The Register
Every law Congress has passed
97,863 laws from 1789 to 2026, as printed in the Statutes at Large, the official record of every act of Congress. 51,799 are public laws; 46,064 are private laws, which apply to named people or places, such as pensions, land claims and relief from debts.
4,043 laws of the 58th Congress, 1903–1905
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Taylor.
Ch. 1376 · 33 Stat. 1576 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth G. Illsley.
Ch. 1377 · 33 Stat. 1576 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary Jane Mullins.
Ch. 1378 · 33 Stat. 1576 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elijah A. Peyton.
Ch. 1379 · 33 Stat. 1576 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James D. Folsom.
Ch. 1380 · 33 Stat. 1577 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Kittil Torgeson.
Ch. 1381 · 33 Stat. 1577 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Avery.
Ch. 1382 · 33 Stat. 1577 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles A. McKean.
Ch. 1383 · 33 Stat. 1577 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John W. Pearson.
Ch. 1384 · 33 Stat. 1578 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles B. Davis.
Ch. 1385 · 33 Stat. 1578 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William A. Bentley.
Ch. 1386 · 33 Stat. 1578 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Hayward.
Ch. 1387 · 33 Stat. 1578 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. Ross.
Ch. 1388 · 33 Stat. 1578 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Fannie C. Morey.
Ch. 1389 · 33 Stat. 1579 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Annie M. Powell.
Ch. 1390 · 33 Stat. 1579 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Patrick Fleming.
Ch. 1391 · 33 Stat. 1579 · April 16, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize Frank P. Harman to bridge the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River near Delorme, in Mingo County, West Virginia, where the same forms the boundary line between the States of West Virginia and Kentucky.
Ch. 1392 · 33 Stat. 182 · April 18, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the donation of a certain unused and obsolete gun now at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, to Phil Kearny Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, at Nelsonville, Ohio.
Ch. 1393 · 33 Stat. 184 · April 18, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution For the acceptance of a statue of General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, to be presented to the United States by the Polish-American citizens.
Public Resolution 24 · 33 Stat. 588 · April 18, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution As to the provisions of “An Act for the relief of certain settlers on the public kinds, and to provide for the payment of certain fees, purchase money, and commission paid on void entries of public lands,” approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.
Public Resolution 25 · 33 Stat. 589 · April 18, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the relief of certain settlers upon Wisconsin Central Railroad and The Dalles military road land grants.
Ch. 1394 · 33 Stat. 184 · April 19, 1904 · Original text
An Act Granting to the State of Oregon certain lands to be used by it for the purpose of maintaining and operating thereon a fish hatchery.
Ch. 1395 · 33 Stat. 185 · April 19, 1904 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the recorder of the General Land Office to issue certified copies of patents, records, books, and papers.
Ch. 1396 · 33 Stat. 185 · April 19, 1904 · Original text
An Act Providing for the donation of lots A, B, K, and L, in block thirty-nine, in Fort Dalles military addition to The Dalles, Oregon, as shown on the plat of the city of The Dalles, and surroundings, and filed in the local land office at The Dalles, Oregon, to the Oregon Historical Society.
Ch. 1397 · 33 Stat. 185 · April 19, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to transmit original papers to be used as evidence.
Ch. 1398 · 33 Stat. 186 · April 19, 1904 · Original text
An Act Transferring the custody of certain obsolete ordnance to the city of Boston.
Ch. 1399 · 33 Stat. 186 · April 20, 1904 · Original text
An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon United States commissioners over offenses committed in a portion of the permanent Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, Arkansas.
Ch. 1400 · 33 Stat. 187 · April 20, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the relief of the estate of Cyrus D. Hottenstein, deceased.
Ch. 1401 · 33 Stat. 1579 · April 20, 1904 · Private law · Original text
Joint Resolution To permit Major Thomas W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, to assist the State of New York by acting as a member of an advisory board of consulting engineers in connection with the improvement and enlargement of the navigable canals of the State of New York.
Public Resolution 26 · 33 Stat. 1718 · April 20, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1402 · 33 Stat. 189 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of Revised Statutes, so as to provide for detail of retired officers of the Army and Navy to assist in military instruction in schools.
Ch. 1403 · 33 Stat. 225 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act To recognize and promote the efficiency of army chaplains.
Ch. 1404 · 33 Stat. 226 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act To ratify, approve, confirm, and amend an act duly enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii to authorize and provide for the manufacture, distribution, and supply of electric light and power on the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii.
Ch. 1405 · 33 Stat. 227 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act To ratify, approve, and confirm an act duly enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, to authorize and provide for the maintenance and supply of fuel and illuminating gas and its by-products in Honolulu.
Ch. 1406 · 33 Stat. 231 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1407 · 33 Stat. 234 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company (Incorporated) to bridge the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, about one mile east of Matewan, West Virginia, where the same forms the boundary line between the States of West Virginia and Kentucky.
Ch. 1408 · 33 Stat. 238 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act In relation to the location of the navigable channel of the Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana.
Ch. 1409 · 33 Stat. 239 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act Permitting the Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad Company to sell its railroads and properties to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company.
Ch. 1410 · 33 Stat. 240 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the county of Itasca, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a wagon and foot bridge over the Mississippi River, in section twenty-two, township fifty-five north, range twenty-seven west, of the fourth principal meridian.
Ch. 1411 · 33 Stat. 240 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution To authorize the lowering or the height of the Government dams in the Illinois River at Kampsville and Lagrange.
Public Resolution 27 · 33 Stat. 589 · April 21, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend section seventeen of the Act of Congress approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes.”
Ch. 1412 · 33 Stat. 241 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act To establish a life-saving station in Sussex County, State of Delaware.
Ch. 1413 · 33 Stat. 242 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend sections twenty-five hundred and sixty-six and twenty-five hundred and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, so as to remove the port of entry for the district of Pearl River from Shieldsboro to Gulfport, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1414 · 33 Stat. 242 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the reappraisement and sale of the undisposed lands within the Fort Walla Walla Military Reservation, in the State of Washington.
Ch. 1415 · 33 Stat. 243 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act To change the name of Madison, Sampson, and Samson streets to Church street.
Ch. 1416 · 33 Stat. 244 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the laying of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of assessments therefor, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1417 · 33 Stat. 244 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the extension of Eighth street northwest, or Wrights road, District of Columbia.
Ch. 1418 · 33 Stat. 247 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act To provide that a term of the circuit and district court of the United States for the district of Vermont may be held at Newport.
Ch. 1419 · 33 Stat. 249 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend the first section of an Act providing that the circuit court of appeals for the fifth judicial circuit of the United States shall hold at least one term of said court annually in the city of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, approved January thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three.
Ch. 1420 · 33 Stat. 249 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the holding of a regular term of the district and circuit courts of the United States for the western district of Virginia in the city of Bigstone Gap, Virginia.
Ch. 1421 · 33 Stat. 249 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend chapter seven hundred and forty-nine, second session Fifty-seventh Congress, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and three, being “An Act to establish United States courts at Wilkesboro, North Carolina.”
Ch. 1422 · 33 Stat. 250 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act To provide for payment of damages on account of changes of grade due to construction of the Union Station, District of Columbia.
Ch. 1423 · 33 Stat. 250 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the extension of Twenty-third street from S street to California avenue.
Ch. 1424 · 33 Stat. 252 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Authorizing the Librarian of the Library of Congress to deliver to the governor of the State of Vermont a record or records of certain conventions held in Vermont in the years seventeen hundred and seventy-six and seventeen hundred and seventy-seven for the purpose of organizing a State.
Public Resolution 28 · 33 Stat. 589 · April 22, 1904 · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mary A. V. Cook.
Ch. 1425 · 33 Stat. 1580 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Philip J. Harlow.
Ch. 1426 · 33 Stat. 1580 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to William C. Montgomery.
Ch. 1427 · 33 Stat. 1580 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Cephas Kendal Knox.
Ch. 1428 · 33 Stat. 1580 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mary Dewire.
Ch. 1429 · 33 Stat. 1580 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Lucina Heath.
Ch. 1430 · 33 Stat. 1581 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Hedwig A. Maass.
Ch. 1431 · 33 Stat. 1581 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Christian Kloeppel, alias Christian Knupple.
Ch. 1432 · 33 Stat. 1581 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Hattie M. Matheson.
Ch. 1433 · 33 Stat. 1581 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Emeline Simmons.
Ch. 1434 · 33 Stat. 1582 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Rachel Tyson.
Ch. 1435 · 33 Stat. 1582 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Susan Laugherty.
Ch. 1436 · 33 Stat. 1582 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Alonzo Sabin.
Ch. 1437 · 33 Stat. 1582 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Ina D. Burdick.
Ch. 1438 · 33 Stat. 1582 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Johnson.
Ch. 1439 · 33 Stat. 1583 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ann Dawson.
Ch. 1440 · 33 Stat. 1583 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth F. Champlin.
Ch. 1441 · 33 Stat. 1583 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Elizabeth Hopper.
Ch. 1442 · 33 Stat. 1583 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Onslow N. McIntire.
Ch. 1443 · 33 Stat. 1584 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Kate M. A. Mortensen.
Ch. 1444 · 33 Stat. 1584 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Ella Hatfield.
Ch. 1445 · 33 Stat. 1584 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to William L. Rutter.
Ch. 1446 · 33 Stat. 1584 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Adonijah Richards.
Ch. 1447 · 33 Stat. 1584 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Margaret H. Booth.
Ch. 1448 · 33 Stat. 1585 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Anna S. Christopherson.
Ch. 1449 · 33 Stat. 1585 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John F. Rockey.
Ch. 1450 · 33 Stat. 1585 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Julius A. Kaiser.
Ch. 1451 · 33 Stat. 1585 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Harry F. Thompson.
Ch. 1452 · 33 Stat. 1586 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Noah Minnich.
Ch. 1453 · 33 Stat. 1586 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Fyanna E. Myers.
Ch. 1454 · 33 Stat. 1586 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to John M. Bailey.
Ch. 1455 · 33 Stat. 1586 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Oscar A. Phetteplace.
Ch. 1456 · 33 Stat. 1586 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William C. Scott.
Ch. 1457 · 33 Stat. 1587 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John H. Brodrick.
Ch. 1458 · 33 Stat. 1587 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to August Henning.
Ch. 1459 · 33 Stat. 1587 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Minnie C. Wilkins.
Ch. 1460 · 33 Stat. 1587 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Dennis Spurrier.
Ch. 1461 · 33 Stat. 1588 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isom R. New.
Ch. 1462 · 33 Stat. 1588 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James Johnson.
Ch. 1463 · 33 Stat. 1588 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William H. Cooper.
Ch. 1464 · 33 Stat. 1588 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Adam Shiria.
Ch. 1465 · 33 Stat. 1588 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Marshall Cox.
Ch. 1466 · 33 Stat. 1589 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John M. Savoree.
Ch. 1467 · 33 Stat. 1589 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Liberty B. Walters, alias Liberty B. Watters.
Ch. 1468 · 33 Stat. 1589 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Rachel J. Smith.
Ch. 1469 · 33 Stat. 1589 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Bowen.
Ch. 1470 · 33 Stat. 1590 · April 22, 1904 · Private law · Original text
By Congress
- 119th 2025 · 136
- 118th 2023 · 274
- 117th 2021 · 365
- 116th 2019 · 344
- 115th 2017 · 443
- 114th 2015 · 329
- 113th 2013 · 296
- 112th 2011 · 284
- 111th 2009 · 385
- 110th 2007 · 460
- 109th 2005 · 483
- 108th 2003 · 504
- 107th 2001 · 337
- 106th 1999 · 604
- 105th 1997 · 404
- 104th 1995 · 337
- 103rd 1993 · 473
- 102nd 1991 · 610
- 101st 1989 · 666
- 100th 1987 · 761
- 99th 1985 · 688
- 98th 1983 · 677
- 97th 1981 · 529
- 96th 1979 · 736
- 95th 1977 · 805
- 94th 1975 · 729
- 93rd 1973 · 774
- 92nd 1971 · 769
- 91st 1969 · 942
- 90th 1967 · 1,002
- 89th 1965 · 1,283
- 88th 1963 · 1,026
- 87th 1961 · 1,573
- 86th 1959 · 1,292
- 85th 1957 · 1,721
- 84th 1955 · 1,909
- 83rd 1953 · 1,784
- 82nd 1951 · 1,640
- 81st 1949 · 2,000
- 80th 1947 · 1,365
- 79th 1945 · 1,626
- 78th 1943 · 1,157
- 77th 1941 · 1,489
- 76th 1939 · 1,659
- 75th 1937 · 1,760
- 74th 1935 · 1,724
- 73rd 1933 · 975
- 72nd 1931 · 861
- 71st 1929 · 1,506
- 70th 1927 · 1,722
- 69th 1925 · 1,423
- 68th 1923 · 996
- 67th 1921 · 930
- 66th 1919 · 594
- 65th 1917 · 453
- 64th 1915 · 684
- 63rd 1913 · 700
- 62nd 1911 · 717
- 61st 1909 · 881
- 60th 1907 · 621
- 59th 1905 · 7,020
- 58th 1903 · 4,043
- 57th 1901 · 2,773
- 56th 1899 · 1,959
- 55th 1897 · 1,438
- 54th 1895 · 947
- 53rd 1893 · 712
- 52nd 1891 · 721
- 51st 1889 · 2,188
- 50th 1887 · 1,824
- 49th 1885 · 1,452
- 48th 1883 · 970
- 47th 1881 · 761
- 46th 1879 · 650
- 45th 1877 · 746
- 44th 1875 · 578
- 43rd 1873 · 859
- 42nd 1871 · 1,014
- 41st 1869 · 771
- 40th 1867 · 769
- 39th 1865 · 715
- 38th 1863 · 516
- 37th 1861 · 526
- 36th 1859 · 382
- 35th 1857 · 314
- 34th 1855 · 435
- 33rd 1853 · 540
- 32nd 1851 · 308
- 31st 1849 · 171
- 30th 1847 · 456
- 29th 1845 · 356
- 28th 1843 · 279
- 27th 1841 · 525
- 26th 1839 · 147
- 25th 1837 · 533
- 24th 1835 · 459
- 23rd 1833 · 392
- 22nd 1831 · 461
- 21st 1829 · 370
- 20th 1827 · 234
- 19th 1825 · 269
- 18th 1823 · 337
- 17th 1821 · 237
- 16th 1819 · 210
- 15th 1817 · 262
- 14th 1815 · 305
- 13th 1813 · 271
- 12th 1811 · 208
- 11th 1809 · 119
- 10th 1807 · 106
- 9th 1805 · 110
- 8th 1803 · 112
- 7th 1801 · 96
- 6th 1799 · 115
- 5th 1797 · 157
- 4th 1795 · 86
- 3rd 1793 · 133
- 2nd 1791 · 80
- 1st 1789 · 119
From the U.S. Statutes at Large, volumes 1 through 138, published by the Government Publishing Office on GovInfo; laws signed since the latest printed volume come from GovInfo’s public and private law files. Treaties, proclamations and concurrent resolutions, which share those volumes, are not laws and are left out. The oldest volumes were digitized from print, so a few dates could not be read; for those we show the year from the laws printed alongside. Short names come from each law’s own “may be cited as” clause.