Every law Congress has passed

1,626 laws of the 79th Congress, 1945–1947

1. An Act To further amend section 22 of the Act approved March 4, 1925, entitled “An Act providing for sundry matters affecting the naval service, and for other purposes”, by changing the limitation on the total personnel of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 1 · 59 Stat. 3 · February 13, 1945 · Original text

2. An Act Relating to the compensation of telephone operators on the United States Capitol telephone exchange.

   Ch. 2 · 59 Stat. 4 · February 13, 1945 · Original text

3. An Act To grant to the Hawaiian Electric Company, Limited, the right to construct certain ditches, tunnels, and oil pipe lines in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii.

   Ch. 3 · 59 Stat. 4 · February 24, 1945 · Original text

4. An Act To provide for the effective administration of certain lending agencies of the Federal Government.

   Ch. 4 · 59 Stat. 5 · February 24, 1945 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1945 for the Census of Agriculture.

   Ch. 5 · 59 Stat. 6 · February 28, 1945 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1945 for the Public Health Service.

   Ch. 6 · 59 Stat. 7 · February 28, 1945 · Original text

7. An Act To repeal the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the conveyance of the old lighthouse keeper’s residence in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to the Otto Oas Post, Numbered 659, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Manitowoc, Wisconsin”, approved June 16, 1938.

   Ch. 7 · 59 Stat. 7 · February 28, 1945 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to grant to the city of Canton, Ohio, for highway purposes only, a strip of land situated within the United States Naval Ordnance Plant at Canton, Ohio.

   Ch. 8 · 59 Stat. 7 · February 28, 1945 · S. 213 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Oahu Railway and Land Company an easement for railway purposes in certain lands situated at Halawa, Ewa, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii.

   Ch. 9 · 59 Stat. 8 · February 28, 1945 · S. 216 · Original text

10. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to lease certain lands situated in San Diego County, State of California.

    Ch. 10 · 59 Stat. 8 · February 28, 1945 · Original text

11. An Act To amend section 1442, Revised Statutes, relating to furlough of officers by the Secretary of the Navy.

    Ch. 11 · 59 Stat. 9 · February 28, 1945 · Original text

12. An Act To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and sections 7 to 17 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, to encourage the growing of war crops by protecting the allotments of producers of cotton, wheat, and peanuts.

    Ch. 15 · 59 Stat. 9 · February 28, 1945 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize Lewis Hobart Kenney, Charles Garner, Charles Clement Goodman, and Henry Charles Robinson to accept decorations and orders tendered them by the Government of the United States of Brazil.

    Ch. 12 · 59 Stat. 683 · February 28, 1945 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 13 · 59 Stat. 683 · February 28, 1945 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 14 · 59 Stat. 685 · February 28, 1945 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 16 · 59 Stat. 9 · March 1, 1945 · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of John T. Cooper.

    Ch. 17 · 59 Stat. 685 · March 1, 1945 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Amy McKnight.

    Ch. 18 · 59 Stat. 686 · March 1, 1945 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 19 · 59 Stat. 10 · March 2, 1945 · Original text

20. An Act To express the intent of the Congress with reference to the regulation of the business of insurance.

    Ch. 20 · 59 Stat. 33 · March 9, 1945 · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Ensign Frederick Matthews McCord, United States Naval Reserve.

    Ch. 21 · 59 Stat. 686 · March 10, 1945 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act To reimburse certain Navy personnel for personal property lost or damaged as the result of a fire at the naval auxiliary air facility, Astoria, Oregon, on April 2, 1944.

    Ch. 22 · 59 Stat. 686 · March 10, 1945 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act To provide an additional sum for the payment of a claim under the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reimbursement of certain Navy and Marine Corps personnel and former Navy and Marine Corps personnel and certain Federal civil employees for personal property lost or damaged as a result of the hurricane and flood at Parris Island, South Carolina, on August 11–12, 1940”, approved April 23, 1941.

    Ch. 23 · 59 Stat. 687 · March 10, 1945 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act To authorize an exchange of lands between the city of Eastport, Maine, and the United States, and the conveyance of a roadway easement to the city of Eastport, Maine.

    Ch. 24 · 59 Stat. 34 · March 13, 1945 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant to the Duke Power Company a one-hundred-and-eighty-foot perpetual easement across Camp Croft, in the State of South Carolina.

    Ch. 25 · 59 Stat. 36 · March 13, 1945 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant to the Orange and Rockland Electric Company a one-hundred-and-fifty-foot perpetual easement across the West Point Military Reservation in the State of New York.

    Ch. 27 · 59 Stat. 36 · March 13, 1945 · Original text

27. An Act To provide reimbursement for personal property lost, damaged, or destroyed as the result of an explosion at the naval mine depot, Yorktown, Virginia, on November 16, 1943.

    Ch. 26 · 59 Stat. 687 · March 13, 1945 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Oscar Griggs.

    Ch. 28 · 59 Stat. 688 · March 15, 1945 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act To establish the grade of general in the Marine Corps, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 29 · 59 Stat. 36 · March 21, 1945 · Original text

30. An Act To establish the grade of admiral in the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 30 · 59 Stat. 37 · March 21, 1945 · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Ruben M. Herren.

    Ch. 31 · 59 Stat. 688 · March 23, 1945 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Doctor Luther J. Head.

    Ch. 32 · 59 Stat. 689 · March 23, 1945 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of certain officers and employees of the Foreign Service of the United States who, while in the course of their respective duties, suffered losses of personal property by reason of war conditions.

    Ch. 33 · 59 Stat. 689 · March 23, 1945 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.

    Ch. 34 · 59 Stat. 690 · March 23, 1945 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Henry B. Tucker.

    Ch. 35 · 59 Stat. 690 · March 23, 1945 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act To permit the Administrator, War Shipping Administration, and the United States Maritime Commission, during the national emergency, to pay the tax imposed under section 1410 of the Internal Revenue Code without regard to the $3,000 limitation in section 1426 (a) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code.

    Ch. 36 · 59 Stat. 38 · March 24, 1945 · Original text

37. An Act To amend an Act regulating the height of buildings in the District of Columbia, approved June 1, 1910, as amended.

    Ch. 37 · 59 Stat. 38 · March 24, 1945 · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of the estate of Doctor David O. Clements, deceased.

    Ch. 38 · 59 Stat. 690 · March 24, 1945 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Dane D. Morgan.

    Ch. 39 · 59 Stat. 691 · March 24, 1945 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Wallace Robertson, Henry Bowker, and Edward Parisian, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 40 · 59 Stat. 691 · March 24, 1945 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act To reimburse certain Navy personnel and former Navy personnel for personal property lost or damaged as the result of a fire at the United States naval training center, Farragut, Idaho, on July 10, 1944.

    Ch. 41 · 59 Stat. 692 · March 24, 1945 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Lindon A. Long.

    Ch. 42 · 59 Stat. 692 · March 28, 1945 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of James M. Hiler.

    Ch. 43 · 59 Stat. 692 · March 28, 1945 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. 44 · 59 Stat. 38 · March 29, 1945 · Original text

45. War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1946

    An Act Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 45 · 59 Stat. 39 · March 31, 1945 · Original text

46. An Act To amend section 8 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish standard weights and measures for the District of Columbia; to define the duties of the Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets of the District of Columbia; and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1921.

    Ch. 46 · 59 Stat. 45 · March 31, 1945 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, in lieu of certain appropriations contained in H. R. 2374, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 47 · 59 Stat. 46 · March 31, 1945 · Original text

48. An Act To amend the National Housing Act, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 48 · 59 Stat. 47 · March 31, 1945 · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of F. L. Gause and the legal guardian of Rosalind and Helen Gause, minors.

    Ch. 49 · 59 Stat. 693 · March 31, 1945 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Perkins Gins, formerly Perkins Oil Company, of Memphis, Tennessee.

    Ch. 50 · 59 Stat. 693 · March 31, 1945 · Private law · Original text

51. Public Debt Act of 1945

    An Act To increase the debt limit of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 51 · 59 Stat. 47 · April 3, 1945 · Original text

52. Settlement of Mexican Claims Act Amendments of 1945

    Joint Resolution Relative to determination and payment of certain claims against the Government of Mexico.

    Ch. 52 · 59 Stat. 49 · April 3, 1945 · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Mae E. Sutton.

    Ch. 53 · 59 Stat. 694 · April 5, 1945 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To continue Commodity Credit Corporation as an agency of the United States, increase its borrowing power, revise the basis of the annual appraisal of its assets, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 54 · 59 Stat. 50 · April 12, 1945 · Original text

55. 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. 61 · 59 Stat. 52 · April 16, 1945 · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of the Dempsey Industrial Furnace Corporation.

    Ch. 55 · 59 Stat. 694 · April 16, 1945 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Saint Vincent’s Infirmary and Doctor Alvin W. Strauss.

    Ch. 56 · 59 Stat. 694 · April 16, 1945 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of the Southern Bitumen Company, of Ensley, Alabama.

    Ch. 57 · 59 Stat. 695 · April 16, 1945 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act To provide for the reimbursement of certain civilian personnel for personal property lost as a result of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and Manila.

    Ch. 58 · 59 Stat. 695 · April 16, 1945 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of the Jay Taylor Cattle Company, Amarillo, Texas.

    Ch. 59 · 59 Stat. 696 · April 16, 1945 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of George Webb.

    Ch. 60 · 59 Stat. 696 · April 16, 1945 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act Granting to Galveston County, a municipal corporation of the State of Texas, certain easements and rights-of-way over, under, and upon the San Jacinto Military Reservation in Galveston County, Texas.

    Ch. 62 · 59 Stat. 52 · April 17, 1945 · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Angelina Bourbeau.

    Ch. 63 · 59 Stat. 696 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Murray B. Latimer.

    Ch. 64 · 59 Stat. 697 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of H. J. Blexrud estate.

    Ch. 65 · 59 Stat. 697 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Wilma Louise Townsend.

    Ch. 66 · 59 Stat. 698 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Margaret G. Potts.

    Ch. 67 · 59 Stat. 698 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Fred Clouse and Mrs. Emily G. Clouse.

    Ch. 68 · 59 Stat. 698 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of A. P. Scarborough and J. D. Ethridge.

    Ch. 69 · 59 Stat. 699 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Ray L. Smith.

    Ch. 70 · 59 Stat. 699 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Gus A. Vance.

    Ch. 71 · 59 Stat. 700 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of Leo Edward Day and Phillip Tamborello.

    Ch. 72 · 59 Stat. 700 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Anne Loacker.

    Ch. 73 · 59 Stat. 700 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Mrs. W. V. Justice.

    Ch. 74 · 59 Stat. 700 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Florence J. Sypert, administratrix of the estate of Leona Connor Childers.

    Ch. 75 · 59 Stat. 701 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Doctor David R. Barglow.

    Ch. 76 · 59 Stat. 701 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Sue B. Bowen, as administratrix of the estate of Clyde Bowen, deceased.

    Ch. 77 · 59 Stat. 702 · April 17, 1945 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the acquisition of buildings and grounds in foreign countries for use of the Government of the United States of America”, approved May 7, 1926, as amended, to permit of the sale of buildings and grounds and the utilization of proceeds of such sale in the Government interest.

    Ch. 78 · 59 Stat. 53 · April 19, 1945 · Original text

79. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Colorado and Kansas to negotiate and enter into a compact for the division of the waters of the Arkansas River.

    Ch. 79 · 59 Stat. 53 · April 19, 1945 · Original text

80. An Act To amend the Fact Finders’ Act.

    Ch. 80 · 59 Stat. 54 · April 19, 1945 · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Charles H. Dougherty, Senior.

    Ch. 81 · 59 Stat. 702 · April 19, 1945 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Mildred Ring.

    Ch. 82 · 59 Stat. 702 · April 19, 1945 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Rose Schiffer.

    Ch. 83 · 59 Stat. 703 · April 19, 1945 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of J. P. Harris.

    Ch. 84 · 59 Stat. 703 · April 19, 1945 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of the estate of Ralph A. Stowell.

    Ch. 85 · 59 Stat. 704 · April 19, 1945 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Murray W. and Elsie P. Moran.

    Ch. 86 · 59 Stat. 704 · April 19, 1945 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of the Daniel Baker Company, of Manchester, Kentucky.

    Ch. 87 · 59 Stat. 704 · April 20, 1945 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Benjamin D. Lewis.

    Ch. 88 · 59 Stat. 705 · April 20, 1945 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to grant an easement in certain lands of the Veterans’ Administration, Dallas, Texas, to Dallas County, Texas, for highway purposes.

    Ch. 89 · 59 Stat. 54 · April 23, 1945 · Original text

90. An Act To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to transfer by quitclaim deed to the city of Los Angeles, California, for fire-station purposes, the title to certain land located at Veterans’ Administration facility, Los Angeles, California.

    Ch. 90 · 59 Stat. 55 · April 23, 1945 · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of the Lawrence Motor Company, Incorporated.

    Ch. 91 · 59 Stat. 706 · April 23, 1945 · Private law · Original text

92. Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1946

    An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 92 · 59 Stat. 56 · April 24, 1945 · Original text

93. An Act To amend sections 4, 7, and 17 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) for the purpose of extending the time in which amendatory contracts may be made, and for other related purposes.

    Ch. 94 · 59 Stat. 75 · April 24, 1945 · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of the Baldwin Brothers Paving Company.

    Ch. 93 · 59 Stat. 706 · April 24, 1945 · Private law · Original text

95. First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945

    An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for prior fiscal years to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1945, and June 30, 1946, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 95 · 59 Stat. 77 · April 25, 1945 · Original text

96. An Act To extend to June 30, 1946, the period during which females may be employed in the District of Columbia for more than eight hours a day, or forty-eight hours a week, under temporary permits.

    Ch. 97 · 59 Stat. 95 · April 27, 1945 · Original text

97. An Act To extend the life of the Smaller War Plants Corporation.

    Ch. 98 · 59 Stat. 95 · April 27, 1945 · Original text

98. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish standard weights and measures for the District of Columbia; to define the duties of the Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets, of the District of Columbia; and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1921, as amended.

    Ch. 99 · 59 Stat. 96 · April 27, 1945 · Original text

99. An Act To amend section 16 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia’, approved June 20, 1906, as amended, and for other purposes”, approved June 4, 1924.

    Ch. 100 · 59 Stat. 99 · April 27, 1945 · Original text

100. An Act To amend the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia by adding a new section 548a, and providing for the recording of veterans’ discharge certificates.

     Ch. 101 · 59 Stat. 100 · April 27, 1945 · Original text