Laws of the 45th Congress

20 Stat. 1 · November 21, 1877 · H.R. 902 An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 4 · November 21, 1877 · H.R. 1220 An act to provide for certain deficiencies in the pay of the Navy and the pay of the Marine Corps, and for other purposes 20 Stat. 5 · November 21, 1877 · H.R. 1265 An act authorizing the changing of the name of the ship Samuel G. Reed. 20 Stat. 5 · November 24, 1877 · S. 289 An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a register and change the name of the schooner Captain Charles Robbins to Minnie. 20 Stat. 5 · December 10, 1877 · H.R. 1279 An act authorizing binding of documents for members of Congress. 20 Stat. 7 · December 14, 1877 · H.R. 1532 An act to provide a method for the settlement and adjustment of the accounts of the Attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia. 20 Stat. 7 · December 15, 1877 · H.R. 1526 An act to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 13 · December 15, 1877 · S. 192 An act providing for the printing and distribution of the Biennial Register. 20 Stat. 13 · December 15, 1877 · S. 315 An act authorizing the changing of the name of the ship 'Samuel G. Reed' 20 Stat. 14 · December 15, 1877 · H.R. 2115 An act relative to the burial of the officers and others of the United States Navy who perished by the wreck of the United States steamer Huron and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 14 · January 14, 1878 · H.R. 1637 An act establishing post-roads. 20 Stat. 22 · January 18, 1878 · H.R. 2142 An act to authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the Great Seal of the United States to a certain document therein stated. 20 Stat. 22 · January 31, 1878 · H.R. 542 An act to change the location and name of the Miners' National Bank of Braidwood, Illinois. 20 Stat. 22 · February 1, 1878 · S. 461 An act to further regulate the purchase of material for the public printing and binding. 20 Stat. 23 · February 4, 1878 · S. 412 An act to punish embezzlement in the District of Columbia, and to protect the records of said District, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 24 · February 7, 1878 · H.R. 2479 An act for the removal of obstructions from the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas and Red Rivers and for the preservation of the public property. 20 Stat. 24 · February 11, 1878 · H.R. 1454 An act to change the name of the "Consulate at Omoa and Truxillo." 20 Stat. 24 · February 19, 1878 · S. 702 An act for providing portraits to accompany the memorial addresses on the late Senators Morton and Bogy. 20 Stat. 24 · February 25, 1878 · H.R. 789 An act to appropriate money for the purchase of a law library for the Territory of Dakota. 20 Stat. 25 · February 25, 1878 · H.R. 1201 An act making an appropriation for the purchase of a law-library for the use of the courts and the United States officers in the Territory of Wyoming. 20 Stat. 25 · February 28, 1878 · H.R. 1093 An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal-tender character. 20 Stat. 26 · March 4, 1878 · H.R. 1928 An act to change the name of the steam-tug C. M. Whittaker to Caroline 20 Stat. 26 · March 8, 1878 · H.R. 3551 An act to amend section four thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight of the Revised Statutes 20 Stat. 27 · March 9, 1878 · S. 541 An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the preparation and publication of a new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States", approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. 20 Stat. 27 · March 9, 1878 · H.R. 2860 An act changing the times of holding terms of the district court for the district of West Virginia. 20 Stat. 27 · March 9, 1878 · S. 17 An act amending the laws granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and their widows, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 29 · March 13, 1878 · H.R. 1074 An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Glasgow, Missouri. 20 Stat. 30 · March 15, 1878 · H.R. 1474 An act further to suspend the operations of section five thousand five hundred and seventy-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, title seventy-two, in relation to guano islands. 20 Stat. 30 · March 16, 1878 · H.R. 912 An act to make persons charged with crimes and offences competent witnesses in the United States and Territorial Courts. 20 Stat. 31 · March 18, 1878 · S. 876 An act in aid of a Polar expedition designed by James Gordon Bennett. 20 Stat. 31 · March 23, 1878 · H.R. 2887 An act to authorize the granting of an American register to a foreign built ship, for the purpose of the Woodruff Scientific Expedition around the world. 20 Stat. 31 · March 23, 1878 · H.R. 2686 An act making appropriations for fortifications and for other works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 32 · March 26, 1878 · S. 611 An act to extend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company of the city of Washington. 20 Stat. 32 · April 2, 1878 · S. 528 An act to authorize the Worthington and Sioux Falls Railroad Company to extend its road into the Territory of Dakota to the village of Sioux Falls. 20 Stat. 34 · April 2, 1878 · H.R. 3846 An act to provide for deficiencies in the miscellaneous fund of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. 20 Stat. 34 · April 3, 1878 · H.R. 2371 An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the support of the government for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes." 20 Stat. 35 · April 3, 1878 · S. 648 An act to constitute a commission to consider and report a plan for providing enlarged accommodations for the Library of Congress. 20 Stat. 35 · April 8, 1878 · H.R. 1254 An act for the relief of John A. Darling. 20 Stat. 35 · April 8, 1878 · H.R. 596 An act to amend section five hundred and forty, chapter one, title thirteen, Revised Statutes of the United States. 20 Stat. 36 · April 10, 1878 · H.R. 2287 An act to authorize the Secretary of War to prescribe rules and regulations to be observed in the preparation, submission, and opening of bids for contracts under the War Department. 20 Stat. 36 · April 17, 1878 · S. 691 An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the sale of certain New York Indian lands in Kansas," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. 20 Stat. 36 · April 17, 1878 · H.R. 1412 An act to prevent depredations upon property in the District of Columbia 20 Stat. 36 · April 19, 1878 · S. 1014 An act requiring the Commissioner for preparing and publishing a new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States to revise and perfect the index to the first volume of the same. 20 Stat. 37 · April 20, 1878 · S. 484 An act to authorize the construction of a bridge abutment and approach within the Fort Riley military reservation. 20 Stat. 37 · April 23, 1878 · H.R. 4242 An act to authorize the restoration of George A. Armes to the rank of captain 20 Stat. 37 · April 29, 1878 · H.R. 3739 An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States. 20 Stat. 39 · April 29, 1878 · H.R. 3712 An act to provide for the erection of a public building in the City of Kansas in the State of Missouri. 20 Stat. 39 · April 29, 1878 · H.R. 1411 An act to prevent the sale of policy or lottery tickets in the District of Columbia. 20 Stat. 39 · April 29, 1878 · H.R. 1432 An act providing for the recording of deeds, mortgages, and other conveyances affecting real estate in the District of Columbia. 20 Stat. 40 · April 30, 1878 · H.R. 4658 An act for the relief of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia. 20 Stat. 40 · April 30, 1878 · H.R. 4222 An act to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for the public printing and binding for the current fiscal year. 20 Stat. 40 · April 30, 1878 · S. 1080 An act authorizing the issue of passports free to colored citizens going to Brazil. 20 Stat. 41 · April 30, 1878 · H.R. 3740 An act to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for prior years, for subsistence of the Army,… 20 Stat. 46 · April 30, 1878 · H.R. 3102 An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary clerks, and making an appropriation for the same; also making appropriations for detecting trespass on public lands, and for bringing into market publ… 20 Stat. 47 · May 2, 1878 · S. 1045 An act to provide for the administration of the oath of office to collectors and other officers of the customs in the district of Alaska. 20 Stat. 47 · May 2, 1878 · H.R. 4394 An act to prohibit the coinage of the twenty cent piece of silver. 20 Stat. 47 · May 2, 1878 · S. 120 An act authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an American register to the Canadian-built propeller "East" by the name of "Kent." 20 Stat. 48 · May 3, 1878 · S. 706 An act authorizing the President of the United States to make certain negotiations with the Ute Indians in the State of Colorado. 20 Stat. 48 · May 3, 1878 · H.R. 1887 An act to extend the provisions of section thirty-two hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes to other institutions of learning. 20 Stat. 48 · May 4, 1878 · H.R. 3822 An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 56 · May 6, 1878 · H.R. 1639 An act making an appropriation for pier-lights at the entrance of the jetties in the South Pass of the Mississippi River. 20 Stat. 56 · May 7, 1878 · S. 15 An act to alter and amend the act entitled "An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal… 20 Stat. 61 · May 16, 1878 · H.R. 3679 An act to amend a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue arms, approved July third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. 20 Stat. 61 · May 17, 1878 · H.R. 3987 An act to regulate the advertising of mail lettings, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 63 · May 25, 1878 · H.R. 3123 An act extending the privileges of sections twenty-nine hundred and ninety to twenty-nine hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes, inclusive, to the port of Bath, in the State of Maine. 20 Stat. 63 · May 27, 1878 · H.R. 3373 An act for the relief of settlers on the public lands under the preemption laws. 20 Stat. 63 · May 27, 1878 · H.R. 3546 An act to change the name of the steam-boat D. A. McDonald to Silver Wave. 20 Stat. 63 · May 27, 1878 · H.R. 4549 An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and … 20 Stat. 87 · May 28, 1878 · S. 933 An act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to refund certain taxes erroneously collected and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 87 · May 31, 1878 · H.R. 4663 An act to forbid the further retirement of United States legal-tender notes. 20 Stat. 88 · May 31, 1878 · H.R. 4713 An act supplementary to the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three entitled An act supplemental to the act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one incorporating Columbia College District of Co… 20 Stat. 88 · June 1, 1878 · S. 1021 An act for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands. 20 Stat. 88 · June 3, 1878 · S. 20 An act authorizing the citizens of Colorado, Nevada and the Territories to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining and domestic purposes. 20 Stat. 89 · June 3, 1878 · S. 926 An act for the sale of timber lands in the States of California, Oregon, Nevada and in Washington Territory. 20 Stat. 91 · June 3, 1878 · H.R. 3369 An act to provide for the publication of notices of contest under the homestead, pre-emption, and tree-culture laws of the United States. 20 Stat. 91 · June 4, 1878 · H.R. 4425 An act to alter and amend a law of the District of Columbia relative to the inspection of flour. 20 Stat. 91 · June 4, 1878 · H.R. 3064 An act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 99 · June 6, 1878 · H.R. 4413 An act to provide for the free entry of articles imported for exhibition by societies established for encouragement of the arts or sciences, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 99 · June 7, 1878 · S. 35 An act to repeal the bankrupt law. 20 Stat. 100 · June 7, 1878 · S. 134 An act making further appropriations for continuing the improvements of Galveston Harbor, State of Texas. 20 Stat. 100 · June 7, 1878 · H.R. 3969 An act regulating the appointment of justices of the peace, commissioners of deeds, and constables within and for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 101 · June 8, 1878 · S. 330 An act explanatory of section eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and to ratify and confirm certain Territorial legislation, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 101 · June 8, 1878 · S. 380 An act to provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Toledo, Ohio. 20 Stat. 102 · June 8, 1878 · H.R. 4988 An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to constitute Superintendents of Mints or Assayers in Assay-offices, Assistant Treasurers of the United States. 20 Stat. 102 · June 11, 1878 · H.R. 3259 An act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia. 20 Stat. 108 · June 11, 1878 · H.R. 2507 An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 111 · June 11, 1878 · H.R. 3892 An act to change the time for holding terms of the district court for the western district of Virginia at Danville. 20 Stat. 111 · June 11, 1878 · H.R. 4519 An act fixing the time for holding the election for Representatives to the Forty-sixth Congress of the United States in and for the State of California. 20 Stat. 112 · June 11, 1878 · H.R. 5124 An act designating the times for the election of Representatives to the Forty-sixth and succeeding Congresses from the State of Colorado. 20 Stat. 112 · June 14, 1878 · H.R. 3974 An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. 20 Stat. 113 · June 14, 1878 · S. 138 An act for the relief of settlers on the public lands under the preemption laws. 20 Stat. 113 · June 14, 1878 · S. 396 An act to amend an act entitled "An act to encourage the growth of timber on the Western Prairies." 20 Stat. 115 · June 14, 1878 · H.R. 5117 An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and prior years, and for those heretofore treated as permanent, fo… 20 Stat. 130 · June 14, 1878 · H.R. 5066 An act authorizing the Solicitor of the Treasury by and with the consent of the Secretary of War, to cancel certain contracts for the sale of lots of land made at Harper's Ferry in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-ni… 20 Stat. 131 · June 14, 1878 · S. 1272 An act to amend section forty-one hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes, of the United States, in relation to the judicial powers and functions of consuls. 20 Stat. 131 · June 14, 1878 · H.R. 4943 An act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make and enforce regulations relative to the sale of coal, and also building regulations. 20 Stat. 132 · June 14, 1878 · H.R. 2057 An act to amend the charter of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of the District of Columbia. 20 Stat. 132 · June 14, 1878 · H.R. 2319 An act to provide for the appointment of a district judge for the western district of Tennessee, and for other purposes. 20 Stat. 132 · June 14, 1878 · S. 1208 An act authorizing the publication for sale of an edition of the Narrative of the Polaris Expedition. 20 Stat. 133 · June 14, 1878 · H.R. 1271 An act establishing the salaries to be paid the collectors of customs of Plymouth and Nantucket, Massachusetts.