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Every law Congress has passed
97,863 laws from 1789 to 2026, as printed in the Statutes at Large, the official record of every act of Congress. 51,799 are public laws; 46,064 are private laws, which apply to named people or places, such as pensions, land claims and relief from debts.
1,640 laws of the 82nd Congress, 1951–1953
An Act To authorize the exchange of certain lands located within, anti in the vicinity of, the Federal Communications Commission’s primary monitoring station, Portland, Oregon.
Public Law 82-320 · 66 Stat. 61 · April 15, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Rumi Takemura.
Private Law 82-559 · 66 Stat. A51 · April 17, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to surrender and convey to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts certain rights of access in and to Chelsea Street in the city of Boston, and for other purposes.
Public Law 82-321 · 66 Stat. 62 · April 17, 1952 · Original text
An Act To amend the Federal Credit Union Act.
Public Law 82-322 · 66 Stat. 63 · April 17, 1952 · Original text
Joint Resolution To designate the lake to be formed by the waters impounded by the Wolf Creek Dam in the State of Kentucky as Lake Cumberland.
Public Law 82-323 · 66 Stat. 63 · April 17, 1952 · Original text
Joint Resolution To provide for setting aside an appropriate day as a National Day of Prayer.
Public Law 82-324 · 66 Stat. 64 · April 17, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Ronald Yee.
Private Law 82-560 · 66 Stat. a52 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Loretta Chong.
Private Law 82-561 · 66 Stat. a52 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Mrs. Michi Masaoka.
Private Law 82-562 · 66 Stat. a52 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Isao Ishimoto.
Private Law 82-563 · 66 Stat. a52 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Dorothea Zirkelbach.
Private Law 82-564 · 66 Stat. a53 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Hideo Ishida.
Private Law 82-565 · 66 Stat. a53 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Hisamitsu Kodani.
Private Law 82-566 · 66 Stat. a53 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Mrs. Carla Mulligan.
Private Law 82-567 · 66 Stat. a54 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Kazuyoshi Hino and Yasuhiko Hino.
Private Law 82-568 · 66 Stat. a54 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Leda Taft.
Private Law 82-569 · 66 Stat. a54 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Mark Yoke Lun and Mark Seep Ming.
Private Law 82-570 · 66 Stat. a54 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act for the relief of Mrs. Aiko Eijima Phillips.
Private Law 82-571 · 66 Stat. a55 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Erika Bammes (Patricia Aim Cox).
Private Law 82-572 · 66 Stat. a55 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Nagakubo (also known as Roy Mervin Nelson).
Private Law 82-573 · 66 Stat. a55 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Eleftherios G. Kokolis.
Private Law 82-574 · 66 Stat. a55 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Joint Michael Jurecek.
Private Law 82-575 · 66 Stat. a56 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Kazumi Yamashito.
Private Law 82-576 · 66 Stat. a56 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Hans Werner Brisco.
Private Law 82-577 · 66 Stat. a56 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Eugene Kline.
Private Law 82-578 · 66 Stat. a56 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Kimberly Ann Cibulski, also known as Belle Lee.
Private Law 82-579 · 66 Stat. a57 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Joseph Yukio.
Private Law 82-580 · 66 Stat. a57 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Thomas A. Trulove, postmaater, and Nolen J. Halyards, assistant postmaster, at Inglewood, California.
Private Law 82-581 · 66 Stat. a57 · April 18, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act To make additional funds available to the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs for direct home and farmhouse loans to eligible veterans, tinder Title III of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended.
Public Law 82-325 · 66 Stat. 64 · April 18, 1952 · Original text
Joint Resolution Making additional appropriations for disaster relief for the fiscal year 1952, and for other purposes.
Public Law 82-326 · 66 Stat. 64 · April 24, 1952 · Original text
Joint Resolution To give the Secretary of Commerce the authority to extend further certain charters of vessels to citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, and for other purposes.
Public Law 82-327 · 66 Stat. 65 · April 30, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Mrs. Marguerite A. Brumell.
Private Law 82-582 · 66 Stat. a57 · May 2, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act To provide for boundary adjustments of the Badlands National Monument, in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes.
Public Law 82-328 · 66 Stat. 65 · May 7, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Mrs. Edith Abrahamovic.
Private Law 82-583 · 66 Stat. a58 · May 8, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Nobuko Hiramoto.
Private Law 82-584 · 66 Stat. a58 · May 8, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Karin Riccardo.
Private Law 82-585 · 66 Stat. a58 · May 8, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act Fer the relief of Holly Prindle Goodman.
Private Law 82-586 · 66 Stat. a59 · May 8, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act To extent the provisions of the Federal Credit Union Act, as amended, to the Virgin Islands.
Public Law 82-329 · 66 Stat. 66 · May 8, 1952 · Original text
An Act To amend section 1716 of title 18, United States Code, to permit the transmission of poisons in the mails to persons or concerns having scientific use therefore, and for other purposes.
Public Law 82-330 · 66 Stat. 66 · May 8, 1952 · Original text
An Act To amend the Act of September 25, 1950, so as to provide that the liability of the town of Mills, Wyoming, to furnish sewerage service under such Act shall not extend to future construction by the United States.
Public Law 82-331 · 66 Stat. 67 · May 8, 1952 · Original text
An Act To increase the salary of the Administrator of Rent Control for the District of Columbia.
Public Law 82-332 · 66 Stat. 67 · May 8, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of May Quan Wong (also known as Quan Shee Wong).
Private Law 82-587 · 66 Stat. a59 · May 9, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Toshiaki Shimada.
Private Law 82-588 · 66 Stat. a59 · May 9, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Kunio Itoh.
Private Law 82-589 · 66 Stat. a59 · May 9, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Gylda Haydel Wagner.
Private Law 82-590 · 66 Stat. a60 · May 9, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Elaine Irving Hedley.
Private Law 82-591 · 66 Stat. a60 · May 9, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize the Attorney General to admit persons committed by State courts to Federal penal and correctional institutions when facilities are available.
Public Law 82-333 · 66 Stat. 68 · May 9, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Senta Ziegler.
Private Law 82-592 · 66 Stat. a60 · May 12, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Andrijana Bradicic.
Private Law 82-593 · 66 Stat. a61 · May 12, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Albert Goldman, postmaster at New York, New York.
Private Law 82-594 · 66 Stat. a61 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Richard A. Seidenberg.
Private Law 82-595 · 66 Stat. a61 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain land on the Chew River to the Tanana Valley Sportsmen’s Association, of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Private Law 82-596 · 66 Stat. a61 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Doctor Eleftheria Paidoussi.
Private Law 82-597 · 66 Stat. a62 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Harumi China Cairns.
Private Law 82-598 · 66 Stat. a62 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Jan Yee Young.
Private Law 82-599 · 66 Stat. a62 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Lydia Daisy Jessie Greene.
Private Law 82-600 · 66 Stat. a63 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Hazel Sau Fong Hee.
Private Law 82-601 · 66 Stat. a63 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Minghan Hammerlind.
Private Law 82-602 · 66 Stat. a63 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Nigel C. 8. Salter-Mathieson.
Private Law 82-603 · 66 Stat. a63 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Patricia Ann Harris.
Private Law 82-604 · 66 Stat. a64 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Yoko Takeuchi.
Private Law 82-605 · 66 Stat. a64 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Lieselotte Maria Kuebler.
Private Law 82-606 · 66 Stat. a64 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Rodney Drew Lawrence.
Private Law 82-607 · 66 Stat. a65 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Motoko Sakurada.
Private Law 82-608 · 66 Stat. a65 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Mare Stefen Alexenko.
Private Law 82-609 · 66 Stat. a65 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Anne de Bainet-Labour.
Private Law 82-610 · 66 Stat. a66 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Hisako Suzuki.
Private Law 82-611 · 66 Stat. a66 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Manami Tago.
Private Law 82-612 · 66 Stat. a66 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Monika Waltraud Fecht.
Private Law 82-613 · 66 Stat. a66 · May 13, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act To provide for the release of the right, title, and interest of the United States in a certain tract or parcel of land conditionally granted by it to the city of Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.
Public Law 82-334 · 66 Stat. 68 · May 13, 1952 · Original text
An Act To authorize and direct the Administrator of General Services to transfer to the Department of the Nary the Government-owned magnesium foundry at Teterboro, New Jersey.
Public Law 82-335 · 66 Stat. 69 · May 13, 1952 · Original text
An Act To authorize the transfer of certain lands of the Blue Ridge Parkway from the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior to the Jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture.
Public Law 82-336 · 66 Stat. 69 · May 13, 1952 · Original text
An Act To amend the Federal Credit Union Act.
Public Law 82-337 · 66 Stat. 70 · May 13, 1952 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction and equipment of a geomagnetic station for the Department of Commerce.
Public Law 82-338 · 66 Stat. 70 · May 13, 1952 · Original text
An Act To authorize certain land, and other property transactions.
Public Law 82-339 · 66 Stat. 70 · May 13, 1952 · Original text
An Act Granting the consent and approval of Congress to the participation of certain Provinces of the Dominion of Canada in the Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact, and for other purposes.
Public Law 82-340 · 66 Stat. 71 · May 13, 1952 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a dam and dike to prevent the flow of tidal waters into North Slough, Coos County, Oregon.
Public Law 82-341 · 66 Stat. 72 · May 13, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Maria Seraphenia Egawa.
Private Law 82-614 · 66 Stat. a67 · May 15, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Hilde Schindler and her minor daughter, Edeline Schindler.
Private Law 82-615 · 66 Stat. a67 · May 15, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Barbara Jean Takada.
Private Law 82-616 · 66 Stat. a67 · May 15, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Carl Himura.
Private Law 82-617 · 66 Stat. a68 · May 15, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act To assist Federal prisoners in their rehabilitation.
Public Law 82-342 · 66 Stat. 72 · May 15, 1952 · Original text
An Act To amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act.
Public Law 82-343 · 66 Stat. 73 · May 15, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Kane Shinohara.
Private Law 82-618 · 66 Stat. a68 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Edi Bertoli, Gino Guglielmi, and Serafinio Ballerini.
Private Law 82-619 · 66 Stat. a68 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Bruno Leo Freund.
Private Law 82-620 · 66 Stat. a69 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Janice Justina King.
Private Law 82-621 · 66 Stat. a69 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Hidemi Nakano.
Private Law 82-622 · 66 Stat. a69 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act Relating to the height of the building known as 2400 Sixteenth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia.
Private Law 82-623 · 66 Stat. a69 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of May Hosken.
Private Law 82-624 · 66 Stat. a70 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Matsuko Kurosawa.
Private Law 82-625 · 66 Stat. a70 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Sister Maria Gasparetz.
Private Law 82-626 · 66 Stat. a70 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Elisabeth Mueller (also known as Elisabeth Philbrick).
Private Law 82-627 · 66 Stat. a71 · May 16, 1952 · Private law · Original text
Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States to proclaim the seven-day period beginning May 18, 1952, as Olympic Week.
Public Law 82-344 · 66 Stat. 73 · May 16, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Doctor Ying Tak Chan.
Private Law 82-628 · 66 Stat. a71 · May 17, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Alcide Orazio Marselli and Angelo Bardelll.
Private Law 82-629 · 66 Stat. a71 · May 17, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting the consent of Congress to a compact entered into by the States of Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico relating to the waters of the Canadian River.
Public Law 82-345 · 66 Stat. 74 · May 17, 1952 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Mrs. Hildegard Pielecki Kennedy.
Private Law 82-630 · 66 Stat. a71 · May 19, 1952 · Private law · Original text
An Act To increase certain pay and allowances for members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
Public Law 82-346 · 66 Stat. 79 · May 19, 1952 · Original text
An Act To amend the excise tax on photographic apparatus.
Public Law 82-352 · May 21, 1952
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- 94th 1975 · 729
- 93rd 1973 · 774
- 92nd 1971 · 769
- 91st 1969 · 942
- 90th 1967 · 1,002
- 89th 1965 · 1,283
- 88th 1963 · 1,026
- 87th 1961 · 1,573
- 86th 1959 · 1,292
- 85th 1957 · 1,721
- 84th 1955 · 1,909
- 83rd 1953 · 1,784
- 82nd 1951 · 1,640
- 81st 1949 · 2,000
- 80th 1947 · 1,365
- 79th 1945 · 1,626
- 78th 1943 · 1,157
- 77th 1941 · 1,489
- 76th 1939 · 1,659
- 75th 1937 · 1,760
- 74th 1935 · 1,724
- 73rd 1933 · 975
- 72nd 1931 · 861
- 71st 1929 · 1,506
- 70th 1927 · 1,722
- 69th 1925 · 1,423
- 68th 1923 · 996
- 67th 1921 · 930
- 66th 1919 · 594
- 65th 1917 · 453
- 64th 1915 · 684
- 63rd 1913 · 700
- 62nd 1911 · 717
- 61st 1909 · 881
- 60th 1907 · 621
- 59th 1905 · 7,020
- 58th 1903 · 4,043
- 57th 1901 · 2,773
- 56th 1899 · 1,959
- 55th 1897 · 1,438
- 54th 1895 · 947
- 53rd 1893 · 712
- 52nd 1891 · 721
- 51st 1889 · 2,188
- 50th 1887 · 1,824
- 49th 1885 · 1,452
- 48th 1883 · 970
- 47th 1881 · 761
- 46th 1879 · 650
- 45th 1877 · 746
- 44th 1875 · 578
- 43rd 1873 · 859
- 42nd 1871 · 1,014
- 41st 1869 · 771
- 40th 1867 · 769
- 39th 1865 · 715
- 38th 1863 · 516
- 37th 1861 · 526
- 36th 1859 · 382
- 35th 1857 · 314
- 34th 1855 · 435
- 33rd 1853 · 540
- 32nd 1851 · 308
- 31st 1849 · 171
- 30th 1847 · 456
- 29th 1845 · 356
- 28th 1843 · 279
- 27th 1841 · 525
- 26th 1839 · 147
- 25th 1837 · 533
- 24th 1835 · 459
- 23rd 1833 · 392
- 22nd 1831 · 461
- 21st 1829 · 370
- 20th 1827 · 234
- 19th 1825 · 269
- 18th 1823 · 337
- 17th 1821 · 237
- 16th 1819 · 210
- 15th 1817 · 262
- 14th 1815 · 305
- 13th 1813 · 271
- 12th 1811 · 208
- 11th 1809 · 119
- 10th 1807 · 106
- 9th 1805 · 110
- 8th 1803 · 112
- 7th 1801 · 96
- 6th 1799 · 115
- 5th 1797 · 157
- 4th 1795 · 86
- 3rd 1793 · 133
- 2nd 1791 · 80
- 1st 1789 · 119
From the U.S. Statutes at Large, volumes 1 through 138, published by the Government Publishing Office on GovInfo; laws signed since the latest printed volume come from GovInfo’s public and private law files. Treaties, proclamations and concurrent resolutions, which share those volumes, are not laws and are left out. The oldest volumes were digitized from print, so a few dates could not be read; for those we show the year from the laws printed alongside. Short names come from each law’s own “may be cited as” clause.