Laws of the 56th Congress

31 Stat. 1 · December 20, 1899 · H.R. 4152 An Act To extend the time for examination of monthly accounts by bureaus and offices of the War Department. 31 Stat. 1 · January 25, 1900 · S. 1484 An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to change the material to be used in the construction of the dry docks at the navy-yards at League Island, Pennsylvania, and Mare Island, California, from timber to concrete… 31 Stat. 2 · January 27, 1900 · S. 2884 An Act Extending the time for the completion of a wagon and motor bridge across the Missouri River at Saint Charles, Missouri, as provided by an Act approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 31 Stat. 2 · January 30, 1900 · H.R. 6777 An Act Relative to the widening and extension of Sixteenth street in the District of Columbia. 31 Stat. 3 · January 31, 1900 · S. 1933 An Act To provide an American register for the steam whaler Bowhead. 31 Stat. 3 · January 31, 1900 · H.R. 4602 An Act To authorize the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Fort Reno and Fort Sill military reservations in the Territory of Oklahoma, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 3 · February 1, 1900 · S. 2179 An Act Relating to the Twelfth and subsequent censuses, and giving to the Director thereof additional power and authority in certain cases, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 5 · February 3, 1900 · S. 2431 An Act To present to the city of Nashville, State of Tennessee, the cannon on the gunboat Nashville from which was fired the first shot in the Spanish-American war. 31 Stat. 5 · February 7, 1900 · S. 2727 An Act Authorizing payment of commutation of ration to the petty officers of the Navy who served on detached duty between March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and November fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-… 31 Stat. 5 · February 7, 1900 · H.R. 947 An Act To create a new division in the eastern judicial district of the State of Tennessee. 31 Stat. 6 · February 7, 1900 · H.R. 6272 An Act Fixing the salary of the postmaster at Washington City, District of Columbia. 31 Stat. 6 · February 8, 1900 · H.R. 5042 An Act To provide for improvements in the tax departments of the District of Columbia. 31 Stat. 7 · February 9, 1900 · H.R. 549 An Act To amend section forty-eight hundred and forty-three of the Revised Statutes. 31 Stat. 7 · February 9, 1900 · H.R. 6237 An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 27 · February 10, 1900 · S. 734 An Act Relating to Cuban vessels. 31 Stat. 27 · February 10, 1900 · H.R. 5076 An Act To amend the first section of an Act to change the time and places for the district and circuit courts of the northern district of Texas, approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 31 Stat. 28 · February 10, 1900 · H.R. 6073 An Act To amend section four of the Act of Congress approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, granting to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, certain lands as a city park, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 28 · February 13, 1900 · H.R. 284 An Act Granting permission and authority to the Orleans levee board to move, without cost to the United States, the existing line of levee in front of the marine-hospital property in New Orleans, Louisiana. 31 Stat. 29 · February 14, 1900 · H.R. 5066 An Act To amend section forty-two hundred and ninety of the Revised Statutes, relating to log entry of collisions. 31 Stat. 29 · February 14, 1900 · H.R. 3718 An Act For the preservation of the frigate Constitution. 31 Stat. 29 · February 15, 1900 · H.R. 4000 An Act To authorize the Southeastern Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Lumber River within the boundary lines of Robeson County, North Carolina. 31 Stat. 30 · February 19, 1900 · H.R. 5288 An Act Relating to lights on steam pilot vessels. 31 Stat. 31 · February 20, 1900 · H.R. 7739 An Act To amend "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. 31 Stat. 32 · February 24, 1900 · H.R. 6267 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act to suspend the operation of certain provisions of law relating to the War Department, and for other purposes." 31 Stat. 33 · February 26, 1900 · H.R. 5493 An Act For the relief of claimants having suits against the United States pending in the circuit and district courts of the United States affected by the Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, am… 31 Stat. 33 · February 27, 1900 · S. 3003 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Grand Rapids Water Power and Boom Company, of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to construct a dam and bridge across the Mississippi River," approved February twenty-seven… 31 Stat. 34 · February 28, 1900 · S. 160 An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Red River of the North, at Drayton, North Dakota. 31 Stat. 35 · February 28, 1900 · H.R. 7660 An Act Granting additional right of way to the Allegheny Valley Railway Company through the arsenal grounds at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 31 Stat. 36 · March 1, 1900 · S. 2925 An Act To authorize Frank Hitch to construct and maintain a bridge across Fishing Creek within the boundary lines of Edgecombe County, North Carolina. 31 Stat. 37 · March 1, 1900 · H.R. 4473 An Act To authorize the Natchitoches Railway and Construction Company to build and maintain a railway and traffic bridge across Red River at Grand Ecore, in the parish of Natchitoches, State of Louisiana. 31 Stat. 38 · March 1, 1900 · H.R. 5487 An Act Authorizing the construction by the Texarkana, Shreveport and Natchez Railway Company of a bridge across Twelve-mile Bayou near Shreveport, Louisiana. 31 Stat. 39 · March 2, 1900 · H.R. 4006 An Act To authorize the Union Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River. 31 Stat. 41 · March 6, 1900 · H.R. 2477 An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Dubuque, Iowa. 31 Stat. 42 · March 8, 1900 · S. 3266 An Act Authorizing the health officer of the District of Columbia to issue a permit for the removal of the remains of the late Major-General E. O. C. Ord from Oak Hill Cemetery, District of Columbia, to the United State… 31 Stat. 42 · March 9, 1900 · S. 282 An Act Extending the time for the completion of the bridge across the East River, between the city of New York and Long Island, now in course of construction, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved March third, e… 31 Stat. 43 · March 9, 1900 · S. 1931 An Act To provide for the erection of a bridge across Rainy River, in the State of Minnesota, between Rainy Lake and the mouth of Rainy River. 31 Stat. 44 · March 9, 1900 · S. 3360 An Act To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River. 31 Stat. 45 · March 10, 1900 · H.R. 7731 An Act To change the name of the Potomac Insurance Company of Georgetown, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 45 · March 14, 1900 · H.R. 1 An Act To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 50 · March 16, 1900 · H.R. 6767 An Act To grant an American register to the steamer Windward. 31 Stat. 50 · March 23, 1900 · S. 2279 An Act Declaring Cuivre River to be not a navigable stream. 31 Stat. 50 · March 23, 1900 · S. 2114 An Act To constitute South Manchester, Connecticut, a port of delivery. 31 Stat. 50 · March 23, 1900 · H.R. 1040 An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and forty-five, of title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the licensing of officers of steam vessels. 31 Stat. 51 · March 24, 1900 · H.R. 9080 An Act Appropriating, for the benefit and government of Porto Rico, revenues collected on importations therefrom since its evacuation by Spain, and revenues hereafter collected on such importations under existing law. 31 Stat. 51 · March 24, 1900 · S. 3138 An Act To provide for necessary repairs to the steamer Thetis, for service as a revenue cutter. 31 Stat. 51 · March 26, 1900 · H.R. 2956 An Act To extend the time for the completion of the incline railway on West Mountain, Hot Springs Reservation. 31 Stat. 52 · March 28, 1900 · S. 68 An Act Granting to the State of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation, in said State, for the purpose of establishing an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College, and a western branch of the K… 31 Stat. 52 · March 28, 1900 · S. 2354 An Act Enlarging the powers of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company. 31 Stat. 53 · March 28, 1900 · H.R. 4008 An Act To establish light and fog stations to mark the main southern entrance of the new breakwater at Buffalo, New York. 31 Stat. 53 · March 29, 1900 · S. 2882 An Act To authorize the Cambridge Bridge Commission to construct a drawless bridge across the Charles River, in the State of Massachusetts. 31 Stat. 54 · March 30, 1900 · H.R. 9249 An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 58 · March 31, 1900 · H.R. 5067 An Act Concerning the boarding of vessels. 31 Stat. 58 · March 31, 1900 · H.R. 9497 An Act To amend an Act providing for the construction of a lightship to be located near Cape Elizabeth, Maine. 31 Stat. 59 · April 4, 1900 · S. 3207 An Act Approving a revision and adjustment of certain sales of Otoe and Missouria lands in the States of Nebraska and Kansas. 31 Stat. 59 · April 4, 1900 · H.R. 99 An Act To establish a military post at or near Des Moines, Iowa. 31 Stat. 59 · April 4, 1900 · H.R. 6627 An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 60 · April 4, 1900 · H.R. 7941 An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one. 31 Stat. 72 · April 5, 1900 · H.R. 8128 An Act To establish light and fog signal at Browns Point, in Puget Sound. 31 Stat. 72 · April 7, 1900 · S. 1475 An Act To complete the establishment and erection of a military post near the city of Sheridan, in the State of Wyoming, and making appropriation therefor. 31 Stat. 72 · April 9, 1900 · H.R. 5049 An Act To settle the title to real estate in the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. 31 Stat. 73 · April 9, 1900 · H.R. 7649 An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to the city of Elreno, Oklahoma, for cemetery purposes. 31 Stat. 73 · April 9, 1900 · H.R. 8463 An Act Ratifying an appropriation by the legislature of Oklahoma, out of the Morrill fund, for the use of the university at Langston for colored students. 31 Stat. 73 · April 12, 1900 · H.R. 60 An Act To create the northwestern division of the northern district of Georgia for judicial purposes and to fix the time and place for holding court therein. 31 Stat. 74 · April 12, 1900 · H.R. 9284 An Act To attach the county of Foard, in the State of Texas, to the Fort Worth division of the northern district of Texas, and providing that all process issued against defendants residing in said county shall be return… 31 Stat. 74 · April 12, 1900 · S. 2679 An Act Declaring certain trestles of the Washington County Railroad Company to be lawful structures. 31 Stat. 75 · April 12, 1900 · H.R. 7939 An Act To amend an Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement. 31 Stat. 75 · April 12, 1900 · H.R. 9713 An Act Permitting the building of a dam between Coon Rapids and the north limits of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, across the Mississippi River. 31 Stat. 76 · April 12, 1900 · H.R. 10311 An Act To authorize the Shreveport and Red River Valley Railway Company to build and maintain a railway bridge across Red River, at or near the town of Alexandria, in the Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana. 31 Stat. 77 · April 12, 1900 · H.R. 8245 An Act Temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 86 · April 17, 1900 · H.R. 8347 An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 134 · April 17, 1900 · H.R. 8876 An Act Granting the right of way to the Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad Company across the ceded portion of the Chippewa (Red Lake) Indian Reservation in Minnesota. 31 Stat. 135 · April 18, 1900 · H.R. 1092 An Act To set apart a portion of the Arlington estate for experimental agricultural purposes, and to place said portion under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors in office. 31 Stat. 136 · April 18, 1900 · S. 2336 An Act Repealing section forty-seven hundred and sixteen of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable to the claims of dependent parents of soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Army or Navy … 31 Stat. 136 · April 18, 1900 · H.R. 65 An Act To authorize the holding of a regular term of the district court of the United States for the western district of Virginia in the city of Charlottesville, Virginia. 31 Stat. 137 · April 18, 1900 · H.R. 963 An Act To extend the privileges of the seventh section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to the port of Greenbay, Wisconsin. 31 Stat. 137 · April 21, 1900 · H.R. 8063 An Act To legalize and maintain the iron bridge across Pearl River at Rockport, Mississippi. 31 Stat. 137 · April 23, 1900 · H.R. 6959 An Act To extend the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act granting increase of pension to soldiers of the Mexican war in certain cases," approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. 31 Stat. 138 · April 23, 1900 · H.R. 8466 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act in relation to taxes and tax sales in the District of Columbia." 31 Stat. 138 · April 23, 1900 · H.R. 10449 An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 139 · April 23, 1900 · H.R. 5485 An Act Providing that the State of Wyoming be permitted to relinquish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select other lands from the public domain in lieu thereof. 31 Stat. 141 · April 27, 1900 · S. 3465 An Act To provide an American register for the steamship Garonne. 31 Stat. 141 · April 30, 1900 · S. 222 An Act To provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii. 31 Stat. 162 · April 30, 1900 · S. 3924 An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Tallahatchie River, in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. 31 Stat. 163 · April 30, 1900 · S. 4051 An Act To authorize the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company to construct a bridge over the Big Sandy River from Kenova, West Virginia, to Catlettsburg, Kentucky. 31 Stat. 165 · April 30, 1900 · H.R. 4604 An Act To amend the charter of the East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Company. 31 Stat. 165 · April 30, 1900 · H.R. 9566 An Act Authorizing the establishment of a light and fog signal on the new breakwater, harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay. 31 Stat. 165 · May 3, 1900 · H.R. 6868 An Act To amend an Act authorizing the terms of the district court of the United States for the southern district of Mississippi to be held hereafter at Biloxi. 31 Stat. 166 · May 4, 1900 · S. 2869 An Act Authorizing the Cape Nome Transportation, Bridge, and Development Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Washington and authorized to do business in the Territory of Alaska, … 31 Stat. 167 · May 4, 1900 · H.R. 7945 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act permitting the building of a dam across Rainy Lake River." 31 Stat. 167 · May 4, 1900 · H.R. 8962 An Act To authorize the New Orleans and Northwestern Railway Company, its successors and assigns, to build and maintain a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew in the State of Louisiana. 31 Stat. 168 · May 4, 1900 · H.R. 10097 An Act To authorize the Atlantic and Gulf Short Line Railroad Company to build, construct, and maintain railway bridges across the Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers within the boundary lines of Irwin, Wilcox, Telfair, and Mont… 31 Stat. 169 · May 5, 1900 · H.R. 8585 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to prevent forest fires on the public domain," approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. 31 Stat. 170 · May 7, 1900 · S. 3018 An Act For the appointment of an additional United States commissioner in the northern judicial district of the Indian Territory. 31 Stat. 170 · May 9, 1900 · S. 1477 An Act In amendment of sections two and three of an Act entitled "An Act granting pensions to soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated for the performance of manual labor, and providing for pensions to widows, minor c… 31 Stat. 171 · May 9, 1900 · H.R. 8188 An Act To amend the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March … 31 Stat. 172 · May 9, 1900 · H.R. 9824 An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to make regulations governing the running of loose logs, steamboats, and rafts on certain rivers and streams. 31 Stat. 172 · May 10, 1900 · H.R. 10310 An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Back Bay, at Biloxi, Mississippi. 31 Stat. 174 · May 10, 1900 · H.R. 10696 An Act Relating to the Twelfth and subsequent censuses, and giving the Director thereof additional power and authority in certain cases, and for other purposes. 31 Stat. 174 · May 10, 1900 · H.R. 10279 An Act To provide for sittings of the circuit and district courts of South Carolina in the city of Florence, South Carolina. 31 Stat. 175 · May 12, 1900 · S. 268 An Act To amend the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the northern district of New York, to divide the same into two districts, and provide for the terms of court to be held therein and the officers ther…