Every law Congress has passed

1,909 laws of the 84th Congress, 1955–1957

1. An Act To amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.

   Public Law 84-264 · 69 Stat. 545 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the conveyance by quitclaim deed of certain land in the Brownsville Navigation District of Cameron County, Texas.

   Public Law 84-265 · 69 Stat. 545 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

3. An Act To amend section 3221 of the Revised Statutes, relating to voluntary liquidation of national banks.

   Public Law 84-266 · 69 Stat. 546 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

4. An Act To amend section 107 of title 28 of the United States Code so as to eliminate separate divisions and reduce the number of places of holding regular terms of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.

   Public Law 84-267 · 69 Stat. 546 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

5. An Act To amend the Small Business Act of 1953.

   Public Law 84-268 · 69 Stat. 547 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

6. An Act To amend the Public Buildings Act of 1949 to provide a five-year limitation on the period of leases of space for Federal agencies in the District of Columbia.

   Public Law 84-269 · 69 Stat. 552 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize adjustment by the Secretary of Agriculture of certain obligations of settlers on projects developed or subject to the Act of August 11, 1939, as amended, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 84-270 · 69 Stat. 552 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

8. An Act To amend the Acts granting the consent of Congress to the State of Connecticut, acting by and through any agency or commission thereof, to construct, maintain, and operate toll bridges across the Connecticut River.

   Public Law 84-271 · 69 Stat. 552 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

9. An Act To amend the Act known as the “Agricultural Marketing Act of 1940”, approved August 14, 1940.

   Public Law 84-272 · 69 Stat. 553 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

10. An Act To amend the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, to modify, clarify, and provide additional authority for insurance of loans.

    Public Law 84-273 · 69 Stat. 553 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

11. An Act To authorize the improvement of the Amite River and its tributaries.

    Public Law 84-274 · 69 Stat. 554 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize the construction within Grand Teton National Park of an alternate route to U. S. Highway 89, also numbered U. S. 187 and U. S. 26, and the conveyance thereof to the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-275 · 69 Stat. 555 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the Pueblos of San Lorenzo and Pojoaque in New Mexico to sell certain lands to the Navaho Tribe, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-276 · 69 Stat. 555 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

14. An Act To repeal a particular contractual requirement with respect to the Arch Hurley Conservancy District hi New Mexico.

    Public Law 84-277 · 69 Stat. 556 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

15. An Act To amend the Act of May 19, 1947 (ch. 80, 61 Stat. 102), as amended, so as to permit per capita payments to the Individual members of the Shoshone Tribe and the Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, to be made quarterly.

    Public Law 84-278 · 69 Stat. 557 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

16. An Act To further amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-279 · 69 Stat. 557 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

17. An Act To amend the Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952 to provide that education and training allowances paid to veterans pursuing institutional on-farm training shall not be reduced for twelve months after they have begun their training.

    Public Law 84-280 · 69 Stat. 558 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to distribute equally to members of the Kaw Tribe of Indians certain moneys to the credit of the tribe in the United States Treasury.

    Public Law 84-281 · 69 Stat. 559 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

19. An Act Authorizing the Administrator of General Services to convey certain land to the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for park and recreational purposes, for an amount equal to the cost to the United States of acquiring such lands from the city.

    Public Law 84-282 · 69 Stat. 559 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

20. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to include capacity to serve the town of Glen do, Wyoming, in a sewerage system to be installed in connection with the construction of Glendo Dam and Reservoir, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-283 · 69 Stat. 560 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

21. An Act To authorize the conveyance of certain war housing projects to the city of Norfolk, Virginia.

    Public Law 84-284 · 69 Stat. 561 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

22. An Act To amend the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-285 · 69 Stat. 562 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

23. An Act To authorize the dual employment of custodial employees in post office buildings operated by the General Services Administration, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-286 · 69 Stat. 575 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

24. An Act To provide recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, the first national monument, established by the President of the United States pursuant to the Antiquities Act of 1906; to authorize the addition of certain land to the monument, to permit land exchanges, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-287 · 69 Stat. 575 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

25. An Act To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as amended.

    Public Law 84-288 · 69 Stat. 576 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

26. An Act To declare the portion of the waterway of West Haven and New Haven, Connecticut, known as the West River, northerly of a line running north 85 degrees 31 minutes 43.5 seconds east from a point whose coordinates in the Corps of Engineers Harbor Line System are north 4,616.76 and west 9.450.80, a non-navigable stream.

    Public Law 84-289 · 69 Stat. 576 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

27. An Act To amend title 14, United States Code, so as to provide for compensatory absence of Coast Guard military personnel serving at isolated aids to navigation, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-290 · 69 Stat. 577 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

28. Joint Resolution To authorize the Texas Hill Country Development Foundation to convey certain land to Kerr County, Texas.

    Public Law 84-291 · 69 Stat. 577 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

29. An Act To amend the rice marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.

    Public Law 84-292 · 69 Stat. 578 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

30. An Act To authorize the conveyance to the city of Anniston, Alabama, of certain real property within Fort McClellan, Alabama.

    Public Law 84-293 · 69 Stat. 578 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

31. An Act To authorize male nurses mid medical specialists to lie appointed as Reserve officers.

    Public Law 84-294 · 69 Stat. 579 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

32. Defense Production Act Amendments of 1955

    An Act To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-295 · 69 Stat. 580 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

33. The Federal Voting Assistance Act of 1955

    An Act Making recommendations to the States for the enactment of legislation to permit and assist Federal personnel, including members of the Armed Forces, and their families, to exercise their voting franchise, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-296 · 69 Stat. 584 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution To provide that a gold medal be coined and presented to Doctor Jonas E. Salk !n honor of his achievements in the field of medicine.

    Public Law 84-297 · 69 Stat. 589 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

35. An Act To extend the authority of the Corregidor Bataan Memorial Commission, anti for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-298 · 69 Stat. 589 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

36. An Act To extend the retirement. Income tax credit to members of the Armed Forces.

    Public Law 84-299 · 69 Stat. 591 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

37. An Act To provide for adjustments in the lands or interests therein acquired for the.Jim Woodruff Reservoir, Florida and Georgia, by the reconveyance of certain lands or interests therein to the former owners thereof.

    Public Law 84-300 · 69 Stat. 591 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

38. An Act To provide for the conveyance of a portion of the former O’Reilly General Hospital, Springfield, Missouri, to the State of Missouri, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-301 · 69 Stat. 592 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

39. An Act To amend the National Defense Facilities Act of 1950 to provide for additional facilities necessary for the admin 1st ration and training of units of The Reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-302 · 69 Stat. 593 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

40. An Act To extend the period during which claims for floor stocks refunds may be filed with respect to certain manufacturers’ excise taxes which were reduced by the Excise Tux Reduction Act of 1951.

    Public Law 84-303 · 69 Stat. 594 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

41. Joint Resolution To establish a Commission on Government Security.

    Public Law 84-304 · 69 Stat. 595 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

42. Reserve Forces Act of 1955

    An Act Ta provide for strengthening of the Reserve Forces, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-305 · 69 Stat. 598 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

43. An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code.

    Public Law 84-306 · 69 Stat. 605 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

44. An Act To convey by Quitclaim deed certain laud to the State of Texas.

    Public Law 84-307 · 69 Stat. 605 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

45. Navy and Marine Corps Officer Augmentation Act of 1955

    An Act To authorize permanent appointments in the United States Navy and in the United States Marine Corps.

    Public Law 84-308 · 69 Stat. 606 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

46. An Act To increase the annual compensation of the Academic Dean of the United States Naval Postgraduate School.

    Public Law 84-309 · 69 Stat. 607 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

47. An Act To amend section 346 of the Revenue Act of 1951.

    Public Law 84-310 · 69 Stat. 607 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

48. An Act To make corn meal aim Wheat flour available to needy persons.

    Public Law 84-311 · 69 Stat. 608 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

49. An Act To provide for adjustments in the lands or interests therein acquired for the Demopolis Lock and Dam, Alabama, by the reconveyance of certain lands or interests therein to the former owners thereof.

    Public Law 84-312 · 69 Stat. 608 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

50. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-313 · 69 Stat. 609 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

51. An Act To amend the provisions of the River and Harbor Act of 1954 which authorize the Secretary of the Army to reimburse local interests for work done on a dredging project at Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, California, during a period ending oh July 1, 1953, by extending that period to November 7, 1953.

    Public Law 84-314 · 69 Stat. 612 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

52. An Act To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to convey certain land to the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

    Public Law 84-315 · 69 Stat. 612 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

53. An Act Granting the consent of rile Congress to the negotiation of a compact relating to the waters of the Klamath River by the States of Oregon and California.

    Public Law 84-316 · 69 Stat. 613 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

54. An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for a maximum manufacturers’ excise tax on the leases of certain automobile utility trailers.

    Public Law 84-317 · 69 Stat. 613 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

55. An Act To amend the Act of February 21, 1940 (60 Stat. 26), to permit the retirement nt temporary officers of the naval service after completion of more than twenty years of active service.

    Public Law 84-318 · 69 Stat. 614 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

56. An Act To amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended.

    Public Law 84-319 · 69 Stat. 615 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

57. An Act To provide for the regulation of tares for the transportation of schoolchildren in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 84-320 · 69 Stat. 616 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

58. An Act To amend section 3401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

    Public Law 84-321 · 69 Stat. 616 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to Investigate and report to the Congress on projects for the conservation, development, and utilization of the water resources of Alaska.

    Public Law 84-322 · 69 Stat. 618 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

60. An Act To provide for the purchase of bonds to cover civilian officers and employees and military personnel of the Federal Government.

    Public Law 84-323 · 69 Stat. 618 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

61. An Act To amend title 14, United States Code, entitled “Coast Guard”, for the purpose of providing Involuntary retirement of certain officers, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-324 · 69 Stat. 620 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

62. An Act To provide wage credits under title II of the Social Secure Act for Military service before April 1956, and to permit application for lump-sum benefits under such title to be made within two years after interment or reinterment in the ease of servicemen dying overseas before April 1956.

    Public Law 84-325 · 69 Stat. 621 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

63. An Act To provide for the sale of certain war housing projects to the Housing Authority of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, for use in providing rental housing for persons of limited income.

    Public Law 84-326 · 69 Stat. 621 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

64. An Act Authorizing modification of the project for flood protection on the San Joaquin River and tributaries, California.

    Public Law 84-327 · 69 Stat. 623 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

65. An Act To revive and reenact the Act “Authorizing the Arkansas-Mississippi Bridge Commission, its public successors or public assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Friar Point, Mississippi., and Helena. Arkansas”, approved May 17, 1939.

    Public Law 84-328 · 69 Stat. 623 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

66. An Act To change the name of Garza-Little Elm Dam, located in Denton County, Texas, to Lewisville Dam.

    Public Law 84-329 · 69 Stat. 624 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

67. An Act To remit the duty on certain bells to be imported for addition to the carillons of The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.

    Public Law 84-331 · 69 Stat. 624 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

68. An Act To prohibit the employment by the Government of the United States of persons who are disloyal or who participate in or assert the right to strike against the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-330 · 69 Stat. 624 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

69. An Act To provide for the conveyance of one and eight-tenths acres of land, more or less, within the Grapevine Dam and Reservoir project to the city of Grapevine, Texas, for sewage disposal purposes.

    Public Law 84-332 · 69 Stat. 625 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

70. An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Codes so as to provide a personal exemption with respect to certain dependents in the Republic of the Philippines.

    Public Law 84-333 · 69 Stat. 625 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

71. An Act To amend section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize relief of accountable officers of the Government, and for other purposes”, approved August 1, 1947 (61 Stat. 720).

    Public Law 84-334 · 69 Stat. 626 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

72. An Act To amend the Act of October 19, 1949, entitled “An Act to assist States in collecting sales and use taxes on cigarettes”.

    Public Law 84-335 · 69 Stat. 627 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

73. An Act To amend the Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Act of 1953, as heretofore amended, so as to permit the disposal thereunder of Plancor Numbered 980 at Institute, West Virginia.

    Public Law 84-336 · 69 Stat. 628 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

74. An Act To authorize the Atomic Energy Commission to pay the salary of a Commissioner during the recess of the Senate, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 84-337 · 69 Stat. 630 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

75. An Act To provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Battles of the Alamo, Goliad, and Sail Jacinto tn the year 1830.

    Public Law 84-338 · 69 Stat. 630 · August 9, 1955 · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Fillipo Mastroianni.

    Private Law 84-439 · 69 Stat. A150 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Mecys Jauniskis.

    Private Law 84-440 · 69 Stat. A150 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act For the relief of Joseph Vyskocil.

    Private Law 84-441 · 69 Stat. A150 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Providing for the conveyance of certain lands to Saint Louis Church of Dunseith, Dunseith, North Dakota.

    Private Law 84-442 · 69 Stat. A151 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act For the relief of Anna Mertikas.

    Private Law 84-443 · 69 Stat. A151 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act For the relief of Ernst Fraenkel and his wife, Hanna Fraenkel.

    Private Law 84-444 · 69 Stat. A151 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Cecile Doriac and her minor child.

    Private Law 84-445 · 69 Stat. A151 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act For the relief of Ladislav Mencl.

    Private Law 84-446 · 69 Stat. A152 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act For the relief of Vasilios Liakopoulos.

    Private Law 84-447 · 69 Stat. A152 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Ingrid Liselotte Poch.

    Private Law 84-448 · 69 Stat. A152 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act For the relief of Monika Schefbanker.

    Private Law 84-449 · 69 Stat. A153 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act For the relief of Chung Poik Cha and her child, Myra Poik Cha.

    Private Law 84-450 · 69 Stat. A153 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act For the relief of Thomas F. Harney, Junior, doing business as the Harney Engineering Company.

    Private Law 84-451 · 69 Stat. A153 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the Bartlett Springs Company and certain others.

    Private Law 84-452 · 69 Stat. A154 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act For the relief of Luise Pempfer (now Mrs. William L. Adams).

    Private Law 84-453 · 69 Stat. A155 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act For the relief of Luise Isabella Chu, also known as Luise Schneider.

    Private Law 84-454 · 69 Stat. A155 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Birgit Camara, also known as Birgit Heinemann.

    Private Law 84-455 · 69 Stat. A155 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Andrew Carrigan.

    Private Law 84-456 · 69 Stat. A155 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Miss Blanca Lina Rionegro.

    Private Law 84-457 · 69 Stat. A156 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Koto Nakagawa.

    Private Law 84-458 · 69 Stat. A156 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Johanna Eckles.

    Private Law 84-459 · 69 Stat. A156 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act For the relief of Mock Jung Shee (Mock Jung Liu).

    Private Law 84-460 · 69 Stat. A157 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Elfriede Rosa (Kup) Kraft.

    Private Law 84-461 · 69 Stat. A157 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Irene C. (Karl) Behrman.

    Private Law 84-462 · 69 Stat. A157 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Ahmet Suat Maykut.

     Private Law 84-463 · 69 Stat. A157 · August 11, 1955 · Private law · Original text