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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 For the widening of V street northwest.
Ch. 1769 · 33 Stat. 520 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To establish a life-saving station at or near the entrance to Tillamook Bay, Oregon.
Ch. 1770 · 33 Stat. 522 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the opening of connecting highways on the east and west sides of the Zoological Park, District of Columbia.
Ch. 1771 · 33 Stat. 522 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to extend the coal-land laws to the district of Alaska,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred.
Ch. 1772 · 33 Stat. 525 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Supplemental to and amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred.
Ch. 1773 · 33 Stat. 526 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the protection of the Bull Run Forest Reserve and the sources of the water supply of the city of Portland, State of Oregon.
Ch. 1774 · 33 Stat. 526 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To expedite business in the district court of the United States for the district of Oregon.
Ch. 1775 · 33 Stat. 527 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Providing for second and additional homestead entries, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1776 · 33 Stat. 527 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the construction of a wagon, toll, and electric railway bridge over the Missouri River at Lexington, Missouri.
Ch. 1777 · 33 Stat. 528 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend and codify the laws relating to municipal corporations in the district of Alaska.
Ch. 1778 · 33 Stat. 529 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the extension of Albemarle street.
Ch. 1779 · 33 Stat. 534 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To grant to the State of Minnesota certain lands for forestry purposes.
Ch. 1780 · 33 Stat. 536 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad Company and its lessee, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, to build and maintain bridges or other structures for their railroad across the Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Harlem River north of the Harlem River pier and bulkhead lines as now established in the city of New York.
Ch. 1781 · 33 Stat. 537 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Validating certain conveyances of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and the Northern Pacific Railway Company.
Ch. 1782 · 33 Stat. 538 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional assistant appraiser at the port of Boston.
Ch. 1783 · 33 Stat. 538 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes, approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, making appropriation for improving Trinity River, Texas.
Ch. 1784 · 33 Stat. 538 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Making Lewes, Delaware, a subport of entry.
Ch. 1785 · 33 Stat. 539 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To provide allotments to Indians on White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
Ch. 1786 · 33 Stat. 539 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To provide for the care and support of insane persons in the Indian Territory.
Ch. 1787 · 33 Stat. 539 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the counties of Sherburne and Wright, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River," approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and four.
Ch. 1788 · 33 Stat. 540 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the board of county commissioners of the county of Hampden, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to construct a bridge across the Connecticut River between Chicopee and West Springfield, in said county and Commonwealth.
Ch. 1789 · 33 Stat. 541 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act granting a charter to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs," approved March third, nineteen hundred and one.
Ch. 1790 · 33 Stat. 542 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents.”
Ch. 1791 · 33 Stat. 542 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To provide for an additional associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico.
Ch. 1792 · 33 Stat. 542 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee," approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
Ch. 1793 · 33 Stat. 543 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to add to the segregation of coal and asphalt lands in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, Indian Territory, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1794 · 33 Stat. 544 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To confirm the title to lots three, four, and five in square numbered nine hundred and seventy-nine, in Washington, in the District of Columbia.
Ch. 1795 · 33 Stat. 544 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend section twenty-three hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to lands.
Ch. 1796 · 33 Stat. 545 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To change and fix the time for holding the district and circuit courts for the northern division of the eastern district of Tennessee.
Ch. 1797 · 33 Stat. 545 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To revive and amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Shreveport Bridge and Terminal Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Red River, in the State of Louisiana, at or near Shreveport."
Ch. 1798 · 33 Stat. 546 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the courts of county commissioners of Houston and Dale counties, Alabama, to construct a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River between Houston and Dale counties, Alabama.
Ch. 1799 · 33 Stat. 546 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To create a new division of the southern judicial district of Iowa, and to provide for terms of court at Davenport, Iowa, and for a clerk for said court, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1800 · 33 Stat. 546 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend the homestead laws as to certain unappropriated and unreserved lands in Nebraska.
Ch. 1801 · 33 Stat. 547 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Establishing a regular term of the United States circuit and district courts at Lewisburg, West Virginia.
Ch. 1802 · 33 Stat. 548 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend section six of “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge by the New York, Chicago and Saint Louis Railroad Company and the Chicago and Erie Railroad Company across the Calumet River at or near the city of Hammond, Indiana, at a point about one thousand two hundred feet east of the Indiana and Illinois State line and about one hundred feet east of the location of the present bridge of the New York, Chicago and Saint Louis Railroad Company across said River; also to authorize the construction of a bridge by the Chicago and State Line Railroad Company across said river at the point where said company's railroad crosses said river in Hyde Park Township, Chicago, Illinois, being at the location of the present bridge of said company across said river in said township,” approved July first, nineteen hundred and two.
Ch. 1803 · 33 Stat. 548 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the navigable waters of Saint Andrews Bay.
Ch. 1804 · 33 Stat. 549 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Establishing a regular term of the United States circuit and district courts at East Saint Louis, Illinois.
Ch. 1805 · 33 Stat. 550 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act In relation to pharmacy in the Indian Territory.
Ch. 1806 · 33 Stat. 550 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Providing for the removal of the port of entry in the customs collection district in Alaska from Sitka, Alaska, to Juneau, Alaska.
Ch. 1807 · 33 Stat. 554 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia.”
Ch. 1808 · 33 Stat. 554 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To prevent the fraudulent sale of merchandise in the District of Columbia.
Ch. 1809 · 33 Stat. 555 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the relief of small-holding settlers within the limits of the grant of land to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company in the Territory of New Mexico.
Ch. 1810 · 33 Stat. 556 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To ratify and confirm Act Numbered Forty-seven of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Arizona.
Ch. 1811 · 33 Stat. 556 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the Union Pioneer Mining and Trading Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Catalla Creek, in the district of Alaska.
Ch. 1812 · 33 Stat. 560 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Creating a commission to consider and recommend legislation for the development of the American merchant marine, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1813 · 33 Stat. 561 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To provide for the construction of a light-house and fog signal at Diamond Shoal, on the coast of North Carolina, at Cape Hatteras.
Ch. 1814 · 33 Stat. 561 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend the law relating to taxation in the District of Columbia.
Ch. 1815 · 33 Stat. 563 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Confirming the removal of restrictions upon alienation by the Puyallup Indians of the State of Washington of their allotted lands.
Ch. 1816 · 33 Stat. 565 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act to prohibit the passage of special or local laws in the Territories, to limit the Territorial indebtedness, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1817 · 33 Stat. 565 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Amending an Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the United States, by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and sea, in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri.”
Ch. 1818 · 33 Stat. 566 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To permit the construction of a smelter on the Colville Indian Reservation, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1819 · 33 Stat. 567 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians located upon the Grande Ronde Reservation, in the State of Oregon, and to make an appropriation to carry the same into effect.
Ch. 1820 · 33 Stat. 567 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Ox Bow Power Company, of South Dakota, to construct a dam across the Missouri River.
Ch. 1821 · 33 Stat. 570 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the payment of the Choctaw and Chickasaw town-site fund, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1822 · 33 Stat. 571 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Paragould and Memphis Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Saint Francis River.
Ch. 1823 · 33 Stat. 572 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To provide for additional United States judges in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.
Ch. 1824 · 33 Stat. 573 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Constituting Coal City, Grundy County, Illinois, a port of delivery.
Ch. 1825 · 33 Stat. 574 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To relieve obligors on bonds given to the United States upon the exportation to the Philippine Islands prior to November twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, of articles subject to internal-revenue tax.
Ch. 1826 · 33 Stat. 574 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To provide for the settlement of certain outstanding checks drawn by the disbursing officers of the District of Columbia.
Ch. 1827 · 33 Stat. 574 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To incorporate the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Ch. 1828 · 33 Stat. 575 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act For the extension of Wyoming avenue to Twenty-third street west.
Ch. 1829 · 33 Stat. 577 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To ratify and confirm the present right of way of the Oahu Railway and Land Company through the military reservation of Kahauiki, Territory of Hawaii.
Ch. 1830 · 33 Stat. 579 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cancel a certain bond of Klaw and Erlanger.
Ch. 1831 · 33 Stat. 580 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Making appropriation for national trophy and medals for rifle contests.
Ch. 1832 · 33 Stat. 580 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to donate to the Minnesota Historical Society the steering wheel of the former ship Minnesota.
Public Resolution 31 · 33 Stat. 590 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Accepting a reproduction of the bust of Washington from certain citizens of the Republic of France, and tendering the thanks of Congress to the donors therefor.
Public Resolution 32 · 33 Stat. 590 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of the Interior to institute an investigation relative to the use of the waters of the Colorado River for irrigation, and to report to Congress thereon.
Public Resolution 33 · 33 Stat. 591 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Amending an Act entitled “ An Act. to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and three.
Public Resolution 34 · 33 Stat. 591 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Providing for the transfer of certain military rolls and records from the Interior and other Departments to the War Department.
Public Resolution 35 · 33 Stat. 591 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Relating to the exemption of all private property at sea, not contraband of war, from capture or destruction by belligerent powers.
Public Resolution 36 · 33 Stat. 592 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution For appointment of members of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer, Soldiers.
Public Resolution 37 · 33 Stat. 592 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to allow to the AnheuserBusch Brewing Association a right of way through the eastern limits of the arsenal grounds at Saint Louis, Missouri.
Public Resolution 38 · 33 Stat. 592 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
Joint Resolution Providing for the publication of fifty thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle.
Public Resolution 39 · 33 Stat. 593 · April 28, 1904 · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Mary H. Cornell.
Ch. 1833 · 33 Stat. 1645 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Clara M. Gihon.
Ch. 1834 · 33 Stat. 1646 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act To pay Hewlette A. Hall balance due for services in connection with the Paris Exposition.
Ch. 1835 · 33 Stat. 1646 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting a pension to Annie Colt McCook.
Ch. 1836 · 33 Stat. 1646 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Martha W. Cushing.
Ch. 1837 · 33 Stat. 1646 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Amalia C. Young.
Ch. 1838 · 33 Stat. 1646 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas S. Strohecker.
Ch. 1839 · 33 Stat. 1647 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Albert Hemenway.
Ch. 1840 · 33 Stat. 1647 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to George D. Totman.
Ch. 1841 · 33 Stat. 1647 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eben H. Meader.
Ch. 1842 · 33 Stat. 1647 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph Vactor.
Ch. 1843 · 33 Stat. 1648 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry C. Bobst.
Ch. 1844 · 33 Stat. 1648 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Franklin Webb.
Ch. 1845 · 33 Stat. 1648 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Claudius Tifft.
Ch. 1846 · 33 Stat. 1648 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph A. Soule.
Ch. 1847 · 33 Stat. 1648 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hester A. Hanback.
Ch. 1848 · 33 Stat. 1649 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Wilson.
Ch. 1849 · 33 Stat. 1649 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Minnie H. Eaton.
Ch. 1850 · 33 Stat. 1649 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eben Fuller.
Ch. 1851 · 33 Stat. 1649 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Walker Wilson.
Ch. 1852 · 33 Stat. 1650 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nelson McIntosh.
Ch. 1853 · 33 Stat. 1650 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alexander S. Hempstead.
Ch. 1854 · 33 Stat. 1650 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas Laugridge.
Ch. 1855 · 33 Stat. 1650 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel Iverson.
Ch. 1856 · 33 Stat. 1650 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac Innis.
Ch. 1857 · 33 Stat. 1651 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William L. Gerard.
Ch. 1858 · 33 Stat. 1651 · April 28, 1904 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Garrett Stanley.
Ch. 1859 · 33 Stat. 1651 · April 28, 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.