Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the irrigation works comprising the Foster Creek division of the Chief Joseph Dam project, Washington.

   Public Law 83-540 · 68 Stat. 568 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a certain parcel of land to the city of Clifton, New Jersey.

   Public Law 83-541 · 68 Stat. 569 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

3. An Act To amend the act of September 27, 1950, relating to construction of the Vermejo reclamation project.

   Public Law 83-542 · 68 Stat. 570 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

4. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Breaks Interstate Park Compact.

   Public Law 83-543 · 68 Stat. 571 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

5. An Act To provide for the development of the Priest Rapids site on the Columbia River, Washington, under a license Issued pursuant to the Federal Power Act.

   Public Law 83-544 · 68 Stat. 573 · July 27, 1954 · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Christopher F. Jako.

   Private Law 83-562 · 68 Stat. A129 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Yvonne Linnea Colcord.

   Private Law 83-563 · 68 Stat. A130 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Dean S. Roberts (nee Braun).

   Private Law 83-564 · 68 Stat. A130 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Gerrit Been.

   Private Law 83-565 · 68 Stat. A130 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Szyga (Saul) Morgenstern.

    Private Law 83-566 · 68 Stat. A130 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Nino Sabino Di Michele.

    Private Law 83-567 · 68 Stat. A131 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Irene J. Halkis.

    Private Law 83-568 · 68 Stat. A131 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of Paulus Youhanna Benjamen.

    Private Law 83-569 · 68 Stat. A131 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Rabbi Eugene Feigelstock.

    Private Law 83-570 · 68 Stat. A132 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Albina Sicas.

    Private Law 83-571 · 68 Stat. A132 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Bruno Ewald Paul and Margit Paul.

    Private Law 83-572 · 68 Stat. A132 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Moshe Gips.

    Private Law 83-573 · 68 Stat. A133 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Ishi Washburn.

    Private Law 83-574 · 68 Stat. A133 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Jozo Mandic.

    Private Law 83-575 · 68 Stat. A133 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Olga Balabanov and Nicola Balabanov.

    Private Law 83-576 · 68 Stat. A134 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Gerhard Nicklaus.

    Private Law 83-577 · 68 Stat. A134 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Edward E. Jex.

    Private Law 83-578 · 68 Stat. A134 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Erika Gisela Osteraa.

    Private Law 83-579 · 68 Stat. A134 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Barbara Herta Geschwandtner.

    Private Law 83-580 · 68 Stat. A135 · July 28, 1954 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act To amend the Act of June 29, 1935 (the Bankhead-Jones Act), as amended, to strengthen the conduct of research of the Department of Agriculture.

    Public Law 83-545 · 68 Stat. 574 · July 28, 1954 · Original text

26. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain lands by the United States to the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma.

    Public Law 83-546 · 68 Stat. 575 · July 28, 1954 · Original text

27. An Act Authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, military, and other uses from the Santa Margarita River, California, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-547 · 68 Stat. 575 · July 28, 1954 · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Donka Kourteva Dikova (Dikoff) and her son Nicola Marin Dikoff.

    Private Law 83-581 · 68 Stat. A135 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of (Mrs.) Betty Thornton or Jozsefne Toth.

    Private Law 83-582 · 68 Stat. A135 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Francesco Cracchiolo.

    Private Law 83-583 · 68 Stat. A136 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Pantelis Morfessis.

    Private Law 83-584 · 68 Stat. A136 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Filolaos Tsolakis and his wife, Vassiliki Tsolakis.

    Private Law 83-585 · 68 Stat. A136 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Doctor Samson Sol Flores and his wife, the former Cecilia T. Tolentino.

    Private Law 83-586 · 68 Stat. A137 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Anna Urwicz.

    Private Law 83-587 · 68 Stat. A137 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Josef Radziwill.

    Private Law 83-588 · 68 Stat. A137 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Samuel, Agnes, and Sonya Lieberman.

    Private Law 83-589 · 68 Stat. A138 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Dionysio Antypas.

    Private Law 83-590 · 68 Stat. A138 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Kirill Mihailovich Alexeev, Antonina Ivanovna Alexeev, and minor children, Victoria and Vladimir Alexeev.

    Private Law 83-591 · 68 Stat. A138 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Augusta Bleys (also known as Augustina Bleys).

    Private Law 83-592 · 68 Stat. A139 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Stefan Burda, Anna Burda, and Nikolai Burda.

    Private Law 83-593 · 68 Stat. A139 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Virginia Grande.

    Private Law 83-594 · 68 Stat. A139 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Irene Kramer and Otto Kramer.

    Private Law 83-595 · 68 Stat. A140 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Reverend Ishai Ben Asher.

    Private Law 83-596 · 68 Stat. A140 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of David Maisel (David Majzel) and Bertha Maisel (Berta Pieschansky Majzel).

    Private Law 83-597 · 68 Stat. A140 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Carlo (Adiutore) D’Amico.

    Private Law 83-598 · 68 Stat. A141 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Doctor John D. MacLennan.

    Private Law 83-599 · 68 Stat. A141 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Amalia Sandrovic.

    Private Law 83-600 · 68 Stat. A141 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Anthony N. Goraieb.

    Private Law 83-601 · 68 Stat. A142 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Joseph Robin Groninger.

    Private Law 83-602 · 68 Stat. A142 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Hendrik Van der Tuin.

    Private Law 83-603 · 68 Stat. A142 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Michio Yamamoto.

    Private Law 83-604 · 68 Stat. A143 · July 29, 1954 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act To authorize the construction of naval vessels, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-548 · 68 Stat. 578 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

53. An Act To reenact the authority for the appointment of certain officers of the Regular Navy and Marine Corps.

    Public Law 83-549 · 68 Stat. 579 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

54. An Act Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to convey certain property to the Armory Board, State of Utah.

    Public Law 83-550 · 68 Stat. 579 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

55. An Act To provide for transfer of title to movable property to irrigation districts or water users’ organizations under the Federal reclamation laws.

    Public Law 83-551 · 68 Stat. 580 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

56. An Act To amend the act approved June 27, 1947 (61 Stat. 189).

    Public Law 83-552 · 68 Stat. 580 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

57. Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to sell certain war-built passenger-cargo vessels, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-553 · 68 Stat. 582 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

58. An Act To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949.

    Public Law 83-554 · 68 Stat. 583 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

59. An Act To amend the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended.

    Public Law 83-555 · 68 Stat. 583 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

60. An Act To permit the city of Philadelphia to further develop the Hog Island tract as an air, rail, and marine terminal by directing the Secretary of Commerce to release the city of Philadelphia from the fulfillment of certain conditions contained in the existing deed which restrict further development.

    Public Law 83-556 · 68 Stat. 585 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

61. An Act To amend section 7 (d) of the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended.

    Public Law 83-557 · 68 Stat. 586 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

62. Joint Resolution To strengthen the foreign relations of the United States by establishing a Commission on Governmental Use of International Telecommunications.

    Public Law 83-558 · 68 Stat. 587 · July 29, 1954 · Original text

63. An Act To permit all civil actions against the United States for recovery of taxes erroneously or illegally assessed or collected to be brought in the district courts with right of trial by jury.

    Public Law 83-559 · 68 Stat. 589 · July 30, 1954 · Original text

64. An Act For the relief of Carlos Fortich, Junior.

    Private Law 83-605 · 68 Stat. A143 · August 2, 1954 · Private law · Original text

65. Housing Act of 1954

    An Act To aid in the provision and improvement of housing, the elimination and prevention of slums, and the conservation and development of urban communities.

    Public Law 83-560 · 68 Stat. 590 · August 2, 1954 · Original text

66. An Act To amend section 27 of the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, in order to promote the development of oil and gas on the public domain.

    Public Law 83-561 · 68 Stat. 648 · August 2, 1954 · Original text

67. An Act To provide for two additional Assistant Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, respectively.

    Public Law 83-562 · 68 Stat. 649 · August 3, 1954 · Original text

68. An Act To amend the laws relating to fees charged for services rendered by the office of the Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia and the laws relating to appointment of personnel in such office, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-563 · 68 Stat. 650 · August 3, 1954 · Original text

69. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide an immediate revision and equalization of real-estate values in the District of Columbia; also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes”, approved August 14, 1894, as amended.

    Public Law 83-564 · 68 Stat. 651 · August 3, 1954 · Original text

70. Vocational Rehabilitation Amendments of 1954

    An Act To amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act so as to promote and assist in the extension and improvement of vocational rehabilitation services, provide for a more effective use of available Federal funds, and otherwise improve the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-565 · 68 Stat. 652 · August 3, 1954 · Original text

71. Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act

    An Act To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with States and local agencies in the planning and carrying out of works of improvement for soil conservation, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-566 · 68 Stat. 666 · August 4, 1954 · Original text

72. Employment Security Administrative Financing Act of 1954

    An Act To provide that the excess of collections from the Federal unemployment tax over employment security administrative expenses shall be used to establish and maintain a $200,000,000 reserve in the Federal unemployment account which will be available for advances to the States, to provide that the remainder of such excess shall be returned to the States, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-567 · 68 Stat. 668 · August 5, 1954 · Original text

73. An Act To transfer the maintenance and operation of hospital and health facilities for Indians to the Public Health Service, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-568 · 68 Stat. 674 · August 5, 1954 · Original text

74. An Act To extend emergency foreign merchant vessel acquisition and operating authority of Public Law 101, Seventy-seventh Congress, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-569 · 68 Stat. 675 · August 9, 1954 · Original text

75. An Act To provide for the independent management of the Export-Import Bank of Washington under a Board of Directors, to provide for the representation of the Bank on the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems and to increase the Bank’s lending authority.

    Public Law 83-570 · 68 Stat. 677 · August 9, 1954 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the appropriation of funds for the construction of certain highway railroad grade separations in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-571 · 68 Stat. 678 · August 9, 1954 · Original text

77. An Act Relating to the renewal of star-route and screen vehicle service contracts.

    Public Law 83-572 · 68 Stat. 679 · August 10, 1954 · Original text

78. An Act To approve an amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the North Unit irrigation district, to authorize construction of Haystack Reservoir on the Deschutes Federal reclamation project, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-573 · 68 Stat. 679 · August 10, 1954 · Original text

79. An Act To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to provide a national defense reserve of tankers and to promote the construction of new tankers, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-574 · 68 Stat. 680 · August 10, 1954 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the long term time chartering of tankers and the construction of tankers by the Secretary of the Navy, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-575 · 68 Stat. 681 · August 10, 1954 · Original text

81. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Credit Unions Act.

    Public Law 83-576 · 68 Stat. 682 · August 10, 1954 · Original text

82. An Act To amend certain provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and the Investment Company Act of 1940.

    Public Law 83-577 · 68 Stat. 683 · August 10, 1954 · Original text

83. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to a compact entered Into by the States of Louisiana and Texas and relating to the waters of the Sabine River.

    Public Law 83-578 · 68 Stat. 690 · August 10, 1954 · Original text

84. North Pacific Fisheries Act of 1954

    An Act To give effect to the International Convention for the High Seas Fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean, signed at Tokyo, May 9, 1952, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-579 · 68 Stat. 698 · August 12, 1954 · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Joseph Flury Paluy.

    Private Law 83-606 · 68 Stat. A143 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Gerasimos Giannatos.

    Private Law 83-607 · 68 Stat. A143 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Jeno Cseplo.

    Private Law 83-608 · 68 Stat. A144 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Inger Larsson.

    Private Law 83-609 · 68 Stat. A144 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Robert H. Webster.

    Private Law 83-610 · 68 Stat. A144 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Vasiliki Tountas (nee Vasiliki Georgion Karoumbali).

    Private Law 83-611 · 68 Stat. A145 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of John Doyle Moclair.

    Private Law 83-612 · 68 Stat. A145 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Anni Wolf and her minor son.

    Private Law 83-613 · 68 Stat. A145 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Jan E. Tomczycki.

    Private Law 83-614 · 68 Stat. A146 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Mark Vainer.

    Private Law 83-615 · 68 Stat. A146 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Mona Lisbet Kofoed Nicolaisen, Leif Martin Borglum Nicolaisen, and Ian Alan Kofoed Nicolaisen.

    Private Law 83-616 · 68 Stat. A146 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of certain Chinese children.

    Private Law 83-617 · 68 Stat. A147 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Apostolos Savvas Vassiliadis.

    Private Law 83-618 · 68 Stat. A147 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Stayka Petrovich (Stajka Petrovic).

    Private Law 83-619 · 68 Stat. A147 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Paul E. Rocke.

    Private Law 83-620 · 68 Stat. A148 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Alice Masaryk.

     Private Law 83-621 · 68 Stat. A148 · August 13, 1954 · Private law · Original text