Every law Congress has passed

2,000 laws of the 81st Congress, 1949–1951

1. Joint Resolution Making January 20 and 21, 1949, holidays for Federal employees and employees of the District of Columbia in the metropolitan area of the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 1 · 63 Stat. 3 · January 18, 1949 · Original text

2. An Act To increase rates of compensation of the President, Vice President, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

   Ch. 2 · 63 Stat. 4 · January 19, 1949 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for disaster relief, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 3 · 63 Stat. 5 · January 28, 1949 · Original text

4. Joint Resolution Extending the time for free entry of certain articles imported to promote international good will.

   Ch. 4 · 63 Stat. 5 · February 3, 1949 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Making a further appropriation for disaster relief, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 5 · 63 Stat. 5 · February 7, 1949 · Original text

6. An Act To continue through September 30, 1949, certain authority conferred on the President by section 2 of Public Law 395, Eightieth Congress, regarding voluntary agreements and plans.

   Ch. 6 · 63 Stat. 5 · February 9, 1949 · Original text

7. An Act To extend the Office of the War Assets Administrator and the War Assets Administration from February 28, 1949, until June 30, 1949.

   Ch. 7 · 63 Stat. 6 · February 21, 1949 · Original text

8. An Act To amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 with respect to the eligibility for appointment in the executive branch of the Government of former professional staff members of committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

   Ch. 8 · 63 Stat. 6 · February 24, 1949 · Original text

9. An Act To amend the Act approved June 29, 1948, entitled “An Act to authorize the issuance of a stamp commemorative of the two-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Alexandria, Virginia”.

   Ch. 9 · 63 Stat. 6 · February 25, 1949 · Original text

10. An Act To amend Public Law 533 of the Eightieth Congress authorizing the construction of a building for the General Accounting Office on square 518 in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 10 · 63 Stat. 7 · February 25, 1949 · Original text

11. Export Control Act of 1949

    An Act To provide for continuation of authority for the regulation of exports, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 11 · 63 Stat. 7 · February 26, 1949 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution To continue the authority of the Maritime Commission to sell, charter, and operate vessels, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 12 · 63 Stat. 9 · February 28, 1949 · Original text

13. Joint Resolution To provide for the acquisition and operation of the Freedom Train by the Archivist of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 13 · 63 Stat. 10 · March 2, 1949 · Original text

14. An Act To retrocede to the State of New Mexico exclusive jurisdiction held by the United States over lands within the boundaries of the Los Alamos Project of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

    Ch. 14 · 63 Stat. 11 · March 4, 1949 · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of the city and county of San Francisco.

    Ch. 15 · 63 Stat. 12 · March 10, 1949 · Original text

16. An Act To authorize the advance on the retired list of Lieutenant John T. McDermott, United States Navy (retired), to the grade of lieutenant commander.

    Ch. 16 · 63 Stat. 1073 · March 10, 1949 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Engebert Axer.

    Ch. 17 · 63 Stat. 1073 · March 10, 1949 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act To amend section 19 of the Act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1057), so as to remove the upper age limit for appointment to commissioned grade in the Supply Corps of the Navy.

    Ch. 18 · 63 Stat. 12 · March 12, 1949 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize payment of claims based on loss of or damage to property deposited by alien enemies.

    Ch. 19 · 63 Stat. 12 · March 15, 1949 · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of certain postal employees.

    Ch. 20 · 63 Stat. 13 · March 15, 1949 · Original text

21. Joint Resolution To authorize the issuance of a special series of stamps commemorative of the three hundredth anniversary of Annapolis, Maryland.

    Ch. 21 · 63 Stat. 14 · March 15, 1949 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize the transfer of certain property to the Secretary of the Interior, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 22 · 63 Stat. 14 · March 17, 1949 · Original text

23. An Act Relating to the pay and allowances of officers of the Naval Reserve performing active duty in the grade of rear admiral, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 23 · 63 Stat. 14 · March 17, 1949 · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Doctor Chung Kwai Lui.

    Ch. 24 · 63 Stat. 1073 · March 19, 1949 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Claris U. Yeadon.

    Ch. 25 · 63 Stat. 1074 · March 21, 1949 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of John I. Malarin, former Army mail clerk at APO 932, a branch of the San Francisco, California, post office, relative to a shortage in his fixed credit account.

    Ch. 26 · 63 Stat. 1074 · March 22, 1949 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Rachel D. Gattegno.

    Ch. 27 · 63 Stat. 1075 · March 22, 1949 · Private law · Original text

28. Joint Resolution Extending an invitation to the International Olympic Committee to hold the 1956 Olympic Games at Detroit, Michigan.

    Ch. 28 · 63 Stat. 15 · March 23, 1949 · Original text

29. An Act To authorize payment of certain claims for damage to or loss or destruction of property and personal injury arising from activities of the Army.

    Ch. 29 · 63 Stat. 1075 · March 23, 1949 · Private law · Original text

30. Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress.

    Ch. 30 · 63 Stat. 15 · March 24, 1949 · Original text

31. An Act To authorize the attendance of the United States Marine Band at the Eighty-third and Final National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 28 to September 1, 1949.

    Ch. 32 · 63 Stat. 15 · March 24, 1949 · Original text

32. Joint Resolution For the authorization of a special contribution by the United States for the relief of Palestine refugees.

    Ch. 33 · 63 Stat. 16 · March 24, 1949 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize certain personnel and former personnel of the Naval Establishment to accept certain gifts and a foreign decoration tendered by foreign governments.

    Ch. 31 · 63 Stat. 1076 · March 24, 1949 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Edwin B. Anderson.

    Ch. 34 · 63 Stat. 1077 · March 25, 1949 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Doris Marie Richard.

    Ch. 35 · 63 Stat. 1078 · March 26, 1949 · Private law · Original text

36. Joint Resolution To authorize vessels of Canadian registry to transport iron ore between United States ports on the Great Lakes during the period from March 15 to December 15, 1949, inclusive.

    Ch. 36 · 63 Stat. 16 · March 28, 1949 · Original text

37. An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge for the middle district of Georgia.

    Ch. 37 · 63 Stat. 16 · March 29, 1949 · Original text

38. An Act To provide that acreage planted to cotton in 1949 shall not be used in computing cotton acreage allotments for any subsequent year.

    Ch. 38 · 63 Stat. 17 · March 29, 1949 · Original text

39. An Act To amend the Act of June 25, 1938, relating to the appointment of postmasters under civil service.

    Ch. 39 · 63 Stat. 17 · March 29, 1949 · Original text

40. An Act To provide for permanent residence status of Richard Kim.

    Ch. 40 · 63 Stat. 1078 · March 29, 1949 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to establish land-based air warning and control installations for the national security, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 41 · 63 Stat. 17 · March 30, 1949 · Original text

42. Housing and Rent Act of 1949

    An Act To extend certain provisions of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 42 · 63 Stat. 18 · March 30, 1949 · Original text

43. An Act To authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia to establish daylight-saving time in the District.

    Ch. 43 · 63 Stat. 29 · March 31, 1949 · Original text

44. An Act To suspend certain import taxes on copper.

    Ch. 44 · 63 Stat. 30 · March 31, 1949 · Original text

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

    Ch. 45 · 63 Stat. 30 · March 31, 1949 · Original text

46. Joint Resolution To maintain the status quo with respect to the exemption, from the tax on transportation of persons, of foreign travel via Newfoundland.

    Ch. 46 · 63 Stat. 30 · March 31, 1949 · Original text

47. An Act To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to provide for an Under Secretary of Defense.

    Ch. 47 · 63 Stat. 30 · April 2, 1949 · Original text

48. An Act To grant the consent of the United States to the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact.

    Ch. 48 · 63 Stat. 31 · April 6, 1949 · Original text

49. An Act To abolish the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation of Washington, District of Columbia, and transfer its functions to the Secretary of Agriculture, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make disaster loans, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 49 · 63 Stat. 43 · April 6, 1949 · Original text

50. An Act To authorize the disposition of certain lost, abandoned, or unclaimed personal property coming into the possession of the Treasury Department, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, or the Department of the Air Force, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 50 · 63 Stat. 44 · April 14, 1949 · Original text

51. An Act To provide for a Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion.

    Ch. 51 · 63 Stat. 45 · April 14, 1949 · Original text

52. An Act To prevent retroactive checkage of payments erroneously made to certain retired officers of the Naval Reserve, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 52 · 63 Stat. 47 · April 14, 1949 · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Jose Babace.

    Ch. 53 · 63 Stat. 1078 · April 14, 1949 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of certain Basque aliens.

    Ch. 54 · 63 Stat. 1079 · April 14, 1949 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Ella L. Browning.

    Ch. 55 · 63 Stat. 1079 · April 14, 1949 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Charles L. Bishop.

    Ch. 56 · 63 Stat. 1080 · April 14, 1949 · Private law · Original text

57. Joint Resolution Authorizing appropriations to the Federal Security Administrator in addition to those authorized under title V, part 2, of the Social Security Act, as amended, to provide for meeting emergency needs of crippled children during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949.

    Ch. 57 · 63 Stat. 47 · April 15, 1949 · Original text

58. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the Veterans’ Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 58 · 63 Stat. 48 · April 15, 1949 · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Rose Mary Ammirato, a minor.

    Ch. 59 · 63 Stat. 1080 · April 16, 1949 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Arthur G. Robinson.

    Ch. 60 · 63 Stat. 1081 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Lucille Davidson.

    Ch. 61 · 63 Stat. 1081 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Eugene J. Bearman.

    Ch. 62 · 63 Stat. 1081 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Mary Jane Harris.

    Ch. 63 · 63 Stat. 1082 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Bernice Green.

    Ch. 64 · 63 Stat. 1082 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of James Leon Keaton.

    Ch. 65 · 63 Stat. 1083 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Nellie M. Clark.

    Ch. 66 · 63 Stat. 1083 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of James A. Stapleton, Ruth Burk, and Mildred Ovren, copartners doing business under the name and style of Stapleton Lumber and Piling Company.

    Ch. 67 · 63 Stat. 1083 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of the estate of H. M. McCorvey.

    Ch. 68 · 63 Stat. 1084 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Hann.

    Ch. 69 · 63 Stat. 1084 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Judge E. Estes.

    Ch. 70 · 63 Stat. 1085 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth Rowland.

    Ch. 71 · 63 Stat. 1085 · April 18, 1949 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act To amend the Printing Act of January 12, 1895, as amended, with respect to the printing of extra copies of congressional hearings and other documents.

    Ch. 72 · 63 Stat. 48 · April 19, 1949 · Original text

73. An Act To amend and extend the provisions of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act, approved December 2, 1941, as amended.

    Ch. 73 · 63 Stat. 48 · April 19, 1949 · Original text

74. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the conveyance to Pinellas County, State of Florida, of certain public lands herein described”, approved June 17, 1948 (Public Law 666, Eightieth Congress), for the purpose of correcting a land description therein.

    Ch. 74 · 63 Stat. 50 · April 19, 1949 · Original text

75. An Act To amend the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948.

    Ch. 77 · 63 Stat. 50 · April 19, 1949 · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

    Ch. 78 · 63 Stat. 55 · April 19, 1949 · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of John J. O’Neil.

    Ch. 75 · 63 Stat. 1086 · April 19, 1949 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Wesley Berk (formerly Mrs. Ruth Cameron).

    Ch. 76 · 63 Stat. 1086 · April 19, 1949 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of Laura Spinnichia.

    Ch. 79 · 63 Stat. 1086 · April 19, 1949 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act To amend section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to revise the Alaska game law”, approved July 1, 1943, as amended (57 Stat. 301).

    Ch. 81 · 63 Stat. 56 · April 20, 1949 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution To extend the time for use of construction reserve funds established under section 511 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended.

    Ch. 82 · 63 Stat. 56 · April 20, 1949 · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of the legal guardian of Joseph DeSouza, Junior.

    Ch. 80 · 63 Stat. 1087 · April 20, 1949 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of James W. Keith.

    Ch. 83 · 63 Stat. 1087 · April 20, 1949 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of B. John Hanson.

    Ch. 84 · 63 Stat. 1088 · April 20, 1949 · Private law · Original text

85. Joint Resolution To authorize completion of the processing of the visa cases, and admission into the United States, of certain alien fiancés, and fiancées of members, or of former members, of the armed forces of the United States, as was provided in the so-called GI Fiancées Act (60 Stat. 339), as amended.

    Ch. 85 · 63 Stat. 56 · April 21, 1949 · Original text

86. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, Northern Division, to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of all persons for reimbursement for damages and losses sustained as a result of a flood which occurred in December 1937 in levee district numbered 10, Yuba County, California.

    Ch. 86 · 63 Stat. 1088 · April 21, 1949 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Murphy.

    Ch. 87 · 63 Stat. 1089 · April 21, 1949 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon a certain claim of Harry W. Sharpley, his heirs, administrators, or assigns, against the United States.

    Ch. 88 · 63 Stat. 1089 · April 22, 1949 · Private law · Original text

89. Alaska Housing Act

    An Act To promote the settlement and development of the Territory of Alaska by facilitating the construction of necessary housing therein, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 89 · 63 Stat. 57 · April 23, 1949 · Original text

90. An Act To authorize a $100 per capita payment to members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians from the proceeds of the sale of timber and lumber on the Red Lake Reservation.

    Ch. 90 · 63 Stat. 60 · April 23, 1949 · Original text

91. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands to the Churntown Elementary School District, California.

    Ch. 91 · 63 Stat. 60 · April 25, 1949 · Original text

92. An Act To amend title 28 of the United States Code to provide additional time for bringing suit against the United States in the case of certain tort claims, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 92 · 63 Stat. 62 · April 25, 1949 · Original text

93. An Act To approve repayment contracts negotiated with the Bitter Root irrigation district, the Shasta View irrigation district, the Okanogan irrigation district, the Willwood irrigation district, the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users’ Association, and the Kittitas reclamation district, to authorize their execution, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 93 · 63 Stat. 62 · May 6, 1949 · Original text

94. An Act Relating to the disposition of certain recreational demonstration project lands by the State of Michigan to the Mount Hope Cemetery Association of Waterloo, Michigan.

    Ch. 94 · 63 Stat. 64 · May 6, 1949 · Original text

95. An Act To establish the grade of General of the Air Force, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 95 · 63 Stat. 65 · May 7, 1949 · Original text

96. An Act To increase the fees of witnesses in the United States courts and before United States commissioners, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 96 · 63 Stat. 65 · May 10, 1949 · Original text

97. An Act Conferring United States citizenship posthumously upon Vaso B. Benderach.

    Ch. 97 · 63 Stat. 1089 · May 10, 1949 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the establishment of a joint long-range proving ground for guided missiles, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 98 · 63 Stat. 66 · May 11, 1949 · Original text

99. An Act To change the name of Culbertson Dam on the Republican River in the State of Nebraska to “Trenton Dam” and to name the body of water arising behind such dam “Swanson Lake”.

    Ch. 100 · 63 Stat. 66 · May 12, 1949 · Original text

100. Joint Resolution Making temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1949, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 101 · 63 Stat. 67 · May 12, 1949 · Original text