Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act For the relief of Leslie A. Batdorf.

   Private Law 85-362 · 72 Stat. A14 · March 15, 1958 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Forest H. Byroade.

   Private Law 85-363 · 72 Stat. A15 · March 15, 1958 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon a certain claim of Mrs. Walter E. von Kalinowski.

   Private Law 85-364 · 72 Stat. A15 · March 15, 1958 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Alex P. Collins.

   Private Law 85-365 · 72 Stat. A15 · March 15, 1958 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act To provide for the issuance of checks and continuation of accounts when there is a vacancy in the office of the disbursing officer for the Post Office Department, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 85-340 · 72 Stat. 34 · March 15, 1958 · Original text

6. An Act To amend section 507 and subsection 602 (a) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended.

   Public Law 85-341 · 72 Stat. 34 · March 15, 1958 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program for the purpose of carrying on certain research and experimentation to develop methods for the commercial production of fish on flooded rice acreage in rotation with rice field crops, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 85-342 · 72 Stat. 35 · March 15, 1958 · Original text

8. An Act To retrocede to the State of Montana concurrent police jurisdiction over the Blackfeet Highway and its connections with the Glacier National Park Road system, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 85-343 · 72 Stat. 35 · March 15, 1958 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize construction of a United States Ship Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.

   Public Law 85-344 · 72 Stat. 35 · March 15, 1958 · Original text

10. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain real property of the United States to the former owners thereof.

    Private Law 85-366 · 72 Stat. A16 · March 17, 1958 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain real property of the United States in Massachusetts to the Woods Hole Yacht Club.

    Private Law 85-367 · 72 Stat. A16 · March 17, 1958 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Catherine Pochon Dike.

    Private Law 85-368 · 72 Stat. A17 · March 17, 1958 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act To provide that the 1955 formula for taxing income of life insurance companies shall also apply to taxable years beginning in 1957.

    Public Law 85-345 · 72 Stat. 36 · March 17, 1958 · Original text

14. An Act Relating to Canal Zone money orders which remain unpaid.

    Public Law 85-346 · 72 Stat. 36 · March 17, 1958 · Original text

15. An Act To authorize, in case of the death of a member of the uniformed services, certain transportation expenses for his dependents.

    Public Law 85-347 · 72 Stat. 36 · March 17, 1958 · Original text

16. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to a Bear River Compact, and for related purposes.

    Public Law 85-348 · 72 Stat. 38 · March 17, 1958 · Original text

17. An Act To amend Public Law 472, Eighty-first Congress, as amended, relative to the attendance of professional personnel of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in graduate schools.

    Public Law 85-349 · 72 Stat. 48 · March 17, 1958 · Original text

18. An Act To authorize the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution to use certain real estate in the District of Columbia as the national headquarters of such society.

    Private Law 85-369 · 72 Stat. A17 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Guido William Grambergs.

    Private Law 85-370 · 72 Stat. A18 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Elias Youssef Mikhael (Ellis Joseph Michael).

    Private Law 85-371 · 72 Stat. A18 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Paul Gustin.

    Private Law 85-372 · 72 Stat. A18 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Martha A. Calvert.

    Private Law 85-373 · 72 Stat. A19 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Heinz August Sehwarz.

    Private Law 85-374 · 72 Stat. A19 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of John P. Souvaldzis.

    Private Law 85-375 · 72 Stat. A19 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Franz Hehn.

    Private Law 85-376 · 72 Stat. A20 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Michael James Bolger.

    Private Law 85-377 · 72 Stat. A20 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Isaac Lidji, Henry Isaac Lidji, and Sylvio Isaac Gattegno.

    Private Law 85-378 · 72 Stat. A20 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Dorene I. Fast.

    Private Law 85-379 · 72 Stat. A21 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of the C-L Electric Company.

    Private Law 85-380 · 72 Stat. A21 · March 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act To clarify the application of navigation rules for the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-350 · 72 Stat. 48 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

31. An Act To increase from $50 to $75 per month the amount of benefits payable to widows of certain former employees of the Lighthouse Service.

    Public Law 85-351 · 72 Stat. 50 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

32. Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1958

    An Act Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-352 · 72 Stat. 50 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

33. Joint Resolution To amend the Act of August 20, 1954, establishing a commission for the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton.

    Public Law 85-353 · 72 Stat. 60 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

34. Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Act, 1959

    An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments and the Tax Court of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-354 · 72 Stat. 61 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

35. An Act To authorize certain persons to wear the uniform of a reserve officers’ training corps.

    Public Law 85-355 · 72 Stat. 66 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

36. District of Columbia Uniform Simultaneous Death Act

    An Act To provide that the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act shall apply in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 85-356 · 72 Stat. 67 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

37. An Act To provide for the transfer of the Civil Service Commission Building in the District of Columbia to the Smithsonian Institution to house certain art collections of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Law 85-357 · 72 Stat. 68 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

38. An Act To provide for the transfer of the Civil Service Commission Building in the District of Columbia to the Smithsonian Institution to house certain art collections of the Smithsonian Institution.

    Public Law 85-358 · 72 Stat. 69 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the conveyance of a fee simple title to certain lands in the Territory of Alaska underlying war housing project Alaska-5008.3, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-359 · 72 Stat. 70 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

40. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in the Second Annual United States World Trade Fair to be held in New York City, New York, from May 7 to May 17, 1958.

    Public Law 85-360 · 72 Stat. 70 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

41. An Act To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Chicago International Fair and Exposition, to be held in July 1959 at Chicago, Illinois, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-361 · 72 Stat. 71 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

42. Joint Resolution To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Washington State Seventh International Trade Fair, Seattle, Washington, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-362 · 72 Stat. 72 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

43. An Act To provide that the Fort Gaines lock and dam on the Chattahoochee River shall hereafter be known and designated as the Walter F. George lock and dam.

    Public Law 85-363 · 72 Stat. 73 · March 28, 1958 · Original text

44. An Act To stimulate residential construction.

    Public Law 85-364 · 72 Stat. 73 · April 1, 1958 · Original text

45. An Act To authorize certain activities by the Armed Forces in support of the VIII Olympic Winter Games, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-365 · 72 Stat. 78 · April 3, 1958 · Original text

46. An Act To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, with respect to wheat acreage history.

    Public Law 85-366 · 72 Stat. 78 · April 4, 1958 · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of Katina Apostolou.

    Private Law 85-381 · 72 Stat. A22 · April 7, 1958 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Yasna Trevizan.

    Private Law 85-382 · 72 Stat. A22 · April 7, 1958 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act For the relief of Tasia J. Somas.

    Private Law 85-383 · 72 Stat. A22 · April 7, 1958 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act To amend section 512 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

    Public Law 85-367 · 72 Stat. 80 · April 7, 1958 · Original text

51. An Act Relating to contracts for the conduct of contract postal stations, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-368 · 72 Stat. 81 · April 7, 1958 · Original text

52. An Act Relating to contracts for the conduct of contract postal stations, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-369 · 72 Stat. 81 · April 7, 1958 · Original text

53. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, rehabilitate, operate, and maintain the lower Rio Grande rehabilitation project, Texas, Mercedes division.

    Public Law 85-370 · 72 Stat. 82 · April 7, 1958 · Original text

54. An Act To revise the laws relating to the handling of short paid and undeliverable mail, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-371 · 72 Stat. 83 · April 9, 1958 · Original text

55. An Act To provide permanent authority for the Postmaster General to establish postal stations at camps, posts, or stations of the Armed Forces, and at defense or other strategic installations, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-372 · 72 Stat. 84 · April 9, 1958 · Original text

56. An Act To amend section 400 (b) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 with respect to the reinvestment by air carriers of the proceeds from the sale or other disposition of certain operating property and equipment.

    Public Law 85-373 · 72 Stat. 84 · April 9, 1958 · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Winifred C. Lydick.

    Private Law 85-384 · 72 Stat. A22 · April 11, 1958 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act For the relief of Louis G. Whitcomb.

    Private Law 85-385 · 72 Stat. A23 · April 11, 1958 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act For the relief of Leonard C. Fink.

    Private Law 85-386 · 72 Stat. A23 · April 11, 1958 · Private law · Original text

60. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to invite the several States and foreign countries to take part in the Fourth International Automation Congress and Exposition to be held in the New York Coliseum at New York, New York, from June 9 to June 13, 1958.

    Public Law 85-374 · 72 Stat. 84 · April 11, 1958 · Original text

61. Power or Train Brakes Safety Appliance Act of 1958

    Joint Resolution To authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission to prescribe rules, standards, and instructions for the installation, inspection, maintenance, and repair of power or train brakes.

    Public Law 85-375 · 72 Stat. 86 · April 11, 1958 · Original text

62. An Act To amend Public Law 85–56 to permit persons receiving retired pay for nonregular service to waive receipt of a portion of that pay to receive pensions or compensation under laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration.

    Public Law 85-376 · 72 Stat. 86 · April 11, 1958 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the payment from the Employees’ Life Insurance Fund of expenses Incurred by the Civil Service Commission in making certain beneficial association assumption agreements and to extend the time for making such agreements.

    Public Law 85-377 · 72 Stat. 86 · April 11, 1958 · Original text

64. An Act To suspend for two years the duty on crude chicory and to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 as it relates to chicory.

    Public Law 85-378 · 72 Stat. 87 · April 16, 1958 · Original text

65. An Act To permit temporary free importation of automobiles and parts of automobiles when intended solely for show purposes.

    Public Law 85-379 · 72 Stat. 87 · April 16, 1958 · Original text

66. An Act To provide exemptions from the tax imposed on admissions for admissions to certain musical and dramatic performances and certain athletic events.

    Public Law 85-380 · 72 Stat. 87 · April 16, 1958 · Original text

67. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1958

    An Act To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat. 355), as amended and supplemented, and the Act approved June 29, 1956 (70 Stat. 374), to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-381 · 72 Stat. 87 · April 16, 1958 · Original text

68. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands to the Charlotte Rudland Dansie Association.

    Private Law 85-387 · 72 Stat. A24 · April 23, 1958 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act To exempt from taxation certain property of the National Council of Negro Women, Incorporated, in the District of Columbia.

    Private Law 85-388 · 72 Stat. A24 · April 23, 1958 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act relating to children born out of wedlock”, approved January 11, 1851.

    Public Law 85-382 · 72 Stat. 97 · April 23, 1958 · Original text

71. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to create a Recreation Board for the District of Columbia, to define its duties, and for other purposes”, approved April 28, 1942.

    Public Law 85-383 · 72 Stat. 97 · April 23, 1958 · Original text

72. An Act To permit certain foreign students to attend the District of Columbia Teachers College on the same basis as a resident of the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 85-384 · 72 Stat. 98 · April 23, 1958 · Original text

73. An Act For the relief of Agapito Jorolan.

    Private Law 85-389 · 72 Stat. A25 · April 24, 1958 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act To authorize the District of Columbia Board of Education to employ retired teachers as substitute teachers in the public schools of the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 85-385 · 72 Stat. 98 · April 24, 1958 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution Making advance procurement appropriations for the fiscal year 1958, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-386 · 72 Stat. 98 · April 24, 1958 · Original text

76. An Act To provide for the transfer of certain lands to the State of Minnesota.

    Public Law 85-387 · 72 Stat. 98 · May 1, 1958 · Original text

77. An Act To facilitate the administration and development of the Whitman National Monument, in the State of Washington, by authorizing the acquisition of additional land for the monument, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-388 · 72 Stat. 101 · May 1, 1958 · Original text

78. An Act To amend the Act of June 28, 1946, authorizing the performance of necessary protection work between the Yuma project and Boulder Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation.

    Public Law 85-389 · 72 Stat. 101 · May 1, 1958 · Original text

79. An Act To amend the acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to provide additional allotments for farms In the Tulelake area, Modoc and Siskiyou Counties, California, for the 1958 and 1959 crops of wheat, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-390 · 72 Stat. 101 · May 1, 1958 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the exchange of certain lands at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument, Colorado, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-391 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 1, 1958 · Original text

81. An Act To revise certain provisions of law relating to the advertisements of mall routes, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-392 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 1, 1958 · Original text

82. An Act To amend the Act of August 3, 1956, to authorize certain personnel of the Uniformed Services to accept and wear decorations conferred by the Philippine Government.

    Private Law 85-390 · 72 Stat. A25 · May 5, 1958 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain four units of the Greater Wenatchee division, Chief Joseph project, Washington, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-393 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 5, 1958 · Original text

84. An Act To clear the title to certain Indian land.

    Private Law 85-391 · 72 Stat. A26 · May 9, 1958 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act For the relief of Henryk Bigajer and Maria Bigajer.

    Private Law 85-392 · 72 Stat. A26 · May 9, 1958 · Private law · Original text

86. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to commemorate with appropriate ceremonies the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Minnesota into the Union.

    Public Law 85-394 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 9, 1958 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the preparation of a roll of persons of Indian blood whose ancestors were members of the Otoe and Missouria Tribe of Indians and to provide for per capita distribution of funds arising from a judgment in favor of such Indians.

    Public Law 85-395 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 9, 1958 · Original text

88. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Indian land to the Diocese of Superior, Superior, Wisconsin, for church purposes, and to the town of Flambeau, Wisconsin, for cemetery purposes.

    Public Law 85-396 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 9, 1958 · Original text

89. An Act To make permanent the existing privilege of free importation of guar seed.

    Public Law 85-397 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 9, 1958 · Original text

90. An Act To extend for two years the existing provisions of law relating to the free importation of personal and household effects brought into the United States under Government orders.

    Public Law 85-398 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 9, 1958 · Original text

91. An Act To increase the equipment maintenance allowance for rural carriers, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-399 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 14, 1958 · Original text

92. Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1958

    An Act Making urgent deficiency appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-400 · 72 Stat. 102 · May 14, 1958 · Original text

93. An Act For the relief of Maud Claer Wahl.

    Private Law 85-393 · 72 Stat. A27 · May 16, 1958 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act For the relief of Hovhannes H. Haidostian.

    Private Law 85-394 · 72 Stat. A27 · May 16, 1958 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act For the relief of Norma Josephine Hodges Dowd.

    Private Law 85-395 · 72 Stat. A27 · May 16, 1958 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act For the relief of John J. Griffin.

    Private Law 85-396 · 72 Stat. A28 · May 16, 1958 · Private law · Original text

97. Joint Resolution To waive certain provisions of section 212 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act in behalf of certain aliens.

    Private Law 85-397 · 72 Stat. A28 · May 16, 1958 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act For the relief of Apolonia Quiles Quetglas.

    Private Law 85-398 · 72 Stat. A29 · May 16, 1958 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of Harry J. Madenberg.

    Private Law 85-399 · 72 Stat. A29 · May 16, 1958 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Maria Dittenberger.

     Private Law 85-400 · 72 Stat. A29 · May 16, 1958 · Private law · Original text