Every law Congress has passed

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

1. Joint Resolution To establish the Woodrow Wilson Centennial Celebration Commission, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 83-705 · 68 Stat. 964 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

2. An Act To discontinue certain reports now required by law.

   Public Law 83-706 · 68 Stat. 966 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

3. An Act To abolish the Commission for the Enlarging of the Capitol Grounds.

   Public Law 83-707 · 68 Stat. 969 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

4. An Act To authorize the United States of America to quitclaim all its right, title, and interest in and to certain lands in Arizona, except for mineral interests therein, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 83-708 · 68 Stat. 969 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

5. An Act Providing for the conveyance by the United States to the Monterey County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, Monterey County, California, of certain lands in Camp Roberts Military Reservation, California, for use as a dam and reservoir site and for other purposes.

   Public Law 83-709 · 68 Stat. 972 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

6. An Act To change the name of Gavins Point Reservoir back of Gavins Point Dam to Lewis and Clark Lake.

   Public Law 83-710 · 68 Stat. 973 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

7. An Act To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain property located in El Paso, Tex., and described as part of Fort Bliss, to the State of Texas.

   Public Law 83-711 · 68 Stat. 974 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

8. An Act To direct the Secretary of the Air Force or his designee to convey certain property located in proximity to San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, to the State of Texas.

   Public Law 83-712 · 68 Stat. 975 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize the conveyance to the State of Texas of approximately 9 acres of land in Houston, Tex., to be used for National Guard purposes.

   Public Law 83-713 · 68 Stat. 977 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

10. An Act To authorize the sale of certain public lands in Alaska to the Alaska Council of Boy Scouts of America for a camp site and other public purposes.

    Public Law 83-714 · 68 Stat. 978 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

11. An Act To authorize the preparation of rolls of persons of Indian blood whose ancestors were members of certain tribes or bands in the State of Oregon, and to provide for per capita distribution of funds arising from certain judgments in favor of such tribes or bands.

    Public Law 83-715 · 68 Stat. 979 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize an appropriation for the construction of certain public-school facilities on the Klamath Indian Reservation at Chiloquin, Oregon.

    Public Law 83-716 · 68 Stat. 980 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

13. An Act Authorizing the transfer of certain property of the United States Government (in Klamath County, Oregon) to the State of Oregon.

    Public Law 83-717 · 68 Stat. 980 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of the city of Fort Smith, Ark.

    Public Law 83-718 · 68 Stat. 982 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

15. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to certain New England States to enter into a compact relating to higher education in the New England States and establishing the New England Board of Higher Education.

    Public Law 83-719 · 68 Stat. 982 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

16. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain land to the State of Oklahoma for the use and benefit of the Eastern Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College at Wilburton, Okla., and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-720 · 68 Stat. 985 · August 30, 1954 · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of Charles W. Gallagher.

    Private Law 83-896 · 68 Stat. A242 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Corporal Robert D. McMillan.

    Private Law 83-897 · 68 Stat. A242 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of John L. de Montigny.

    Private Law 83-898 · 68 Stat. A243 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel Rollins S. Emmerich.

    Private Law 83-899 · 68 Stat. A243 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of the estate of Givens Christian.

    Private Law 83-900 · 68 Stat. A244 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Terrence Waller.

    Private Law 83-901 · 68 Stat. A244 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Reverend Charles V. Rossini.

    Private Law 83-902 · 68 Stat. A244 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Walter P. Sylvester.

    Private Law 83-903 · 68 Stat. A245 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Joseph V. Crimi, father of the minor child, Joseph Crimi.

    Private Law 83-904 · 68 Stat. A245 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Robert Lee Williams.

    Private Law 83-905 · 68 Stat. A246 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Thomas Barron.

    Private Law 83-906 · 68 Stat. A246 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of the McMahon Company, Incorporated.

    Private Law 83-907 · 68 Stat. A246 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Clint Lewis.

    Private Law 83-908 · 68 Stat. A246 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Julio Mercado Toledo.

    Private Law 83-909 · 68 Stat. A247 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Donald James Darmody.

    Private Law 83-910 · 68 Stat. A248 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of Esther E. Ellicott.

    Private Law 83-911 · 68 Stat. A248 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Esther Smith.

    Private Law 83-912 · 68 Stat. A249 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of Doctor Alfred L. Smith.

    Private Law 83-913 · 68 Stat. A249 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of E. C. Mills.

    Private Law 83-914 · 68 Stat. A249 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Florence D. Grimshaw.

    Private Law 83-915 · 68 Stat. A250 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Dennis F. Guthrie.

    Private Law 83-916 · 68 Stat. A250 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Edgar A. Belleau, Senior.

    Private Law 83-917 · 68 Stat. A251 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Emily Wilhelm.

    Private Law 83-918 · 68 Stat. A251 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Catherine (Cathrina) D. Pilgard.

    Private Law 83-919 · 68 Stat. A251 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Frank G. Koch.

    Private Law 83-920 · 68 Stat. A252 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Huntington, McLaren and Company.

    Private Law 83-921 · 68 Stat. A252 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Lyman Chalkley.

    Private Law 83-922 · 68 Stat. A252 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of the Florida State Hospital.

    Private Law 83-923 · 68 Stat. A253 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Petra Ruiz Martinez and Mr. and Mrs. Marcelo Maysonet Mirell.

    Private Law 83-924 · 68 Stat. A253 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of George Eldred Morgan.

    Private Law 83-925 · 68 Stat. A254 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of the survivors of Melvin Edward Williams.

    Private Law 83-926 · 68 Stat. A254 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Chancy C. Newsom and the legal guardian of Susan M. Newsom, a minor.

    Private Law 83-927 · 68 Stat. A255 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Rocco Forgione.

    Private Law 83-928 · 68 Stat. A255 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of James Philip Coyle.

    Private Law 83-929 · 68 Stat. A256 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Captain C. R. MacLean.

    Private Law 83-930 · 68 Stat. A256 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Daniel D. Poland.

    Private Law 83-931 · 68 Stat. A256 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Harold J. Davis.

    Private Law 83-932 · 68 Stat. A257 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act For the relief of Staff Sergeant Frank C. Maxwell.

    Private Law 83-933 · 68 Stat. A257 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain land in the State of Maryland to the Disney-Bell Post 66 of The American Legion, Bowie, Maryland.

    Private Law 83-934 · 68 Stat. A257 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of the estate of Reverend Pang Wha Il.

    Private Law 83-935 · 68 Stat. A258 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of certain Basque sheepherders.

    Private Law 83-936 · 68 Stat. A258 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of the Epes Transportation Corporation.

    Private Law 83-937 · 68 Stat. A259 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Etsuko Tamaki (Shimizu).

    Private Law 83-938 · 68 Stat. A259 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Chaya Frangles.

    Private Law 83-939 · 68 Stat. A260 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act For the relief of Gianni Bernardis.

    Private Law 83-940 · 68 Stat. A260 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act For the relief of Seraphina Papgeorgiou.

    Private Law 83-941 · 68 Stat. A260 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act For the relief of Christine Thum.

    Private Law 83-942 · 68 Stat. A260 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to hear, determine, and render judgment upon a claim of the Bunker Hill Development Corporation.

    Private Law 83-943 · 68 Stat. A261 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act For the relief of certain nationals of Italy.

    Private Law 83-944 · 68 Stat. A261 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of the Portsmouth Sand and Gravel Company.

    Private Law 83-945 · 68 Stat. A262 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act For the relief of Francesco Pugliese.

    Private Law 83-946 · 68 Stat. A262 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Liselotta Kunze.

    Private Law 83-947 · 68 Stat. A263 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.

    Private Law 83-948 · 68 Stat. A263 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act To provide that the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to extend until not later than October 18, 1962, certain timber rights and necessary ingress and egress, and for other purposes.

    Private Law 83-949 · 68 Stat. A264 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Klyce Motors, Incorporated.

    Private Law 83-950 · 68 Stat. A265 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of Kenneth McRight.

    Private Law 83-951 · 68 Stat. A265 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Leo F. Pinder.

    Private Law 83-952 · 68 Stat. A265 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Arthur S. Rosichan.

    Private Law 83-953 · 68 Stat. A266 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Dorothy Kilmer Nickerson.

    Private Law 83-954 · 68 Stat. A266 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Charles J. Abarno and others.

    Private Law 83-955 · 68 Stat. A267 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain public lands in Utah to the occupants of the land.

    Private Law 83-956 · 68 Stat. A270 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of Colonel Samuel J. Adams, and others.

    Private Law 83-957 · 68 Stat. A271 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act To validate a conveyance of certain lands by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and its lessee, Southern Pacific Company, to Morgan Hopkins, Incorporated.

    Private Law 83-958 · 68 Stat. A275 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Cecil Norton Broy.

    Private Law 83-959 · 68 Stat. A276 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Neil O. Hemmer and Mildred Hemmer.

    Private Law 83-960 · 68 Stat. A276 · August 31, 1954 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-721 · 68 Stat. 988 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

83. Joint Resolution To approve the conveyance by the Tennessee Valley Authority of certain public-use terminal properties now owned by the United States.

    Public Law 83-722 · 68 Stat. 997 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

84. Joint Resolution To authorize the President to proclaim the week of November 28, 1954, through December 4, 1954, as “National Salvation Army Week”.

    Public Law 83-723 · 68 Stat. 997 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

85. An Act To provide for renewal of and adjustment of compensation under contracts for carrying mail on water routes.

    Public Law 83-724 · 68 Stat. 998 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

86. An Act To authorize and direct the Investigation by the Attorney General of certain offenses, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-725 · 68 Stat. 998 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

87. An Act To modify the act of October 8, 1940 (54 Stat. 1020), and the act of July 24, 1947 (61 Stat. 418), with respect to the recoupment of certain public school construction costs in Minnesota.

    Public Law 83-726 · 68 Stat. 999 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

88. An Act To provide emergency credit.

    Public Law 83-727 · 68 Stat. 999 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

89. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen’s Salary Act of 1953 to correct certain inequities.

    Public Law 83-728 · 68 Stat. 1000 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

90. An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code to permit the filling of oral prescriptions for certain drugs, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-729 · 68 Stat. 1001 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

91. An Act To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended.

    Public Law 83-730 · 68 Stat. 1004 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

92. An Act To amend Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress, in order to extend for two additional years the program of assistance for school construction under title III of that Act.

    Public Law 83-731 · 68 Stat. 1005 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

93. An Act To postpone the effective date of the 3 per centum “absorption” requirement in Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, for one year.

    Public Law 83-732 · 68 Stat. 1006 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the Commander, Air University, to confer appropriate degrees upon persons who meet all requirements for those degrees in the Resident College of the United States Air Force Institute of Technology.

    Public Law 83-733 · 68 Stat. 1006 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

95. An Act To provide for a reciprocal and more effective remedy for certain claims arising out of the acts of military personnel and to authorize the pro rata sharing of the cost of such claims with foreign nations, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-734 · 68 Stat. 1006 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

96. An Act Authorizing the payment of salary to any individual given a recess appointment as Comptroller General of the United States before the beginning of the Eighty-fourth Congress.

    Public Law 83-735 · 68 Stat. 1007 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

97. Joint Resolution To amend the joint resolution providing for the membership of the United States in the Pan American Institute of Geography and History and authorize appropriations therefor.

    Public Law 83-736 · 68 Stat. 1008 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

98. An Act To amend section 7 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 as amended.

    Public Law 83-737 · 68 Stat. 1008 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

99. An Act To provide for the control and extinguishment of outcrop and under ground fires in coal formations, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-738 · 68 Stat. 1009 · August 31, 1954 · Original text

100. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain land and improvements to the England Special School District of the State of Arkansas.

     Public Law 83-739 · 68 Stat. 1011 · August 31, 1954 · Original text