Every law Congress has passed

1,365 laws of the 80th Congress, 1947–1949

1. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands in Boise, Idaho, to the Boise Chamber of Commerce.

   Ch. 399 · 61 Stat. 1008 · July 30, 1947 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the sale of certain public lands in Alaska to the Catholic Society of Alaska for use as a mission.

   Ch. 400 · 61 Stat. 1008 · July 30, 1947 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Doctor Alma Richards and Mrs. Mary Block.

   Ch. 401 · 61 Stat. 1009 · July 30, 1947 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Thomas M. Farley, Mrs. Susie Farley, Mrs. Helen Moss, the legal guardian of Donna Louise Farley, and the legal guardian of Melvin Moss.

   Ch. 402 · 61 Stat. 1009 · July 30, 1947 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Andrew C. Extrom and Harry C. Pearson.

   Ch. 403 · 61 Stat. 1010 · July 30, 1947 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act To amend the Plant Quarantine Act approved August 20, 1912, as amended, by adding a new proviso to section 1.

   Ch. 405 · 61 Stat. 680 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

7. An Act To provide for the disposal of materials on the public lands of the United States.

   Ch. 406 · 61 Stat. 681 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

8. An Act Granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate compact relating to control and reduction of pollution in the waters of the New England States.

   Ch. 407 · 61 Stat. 682 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution Amending Public Law 27, Eightieth Congress.

   Ch. 408 · 61 Stat. 685 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Willie P. Goodwin, J. M. Thorud, and W. H. Stokley.

    Ch. 409 · 61 Stat. 685 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

11. An Act To amend the Act of April 21, 1932 (47 Stat. 88), entitled “An Act to provide for the leasing of the segregated coal and asphalt deposits of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian Nations, in Oklahoma, and for an extension of time within which purchasers of such deposits may complete payments”.

    Ch. 410 · 61 Stat. 686 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

12. War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1948

    An Act Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 411 · 61 Stat. 686 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

13. An Act To amend title 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges”, approved June 29, 1935 (the Bank-head-Jones Act).

    Ch. 412 · 61 Stat. 694 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

14. An Act Providing for the disposition of farm labor camps to public or semipublic agencies or nonprofit associations of farmers.

    Ch. 413 · 61 Stat. 694 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

15. Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1948

    An Act Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 414 · 61 Stat. 695 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

16. An Act To provide that the Canadian-built dredge Ajax and certain other dredging equipment owned by a United States corporation be documented under the laws of the United States.

    Ch. 417 · 61 Stat. 704 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

17. An Act To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 so as to permit loans, capital grants, or annual contributions for low-rent-housing and slum-clearance projects where construction costs exceed present cost limitations upon condition that local housing agencies pay the difference between cost limitations and the actual construction costs.

    Ch. 418 · 61 Stat. 704 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to establish a postgraduate school at Monterey, California.

    Ch. 419 · 61 Stat. 705 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

19. An Act To establish the United States Naval Postgraduate School, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 420 · 61 Stat. 705 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

20. An Act To provide for the loan or gift of obsolete ordnance to State homes for former members of the armed forces.

    Ch. 421 · 61 Stat. 707 · July 31, 1947 · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Edna Mary Jakimowicz.

    Ch. 415 · 61 Stat. 1010 · July 31, 1947 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Archer C. Gunter.

    Ch. 416 · 61 Stat. 1011 · July 31, 1947 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Jessie Thompkins.

    Ch. 422 · 61 Stat. 1011 · July 31, 1947 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Doctor Theodore A. Geissman.

    Ch. 423 · 61 Stat. 1011 · July 31, 1947 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of James H. Underwood.

    Ch. 424 · 61 Stat. 1012 · July 31, 1947 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act To amend the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act relating to marketing agreements and orders.

    Ch. 425 · 61 Stat. 707 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

27. An Act To provide appropriate lapel buttons for widows, parents, and next of kin of members of the armed forces who lost their lives in the armed services of the United States in World War II.

    Ch. 426 · 61 Stat. 710 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

28. An Act To amend section 16 of chapter V of the Act of June 19, 1934, entitled “An Act to regulate the business of life insurance in the District of Columbia.”

    Ch. 427 · 61 Stat. 711 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

29. An Act To amend section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for other purposes”, approved July 1, 1902, as amended.

    Ch. 428 · 61 Stat. 711 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

30. An Act To extend for three months the provisions of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act, approved December 2, 1941, as amended.

    Ch. 429 · 61 Stat. 713 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

31. An Act To amend section 251 of the Internal Revenue Code.

    Ch. 430 · 61 Stat. 714 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

32. An Act To amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 431 · 61 Stat. 714 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

33. An Act Relating to the sale of the Mission Point Lighthouse Reservation, Grand Traverse County, Michigan.

    Ch. 432 · 61 Stat. 714 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

34. An Act To authorize the creation of additional positions in the professional and scientific service in the War and Navy Departments.

    Ch. 433 · 61 Stat. 715 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

35. An Act To amend section 1 of the Act of July 20, 1942 (56 Stat. 662), as amended, relating to the acceptance of decorations, orders, medals, and emblems by officers and enlisted men of the armed forces of the United States tendered them by governments of cobelligerent nations, neutral nations, or other American Republics.

    Ch. 434 · 61 Stat. 715 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

36. Joint Resolution To amend paragraph 1772 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

    Ch. 435 · 61 Stat. 716 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

37. An Act To amend section 200 of Public Law 844, Seventy-fourth Congress, June 29, 1936, to permit recognition of officers and enlisted men retired from the military and naval forces of the United States as representatives of certain organizations in the presentation of claims to the Veterans’ Administration.

    Ch. 436 · 61 Stat. 716 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

38. An Act To extend the period for providing assistance for certain war-incurred school enrollments.

    Ch. 437 · 61 Stat. 716 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

39. An Act To provide for the orderly transaction of the public business in the event of the death, resignation, or separation from office of regional disbursing officers of the Treasury Department.

    Ch. 438 · 61 Stat. 717 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

40. An Act To authorize conversions of certain naval vessels.

    Ch. 439 · 61 Stat. 718 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

41. An Act To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act.

    Ch. 440 · 61 Stat. 718 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

42. An Act To authorize relief of accountable officers of the Government, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 441 · 61 Stat. 720 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

43. An Act To amend the District of Columbia rent control law so as to provide that schools and universities may recover possession of housing accommodations in certain cases.

    Ch. 442 · 61 Stat. 721 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

44. An Act To amend the peanut marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.

    Ch. 445 · 61 Stat. 721 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

45. An Act To amend the Federal Tort Claims Act.

    Ch. 446 · 61 Stat. 722 · August 1, 1947 · Original text

46. An Act To authorize the sale of a small tract of land on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, North Carolina.

    Ch. 443 · 61 Stat. 1012 · August 1, 1947 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Fred O. Donohue.

    Ch. 444 · 61 Stat. 1013 · August 1, 1947 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act To amend section 14 of the Veterans’ Preference Act of June 27, 1944 (58 Stat 387).

    Ch. 447 · 61 Stat. 723 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

49. An Act Relating to the sale of Paxon Field, Duval County, Florida.

    Ch. 448 · 61 Stat. 723 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

50. Joint Resolution To establish a commission to formulate plans for the erection, in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, of a Marine Corps memorial.

    Ch. 449 · 61 Stat. 724 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

51. Joint Resolution Relating to safety in bituminous-coal and lignite mines of the United States.

    Ch. 450 · 61 Stat. 725 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

52. An Act To provide for the exploration, investigation, development, and maintenance of the fishing resources and development of the high seas fishing industry of the Territories and island possessions of the United States in the tropical and sub-tropical Pacific Ocean and intervening seas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 451 · 61 Stat. 726 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

53. An Act To exclude certain interns, student nurses, and other student-employees of hospitals of the Federal Government from the Classification Act and other laws relating to compensation and benefits of Federal employees, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 452 · 61 Stat. 727 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

54. An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a toll bridge across the Rio Grande, at or near Rio Grande City, Texas.

    Ch. 453 · 61 Stat. 728 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

55. An Act Authorizing an appropriation for the construction, extension, and improvement of a State tuberculosis sanatorium at Galen, Montana, to provide facilities for the treatment of tuberculous Indians in Montana.

    Ch. 454 · 61 Stat. 729 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of G. F. Allen, former Chief Disbursing Officer, Treasury Department, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 455 · 61 Stat. 729 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

57. An Act To authorize the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia to purchase machines for the recording of deeds, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 456 · 61 Stat. 730 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

58. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to the surviving members of the Laguna Band of Mission Indians of California.

    Ch. 457 · 61 Stat. 731 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

59. An Act Relative to restrictions applicable to Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 458 · 61 Stat. 731 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

60. Army-Navy Medical Services Corps Act of 1947

    An Act To revise the Medical Department of the Army and the Medical Department of the Navy, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 459 · 61 Stat. 734 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

61. An Act To increase the minimum allowance payable for rehabilitation in certain service-connected cases.

    Ch. 460 · 61 Stat. 739 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

62. An Act To add certain lands to the Modoc National Forest, California.

    Ch. 461 · 61 Stat. 739 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the city of Pierre, South Dakota, to transfer Farm Island to the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 462 · 61 Stat. 740 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

64. An Act Authorizing the construction of flood-control works on the Little Sioux River and its tributaries in Iowa.

    Ch. 463 · 61 Stat. 741 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

65. An Act To provide for the utilization of surplus War Department-owned military real property as national cemeteries, when feasible.

    Ch. 467 · 61 Stat. 742 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing the conveyance to the State of Delaware of a portion of Pea Patch Island.

    Ch. 468 · 61 Stat. 742 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

67. An Act To amend section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to control the possession, sale, transfer, and use of pistols and other dangerous weapons in the District of Columbia, to provide penalties, to prescribe rules of evidence, and for other purposes”, approved July 8, 1932 (sec. 22, 3204 D. C. Code, 1940 edition).

    Ch. 469 · 61 Stat. 743 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

68. An Act To amend section 107 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June 19, 1934.

    Ch. 470 · 61 Stat. 743 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

69. An Act To amend section 1003 (b) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended.

    Ch. 471 · 61 Stat. 743 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

70. An Act To establish a program for the rehabilitation of alcoholics, promote temperance, and provide for the medical and scientific treatment of persons found to be alcoholics by the courts of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 472 · 61 Stat. 744 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

71. An Act To extend second-class mailing privileges to bulletins issued by State conservation and fish and game agencies or departments.

    Ch. 473 · 61 Stat. 747 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

72. An Act To enable Osage Indians who served in World War II to obtain loans under the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 474 · 61 Stat. 747 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

73. An Act To amend the Armed Forces Leave Act of 1946, approved August 9, 1946 (Public Law 704, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, 60 Stat. 963), and for other purposes.

    Ch. 475 · 61 Stat. 748 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

74. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of public school teachers in the District of Columbia”, approved August 7, 1946.

    Ch. 476 · 61 Stat. 750 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the Federal Works Administrator to grant and convey to Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a certain parcel of land of the United States in Norristown Borough, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of erecting an additional annex to the present courthouse.

    Ch. 477 · 61 Stat. 750 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize certain expenditures from the appropriation of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 478 · 61 Stat. 751 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

77. International Organizations Procurement Act of 1947

    An Act To authorize the Treasury Department and the United States Government Printing Office to furnish, or to procure and furnish, administrative materials, supplies, and equipment to public international organizations on a reimbursable basis.

    Ch. 479 · 61 Stat. 752 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

78. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to a compact or agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey concerning the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 480 · 61 Stat. 752 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

79. An Act To provide an extension of time for claiming credit or refund with respect to war losses.

    Ch. 481 · 61 Stat. 756 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

80. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to bring into effect an agreement between the United States and the United Nations for the purpose of establishing the permanent headquarters of the United Nations in the United States and authorizing the taking of measures necessary to facilitate compliance with the provisions of such agreement, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 482 · 61 Stat. 756 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Fixing the date of meeting of the second regular session of the Eightieth Congress.

    Ch. 483 · 61 Stat. 768 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution Providing for the representation of the Government and people of the United States in the observance of the two-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Reading. Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 484 · 61 Stat. 768 · August 4, 1947 · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Robert F. Parks.

    Ch. 464 · 61 Stat. 1013 · August 4, 1947 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of the estate of Reuben Malkin.

    Ch. 465 · 61 Stat. 1013 · August 4, 1947 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Daniel Broken Leg.

    Ch. 466 · 61 Stat. 1014 · August 4, 1947 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Marie Salamone.

    Ch. 485 · 61 Stat. 1014 · August 4, 1947 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of O. Dean Settles and Mrs. Ruth E. Settles, husband and wife; Mrs. Ruth E. Settles, individually; the estate of Ora H. Hatfield; and Mrs. Kittie B. Hatfield.

    Ch. 486 · 61 Stat. 1014 · August 4, 1947 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of George J. Hiner.

    Ch. 487 · 61 Stat. 1015 · August 4, 1947 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act To provide support for wool, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 488 · 61 Stat. 769 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

90. An Act To provide for the transfer of certain lands to the Secretary of the Interior, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 489 · 61 Stat. 770 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

91. An Act To amend the Organic Act of Puerto Rico.

    Ch. 490 · 61 Stat. 770 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

92. An Act To provide for the cancellation of the capital stock of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the refund of moneys received for such stock, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 492 · 61 Stat. 773 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

93. An Act To authorize leases of real or personal property by the War and Navy Departments, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 493 · 61 Stat. 774 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

94. An Act To provide additional inducements to physicians, surgeons, and dentists to make a career of the United States military, naval, and public health services, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 494 · 61 Stat. 776 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

95. An Act To amend the National Housing Act, as amended.

    Ch. 495 · 61 Stat. 777 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

96. An Act Relating to the income-tax liability of members of the armed forces dying in the service.

    Ch. 496 · 61 Stat. 778 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

97. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the evacuation and return of the remains of certain persons who died and are buried outside the continental limits of the United States”, approved May 16, 1946, in order to provide for tile shipment of the remains of World War II dead to the homeland of the deceased or of next of kin, to provide for the disposition of group and mass burials, to provide for the burial of unknown American World War II dead in United States military cemeteries to be established overseas, to authorize the Secretary of War to acquire land overseas and to establish United States military Cemeteries thereon, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 497 · 61 Stat. 779 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

98. Institute of Inter-American Affairs Act

    An Act To provide for the reincorporation of The Institute of Inter-American Affairs, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 498 · 61 Stat. 780 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

99. Joint Resolution To provide for returns of Italian property in the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 499 · 61 Stat. 784 · August 5, 1947 · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of P. L. (Spud) Murphey, owner and manager of Spud’s Tailors, Laundry, and Dry Cleaning Works.

     Ch. 491 · 61 Stat. 1016 · August 5, 1947 · Private law · Original text