Laws of the 41st Congress

16 Stat. 147 · June 1, 1870 · S. 76 An Act concerning Divorces in the District of Columbia. 16 Stat. 148 · June 1, 1870 · H.R. 2064 An Act to repeal the Preamble of an Act in Relation to the National Theological Institute, approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy. 16 Stat. 148 · June 1, 1870 · H.R. 2063 An Act to authorize the Reduction of the Width of an Alley in Square Number three hundred and seventy-six, in the City of Washington. 16 Stat. 148 · June 6, 1870 · H.R. 1977 An Act to supply a Deficiency in the Appropriation for Compensation and Mileage of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories, for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, in the Year eighteen hun… 16 Stat. 148 · June 7, 1870 · S. 97 An Act to fix the Salary of the Bailiff of the Court of Claims. 16 Stat. 149 · June 8, 1870 · S. 263 An Act to establish certain Post-Roads in the State of Alabama, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 149 · June 11, 1870 · S. 95 An Act in Relation to the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas. 16 Stat. 150 · June 14, 1870 · S. 395 An Act to establish the Collection District of Willamette, in the State of Oregon. 16 Stat. 151 · June 14, 1870 · S. 554 An Act to regulate Credits to Prisoners for good Behavior. 16 Stat. 151 · June 15, 1870 · H.R. 2115 An Act to provide for the Appointment of an Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Baltimore. 16 Stat. 152 · June 17, 1870 · H.R. 1258 An Act to regulate the Salaries of chief Justices and associate Justices in the Territories. 16 Stat. 153 · June 17, 1870 · H.R. 2005 An Act exempting from Taxes certain Property in the District of Columbia, and to amend the "Act to provide for the Creation of Corporations in the District of Columbia by general Law." 16 Stat. 153 · June 17, 1870 · H.R. 785 An Act to provide for furnishing artificial Limbs to disabled Soldiers. 16 Stat. 153 · June 17, 1870 · H.R. 38 An Act to establish a Police Court for the District of Columbia, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 157 · June 21, 1870 · S. 754 An Act to incorporate a Zoological Society in the City of Washington, District, of Columbia. 16 Stat. 158 · June 21, 1870 · S. 785 An Act to incorporate an Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the District of Columbia. 16 Stat. 159 · June 21, 1870 · S. 948 An Act amendatory of Act approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and Joint Resolution approved. March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, relative to Judges and Commissioners of Election i… 16 Stat. 159 · June 21, 1870 · S. 399 An Act to authorize the Paving and Sewerage of M Street, Washington, District of Columbia. 16 Stat. 160 · June 21, 1870 · S. 891 An Act to require the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia to give Bond. 16 Stat. 160 · June 21, 1870 · S. 927 An Act to make legal a certain Act of the Councils of the City of Washington. 16 Stat. 160 · June 21, 1870 · S. 781 An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act fixing the Compensation for the Bailiffs and Criers of the Courts of the District of Columbia," approved February twenty-two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. 16 Stat. 160 · June 21, 1870 · S. 491 An Act Relating to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. 16 Stat. 161 · June 21, 1870 · H.R. 2218 An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Construction, Extension [Extension, Construction] and Use of a lateral Branch of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company into and within the District o… 16 Stat. 162 · June 22, 1870 · H.R. 1328 An Act to establish the Department of Justice. 16 Stat. 165 · June 22, 1870 · H.R. 1956 An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a Register to the Schooner "Cavallo Marino." 16 Stat. 165 · June 23, 1870 · H.R. 1697 An Act to incorporate the National Mutual Life Assurance Association of Washington, D. C. 16 Stat. 166 · June 23, 1870 · S. 459 An Act to authorize the Settlement of the Accounts of Officers of the Army and Navy. 16 Stat. 167 · June 24, 1870 · S. 99 An Act to pay loyal Citizens in the States lately in Rebellion for Services in taking the United States Census of eighteen hundred and sixty. 16 Stat. 167 · June 28, 1870 · H.R. 572 An Act to amend an Act incorporating the National Junction Railway Company. 16 Stat. 168 · June 28, 1870 · H.R. 2044 An Act declaring the Bridge between Philadelphia and Camden a Post-Route. 16 Stat. 168 · June 28, 1870 · H.R. 2224 An Act making the first Day of January, the twenty-fifth Day of December, the fourth Day of July, and Thanksgiving Day, Holidays, within the District of Columbia. 16 Stat. 168 · June 29, 1870 · S. 558 An Act to incorporate the National Bolivian Navigation Company. 16 Stat. 169 · June 29, 1870 · S. 489 An Act to reorganize the Marine Hospital Service, and to provide for the Relief of sick and disabled Seamen. 16 Stat. 170 · June 29, 1870 · S. 237 An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to license Yachts." 16 Stat. 171 · June 29, 1870 · S. 742 An Act to provide for changing the Boundaries of Land Districts. 16 Stat. 171 · June 30, 1870 · S. 722 An Act to establish the western judicial District of Wisconsin. 16 Stat. 173 · June 30, 1870 · H.R. 489 An Act to authorize the Construction and Maintenance of a Bridge across the Niagara River. 16 Stat. 173 · June 30, 1870 · H.R. 386 An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March 2, 1867. 16 Stat. 174 · June 30, 1870 · H.R. 249 An Act concerning the District Court of the United States for the District of Iowa. 16 Stat. 174 · June 30, 1870 · H.R. 2277 An Act supplementary to "An Act to provide for furnishing artificial Limbs to disabled Soldiers." 16 Stat. 175 · June 30, 1870 · H.R. 230 An Act to require the Holding of additional District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the District of Indiana, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 176 · June 30, 1870 · S. 339 An Act giving Priority to certain Cases to which a State is a Party in the Courts of the United States. 16 Stat. 176 · July 1, 1870 · S. 613 An Act to regulate the foreign and coasting Trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern Frontiers of the United States, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 179 · July 1, 1870 · S. 723 An Act in Relation to Circuit Courts. 16 Stat. 179 · July 1, 1870 · S. 517 An Act to define the Intent of an Act entitled "An Act to allow Deputy Collectors of internal Revenue acting as Collectors the Pay of Collector, and for other Purposes," approved March one, eighteen hundred and sixty-ni… 16 Stat. 180 · July 1, 1870 · S. 677 An Act to change the Place of holding the Courts of the United States for the Albemarle District of North Carolina. 16 Stat. 180 · July 1, 1870 · S. 32 An Act to prevent the Extermination of Fur-bearing Animals in Alaska. 16 Stat. 182 · July 1, 1870 · S. 834 An Act to create a Port of Delivery at Vallejo, California. 16 Stat. 182 · July 1, 1870 · S. 495 An Act to confirm Entries of public Land in certain Cases in the State of Alabama. 16 Stat. 183 · July 1, 1870 · S. 616 An Act to repeal certain Sections of Acts passed by the territorial Legislature of Wyoming. 16 Stat. 183 · July 1, 1870 · S. 509 An Act for the Relief of the Inhabitants of Salt Lake City, in the Territory of Utah. 16 Stat. 183 · July 1, 1870 · S. 632 An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to carry into Effect Provisions of the Treaties between the United States, China, Japan, Siam, Persia, and other Countries, giving certain judicial Powers to Ministers and Consuls… 16 Stat. 185 · July 1, 1870 · S. 949 An Act authorizing the Construction of a Bridge across the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas. 16 Stat. 186 · July 1, 1870 · S. 167 An Act amendatory of "An Act to protect the Rights of actual Settlers upon the public Lands of the United States," approved July 27, 1868, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 186 · July 1, 1870 · S. 241 An Act to relinquish the Interest of the United States in certain Lands to the City and County of San Francisco. 16 Stat. 187 · July 1, 1870 · S. 351 An Act for the Disposal of the Lands within the Fort Ridgely Military Reservation, Minnesota. 16 Stat. 187 · July 1, 1870 · S. 471 An Act in Relation to certain unsold Lands in the Counties of Porter and Lake, in the State of Indiana. 16 Stat. 188 · July 1, 1870 · S. 474 An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish and to protect National Cemeteries." 16 Stat. 188 · July 7, 1870 · S. 713 An Act for the Relief of Pre-emption Settlers in the State of Nebraska. 16 Stat. 188 · July 7, 1870 · S. 1040 An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Police Court for the District of Columbia, and for Other Purposes," approved June seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy. 16 Stat. 189 · July 7, 1870 · S. 893 An Act to establish an additional Land District in the State of Kansas. 16 Stat. 189 · July 7, 1870 · S. 947 An Act for the Improvement of Water Communication between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, by the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. 16 Stat. 190 · July 7, 1870 · S. 297 An Act to constitute Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, a Port of Delivery. 16 Stat. 190 · July 7, 1870 · H.R. 2106 An Act to amend the Laws regulating the Assessment of Taxes in the City of Washington. 16 Stat. 191 · July 7, 1870 · H.R. 1467 An Act to construe certain Acts therein cited, in Relation to Pensions. 16 Stat. 192 · July 7, 1870 · H.R. 2351 An Act to change the Times of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the United States in the northern District of Ohio. 16 Stat. 192 · July 8, 1870 · H.R. 2363 An Act to incorporate the United States Freehold Land and Emigration Company, and to confirm certain Legislation in Colorado Territory. 16 Stat. 193 · July 8, 1870 · H.R. 1987 An Act to define the Duties of Pension Agents, to prescribe the Manner of paying Pensions, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 195 · July 8, 1870 · H.R. 2000 An Act to declare the Construction of Section fifty-five of an Act entitled "An Act to provide a national Currency secured by a Pledge of United States Bonds, and to provide for the Circulation and Redemption thereof," … 16 Stat. 196 · July 8, 1870 · H.R. 253 An Act authorizing the Allowance of the Claim of the State of Minnesota to Lands for the Support of a State University. 16 Stat. 196 · July 8, 1870 · H.R. 2275 An Act to provide for the Paving of Pennsylvania Avenue. 16 Stat. 197 · July 8, 1870 · H.R. 2104 An Act providing for refunding the Interest paid by the State of Massachusetts on Money expended by her on Account of the War of eighteen hundred and twelve to eighteen hundred and fifteen. 16 Stat. 198 · July 8, 1870 · H.R. 1714 An Act to revise, consolidate, and amend the Statutes relating to Patents and Copyrights. 16 Stat. 217 · July 9, 1870 · H.R. 562 An Act to amend "An Act granting the Right of Way to Ditch and Canal Owners over the public Lands, and for other Purposes." 16 Stat. 218 · July 9, 1870 · S. 602 An Act to grant the Right of Way for the Alameda Road through certain Lands in California. 16 Stat. 218 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 1604 An Act making Appropriations for the consular and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 221 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 781 An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 16 Stat. 222 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 1883 An Act making Appropriations for the Construction, Preservation, and Repairs of certain Fortifications and other Works of Defense, for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 16 Stat. 223 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 2092 An Act making Appropriations for the Repair, Preservation, and Completion of certain public Works on Rivers and Harbors, and for other Purposes, for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-on… 16 Stat. 227 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 1828 An Act making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 16 Stat. 228 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 2213 An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for … 16 Stat. 229 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 2226 An Act to regulate the Purchase of Fuel for the legislative, executive, and judicial Departments, and for the military and naval Establishments of the United States in the District of Columbia. 16 Stat. 229 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 2180 An Act to establish a Port of Delivery at St. Joseph, Missouri. 16 Stat. 230 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 1545 An Act relinquishing whatever Title may remain in the United States to a certain Parcel of Ground in Fremont, Ohio, to the Corporation of Fremont. 16 Stat. 230 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 686 An Act to make the Territory of Arizona a separate surveying District, and to establish the Office of Surveyor- General therein. 16 Stat. 230 · July 11, 1870 · H.R. 2353 An Act to create a Port of Delivery at Du Luth, Minnesota. 16 Stat. 230 · July 12, 1870 · H.R. 974 An Act making Appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 16 Stat. 251 · July 12, 1870 · S. 378 An Act to provide for the Redemption of the three per cent. temporary Loan Certificates, and for an Increase of national Bank Notes. 16 Stat. 254 · July 13, 1870 · S. 319 An Act to extend the Time for presenting Claims for additional Bounties. 16 Stat. 254 · July 14, 1870 · H.R. 2201 An Act to amend the Naturalization Laws and to punish Crimes against the same, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 256 · July 14, 1870 · H.R. 2045 An Act to reduce internal Taxes, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 272 · July 14, 1870 · S. 380 An Act to authorize the Refunding of the national Debt. 16 Stat. 274 · July 14, 1870 · H.R. 2062 An Act to require national Banks going into Liquidation to retire their circulating Notes. 16 Stat. 274 · July 14, 1870 · H.R. 2244 An Act for the Relief of the United States and Brazil Steamship Company. 16 Stat. 274 · July 14, 1870 · S. 296 An Act to amend existing Laws relating to internal Revenue. 16 Stat. 275 · July 14, 1870 · H.R. 1149 An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Construction of a Bridge across the Missouri River upon the military Reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas." 16 Stat. 275 · July 14, 1870 · H.R. 569 An Act to vacate the Fort Dakota military Reservation in the Territory of Dakota, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 276 · July 14, 1870 · S. 1021 An Act in Amendment of the Act entitled "An Act establishing an uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States." 16 Stat. 276 · July 14, 1870 · S. 1018 An Act authorizing the Establishment of Water-Meters for the Potomac Water, the Laying of an additional Water-Main from the distributing Reservoir of the Washington Aqueduct, and for other Purposes. 16 Stat. 277 · July 14, 1870 · S. 881 An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the National Academy of Sciences.