Laws of the 70th Congress

Public Law 70-101 · March 7, 1928 · H.R. 84 An Act To approve Act 25 of the Session Laws of 1927 of the Territory of Hawaii, entitled "An Act to authorize and provide for the manufacture, maintenance, distribution, and supply of electric current for light and pow… Public Law 70-102 · March 7, 1928 · H.R. 7948 An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Delaware River at or near Burlington, New Jersey. Public Law 70-103 · March 7, 1928 · H.R. 8227 An Act Authorizing the Sunbury Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near Bainbridge Street, in the city of Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Public Law 70-104 · March 7, 1928 · H.R. 7195 An Act To provide for the purchase of horses and mules for the Military Establishment. Public Law 70-105 · March 7, 1928 · H.R. 6989 An Act To amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, approved July 9, 1921, as amended by Act of February 3, 1923. Public Law 70-106 · March 8, 1928 · H.R. 7030 An Act To amend section 5 of the Act of March 2, 1895. Public Law 70-107 · March 8, 1928 · H.R. 7213 An Act To grant authority to the Postmaster General to enter into contracts for the transportation of mails by air to foreign countries and insular possessions of the United States for periods of not more than ten years… Public Law 70-108 · March 8, 1928 · H.R. 204 An Act To authorize an additional appropriation for Fort McHenry, Maryland. Public Law 70-109 · March 8, 1928 · H.R. 230 An Act To authorize an appropriation for the recovery of bodies of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees. Public Law 70-110 · March 8, 1928 · H.R. 235 An Act To authorize the payment of travel expenses from appropriations for investigations and surveys of battle fields. Public Law 70-111 · March 8, 1928 · H.R. 238 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of six months' pay to the widow, children, or other designated dependent relative of any officer or enlisted man of the Regular Army whose death results… Public Law 70-112 · March 8, 1928 · H.R. 5686 An Act Granting a right of way to the county of Imperial, State of California, over certain public lands for highway purposes. Public Law 70-113 · March 9, 1928 · H.R. 5635 An Act To amend the Act approved June 7, 1924, authorizing the Secretary of War to sell a portion of the Carlisle Barracks Reservation. Public Law 70-114 · March 9, 1928 · S. 1455 An Act To grant extensions of time under coal permits. Public Law 70-115 · March 9, 1928 · H.R. 233 An Act To provide for the purchase of land in connection with the Fort Monmouth Military Reservation, New Jersey. Public Law 70-116 · March 9, 1928 · H.R. 234 An Act To amend section 47d of the National Defense Act, as amended, so as to authorize an allowance of 1 cent a mile for subsistence of candidates in going to and returning from camp. Public Law 70-117 · March 9, 1928 · H.R. 248 An Act To Authorize appropriations to be made for the disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army. Public Law 70-118 · March 9, 1928 · H.R. 5783 An Act To grant extensions of time of oil and gas permits. Public Law 70-119 · March 9, 1928 · H.R. 6684 An Act To amend section 2455 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, relating to isolated tracts of public land. Public Law 70-120 · March 9, 1928 · H.R. 6491 An Act To amend section 8 of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes," approved October 15, 1914, as amended. Public Law 70-121 · March 9, 1928 · H.R. 9842 An Act To provide for the survey, appraisal, and sale of the undisposed lots in the town site of Saint Marks, Florida. Public Law 70-122 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7201 An Act To provide for the settlement of certain claims of American nationals against Germany, Austria, and Hungary, and of nationals of Germany, Austria, and Hungary, against the United States, and for the ultimate retu… Public Law 70-123 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 449 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Atchafalaya River at or near Morgan City, Louisiana. Public Law 70-124 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 5727 An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ouachita River at or near Harrisonburg, Louisiana. Public Law 70-125 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 5803 An Act Authorizing the Interstate Bridge Company, of Lansing, Iowa, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Lansing, Iowa. Public Law 70-126 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 6476 An Act Authorizing the Wabasha Bridge Committee, Wabasha, Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Wabasha, Minnesota. Public Law 70-127 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 6973 An Act Authorizing E. H. Wegener, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Chester, Illinois. Public Law 70-128 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7199 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Oregon-Washington Bridge Company to maintain a bridge already constructed across Columbia River near the city of Hood River, Oregon. Public Law 70-129 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7371 An Act To legalize a bridge across the Snake River near Heyburn, Idaho. Public Law 70-130 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7375 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Guntersville on the Guntersville-… Public Law 70-131 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7909 An Act To authorize the maintenance and renewal of a timber frame trestle in place of a fixed span at the Wisconsin end of the steel bridge of the Duluth and Superior Bridge Company over the Saint Louis River between th… Public Law 70-132 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7914 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Whitesburg Ferry, on the Huntsvil… Public Law 70-133 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7915 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Scottsboro, on the Scottsboro-For… Public Law 70-134 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7925 An Act Granting the consent of Congress for the maintenance operation of a bridge across the Monongahela River between the borough of Glassport and the city of Clairton, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Public Law 70-135 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8530 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Coosa River near Cedar Bluff in Cherokee County, Alabama. Public Law 70-136 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8531 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Coosa River on the Columbiana-Talladega Road Between Tallade… Public Law 70-137 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8726 An Act Authorizing Oscar Baertch, Christ Buhmann, and Fred Reiter, their heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Alma, Wisconsin. Public Law 70-138 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8740 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Cook, State of Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Little Calumet River in Cook County, State of Illinois. Public Law 70-139 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8741 An Act Authorizing the Dravo Contracting Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Chester, Illinois. Public Law 70-140 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8743 An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Public Law 70-141 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8818 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River at or near Moncla, Louisiana. Public Law 70-142 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8837 An Act Authorizing the American Bridge and Ferry Company (Incorporated), its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Cassville, Wisconsin. Public Law 70-143 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8896 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Conecuh River on the Brewton-Andalusia Road in Escambia County, Alabama. Public Law 70-144 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 9064 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Coosa River at or near Pell City on the Pell City-Anniston R… Public Law 70-145 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 9139 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River on the Lafayette-Celina Road in Clay County, Tennessee. Public Law 70-146 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 9849 An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Quincy, Illinois. Public Law 70-147 · March 10, 1928 · S. 2483 An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled "An Act granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois and the State of Iowa, or either of them, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River, connecting th… Public Law 70-148 · March 10, 1928 · S. 2698 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Vermont to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across an arm of Lake Memphremagog at or near Newport, Vermont. Public Law 70-149 · March 10, 1928 · S. 2801 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the New Martinsville and Ohio River Bridge Company (Incorporated), to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River, at or near New Martinsville, West Virgini… Public Law 70-150 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7008 An Act To authorize appropriations for the completion of the transfer of the experimental and testing plant of the Air Corps to a permanent site at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, and for other purposes. Public Law 70-151 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 8293 An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act for the relief of Indians occupying railroad lands in Arizona, New Mexico, or California," approved March 4, 1913. Public Law 70-152 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 9202 An Act To authorize construction at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Public Law 70-153 · March 10, 1928 · S. 771 An Act Providing for the gift of the United States ship Dispatch to the State of Florida. Public Law 70-154 · March 10, 1928 · S. 2545 An Act To authorize the sale of certain lands near Garden City, Kansas. Public Law 70-155 · March 12, 1928 · S. 2902 An Act Authorizing the States of Wisconsin and Michigan to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Menominee River at or near Marinette, Wisconsin. Public Law 70-156 · March 12, 1928 · H.R. 437 An Act Authorizing the Maysville Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Maysville, Kentucky. Public Law 70-157 · March 12, 1928 · H.R. 472 An Act Authorizing Dwight P. Robinson and Company, Incorporated, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Maysville, Kentucky. Public Law 70-158 · March 12, 1928 · H.R. 8899 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Tombigbee River at or near Epes, Alabama. Public Law 70-159 · March 12, 1928 · H.R. 8900 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Tombigbee River near Gainesville on the Gainesville-Eutaw ro… Public Law 70-160 · March 12, 1928 · H.R. 9019 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ouachita River at or near Calion, Arkansas. Public Law 70-161 · March 12, 1928 · H.R. 9063 An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Chattahoochee River at or near Alaga, Alabama. Public Law 70-162 · March 12, 1928 · H.R. 9204 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Arkansas Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Current River at or near Success, Arkansas. Public Law 70-163 · March 12, 1928 · H.R. 9339 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the board of county commissioners of Trumbull County, Ohio, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mahoning River at or near Warren, Trumbull Coun… Public Law 70-164 · March 12, 1928 · H.R. 9484 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Tombigbee River at or near Aliceville on the Gainesville-Ali… Public Law 70-165 · March 12, 1928 · S. 1946 An Act Relative to the pay of certain retired warrant officers and enlisted men and warrant officers and enlisted men of the reserve forces of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard, fixed under the terms of … Public Law 70-166 · March 13, 1928 · H.R. 9196 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Highway Department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River on the Decatur-Kingston Road in Roane County, Tennessee. Public Law 70-167 · March 13, 1928 · S. 1531 An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to sell the Weather Bureau station known as Mount Weather, in the counties of Loudoun and Clarke, in the State of Virginia. Public Law 70-168 · March 13, 1928 · H.R. 5476 An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to sell to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company a tract of land situate in the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania. Public Law 70-169 · March 13, 1928 · S. 700 An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to execute an agreement with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District providing for conservation, irrigation, drainage, and flood control for the Pueblo Indian lands in… Public Law 70-170 · March 14, 1928 · H.R. 9293 An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Highway Department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Clinch River on the Sneedville-Rogersville Road in Hancock County, Tenn… Public Law 70-171 · March 14, 1928 · H.R. 9843 An Act To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Kanawha River in or near Henderson, West Virginia, to a point opposite thereto in or near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Public Law 70-172 · March 15, 1928 · S. 2342 An Act Providing for a per capita payment of $25 to each enrolled member of the Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota from the funds standing to their credit in the Treasury of the United States. Public Law 70-173 · March 15, 1928 · H.R. 11197 An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant rights of way to the Vicksburg Bridge and Terminal Company, upon, over, and across the Vicksburg National Military Park at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi. Public Law 70-174 · March 16, 1928 · H.R. 66 An Act Authorizing B. L. Hendrix, G. C. Trammel, and C. S. Miller, their heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Mound City, Illinois. Public Law 70-175 · March 16, 1928 · H.R. 6073 An Act Authorizing E. M. Elliott, of Chicago, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Ravenswood, West Virginia. Public Law 70-176 · March 16, 1928 · H.R. 7183 An Act Authorizing C. J. Abbott, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Golconda, Illinois. Public Law 70-177 · March 16, 1928 · H.R. 7921 An Act Authorizing A. Robbins, of Hickman, Kentucky, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky. Public Law 70-178 · March 19, 1928 · S. 2569 An Act Providing for horticultural experiment and demonstration work in the semiarid or dry-land regions of the United States. Public Law 70-179 · March 21, 1928 · H.R. 4964 An Act To authorize the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, to remove and retain title to the boilers from the Municipal Hospital Building recently conveyed by the city to the United States Veterans' Bureau Hospital Numbered 90… Public Law 70-180 · March 22, 1928 · S. 2800 An Act Authorizing E. K. Morse, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Delaware River at or near Burlington, New Jersey. Public Law 70-181 · March 23, 1928 · H.R. 10286 An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, for other purposes. Public Law 70-182 · March 23, 1928 · S. 2007 An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to pay officers and Filipinos formerly enlisted as members of the National Guard of Hawaii for field and armory training during years 1924 and 1925, and to validate payments for … Public Law 70-183 · March 23, 1928 · S. 2021 An Act Extending and continuing to January 12, 1930, the provisions of "An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to determine and confirm by patent in the nature of a deed of quitclaim the title to lots in the c… Public Law 70-184 · March 26, 1928 · H.R. 232 An Act To amend the Act of June 7, 1924, prescribing the persons entitled to the benefits of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the method of their admission thereto. Public Law 70-185 · March 26, 1928 · S. 1478 An Act To authorize an appropriation for the construction of a road on the Lummi Indian Reservation, Washington. Public Law 70-186 · March 26, 1928 · S. 2279 An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to purchase certain lands in the city of Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, for Indian school purposes. Public Law 70-187 · March 26, 1928 · H.R. 5500 An Act To establish a national military park at the battle field of Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Public Law 70-188 · March 26, 1928 · H.R. 10027 An Act To authorize the transfer of a portion of the Hospital Reservation of the United States Veterans' Hospital Numbered 78, North Little Rock, Arkansas, to the Big Rock Stone and Material Company, and the transfer of… Public Law 70-189 · March 26, 1928 · S. 1856 An Act For the relief of the Gunnison-Mayfield Land and Grazing Company. Public Law 70-190 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 9031 An Act To provide further for the disposal of abandoned military reservations in the Territory of Alaska, including Signal Corps stations and rights of way. Public Law 70-191 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 8311 An Act To provide for the naming of a mountain or peak within the boundaries of the Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, in honor of Honorable John E. Raker, deceased. Public Law 70-192 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 356 An Act To amend section 2 of the Act of March 3, 1905, entitled "An Act to ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians residing on the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation, in the State of Wyoming, and to make a… Public Law 70-193 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 7932 An Act To authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes. Public Law 70-194 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 8824 An Act To provide for the protection of the watershed within the Carson National Forest from which water is obtained for the Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Public Law 70-195 · March 28, 1928 · S. 2317 An Act Continuing for one year the powers and authority of the Federal Radio Commission under the Radio Act of 1927, and for other purposes. Public Law 70-196 · March 28, 1928 · H.R. 7944 An Act To authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes. Public Law 70-197 · March 28, 1928 · S. 1665 An Act To authorize the board of park commissioners of the city and county of San Francisco to construct a recreation pier at the foot of Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California. Public Law 70-198 · March 28, 1928 · H.R. 10083 An Act To provide for advances of funds by special disbursing agents in connection with the enforcement of Acts relating to narcotic drugs. Public Law 70-199 · March 28, 1928 · H.R. 8542 An Act To provide for the construction of a hospital at the Fort Bidwell Indian School, California. Public Law 70-200 · March 28, 1928 · H.R. 8543 An Act To provide for the construction of a school building at the Fort Bidwell Indian School, California.