Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of May Ling Ng.

   Private Law 83-84 · 67 Stat. a32 · July 16, 1953 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Angelo Gurisetti Podesta.

   Private Law 83-85 · 67 Stat. a32 · July 16, 1953 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Reverend John T. MacMullen.

   Private Law 83-86 · 67 Stat. a32 · July 16, 1953 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Maria Neglia and Angelo Neglia.

   Private Law 83-87 · 67 Stat. a32 · July 16, 1953 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Doctor Albert Haas.

   Private Law 83-88 · 67 Stat. a33 · July 16, 1953 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Stefanos A. Spilios, also known as Stephen A. Harrison.

   Private Law 83-89 · 67 Stat. a33 · July 16, 1953 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Mieko Kristine.

   Private Law 83-90 · 67 Stat. a33 · July 16, 1953 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Constantinous Tzortzis.

   Private Law 83-91 · 67 Stat. a34 · July 16, 1953 · Private law · Original text

9. Mutual Security Act of 1953

   An Act To amend further the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 83-118 · 67 Stat. 152 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

10. An Act To amend section 12 of chapter V of the Act of June 19, 1934, as amended, entitled “An Act to regulate the business of life insurance in the District of Columbia.”

    Public Law 83-119 · 67 Stat. 162 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

11. An Act To authorize the use of certificates by officers of the Armed Forces of the United States, in connection with certain pay and allowance accounts of military and civilian personnel.

    Public Law 83-120 · 67 Stat. 172 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

12. An Act To facilitate civil-service appoint merit of persons who lost opportunity therefor because of service in the Armed Forces after June 30, 1950, and to provide certain benefits upon appointment.

    Public Law 83-121 · 67 Stat. 173 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

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

    Public Law 83-122 · 67 Stat. 174 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

14. An Act To repeal the authority to purchase discharge from the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps.

    Public Law 83-123 · 67 Stat. 174 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

15. An Act To provide transportation on Canadian vessels between Skagway, Alaska, and other points in Alaska between Haines, Alaska, and other points in Alaska, and between Hyder, Alaska, and other points in Alaska or the continental United States, either directly or via a foreign port, or for any part of the transportation.

    Public Law 83-124 · 67 Stat. 175 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

16. An Act To extend until December 31, 1953, the period with respect to which the excess profits tax shall be effective.

    Public Law 83-125 · 67 Stat. 175 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

17. An Act To authorize the retirement of non-Regular officers of the Army and Air Force having more than thirty years’ active Federal service under the same conditions presently provided for such officers having less than thirty years’ service, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-126 · 67 Stat. 175 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

18. Joint Resolution Continuing the availability of appropriations for the Small Defense Plants Administration for the month of July 1953, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-127 · 67 Stat. 176 · July 16, 1953 · Original text

19. An Act To authorize the employment in n civilian position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense of Lieutenant General Graves Blanchard Erskine, upon retirement from the United States Marine Corps, and for other purposes.

    Private Law 83-92 · 67 Stat. a34 · July 17, 1953 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act To continue the effect of the statutory provisions relating to the deposit of savings for members of the Army and Air Force, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-128 · 67 Stat. 176 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

21. An Act To amend the Act of July 28, 1942 (ch. 528. 56 Stat. 722), relating to posthumous appointments and commissions, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-129 · 67 Stat. 176 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

22. An Act To provide certain construction and other authority for the military departments in time of war or national emergency.

    Public Law 83-130 · 67 Stat. 177 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

23. An Act To provide for the use of the American National Bed Cross in aid of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-131 · 67 Stat. 178 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

24. An Act To amend the Act of May 19, 1947, so as to increase the percentage of certain trust funds held by the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes of the Wind River Reservation which is to be distributed per capita to individual members of such tribes.

    Public Law 83-132 · 67 Stat. 179 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the adoption of a report relating to seepage and drainage damages on the Illinois River, Illinois.

    Public Law 83-133 · 67 Stat. 179 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

26. An Act To allow States during major disasters to use or distribute certain surplus equipment and supplies of the Federal Government.

    Public Law 83-134 · 67 Stat. 180 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

27. An Act To amend the Act of May 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 223), as amended, and the Act of February 14, 1931 (46 Stat. 1111), to remove the limitation upon the rank of the Director of Music, the leader of the Military Academy Band, and to remove the limitation upon the pay of the leader of the United States Naval Academy Band, and to authorize the appointment of the present leader of the United States Navy Band to the permanent grade of commander in the Navy.

    Public Law 83-135 · 67 Stat. 180 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

28. An Act To authorize the exchange of lands of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument, Virginia, for non-Federal lauds.

    Public Law 83-136 · 67 Stat. 181 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

29. An Act To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended.

    Public Law 83-137 · 67 Stat. 181 · July 17, 1953 · Original text

30. An Act Relating to the disposition of certain former recreational demonstration project lands by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the School Board of Mecklenburg County, Virginia.

    Public Law 83-138 · 67 Stat. 182 · July 20, 1953 · Original text

31. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen’s Salary Act of 1953.

    Public Law 83-139 · 67 Stat. 182 · July 20, 1953 · Original text

32. An Act To provide for an additional Assistant Postmaster General in the Post Office Department.

    Public Law 83-140 · 67 Stat. 183 · July 20, 1953 · Original text

33. An Act To authorize films, and related material, for educational use to be transmitted through the mails at the rate provided for books.

    Public Law 83-141 · 67 Stat. 183 · July 20, 1953 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution To provide for the reappointment of Robert V, Fleming as citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Law 83-142 · 67 Stat. 184 · July 23, 1953 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution To provide for the appointment of Owen Josephus Roberts as a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian institution.

    Public Law 83-143 · 67 Stat. 184 · July 23, 1953 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the exchange of lauds acquired by the United States for Prince William Forest, Park, Prince William County, Virginia, for the purpose of consolidating Federal holdings therein, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-144 · 67 Stat. 184 · July 23, 1953 · Original text

37. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain land in Monroe County, Arkansas, to the State of Arkansas.

    Public Law 83-145 · 67 Stat. 185 · July 23, 1953 · Original text

38. An Act To amend the Alaska game law.

    Public Law 83-146 · 67 Stat. 185 · July 23, 1953 · Original text

39. An Act To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, so as to make the exclusion from such Act of temporary employees of Congress inapplicable to such employees who are appointed at an annual rate of salary.

    Public Law 83-147 · 67 Stat. 186 · July 23, 1953 · Original text

40. An Act To amend the existing law to provide for the automatic renewal of expiring live year-level-premium-term policies of United States Government and national service life insurance.

    Public Law 83-148 · 67 Stat. 186 · July 23, 1953 · Original text

41. An Act To quitclaim Interest of the United States to certain land in Placer County, California.

    Private Law 83-93 · 67 Stat. a34 · July 27, 1953 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act To release all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all fissionable materials in certain land in Marion County, Indiana.

    Private Law 83-94 · 67 Stat. a35 · July 27, 1953 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Lee Kwang Nong (George Clifford Roeder).

    Private Law 83-95 · 67 Stat. a35 · July 27, 1953 · Private law · Original text

44. Second Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1954

    An Act Making appropriations for additional independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-149 · 67 Stat. 187 · July 27, 1953 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize an agreement between the United States and Mexico for the joint operation and maintenance by the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, of the Nogales sanitation project, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-150 · 67 Stat. 195 · July 27, 1953 · Original text

46. An Act To extend the duration of the Hospital Survey and Construction Act (title VI of the Public Health Service Act).

    Public Law 83-151 · 67 Stat. 196 · July 27, 1953 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution To authorize the erection of a memorial to Sara Louisa Rittenhouse in Montrose Park, District of Columbia.

    Public Law 83-152 · 67 Stat. 196 · July 27, 1953 · Original text

48. Civil Functions appropriations Act, 1954

    An Act Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-153 · 67 Stat. 197 · July 27, 1953 · Original text

49. An Act Authorizing the State of California to collect tolls for the use of certain highway crossings across the Bay of San Francisco.

    Public Law 83-154 · 67 Stat. 202 · July 27, 1953 · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Marinella Taletti.

    Private Law 83-96 · 67 Stat. a35 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Irene F. M. Boyle.

    Private Law 83-97 · 67 Stat. a36 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Johanna C. Willemsen.

    Private Law 83-98 · 67 Stat. a36 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Betty Robertson and Irene Robertson.

    Private Law 83-99 · 67 Stat. a36 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue to Tom Gwin a patent in fee to certain lands in the State of Mississippi.

    Private Law 83-100 · 67 Stat. a36 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act For the relief of Harue Fukushi.

    Private Law 83-101 · 67 Stat. a37 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act For the relief of Hannelore Mayerl Fulbright.

    Private Law 83-102 · 67 Stat. a37 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Liane Lieu and her son, Peter Lieu.

    Private Law 83-103 · 67 Stat. a38 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act To provide for perfecting the title of C. A. Lundy to certain lands in the State of California heretofore patented by the United States.

    Private Law 83-104 · 67 Stat. a38 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Julia Gamroth.

    Private Law 83-105 · 67 Stat. a38 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of Mrs, Marie Weir.

    Private Law 83-106 · 67 Stat. a39 · July 28, 1953 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act Directing the conveyance of certain property to the city of Rupert, Idaho.

    Public Law 83-155 · 67 Stat. 203 · July 28, 1953 · Original text

62. Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1954

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-156 · 67 Stat. 205 · July 28, 1953 · Original text

63. An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the State of Michigan, acting through the International Bridge Authority of Michigan, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge or series of bridges, causeways, and approaches thereto, across the Saint Marys River, from a point in or near the city of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to a point in the Province of Ontario, Canada”, approved December 16, 1940.

    Public Law 83-157 · 67 Stat. 225 · July 28, 1953 · Original text

64. An Act To amend title 28, United States Code.

    Public Law 83-158 · 67 Stat. 226 · July 28, 1953 · Original text

65. An Act To amend the Color of Title Act.

    Public Law 83-159 · 67 Stat. 227 · July 28, 1953 · Original text

66. An Act To further the policy enunciated in the Act of October 26, 1948 163 Stat. 927), to facilitate public participation in the preservation of sites, buildings, and objects of national significance or interest by providing for a National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States.

    Public Law 83-160 · 67 Stat. 228 · July 28, 1953 · Original text

67. An Act To amend section 303 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (42 Stat. 23).

    Public Law 83-161 · 67 Stat. 229 · July 28, 1953 · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Mary Francine Marconi, Fernanda Guzzi, Anna Ferraro, Mary Laudano, and Julia Pisano.

    Private Law 83-107 · 67 Stat. a39 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Josefine Hoorn (Dmytruk).

    Private Law 83-108 · 67 Stat. a39 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act For the relief of Franciszek Jarecki.

    Private Law 83-109 · 67 Stat. a40 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Tien Koo Chen.

    Private Law 83-110 · 67 Stat. a40 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act For the relief of Ida Baghdassarian.

    Private Law 83-111 · 67 Stat. a40 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Monika Klein.

    Private Law 83-112 · 67 Stat. a41 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Pia Biondi.

    Private Law 83-113 · 67 Stat. a41 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act For the relief of Robert J. Rickards, Conception Sotelo Rickards, and Walter John Rickards.

    Private Law 83-114 · 67 Stat. a41 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Isak Benmuvhar.

    Private Law 83-115 · 67 Stat. a41 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Paul Myung Ha Chung.

    Private Law 83-116 · 67 Stat. a42 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of Clemintina Ferrara, Maria Garofalo, Rosetta Savino, Marla Serra, Albina Zamunner, and Fedora Gazzarrini.

    Private Law 83-117 · 67 Stat. a42 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act For the relief of certain members of the Missionary Sisters of tile Sacred Heart.

    Private Law 83-118 · 67 Stat. a42 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of Constance Brouwer Scheffer.

    Private Law 83-119 · 67 Stat. a43 · July 29, 1953 · Private law · Original text

81. Joint Resolution To permit the entry of five hundred eligible orphans under ten years of age, adopted abroad or to be adopted in the United States by United States citizens serving abroad in the United States Armed Forces or employed abroad by the United States Government.

    Public Law 83-162 · 67 Stat. 229 · July 29, 1953 · Original text

82. An Act To dissolve the Reconstruction finance Corporation, to establish the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-163 · 67 Stat. 230 · July 30, 1953 · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Anastasia John Tsamisis.

    Private Law 83-120 · 67 Stat. a43 · July 31, 1953 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Doctor Peter C. T, Kao.

    Private Law 83-121 · 67 Stat. a44 · July 31, 1953 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Che Kil Bok.

    Private Law 83-122 · 67 Stat. a44 · July 31, 1953 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Helene Olga Iwasenko.

    Private Law 83-123 · 67 Stat. a44 · July 31, 1953 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Hanoi Marie Matuschke.

    Private Law 83-124 · 67 Stat. a44 · July 31, 1953 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Alejandro de la Cruz Hernandez.

    Private Law 83-125 · 67 Stat. a45 · July 31, 1953 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act For the relief of Altoon Saprlchian.

    Private Law 83-126 · 67 Stat. a45 · July 31, 1953 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1046, as amended.

    Public Law 83-164 · 67 Stat. 240 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

91. An Act Relating to certain construction-cost adjustments in connection wit it the Green-fields division of the Sun River irrigation project, Montana.

    Public Law 83-165 · 67 Stat. 241 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

92. Joint Resolution To amend the joint resolution of June 16, 1938, creating the Niagara Fulls Bridge Commission.

    Public Law 83-166 · 67 Stat. 242 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

93. An Act To authorize the conveyance for public-school purposes of certain Federal land In Gettysburg National Military Park, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-167 · 67 Stat. 243 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

94. An Act To extend the benefits of certain provisions of Hie Reclamation Project Act of 1989 to the Arch Hurley Conservancy District, Tucumcari reclamation project. New Mexico.

    Public Law 83-168 · 67 Stat. 243 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

95. An Act To continue in effect certain provisions of section 6 of the Act of February 4, 1887, as amended, relating to military traffic in time of war or threatened war, for the duration of the national emergency proclaimed December 16, 1950, and six months thereafter, or until such earlier date as may be established by concurrent resolution of Congress.

    Public Law 83-169 · 67 Stat. 244 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

96. Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1954

    An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-170 · 67 Stat. 245 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

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

    Public Law 83-171 · 67 Stat. 260 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

98. Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1954

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-172 · 67 Stat. 261 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

99. An Act Making appropriations for tile government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 83-173 · 67 Stat. 278 · July 31, 1953 · Original text

100. An Act To provide for the orderly transaction of the public business in the event of the death, incapacity, or separation from office of a disbursing officer of the military department.

     Public Law 83-174 · 67 Stat. 296 · July 31, 1953 · Original text