Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of Marjorie B. Marable.

   Ch. 840 · 60 Stat. 1302 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of David Weiss.

   Ch. 841 · 60 Stat. 1302 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act To legalize the admission to the United States of Virginia Harris Casardi.

   Ch. 842 · 60 Stat. 1303 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of W. G. Magruder.

   Ch. 843 · 60 Stat. 1303 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Jessie Wolfington.

   Ch. 844 · 60 Stat. 1303 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Marie Gorak.

   Ch. 845 · 60 Stat. 1304 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Bertha Lillian Robbins and Charles Robbins.

   Ch. 846 · 60 Stat. 1304 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Wilford B. Brown.

   Ch. 847 · 60 Stat. 1305 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Watson Airfotos, Incorporated.

   Ch. 848 · 60 Stat. 1305 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Grace A. Phillips.

    Ch. 849 · 60 Stat. 1305 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Second Lieutenant Francis W. Anderson.

    Ch. 850 · 60 Stat. 1306 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Joseph Maezer.

    Ch. 851 · 60 Stat. 1306 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Samuel Roscoe Thompson, a minor.

    Ch. 852 · 60 Stat. 1307 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Frank A. Gorman.

    Ch. 853 · 60 Stat. 1307 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Capital Office Equipment Company.

    Ch. 854 · 60 Stat. 1308 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Thomas A. Beddingfield and his wife, Opal May Beddingfield.

    Ch. 855 · 60 Stat. 1308 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Francesco D’Emilio.

    Ch. 856 · 60 Stat. 1308 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Thomas L. Brett.

    Ch. 857 · 60 Stat. 1309 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Caesar Henry.

    Ch. 858 · 60 Stat. 1309 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Ivan B. Hofman.

    Ch. 859 · 60 Stat. 1310 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Milton A. Johnson, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 860 · 60 Stat. 1310 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

22. Joint Resolution Granting permission to Thomas Parran, Surgeon General of the Public Health Service; Rolla E. Dyer, Assistant Surgeon General, Public Health Service; Howard F, Smith, Assistant Surgeon General, Public Health Service; Herbert A. Spencer, medical director, Public Health Service; Vance B. Murray, medical director. Public Health Service; and Gilbert L. Dunnahoo, medical director, Public Health Service, to accept and wear certain decorations bestowed upon them by France, Cuba, Mexico, Chile, Finland, and Luang-Prabang.

    Ch. 861 · 60 Stat. 1310 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act To provide for the acquisition by the United States of certain real property in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 862 · 60 Stat. 1311 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Colonel S. V. Constant, General Staff Corps.

    Ch. 863 · 60 Stat. 1311 · August 7, 1946 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act To provide for health programs for Government employees.

    Ch. 865 · 60 Stat. 903 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

26. An Act To provide increased pensions to members of the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard who become disabled by reason of their service therein during other than a period of war.

    Ch. 866 · 60 Stat. 904 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

27. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide reemployment rights for persons who leave their positions to serve in the merchant, marine, and for other purposes”, approved June 23, 1943 (57 Stat. 162), and for other purposes.

    Ch. 867 · 60 Stat. 905 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

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

    Ch. 868 · 60 Stat. 908 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

29. An Act Relating to veterans’ pension, compensation, or retirement pay during hospitalization, institutional or domiciliary care, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 869 · 60 Stat. 908 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

30. First Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1947

    Joint Resolution Making additional appropriations for the fiscal year 1947, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 870 · 60 Stat. 910 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

31. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make regulations to prevent and control the spread of communicable and preventable diseases”, approved August 11, 1939.

    Ch. 871 · 60 Stat. 919 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

32. An Act To amend the Act of December 7, 1944, relating to certain overtime compensation of civilian employees of the United States.

    Ch. 872 · 60 Stat. 923 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

33. An Act Providing for the conveyance to the town of Ipswich, in the State of Massachusetts, of lighthouse property at Castle Neck, for public use.

    Ch. 873 · 60 Stat. 923 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

34. An Act To provide funds for cooperation with the school board of Hunter School District for the construction and equipment of a new school building in the town of Hunter, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, to be available to both Indian and non-Indian children.

    Ch. 874 · 60 Stat. 923 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

35. An Act To protect and facilitate the use of national-forest lands in township 2 north, range 18 west, Ohio River survey, township of Elizabeth, county of Lawrence, State of Ohio, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 875 · 60 Stat. 924 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the Postmaster General to accept gifts and bequests for the benefit of the library of the Post Office Department.

    Ch. 876 · 60 Stat. 924 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

37. An Act To provide for the appointment of additional commissioned officers in the Regular Army, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 877 · 60 Stat. 925 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

38. An Act To amend the First War Powers Act, 1941.

    Ch. 878 · 60 Stat. 925 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

39. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior to investigate and eradicate the predatory sea lampreys of the Great Lakes.

    Ch. 879 · 60 Stat. 930 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

40. An Act To remove the limitations on the amount of death compensation or pension payable to widows and children of certain deceased veterans.

    Ch. 880 · 60 Stat. 931 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

41. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

    Ch. 881 · 60 Stat. 931 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

42. An Act To amend the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944.

    Ch. 882 · 60 Stat. 932 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

43. An Act To amend the Act of May 11, 1938, for the conservation of the Fishery Resources of the Columbia River, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 883 · 60 Stat. 932 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

44. An Act To amend the Act of May 4, 1898 (30 Stat. 369), as amended, to authorize the President to appoint two hundred and fifty acting assistant surgeons for temporary service.

    Ch. 884 · 60 Stat. 932 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

45. An Act To amend the Act of February 9, 1907, as amended, with respect to certain fees.

    Ch. 885 · 60 Stat. 933 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

46. An Act To authorize the Veterans’ Administration to reimburse State and local agencies for expenses incurred in rendering services in connection with the administration of certain training programs for veterans, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 886 · 60 Stat. 934 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

47. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to regulate within the District of Columbia the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, and for other purposes”, approved February 27, 1925.

    Ch. 887 · 60 Stat. 936 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

48. An Act Authorizing the appointment of Robert Sprague Beightler as permanent brigadier general of the line of the Regular Army.

    Ch. 888 · 60 Stat. 936 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

49. An Act To provide for fire protection of Government and private property in and contiguous to the waters of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 889 · 60 Stat. 936 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection in the District of Columbia of a statue of Nathan Hale.

    Ch. 890 · 60 Stat. 937 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

51. An Act To amend subsection 9 (a) of the Act entitled “An Act to prevent pernicious political activities”, approved August 2, 1939, as amended.

    Ch. 904 · 60 Stat. 937 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

52. An Act Relating to marine insurance in the case of certain employees of the War Department who suffered death, injury, or other casualty prior to April 23, 1943, as a result of marine risks.

    Ch. 905 · 60 Stat. 937 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

53. An Act To provide for lump-sum payment of compensation for accumulated annual leave and current accrued annual leave to certain officers and employees, and authorizing the appropriation of funds for that purpose.

    Ch. 906 · 60 Stat. 938 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

54. An Act To facilitate and simplify the administration of Indian affairs.

    Ch. 907 · 60 Stat. 939 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

55. An Act To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, to provide annuities for certain officers and employees who have rendered at least twenty-five years of service.

    Ch. 908 · 60 Stat. 939 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

56. An Act To amend section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and publish statistics of the grade and staple length of cotton”.

    Ch. 909 · 60 Stat. 940 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

57. An Act To extend temporarily the time for filing applications for patents, for taking action in the United States Patent Office with respect thereto, for preventing proof of acts abroad with respect to the making of an invention, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 910 · 60 Stat. 940 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

58. An Act To amend the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, so as to improve international collaboration with respect to meteorology.

    Ch. 911 · 60 Stat. 944 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

59. An Act To amend the Act of June 23, 1943, so as to authorize inclusion of periods of education and training in an Army Transportation Corps civilian marine school as “service in the merchant marine”.

    Ch. 912 · 60 Stat. 945 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

60. An Act To grant to the city of Miles City, State of Montana, certain land in Custer County, Montana, for industrial and recreational purposes and as a museum site.

    Ch. 913 · 60 Stat. 946 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

61. An Act To provide emergency relief for the victims of the seismic waves which struck the Territory of Hawaii, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 914 · 60 Stat. 948 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

62. An Act To provide for the acquisition by exchange of non-Federal property within the Glacier National Park.

    Ch. 915 · 60 Stat. 949 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

63. An Act To amend the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, in order to promote the development of oil and gas on the public domain, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 916 · 60 Stat. 950 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

64. An Act To amend title V of the Act entitled “An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with the national defense, and for other purposes”, approved October 14, 1940, as amended, to authorize the Federal Works Administrator to provide needed educational facilities, other than housing, to educational institutions furnishing courses of training or education to persons under title II of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended.

    Ch. 917 · 60 Stat. 958 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

65. An Act Providing for a medal for service in the merchant marine during the present war.

    Ch. 918 · 60 Stat. 960 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

66. An Act To amend the Act entitled: “An Act for the acquisition, establishment, and development of the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to the Great Falls, and to provide for the acquisition of lands in the District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Virginia requisite to the comprehensive park, parkway, and playground system of the National Capital”, approved May 29, 1930.

    Ch. 919 · 60 Stat. 960 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

67. Joint Resolution To provide for the transfer of the painting “First Fight of Ironclads, Monitor and Merrimac”, now stored in the United States Capitol Building, to the custody of the United States Naval Academy.

    Ch. 920 · 60 Stat. 961 · August 8, 1946 · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of the estate of Otto Frederick Gnospelius, deceased.

    Ch. 891 · 60 Stat. 1312 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Raymond Crosby.

    Ch. 892 · 60 Stat. 1312 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Felix Napiorkowski.

    Ch. 893 · 60 Stat. 1313 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Harry D. Koons.

    Ch. 894 · 60 Stat. 1313 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of Loyal F. Willis.

    Ch. 895 · 60 Stat. 1313 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Ernest C. Heine and Harriet W. Heine.

    Ch. 896 · 60 Stat. 1314 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Clarence W. Ohm.

    Ch. 897 · 60 Stat. 1314 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Raphael Elder.

    Ch. 898 · 60 Stat. 1315 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Cecile W. McAfee, the legal guardian of Sarah McAfee, a minor, and Haven H. McAfee.

    Ch. 899 · 60 Stat. 1315 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Hiram H. Wilson.

    Ch. 900 · 60 Stat. 1315 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of Dimitrios Karamouzis (known as James C. Karamouzis or James C. Kar).

    Ch. 901 · 60 Stat. 1316 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Sadie Frey and the estate of Marie Hviding.

    Ch. 902 · 60 Stat. 1316 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Millicent Moore.

    Ch. 903 · 60 Stat. 1317 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Robert June.

    Ch. 921 · 60 Stat. 1317 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Wesley A. Mangelsdorf.

    Ch. 922 · 60 Stat. 1317 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Minnie P. Shorey.

    Ch. 923 · 60 Stat. 1318 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Warren M. Miller.

    Ch. 924 · 60 Stat. 1318 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Authorizing the President of the United States to award posthumously in the name of Congress a Medal of Honor to William Mitchell.

    Ch. 925 · 60 Stat. 1319 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Marvin Sachwitz.

    Ch. 926 · 60 Stat. 1319 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Newman.

    Ch. 927 · 60 Stat. 1319 · August 8, 1946 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To authorize the course of instruction at the United States Merchant Marine Academy to be given to not exceeding twelve persons at a time from the American republics, other than the United States.

    Ch. 928 · 60 Stat. 961 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

89. An Act To authorize the leasing of Indian lands situated within the State of Washington for business and other purposes.

    Ch. 929 · 60 Stat. 962 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

90. An Act To amend the Act of February 15, 1929.

    Ch. 930 · 60 Stat. 962 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

91. Armed Forces Leave Act of 1946

    An Act To grant to personnel of the armed forces equal treatment in the matter of leave, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 931 · 60 Stat. 963 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

92. An Act To provide for the conferring of the degree of bachelor of science upon graduates of the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

    Ch. 932 · 60 Stat. 968 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

93. An Act To provide for the preparation of a membership roll of the Indians of the Yakima Reservation, Washington, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 933 · 60 Stat. 968 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

94. An Act To provide for continuance of the farm labor supply program up to and including June 30, 1947.

    Ch. 934 · 60 Stat. 969 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

95. An Act To revise the boundaries of Wind Cave National Park in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 935 · 60 Stat. 970 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

96. An Act To amend the Service Extension Act of 1941, as amended, to extend reemployment benefits to former members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps who entered the Women’s Army Corps.

    Ch. 936 · 60 Stat. 971 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

97. An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant Georgia Power Company a one-hundred-foot perpetual casement across certain land in the State of Alabama constituting a portion of the military reservation designated as Fort Benning, Georgia.

    Ch. 937 · 60 Stat. 972 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

98. An Act To provide for investigating the matter of the establishment of a national park in the old part of the city of Philadelphia, for the purpose of conserving the historical objects and buildings therein.

    Ch. 943 · 60 Stat. 972 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

99. An Act To authorize the use of certain lands of the United States for flowage in connection with providing additional storage space in the Pensacola Reservoir of the Grand River Dam project in Oklahoma, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 944 · 60 Stat. 974 · August 9, 1946 · Original text

100. An Act To place Chinese wives of American citizens on a nonquota basis.

     Ch. 945 · 60 Stat. 975 · August 9, 1946 · Original text