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70th Congress · 1927–1929

Laws of the 70th Congress

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In the order GovInfo numbers them

Private Law 70-1 · February 3, 1928 · S. 440 An Act For the relief of Charles H. Send. Private Law 70-2 · February 11, 1928 · H.R. 3400 An Act To correct the military record of Andrew B. Ritter. Private Law 70-3 · February 11, 1928 · H.R. 5228 An Act For the relief of Finas M. Williams. Private Law 70-4 · February 11, 1928 · H.R. 5994 An Act For the relief of George C. Hussey. Private Law 70-5 · February 11, 1928 · H.R. 6162 An Act For the relief of Thomas M. Ross. Private Law 70-6 · February 11, 1928 · H.R. 2138 An Act For the relief of the owner of the schooner Sentinel. Private Law 70-7 · February 11, 1928 · H.R. 2145 An Act For the relief of Albert J. Zyvolski. Private Law 70-8 · February 11, 1928 · H.R. 4393 An Act For the relief of Howard V. Sloan. Private Law 70-9 · February 13, 1928 · H.R. 8092 An Act For the relief of Randolph Sias. Private Law 70-10 · February 13, 1928 · H.R. 8889 An Act For the relief of Adriano Cruceta, a citizen of the Dominican Republic. Private Law 70-11 · February 13, 1928 · H.R. 5300 An Act For the relief of Lewis H. Francke and Blanche F. Shelley, sole legal heirs of Ralph K. Warrington. Private Law 70-12 · February 13, 1928 · H.R. 4995 An Act For the relief of Sabino Apodaca. Private Law 70-13 · February 13, 1928 · H.R. 4777 An Act To compensate Robert F. Yeaman for the loss of certain carpenter tools which was incurred by reason of a fire in the Government area at Old Hickory Ordnance Depot. Private Law 70-14 · February 13, 1928 · H.R. 4707 An Act For the relief of Calvin H. Burkhead. Private Law 70-15 · February 13, 1928 · H.R. 4127 An Act For the relief of Joel T. Smith. Private Law 70-16 · February 13, 1928 · H.R. 1405 An Act Granting six months' pay to Maria J. McShane. Private Law 70-17 · February 13, 1928 · H.R. 766 An Act For the relief of Ida F. Baum. Private Law 70-18 · February 15, 1928 · H.R. 8369 An Act For the relief of Josephine Thibodeaux. Private Law 70-19 · February 18, 1928 · H.R. 3926 An Act For the relief of Joseph Jameson. Private Law 70-20 · February 25, 1928 · H.R. 8216 An Act To confer authority on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia to permit J. L. Sink, a bankrupt, to file his application for discharge and to authorize and empower the judge of said … Private Law 70-21 · February 28, 1928 · S. 1425 An Act To remove a cloud on title. Private Law 70-22 · March 2, 1928 · H.R. 3144 An Act For the relief of Augustus C. Turner. Private Law 70-23 · March 3, 1928 · H.R. 8527 An Act For the relief of the International Petroleum Company, Limited, of Toronto, Canada. Private Law 70-24 · March 5, 1928 · H.R. 4821 An Act To provide relief for the victims of the airplane accident at Langin Field, Moundsville, West Virginia. Private Law 70-25 · March 5, 1928 · H.R. 5925 An Act For the relief of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland. Private Law 70-26 · March 5, 1928 · H.R. 9994 An Act To reimburse certain Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, for part or full value of an allotment of land to which they were individually entitled. Private Law 70-27 · March 7, 1928 · H.R. 519 An Act For the relief of Joseph F. Ritcherdson. Private Law 70-28 · March 7, 1928 · H.R. 4536 An Act For the relief of Fred R. Nugent. Private Law 70-29 · March 7, 1928 · H.R. 10715 An Act To authorize Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, United States Army Air Corps Reserve, to accept decorations and gifts from foreign governments. Private Law 70-30 · March 8, 1928 · H.R. 2524 An Act For the relief of Mary M. Jones. Private Law 70-31 · March 8, 1928 · H.R. 6194 An Act For the relief of Frank Stinchcomb. Private Law 70-32 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 7553 An Act For the relief of James Neal. Private Law 70-33 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 2809 An Act For the relief of the heirs of Jacob Thomas. Private Law 70-34 · March 10, 1928 · H.R. 6579 An Act For the relief of James W. Kingon. Private Law 70-35 · March 12, 1928 · S. 1705 An Act Authorizing the Court of Claims to render judgment in favor of the administrator of or collector for the estate of Peter P. Pitchlynn, deceased, instead of the heirs of Peter P. Pitchlynn, and for other purposes. Private Law 70-36 · March 20, 1928 · S. 3292 An Act Providing for turning over to the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society two dedication stones formerly a part of one of the locks of the Ohio and Erie Canal. Private Law 70-37 · March 23, 1928 · S. 1795 An Act For the relief of Fannie M. Hollingsworth. Private Law 70-38 · March 23, 1928 · S. 1133 An Act For the relief of John F. White and Mary L. White. Private Law 70-39 · March 23, 1928 · S. 2365 An Act For the relief of G. W. Rogers. Private Law 70-40 · March 23, 1928 · S. 496 An Act For the relief of M. Zingarell and wife, Mary Alice Zingarell. Private Law 70-41 · March 24, 1928 · H.R. 10954 An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to execute agreements of indemnity to the Union Trust Company, Providence, Rhode Island, and the National Bank of Commerce, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Private Law 70-42 · March 24, 1928 · S. 2820 An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain field guns to the city of Dallas, Texas. Private Law 70-43 · March 24, 1928 · H.R. 5255 An Act For the relief of Jacob F. Webb. Private Law 70-44 · March 24, 1928 · S. 3 An Act For the relief of Kate Mathews. Private Law 70-45 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 7110 An Act For the relief of Frances L. Dickinson. Private Law 70-46 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 4203 An Act For the relief of A. S. Guffey. Private Law 70-47 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 3673 An Act For the relief of Major F. Ellis Reed. Private Law 70-48 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 3145 An Act For the relief of Willis B. Cross. Private Law 70-49 · March 27, 1928 · H.R. 926 An Act For the relief of Jennie Roll. Private Law 70-50 · March 27, 1928 · S. 1325 An Act For the relief of John A. Fox. Private Law 70-51 · March 28, 1928 · H.R. 8887 An Act For the relief of Victorina Mesa, of Cavite, Philippine Islands. Private Law 70-52 · March 29, 1928 · H.R. 8093 An Act For the relief of John Rooks. Private Law 70-53 · March 29, 1928 · S. 3007 An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for a certain tract of land on Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico. Private Law 70-54 · April 4, 1928 · S. 46 An Act For the relief of Daniel F. Roberts. Private Law 70-55 · April 4, 1928 · S. 138 An Act For the relief of Thomas Johnsen. Private Law 70-56 · April 4, 1928 · S. 43 An Act For the relief of Frederick N. Carr. Private Law 70-57 · April 5, 1928 · S. 2020 An Act For the relief of Leonidas L. Cochran and Rosalie Cochran Brink. Private Law 70-58 · April 6, 1928 · S. 1899 An Act For the relief of Clifford D. Ham, collector general of customs, administrator of Corinto Wharf, Republic of Nicaragua. Private Law 70-59 · April 9, 1928 · H.R. 4117 An Act For the relief of Harriet K. Carey. Private Law 70-60 · April 9, 1928 · H.R. 4115 An Act For the relief of Winfield Scott. Private Law 70-61 · April 9, 1928 · H.R. 4116 An Act For the relief of W. Laurence Hazard. Private Law 70-62 · April 9, 1928 · S. 2657 An Act For the relief of George W. Boyer. Private Law 70-63 · April 10, 1928 · S. 380 An Act For the relief of Charles H. Niehaus. Private Law 70-64 · April 10, 1928 · H.R. 3466 An Act For the relief of George A. Winslow. Private Law 70-65 · April 11, 1928 · H.R. 5923 An Act For the relief of the Sanitarium Company, of Portland, Oregon. Private Law 70-66 · April 11, 1928 · H.R. 5075 An Act For the relief of W. J. Bryson. Private Law 70-67 · April 12, 1928 · H.R. 333 An Act Authorizing the sale of certain lands near Seward, Alaska, for use in connection with the Jesse Lee Home. Private Law 70-68 · April 12, 1928 · H.R. 4125 An Act For the relief of Holger M. Trandum. Private Law 70-69 · April 12, 1928 · H.R. 1997 An Act For the relief of Clifford J. Turner. Private Law 70-70 · April 13, 1928 · H.R. 9118 An Act For the relief of William C. Braasch. Private Law 70-71 · April 13, 1928 · H.R. 8499 An Act For the relief of Arthur C. Lueder. Private Law 70-72 · April 13, 1928 · H.R. 3315 An Act For the relief of Charles A. Black, alias Angus Black. Private Law 70-73 · April 19, 1928 · H.R. 4702 An Act For the relief of Benjamin S. McHenry, alias Henry Benjamin. Private Law 70-74 · April 20, 1928 · H.R. 6360 An Act For the relief of Edward S. Lathrop. Private Law 70-75 · April 20, 1928 · H.R. 8650 An Act For the relief of C. S. Winans. Private Law 70-76 · April 20, 1928 · H.R. 10932 An Act For the relief of the widows of certain Foreign Service officers. Private Law 70-77 · April 21, 1928 · H.R. 1970 An Act For the relief of Dennis W. Scott. Private Law 70-78 · April 21, 1928 · H.R. 2294 An Act For the relief of George H. Gilbert. Private Law 70-79 · April 21, 1928 · H.R. 6431 An Act For the relief of Lewis H. Easterly. Private Law 70-80 · April 21, 1928 · H.R. 8983 An Act For the relief of William G. Beaty, deceased. Private Law 70-81 · April 21, 1928 · H.R. 1530 An Act For the relief of William F. Wheeler. Private Law 70-82 · April 23, 1928 · H.R. 1588 An Act For the relief of Louis H. Harmon. Private Law 70-83 · April 23, 1928 · H.R. 7518 An Act For the relief of the Farmers National Bank of Danville, Kentucky. Private Law 70-84 · April 23, 1928 · H.R. 852 An Act Authorizing the issuance of a certain patent. Private Law 70-85 · April 23, 1928 · H.R. 8651 An Act For the relief of Lynn W. Franklin. Private Law 70-86 · April 23, 1928 · H.R. 9902 An Act For the relief of James A. DeLoach. Private Law 70-87 · April 24, 1928 · H.R. 10038 An Act For the relief of Wilford W. Caldwell. Private Law 70-88 · April 24, 1928 · S. 1771 An Act For the relief of Peter S. Kelly. Private Law 70-89 · April 25, 1928 · H.R. 11020 An Act Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands. Private Law 70-90 · April 26, 1928 · S. 1736 An Act For the relief of Charles Caudwell. Private Law 70-91 · April 26, 1928 · S. 205 An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the claim of Mary Clerkin. Private Law 70-92 · April 26, 1928 · S. 802 An Act For the relief of Frank Hanley. Private Law 70-93 · April 26, 1928 · S. 2442 An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Henry C. Weber, Medical Corps, United States Navy. Private Law 70-94 · April 26, 1928 · S. 1377 An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Robert Stanley Robertson, junior, United States Navy. Private Law 70-95 · April 27, 1928 · S. 463 An Act For the relief of David J. Williams. Private Law 70-96 · April 27, 1928 · S. 1758 An Act For the relief of Fred A. Knauf. Private Law 70-97 · April 27, 1928 · S. 484 An Act For the relief of Joe W. Williams. Private Law 70-98 · April 27, 1928 · S. 2008 An Act For the relief of the parents of Wyman Henry Beckstead. Private Law 70-99 · April 27, 1928 · S. 1848 An Act For the relief of Frank Dixon. Private Law 70-100 · April 28, 1928 · S. 3507 An Act For the relief of the Eagle Transport Company (Limited) and the West of England Steamship Owners' Protection and Indemnity Association (Limited).

Source: GovInfo, U.S. Government Publishing Office — Public and Private Laws and United States Statutes at Large.