Laws of the 60th Congress

Public Law 60-1 · January 16, 1908 · H.R. 194 An Act To authorize the county of Saint Francis, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Saint Francis River at or near the town of Madison, in said county and State. Public Law 60-2 · January 20, 1908 · H.R. 9087 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize Washington and Westmoreland counties, in the State of Pennsylvania, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania," ap… Public Law 60-3 · January 23, 1908 · H.R. 251 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 February sixth… Public Law 60-4 · January 23, 1908 · H.R. 4891 An Act To authorize the city of Burlington, Iowa, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River. Public Law 60-5 · January 23, 1908 · H.R. 10519 An Act To authorize the Nashville and Northeastern Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Cumberland River at or near Celina, Tennessee. Public Law 60-6 · January 31, 1908 · S. 456 An Act To provide for the holding of United States district and circuit courts at Salisbury, North Carolina. Public Law 60-7 · February 1, 1908 · S. 2694 An Act To authorize the construction of a drawbridge over the Black River in Lawrence County, Arkansas. Public Law 60-8 · February 1, 1908 · H.R. 7606 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi River near the village of Bemidji, in Beltrami County, Minnesota," approved March third, nineteen hundred and five. Public Law 60-9 · February 1, 1908 · H.R. 9121 An Act To authorize a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Public Law 60-10 · February 1, 1908 · H.R. 11330 An Act To authorize the Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the town of Gary, Indiana. Public Law 60-11 · February 1, 1908 · H.R. 11331 An Act To authorize the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River at or near the town of Gary, Indiana. Public Law 60-12 · February 1, 1908 · H.R. 12412 An Act To authorize the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Cache River, in Woodruff County, Arkansas. Public Law 60-13 · February 4, 1908 · H.R. 9210 An Act To authorize the court of county commissioners of Geneva County, Alabama, to construct a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River at or near the Jones Old Ferry, in Geneva County, Alabama. Public Law 60-14 · February 4, 1908 · H.R. 12439 An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across White River, Arkansas. Public Law 60-15 · February 6, 1908 · S. 2662 An Act To authorize the Arizona and California Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Colorado River at Parker, Arizona Territory. Public Law 60-16 · February 6, 1908 · H.R. 7694 An Act To provide for the purchase of ground for and the erection of a public building for an immigration station, on a site to be selected for said station, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Public Law 60-17 · February 6, 1908 · H.R. 14779 An Act To transfer the county of Alachua, in the State of Florida, from the southern to the northern judicial district of that State, and to provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts for the … Public Law 60-18 · February 8, 1908 · H.R. 300 An Act Providing for second homestead entries. Public Law 60-19 · February 11, 1908 · H.R. 558 An Act To extend to the port of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the privileges of immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement. Public Law 60-20 · February 11, 1908 · H.R. 9217 An Act Amending sections twenty-five hundred and thirty-three and twenty-five hundred and thirty-four of Revised Statutes, so as to change the name of the Fairfield collection district. Public Law 60-21 · February 11, 1908 · H.R. 14011 An Act Amending an Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes." Public Law 60-22 · February 13, 1908 · S. 2929 An Act To authorize the Idaho and Washington Northern Railroad to construct a bridge across the Pend d'Oreille River in the State of Washington. Public Law 60-23 · February 14, 1908 · S. 485 An Act To create a new division of the northern judicial district of Texas and to provide for terms of court at Amarillo, Texas, and for a clerk for said court, and for other purposes. Public Law 60-24 · February 15, 1908 · H.R. 14766 An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes. Public Law 60-25 · February 20, 1908 · H.R. 13430 An Act To authorize the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the city of Hammond, Indiana. Public Law 60-26 · February 20, 1908 · H.R. 14040 An Act To authorize the county of Ashley, State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at a point above Morrell, in said county and State, the dividing line between Drew and Ashley counties. Public Law 60-27 · February 20, 1908 · H.R. 14781 An Act To authorize Campbell County, Tennessee, to construct a bridge across Powells River. Public Law 60-28 · February 20, 1908 · H.R. 16050 An Act To authorize the Interstate Transfer Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Saint Louis River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Public Law 60-29 · February 21, 1908 · H.R. 6231 An Act To attach Shelby County, in the State of Texas, to the Beaumont division of the eastern judicial district of said State and to detach it from the Tyler division of said district. Public Law 60-30 · February 21, 1908 · H.R. 14638 An Act To enable the city of Tucson, Arizona, to issue bonds for the extension and repair of its water and sewer system, and for other purposes. Public Law 60-31 · February 24, 1908 · H.R. 9218 An Act Amending an Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An Act to amend the Statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes." Public Law 60-32 · February 24, 1908 · H.R. 12420 An Act To extend immediate transportation privileges to the subport of Alburg, in the customs collection district of Vermont. Public Law 60-33 · February 25, 1908 · S. 417 An Act To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, South Dakota, by the Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company. Public Law 60-34 · February 26, 1908 · H.R. 12398 An Act To authorize the War Department to transfer to the State of Kansas certain land now a part of the Fort Riley Military Reservation. Public Law 60-35 · February 26, 1908 · H.R. 12401 An Act To legalize a bridge across the Mississippi River at Rice, Minnesota. Public Law 60-36 · February 28, 1908 · S. 3726 An Act To authorize the Twin City Power Company to build, operate, and maintain three dams across the Savannah River, above the city of Augusta, in the State of Georgia. Public Law 60-37 · March 6, 1908 · S. 4064 An Act To provide for a term of the United States circuit and district courts at Lander, Wyoming. Public Law 60-38 · March 6, 1908 · H.R. 16051 An Act To authorize the Cahaba Power Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a dam across the Cahaba River, in said State, at or near Centerville, Alabama. Public Law 60-39 · March 6, 1908 · H.R. 16955 An Act To extend the time for building a bridge across Red River at Shreveport, Louisiana. Public Law 60-40 · March 6, 1908 · H.R. 17227 An Act To authorize the city of Saint Joseph, Michigan, to construct a bridge across the Saint Joseph River at or near its mouth. Public Law 60-41 · March 7, 1908 · H.R. 17524 An Act To provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Dothan, Alabama. Public Law 60-42 · March 7, 1908 · H.R. 17422 An Act To authorize the counties of Henry and Rock Island, in the State of Illinois, to construct a bridge across Rock River at or near Colona Ferry, in said State. Public Law 60-43 · March 7, 1908 · H.R. 17220 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in t… Public Law 60-44 · March 9, 1908 · S. 2872 An Act To amend an Act to amend section four of an Act entitled "An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia," approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one. Public Law 60-45 · March 10, 1908 · S. 3941 An Act To amend section four of an Act entitled "An Act to prevent unlawful occupancy of the public lands," approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. Public Law 60-46 · March 10, 1908 · H.R. 4777 An Act Restricting in certain cases the right of appeal to the Supreme Court in habeas corpus proceedings. Public Law 60-47 · March 10, 1908 · H.R. 6195 An Act To authorize A. J. Smith and his associates to erect a dam across the Choctawhatchee River in Dale County, Alabama. Public Law 60-48 · March 10, 1908 · H.R. 15247 An Act To authorize the Idaho and Northwestern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Spokane River near the city of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Public Law 60-49 · March 11, 1908 · S. 3409 An Act To extend the time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma. Public Law 60-50 · March 11, 1908 · S. 4351 An Act For the relief of the Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company. Public Law 60-51 · March 11, 1908 · H.R. 3923 An Act To fix the limitation applicable in certain cases. Public Law 60-52 · March 12, 1908 · H.R. 13102 An Act To authorize the county of Elmore, Alabama, to construct a bridge across Coosa River, Alabama. Public Law 60-53 · March 13, 1908 · S. 5155 An Act Authorizing the exchange of lands for the enlargement of maneuvering grounds. Public Law 60-54 · March 16, 1908 · S. 1931 An Act To grant certain land, part of the Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, Nebraska, to the village of Valentine for a site for a reservoir or tank to hold water to supply the public of said village. Public Law 60-55 · March 16, 1908 · S. 2948 An Act To provide additional station grounds and terminal facilities for the Arizona and California Railway Company in the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona Territory. Public Law 60-56 · March 16, 1908 · H.R. 9205 An Act To make the provisions of an Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page seven hundred and ninety-six), applicable to the Territory of New Mexico. Public Law 60-57 · March 16, 1908 · H.R. 14043 An Act To provide for the extension of time within which homestead entrymen may establish their residence upon certain lands within the limits of the Huntley irrigation project, in the county of Yellowstone, in the Stat… Public Law 60-58 · March 16, 1908 · H.R. 16073 An Act To authorize the town of Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine to maintain a free bridge across tide waters. Public Law 60-59 · March 16, 1908 · H.R. 16746 An Act To authorize T. H. Friel or assigns to construct a dam across Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River. Public Law 60-60 · March 16, 1908 · H.R. 16749 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of Pennsylvania by the Liberty Bridge Company," approved March second, nineteen hundred and sev… Public Law 60-61 · March 16, 1908 · H.R. 16860 An Act To establish a United States land district in the Territory of New Mexico to be known as the Tucumcari land district. Public Law 60-62 · March 24, 1908 · S. 4377 An Act To carry into effect the international convention of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, relating to the exemption in time of war of hospital ships from dues and taxes on vessels. Public Law 60-63 · March 26, 1908 · H.R. 17710 An Act To increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Life-Saving Service of the United States. Public Law 60-64 · March 26, 1908 · S. 626 An Act Authorizing and empowering the Secretary of War to locate a right of way for and granting the same and a right to operate and maintain a line of railroad through the Three Tree Point Military Reservation, in the … Public Law 60-65 · March 26, 1908 · H.R. 14434 An Act To validate certain entries of public lands in the State of Colorado. Public Law 60-66 · March 26, 1908 · H.R. 15660 An Act To provide for the repayment of certain commissions, excess payments, and purchase moneys paid under the public laws. Public Law 60-67 · March 26, 1908 · H.R. 16078 An Act Providing for second desert-land entries. Public Law 60-68 · March 26, 1908 · H.R. 17311 An Act To authorize the Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a bridge over and across the Mobile River and its navigable channels… Public Law 60-69 · March 27, 1908 · H.R. 4922 An Act Providing for the platting and selling of the south half of section thirty, township two north, range eleven west of the Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma, for town-site purposes. Public Law 60-70 · March 27, 1908 · S. 6135 An Act Providing for the disposal of the interests of Indian minors in real estate in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington. Public Law 60-71 · March 27, 1908 · H.R. 16874 An Act To amend section thirteen of an Act entitled "An Act to divide the State of Texas into four judicial districts," approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and two. Public Law 60-72 · March 27, 1908 · H.R. 17167 An Act Authorizing the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, of Saint Maries, Idaho, to purchase not to exceed forty acres of land in the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho. Public Law 60-73 · March 27, 1908 · S. 3416 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing the extension of Meridian place north west," approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven. Public Law 60-74 · March 28, 1908 · S. 4046 An Act To authorize the cutting of timber, the manufacture and sale of lumber, and the preservation of the forests on the Menominee Indian Reservation in the State of Wisconsin. Public Law 60-75 · March 28, 1908 · H.R. 16493 An Act Limiting and restricting the right of entry and assignment under the desert-land law and authorizing an extension of time within which to make final proof. Public Law 60-76 · March 28, 1908 · H.R. 19408 An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to donate to the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, Confederate Veterans of San Antonio, Texas, not to exceed fifty obsolete Springfield rifles, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same. Public Law 60-77 · March 31, 1908 · H.R. 10671 An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent in fee simple for certain lands of the Santee Reservation, in Nebraska, to school district numbered thirty-six, in Knox County, Nebraska. Public Law 60-78 · April 1, 1908 · H.R. 17055 An Act To validate certain acts of the thirty-seventh legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico. Public Law 60-79 · April 1, 1908 · H.R. 17510 An Act To authorize the county of Ashley, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Portland. Public Law 60-80 · April 1, 1908 · H.R. 17511 An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew at Parkdale, Ashley County, Arkansas. Public Law 60-81 · April 1, 1908 · H.R. 17512 An Act To authorize the county of Ashley in the State of Arkansas to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Wilmot. Public Law 60-82 · April 2, 1908 · H.R. 13077 An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish four condemned brass cannon and cannon balls to the Confederate Monument Association, at Franklin, Tennessee. Public Law 60-83 · April 2, 1908 · H.R. 14772 An Act Prescribing what shall constitute a legal cord of wood in the District of Columbia. Public Law 60-84 · April 2, 1908 · H.R. 225 An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes, relating to the complement of crews of vessels, and for the better protection of life. Public Law 60-85 · April 2, 1908 · H.R. 10540 An Act To amend section seventy-three of the Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii. Public Law 60-86 · April 3, 1908 · H.R. 13448 An Act To authorize the counties of Allegheny and Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, to change the site of the joint county bridge which now crosses the Monongahela River at Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, and to… Public Law 60-87 · April 3, 1908 · H.R. 14282 An Act To authorize the appointment of a deputy clerk at Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Public Law 60-88 · April 3, 1908 · H.R. 18615 An Act To authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Cumberland River. Public Law 60-89 · April 3, 1908 · H.R. 18616 An Act To authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River. Public Law 60-90 · April 3, 1908 · H.R. 12476 An Act To place the name of William S. Shacklette on the retired list of the Navy as pharmacist. Public Law 60-91 · April 6, 1908 · H.R. 9079 An Act To extend to Port Arthur, in the State of Texas, the privilege of immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise. Public Law 60-92 · April 7, 1908 · H.R. 19955 An Act Making appropriations to supply certain additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight. Public Law 60-93 · April 10, 1908 · H.R. 18689 An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish two condemned brass or bronze cannon and cannon balls to the city of Winchester, Virginia. Public Law 60-94 · April 11, 1908 · H.R. 4780 An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to make certain disposition of obsolete Springfield rifles, caliber forty-five, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same. Public Law 60-95 · April 13, 1908 · S. 4260 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An 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 … Public Law 60-96 · April 16, 1908 · S. 24 An Act To increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Revenue-Cutter Service. Public Law 60-97 · April 16, 1908 · H.R. 17983 An Act For completing the pediment of the House wing of the Capitol. Public Law 60-98 · April 19, 1908 · H.R. 15653 An Act To increase the pension of widows, minor children, and so forth, of deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, the war with Mexico, the various Indian wars, and so forth, and to grant a pension to certa… Public Law 60-99 · April 20, 1908 · H.R. 17305 An Act To regulate the establishment and maintenance of private hospitals and asylums in the District of Columbia. Public Law 60-100 · April 22, 1908 · H.R. 20310 An Act Relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases.