Every law Congress has passed

1,784 laws of the 83rd Congress, 1953–1955

1. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Helen Kon.

   Private Law 83-519 · 68 Stat. A115 · July 14, 1954 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Gio Batta Podesta.

   Private Law 83-520 · 68 Stat. A115 · July 14, 1954 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Margarete Hohmann Springer.

   Private Law 83-521 · 68 Stat. A116 · July 14, 1954 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Walter Kuznicki.

   Private Law 83-522 · 68 Stat. A116 · July 14, 1954 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Michael K. Kaprielyan.

   Private Law 83-523 · 68 Stat. A116 · July 14, 1954 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Viktor R. Kandlin.

   Private Law 83-524 · 68 Stat. A116 · July 14, 1954 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Nick Joseph Beni, Junior.

   Private Law 83-525 · 68 Stat. A117 · July 14, 1954 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Gregory Harry Bezenar.

   Private Law 83-526 · 68 Stat. A117 · July 14, 1954 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to John McMeel No. 1.

   Private Law 83-527 · 68 Stat. A117 · July 14, 1954 · Private law · Original text

10. Joint Resolution To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Washington State Fourth International Trade Fair, Seattle, Washington, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-485 · 68 Stat. 368 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

11. An Act To provide that each grant of exchange assignment on tribal lands on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation and the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation shall have the same force and effect as a trust patent, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-483 · 68 Stat. 467 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

12. An Act To promote the apportionment of the waters of the Columbia River and tributaries for irrigation and other purposes by including the States of Nevada and Utah among the States authorized to negotiate a compact providing for such apportionment.

    Public Law 83-484 · 68 Stat. 468 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

13. Joint Resolution To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the International Trade-Sample Fair, Dallas, Texas, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-486 · 68 Stat. 469 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

14. An Act To provide for the disposal of paid postal-savings certificates.

    Public Law 83-487 · 68 Stat. 470 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

15. An Act Conferring jurisdiction on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to hear, determine, and render judgment upon certain claims of the State of California.

    Public Law 83-488 · 68 Stat. 471 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

16. An Act To credit the Shoshone Irrigation District with a share of the net revenues from the Shoshone powerplant, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-489 · 68 Stat. 471 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

17. An Act To remove clouds on the titles of certain lands in Colorado.

    Public Law 83-490 · 68 Stat. 473 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

18. An Act To convey by quitclaim deed certain land to the State of Texas.

    Public Law 83-491 · 68 Stat. 473 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

19. An Act To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, to extend until June 30, 1955, the period during which disposals of surplus property may be made by negotiation.

    Public Law 83-492 · 68 Stat. 474 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

20. An Act To provide for the conveyance of the federally owned lands which are situated within Camp Blanding Military Reservation, Florida, to the Armory Board, State of Florida, in order to consolidate ownership and perpetuate tie availability of Camp Blanding for military training and use.

    Public Law 83-493 · 68 Stat. 474 · July 14, 1954 · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Donald Grant.

    Private Law 83-528 · 68 Stat. A118 · July 15, 1954 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Wong You Henn.

    Private Law 83-529 · 68 Stat. A118 · July 15, 1954 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Eftychios Mourginakis.

    Private Law 83-530 · 68 Stat. A119 · July 15, 1954 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Borivoje Vulich.

    Private Law 83-531 · 68 Stat. A119 · July 15, 1954 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of (Sister) Jane Stanislaus Riederer.

    Private Law 83-532 · 68 Stat. A119 · July 15, 1954 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Karl Ullstein.

    Private Law 83-533 · 68 Stat. A119 · July 15, 1954 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Andor Gellert.

    Private Law 83-534 · 68 Stat. A120 · July 15, 1954 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Elizabeth Just Mayer.

    Private Law 83-535 · 68 Stat. A120 · July 15, 1954 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act To preserve the eligibility of certain veterans to dental outpatient care and dental appliances.

    Public Law 83-494 · 68 Stat. 477 · July 15, 1954 · Original text

30. An Act To provide for the recovery, care, and disposition of the remains of members of the uniformed services and certain other personnel, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-495 · 68 Stat. 478 · July 15, 1954 · Original text

31. An Act To authorize the sale of certain vessels to Brazil for use in the coastwise trade of Brazil.

    Public Law 83-496 · 68 Stat. 481 · July 15, 1954 · Original text

32. An Act To authorize the collection of indebtedness of military and civilian personnel resulting from erroneous payments, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-497 · 68 Stat. 482 · July 15, 1954 · Original text

33. An Act To amend section 12 of the Alaska Public Works Act, approved August 24, 1949 (63 Stat. 629).

    Public Law 83-498 · 68 Stat. 483 · July 15, 1954 · Original text

34. An Act To suspend for two years the duty on crude bauxite and on certain calcined bauxite and to remit the duty on certain bells to be imported for addition to the carillon of The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.

    Public Law 83-499 · 68 Stat. 483 · July 15, 1954 · Original text

35. An Act To provide for the revocation or denial of merchant marine documents to persons Involved in certain narcotics violations.

    Public Law 83-500 · 68 Stat. 484 · July 15, 1954 · Original text

36. An Act To provide for the deposit of savings of enlisted members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-501 · 68 Stat. 485 · July 15, 1954 · Original text

37. An Act Authorizing the President to present a gold medal to Irving Berlin.

    Private Law 83-536 · 68 Stat. A120 · July 16, 1954 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Zygmunt Sowinski.

    Private Law 83-537 · 68 Stat. A121 · July 16, 1954 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Suhula Adata.

    Private Law 83-538 · 68 Stat. A121 · July 16, 1954 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Sugako Nakai.

    Private Law 83-539 · 68 Stat. A121 · July 16, 1954 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Igor Shwabe.

    Private Law 83-540 · 68 Stat. A122 · July 16, 1954 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Julia N. Emmanuel.

    Private Law 83-541 · 68 Stat. A122 · July 16, 1954 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Peter M. Leaming.

    Private Law 83-542 · 68 Stat. A122 · July 16, 1954 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Joseph Cerny.

    Private Law 83-543 · 68 Stat. A123 · July 16, 1954 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Erna White.

    Private Law 83-544 · 68 Stat. A123 · July 16, 1954 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act To correct typographical errors in Public Law 368, Eighty-third Congress.

    Public Law 83-502 · 68 Stat. 485 · July 16, 1954 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution To provide for construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Glendo unit, Wyoming, Missouri River Basin project.

    Public Law 83-503 · 68 Stat. 486 · July 16, 1954 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution To designate the lake to be formed by the completion of the Texarkana Dam and Reservoir on Sulphur River, about nine miles southwest from Texarkana, Texas, as Lake Texarkana.

    Public Law 83-504 · 68 Stat. 487 · July 16, 1954 · Original text

49. An Act To authorize and direct the conveyance of certain lands to the Board of Education of Prince Georges County, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, so as to permit the construction of public educational facilities urgently required as a result of increased defense and other essential Federal activities in the District of Columbia and its environs.

    Public Law 83-505 · 68 Stat. 487 · July 16, 1954 · Original text

50. An Act To further amend title II of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended, to provide for the computation of reenlistment bonuses for members of the uniformed services.

    Public Law 83-506 · 68 Stat. 488 · July 16, 1954 · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Harold Trevor Colbourn.

    Private Law 83-545 · 68 Stat. A123 · July 19, 1954 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Josephine Maria Riss Fang.

    Private Law 83-546 · 68 Stat. A124 · July 19, 1954 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Doctor Helen Maria Roberts (Helen Maria Rebalska).

    Private Law 83-547 · 68 Stat. A124 · July 19, 1954 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Eva Gyori.

    Private Law 83-548 · 68 Stat. A124 · July 19, 1954 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Hildegard H. Nelson.

    Private Law 83-549 · 68 Stat. A125 · July 19, 1954 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Mihai Handrabura.

    Private Law 83-550 · 68 Stat. A125 · July 19, 1954 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act Authorizing the United States Government to reconvey certain lands to S. J. Carver.

    Private Law 83-551 · 68 Stat. A125 · July 19, 1954 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of Kurt Forsell.

    Private Law 83-552 · 68 Stat. A125 · July 19, 1954 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Hanna Werner and her child, Hanna Elizabeth Werner.

    Private Law 83-553 · 68 Stat. A126 · July 19, 1954 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act To incorporate the Board for Fundamental Education.

    Public Law 83-507 · 68 Stat. 409 · July 19, 1954 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the President to appoint to the grade of general in the Army of the United States those officers who, in grade of lieutenant general, during World War II commanded the Army Ground Forces, commanded an Army, commanded Army forces which included a field army and supporting units, or commanded United States forces in China and served as chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek in the China Theater of Operations, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-508 · 68 Stat. 492 · July 19, 1954 · Original text

62. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Government’s grantors certain lands erroneously conveyed by them to the United States.

    Public Law 83-509 · 68 Stat. 493 · July 19, 1954 · Original text

63. An Act To exempt from taxation certain property of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 83-510 · 68 Stat. 493 · July 19, 1954 · Original text

64. An Act To amend paragraph 31 of section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act making Appropriations to provide for 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.

    Public Law 83-511 · 68 Stat. 493 · July 19, 1954 · Original text

65. An Act To permit the payment of certain trust accounts to the beneficiary on the death of the trustee by savings and loan, and similar associations in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 83-512 · 68 Stat. 494 · July 19, 1954 · Original text

66. An Act To permit Investment of funds of insurance companies organized within the District of Columbia in obligations of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

    Public Law 83-513 · 68 Stat. 494 · July 19, 1954 · Original text

67. An Act To repeal the provisions of section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act which prohibits a Federal Reserve bank from paying out notes of another Federal Reserve bank.

    Public Law 83-514 · 68 Stat. 495 · July 19, 1954 · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Sergeant Welch Sanders.

    Private Law 83-554 · 68 Stat. A126 · July 20, 1954 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of the estates of Opal Perkins, and Kenneth Ross, deceased.

    Private Law 83-555 · 68 Stat. A127 · July 20, 1954 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Hatsuko Kuniyoshi Dillon.

    Private Law 83-556 · 68 Stat. A127 · July 20, 1954 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act To provide for the expeditious naturalization of former citizens of the United States who have lost United States citizenship by voting in a political election or plebiscite held in occupied Japan.

    Public Law 83-515 · 68 Stat. 495 · July 20, 1954 · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of Guillermo Morales Chacon.

    Private Law 83-557 · 68 Stat. A128 · July 22, 1954 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act To abolish the offices of Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Register of the Treasury and to provide for an Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs and an additional Assistant Secretary in the Treasury Department.

    Public Law 83-516 · 68 Stat. 496 · July 22, 1954 · Original text

74. Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands

    An Act To revise the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States.

    Public Law 83-517 · 68 Stat. 497 · July 22, 1954 · Original text

75. An Act To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to residues of pesticide chemicals in or on raw agricultural commodities.

    Public Law 83-518 · 68 Stat. 511 · July 22, 1954 · Original text

76. An Act To amend the Public Buildings Act of 1949 to authorize the Administrator of General Services to acquire title to real property and to provide for the construction of certain public buildings thereon by executing purchase contracts; to extend the authority of the Postmaster General to lease quarters for post-office purposes; and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-519 · 68 Stat. 518 · July 22, 1954 · Original text

77. An Act To amend section 24 of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended.

    Public Law 83-520 · 68 Stat. 525 · July 22, 1954 · Original text

78. An Act To amend the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, so as to provide for a variable interest rate, second mortgage security for loans under title I, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-521 · 68 Stat. 525 · July 22, 1954 · Original text

79. An Act To amend certain provisions of part II of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to authorize regulation, for purposes of safety and protection of the public, of certain motor-carrier transportation between points in foreign countries, insofar as such transportation takes place within the United States.

    Public Law 83-522 · 68 Stat. 526 · July 22, 1954 · Original text

80. An Act To provide for the restoration and maintenance of the United States ship Constitution and to authorize the disposition of the United States ship Constellation, United States ship Hartford. United States ship Olympia, and United States ship Oregon, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-523 · 68 Stat. 527 · July 23, 1954 · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of James I. Smith.

    Private Law 83-558 · 68 Stat. A128 · July 26, 1954 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Augusta Selmer-Andersen.

    Private Law 83-559 · 68 Stat. A128 · July 26, 1954 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Nicole Goldman.

    Private Law 83-560 · 68 Stat. A129 · July 26, 1954 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act To provide for the transfer of hay and pasture seeds from the Commodity Credit Corporation to Federal land-administering agencies.

    Public Law 83-524 · 68 Stat. 529 · July 26, 1954 · Original text

85. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands in Alaska to the Rotary Club of Ketchikan, Alaska.

    Public Law 83-525 · 68 Stat. 529 · July 26, 1954 · Original text

86. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands to the Siskiyou Joint Union High School District, Siskiyou County, California.

    Public Law 83-526 · 68 Stat. 530 · July 26, 1954 · Original text

87. An Act To amend section 1 (d) of the Helium Act (50 U. S. C. sec. 161 (d)), and to repeal section 3 (13) of the Act entitled “An Act to amend or repeal certain Government property laws, and for other purposes”, approved October 31, 1951 (65 Stat. 701).

    Public Law 83-527 · 68 Stat. 530 · July 26, 1954 · Original text

88. An Act To continue the effectiveness of the Act of July 17, 1953 (67 Stat. 177).

    Public Law 83-528 · 68 Stat. 531 · July 26, 1954 · Original text

89. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Army to donate twenty-eight paintings to the Australian War Memorial.

    Public Law 83-529 · 68 Stat. 531 · July 26, 1954 · Original text

90. An Act To provide for a White House Conference on Education.

    Public Law 83-530 · 68 Stat. 532 · July 26, 1954 · Original text

91. An Act To authorize cooperative research in education.

    Public Law 83-531 · 68 Stat. 533 · July 26, 1954 · Original text

92. An Act To establish a National Advisory Committee on Education.

    Public Law 83-532 · 68 Stat. 533 · July 26, 1954 · Original text

93. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the interior to purchase improvements or pay damages for removal of improvements located on public lands of the United States in the Palisades project area, Palisades reclamation project, Idaho.

    Private Law 83-561 · 68 Stat. A129 · July 27, 1954 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute an amendatory repayment contract with the Pine River Irrigation District, Colorado, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-533 · 68 Stat. 534 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

95. An Act To authorize certain construction at military and naval installations and for the Alaska Communications System, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-534 · 68 Stat. 535 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

96. An Act To indemnify against loss all persons whose swine were destroyed in July 1952 as a result of having been infected with or exposed to the contagious disease, vesicular exanthema.

    Public Law 83-535 · 68 Stat. 563 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

97. An Act Granting the consent and approval of Congress to the Southeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact.

    Public Law 83-536 · 68 Stat. 563 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the acceptance of conditional gifts to further the defense effort.

    Public Law 83-537 · 68 Stat. 566 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

99. An Act To authorize the Supreme Court of the United States to make and publish rules for procedure on review of decisions of the Tax Court of the United States.

    Public Law 83-538 · 68 Stat. 567 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

100. An Act Authorizing the President to exercise certain powers conferred upon him by the Hawaiian Organic Act in respect of certain property ceded to the United States by the Republic of Hawaii, notwithstanding the Acts of August 5, 1939, and June 16, 1949, or other Acts of Congress.

     Public Law 83-539 · 68 Stat. 567 · July 27, 1954 · Original text