance of postal notes.

    Ch. 299 · 58 Stat. 508 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

84. District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 300 · 58 Stat. 509 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

85. National War Agency Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for war agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 301 · 58 Stat. 533 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

86. Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 302 · 58 Stat. 547 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

87. Military Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 303 · 58 Stat. 573 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

88. Second 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 years ending June 30, 1944, and June 30, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 303 · 58 Stat. 597 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution Extending the period for the acquisition by the Railroad Retirement Board of data needed in carrying out the provisions of the Railroad Retirement Acts.

    Ch. 305 · 58 Stat. 623 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

90. An Act To provide for the management and operation of naval plantations outside the continental United States.

    Ch. 306 · 58 Stat. 624 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

91. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to requisition property required for the defense of the United States”, approved October 16, 1941, as amended, to continue it in effect.

    Ch. 307 · 58 Stat. 624 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

92. An Act To amend section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to requisition certain articles and materials for the use of the United States, and for other purposes”, approved October 10, 1940, as amended, to continue it in effect.

    Ch. 308 · 58 Stat. 624 · June 28, 1944 · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Reverend C. M. McKay.

    Ch. 309 · 58 Stat. 997 · June 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of David B. Turpel.

    Ch. 310 · 58 Stat. 998 · June 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Delores Lewis.

    Ch. 311 · 58 Stat. 998 · June 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth Powers Long.

    Ch. 312 · 58 Stat. 998 · June 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of P. Audley Whaley.

    Ch. 313 · 58 Stat. 999 · June 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of John M. O’Connell.

    Ch. 314 · 58 Stat. 999 · June 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Lillian W. Timmerman, mother of Ann Timmerman, a minor, deceased.

    Ch. 315 · 58 Stat. 999 · June 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of the estate of John Buby.

     Ch. 316 · 58 Stat. 1000 · June 28, 1944 · Private law · Original text