Laws of the 61st Congress

Public Law 61-1 · June 29, 1909 · H.R. 10933 An Act Making appropriations for expenses of the Thirteenth Decennial Census, and for other purposes. Public Law 61-2 · July 2, 1909 · H.R. 1033 An Act To provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses. Public Law 61-3 · July 2, 1909 · H.R. 10887 An Act To make Scranton, in the State of Mississippi, a subport of entry, and for other purposes. Public Law 61-4 · July 15, 1909 · H.R. 9541 An Act To amend, an Act entitled "An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred. Public Law 61-5 · August 5, 1909 · H.R. 1438 An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes. Public Law 61-6 · August 5, 1909 · H.R. 11570 An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes. Public Law 61-7 · August 5, 1909 · H.R. 9135 An Act To raise revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes. Public Law 61-8 · August 5, 1909 · H.R. 11572 An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of various bridges across and over certain navigable waters, and for other purposes. Public Law 61-9 · August 5, 1909 · H.R. 6277 An Act To authorize the building of a dam across the Savannah River at or near the mouth of Stevens Creek, between the counties of Edgefield, South Carolina, and Columbia, Georgia. Public Law 61-10 · August 5, 1909 · H.R. 11797 An Act To attach Ben Hill County to the Albany division of the southern district of Georgia. Public Law 61-11 · August 5, 1909 · H.R. 11579 An Act To amend an Act relative to the erection of a lock and dam in aid of navigation in the Tennessee River. Public Law 61-12 · January 7, 1910 · H.R. 14565 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend 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," approve… Public Law 61-13 · January 26, 1910 · S. 3929 An Act To authorize the Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky Railway to construct a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near the town of Gainesboro, Tennessee. Public Law 61-14 · January 26, 1910 · S. 4016 An Act To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Yankton, South Dakota, by the Winnipeg, Yankton and Gulf Railroad Company. Public Law 61-15 · January 26, 1910 · S. 5197 An Act To change the times for holding the regular terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States at Greensboro and at Charlotte, in the western district of North Carolina. Public Law 61-16 · January 26, 1910 · H.R. 9570 An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to convey certain lands to the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, for street purposes. Public Law 61-17 · January 27, 1910 · H.R. 12140 An Act To extend the time for Ashley County, Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at a point near Morrell. Public Law 61-18 · January 27, 1910 · H.R. 12288 An Act To authorize the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said city. Public Law 61-19 · January 27, 1910 · H.R. 13872 An Act To authorize the counties of Bradley and McMinn, Tennessee, by authority of their county courts, to construct a bridge across the Hiwassee River at Charleston and Calhoun, in said counties. Public Law 61-20 · January 27, 1910 · H.R. 14496 An Act To authorize the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said city. Public Law 61-21 · January 27, 1910 · H.R. 15815 An Act Authorizing the construction of a railroad bridge across the Rio Grande River between Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Republic of Mexico. Public Law 61-22 · January 27, 1910 · H.R. 16388 An Act To authorize the Monongahela Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Monongahela River between Fayette and Greene counties, Pennsylvania. Public Law 61-23 · January 28, 1910 · H.R. 16223 An Act Extending the time for certain homesteaders to establish residence upon their lands. Public Law 61-24 · January 28, 1910 · S. 4089 An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Red River and to establish it as a post-road. Public Law 61-25 · January 28, 1910 · H.R. 5463 An Act To provide for a change in the bridge authorized by an entitled "An Act to authorize the building of a bridge at Dardanelle, Arkansas," approved September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety. Public Law 61-26 · January 28, 1910 · H.R. 12138 An Act To extend the time for Ashley County, Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at Portland. Public Law 61-27 · January 28, 1910 · H.R. 12139 An Act To extend the time for Ashley County, Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at Wilmot. Public Law 61-28 · January 28, 1910 · H.R. 15387 An Act Authorizing the town of Bass Brook to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River, in Itasca County, Minnesota. Public Law 61-29 · January 31, 1910 · H.R. 14579 An Act To amend section twelve of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee to purchasers of Indian lands under any law now existing or hereafter enacted, and for other p… Public Law 61-30 · February 3, 1910 · S. 3318 An Act To legalize a bridge across the Snake River, between the States of Idaho and Oregon. Public Law 61-31 · February 3, 1910 · S. 4891 An Act To extend the time for the commencement and completion of a railroad bridge across the Kansas River at or near Kansas City, Kansas, in the county of Wyandotte, State of Kansas. Public Law 61-32 · February 3, 1910 · S. 5040 An Act To authorize Bonners Ferry Bridge Commission to construct a bridge across the Kootenai River at Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Public Law 61-33 · February 4, 1910 · H.R. 19548 An Act Prescribing certain provisions and conditions under which bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the United States may be issued, and for other purposes. Public Law 61-34 · February 15, 1910 · S. 2523 An Act For the establishment of a new land district in the State of Montana. Public Law 61-35 · February 15, 1910 · S. 5238 An Act To abolish the United States land office at Des Moines, Iowa. Public Law 61-36 · February 15, 1910 · H.R. 11307 An Act To legalize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Hill City, Aitkin County, Minnesota. Public Law 61-37 · February 15, 1910 · H.R. 12289 An Act To authorize the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said city. Public Law 61-38 · February 15, 1910 · H.R. 13438 An Act To declare One Hundred and Two River in Missouri nonnavigable. Public Law 61-39 · February 15, 1910 · H.R. 13439 An Act To declare Nodaway River in Missouri nonnavigable. Public Law 61-40 · February 15, 1910 · H.R. 13440 An Act To declare Big Tarkio River, in Holt and Atchison counties, nonnavigable. Public Law 61-41 · February 15, 1910 · H.R. 16221 An Act For the establishment of telephone service between the life-saving station at Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and the light-house at Twin River Point, Wisconsin. Public Law 61-42 · February 15, 1910 · H.R. 17161 An Act To authorize the Union Railroad and Dock Company to construct and operate a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of West Virginia. Public Law 61-43 · February 15, 1910 · H.R. 17743 An Act To authorize Clay County, Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Current River. Public Law 61-44 · February 16, 1910 · H.R. 18895 An Act To authorize the Wilson and Glassport Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Monongahela River between Wilson and Glassport boroughs, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Public Law 61-45 · February 16, 1910 · H.R. 19399 An Act To extend the time for the completion of bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, Missouri, by the Saint Louis Electric Bridge Company. Public Law 61-46 · February 17, 1910 · H.R. 12438 An Act To amend sections seven and eight of the Act of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus and unalloted lands in the Cheyenne… Public Law 61-47 · February 19, 1910 · H.R. 15448 An Act To authorize certain changes in the permanent system of highways plan, District of Columbia. Public Law 61-48 · February 19, 1910 · H.R. 18411 An Act To authorize the Thacker Coal Mining Company to construct a footbridge across Tug River, at Thacker, Mingo County, West Virginia. Public Law 61-49 · February 19, 1910 · H.R. 18592 An Act To amend an Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at Kansas City, Missouri. Public Law 61-50 · February 19, 1910 · H.R. 18695 An Act To revive an Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Tug Fork of Big Sandy River, West Virginia. Public Law 61-51 · February 19, 1910 · H.R. 18806 An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Black River near Paroquet, Arkansas. Public Law 61-52 · February 19, 1910 · H.R. 18807 An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Saint Francis River near Parkin, Arkansas. Public Law 61-53 · February 19, 1910 · H.R. 18808 An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the White River, at Augusta, Arkansas. Public Law 61-54 · February 21, 1910 · H.R. 11989 An Act To provide for the removal of present grade crossing, and construction of a new grade crossing on the line of Q street northeast, District of Columbia. Public Law 61-55 · February 21, 1910 · H.R. 16324 An Act To authorize the extension of Park place northwest. Public Law 61-56 · February 21, 1910 · H.R. 16328 An Act For the extension of Franklin street northeast from its present eastern terminus east of Twenty-fourth street to the Bladensburg road. Public Law 61-57 · February 21, 1910 · H.R. 16329 An Act To provide for the extension of Newton place northwest from New Hampshire avenue to Georgia avenue, and to connect Newton place in Gass subdivision with Newton place in Whitney Close subdivision. Public Law 61-58 · February 21, 1910 · H.R. 16336 An Act Authorizing certain changes in the plan for the permanent system of highways for that portion of the District of Columbia lying west of Rock Creek Park, north of Klingle road, east of Connecticut avenue, and sout… Public Law 61-59 · February 24, 1910 · S. 821 An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge in and for the district of Maryland. Public Law 61-60 · February 24, 1910 · S. 1043 An Act Providing for the appointment of an additional district judge in and for the northern judicial district of the State of Ohio, and an additional district judge in and for the southern judicial district of the Stat… Public Law 61-61 · February 24, 1910 · H.R. 3037 An Act To correct the lineal and relative rank of certain officers of the United States Army. Public Law 61-62 · February 25, 1910 · H.R. 18282 An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes. Public Law 61-63 · February 25, 1910 · H.R. 18364 An Act To amend section eight of an Act to provide for the Thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses, approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine. Public Law 61-64 · February 26, 1910 · S. 5680 An Act Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Connecticut River, in the State of Connecticut, between the towns of Old Saybrook and Old Lyme. Public Law 61-65 · February 26, 1910 · S. 6191 An Act To authorize the Fort Smith and Van Buren district to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River at Van Buren, in the State of Arkansas. Public Law 61-66 · February 26, 1910 · H.R. 17531 An Act To amend an Act authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia, with amendments, approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven. Public Law 61-67 · February 28, 1910 · H.R. 13145 An Act For the relief of John W. Dula and C. M. Cox. Public Law 61-68 · March 2, 1910 · H.R. 10106 An Act Authorizing the acceptance by the United States Government from the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, of a proposed gift of land contiguous to the Andersonville National Cemetery,… Public Law 61-69 · March 2, 1910 · H.R. 17160 An Act To authorize the Oregon Trunk Railway of the State of Washington to construct a bridge across the Columbia River and Celilo Canal. Public Law 61-70 · March 2, 1910 · H.R. 19967 An Act To authorize Thomas J. Ewing, George B. Patton, Otto Burger, William Cecil, and Milton E. Foster to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. Public Law 61-71 · March 2, 1910 · H.R. 18586 An Act Amending sections two hundred and forty-six and two hundred and forty-seven, Revised Statutes. Public Law 61-72 · March 2, 1910 · H.R. 15676 An Act To provide for the extension of the underground system of the City and Suburban Railway Company on North Capitol street, and for other purposes. Public Law 61-73 · March 2, 1910 · H.R. 16331 An Act To acquire land in the vicinity of the Connecticut Avenue Bridge for the extension of certain streets. Public Law 61-74 · March 2, 1910 · H.R. 17514 An Act To authorize the extension of Twenty-third and R streets southeast, in the District of Columbia. Public Law 61-75 · March 3, 1910 · H.R. 16364 An Act To amend in part section six hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes. Public Law 61-76 · March 5, 1910 · S. 6051 An Act To authorize the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company to reconstruct, maintain, and operate its railway bridges across the Escambia Bay, Choctawhatchee River, and Apalachicola River, in the State of Florida. Public Law 61-77 · March 5, 1910 · H.R. 18019 An Act To amend section two of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice in certain civil and criminal cases in the western district of Arkansas." Public Law 61-78 · March 8, 1910 · S. 4639 An Act Concerning tonnage duties on vessels entering otherwise than by sea. Public Law 61-79 · March 8, 1910 · S. 5697 An Act To authorize the change of name of the steamers A. B. Wolvin and Cambria, owned by the Port Huron and Duluth Steamship Company. Public Law 61-80 · March 8, 1910 · H.R. 13410 An Act To modify the one hundred and twenty-second and one hundred and twenty-fourth articles of war, and to repeal the one hundred and twenty-third article of war. Public Law 61-81 · March 12, 1910 · S. 6449 An Act Permitting the Wisconsin Central Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Saint Croix River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Public Law 61-82 · March 12, 1910 · H.R. 13899 An Act Granting unto the Hot Springs Street Railway Company, its successors and assigns, the right to maintain and operate its electric railway along the southern border of that portion of the Hot Springs Reservation, i… Public Law 61-83 · March 12, 1910 · H.R. 18593 An Act To authorize the transfer of the government highway, known as the Alter road, to the city of Detroit, Michigan. Public Law 61-84 · March 12, 1910 · H.R. 19558 An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to effect an exchange of a certain parcel of land owned by the United States for another parcel owned by the Cave Hill Cemetery Company, of Louisville, Kentucky. Public Law 61-85 · March 12, 1910 · H.R. 20835 An Act Authorizing the chief justice and associate justices of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico to assign the said judges to the several judicial districts of the Territory. Public Law 61-86 · March 15, 1910 · H.R. 17872 An Act Providing for the sale to Johnson County, in the State of Wyoming, of certain lands. Public Law 61-87 · March 15, 1910 · H.R. 21428 An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make temporary withdrawals of public lands for certain purposes. Public Law 61-88 · March 15, 1910 · S. 5125 An Act Authorizing the creation of an additional land district in the State of Oregon, to be known as the "Vale land district." Public Law 61-89 · March 23, 1910 · S. 1864 An Act To facilitate the use for manufacturing purposes of square numbered three hundred and twenty-eight in the city of Washington, as authorized in the Act of Congress of February first, nineteen hundred and seven. Public Law 61-90 · March 23, 1910 · S. 3889 An Act To amend an Act to incorporate the Masonic Temple Association of the District of Columbia. Public Law 61-91 · March 23, 1910 · S. 6662 An Act To authorize the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Missouri Riyer in the neighborhood of Sibley, Missouri, and to remove the existing structure. Public Law 61-92 · March 23, 1910 · H.R. 11878 An Act To change the name of Twenty-third street north of Calvert street, in the District of Columbia, to Woodley place. Public Law 61-93 · March 23, 1910 · H.R. 13893 An Act To authorize the extension of Forty-first street northwest. Public Law 61-94 · March 23, 1910 · H.R. 16915 An Act To direct that Jefferson street northwest between Fourteenth. street and Colorado avenue be stricken from the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia. Public Law 61-95 · March 23, 1910 · H.R. 16916 An Act To authorize certain changes in the permanent system of highways plan, District of Columbia. Public Law 61-96 · March 23, 1910 · H.R. 18902 An Act To amend an Act approved August thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An Act relative to recognizances, stipulations, bonds, and undertakings, and to allow certain corporations to be accepted as… Public Law 61-97 · March 23, 1910 · H.R. 19785 An Act To authorize the extension of Columbia road northwest, in District of Columbia. Public Law 61-98 · March 23, 1910 · H.R. 20164 An Act Authorizing the extension of Military road northwest, in the District of Columbia. Public Law 61-99 · March 23, 1910 · H.R. 21221 An Act To authorize the city of Saint Joseph, Michigan, to construct a bridge across Morrison Channel, of the Saint Joseph River, Michigan. Public Law 61-100 · March 23, 1910 · S. 7187 An Act Making an appropriation for folding speeches and pamphlets for the Senate.