Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of certain lands heretofore acquired for the Albuquerque Indian School, New Mexico.

   Ch. 74 · 62 Stat. 36 · February 27, 1948 · Original text

2. An Act To transfer certain transmission lines, substations, appurtenances, and equipment in connection with the sale and disposition of electric energy generated at the Fort Peck project, Montana, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 75 · 62 Stat. 36 · February 27, 1948 · Original text

3. An Act To amend an Act to authorize the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to make certain disposition of condemned ordnance, guns, projectiles, and other condemned material in their respective Departments.

   Ch. 76 · 62 Stat. 37 · February 27, 1948 · Original text

4. An Act To continue for a temporary period certain provisions of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947.

   Ch. 77 · 62 Stat. 37 · February 27, 1948 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution To continue until March 1, 1949, the authority of the Maritime Commission to sell, charter, and operate vessels, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 78 · 62 Stat. 38 · February 27, 1948 · Original text

6. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Jonah Williams.

   Ch. 79 · 62 Stat. 1313 · February 27, 1948 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Milan Jandrich.

   Ch. 80 · 62 Stat. 1313 · February 27, 1948 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act To authorize the promotion of James Y. Parker, Army serial number XXXXXX, as major, Army of the United States, as of March 1, 1942, under the Act of February 16, 1942 (56 Stat. 94), and for other purposes.

   Ch. 81 · 62 Stat. 1313 · February 27, 1948 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act Providing for the per capita payment of certain moneys appropriated in settlement of certain claims of the Indians of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

   Ch. 82 · 62 Stat. 38 · February 28, 1948 · Original text

10. An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act in regard to certain matters of personnel and administration, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 83 · 62 Stat. 38 · February 28, 1948 · Original text

11. An Act To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended.

    Ch. 84 · 62 Stat. 48 · February 28, 1948 · Original text

12. An Act To continue for a temporary period certain powers, authority, and discretion conferred on the President by the Second Decontrol Act of 1947.

    Ch. 85 · 62 Stat. 58 · February 28, 1948 · Original text

13. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Charles Ghost Bear, Senior.

    Ch. 86 · 62 Stat. 1313 · February 28, 1948 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Charles Kills the Enemy.

    Ch. 87 · 62 Stat. 1314 · February 28, 1948 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Calvin W. Clincher.

    Ch. 88 · 62 Stat. 1314 · February 28, 1948 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Archives of the United States Government, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. 89 · 62 Stat. 58 · March 3, 1948 · Original text

17. An Act To amend subsection 602 (d) (5) of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, to extend for two years the time within which eligible persons may apply for gratuitous insurance benefits.

    Ch. 90 · 62 Stat. 59 · March 3, 1948 · Original text

18. Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1948

    An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 91 · 62 Stat. 59 · March 3, 1948 · Original text

19. 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. 92 · 62 Stat. 1314 · March 3, 1948 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Mary Sungduk Charr.

    Ch. 93 · 62 Stat. 1315 · March 3, 1948 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue to James Black Dog a patent in fee to certain land.

    Ch. 94 · 62 Stat. 1315 · March 3, 1948 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Tom Eagleman.

    Ch. 95 · 62 Stat. 1315 · March 3, 1948 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Sang Hun Shim.

    Ch. 96 · 62 Stat. 1316 · March 3, 1948 · Private law · Original text

24. Joint Resolution Providing for membership and participation by the United States in the Caribbean Commission and authorizing an appropriation therefor.

    Ch. 97 · 62 Stat. 65 · March 4, 1948 · Original text

25. An Act Making certain changes in the organization of the Navy Department, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 98 · 62 Stat. 66 · March 5, 1948 · Original text

26. An Act To amend the Act of December 3, 1945, so as to extend the exemption of Navy or Coast Guard vessels of special construction from the requirements as to the number, position, range, or arc of visibility of lights, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 99 · 62 Stat. 69 · March 5, 1948 · Original text

27. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to prepare plans and estimates for a sewage-disposal system to serve the Yorktown area of the Colonial National Historical Park, Virginia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 100 · 62 Stat. 70 · March 5, 1948 · Original text

28. Joint Resolution To provide for the designation of the Park River dam and reservoir project in Walsh County, North Dakota, as the Homme Reservoir and Dam.

    Ch. 101 · 62 Stat. 70 · March 5, 1948 · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. Prosser.

    Ch. 102 · 62 Stat. 1316 · March 6, 1948 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To repeal the laws relating to the length of tours of duty of officers and enlisted men of the Army at certain foreign stations.

    Ch. 103 · 62 Stat. 70 · March 8, 1948 · Original text

31. An Act To authorize the carrying of Civil War battle streamers with regimental colors.

    Ch. 104 · 62 Stat. 71 · March 9, 1948 · Original text

32. An Act To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to the unknown American who lost his life while serving overseas in the armed forces of the United States during the Second World War.

    Ch. 105 · 62 Stat. 71 · March 9, 1948 · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Eleonore M. Hannon.

    Ch. 106 · 62 Stat. 1316 · March 9, 1948 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, or the Secretary of the Treasury to accept and use gifts, devises, and bequests for schools, hospitals, libraries, cemeteries, and other institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, or the Department of the Treasury respectively, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 107 · 62 Stat. 71 · March 11, 1948 · Original text

35. An Act To define the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 108 · 62 Stat. 72 · March 11, 1948 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the establishment of the De Soto National Memorial, in the State of Florida, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 109 · 62 Stat. 78 · March 11, 1948 · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Roberta Flake Clayton.

    Ch. 110 · 62 Stat. 1317 · March 11, 1948 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Ruth Grossman.

    Ch. 111 · 62 Stat. 1317 · March 11, 1948 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Antonio Zamora; Mrs. Antonio Zamora; Antonio Zamora, Junior; Mrs. Juan Chavez; John Chavez, Junior; Roland Chavez; Selso Trujillo; Doctor M. G. Wright; and the heirs of Keith Lane.

    Ch. 112 · 62 Stat. 1317 · March 11, 1948 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Iola Veach.

    Ch. 113 · 62 Stat. 1318 · March 11, 1948 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Doctor Gisela Perl (Krausz).

    Ch. 114 · 62 Stat. 1318 · March 11, 1948 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act To provide for the preservation of the frigate Constellation and to authorize the disposition of certain replaced parts of such vessel as souvenirs, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 115 · 62 Stat. 79 · March 13, 1948 · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Thomas D. Sherrard.

    Ch. 116 · 62 Stat. 1319 · March 13, 1948 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction and operation of demonstration plants to produce synthetic liquid fuels from coal, oil shale, agricultural and forestry products, and other substances, in order to aid the prosecution of the war, to conserve and increase the oil resources of the Nation, and for other purposes”, approved April 5, 1944 (58 Stat. 190).

    Ch. 117 · 62 Stat. 79 · March 15, 1948 · Original text

45. An Act To give to members of the Crow Tribe the power to manage and assume charge of their restricted lands, for their own use or for lease purposes, while such lands remain under trust patents.

    Ch. 120 · 62 Stat. 80 · March 15, 1948 · Original text

46. An Act Relating to the compensation of commissioners for the Territory of Alaska.

    Ch. 121 · 62 Stat. 80 · March 15, 1948 · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Adelbert E. Tuller.

    Ch. 118 · 62 Stat. 1319 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington to hear, determine, and render judgment upon any claim arising out of injuries sustained by G. R. Below, late of Seattle, Washington.

    Ch. 119 · 62 Stat. 1319 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Lawson Ashby; Mrs. Ora Ashby; and Lawson Ashby, the legal guardian of Betty Mae Ashby, a minor; Darrel Ashby, a minor; Kenneth Ashby, a minor; and Vernon Ashby, a minor.

    Ch. 122 · 62 Stat. 1320 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Vera Frances Elicker.

    Ch. 123 · 62 Stat. 1321 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of the estate of Norman C. Cobb, Naomi R. Cobb, and Garland L. Cobb.

    Ch. 124 · 62 Stat. 1321 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Anastasios Panage Ioannatos (known as Anastasios PanageIonnetos or Tom Panage Yanatos).

    Ch. 125 · 62 Stat. 1321 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell.

    Ch. 126 · 62 Stat. 1322 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Raiford D. Smith.

    Ch. 127 · 62 Stat. 1322 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Edwin Osgood Cogan, his wife Helen Olga Cogan, and his daughter Isabel Joan Cogan.

    Ch. 128 · 62 Stat. 1322 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Stanley-Yelverton, Incorporated.

    Ch. 129 · 62 Stat. 1323 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Nita H. Stanley.

    Ch. 130 · 62 Stat. 1323 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of Bertha M. Rogers.

    Ch. 131 · 62 Stat. 1323 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Jesse F. Cannon, Jackson Jones, and the estate of John Halstadt.

    Ch. 132 · 62 Stat. 1324 · March 15, 1948 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act Relating to the acquisition by the United States of State-owned lands within Glacier National Park, in the State of Montana, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 133 · 62 Stat. 80 · March 16, 1948 · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Essie N. Fannin, Miss Helen Hicks, Miss Marie Hicks, Miss Frances Fannin, William O. Thompson, and Mrs. W. D. Thompson.

    Ch. 134 · 62 Stat. 1324 · March 16, 1948 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim or claims of Charles L. Baker.

    Ch. 135 · 62 Stat. 1325 · March 16, 1948 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the United States Park Police to make arrests within Federal reservations in the environs of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 136 · 62 Stat. 81 · March 17, 1948 · Original text

64. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to regulate navigation on the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters”, approved February 8, 1895.

    Ch. 138 · 62 Stat. 82 · March 18, 1948 · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of Robert Wilhelm Gerling.

    Ch. 137 · 62 Stat. 1325 · March 18, 1948 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act To add certain public and other lands to the Shasta National Forest, California.

    Ch. 139 · 62 Stat. 83 · March 19, 1948 · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Howard A. Yeager.

    Ch. 140 · 62 Stat. 1326 · March 20, 1948 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act To extend the period of validity of the 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. 141 · 62 Stat. 84 · March 24, 1948 · Original text

69. An Act To authorize payment to certain enrolled members of the Seminole Tribe of Indians under Act of July 2, 1942 (Public, Numbered 645, Seventy-seventh Congress).

    Ch. 142 · 62 Stat. 84 · March 24, 1948 · Original text

70. An Act To provide for selection of superintendents of national cemeteries from meritorious and trustworthy members of the armed forces who have been disabled in line of duty for active field service.

    Ch. 143 · 62 Stat. 84 · March 24, 1948 · Original text

71. Joint Resolution To authorize vessels of Canadian registry to transport iron ore between United States ports on the Great Lakes during 1948.

    Ch. 144 · 62 Stat. 84 · March 24, 1948 · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of Charles G. Meyers.

    Ch. 145 · 62 Stat. 1326 · March 24, 1948 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act To provide for the establishment and operation of a research laboratory in the North Dakota lignite-consuming region for investigation of the mining, preparation, and utilization of lignite, for the development of new uses and markets, for improvement of health and safety in mining; and for a comprehensive study of the possibilities for increased utilization of the lignite resources of the region to aid in the solution of its economic problems and to make its natural and human resources of maximum usefulness in the reconversion period and time of peace.

    Ch. 146 · 62 Stat. 85 · March 25, 1948 · Original text

74. An Act To provide for the acquisition of a site for a new Federal Building in Huntington, West Virginia, adjoining existing Federal buildings there, as an economy measure, before land values have increased as a result of improvements.

    Ch. 147 · 62 Stat. 86 · March 25, 1948 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the purchase of a new post-office site at Omaha, Nebraska.

    Ch. 148 · 62 Stat. 86 · March 25, 1948 · Original text

76. An Act To provide for the acquisition of a site and preparation of plans and specifications for a new postal building and for remodeling of the existing main post-office building in Portland, Oregon, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 149 · 62 Stat. 86 · March 25, 1948 · Original text

77. An Act To ratify the administrative promotions of employees on military furlough from the field postal service, in certain cases, and for related purposes.

    Ch. 150 · 62 Stat. 87 · March 25, 1948 · Original text

78. Joint Resolution To authorize the issuance of a special series of stamps commemorative of the one-hundredth anniversary of the creation of the Territory of Minnesota.

    Ch. 151 · 62 Stat. 87 · March 25, 1948 · Original text

79. An Act To provide for inactive duty training pay for the Organized Reserve Corps, to provide uniform standards for inactive duty training pay for all Reserve components of the armed forces, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 157 · 62 Stat. 87 · March 25, 1948 · Original text

80. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Mabel Townsend Pretty On Top.

    Ch. 152 · 62 Stat. 1326 · March 25, 1948 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to Clarence M.Scott.

    Ch. 153 · 62 Stat. 1327 · March 25, 1948 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Mrs. Mary E. Leaf.

    Ch. 154 · 62 Stat. 1327 · March 25, 1948 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Authorizing the issuance of a patent in fee to Robert E. Doyle.

    Ch. 155 · 62 Stat. 1327 · March 25, 1948 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Authorizing the issuance to James Perry Doyle of a patent in fee to certain lands in Big Horn County, Montana.

    Ch. 156 · 62 Stat. 1328 · March 25, 1948 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Imperial Palace, Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan”, to increase the amount of property which the corporation may hold from $100,000 to $5,000,000.

    Ch. 158 · 62 Stat. 91 · March 27, 1948 · Original text

86. An Act To provide a means for the orderly continuation and completion of the Deer Creek and aqueduct divisions of the Provo River project, Utah.

    Ch. 159 · 62 Stat. 92 · March 29, 1948 · Original text

87. Klamath Welfare Act

    An Act To provide for the general welfare and advancement of the Klamath Indians in Oregon.

    Ch. 160 · 62 Stat. 92 · March 29, 1948 · Original text

88. Housing and Rent Act of 1948

    An Act To extend certain provisions of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, to provide for the termination of controls on maximum rents in areas and on housing accommodations where conditions justifying such controls no longer exist, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 161 · 62 Stat. 93 · March 30, 1948 · Original text

89. An Act To facilitate the use and occupancy of national–forest lands, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 162 · 62 Stat. 100 · March 30, 1948 · Original text

90. An Act To extend for a temporary period the provisions of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act.

    Ch. 163 · 62 Stat. 100 · March 30, 1948 · Original text

91. An Act To increase the equipment maintenance of rural carriers 1 cent per mile per day traveled by each rural carrier for a period of two years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 164 · 62 Stat. 101 · March 31, 1948 · Original text

92. An Act To provide for a temporary extension of the National Housing Act, as amended.

    Ch. 165 · 62 Stat. 101 · March 31, 1948 · Original text

93. Rubber Act of 1948

    An Act To strengthen national security and the common defense by providing for the maintenance of an adequate domestic rubber-producing industry, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 166 · 62 Stat. 101 · March 31, 1948 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution Making appropriations for foreign aid, welfare of Indians, and refunding internal-revenue collections.

    Ch. 167 · 62 Stat. 109 · March 31, 1948 · Original text

95. Revenue Act of 1948

    An Act To reduce individual income tax payments, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 168 · 62 Stat. 110 · April 2, 1948 · Original text

96. Foreign Assistance Act of 1948

    An Act To promote world peace and the general welfare, national interest, and foreign policy of the United States through economic, financial, and other measures necessary to the maintenance of conditions abroad in which free institutions may survive and consistent with the maintenance of the strength and stability of the United States.

    Ch. 169 · 62 Stat. 137 · April 3, 1948 · Original text

97. An Act To provide basic authority for certain administrative expenditures for the Veterans’ Administration, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 170 · 62 Stat. 160 · April 3, 1948 · Original text

98. An Act To extend the authority of the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to establish and continue offices in the territory of the Republic of the Philippines.

    Ch. 171 · 62 Stat. 161 · April 3, 1948 · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Leslie H. Ashlock.

    Ch. 172 · 62 Stat. 1328 · April 3, 1948 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 with reference to platinum foxes, and platinum fox furs, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 173 · 62 Stat. 161 · April 5, 1948 · Original text