Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To amend subsection (b) of section 10 of the Act of June 26, 1884, as amended (U. S. C., title 46, sec. 599 (b)).

   Ch. 1109 · 64 Stat. 1081 · September 29, 1950 · Original text

2. An Act To discharge a fiduciary obligation to Iran.

   Ch. 1110 · 64 Stat. 1081 · September 29, 1950 · Original text

3. An Act To provide a more effective method of delivering applications for absentee ballots to servicemen and certain other persons.

   Ch. 1111 · 64 Stat. 1082 · September 29, 1950 · Original text

4. An Act To amend the Act of September 16, 1942, as amended, so as to facilitate voting by members of the Armed Forces, and certain others, absent from their places of residence.

   Ch. 1112 · 64 Stat. 1082 · September 29, 1950 · Original text

5. An Act To amend section 32 (a) (2) of the Trading With the Enemy Act.

   Ch. 1108 · 64 Stat. 1108 · September 29, 1950 · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Pasch Brothers.

   Ch. 1126 · 64 Stat. A256 · September 30, 1950 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Gregory Pirro and Nellie Pirro.

   Ch. 1127 · 64 Stat. A257 · September 30, 1950 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Berrum.

   Ch. 1128 · 64 Stat. A257 · September 30, 1950 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Carlo Fava.

   Ch. 1129 · 64 Stat. A258 · September 30, 1950 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Boris Paul von Stuckenberg and wife, Maria Alexander von Stuckenberg.

    Ch. 1130 · 64 Stat. A258 · September 30, 1950 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Mario Juan Blas Besso-Pianetto.

    Ch. 1131 · 64 Stat. A258 · September 30, 1950 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Doctor George Peter Petropoulos.

    Ch. 1132 · 64 Stat. A259 · September 30, 1950 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Colvin Bernard Meik.

    Ch. 1133 · 64 Stat. A259 · September 30, 1950 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Clyde L. Watson, Junior, and Laverne F. Andrews.

    Ch. 1134 · 64 Stat. A259 · September 30, 1950 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act To authorize the Palisades Dam and Reservoir project, to authorize the north side pumping division and related works, to provide for the disposition of reserved space in American Falls Reservoir, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1114 · 64 Stat. 1083 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

16. An Act To provide a system for the treatment and rehabilitation of youth offenders, to improve the administration of criminal justice, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1115 · 64 Stat. 1085 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

17. An Act To amend the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended.

    Ch. 1116 · 64 Stat. 1090 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

18. An Act To promote the development of improved transport aircraft by providing for the operation, testing, and modification thereof.

    Ch. 1117 · 64 Stat. 1090 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

19. An Act Authorizing the transfer of Fort Des Moines, Iowa, to the State of Iowa.

    Ch. 1118 · 64 Stat. 1092 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

20. An Act To continue until the close of June 30, 1951, the suspension of duties and import taxes on metal scrap, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1119 · 64 Stat. 1093 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

21. An Act To authorize the negotiation and ratification of separate settlement contracts with the Sioux Indians of Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota and of Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota and North Dakota for Indian lands and rights acquired by the United States for the Oahe Dam and Reservoir, Missouri River development, and for other related purposes.

    Ch. 1120 · 64 Stat. 1093 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

22. An Act To authorize a $75 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. 1121 · 64 Stat. 1095 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

23. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain real property to the city of Richmond. California.

    Ch. 1122 · 64 Stat. 1096 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

24. Performance Rating Act of 1950

    An Act To provide for the administration of performance-rating plans for certain officers and employees of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1123 · 64 Stat. 1098 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

25. An Act To provide financial assistance for local educational agencies in areas affected by Federal activities, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1124 · 64 Stat. 1100 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

26. An Act To authorize Federal assistance to States and local governments in major disasters, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1125 · 64 Stat. 1109 · September 30, 1950 · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of the city of Chester, Illinois.

    Ch. 1135 · 64 Stat. 1112 · December 11, 1950 · Original text

28. An Act To extend the time limit within which certain suits in admiralty may be brought against the United States.

    Ch. 1136 · 64 Stat. 1112 · December 13, 1950 · Original text

29. An Act To exempt furlough travel of service personnel from the tax on transportation of persons.

    Ch. 1137 · 64 Stat. 1112 · December 15, 1950 · Original text

30. An Act To give a short title to the Act of July 1, 1898, commonly known as the Bankruptcy Act.

    Ch. 1138 · 64 Stat. 1113 · December 20, 1950 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution To continue for a temporary period certain provisions of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended.

    Ch. 1139 · 64 Stat. 1113 · December 20, 1950 · Original text

32. An Act To amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, to clarify the status of freight forwarders and their relationship with motor common carriers.

    Ch. 1140 · 64 Stat. 1113 · December 20, 1950 · Original text

33. An Act To supplement the District of Columbia Teachers’ Leave Act of 1949

    Ch. 1141 · 64 Stat. 1114 · December 20, 1950 · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Master Stanley (Zaehne) Hiller.

    Ch. 1146 · 64 Stat. A260 · December 21, 1950 · Private law · Original text

35. Joint Resolution To amend and extend the provisions of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act, as amended.

    Ch. 1142 · 64 Stat. 1115 · December 21, 1950 · Original text

36. An Act Authorizing the village of Baudette, State of Minnesota, its public successors or public assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Rainy River at or near Baudette, Minnesota.

    Ch. 1143 · 64 Stat. 1115 · December 21, 1950 · Original text

37. An Act To amend the Philippine Property Act of 1946.

    Ch. 1144 · 64 Stat. 1116 · December 21, 1950 · Original text

38. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to effect the settlement of claims for losses and damages inflicted upon the Portuguese territory of Macao by United States Armed Forces during World War II in violation of neutral rights.

    Ch. 1145 · 64 Stat. 1117 · December 21, 1950 · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Kiyomi Kitamura.

    Ch. 1147 · 64 Stat. A260 · December 22, 1950 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Martina Arnaiz Zarandona (Sister Blanca Eugenia).

    Ch. 1148 · 64 Stat. A261 · December 22, 1950 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Victor Francis Oberschall.

    Ch. 1149 · 64 Stat. A261 · December 22, 1950 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Southern Fireproofing Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

    Ch. 1150 · 64 Stat. A261 · December 22, 1950 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Irene George Livanos.

    Ch. 1156 · 64 Stat. A262 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Gerda Moller Uldall and her son, Mikkel Moller.

    Ch. 1157 · 64 Stat. A262 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Shaoul Minashi Shami, Emily Shami, Joseph Clement Shami, and Charles Henry Shami.

    Ch. 1158 · 64 Stat. A262 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Johan Wilhelm Adriaans.

    Ch. 1159 · 64 Stat. A262 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Angela Maria Pisano.

    Ch. 1160 · 64 Stat. A263 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Magdalena L. Jardeleza, Junior.

    Ch. 1161 · 64 Stat. A263 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Chen Hua Huang.

    Ch. 1162 · 64 Stat. A263 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Dionisio Aguirre Irastorza.

    Ch. 1163 · 64 Stat. A264 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Andres Aguirre Irastorza.

    Ch. 1164 · 64 Stat. A264 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Lee Yee Yen.

    Ch. 1165 · 64 Stat. A264 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Barbara Sugihara.

    Ch. 1166 · 64 Stat. A264 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to James Chester Stevens.

    Ch. 1167 · 64 Stat. A265 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the Lamm Lumber Company.

    Ch. 1168 · 64 Stat. A265 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Ella Stufka and her son.

    Ch. 1169 · 64 Stat. A266 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Pamela Bentley.

    Ch. 1170 · 64 Stat. A266 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to execute a quitclaim deed to property owned by Jacob F. Riedel.

    Ch. 1171 · 64 Stat. A267 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Army to grant to the Southern California Edison Company an easement and right-of-way for electric transmission line purposes in the Santa Fe Flood Control Basin and the San Gabriel River Improvement, California.

    Ch. 1172 · 64 Stat. A268 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Enid Louise Noble Romick, Junior.

    Ch. 1173 · 64 Stat. A268 · December 27, 1950 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act To amend Veterans’ Preference Act of 1944 with respect to certain mothers of veterans.

    Ch. 1151 · 64 Stat. 1117 · December 27, 1950 · Original text

62. An Act To amend section 3 of the Postal Salary Act of July 6, 1945.

    Ch. 1152 · 64 Stat. 1117 · December 27, 1950 · Original text

63. An Act Relating to contracts for the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other mechanical devices.

    Ch. 1153 · 64 Stat. 1118 · December 27, 1950 · Original text

64. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer by quitclaim deed to the Brown’s Point Improvement Club a portion of a small strip of land at Coast Guard light station facility, Brown’s Point, Pierce County, Washington, and to transfer by quitclaim deed the remaining portion of such strip to the County of Pierce, State of Washington.

    Ch. 1154 · 64 Stat. 1119 · December 27, 1950 · Original text

65. An Act To authorize the waiver of the navigation and vessel-inspection laws.

    Ch. 1155 · 64 Stat. 1120 · December 27, 1950 · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Stephen A. Patkay and his wife, Madeleine.

    Ch. 1179 · 64 Stat. A269 · December 28, 1950 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Giuseppe Umberto Mantalban-Troy.

    Ch. 1180 · 64 Stat. A269 · December 28, 1950 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Yamaguchi Michiko.

    Ch. 1181 · 64 Stat. A269 · December 28, 1950 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act To amend section 3 (e) of the Civil Service Retirement Act so as to make the exclusion from such Act of temporary employees of the Senate and House of Representatives inapplicable to such employees with one or more years of service.

    Ch. 1174 · 64 Stat. 1120 · December 28, 1950 · Original text

70. An Act Relating to the assignment of surplus clerks in the Postal Transportation Service.

    Ch. 1175 · 64 Stat. 1121 · December 28, 1950 · Original text

71. An Act To extend to certain persons who served in the military, naval, or air service on or after June 27, 1950, the benefits of Public Law Numbered 16, Seventy-eighth Congress, as amended.

    Ch. 1176 · 64 Stat. 1121 · December 28, 1950 · Original text

72. An Act To amend the Act incorporating The American Legion so as to redefine eligibility for membership therein.

    Ch. 1177 · 64 Stat. 1122 · December 28, 1950 · Original text

73. An Act To redefine eligibility for membership in AMVETS (American Veterans of World War II).

    Ch. 1178 · 64 Stat. 1122 · December 28, 1950 · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Ruggiero DiCostanzo.

    Ch. 1186 · 64 Stat. A270 · December 29, 1950 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Marne Post Numbered 28, American Legion, New Martinsville, West Virginia.

    Ch. 1187 · 64 Stat. A270 · December 29, 1950 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Doctor Chao-Jen Chen, Doctor Janet Wang Chen, and Eleanor Chen.

    Ch. 1188 · 64 Stat. A270 · December 29, 1950 · Private law · Original text

77. Yugoslav Emergency Relief Assistance Act of 1950

    An Act To promote the foreign policy and provide for the defense and general welfare of the United States by furnishing emergency relief assistance to Yugoslavia.

    Ch. 1182 · 64 Stat. 1122 · December 29, 1950 · Original text

78. An Act To authorize the construction, operation, and maintenance by the Secretary of the Interior of the Canadian River reclamation project, Texas.

    Ch. 1183 · 64 Stat. 1124 · December 29, 1950 · Original text

79. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,” approved October 15, 1914 (38 Stat. 730), as amended.

    Ch. 1184 · 64 Stat. 1125 · December 29, 1950 · Original text

80. An Act To amend section 333 of title 28 of the United States Code to provide for the attendance at judicial conferences of their respective circuits of the district judges in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone, Hawaii, and Alaska.

    Ch. 1185 · 64 Stat. 1128 · December 29, 1950 · Original text

81. An Act To provide for the review of orders of the Federal Communications Commission under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and of certain orders of the Secretary of Agriculture made under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended, and the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, as amended, and of orders of the United States Maritime Commission or the Federal Maritime Board or the Maritime Administration under the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended, and the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933, as amended.

    Ch. 1189 · 64 Stat. 1129 · December 29, 1950 · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of the Pan American Union.

    Ch. 1190 · 64 Stat. 1133 · December 29, 1950 · Original text

83. An Act Authorizing payment to certain States amounts withheld from grazing fees on public lands.

    Ch. 1191 · 64 Stat. 1133 · December 29, 1950 · Original text

84. An Act To amend the Act of October 5, 1949 (Public Law 322, Eighty-first Congress), so as to extend the time of permits covering lands located on the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation.

    Ch. 1192 · 64 Stat. 1133 · December 29, 1950 · Original text

85. An Act To amend 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. 1193 · 64 Stat. 1134 · December 29, 1950 · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Linda Leo.

    Ch. 1197 · 64 Stat. A271 · January 2, 1951 · Private law · Original text

87. Joint Resolution To authorize the President to issue posthumously to the late Walton Harris Walker, lieutenant general, Army of the United States, a commission as General, Army of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 1198 · 64 Stat. A271 · January 2, 1951 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act To prohibit transportation of gambling devices in interstate and foreign commerce.

    Ch. 1194 · 64 Stat. 1134 · January 2, 1951 · Original text

89. An Act To prevent penalties and additions to tax in case of failure to meet requirements with respect to estimated tax by reason of increases imposed by the Revenue Act of 1950.

    Ch. 1195 · 64 Stat. 1136 · January 2, 1951 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution Amending section 3804 of the Internal Revenue Code.

    Ch. 1196 · 64 Stat. 1136 · January 2, 1951 · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of Frances Ethel Beddington.

    Ch. 1200 · 64 Stat. A271 · January 3, 1951 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Berniece Josephine Lazaga.

    Ch. 1201 · 64 Stat. A271 · January 3, 1951 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Ethelyn Isobel Chenalloy.

    Ch. 1202 · 64 Stat. A272 · January 3, 1951 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Jose Manzano Somera.

    Ch. 1203 · 64 Stat. A272 · January 3, 1951 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the Forest Lumber Company.

    Ch. 1204 · 64 Stat. A272 · January 3, 1951 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the Algoma Lumber Company and its successors in interest, George R. Birkelund and Charles E. SiddaU, of Chicago, Illinois, and Kenyon T. Fay, of Los Angeles, California, trustees of the Algoma Lumber Liquidation Trust.

    Ch. 1205 · 64 Stat. A273 · January 3, 1951 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of the New York Quinine and Chemical Works, Incorporated; Merck and Company, Incorporated; and Mallinckrodt Chemical Works.

    Ch. 1206 · 64 Stat. A274 · January 3, 1951 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Archibald Walter Campbell Seymour.

    Ch. 1207 · 64 Stat. A275 · January 3, 1951 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Tomoko Yamaya.

    Ch. 1208 · 64 Stat. A275 · January 3, 1951 · Private law · Original text

100. Excess Profits Tax Act of 1950

     An Act To provide revenue by imposing a corporate excess profits tax, and for other purposes.

     Ch. 1199 · 64 Stat. 1137 · January 3, 1951 · Original text