Every law Congress has passed

1,721 laws of the 85th Congress, 1957–1959

1. An Act For the relief of Taeko Takamura Elliott.

   Private Law 85-478 · 72 Stat. A62 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Taka Motoki.

   Private Law 85-479 · 72 Stat. A62 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Herta Wilmersdoerfer.

   Private Law 85-480 · 72 Stat. A62 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Kimiko Araki.

   Private Law 85-481 · 72 Stat. A63 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Cresencio Urbano Guerrero.

   Private Law 85-482 · 72 Stat. A63 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Ryfka Bergmann.

   Private Law 85-483 · 72 Stat. A63 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Prisco Di Flumeri.

   Private Law 85-484 · 72 Stat. A64 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act For the relief of Giuseppina Fazio.

   Private Law 85-485 · 72 Stat. A64 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Teofilo M. Palaganas.

   Private Law 85-486 · 72 Stat. A64 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For the relief of Mildred (Milka Krivec) Chester.

    Private Law 85-487 · 72 Stat. A64 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Souhail Wadi Massad.

    Private Law 85-488 · 72 Stat. A65 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Janez (Garantini) Bradek and Franciska (Garantini) Bradek.

    Private Law 85-489 · 72 Stat. A65 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of John Demetriou Asteron.

    Private Law 85-490 · 72 Stat. A65 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Antonios Thomas.

    Private Law 85-491 · 72 Stat. A66 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

15. Joint Resolution To facilitate the admission into the United States of certain aliens.

    Private Law 85-492 · 72 Stat. A66 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act To provide for the advancement of Major General Claire L. Chennault, United States Air Force, retired, to the grade of lieutenant general on the retired list.

    Private Law 85-493 · 72 Stat. A67 · July 18, 1958 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act To authorize the appointment of one additional Assistant Secretary of State.

    Public Law 85-524 · 72 Stat. 363 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

18. An Act To amend section 401 of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended.

    Public Law 85-525 · 72 Stat. 363 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

19. An Act Granting the consent and approval of Congress to a compact between the State of Connecticut and the State of Massachusetts relating to flood control.

    Public Law 85-526 · 72 Stat. 364 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

20. An Act To provide for the acquisition of additional land to be used in connection with the Cowpens National Battleground site.

    Public Law 85-527 · 72 Stat. 368 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

21. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain land of the United States to the city of Salem. Oregon.

    Public Law 85-528 · 72 Stat. 369 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution To designate the 1st day of May of each year as Loyalty Day.

    Public Law 85-529 · 72 Stat. 369 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

23. An Act To incorporate the Veterans of World War I of the United States of America.

    Public Law 85-530 · 72 Stat. 370 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

24. An Act To cancel certain bonds posted pursuant to the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, or the Immigration and Nationality Act.

    Public Law 85-531 · 72 Stat. 375 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the transfer of naval vessels to friendly foreign countries.

    Public Law 85-532 · 72 Stat. 376 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

26. An Act To provide for the designation of holidays for the officers and employees of the government of the District of Columbia for pay and leave purposes, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-533 · 72 Stat. 377 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

27. An Act To amend section 73 (q) of the Hawaiian Organic Act; to approve and ratify joint resolution 32, session laws of Hawaii, 1957, authorizing the issuance of $14,000,000 in aviation revenue bonds; to authorize certain land exchanges at Honolulu, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, for the development of the Honolulu airport complex; and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-534 · 72 Stat. 379 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

28. An Act To amend an Art extending the authorized taking area for public building construction under the Public Buildings Act of 1926, as amended, to exclude therefrom the area within E and F Streets and Nineteenth Street and Virginia Avenue Northwest, in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 85-535 · 72 Stat. 383 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

29. An Act To amend the Small Business Act of 1953, as amended.

    Public Law 85-536 · 72 Stat. 384 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

30. An Act To amend the Act regulating the business of executing bonds for compensation in criminal cases in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 85-537 · 72 Stat. 396 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

31. An Act To make the provisions of the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act applicable to certain civilian employees of nonappropriated fund Instrumentalities of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-538 · 72 Stat. 397 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

32. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to consolidate the Police Court of the District of Columbia and the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, to be known as ‘The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia’, to create ‘The Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia’, and for other purposes”, approved April 1, 1942, as amended.

    Public Law 85-539 · 72 Stat. 398 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

33. An Act To provide for the addition of certain excess Federal property in the village of Hatteras, North Carolina, to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-540 · 72 Stat. 398 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

34. An Act To amend the charter of Saint Thomas’ Literary Society.

    Public Law 85-541 · 72 Stat. 399 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

35. An Act To amend the Public Buildings Act of 1949, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to name, rename, or otherwise designate any building under the custody and control of the General Services Administration.

    Public Law 85-542 · 72 Stat. 399 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment, and to provide certain services to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, and to permit use of certain lands of the Air Force Academy for use at the Girl Scout Senior Roundup Encampment, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-543 · 72 Stat. 399 · July 18, 1958 · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Laurance F. Safford.

    Private Law 85-494 · 72 Stat. A67 · July 22, 1958 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Leobardo Castaneda Vargas.

    Private Law 85-495 · 72 Stat. A68 · July 22, 1958 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act To amend section 314 (c) of the Public Health Service Act, so as to authorize the Surgeon General to make certain grants-in-aid for provision in public or nonprofit accredited schools of public health of training and services in the fields of public health and in the administration of State and local public health programs.

    Public Law 85-544 · 72 Stat. 400 · July 22, 1958 · Original text

40. An Act Directing the Secretary of the Navy to convey certain land situated in the State of Virginia to the Board of Supervisors of York County, Virginia.

    Public Law 85-545 · 72 Stat. 401 · July 22, 1958 · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of the city of Fort Myers, Florida, and Lee County, Florida.

    Public Law 85-546 · 72 Stat. 402 · July 22, 1958 · Original text

42. An Act To determine the rights and interests of the Navaho Tribe, Hopi Tribe, and individual Indians to the area set aside by Executive order of December 16, 1882, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-547 · 72 Stat. 403 · July 22, 1958 · Original text

43. An Act To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain property located at Boston Neck, Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, to the State of Rhode Island.

    Public Law 85-548 · 72 Stat. 403 · July 22, 1958 · Original text

44. An Act To exempt from taxation certain property of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, Incorporated, in the District of Columbia.

    Private Law 85-496 · 72 Stat. A68 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Brigadier General Chester W. Goble.

    Private Law 85-497 · 72 Stat. A69 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act For the relief of Olive V. Rabiniaux.

    Private Law 85-498 · 72 Stat. A69 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act To provide for the conveyance of the interest of the United States in and to certain fissionable materials in a tract of land in the county of Alamance, State of North Carolina.

    Private Law 85-499 · 72 Stat. A69 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of the Committee of Reference and Counsel of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.

    Private Law 85-500 · 72 Stat. A70 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Carl J. Warneke.

    Private Law 85-501 · 72 Stat. A70 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act For the relief of Mirko J. Pitner.

    Private Law 85-502 · 72 Stat. A70 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act For the relief of Lucia (Castaneda) Sayaan and Gloria (Castaneda) Sayaan.

    Private Law 85-503 · 72 Stat. A71 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act For the relief of Maria Alma Dizon.

    Private Law 85-504 · 72 Stat. A71 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Maria Giannalia.

    Private Law 85-505 · 72 Stat. A71 · July 25, 1958 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act To amend the charter of the National Union Insurance Company of Washington.

    Public Law 85-549 · 72 Stat. 404 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

55. An Act To implement item 1 of a Memorandum of Understandings attached to the treaty of January 25, 1955, entered into by the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Panama with respect to wage and employment practices of the Government of the United States of America in the Canal Zone.

    Public Law 85-550 · 72 Stat. 405 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

56. Joint Resolution To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to promulgate special regulations for the period of the Middle Atlantic Shrine Association Meeting of A. A. O. N. M. S. in September 1958, to authorize the granting of certain permits to Almas Temple Shrine Activities, Incorporated, on the occasions of such meetings, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-412 · 72 Stat. 412 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

57. An Act To increase the compensation of the Superintendent of Schools and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 85-552 · 72 Stat. 414 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

58. An Act To amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. as amended.

    Public Law 85-553 · 72 Stat. 414 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

59. An Act Amending the jurisdiction of district courts in civil actions with regard to the amount in controversy and diversity of citizenship.

    Public Law 85-554 · 72 Stat. 415 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

60. An Act For the relief of the Oceanside-Libby-Union School District, San Diego County, California.

    Public Law 85-555 · 72 Stat. 416 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

61. An Act To amend the Act of August 5, 1953, creating the Corregidor Bataan Memorial Commission.

    Public Law 85-556 · 72 Stat. 416 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

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

    Public Law 85-557 · 72 Stat. 417 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

63. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.

    Public Law 85-558 · 72 Stat. 418 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

64. An Act To authorize the creation of record of admission for permanent residence in the case of certain Hungarian refugees.

    Public Law 85-559 · 72 Stat. 419 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

65. An Act To provide for additional charges to reflect certain costs in the acceptance of business reply cards, letters in business reply envelopes, and other matter under business reply labels for transmission in the mails without prepayment of postage, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-560 · 72 Stat. 420 · July 25, 1958 · Original text

66. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 to require the stadium to be constructed substantially in accordance with certain plans, to provide for a contract with the United States with respect to the site of such stadium, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-561 · 72 Stat. 421 · July 28, 1958 · Original text

67. An Act Designating the reservoir located above Heart-Butte Dam in Grant County, North Dakota, as Lake Tschida, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-562 · 72 Stat. 424 · July 28, 1958 · Original text

68. An Act To revive and reenact the Act authorizing the State Highway Commission of the State of Maine to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge between Lubec, Maine, and Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada.

    Public Law 85-563 · 72 Stat. 424 · July 28, 1958 · Original text

69. An Act To amend the Universal Military Training and Service Act to authorize additional deferments in certain cases.

    Public Law 85-564 · 72 Stat. 424 · July 28, 1958 · Original text

70. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange land and improvements with the city of Redding, Shasta County, California, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-565 · 72 Stat. 425 · July 28, 1958 · Original text

71. An Act Authorizing the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge between International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada.

    Public Law 85-566 · 72 Stat. 425 · July 28, 1958 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange lands comprising a portion of the Estes Park Administrative Site. Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-567 · 72 Stat. 426 · July 28, 1958 · Original text

73. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958

    An Act To provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth’s atmosphere, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-568 · 72 Stat. 426 · July 29, 1958 · Original text

74. An Act To provide for the establishment of townsites, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-569 · 72 Stat. 438 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

75. Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1959

    An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-570 · 72 Stat. 439 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

76. An Act To authorize the construction of modern naval vessels.

    Public Law 85-571 · 72 Stat. 453 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution Amending a Joint resolution making temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1959, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-572 · 72 Stat. 454 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

78. An Act To amend section 12 of the Act of May 29, 1884, relating to research on foot-and-mouth disease and other animal diseases.

    Public Law 85-573 · 72 Stat. 454 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

79. An Act To Insure the maintenance of an adequate supply of anti-hog-cholera serum and hog-cholera virus.

    Public Law 85-574 · 72 Stat. 454 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

80. An Act Giving the consent of Congress to a compact between the State of Oregon and the State of Washington establishing a boundary between those States.

    Public Law 85-575 · 72 Stat. 455 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

81. An Act To authorize travel and transportation allowances in the case of certain members of the uniformed services.

    Public Law 85-576 · 72 Stat. 455 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize civilian personnel of the Department of Defense to carry firearms.

    Public Law 85-577 · 72 Stat. 455 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

83. An Act To amend section 6911 of title 10, United States Code, to provide for the grade, procurement, and transfer of aviation cadets.

    Public Law 85-578 · 72 Stat. 456 · July 31, 1958 · Original text

84. Joint Resolution For the relief of certain aliens.

    Private Law 85-506 · 72 Stat. A72 · August 1, 1958 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of August Widmer.

    Private Law 85-507 · 72 Stat. A72 · August 1, 1958 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act To extend for two years the period for which payments in lieu of taxes may be made with respect to certain real property transferred by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and its subsidiaries to other Government departments.

    Public Law 85-579 · 72 Stat. 456 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

87. Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1959

    An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-580 · 72 Stat. 457 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

88. An Act To amend the Federal Seed Act of August 9, 1939 (53 Stat. 1275), as amended.

    Public Law 85-581 · 72 Stat. 476 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

89. An Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to undertake continuing studies of the effects of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and other pesticides, upon fish and wildlife for the purpose of preventing losses of those invaluable natural resources following application of these materials and to provide basic data on the various chemical controls so that forests, croplands, wetlands, rangelands and other lands can be sprayed with minimum losses of fish and wildlife.

    Public Law 85-582 · 72 Stat. 479 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

90. An Act To amend title 10 of the United States Code to permit enlisted members of the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve to transfer to the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve on the same basis as members of the regular components.

    Public Law 85-583 · 72 Stat. 480 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

91. District of Columbia Police and Firemen’s Salary Act of 1958

    An Act To fix and regulate the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, of the United States Park Police, and of the White House Police, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-584 · 72 Stat. 480 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

92. An Act To amend the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of March 16, 1934, as amended.

    Public Law 85-585 · 72 Stat. 486 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

93. An Act To authorize refunds by the Veterans’ Administration of amounts collected from former servicemen by the Government pursuant to guaranty of life insurance premiums under the original Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1040.

    Public Law 85-586 · 72 Stat. 487 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

94. An Act To readjust equitably the retirement benefits of certain Individuals on the Emergency Officers’ Retired List, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-587 · 72 Stat. 488 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

95. An Act To amend section 6018 of title 10, United States Code, requiring the Secretary of the Navy to determine that the employment of officers of the Regular Navy on shore duty is required by the public interest.

    Public Law 85-588 · 72 Stat. 488 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

96. An Act To authorize loans for the construction of hospitals and other facilities under title VI of the Public Health Service Act, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-589 · 72 Stat. 489 · August 1, 1958 · Original text

97. An Act To authorize appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-590 · 72 Stat. 490 · August 4, 1958 · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Blanca G. Hidalgo.

    Private Law 85-508 · 72 Stat. A73 · August 6, 1958 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Maria Garcia Aliaga.

    Private Law 85-509 · 72 Stat. A73 · August 6, 1958 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Hiroko Ozaki.

     Private Law 85-510 · 72 Stat. A73 · August 6, 1958 · Private law · Original text