Every law Congress has passed

7,020 laws of the 59th Congress, 1905–1907

1. An Act To authorize the Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of Pennsylvania.

   Ch. 3570 · 34 Stat. 539 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

2. An Act To authorize the board of supervisors of Sunflower County, Mississippi, to construct a bridge across Sunflower River.

   Ch. 3571 · 34 Stat. 539 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

3. An Act For the division of the lands and funds of the Osage Indians in Oklahoma Territory, and for other purposes.

   Ch. 3572 · 34 Stat. 539 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

4. An Act To provide a seal for United States commissioners.

   Ch. 3573 · 34 Stat. 546 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

5. An Act To amend section fifty-four hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

   Ch. 3574 · 34 Stat. 546 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

6. An Act In relation to contracts with the District of Columbia.

   Ch. 3575 · 34 Stat. 546 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

7. 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 Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

   Ch. 3576 · 34 Stat. 546 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

8. An Act To amend an Act to provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Albany, Georgia.

   Ch. 3577 · 34 Stat. 547 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

9. An Act To authorize the cutting, sawing into lumber, and sale of timber on certain lands reserved for the use of the Menominee tribe of Indians, in the State of Wisconsin.

   Ch. 3578 · 34 Stat. 547 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

10. An Act Granting to the Ocean Shore Railway Company a right of way for railroad purposes across Pigeon Point Light-House Reservation, in San Mateo County, California.

    Ch. 3579 · 34 Stat. 548 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

11. An Act Authorizing the patenting, of certain lands to school district number fifty-seven, Nez Perces County, Idaho.

    Ch. 3580 · 34 Stat. 549 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

12. An Act Giving preference right to actual settlers on pasture reserve numbered three to purchase land leased to them for agricultural purposes in Comanche County, Oklahoma.

    Ch. 3581 · 34 Stat. 550 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

13. An Act To amend the Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred.

    Ch. 3582 · 34 Stat. 550 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

14. An Act To prohibit shanghaiing in the United States.

    Ch. 3583 · 34 Stat. 551 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

15. An Act Providing for the manner of selecting and impaneling juries in the United States courts in the Territory of New Mexico.

    Ch. 3584 · 34 Stat. 552 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

16. An Act For the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments in Guam, Samoa, and the Canal Zone to affect lands in the District of Columbia and other Territories.

    Ch. 3585 · 34 Stat. 552 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

17. An Act Withdrawing from entry certain public lands in Chouteau County, Montana, and leasing the same to the board of trustees of the Montana College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

    Ch. 3586 · 34 Stat. 552 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

18. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States to appoint a commission to examine and report upon a route for the construction of a free and open waterway to connect the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware bays.

    Public Resolution 37 · 34 Stat. 835 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

19. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish a certain gun carriage to the mayor of the city of Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee.

    Public Resolution 38 · 34 Stat. 836 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution Amending section two of joint resolution approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, construing the Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 39 · 34 Stat. 836 · June 28, 1906 · Original text

21. An Act To reimburse Fred Dickson for loss of his tools through the fire which destroyed the engine house at Fort Duchesne, Utah, on September nineteenth, nineteen hundred and two.

    Ch. 3587 · 34 Stat. 2152 · June 28, 1906 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of John Lewis Young.

    Ch. 3588 · 34 Stat. 2152 · June 28, 1906 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of the heirs at law of Massalon Whitten, deceased.

    Ch. 3589 · 34 Stat. 2153 · June 28, 1906 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3590 · 34 Stat. 553 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

25. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

    Ch. 3591 · 34 Stat. 584 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

26. An Act To establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States.

    Ch. 3592 · 34 Stat. 596 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

27. An Act For the protection of wild animals in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve.

    Ch. 3593 · 34 Stat. 607 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

28. An Act To prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transportation from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia into or through another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, and repealing sections forty-three hundred and eighty-six, forty-three hundred and eighty-seven, forty-three hundred and eighty-eight, forty-three hundred and eighty-nine, and forty-three hundred and ninety of the United States Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 3594 · 34 Stat. 607 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

29. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to divide the judicial district of North Dakota,” approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety.

    Ch. 3595 · 34 Stat. 609 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of the Alaska Short Line Railway and Navigation Company’s Railroad.

    Ch. 3596 · 34 Stat. 610 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

31. An Act To provide for the construction of a lock canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the method of construction.

    Ch. 3597 · 34 Stat. 611 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

32. An Act Providing when patents shall issue to the purchasers of certain lands in the State of Oregon.

    Ch. 3598 · 34 Stat. 611 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

33. An Act Granting lands in the former Uintah Indian Reservation to the corporation of the Episcopal Church in Utah.

    Ch. 3599 · 34 Stat. 611 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

34. An Act For the exchange of certain lands situated in the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, in the State of Utah, and other considerations, for lands adjacent thereto, between Le Grand Young and the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3600 · 34 Stat. 612 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

35. An Act To authorize the Wichita Mountain and Orient Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Fort Sill Military Reservation, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3601 · 34 Stat. 613 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia to sell, hold, and convey certain real estate.

    Ch. 3602 · 34 Stat. 614 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

37. An Act Waiving the age limit for admission to the Pay Corps of the United States Navy in the case of Frank Holway Atkinson.

    Ch. 3603 · 34 Stat. 615 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

38. An Act To amend An Act entitled “An Act to legalize and establish a pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, and to authorize the construction of a similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa.”

    Ch. 3604 · 34 Stat. 615 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

39. An Act Authorizing the striking of two hundred additional medals to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin.

    Ch. 3605 · 34 Stat. 615 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

40. An Act Authorizing the extension of Kalorama road northwest.

    Ch. 3606 · 34 Stat. 616 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

41. An Act Creating the Mesa Verde National Park.

    Ch. 3607 · 34 Stat. 616 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

42. An Act To amend section eight hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

    Ch. 3608 · 34 Stat. 618 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

43. An Act To repeal section five, chapter fourteen hundred and eighty-two, Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five.

    Ch. 3609 · 34 Stat. 618 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

44. An Act To authorize the counties of Yazoo and Holmes to construct a bridge across Yazoo River, Mississippi.

    Ch. 3610 · 34 Stat. 618 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

45. An Act Amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for payment of damages on account of changes of grade due to the construction of the Union Station, District of Columbia,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four.

    Ch. 3611 · 34 Stat. 619 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

46. An Act Amending chapter eight hundred and sixty-three, volume thirty-one, of the Statutes at Large.

    Ch. 3612 · 34 Stat. 620 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

47. An Act To provide means for the sale of internal-revenue stamps in the island of Porto Rico.

    Ch. 3613 · 34 Stat. 620 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

48. An Act Providing medals for certain persons.

    Ch. 3614 · 34 Stat. 621 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

49. An Act Regulating the speed of automobiles in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3615 · 34 Stat. 621 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

50. An Act To amend section five hundred and fifty-eight of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 3616 · 34 Stat. 622 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

51. An Act Granting to the Territory of Oklahoma, for the use and benefit of the University Preparatory School of the Territory of Oklahoma, section thirty-three, in township numbered twenty-six north of range numbered one west of the Indian meridian, in Kay County, Oklahoma Territory.

    Ch. 3617 · 34 Stat. 623 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

52. An Act To provide for payment of damages on account of changes in grade due to the elimination of grade crossings on the line of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company.

    Ch. 3618 · 34 Stat. 624 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

53. An Act To grant authority to change the names of certain sailing vessels.

    Ch. 3619 · 34 Stat. 626 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

54. An Act Authorizing the Borderland Coal Company to construct a bridge across Tug Branch of Big Sandy River.

    Ch. 3620 · 34 Stat. 626 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

55. An Act For the control and regulation of the waters of Niagara River, for the preservation of Niagara Falls, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3621 · 34 Stat. 626 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

56. An Act To enable the Secretary of War to permit the erection of a lock and dam in aid of navigation in the White River, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3622 · 34 Stat. 628 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

57. An Act To provide for the reassessment of benefits in the matter of the extension and widening of Sherman avenue, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3623 · 34 Stat. 630 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

58. An Act To validate certain certificates of naturalization.

    Ch. 3624 · 34 Stat. 630 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

59. An Act To extend the privileges of the seventh section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to the subport of Superior, Wisconsin.

    Ch. 3625 · 34 Stat. 631 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

60. An Act Establishing regular terms of the United States circuit and district courts of the northern district of California at Eureka, California.

    Ch. 3626 · 34 Stat. 631 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the board of supervisors of Coahoma County, Mississippi, to construct a bridge across Coldwater River.

    Ch. 3627 · 34 Stat. 631 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

62. An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the condemnation of lands or easements needed in connection with works of river and harbor improvement at the expense of persons, companies, or corporations,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Ch. 3628 · 34 Stat. 632 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

63. Joint Resolution To print the Fourth Annual Report of the United States Reclamation Service.

    Public Resolution 40 · 34 Stat. 836 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

64. Joint Resolution To protect the copyrighted matter appearing in the “Rules and Specifications for Grading Lumber Adopted by the Various Lumber Manufacturing Associations of the United States.”

    Public Resolution 41 · 34 Stat. 836 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

65. Joint Resolution Directing that the Sulphur Springs Reservation be named and hereafter called the “Platt National Park.”

    Public Resolution 42 · 34 Stat. 837 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

66. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver to the Southern Historical Society certain unidentified battle flags.

    Public Resolution 43 · 34 Stat. 837 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

67. Joint Resolution Providing for the improvement of the harbor at South Haven, Michigan.

    Public Resolution 44 · 34 Stat. 837 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

68. Joint Resolution Providing for the improvement of a certain portion of the Mississippi River.

    Public Resolution 45 · 34 Stat. 838 · June 29, 1906 · Original text

69. An Act To correct the military record of John Alspaugh.

    Ch. 3629 · 34 Stat. 2153 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act Granting a pension to Edward S. Bragg.

    Ch. 3630 · 34 Stat. 2153 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act For the relief of Thomas W. Higgins.

    Ch. 3631 · 34 Stat. 2153 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the naval record of John McCauley, alias John H. Hayes.

    Ch. 3632 · 34 Stat. 2154 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act Correcting the military record of E. J. Kolb, alias E. J. Kulb.

    Ch. 3633 · 34 Stat. 2154 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Horace H. Sickels.

    Ch. 3634 · 34 Stat. 2154 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Robert Brandau, alias Brandon.

    Ch. 3635 · 34 Stat. 2154 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel Morrissey.

    Ch. 3636 · 34 Stat. 2154 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ephraim D. Achey.

    Ch. 3637 · 34 Stat. 2155 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Marion F. Halbert.

    Ch. 3638 · 34 Stat. 2155 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Allen Crow.

    Ch. 3639 · 34 Stat. 2155 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Spillard F. Horrall.

    Ch. 3640 · 34 Stat. 2155 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act Granting a pension to Susan R. Stalcup.

    Ch. 3641 · 34 Stat. 2156 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George W. Van De Bogert.

    Ch. 3642 · 34 Stat. 2156 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act Granting a pension to John Nay.

    Ch. 3643 · 34 Stat. 2156 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry D. Jordan.

    Ch. 3644 · 34 Stat. 2156 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Louis H. Gein.

    Ch. 3645 · 34 Stat. 2156 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William A. Bailor.

    Ch. 3646 · 34 Stat. 2157 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Hiram B. Thomas.

    Ch. 3647 · 34 Stat. 2157 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Enoch McCabe.

    Ch. 3648 · 34 Stat. 2157 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Annie A. Townsend.

    Ch. 3649 · 34 Stat. 2157 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act Granting a pension to John B. Johnson.

    Ch. 3650 · 34 Stat. 2158 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John A. Blanton.

    Ch. 3651 · 34 Stat. 2158 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lytle McCracken.

    Ch. 3652 · 34 Stat. 2158 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Saturnin Jasnowski.

    Ch. 3653 · 34 Stat. 2158 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Charles.

    Ch. 3654 · 34 Stat. 2158 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel Eaton.

    Ch. 3655 · 34 Stat. 2159 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eli Cero.

    Ch. 3656 · 34 Stat. 2159 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Merrill Johnson.

    Ch. 3657 · 34 Stat. 2159 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Leah Bedford.

    Ch. 3658 · 34 Stat. 2159 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act Granting an increase of pension to George Merrill.

    Ch. 3659 · 34 Stat. 2160 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel Hartley.

     Ch. 3660 · 34 Stat. 2160 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text