Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Mary A. Honnell.

   Ch. 441 · 60 Stat. 1236 · June 21, 1946 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of David Owens, Junior.

   Ch. 442 · 60 Stat. 1237 · June 21, 1946 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Norfolk and Western Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across New River near Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia.

   Ch. 443 · 60 Stat. 269 · June 22, 1946 · Original text

4. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Monongahela River between the Borough of Belle Vernon, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the Borough of Speers, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

   Ch. 444 · 60 Stat. 270 · June 22, 1946 · Original text

5. Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1947

   An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 445 · 60 Stat. 270 · June 22, 1946 · Original text

6. An Act To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to grant an easement for highway purposes to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in certain lands in the reservation of the Veterans’ Administration hospital, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 446 · 60 Stat. 298 · June 22, 1946 · Original text

7. An Act To amend section 100 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944.

   Ch. 447 · 60 Stat. 299 · June 22, 1946 · Original text

8. An Act To remove the existing limitation on the number of associate members of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals in the Veterans’ Administration.

   Ch. 448 · 60 Stat. 299 · June 22, 1946 · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Hamsah Omar.

   Ch. 449 · 60 Stat. 1237 · June 22, 1946 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Cecil Atkinson.

    Ch. 450 · 60 Stat. 1237 · June 22, 1946 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Will O’Brien, Mrs. Bessie O’Brien, and the legal guardian of Jane O’Brien.

    Ch. 451 · 60 Stat. 1238 · June 22, 1946 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Philibert L. Bergeron, Alfred Quist and Astrid Quist.

    Ch. 452 · 60 Stat. 1238 · June 22, 1946 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Willie Lam and Edgar Lam.

    Ch. 453 · 60 Stat. 1238 · June 22, 1946 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of William Needom Rashal, a minor.

    Ch. 454 · 60 Stat. 1239 · June 22, 1946 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Fannie C. Fugate.

    Ch. 455 · 60 Stat. 1239 · June 22, 1946 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Amy Mary Richter.

    Ch. 456 · 60 Stat. 1240 · June 22, 1946 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To quiet title and possession with respect to certain real estate in Converse County, Wyoming.

    Ch. 457 · 60 Stat. 1240 · June 22, 1946 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Washington to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Columbia River at Northport, Washington.

    Ch. 458 · 60 Stat. 300 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize the condemnation of materials which arc intended for use in process or renovated butter and which are unfit for human consumption, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 459 · 60 Stat. 300 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

20. An Act To provide for the disposition of tribal funds of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Indians of the Flathead Reservation in Montana.

    Ch. 460 · 60 Stat. 302 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

21. An Act To provide for the burial in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, of the remains of an unknown American who lost his life while serving overseas in the armed forces of the United States during the Second World War.

    Ch. 461 · 60 Stat. 302 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

22. An Act To exempt transfers of property to the American National Red Cross from the District of Columbia inheritance tax.

    Ch. 462 · 60 Stat. 303 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

23. An Act To amend the Act establishing the Hot Springs National Park.

    Ch. 463 · 60 Stat. 303 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

24. An Act To accept the renunciation by Albert W. Johnson of pension under section 260 of the Judicial Code.

    Ch. 464 · 60 Stat. 304 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize certain expenditures by the Alaska Railroad, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 465 · 60 Stat. 304 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Inter-American Trade Exposition, Fort Worth, Texas, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 466 · 60 Stat. 304 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

27. An Act To set aside certain lands in Oklahoma in trust for the Indians of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 467 · 60 Stat. 305 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

28. An Act To transfer certain real and personal property in Ward County, North Dakota, to the State of North Dakota acting by and through the Industrial Commission of North Dakota.

    Ch. 468 · 60 Stat. 306 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

29. Joint Resolution Extending for seven months the period of time during which alcohol plants are permitted to produce sugars or sirups simultaneously with the production of alcohol.

    Ch. 469 · 60 Stat. 306 · June 24, 1946 · Original text

30. An Act To extend the term of design patent numbered 21,053, dated September 22, 1891, for a badge, granted to George Brown Goode, and assigned to the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.

    Ch. 470 · 60 Stat. 1241 · June 24, 1946 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To authorize the availability for certain necessary administrative expenses of appropriations for the Department of the Interior.

    Ch. 472 · 60 Stat. 306 · June 25, 1946 · Original text

32. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands situated in Clark County, Nevada, to the Boulder City Cemetery Association for cemetery purposes.

    Ch. 473 · 60 Stat. 307 · June 25, 1946 · Original text

33. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to allow credit in connection with certain homestead entries for military or naval service rendered during World War II”.

    Ch. 474 · 60 Stat. 308 · June 25, 1946 · Original text

34. An Act To amend section 1 of the Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 751), entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands of the Crow Tribe, for the distribution of tribal funds, and for other purposes”, as amended by the Act of May 26, 1926 (44 Stat. 658).

    Ch. 475 · 60 Stat. 308 · June 25, 1946 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution To authorize the use of naval vessels to determine the effect of atomic weapons upon such vessels.

    Ch. 487 · 60 Stat. 308 · June 25, 1946 · Original text

36. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Monongahela River, at a point between the Boroughs of Elizabeth, in Elizabeth Township, and West Elizabeth, in Jefferson Township, in the county of Allegheny, and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 488 · 60 Stat. 309 · June 25, 1946 · Original text

37. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Richard S. Fisher.

    Ch. 471 · 60 Stat. 1241 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Adele Nahas.

    Ch. 476 · 60 Stat. 1241 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act To provide for the naturalization of Master Sergeant Gerhard Neumann.

    Ch. 477 · 60 Stat. 1242 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of William Clyde McKinney.

    Ch. 478 · 60 Stat. 1242 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent for certainland to Mrs. Estelle M. Wilbourn.

    Ch. 479 · 60 Stat. 1242 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Axel H. Peterson.

    Ch. 480 · 60 Stat. 1243 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Esequiel (Frank) Padilla, and others.

    Ch. 481 · 60 Stat. 1243 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Mrs. James Plumb.

    Ch. 482 · 60 Stat. 1243 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act To establish the date of acceptance of a commission as lieutenant (junior grade), United States Naval Reserve, by William Leon de Carbonel to be June 1, 1941, and the date of reporting for active duty to be December 9, 1941, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 483 · 60 Stat. 1244 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Gustav F. Doscher.

    Ch. 484 · 60 Stat. 1244 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Ernest I. Wade and Alma Wade.

    Ch. 485 · 60 Stat. 1245 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Dora Foster.

    Ch. 486 · 60 Stat. 1245 · June 25, 1946 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act To modify the time limitations governing the award of certain military and naval decorations for acts performed during the present war.

    Ch. 489 · 60 Stat. 309 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

50. An Act To revive and reenact and amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the county of Gallatin, State of Illinois, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near the city of Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, to a point opposite thereto in the county of Union, State of Kentucky”, approved July 18, 1939.

    Ch. 490 · 60 Stat. 310 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

51. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to extend and renew to Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company for the term of ten years a lease to Henry A. Scandrett, Walter J. Cummings, and George I. Haight, trustees of Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company, of a tract of land in the United States Department of Agriculture Range Livestock Experiment Station, in the State of Montana, and for a right-of-way to said tract, for the removal of gravel and ballast material, executed under the authority of the Act of Congress approved June 25, 1936.

    Ch. 491 · 60 Stat. 311 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

52. An Act To authorize the course of instruction at the United States Military Academy to be given to not exceeding twenty persons at a time from the American Republics, other than the United States.

    Ch. 493 · 60 Stat. 311 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

53. An Act To fix the salary of the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior.

    Ch. 494 · 60 Stat. 312 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

54. An Act To authorize additional permanent professors of the United States Military Academy.

    Ch. 495 · 60 Stat. 312 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

55. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to purchase improvements or pay damages for removal of improvements located on public lands of the United States in the Anderson Ranch Reservoir site, Boise reclamation project, Idaho.

    Ch. 496 · 60 Stat. 313 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

56. An Act To authorize the Federal Works Administrator to accept and dispose of real estate devised to the United States by the late Maggie Johnson, of Polk County, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 497 · 60 Stat. 313 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

57. An Act To amend title II of the Act entitled “An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes”, approved October 14, 1940, as amended, to permit the making of contributions, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, for the maintenance and operation of certain school facilities, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 498 · 60 Stat. 314 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

58. An Act To amend section 4 of the Act of August 25, 1937, so as to provide a filing procedure in cases of adoption outside the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 499 · 60 Stat. 314 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

59. Republic of the Philippines Military Assistance Act

    An Act To provide military assistance to the Republic of the Philippines in establishing and maintaining national security and to form a basis for participation by that government in such defensive military operations as the future may require.

    Ch. 500 · 60 Stat. 315 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

60. Public Debt Act of 1946

    An Act To decrease the amount of obligations, issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, which may be outstanding at any one time.

    Ch. 501 · 60 Stat. 316 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

61. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the creation of an American Battle Monuments Commission to erect suitable memorials commemorating the services of the American soldier in Europe, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1923, as amended, in order to extend the Commission’s authority to all areas in which our armed forces have operated during World War II, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 502 · 60 Stat. 317 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

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

    Ch. 503 · 60 Stat. 319 · June 26, 1946 · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of George Lassila, administrator of the estate of Senia Lassila.

    Ch. 492 · 60 Stat. 1245 · June 26, 1946 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Hazel M. Skaggs.

    Ch. 504 · 60 Stat. 1246 · June 26, 1946 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act To govern the effective dates of ratings and awards under the Veterans’ Administration revised Schedule for Rating Disabilities, 1945, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 505 · 60 Stat. 319 · June 27, 1946 · Original text

66. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Iowa or the Iowa State Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Des Moines River at or near Farmington, Iowa.

    Ch. 506 · 60 Stat. 320 · June 27, 1946 · Original text

67. An Act To create a Department of Corrections in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 507 · 60 Stat. 320 · June 27, 1946 · Original text

68. An Act Authorizing the Indiana State Toll Bridge Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge or a free bridge across the Wabash River near Mount Vernon, Indiana.

    Ch. 508 · 60 Stat. 321 · June 27, 1946 · Original text

69. An Act Authorizing the Indiana State Toll Bridge Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge or a free bridge across the Ohio River at or near Mauckport, Indiana.

    Ch. 509 · 60 Stat. 322 · June 27, 1946 · Original text

70. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the South Carolina State Highway Department to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Santee River, at or near Leneudes Ferry, South Carolina”.

    Ch. 510 · 60 Stat. 323 · June 27, 1946 · Original text

71. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

    Ch. 512 · 60 Stat. 323 · June 28, 1946 · Original text

72. An Act To provide for the conveyance to the State of Alabama for use as a public park of the military reservation known as Fort Morgan.

    Ch. 513 · 60 Stat. 332 · June 28, 1946 · Original text

73. An Act To amend the Act approved July 3, 1943, entitled “An Act to provide for the settlement of claims for damage to or loss or destruction of property or personal injury or death caused by military personnel or civilian employees, or otherwise incident to activities, of the War Department or of the Army”.

    Ch. 514 · 60 Stat. 332 · June 28, 1946 · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of the Indians of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota.

    Ch. 515 · 60 Stat. 333 · June 28, 1946 · Original text

75. An Act To provide for adjustments in connection with the Crow irrigation project, Crow Indian Reservation, Montana.

    Ch. 516 · 60 Stat. 333 · June 28, 1946 · Original text

76. An Act To amend the laws authorizing the performance of necessary protection work between the Yuma project and Boulder Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation.

    Ch. 517 · 60 Stat. 338 · June 28, 1946 · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Marie Edens Nast, Mrs. Bessie Amann, and George R. Townsend.

    Ch. 511 · 60 Stat. 1246 · June 28, 1946 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of John Hamlet.

    Ch. 518 · 60 Stat. 1247 · June 28, 1946 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to amend further the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended”, approved January 24, 1942, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 519 · 60 Stat. 339 · June 29, 1946 · Original text

80. An Act To facilitate the admission into the United States of the alien fiancées or fiancés of members of the armed forces of the United States.

    Ch. 520 · 60 Stat. 339 · June 29, 1946 · Original text

81. An Act To extend for the period of one year the provisions of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act, approved December 2, 1941, as amended.

    Ch. 521 · 60 Stat. 340 · June 29, 1946 · Original text

82. An Act To extend the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 522 · 60 Stat. 341 · June 29, 1946 · Original text

83. An Act To amend the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended, so as to provide an increase in pay for personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service.

    Ch. 523 · 60 Stat. 343 · June 29, 1946 · Original text

84. An Act To amend the Second War Powers Act, 1942, as amended.

    Ch. 526 · 60 Stat. 345 · June 29, 1946 · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Willie Hines.

    Ch. 524 · 60 Stat. 1247 · June 29, 1946 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Michael J. Keaveney and Mary C. Keaveney.

    Ch. 525 · 60 Stat. 1247 · June 29, 1946 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act To incorporate the Civil Air Patrol.

    Ch. 527 · 60 Stat. 346 · July 1, 1946 · Original text

88. An Act To authorize the charging of tolls for the passage or transit of Government traffic over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

    Ch. 528 · 60 Stat. 347 · July 1, 1946 · Original text

89. Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1947

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department, of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 529 · 60 Stat. 348 · July 1, 1946 · Original text

90. Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947

    An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 530 · 60 Stat. 386 · July 1, 1946 · Original text

91. An Act To amend the National Housing Act, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 531 · 60 Stat. 408 · July 1, 1946 · Original text

92. An Act To amend sections 81, 82, and 83, and to repeal section 84 of chapter IX of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

    Ch. 532 · 60 Stat. 409 · July 1, 1946 · Original text

93. An Act To require weekly newspapers enjoying mailing privileges to make sworn statements with respect to their circulation.

    Ch. 533 · 60 Stat. 416 · July 2, 1946 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the admission into the United States of persons of races indigenous to India, and persons of races indigenous to the Philippine Islands, to make them racially eligible for naturalization, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 534 · 60 Stat. 416 · July 2, 1946 · Original text

95. An Act To excuse employees of the Government from work on July 5, 1946.

    Ch. 535 · 60 Stat. 417 · July 2, 1946 · Original text

96. Philippine Property Act of 1946

    An Act To provide for the retention by the United States Government or its agencies or instrumentalities of real and personal property within the Philippines now owned or later acquired and for the administration of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, in the Philippines, subsequent to independence.

    Ch. 536 · 60 Stat. 418 · July 3, 1946 · Original text

97. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to protect trade and commerce against interference by violence, threats, coercion, or intimidation”, approved June 18, 1934.

    Ch. 537 · 60 Stat. 420 · July 3, 1946 · Original text

98. National Mental Health Act

    An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research relating to psychiatric disorders and to aid in the development of more effective methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treament of such disorders, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 538 · 60 Stat. 421 · July 3, 1946 · Original text

99. An Act To authorize the appointment of additional Foreign Service officers in the classified grades.

    Ch. 539 · 60 Stat. 426 · July 3, 1946 · Original text

100. An Act To provide for the registration and protection of trade-marks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain international conventions, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 540 · 60 Stat. 427 · July 5, 1946 · Original text