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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.
7,020 laws of the 59th Congress, 1905–1907
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Alexander Boshea.
Ch. 845 · 34 Stat. 2398 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph Rose.
Ch. 846 · 34 Stat. 2398 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jacob A. Graham.
Ch. 847 · 34 Stat. 2399 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John W. Humphrey.
Ch. 848 · 34 Stat. 2399 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Charles Green.
Ch. 849 · 34 Stat. 2399 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary M. Goble.
Ch. 850 · 34 Stat. 2399 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Eliza J. McCardel.
Ch. 851 · 34 Stat. 2400 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Nicolaus Kirsch.
Ch. 852 · 34 Stat. 2400 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Pleasant Crissip.
Ch. 853 · 34 Stat. 2400 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jacob Kohl.
Ch. 854 · 34 Stat. 2400 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Samuel Fauver.
Ch. 855 · 34 Stat. 2400 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Montezuma St. John.
Ch. 856 · 34 Stat. 2401 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Calvin E. Morley.
Ch. 857 · 34 Stat. 2401 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Levi Eddy.
Ch. 858 · 34 Stat. 2401 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Annie Reaney.
Ch. 859 · 34 Stat. 2401 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Noah Perrin.
Ch. 860 · 34 Stat. 2402 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John P. Dix.
Ch. 861 · 34 Stat. 2402 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Simon Stone.
Ch. 862 · 34 Stat. 2402 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to James A. Meredith.
Ch. 863 · 34 Stat. 2402 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William A. Harlan.
Ch. 864 · 34 Stat. 2402 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Elizabeth Jane Hancher.
Ch. 865 · 34 Stat. 2403 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Emily V. Ackley.
Ch. 866 · 34 Stat. 2403 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Leonard Tyler.
Ch. 867 · 34 Stat. 2403 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Barbara E. Schwab.
Ch. 868 · 34 Stat. 2403 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Faulkner.
Ch. 869 · 34 Stat. 2404 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph L. Six.
Ch. 870 · 34 Stat. 2404 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John H. Christman.
Ch. 871 · 34 Stat. 2404 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to John T. Hetherlin.
Ch. 872 · 34 Stat. 2404 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Joseph H. Prendergast.
Ch. 873 · 34 Stat. 2404 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to William Sherk.
Ch. 874 · 34 Stat. 2405 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Mary A. Brick.
Ch. 875 · 34 Stat. 2405 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Bryngel Severson.
Ch. 876 · 34 Stat. 2405 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edward Murphy.
Ch. 877 · 34 Stat. 2405 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Edmond D. Doud.
Ch. 878 · 34 Stat. 2406 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Andrew Casey.
Ch. 879 · 34 Stat. 2406 · February 6, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To provide American registers for the steamers Marie and Success.
Ch. 880 · 34 Stat. 881 · February 7, 1907 · Original text
Joint Resolution Declaring Sturgeon Bay, Illinois, not navigable water.
Public Resolution 13 · 34 Stat. 1421 · February 7, 1907 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Ephraim Greenawalt.
Ch. 881 · 34 Stat. 2406 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of J. J. L. Peel.
Ch. 882 · 34 Stat. 2406 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of William H. Beall.
Ch. 883 · 34 Stat. 2406 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of T. J. H. Harris.
Ch. 884 · 34 Stat. 2407 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Charles D. Southerlin.
Ch. 885 · 34 Stat. 2407 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin F. Pettit.
Ch. 886 · 34 Stat. 2407 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Thomas H. Leslie.
Ch. 887 · 34 Stat. 2407 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To correct the naval record of Michael Sheehan.
Ch. 888 · 34 Stat. 2408 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of George H. Chase.
Ch. 889 · 34 Stat. 2408 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To complete the naval record of Charles W. Held.
Ch. 890 · 34 Stat. 2408 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Esther Rousseau.
Ch. 891 · 34 Stat. 2408 · February 7, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend section forty-four hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five.
Ch. 892 · 34 Stat. 881 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act For an additional term of court at Quincy, Illinois.
Ch. 893 · 34 Stat. 882 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act For the extension of School street northwest.
Ch. 894 · 34 Stat. 882 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act To change the time of holding circuit and district courts of the United States for the middle district of Tennessee.
Ch. 895 · 34 Stat. 882 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act Excepting certain lands in Pennington County, South Dakota, from the operation of the provisions of section four of an Act approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves.”
Ch. 896 · 34 Stat. 883 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act To authorize Majestic Collieries Company, of Eckman, West Virginia, to construct a bridge across Tug Fork of Big Sandy River about two and one-half miles west of Devon, West Virginia, a station on the Norfolk and Western Railway.
Ch. 897 · 34 Stat. 883 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six.
Ch. 898 · 34 Stat. 883 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Mercantile Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of North Charleroi, Washington County, to a point in Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four.
Ch. 899 · 34 Stat. 884 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Inter-State Bridge and Terminal Railway Company of Kansas City, Kansas, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Kansas City, Kansas.
Ch. 900 · 34 Stat. 884 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Coosa River in the State of Alabama.
Ch. 901 · 34 Stat. 884 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish two condemned cannon to the mayor of the town of Preston, Iowa.
Public Resolution 14 · 34 Stat. 1422 · February 8, 1907 · Original text
An Act For the payment of Robert D. Benedict for services rendered.
Ch. 902 · 34 Stat. 2409 · February 8, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of T. B. Stackhouse, a deputy collector of internal revenue for the district of South Carolina during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
Ch. 903 · 34 Stat. 2409 · February 8, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of John Stinson.
Ch. 904 · 34 Stat. 2409 · February 8, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Philip Loney.
Ch. 905 · 34 Stat. 2410 · February 8, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of the estate of Captain Charles E. Russell, deceased.
Ch. 906 · 34 Stat. 2410 · February 8, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Sarah A. Clapp.
Ch. 907 · 34 Stat. 2410 · February 8, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of A. J. Stinson.
Ch. 908 · 34 Stat. 2410 · February 8, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of William H. Stiner and Sons.
Ch. 909 · 34 Stat. 2411 · February 8, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Nye and Schneider Company.
Ch. 910 · 34 Stat. 2411 · February 8, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Vacating Alexander place and Poplar street in the subdivision of a part of a tract called Lincoln, District of Columbia, and vesting title in the present owner.
Ch. 911 · 34 Stat. 885 · February 9, 1907 · Original text
An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes.
Ch. 912 · 34 Stat. 885 · February 9, 1907 · Original text
An Act To define the term of “registered nurse” and to provide for the registration of nurses in the District of Columbia.
Ch. 913 · 34 Stat. 887 · February 9, 1907 · Original text
An Act For the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia.
Ch. 914 · 34 Stat. 889 · February 9, 1907 · Original text
An Act For the relief of John C. Lynch.
Ch. 915 · 34 Stat. 2411 · February 9, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of John B. Brown.
Ch. 916 · 34 Stat. 2411 · February 9, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an honorable discharge to Galen E. Green.
Ch. 917 · 34 Stat. 2412 · February 9, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To reimburse Quong Hong Yick for one case of opium erroneously condemned and sold by the United States.
Ch. 918 · 34 Stat. 2412 · February 9, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to German M. Rouse informer’s fees for certain opium seizures.
Ch. 919 · 34 Stat. 2412 · February 9, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To fix the time of holding the circuit and district courts for the northern district of West Virginia.
Ch. 920 · 34 Stat. 890 · February 11, 1907 · Original text
An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue deed of conveyance to Lyman Ballou to certain lands in Custer County, South Dakota.
Ch. 921 · 34 Stat. 891 · February 14, 1907 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Norfolk and Western Railway Company to construct sundry bridges across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.
Ch. 922 · 34 Stat. 891 · February 15, 1907 · Original text
An Act Providing for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River.
Ch. 923 · 34 Stat. 892 · February 15, 1907 · Original text
An Act To authorize the reappointment of Harry McL. P. Huse as an officer of the line in the Navy.
Ch. 924 · 34 Stat. 892 · February 15, 1907 · Original text
An Act To authorize the appointment of Acting Assistant Surgeon Julian Taylor Miller, United States Navy, as an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy.
Ch. 925 · 34 Stat. 892 · February 15, 1907 · Original text
An Act For the relief of Charles E. Danner and Company.
Ch. 926 · 34 Stat. 2412 · February 15, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To authorize the county of Clay, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Black River at or near Bennetts Ferry, in said county and State.
Ch. 927 · 34 Stat. 892 · February 16, 1907 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Chattahoochee River in the State of Georgia.
Ch. 928 · 34 Stat. 893 · February 16, 1907 · Original text
An Act For the relief of William H. Osenburg.
Ch. 929 · 34 Stat. 2413 · February 16, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of Margaret Neutze, of Leon Springs, Texas.
Ch. 930 · 34 Stat. 2413 · February 16, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of F. Kraut, of Leon Springs, Texas.
Ch. 931 · 34 Stat. 2413 · February 16, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an increase of pension to Anna E. Hughes.
Ch. 932 · 34 Stat. 2413 · February 16, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To provide for the transfer to the State of South Carolina of certain school funds for the use of free schools in the parishes of Saint Helena and Saint Luke, in said State.
Ch. 933 · 34 Stat. 893 · February 18, 1907 · Original text
An Act To define the status of certain patents and pending entries selections, and filings on lands formerly within the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
Ch. 934 · 34 Stat. 894 · February 18, 1907 · Original text
An Act To authorize the Washington, Spa Spring and Gretta Railroad Company, of Prince George County, to extend its street railway into the District of Columbia.
Ch. 935 · 34 Stat. 894 · February 18, 1907 · Original text
An Act To confirm titles to certain lands in the State of Louisiana.
Ch. 936 · 34 Stat. 896 · February 18, 1907 · Original text
Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report to Congress concerning existing patents granted to officers and employees of the Government in certain eases.
Public Resolution 15 · 34 Stat. 1422 · February 18, 1907 · Original text
An Act Granting an honorable discharge to Peter Green.
Ch. 937 · 34 Stat. 2414 · February 18, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To correct the military record of William Fleming.
Ch. 938 · 34 Stat. 2414 · February 18, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Anton Ernst.
Ch. 939 · 34 Stat. 2414 · February 18, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act Granting an honorable discharge to Joseph P. W. R. Ross.
Ch. 940 · 34 Stat. 2414 · February 18, 1907 · Private law · Original text
An Act For the relief of C. A. Berry.
Ch. 941 · 34 Stat. 2414 · February 18, 1907 · Private law · Original text
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- 93rd 1973 · 774
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- 91st 1969 · 942
- 90th 1967 · 1,002
- 89th 1965 · 1,283
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- 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
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- 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.