Every law Congress has passed

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

1. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Moses S. Rockwood.

   Ch. 3861 · 34 Stat. 2204 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah V. Malone.

   Ch. 3862 · 34 Stat. 2205 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John T. Heaney.

   Ch. 3863 · 34 Stat. 2205 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary E. Mundy.

   Ch. 3864 · 34 Stat. 2205 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Adams.

   Ch. 3865 · 34 Stat. 2205 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ernest Langeneck.

   Ch. 3866 · 34 Stat. 2206 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Columbus Cox.

   Ch. 3867 · 34 Stat. 2206 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Asa G. Brooks.

   Ch. 3868 · 34 Stat. 2206 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Effingham Vanderburgh.

   Ch. 3869 · 34 Stat. 2206 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act Granting a pension to Eliza E. Whitley.

    Ch. 3870 · 34 Stat. 2206 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Isaac Overton.

    Ch. 3871 · 34 Stat. 2207 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act Granting a pension to Alexander McAlister.

    Ch. 3872 · 34 Stat. 2207 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Larsey Bolt.

    Ch. 3873 · 34 Stat. 2207 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jane Elizabeth Kerr.

    Ch. 3874 · 34 Stat. 2207 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eliza A. Smith.

    Ch. 3875 · 34 Stat. 2208 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William H. Burns.

    Ch. 3876 · 34 Stat. 2208 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Calvin Corsine.

    Ch. 3877 · 34 Stat. 2208 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emma Byles.

    Ch. 3878 · 34 Stat. 2208 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Catharine Warnock.

    Ch. 3879 · 34 Stat. 2208 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Daniel S. Conover.

    Ch. 3880 · 34 Stat. 2209 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Anthony W. Miller.

    Ch. 3881 · 34 Stat. 2209 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William C. Hoover.

    Ch. 3882 · 34 Stat. 2209 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lorenzo W. Shedd.

    Ch. 3883 · 34 Stat. 2209 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Thompson.

    Ch. 3884 · 34 Stat. 2210 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Bradford.

    Ch. 3885 · 34 Stat. 2210 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act Granting an increase of pension to John Wickline.

    Ch. 3886 · 34 Stat. 2210 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alice Morrill.

    Ch. 3887 · 34 Stat. 2210 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Ann W. Whitaker.

    Ch. 3888 · 34 Stat. 2210 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Peter Cramer.

    Ch. 3889 · 34 Stat. 2211 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Caroline L. Hodgdon.

    Ch. 3890 · 34 Stat. 2211 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Almus Harrington.

    Ch. 3891 · 34 Stat. 2211 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samantha B. Marshall.

    Ch. 3892 · 34 Stat. 2211 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth C. Kennedy.

    Ch. 3893 · 34 Stat. 2212 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act Granting an increase of pension to William C. Mankin.

    Ch. 3894 · 34 Stat. 2212 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Philip Killey.

    Ch. 3895 · 34 Stat. 2212 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Lewis Marquis.

    Ch. 3896 · 34 Stat. 2212 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elisha Brown.

    Ch. 3897 · 34 Stat. 2212 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles H. Prince.

    Ch. 3898 · 34 Stat. 2213 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Andrew P. Glaspie.

    Ch. 3899 · 34 Stat. 2213 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Hall.

    Ch. 3900 · 34 Stat. 2213 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Sarah Jane Dougherty.

    Ch. 3901 · 34 Stat. 2213 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Beverly McK. Lacey.

    Ch. 3902 · 34 Stat. 2213 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph Kircher.

    Ch. 3903 · 34 Stat. 2214 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act Granting a pension to Maria Rogers.

    Ch. 3904 · 34 Stat. 2214 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Orrin S. Rarick.

    Ch. 3905 · 34 Stat. 2214 · June 29, 1906 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act To authorize the appointment of Acting Assistant Surgeon Reuben A. Campbell, United States Navy, as an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy.

    Ch. 3906 · 34 Stat. 632 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

47. An Act For the relief of James H. Oliver, a commander on the retired list of the United States Navy.

    Ch. 3907 · 34 Stat. 632 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

48. An Act For the relief of Francis J. Cleary, a midshipman in the United States Navy.

    Ch. 3908 · 34 Stat. 633 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

49. An Act To amend section twenty-eight hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes.

    Ch. 3909 · 34 Stat. 633 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

50. An Act Granting certain land to the Missionary Baptist Church, of Rock Sink, Florida.

    Ch. 3910 · 34 Stat. 634 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

51. An Act To reinstate Kenneth G. Castleman as a lieutenant in the Navy.

    Ch. 3911 · 34 Stat. 634 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

52. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3912 · 34 Stat. 634 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

53. An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven.

    Ch. 3913 · 34 Stat. 669 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

54. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3914 · 34 Stat. 697 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

55. An Act For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3915 · 34 Stat. 768 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

56. 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. 3916 · 34 Stat. 772 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

57. An Act Making appropriations for certain public buildings authorized by the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3917 · 34 Stat. 789 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

58. An Act Granting certain lands to the town of Tincup, Colorado, for cemetery purposes.

    Ch. 3918 · 34 Stat. 796 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

59. An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, regulation of steam vessels.

    Ch. 3919 · 34 Stat. 797 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

60. An Act Defining the right of immunity of witnesses under the Act entitled “An Act in relation to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission,” and so forth, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and an Act entitled “An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor,” approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and an Act entitled “An Act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and three.

    Ch. 3920 · 34 Stat. 798 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

61. An Act To extend the time for the completion of the Alaska Central Railway, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3921 · 34 Stat. 798 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

62. An Act To provide an American register for the steam yacht Waturus.

    Ch. 3922 · 34 Stat. 799 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

63. An Act To improve the channels along the New Jersey seacoast.

    Ch. 3923 · 34 Stat. 800 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

64. An Act Authorizing certain changes in the permanent system of highways in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 3924 · 34 Stat. 800 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

65. An Act To authorize the Lake Schutte Cemetery Corporation to convey lands heretofore granted to it.

    Ch. 3925 · 34 Stat. 800 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to sell to the city of Los Angeles, California, certain public lands in California; and granting rights in, over, and through the Sierra Forest Reserve, the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve, and the San Gabriel Timber Land Reserve, California, to the city of Los Angeles, California.

    Ch. 3926 · 34 Stat. 801 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company to construct a railroad trestle across tide and shore lands in Controller Bay, in the Territory of Alaska.

    Ch. 3927 · 34 Stat. 803 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

68. An Act To authorize the Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company to construct a bridge across the Copper River, in the Territory of Alaska.

    Ch. 3928 · 34 Stat. 804 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

69. An Act To incorporate the National Education Association of the United States.

    Ch. 3929 · 34 Stat. 804 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

70. An Act To grant American registry to the bark Homeward Bound.

    Ch. 3930 · 34 Stat. 808 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

71. An Act To extend the public-land laws of the United States to the lands comprised within the limits of the abandoned Fort Crittenden Military Reservation, in the State of Utah, and for other purposes.

    Ch. 3931 · 34 Stat. 808 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

72. An Act To prohibit the killing of wild birds and wild animals in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. 3932 · 34 Stat. 808 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

73. An Act To incorporate the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal, to define the powers thereof, and to facilitate interstate commerce.

    Ch. 3933 · 34 Stat. 809 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

74. An Act Creating a United States court for China and prescribing the jurisdiction thereof.

    Ch. 3934 · 34 Stat. 814 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

75. An Act To authorize the commencement and conduct of legal proceedings under the direction of the Attorney-General.

    Ch. 3935 · 34 Stat. 816 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

76. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at or near South Omaha, Nebraska.

    Ch. 3936 · 34 Stat. 817 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

77. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to loan temporarily to the Philippine government a vessel of the United States Navy for use in connection with nautical schools of the Philippine Islands.

    Ch. 3937 · 34 Stat. 817 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

78. An Act Authorizing the issue of obsolete ordnance and ordnance stores for use of State and Territorial educational institutions and to State soldiers and sailors orphans’ homes.

    Ch. 3938 · 34 Stat. 817 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

79. An Act To authorize Henry T. Henderson and his associates to divert the waters of Little River in the State of Alabama from the lands of the United States for use of electric light and power plant.

    Ch. 3939 · 34 Stat. 818 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

80. An Act To authorize the Missouri Central Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Missouri River near the city of Saint Charles, in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 3940 · 34 Stat. 818 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

81. An Act To authorize the Missouri Central Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Missouri River near the city of Glasgow, in the State of Missouri.

    Ch. 3941 · 34 Stat. 818 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

82. An Act To authorize George Hammons, Charles Vaunice, and F. A. Lyons to construct a bridge across Kentucky River at Beattyville, Kentucky.

    Ch. 3942 · 34 Stat. 819 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

83. An Act To amend the river and harbor act of March third, nineteen hundred and five.

    Ch. 3943 · 34 Stat. 819 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

84. An Act To authorize the Baldwin and Dague Lumber Company to construct a bridge across the Saint Francis River in Arkansas.

    Ch. 3944 · 34 Stat. 819 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

85. An Act To authorize the Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Sault Sainte Marie Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Red River.

    Ch. 3945 · 34 Stat. 820 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

86. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Wabash River.

    Ch. 3946 · 34 Stat. 820 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize the sale of certain real estate in the District of Columbia belonging to the United States.

    Ch. 3947 · 34 Stat. 820 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and report on block signal systems, and appliances for the automatic control of railway trains.

    Public Resolution 46 · 34 Stat. 838 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution Fixing the date upon which the 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, approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, shall go into effect.

    47 · 34 Stat. 838 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

90. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish condemned cannon for a life-size statue of General Henry Leavenworth, at Leavenworth, Kansas.

    Public Resolution 48 · 34 Stat. 839 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

91. Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish a bronze cannon, with its carriage, limber, and accessories, to Junction City Post, Numbered One hundred and thirty-two, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Kansas.

    Public Resolution 49 · 34 Stat. 839 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

92. Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of reports ordered by the river and harbor Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five.

    Public Resolution 50 · 34 Stat. 839 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution Relative to the printing of twelve thousand copies of the report on the progress of the beet-sugar industry.

    Public Resolution 51 · 34 Stat. 839 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

94. Joint Resolution Authorizing the purchase of the manuscript of a Digest of the United States Laws and Decisions.

    Public Resolution 52 · 34 Stat. 840 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

95. Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for expenses under the Interstate Commerce Commission.

    Public Resolution 53 · 34 Stat. 840 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

96. Joint Resolution To correct an error in enrollment of and repealing a certain provision in the bill H. R. 19,844, making appropriations for the Sundry Civil Expenses for the fiscal year, ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.

    Public Resolution 54 · 34 Stat. 840 · June 30, 1906 · Original text

97. An Act To authorize a patent to be issued to Stephen Teichner for certain lands therein described.

    Ch. 3948 · 34 Stat. 2214 · June 30, 1906 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act To correct the military record of Peleg T. Griffith.

    Ch. 3949 · 34 Stat. 2214 · June 30, 1906 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act For the relief of James W. Watson.

    Ch. 3950 · 34 Stat. 2215 · June 30, 1906 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act Granting an increase of pension to Andrew Leopold.

     Ch. 3951 · 34 Stat. 2215 · June 30, 1906 · Private law · Original text