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119th Congress

Volume 28

1893–1895 · 52nd–53rd Congress · sessions 1–3 · 609 public laws.

  1. Public Law 53–1Chapter 1: In aid of the California Midwinter International Exposition.Sep 1, 1893
  2. Public Law 53–2Chapter 2: To provide for certain urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes.Sep 7, 1893
  3. Public Law 53–3Chapter 3: To provide for clerical assistance in the Health Department of the District of Columbia.Oct 2, 1893
  4. Public Law 53–4Chapter 4: To extend the time for completing the work of the Eleventh Census, and for other purposes.Oct 3, 1893
  5. Public Law 53–5Chapter 5: Granting settlers on certain lands in Oklahoma Territory the right to commute their homestead entries, and for other purposes.Oct 20, 1893
  6. Public Law 53–6Chapter 6: Providing for the construction of a steam revenue cutter for the New England coast.Oct 31, 1893
  7. Public Law 53–7Chapter 7: To amend section six of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An act to repeal timber culture laws, and for other purposes.”Nov 1, 1893
  8. Public Law 53–8Chapter 8: To repeal a part of an act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes.”Nov 1, 1893
  9. Public Law 53–9Chapter 9: To amend an act entitled “An act to provide the times and places for holding terms of United States courts in the States of Idaho and Wyoming,” approved July five, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.Nov 3, 1893
  10. Public Law 53–10Chapter 10: To provide for the time and place of holding the terms of the United States circuit and district courts in the State of South Dakota.Nov 3, 1893
  11. Public Law 53–11Chapter 11: Providing for the construction of a steam revenue cutter for service on the Great Lakes.Nov 3, 1893
  12. Public Law 53–12Chapter 12: To amend section numbered twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to mining claims.Nov 3, 1893
  13. Public Law 53–13Chapter 13: To increase the number of officers of the Army to be detailed to colleges.Nov 3, 1893
  14. Public Law 53–14Chapter 14: To amend an act entitled “An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.Nov 3, 1893
  15. Public Law 53–15Chapter 15: In aid of the World’s Fair Prize Winners’ Exposition to be held at New York City.Nov 3, 1893
  16. Public Law 53–16Chapter 16: To regulate the fees of the clerk of the United States Court for the Indian Territory.Nov 3, 1893
  17. Public Law 53–1Chap. 1: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes,” approved September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the several Acts amendatory thereof.Dec 12, 1893
  18. Public Law 53–2Chap. 2: To provide for further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, mid for other purposes.Dec 21, 1893
  19. Public Law 53–3Chap. 3: Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety four, and for prior years, and for other purposes.Dec 21, 1893
  20. Public Law 53–4Chap. 4: To extend North Capitol street to the Soldiers’ Home.Dec 21, 1893
  21. Public Law 53–5Chap. 5: To provide for two additional associate just ices of the supreme court of the Territory of Oklahoma, and for other purposes.Dec 21, 1893
  22. Public Law 53–6Chap. 6: Authorizing the fourth Assistant Postmaster-General to approve postmasters’ bonds.Dec 21, 1893
  23. Public Law 53–7Chap. 7: To close alleys in square numbered seven hundred and fifty-one, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.Dec 21, 1893
  24. Public Law 53–8Chap. 8: Granting the right of way for the construction of u railroad and other improvements over and on the West Mountain of the Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs, Arkansas.Dec 21, 1893
  25. Public Law 53–9Chap. 9: To grant the right of way to the. Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern Railway Company through the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory, and for other purposes.Dec 21, 1893
  26. Public Law 53–10Chap. 10: Relating to the disqualification of registers and receivers of the United States land offices, and making provision in case of such disqualification.Jan 11, 1894
  27. Public Law 53–12Chap. 12: To amend an Act of Congress approved May twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, granting to the Aransas Pass Harbor Company the right to improve Aransas Pass.Jan 22, 1894
  28. Public Law 53–13Chap. 13: For the establishment of a light and fog-signal station near Butler Flats. New Bedford. Massachusetts.Jan 22, 1894
  29. Public Law 53–14Chap. 14: To extend the time for the construction of the railway of the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company.Jan 22, 1894
  30. Public Law 53–15Chap. 15: To authorize the construction and maintenance of a dam or dams across the Kansas River, within Shawnee County, in the State of Kansas.Jan 22, 1894
  31. Public Law 53–16Chap. 16: To amend section forty-four hundred and thirty, Title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to inspection of iron or steel boiler plates.Jan 22, 1894
  32. Public Law 53–17Chap. 17: To amend section four hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes so us to require original receipts for deposits of postmasters to be sent to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department.Jan 22, 1894
  33. Public Law 53–18Chap. 18: To amend an Act approved September fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, authorizing the New Orleans, Natchez and Fort Scott Railroad Company to construct two bridges across Boeuf River, in Louisiana.Jan 22, 1894
  34. Public Law 53–19Chap. 19: To authorize the Chattanooga Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Chattanooga.Jan 27, 1894
  35. Public Law 53–20Chap. 20: Granting certain lands to the Territory of Arizona.Jan 27, 1894
  36. Public Law 53–21Chap. 21: To improve the methods of accounting in the Post-Office Department, and for other purposes.Jan 27, 1894
  37. Public Law 53–22Chap. 22: To amend section thirty-seven hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes, relating to contracts for supplies in the Departments at Washington.Jan 27, 1894
  38. Public Law 53–23Chap. 23: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reserve from sale certain land in the abandoned Fort Cummings military reservation, and for other purposes.Feb 1, 1894
  39. Public Law 53–24Chap. 24: Authorizing the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Rail way Company to bridge the Neches and Sabine Rivers in the States of Texas and Louisiana.Feb 2, 1894
  40. Public Law 53–25Chap. 25: To repeal all statutes relating to supervisors of elections and special deputy marshals, and for other purposes.Feb 8, 1894
  41. Public Law 53–26Chap. 26: Extending the time allowed the Umatilla Irrigation Company for the construction of its ditch across the Umatilla Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon.Feb 9, 1894
  42. Public Law 53–27Chap. 27: For the relief of certain settlers upon the Iowa Reservation, Oklahoma. Territory.Feb 10, 1894
  43. Public Law 53–29Chap. 29: Fixing the limit of indebtedness which may be incurred by Salt Lake City.Feb 21, 1894
  44. Public Law 53–30Chap. 30: Granting to the Des Moines Rapids Power Company the right to erect, construct, operate, and maintain a wing dam, canal, and power station in the Mississippi River in Hancock County, Illinois.Feb 24, 1894
  45. Public Law 53–31Chap. 31: To extend the time for building a street railway on the military reservation, Fort Riley, Kansas.Mar 6, 1894
  46. Public Law 53–32Chap. 32: Providing for the rescue of the armament and wreck of the United States war ship Kearsarge.Mar 9, 1894
  47. Public Law 53–33Chap. 33: To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Arkansas River at or near Van Buren, Arkansas.Mar 9, 1894
  48. Public Law 53–34Chap. 34: To establish a port of delivery at Bonners Ferry, Idaho.Mar 10, 1894
  49. Public Law 53–35Chap. 35: To continue in force the provisions of an Art approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and entitled “An Act to protect the fish in the Potomac. River in the District of Columbia, and to provide a spawning ground for shad and herring in the said Potomac River.”Mar 12, 1894
  50. Public Law 53–36Chap. 36: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men,” being title seventy-three of the Revised Statutes.Mar 12, 1894
  51. Public Law 53–37Chap. 37: Act Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for prior years, and for other purposes.Mar 12, 1894
  52. Public Law 53–38Chap. 38: To transfer the Morris Island Life-Saving Station, near Ch a Heston. South Carolina, to Sullivans Island.Mar 14, 1894
  53. Public Law 53–39Chap. 39: To provide an American register for the steamer El Callao.Mar 14, 1894
  54. Public Law 53–40Chap. 40: To make service connections with water mains and sewers in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Mar 14, 1894
  55. Public Law 53–41Chap. 41: To amend “An Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Hast River, between the city of New York and Long Island,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.Mar 14, 1894
  56. Public Law 53–45Chap. 45: To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge at or near Sioux City, Iowa,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by Acts of April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.Mar 24, 1894
  57. Public Law 53–46Chap. 46: To amend an act entitled “An act, to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the most accessible point between the city of Kansas and the town of Sibley, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.Mar 29, 1894
  58. Public Law 53–47Chap. 47: For a charter for the Iowa and Nebraska Pontoon Bridge Company.Mar 29, 1894
  59. Public Law 53–48Chap. 48: To repeal section three hundred and eleven of the .Revised Statutes of the United States relating to accounts of the Treasury of the United States.Mar 29, 1894
  60. Public Law 53–49Chap. 49: To regulate the making of property returns by officers of the Government.Mar 29, 1894
  61. Public Law 53–51Chap. 51: To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Monongahela River at Glenwood, Pennsylvania.Apr 2, 1894
  62. Public Law 53–52Chap. 52: Authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge the Calcasieu and Sabine rivers in the States of Louisiana and Texas.Apr 2, 1894
  63. Public Law 53–56Chap. 56: Authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge Caddo Lake at or near Mooringsport, Louisiana, and Cross Bayou, near Shreveport, Louisiana.Apr 5, 1894
  64. Public Law 53–57Chap. 57: To give effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the purpose of submitting to arbitration certain questions concerning the preservation of the fur seals.Apr 6, 1894
  65. Public Law 53–58Chap. 58: Authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge the Sulphur River in the State of Arkansas or in the State of Texas.Apr 21, 1894
  66. Public Law 53–59Chap. 59: To extend the time authorizing the Saint Louis and Birmingham Railroad to build a bridge across Tennessee River at Clifton. Tennessee.Apr 21, 1894
  67. Public Law 53–60Chap. 60: To authorize the West Braddock Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River from the borough of Rankin to Mifflin Township.Apr 21, 1894
  68. Public Law 53–21Chap. 21: To provide for further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes.Apr 21, 1894
  69. Public Law 53–62Chap. 62: Authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge Little River, in the State of Arkansas.Apr 21, 1894
  70. Public Law 53–63Chap. 63: To amend section one of an Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to give effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, under the. treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the purpose of submitting to arbitration certain questions concerning the preservation of the fur seals.”Apr 24, 1894
  71. Public Law 53–64Chap. 64: To authorize the construction of a steel bridge over the Saint Louis River, between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.Apr 24, 1894
  72. Public Law 53–66Chap. 66: To provide for the division of the eastern district of Michigan into the northern and southern divisions, and for holding the circuit, and district courts of the United States therein, and for other purposes.Apr 30, 1894
  73. Public Law 53–67Chap. 67: To authorize the Saint Louis River Bridge Company and the Duluth Transfer Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge over the Saint Louis River from a point at or near Grassy Point, in the village of West Duluth, Minnesota, to the most available point opposite, in the State of Wisconsin.May 1, 1894
  74. Public Law 53–68Chap. 68: To ratify the reservation of certain lands made for t he benefit of Oklahoma Territory, and for other purposes.May 4, 1894
  75. Public Law 53–69Chap. 69: To authorize the reconstruction of a bridge across the Niobrara, River near the village of Niobrara, Nebraska, and making an appropriation therefor.May 7, 1894
  76. Public Law 53–70Chap. 70: To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Monongahela River in the city of Pittsburg.May 7, 1894
  77. Public Law 53–71Chap. 71: To extend the limits of the port of New York.May 7, 1894
  78. Public Law 53–72Chap. 72: To protect the birds and animals in Yellowstone National Park, and to punish crimes in said park, and for other purposes.May 7, 1894
  79. Public Law 53–73Chap. 73: To amend an Act entitled “An Act regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia.”May 11, 1894
  80. Public Law 53–75Chap. 75: To authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a patent to Mace-Clements’s survey, numbered three hundred and eighty-six, in the Virginia military-district of Ohio.May 12, 1894
  81. Public Law 53–76Chap. 76: To authorize the construction of abridge across the Mississippi River at Red Wing, Minnesota.May 12, 1894
  82. Public Law 53–77Chap. 77: To provide for the sale of new tickets by the street railway companies of the District of Columbia.May 25, 1894
  83. Public Law 53–79Chap. 79: To amend the Act of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at the city of Yankton. South Dakota.”May 28, 1894
  84. Public Law 53–80Chap. 80: Authorizing the Texarkana and Shreveport Railroad Company to bridge Sulphur River, in the State of Arkansas.May 28, 1894
  85. Public Law 53–81Chap. 81: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at some point within one mile below and one mile above the present limits of the City of Jefferson, Missouri.May 28, 1894
  86. Public Law 53–82Chap. 82: Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange, in belief of the United States, deeds of land with the Pemaquid Land Company of Maine, in settlement of a disputed boundary of the Pemaquid Point, Maine, light station.May 28, 1894
  87. Public Law 53–83Chap. 83: To amend an Act approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea.”May 28, 1894
  88. Public Law 53–84Chap. 84: To construe the Act of Congress passed January sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia.May 28, 1894
  89. Public Law 53–85Chap. 85: To amend section thirty-eight hundred and sixteen of the Revised Statutes relating to advances made to the Public Printer.May 29, 1894
  90. Public Law 53–86Chap. 86: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the sale of the remainder of the reservation of the Confederated Otoe and Missotiria Indians in the States of Nebraska and Kansas, and for other purposes.” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.May 30, 1894
  91. Public Law 53–87Chap. 87: Supplementary to the Act of Congress approved January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An Act defining the manner in which certain land scrip may be assigned and located or applied by actual settlers, and providing for the issue of patents in the name of the locator or his legal representatives.”May 30, 1894
  92. Public Law 53–91Chap. 91: Supplementary to an Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the execution of the award rendered at Paris, August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, by The Tribunal of Arbitration constituted under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, in relation to the preservation of the fur seal.Jun 5, 1894
  93. Public Law 53–92Chap. 92: To facilitate the entry of steamships.Jun 5, 1894
  94. Public Law 53–93Chap. 93: Defining and permanently fixing the northern boundary line of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon.Jun 6, 1894
  95. Public Law 53–94Chap. 94: To extend mid amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway to construct and operate additional lines of railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-fourth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-one.Jun 6, 1894
  96. Public Law 53–95Chap. 95: Granting the right of way to the Albany and Astoria Railroad Company through the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, in t he State of Oregon.Jun 6, 1894
  97. Public Law 53–99Chap. 99: To grant certain lands to the township board of Inwood Township. Michigan, for cemetery purposes.Jun 7, 1894
  98. Public Law 53–100Chap. 100: Authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Monongahela River, at the foot of Dickson street, in the borough of Homestead, in the State of Pennsylvania.Jun 7, 1894
  99. Public Law 53–101Chap. 101: To authorise the New York and New .Jersey Bridge companies to construct and maintain a bridge across the Hudson River between New York City and the State of New Jersey.Jun 7, 1894
  100. Public Law 53–102Chap. 102: To amend section eight of “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge, across the Calumet River,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.Jun 8, 1894
  101. Public Law 53–103Chap. 103: To authorize the Missouri River Power Company of Montana to construct a dam across the Missouri River.Jun 8, 1894
  102. Public Law 53–104Chap. 104: To donate to the county of Larande, Wyoming, certain bridges on the abandoned Fort Larande military reservation, and for other purposes.Jun 14, 1894
  103. Public Law 53–105Chap. 105: To authorize the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Railroad Companies, or either of them, to construct and maintain a bridge over the Delaware River between the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.Jun 14, 1894
  104. Public Law 53–106Chap. 106: Granting to the village of Dearborn certain land for village purposes.Jun 14, 1894
  105. Public Law 53–107Chap. 107: To amend an Act to authorize construction of a bridge at Burlington, Iowa, approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and amended by Act approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety.Jun 19, 1894
  106. Public Law 53–108Chap. 108: Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for public printing and binding for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes.Jun 19, 1894
  107. Public Law 53–109Chap. 109: To provide for the closing of part of an alley in square six hundred and twenty-two in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for the relief of the president and directors of Gonzaga College.Jun 19, 1894
  108. Public Law 53–110Chap. 110: To supply a deficiency in the grant of public lands to the State of Mississippi for the use of the State University.Jun 20, 1894
  109. Public Law 53–113Chap. 113: Granting the use of certain lands in the Hot Springs reservation, in the State of Arkansas, to the Barry Hospital.Jun 21, 1894
  110. Public Law 53–117Chap. 117: Granting to the Eastern Nebraska and Gulf Railway Company right of way through the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservations, in the State of Nebraska.Jun 27, 1894
  111. Public Law 53–118Chap. 118: Making Labor Day a legal holiday.Jun 28, 1894
  112. Public Law 53–119Chap. 119: To incorporate the Supremo Lodge of the Knights of Pythias.Jun 29, 1894
  113. Public Law 53–120Chap. 120: To authorize the city of Hastings, Minnesota, to construct and maintain a wagon bridge over the Mississippi River.Jun 29, 1894
  114. Public Law 53–121Chap. 121: Granting certain rights over Lime Point military reservation in the State of California.Jul 2, 1894
  115. Public Law 53–122Chap. 122: To amend section thirteen hundred and seventy-nine, chapter one, Title Fifteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to appointments of assistant paymasters in the Navy.Jul 3, 1894
  116. Public Law 53–123Chap. 123: To provide that a term of the circuit and district court of the United. States for the district of Vermont may be held at Montpelier.Jul 3, 1894
  117. Public Law 53–125Chap. 125: Granting to the Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway Company a right of way through the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in the State of Minnesota.Jul 6, 1894
  118. Public Law 53–126Chap. 126: Granting to the State of North Dakota certain lands heretofore set apart as a wood reservation for Fort Totten military reservation, for the use of the militia of North Dakota, and for other purposes.Jul 6, 1894
  119. Public Law 53–127Chap. 127: Authorizing the Minneapolis Gas Light Company, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, to lay submerged gas pipes across the Mississippi River at Minneapolis.Jul 6, 1894
  120. Public Law 53–129Chap. 129: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia River, between the State of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road.”Jul 11, 1894
  121. Public Law 53–131Chap. 131: To define and establish the units of electrical measure.Jul 12, 1894
  122. Public Law 53–132Chap. 132: Regulating the procedure in criminal causes in the district of Minnesota.Jul 12, 1894
  123. Public Law 53–133Chap. 133: Authorizing the Secretary of War to donate four obsolete gun carriages to the city of Marshalltown, Iowa.Jul 13, 1894
  124. Public Law 53–134Chap. 134: To provide for the restoration to the State of Michigan two flags carried by the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry Volunteers and now in the War Department.Jul 13, 1894
  125. Public Law 53–135Chap. 135: Making an appropriation for rewriting the Consular Regulations.Jul 16, 1894
  126. Public Law 53–136Chap. 136: To authorize the construction of a wagon and foot bridge across the South, or Main, Canadian River at or near the town of Noble, in Oklahoma Territory.Jul 16, 1894
  127. Public Law 53–137Chap. 137: Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.Jul 16, 1894
  128. Public Law 53–138Chap. 138: To enable the people of Utah to form a constitution and .State government, and to he admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.Jul 16, 1894
  129. Public Law 53–140Chap. 140: Granting to the Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company the right of way through the White Earth, Leech Lake, Chippewa, and Fond du Lac Indian reservations in the State of Minnesota.Jul 18, 1894
  130. Public Law 53–141Chap. 141: Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.Jul 18, 1894
  131. Public Law 53–142Chap. 142: To amend section numbered twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to mining claims.Jul 18, 1894
  132. Public Law 53–143Chap. 143: Authorizing the county of Coconino, Territory of Arizona, to issue bonds for the construction of a county building at the county seat thereof.Jul 18, 1894
  133. Public Law 53–144Chap. 144: To fix a term of the Federal district and circuit courts of the southern judicial district of Mississippi, to be field at Meridian, Mississippi, to include the counties named.Jul 18, 1894
  134. Public Law 53–147Chap. 147: Providing an additional circuit judge in the eighth judicial circuit.Jul 23, 1894
  135. Public Law 53–148Chap. 148: Authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Monongahela River at the foot of Main street, in the borough of Bellevernon, in the State of Pennsylvania.Jul 23, 1894
  136. Public Law 53–149Chap. 149: To change the boundaries of the judicial districts of the State of Florida.Jul 23, 1894
  137. Public Law 53–150Chap. 150: To authorize the Secretary of Stale to accept for the United States of America a painting by G. F. Watts, Koval Academician, entitled “Love and Life.”Jul 23, 1894
  138. Public Law 53–151Chap. 151: Granting to the University of Utah a site off the public domain.Jul 23, 1894
  139. Public Law 53–152Chap. 152: Granting to the Columbia Irrigation Company a right of way through the Yakima Indian Reservation, in Washington.Jul 23, 1894
  140. Public Law 53–153Chap. 153: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River from a point within the limits of the city of Dubuque, in the State of Iowa, known as Eagle Point, to the opposite bank of said river in the county of Grant and State of Wisconsin.Jul 23, 1894
  141. Public Law 53–162Chap. 162: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at. or near the city of Lexington, Missouri.Jul 26, 1894
  142. Public Law 53–163Chap. 163: Prescribing limitations of time for completion of title to certain lands disposed of under the Act of Congress approved September twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the Acts amendatory and supplemental thereto, and commonly known as the “Donation Act,” and for the protection of purchasers and occupants on said lands.Jul 26, 1894
  143. Public Law 53–164Chap. 164: Extending the time fur final proof and payment on lands claimed under the public land laws of the United States.Jul 26, 1894
  144. Public Law 53–165Chap. 165: Making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen handled and ninety-five, and for other purposes.Jul 26, 1894
  145. Public Law 53–166Chap. 166: Making appropriation for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.Jul 26, 1894
  146. Public Law 53–167Chap. 167: Making appropriations for the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.Jul 26, 1894
  147. Public Law 53–168Chap. 168: To amend section forty-eight hundred and thirty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States as to soldiers’ homes.Jul 26, 1894
  148. Public Law 53–170Chap. 170: Granting the use of certain land to the town of Castine, Maine, for a public park.Jul 30, 1894
  149. Public Law 53–171Chap. 171: To release a certain limitation existing in an Act of Congress touching the Episcopal Church at Saint Augustine, Florida.Jul 30, 1894
  150. Public Law 53–172Chap. 172: To amend sections four, six, and ten of the Act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act to establish a court of appeals for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.”Jul 30, 1894
  151. Public Law 53–174Chap. 174: Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.Jul 31, 1894
  152. Public Law 53–175Chap. 175: Granting certain property to the city of Newport, Kentucky.Jul 31, 1894
  153. Public Law 53–176Chap. 176: Relating to the pay and retirement of mates in the United States Navy.Aug 1, 1894
  154. Public Law 53–177Chap. 177: Donating condemned cannon to the Saint Lawrence State Hospital at Ogdensburg, New York.Aug 1, 1894
  155. Public Law 53–177Chap. 177: Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.Aug 1, 1894
  156. Public Law 53–179Chap. 179: To regulate enlistments in the Army of the United States.Aug 1, 1894
  157. Public Law 53–180Chap. 180: To provide a register for the steamer Goldsworthy.Aug 1, 1894
  158. Public Law 53–181Chap. 181: To provide a register for the schooner barge Astoria.Aug 1, 1894
  159. Public Law 53–189Chap. 189: To authorize the Metropolitan Railroad Company to change its motive power for the propulsion of the cars of said company.Aug 2, 1894
  160. Public Law 53–190Chap. 190: To provide an American register for the steamer Oceano, of Now York, New York.Aug 3, 1894
  161. Public Law 53–191Chap. 191: Granting jurisdiction and authority to the Court of Claims in the case of the towboat Future City, her barges, cargoes, and so forth.Aug 3, 1894
  162. Public Law 53–192Chap. 192: To promote the efficiency of the naval militia.Aug 3, 1894
  163. Public Law 53–193Chap. 193: To prohibit the interment of bodies in Graceland Cemetery in the District of Columbia.Aug 3, 1894
  164. Public Law 53–194Chap. 194: To fix the times and places for holding the Federal courts in the Suite and district of Nebraska.Aug 3, 1894
  165. Public Law 53–195Chap. 195: To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge across the Missouri River at or near Sioux City Iowa,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by Acts of April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.Aug 3, 1894
  166. Public Law 53–196Chap. 196: Authorizing the State of Montana to make selections from certain public lands.Aug 3, 1894
  167. Public Law 53–197Chap. 197: Adding the towns of Manchester and Vernon, in the State of Connecticut, to the customs district of Hartford, Connecticut, and making the city of Rocksville, Connecticut, a port of delivery.Aug 3, 1894
  168. Public Law 53–198Chap. 198: Concerning leases in the Yellowstone National Park.Aug 3, 1894
  169. Public Law 53–199Chap. 199: For the disposal of the accretions of the Virginias indemnity fund.Aug 3, 1894
  170. Public Law 53–200Chap. 200: To amend section fifteen of an Act approving, with amendments. the funding Act of Arizona approved Juno twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety.Aug 3, 1894
  171. Public Law 53–201Chap. 201: To exempt the articles of foreign exhibitors at the interstate fair at Tacoma, Washington, from the payment of duties.Aug 3, 1894
  172. Public Law 53–202Chap. 202: To amend section five of the Act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An Act to organize the Life-Saving Service.”Aug 3, 1894
  173. Public Law 53–206Chap. 206: Authorizing the Purcell Bridge and Transfer Company to construct and maintain a bridge over the South Canadian River at or within one mile of the town of Lexington, county of Cleveland, Territory of Oklahoma.Aug 4, 1894
  174. Public Law 53–207Chap. 207: Providing for the sale of the old customhouse and lot connected therewith in the city of Louisville, Kentucky.Aug 4, 1894
  175. Public Law 53–208Chap. 208: For the relief of persons who have filed declarations of intention to enter desert lands.Aug 4, 1894
  176. Public Law 53–209Chap. 209: Establishing a log signal at Kewaunee, Wisconsin.Aug 4, 1894
  177. Public Law 53–210Chap. 210: Authorizing the construction of a lightship, with fog signal, to be established to the eastward of Boston Light, Massachusetts, and for the establishment of range lights in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.Aug 4, 1894
  178. Public Law 53–211Chap. 211: To provide for the validation of affidavits made before United States Commissioners in all land entries.Aug 4, 1894
  179. Public Law 53–212Chap. 212: To amend an Act to authorize the construction of a steel bridge over the Saint Louis River, between the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin.Aug 4, 1894
  180. Public Law 53–213Chap. 213: Extending the benefits of the marine hospitals to the keepers and crews of life-saving stations.Aug 4, 1894
  181. Public Law 53–214Chap. 214: To authorize a compromise and settlement with the State of Arkansas.Aug 4, 1894
  182. Public Law 53–215Chap. 215: To grant to the Arkansas, Texas and Mexican Central railway Company a right of way through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.Aug 4, 1894
  183. Public Law 53–226Chap. 226: To pay for alley condemned in square numbered four hundred and ninety-three, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.Aug 6, 1894
  184. Public Law 53–227Chap. 227: To amend sections fifty-three hundred find sixty-five and fifty-three hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes relating to barratry on the high seas.Aug 6, 1894
  185. Public Law 53–228Chap. 228: Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.Aug 6, 1894
  186. Public Law 53–231Chap. 231: To amend an Act approved January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to authorize the construction of bridges across the Hiwassee, the Tennessee, and Clinch rivers, in the State of Tennessee.Aug 7, 1894
  187. Public Law 53–232Chap. 232: Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 1894
  188. Public Law 53–233Chap. 233: For the relief of certain enlisted men of the Marine Corps.Aug 7, 1894
  189. Public Law 53–234Chap. 234: Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant leases for situs on the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, for cold-water reservoirs.Aug 7, 1894
  190. Public Law 53–235Chap. 235: Disposing of four condemned cannon of the Navy.Aug 7, 1894
  191. Public Law 53–236Chap. 236: To require railroad companies operating railroads in the Territories over a right of way granted by the Government to establish stations and depots at all town sites on the lines of said roads established by the Interior Department.Aug 8, 1894
  192. Public Law 53–237Chap. 237: Granting a certain military reservation to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, to aid the public free schools thereof, and for other purposes.Aug 8, 1894
  193. Public Law 53–238Chap. 238: Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year eliding June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.Aug 8, 1894
  194. Public Law 53–243Chap. 243: To authorize sale of lot eight, block ninety-three, city of Hot Springs, by school directors thereof, and use of proceeds for school purposes.Aug 9, 1894
  195. Public Law 53–244Chap. 244: To change the lines between the eastern and western judicial districts of North Carolina and fixing time for holding courts in said eastern district.Aug 9, 1894
  196. Public Law 53–245Chap. 245: Providing for the resurvey of Grant and Hooker counties, in the State of Nebraska.Aug 9, 1894
  197. Public Law 53–246Chap. 246: For the construction of a military road from the city of El Paso to Fort Bliss, Texas.Aug 9, 1894
  198. Public Law 53–253Chap. 253: To regulate water-main assessments in the District of Columbia.Aug 9, 1894
  199. Public Law 53–254Chap. 254: To provide for the closing of a part of an alley in square one hundred and eighty-five in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.Aug 11, 1894
  200. Public Law 53–255Chap. 255: Extending the time of payment to purchasers of lands of the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska, and for other purposes.Aug 11, 1894
  201. Public Law 53–256Chap. 256: To make the city of Oakland, county of Alameda, State of California, a subport of entry.Aug 11, 1894
  202. Public Law 53–278Chap. 278: To provide an American register for the steamer S. Oteri.Aug 13, 1894
  203. Public Law 53–279Chap. 279: To provide for the payment of the eight per centum greenback certificates of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Aug 13, 1894
  204. Public Law 53–280Chap. 280: For the protection of persons furnishing materials and labo for the construction of public works.Aug 13, 1894
  205. Public Law 53–281Chap. 281: To subject to State taxation national bank notes and United States Treasury notes.Aug 13, 1894
  206. Public Law 53–282Chap. 282: Relative to recognizances, stipulations, bonds, and undertakings, and to allow certain corporations to be accepted as surety thereon.Aug 13, 1894
  207. Public Law 53–283Chap. 283: To authorize the construction of a wagon and foot bridge across the Chattahoochee River at or near the town of Columbia, Alabama.Aug 13, 1894
  208. Public Law 53–284Chap. 284: Relating to lights on fishing vessels.Aug 13, 1894
  209. Public Law 53–285Chap. 285: To authorize a bridge across the Perdido River between the States of Florida and Alabama.Aug 13, 1894
  210. Public Law 53–287Chap. 287: To provide on immediate revision and equalization of real-estate values in the District of Columbia; also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes.Aug 14, 1894
  211. Public Law 53–288Chap. 288: To further amend section twenty-three hundred and ninety-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United Status.Aug 15, 1894
  212. Public Law 53–289Chap. 289: Making an appropriation and providing for the construction of a United states revenue cutter for service in the harbor of San Francisco, State of California.Aug 15, 1894
  213. Public Law 53–290Chap. 290: Making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.Aug 15, 1894
  214. Public Law 53–299Chap. 299: Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.Aug 18, 1894
  215. Public Law 53–300Chap. 300: To amend section two of the Act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine-Hospital Service.”Aug 18, 1894
  216. Public Law 53–301Chap. 301: Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and fir other purposes.Aug 18, 1894
  217. Public Law 53–302Chap. 302: To amend sections twenty-four hundred and one and twenty-four hundred and three of the Revised Statutes.Aug 20, 1894
  218. Public Law 53–307Chap. 307: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for prior years, and for other purposes.Aug 23, 1894
  219. Public Law 53–308Chap. 308: To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to appoint ii deputy coroner, and for other purposes.Aug 23, 1894
  220. Public Law 53–309Chap. 309: Extending the time for the completion of a railroad bridge over the Columbia River at or near Vancouver, in the State of Washington.Aug 23, 1894
  221. Public Law 53–310Chap. 310: To extend the privileges of the transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement to the city of Ocala, in the State of Florida.Aug 23, 1894
  222. Public Law 53–311Chap. 311: Granting to the Northern Mississippi Railway Company right of way through certain Indian reservations in Minnesota.Aug 23, 1894
  223. Public Law 53–312Chap. 312: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Contentuea Creek at Grifton, Lenoir County, North Carolina, and to establish it as a post road.Aug 23, 1894
  224. Public Law 53–313Chap. 313: To authorize the construction of a lifesaving station at or near Rocky Point or East Marion. Long Island, New York.Aug 23, 1894
  225. Public Law 53–314Chap. 314: To provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes.Aug 23, 1894
  226. Public Law 53–315Chap. 315: To repeal House Resolution numbered one hundred and four, first session Fifty-first Congress, granting to Secretary of War n permit to license to use a pier at mouth of Chicago River.Aug 23, 1894
  227. Public Law 53–316Chap. 316: To amend section forty-eight hundred and thirty-three, Revised Statutes, and for other purposes.Aug 23, 1894
  228. Public Law 53–317Chap. 317: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway.”Aug 23, 1894
  229. Public Law 53–318Chap. 318: To authorize the Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railway Company to extend its line of road into and within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Aug 23, 1894
  230. Public Law 53–319Chap. 319: Empowering fourth-class postmasters to administer oaths to pensioners.Aug 23, 1894
  231. Public Law 53–320Chap. 320: To authorize the Saint Louis, Avoyelles and Southwestern Railway Company to bridge Bayou Des Glaises and Atchafalaya River in the State of Louisiana.Aug 23, 1894
  232. Public Law 53–328Chap. 328: To open, widen, and extend alleys in the District of Columbia.Aug 24, 1894
  233. Public Law 53–329Chap. 329: To prevent the recording of subdivisions of land in the District of Columbia in the office of the recorder of deeds.Aug 24, 1894
  234. Public Law 53–330Chap. 330: To authorize purchasers of the property and franchises of the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to organize a corporation and to confer upon the same all the powers privileges, and franchises vested in that company.Aug 24, 1894
  235. Public Law 53–341Chap. 341: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a new division of the northern judicial district of Georgia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.Aug 27, 1894
  236. Public Law 53–342Chap. 342: Granting to the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company a right of way through the Chippewa and White Earth Indian reservations in the State of Minnesota.Aug 27, 1894
  237. Public Law 53–343Chap. 343: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act granting the right of way Io the Hutchison and Southern Railroad company through the Indian Territory.’”Aug 27, 1894
  238. Public Law 53–344Chap. 344: To provide tor the improvement of the building and grounds of the United States court and post-office at Little Rock, Arkansas.Aug 27, 1894
  239. Public Law 53–345Chap. 345: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Saint Croix River between Wisconsin and Minnesota.Aug 27, 1894
  240. Public Law 53–346Chap. 346: Authorizing the issue of a patent to the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions for certain lands on the Omaha Indian reservation for school purposes.Aug 27, 1894
  241. Public Law 53–347Chap. 347: For the registry or enrollment of the bark Skudesnaes.Aug 27, 1894
  242. Public Law 53–348Chap. 348: To provide for the collection of internal revenue and for other purposes.Aug 27, 1894
  243. Public Law 53–349Chap. 349: To reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, the for other purposes.Aug 27, 1894
  244. Public Law 53–350Chap. 350: To authorize the Biloxi the Back Bay Bridge Company to construct the maintain a bridge over that portion of the bay of Biloxi, in the State of Mississippi, known as Back Bay.Aug 27, 1894
  245. Public Law 53–351Chap. 351: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Osage River, in the State of Missouri.Aug 27, 1894
  246. Public Law 53–352Chap. 352: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Misaouri River at De Witt, Carroll County, Missouri, and to establish it as a post road.Aug 27, 1894
  247. Public Law 53–1Chapter 1: Granting the right of way through the Arlington reservation for electric railway purposes.Dec 8, 1894
  248. Public Law 53–3Chapter 3: To provide for the location and satisfaction of outstanding military bounty land warrants and certificates of location under section three of the Act approved June second, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.Dec 13, 1894
  249. Public Law 53–6Chapter 6: Providing for the dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park.Dec 15, 1894
  250. Public Law 53–7Chapter 7: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to remit or mitigate fines, penalties, and forfeitures.Dec 15, 1894
  251. Public Law 53–8Chapter 8: To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River above New Orleans,” approved January twenty-six, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.Dec 24, 1894
  252. Public Law 53–9Chapter 9: Making an appropriation to supply nil urgent deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for public printing and binding.Dec 24, 1894
  253. Public Law 53–10Chapter 10: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the Eleventh Census, and for other purposes.Dec 24, 1894
  254. Public Law 53–11Chapter 11: To amend section eight of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Contentnea Creek, at Grifton, Lenoir County, North Carolina, and to establish it as a post road,” approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.Dec 26, 1894
  255. Public Law 53–12Chapter 12: To establish a national military park at the battlefield of Shiloh.Dec 27, 1894
  256. Public Law 53–14Chapter 14: To amend section three of an Act to withdraw certain public lands from private entry, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.Dec 29, 1894
  257. Public Law 53–15Chapter 15: To perfect the title to a quarter section of land in the town of Yuma, Colorado.Dec 29, 1894
  258. Public Law 53–19Chapter 19: Supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act establishing a court of appeals for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.Jan 7, 1895
  259. Public Law 53–20Chapter 20: To exempt the articles of foreign exhibitors at the Portland Universal Exposition, at Portland, Oregon, from the payment of duties.Jan 8, 1895
  260. Public Law 53–21Chapter 21: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of n bridge across the Missouri River at some point within one mile below and one mile above the present limits of the city of Jefferson, Missouri,” approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.Jan 8, 1895
  261. Public Law 53–23Chapter 23: Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents.Jan 12, 1895
  262. Public Law 53–24Chapter 24: To repeal section forty-one hundred and forty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and to amend sections forty-one hundred and forty-six and forty-three hundred and twenty, also section one of the Act amending section forty-two hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes.Jan 16, 1895
  263. Public Law 53–25Chapter 25: To provide registers for the steamers Claribel and Athos.Jan 16, 1895
  264. Public Law 53–26Chapter 26: To provide an American register for the steamer Empress.Jan 16, 1895
  265. Public Law 53–27Chapter 27: To establish a light-house at the entrance to Galveston Harbor, in the county of Galveston, in the State of Texas.Jan 16, 1895
  266. Public Law 53–28Chapter 28: To provide American registers for the barks Linda and Archer.Jan 16, 1895
  267. Public Law 53–29Chapter 29: Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.Jan 16, 1895
  268. Public Law 53–33Chapter 33: To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge Little River in the State of Arkansas,” approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.Jan 19, 1895
  269. Public Law 53–34Chapter 34: For the relief of homestead settlers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.Jan 19, 1895
  270. Public Law 53–36Chapter 36: To make disposition of the accretions upon the fund received by the Government of the United States upon the account of the payment of the Caracas awards of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and to apply said accretions to the payment of the new awards made in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety under the Washington Commission.Jan 21, 1895
  271. Public Law 53–37Chapter 37: To permit the use of the right of way through the public lands for tramroads, canals, and reservoirs, and for other purposes.Jan 21, 1895
  272. Public Law 53–38Chapter 38: To provide for the measurement of vessels.Jan 21, 1895
  273. Public Law 53–39Chapter 39: Authorizing the establishment of lights, fog signal, and beacon on the Kennebec River, Maine.Jan 22, 1895
  274. Public Law 53–43Chapter 43: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.Jan 25, 1895
  275. Public Law 53–44Chapter 44: To authorize the Secretary of War to issue four condemned iron guns and projectiles to the officer in charge of the Government lot in Oakwood Cemetery, near Chicago, Illinois.Jan 25, 1895
  276. Public Law 53–45Chapter 45: Authorizing certain officers of the Navy and Marine Corps to administer oaths.Jan 25, 1895
  277. Public Law 53–46Chapter 46: Authorizing the Little Rock and Pacific Railway Company, its successors and assigns, to construct and maintain bridges across the Fourche La Fevre and Petit Jean rivers, in Arkansas.Jan 25, 1895
  278. Public Law 53–50Chapter 50: Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to correct errors where double allotments of land have erroneously been made to an Indian, to correct errors in patents, and for other purposes.Jan 26, 1895
  279. Public Law 53–54Chapter 54: To authorize the Laporte, Houston and Northern Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Galveston Bay, Buffalo Bayou, and Clear Creek, in the State of Texas.Feb 1, 1895
  280. Public Law 53–55Chapter 55: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to divide the judicial district of North Dakota,” and to provide for the fees and compensation of the officers of the circuit find district courts of the said judicial district.Feb 4, 1895
  281. Public Law 53–56Chapter 56: To provide an American register for the barkentine James H. Hamlen.Feb 4, 1895
  282. Public Law 53–59Chapter 59: Providing for an additional circuit judge in the seventh judicial circuit, and for other purposes.Feb 8, 1895
  283. Public Law 53–60Chapter 60: To authorize the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, to beautify and use as a public, park the United States mint property in said city, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.Feb 8, 1895
  284. Public Law 53–61Chapter 61: To amend section twenty-two of an Act to regulate commerce, as amended March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.Feb 8, 1895
  285. Public Law 53–62Chapter 62: Authorizing the El Reno Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the South Canadian River, between Blaine County, Oklahoma, and the Wichita Indian Reservation.Feb 8, 1895
  286. Public Law 53–63Chapter 63: Authorizing the Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers’ Home in the, District of Columbia to sell certain property known as the “Asylum lot,” on Pascagoula Bay, Mississippi.Feb 8, 1895
  287. Public Law 53–64Chapter 64: To regulate navigation on the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters.Feb 8, 1895
  288. Public Law 53–78Chapter 78: For the immediate relief of the Buttering poor of the District of Columbia.Feb 9, 1895
  289. Public Law 53–79Chapter 79: Changing the name of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Feb 11, 1895
  290. Public Law 53–80Chapter 80: To establish a national military park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.Feb 11, 1895
  291. Public Law 53–81Chapter 81: Granting right of way to the Forest City and Sioux City Railroad Company through the Sioux Indian Reservation.Feb 12, 1895
  292. Public Law 53–82Chapter 82: To sell certain lands in Montgomery County, Arkansas, to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.Feb 12, 1895
  293. Public Law 53–83Chapter 83: Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.Feb 12, 1895
  294. Public Law 53–84Chapter 84: To authorize the appointment of cadets to the Naval Academy.Feb 12, 1895
  295. Public Law 53–87Chapter 87: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes, approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.Feb 13, 1895
  296. Public Law 53–88Chapter 88: To provide for the erection of a Government building at Chicago, Illinois.Feb 13, 1895
  297. Public Law 53–92Chapter 92: To amend and extend the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.Feb 15, 1895
  298. Public Law 53–94Chapter 94: Providing an additional circuit judge in the ninth judicial circuit.Feb 18, 1895
  299. Public Law 53–95Chapter 95: Granting to the Gila Valley, Globe, and Northern Railway Company a right of way through the San Carlos Indian Reservation in the Territory of Arizona.Feb 18, 1895
  300. Public Law 53–96Chapter 96: To amend the Act entitled “Au Act to establish circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain eases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.Feb 18, 1895
  301. Public Law 53–97Chapter 97: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend the laws relative to shipping commissioners.” approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.Feb 18, 1895
  302. Public Law 53–98Chapter 98: To bridge the Newark Bay.Feb 18, 1895
  303. Public Law 53–100Chapter 100: To extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the District of Columbia, and to regulate the proceedings before them.Feb 19, 1895
  304. Public Law 53–101Chapter 101: To readjust the salaries and allowances of the postmasters at Guthrie, Oklahoma City, and Kingfisher, in Oklahoma Territory.Feb 19, 1895
  305. Public Law 53–102Chapter 102: To adopt special rules for the navigation of harbors, rivers and inland waters of the United States, except the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal, supplementary to the Act of August nineteenth, eighteeen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea.”Feb 19, 1895
  306. Public Law 53–103Chapter 103: To establish a life-saving station at or near City Point, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.Feb 19, 1895
  307. Public Law 53–105Chapter 105: To provide for coinage at the branch mint at Denver, Colorado.Feb 20, 1895
  308. Public Law 53–106Chapter 106: For the encouragement of education in the State of Mississippi.Feb 20, 1895
  309. Public Law 53–107Chapter 107: To increase the limit of cost for the erection of a public building at Paterson, New Jersey.Feb 20, 1895
  310. Public Law 53–108Chapter 108: To provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at South Omaha, in the State of Nebraska.Feb 20, 1895
  311. Public Law 53–109Chapter 109: For the erection of a public building at Brockton, Massachusetts.Feb 20, 1895
  312. Public Law 53–110Chapter 110: To erect a public building at Pottsville, Pennsylvania.Feb 20, 1895
  313. Public Law 53–111Chapter 111: For the erection of a public building at Newport, Kentucky.Feb 20, 1895
  314. Public Law 53–112Chapter 112: To provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon in the city of Cumberland, Maryland.Feb 20, 1895
  315. Public Law 53–113Chapter 113: To disapprove the treaty heretofore made with the Southern Ute Indians to be removed to the Territory of Utah, and providing for settling them down in severalty where they may so elect and are qualified, and to settle all those not electing to take lands in severalty on the west forty miles of present reservation and in portions of New Mexico, and for other purposes, and to carry out the provisions of the treaty with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eightyFeb 20, 1895
  316. Public Law 53–114Chapter 114: For the relief of certain Winnebago Indians in Minnesota.Feb 20, 1895
  317. Public Law 53–115Chapter 115: Granting cannon to the historical museum, Des Moines, Iowa.Feb 21, 1895
  318. Public Law 53–127Chapter 127: To postpone the enforcement of the Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea.”Feb 23, 1895
  319. Public Law 53–128Chapter 128: To amend the Articles for the Government of the Navy.Feb 25, 1895
  320. Public Law 53–129Chapter 129: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River in the county of Dakota, in the State of Nebraska, and in the city of Sioux City, in the county of Woodbury, in the State of Iowa.Feb 25, 1895
  321. Public Law 53–130Chapter 130: To amend the charter of the Metropolitan Railroad Company of the District of Columbia.Feb 26, 1895
  322. Public Law 53–131Chapter 131: To provide for the examination and classification of certain mineral lands in the States of Montana and Idaho.Feb 26, 1895
  323. Public Law 53–132Chapter 132: For the promotion of anatomical science, and to prevent the desecration of graves in the District of Columbia.Feb 26, 1895
  324. Public Law 53–133Chapter 133: To amend section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States.Feb 26, 1895
  325. Public Law 53–134Chapter 134: To authorize the adoption of children in the District of Columbia.Feb 26, 1895
  326. Public Law 53–135Chapter 135: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Yellowstone River, in the county of Dawson, State of Montana.Feb 26, 1895
  327. Public Law 53–137Chapter 137: To amend the Articles for the Government of the Navy relative to punishment on conviction by court-martial.Feb 27, 1895
  328. Public Law 53–138Chapter 138: Making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, and to provide for more efficient service in the surveyor’s office.Feb 28, 1895
  329. Public Law 53–139Chapter 139: To amend section forty-four hundred and thirty-four of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States.Feb 28, 1895
  330. Public Law 53–140Chapter 140: Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.Feb 28, 1895
  331. Public Law 53–144Chapter 144: To authorize the appointment of women as public school trustees in the District of Columbia.Mar 1, 1895
  332. Public Law 53–145Chapter 145: To provide for the appointment of additional judges of the United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.Mar 1, 1895
  333. Public Law 53–146Chap. 146: To amend “An Act to amend section forty-four hundred of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning the regulation of steam vessels,” approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and also to amend section forty-four hundred and fourteen, title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes, “Regulation of steam vessels.”Mar 1, 1895
  334. Public Law 53–147Chap. 147: For the relief of the bona fide purchasers of land in section thirty-six, township one north, range nine west (San Bernardino meridian), in the State of California.Mar 1, 1895
  335. Public Law 53–148Chap. 148: Relative to Rock Creek Railway Company of the District of Columbia.Mar 1, 1895
  336. Public Law 53–149Chap. 149: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Biloxi and Back Bay Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge over that portion of the bay of Biloxi, in the State of Mississippi, known as Back Bay.”Mar 1, 1895
  337. Public Law 53–150Chap. 150: Granting the Mount Vernon Barracks Military Reservation to the State of Alabama for public uses.Mar 1, 1895
  338. Public Law 53–159Chap. 159: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the erection of a Government building at Chicago, Illinois,” approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.Mar 2, 1895
  339. Public Law 53–160Chap. 160: To authorize the Pittsburg and Mansfield Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River.Mar 2, 1895
  340. Public Law 53–161Chap. 161: Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending dime thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  341. Public Law 53–162Chap. 162: Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  342. Public Law 53–163Chap. 163: To authorize the construction of a bridge over the Tennessee River at or near Sheffield, Alabama.Mar 2, 1895
  343. Public Law 53–164Chap. 164: To regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  344. Public Law 53–165Chap. 165: To authorize the Wisconsin and New Duluth Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Saint Louis River, between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.Mar 2, 1895
  345. Public Law 53–166Chap. 166: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Maryland and Washington Railway Company,” approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  346. Public Law 53–167Chap. 167: To authorize the Washington and Marlboro Electric Railway Company, of Maryland, to extend its line of road into and within the District of Columbia.Mar 2, 1895
  347. Public Law 53–168Chap. 168: To incorporate the Capital Railway Company.Mar 2, 1895
  348. Public Law 53–169Chap. 169: Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.Mar 2, 1895
  349. Public Law 53–170Chap. 170: To authorize the Pittsburg, Monongahela and Wheeling railroad Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River.Mar 2, 1895
  350. Public Law 53–171Chap. 171: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Illinois River at or near the town of Hennepin.Mar 2, 1895
  351. Public Law 53–172Chap. 172: To establish harbor regulations for the District of Columbia.Mar 2, 1895
  352. Public Law 53–173Chap. 173: To amend section one of chapter three hundred and ninety-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An Act to provide for deductions from the gross tonnage of vessels of the United States.”Mar 2, 1895
  353. Public Law 53–174Chap. 174: Granting chief justice of United States courts in Territories power to appoint commissioners to take proof in land cases, and so forth.Mar 2, 1895
  354. Public Law 53–175Chap. 175: To amend section nine of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad Company to construct and operate a railroad, telegraph, and telephone line through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.”Mar 2, 1895
  355. Public Law 53–176Chap. 176: Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  356. Public Law 53–177Chap. 177: Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  357. Public Law 53–178Chap. 178: For the removal of snow and ice from the sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  358. Public Law 53–179Chap. 179: For the appointment of a sealer and assistant sealer of weights and measures in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  359. Public Law 53–180Chap. 180: To amend section three of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the liens of judgments and decrees of the courts of the United States,” approved August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.Mar 2, 1895
  360. Public Law 53–181Chap. 181: To further amend section nine of the Act for the relief of certain volunteer and regular soldiers of the late war and the war with Mexico, passed March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.Mar 2, 1895
  361. Public Law 53–182Chap. 182: To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to certify to the Secretary of the interior, for restoration to the public domain, lands in the States of Alabama and Mississippi not needed for naval purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  362. Public Law 53–183Chap. 183: To amend the Act to incorporate the American University.Mar 2, 1895
  363. Public Law 53–184Chap. 184: To grant a township of land to the State of Mississippi for the use-of the Institute and College for Girls.Mar 2, 1895
  364. Public Law 53–185Chap. 185: Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.Mar 2, 1895
  365. Public Law 52–186Chap. 186: Making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  366. Public Law 52–187Chap. 187: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for prior years, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  367. Public Law 52–188Chap. 188: Making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  368. Public Law 52–189Chap. 189: Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1895
  369. Public Law 52–190Chap. 190: To provide for the reimbursement of officers and seamen for property lost or destroyed in the naval service of the United States.Mar 2, 1895
  370. Public Law 52–191Chap. 191: For the suppression of lottery traffic through national and interstate commerce and the postal service subject to the jurisdiction and laws of the United States.Mar 2, 1895
  371. Public Law 52–192Chap. 192: To provide that all persons employing female help in stores, shops, or manufactories in the District of Columbia shall provide seats for the same when not actively employedMar 2, 1895
  372. Public Law 52–193Chap. 193: To provide for the payment of accrued pensions in certain cases.Mar 2, 1895
  373. Public Law 52–194Chap. 194: To amend section forty-nine hundred and sixty-five, chapter three, title sixty, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights.Mar 2, 1895
  374. Public Law 52–195Chap. 195: To provide for the salaries of the judges and other officers of the United States court in the Indian Territory.Mar 2, 1895
  375. Private Law 53–17Chap. 17: For relief of W. W. Rollins, late collector, fifth district, North Carolina, for value of stamps destroyed by tire at Winston. North Carolina, on November thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.Nov 3, 1893
  376. Private Law 53–11Chap. 11: For the relief of David B. Gottwals.Jan 15, 1894
  377. Private Law 53–28Chap. 28: For the relief of the heirs of Martha A. Dealy, deceased.Feb 10, 1894
  378. Private Law 53–42Chap. 42: To remove the charge of desertion standing against John W. Wacker.Mar 19, 1894
  379. Private Law 53–43Chap. 43: Granting an increase of pension to Andrew Franklin, alias Andrew McKee.Mar 19, 1894
  380. Private Law 53–44Chap. 44: Granting a pension to Hannah Lyons.Mar 22, 1894
  381. Private Law 53–50Chap. 50: For the relief of Brigadier-General John H. Brooke, United States Amy.Mar 30, 1894
  382. Private Law 53–53Chap. 53: For the relief of Dwight Hall.Apr 2, 1894
  383. Private Law 53–54Chap. 54: For the relief of Louis L. Williams.Apr 2, 1894
  384. Private Law 53–55Chap. 55: To release and turn over to Mrs. Mary O. Augusta certain property in the District of Columbia.Apr 2, 1894
  385. Private Law 53–65Chap. 65: To authorize Commander F. W. Dickins, of the United States Navy, to accept the decoration of the cross of naval merit of the third class from the King of Spain.Apr 24, 1894
  386. Private Law 53–74Chap. 74: For the relief of George W. Barnes.May 11, 1894
  387. Private Law 53–78Chap. 78: For the relief of the heirs and creditors of Elizabeth Townsend.May 25, 1894
  388. Private Law 53–88Chap. 88: For the relief of Lennes A. Jackson.May 30, 1894
  389. Private Law 53–89Chap. 89: To confirm to the heirs of Mrs. Courtney Ann Claiborne the title to a certain tract of land in the State of Louisiana.May 30, 1894
  390. Private Law 53–90Chap. 90: Granting a pension to Mrs. Fannie M. Norman.May 30, 1894
  391. Private Law 53–96Chap. 96: For the relief of A. P. H. Stewart.Jun 6, 1894
  392. Private Law 53–97Chap. 97: For the relief of Captain John W. Pullman.Jun 6, 1894
  393. Private Law 53–98Chap. 98: For the relief of Wesley Montgomery.Jun 6, 1894
  394. Private Law 53–111Chap. 111: For the relief of Francis M. Tomlin.Jun 20, 1894
  395. Private Law 53–112Chap. 112: For the relief of the heirs of Edward Morrison and Nellie Morrison, now deceased.Jun 20, 1894
  396. Private Law 53–114Chap. 114: For the relief of Wetmore and Brother, of Saint Louis, Missouri.Jun 23, 1894
  397. Private Law 53–115Chap. 115: To provide for the adjustment and payment of the claim of Thomas Rhys Smith for work done and materials furnished for the breakwater at Bar Harbor, Maine.Jun 23, 1894
  398. Private Law 53–116Chap. 116: To pension Lucy Brown, dependent foster mother.Jun 23, 1894
  399. Private Law 53–124Chap. 124: For the relief of the sureties of Dennis Murphy.Jul 3, 1894
  400. Private Law 53–128Chap. 128: Granting an increase of pension to Wells Johnson.Jul 9, 1894
  401. Private Law 53–130Chap. 130: For the relief of Samuel Collins.Jul 11, 1894
  402. Private Law 53–139Chap. 139: To remove the political disabilities of Charles Iverson Graves, of Home, in the State of Georgia.Jul 16, 1894
  403. Private Law 53–145Chap. 145: To authorize Professor Asaph Hall, of the United States Navy, to accept a gold medal from the Academy of Science of France.Jul 18, 1894
  404. Private Law 53–146Chap. 146: For the relief of William J. Cornell and Joseph M. Cornell.Jul 18, 1894
  405. Private Law 53–154Chap. 154: To remove the charge of desertion standing against the-name of Joseph G. Utter.Jul 23, 1894
  406. Private Law 53–155Chap. 155: Authorizing John E. Johnson and others to accept medals of honor and diplomas from the Government of Spain.Jul 23, 1894
  407. Private Law 53–156Chap. 156: To authorize Rear-Admiral John G. Walker and Surgeon-General Rufus Tryon, of the United States Navy, to accept the decorations of the “Busto del Libertador,” of the third class from the President of Venezuela.Jul 23, 1894
  408. Private Law 53–157Chap. 157: Authorizing Commander C. H. Davis, United States Navy, to accept a decoration from the King of Spain.Jul 23, 1894
  409. Private Law 53–158Chap. 158: For the benefit of sundry persons residing in the vicinity of Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.Jul 23, 1894
  410. Private Law 53–159Chap. 159: Granting a pension to Earnest C. Emerson.Jul 23, 1894
  411. Private Law 53–160Chap. 160: To pension Mary Brown, of Berlin, Vermont.Jul 23, 1894
  412. Private Law 53–161Chap. 161: For the relief of John M. Rice.Jul 24, 1894
  413. Private Law 53–169Chap. 169: For the relief of the securities of John S. Bradford.Jul 26, 1894
  414. Private Law 53–173Chap. 173: To remove the political disabilities of Caleb Huse.Jul 30, 1894
  415. Private Law 53–182Chap. 182: For the relief of the dependent relatives of the seamen of the Netherlands steamer Amsterdam, who lost their lives in the effort to save the crew of the American schooner Maggie E. Wells, and also for the relief of the sole survivor of the rescuing party.Aug 1, 1894
  416. Private Law 53–183Chap. 183: For the relief of General Napoleon J. T. Dana.Aug 1, 1894
  417. Private Law 53–184Chap. 184: For the relief of Major-General George S. Greene.Aug 1, 1894
  418. Private Law 53–185Chap. 185: For the relief of William B. Chapman, George W. Street, John W. Hoes, Emmet C. Tuthill, and Joseph H. Curtis.Aug 1, 1894
  419. Private Law 53–186Chap. 186: To pension the minor children of Alfred Phipps.Aug 1, 1894
  420. Private Law 53–187Chap. 187: To authorize a corrected patent to be issued for the donation laud claim of Wheelock Simmons and wife.Aug 1, 1894
  421. Private Law 53–188Chap. 188: To place Dunbar R. Ransom on the retired list of the Army.Aug 1, 1894
  422. Private Law 53–203Chap. 203: For the relief of Andrew Gray.Aug 3, 1894
  423. Private Law 53–204Chap. 204: For the relief Charles T. Russell.Aug 3, 1894
  424. Private Law 53–205Chap. 205: To remove charge of desertion standing against Oliver O’Brien.Aug 3, 1894
  425. Private Law 53–216Chap. 216: Granting a pension to Frances Corse, widow of General John M. Corse.Aug 4, 1894
  426. Private Law 53–217Chap. 217: To pension Mary E. Trickey.Aug 4, 1894
  427. Private Law 53–218Chap. 218: Granting a pension to Margaret English.Aug 4, 1894
  428. Private Law 53–219Chap. 219: Granting an increase of pension to Eliza K. Starr.Aug 4, 1894
  429. Private Law 53–220Chap. 220: Granting a pension to Harriet T. Vosburgh.Aug 4, 1894
  430. Private Law 53–221Chap. 221: Granting a pension to Washington Hislop.Aug 4, 1894
  431. Private Law 53–222Chap. 222: Granting a pension to Celestin P. Hartt.Aug 4, 1894
  432. Private Law 53–223Chap. 223: For the relief of Benjamin F. Poteet.Aug 4, 1894
  433. Private Law 53–224Chap. 224: For the relief of William Hendershott, of Butteville, Oregon.Aug 4, 1894
  434. Private Law 53–225Chap. 225: To remove the charge of desertion from the record of Andrew L. Grugett as a former member of Company E, Sixth Tennessee Cavalry, in the war of the rebellion, and to grant him an honorable discharge therefrom.Aug 4, 1894
  435. Private Law 53–229Chap. 229: For the relief of James L. Townsend.Aug 6, 1894
  436. Private Law 53–230Chap. 230: To exempt the property of the Young Men’s Christian Association of the District of Columbia from taxation.Aug 6, 1894
  437. Private Law 53–239Chap. 239: Granting an honorable discharge to Cyrus Payne.Aug 8, 1894
  438. Private Law 53–240Chap. 240: To provide for the adjustment and payment of the claim of the American Transportation Company for dredging done at Fairport Harbor, in the State of Ohio.Aug 8, 1894
  439. Private Law 53–241Chap. 241: For the relief of Charles B. Stivers.Aug 8, 1894
  440. Private Law 53–242Chap. 242: For the relief of Robert Travila for loss of carbine in late war.Aug 8, 1894
  441. Private Law 53–247Chap. 247: For the relief of Mrs. E. S. Luke, widow of John L. Luke, late a soldier in the Black Hawk war.Aug 9, 1894
  442. Private Law 53–248Chap. 248: To remove the charge of desertion from the record of John A. Jack.Aug 9, 1894
  443. Private Law 53–249Chap. 249: To pension Mrs. Eliza B. Peirce, widow of Charles Peirce, of New Bedford, Massachusetts.Aug 9, 1894
  444. Private Law 53–250Chap. 250: To remove the charge of desertion standing against Patrick Kelleher, late private Company C, Thirty-eighth Illinois Volunteers.Aug 9, 1894
  445. Private Law 53–251Chap. 251: Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Susie Conway.Aug 9, 1894
  446. Private Law 53–252Chap. 252: For the relief of George B. Cosby.Aug 9, 1894
  447. Private Law 53–257Chap. 257: For the relief of George H. Jewett, of Arlington, Washington County, Nebraska.Aug 11, 1894
  448. Private Law 53–258Chap. 258: Granting a pension to Otis Smith.Aug 11, 1894
  449. Private Law 53–259Chap. 259: Granting an increase of pension to John Stockwell.Aug 11, 1894
  450. Private Law 53–260Chap. 260: To increase the pension of Mary P. Broughton.Aug 11, 1894
  451. Private Law 53–261Chap. 261: To increase the pension of John Scott.Aug 11, 1894
  452. Private Law 53–262Chap. 262: Granting a pension to Mrs. Lucinda C. Wheeler, widow of John H. Wheeler.Aug 11, 1894
  453. Private Law 53–263Chap. 263: To correct the military record of Captain E. M. Ives.Aug 11, 1894
  454. Private Law 53–264Chap. 264: For the relief of Henry James, residing in the original Hot Springs reservation, in the State of Arkansas.Aug 11, 1894
  455. Private Law 53–265Chap. 265: To increase the pension of James Lane.Aug 11, 1894
  456. Private Law 53–266Chap. 266: Granting a pension to George L. Frymire.Aug 11, 1894
  457. Private Law 53–267Chap. 267: To pension Ambrose Giseburt.Aug 11, 1894
  458. Private Law 53–268Chap. 268: To pension Joel A. Walters.Aug 11, 1894
  459. Private Law 53–269Chap. 269: To increase the pension of Julia Bews.Aug 11, 1894
  460. Private Law 53–270Chap. 270: To pension Thankful Robbins.Aug 11, 1894
  461. Private Law 53–271Chap. 271: To pension Mary Trimble.Aug 11, 1894
  462. Private Law 53–272Chap. 272: Granting a pension to Sarah Oddy.Aug 11, 1894
  463. Private Law 53–273Chap. 273: Granting a pension to Mary Ann Donoghue.Aug 11, 1894
  464. Private Law 53–274Chap. 274: Granting a pension to A. F. Neely.Aug 11, 1894
  465. Private Law 53–275Chap. 275: To pension Harriet R. Tate.Aug 11, 1894
  466. Private Law 53–276Chap. 276: For the relief of Walter S. McLeod.Aug 11, 1894
  467. Private Law 53–277Chap. 277: To reimburse E. H. Nebeker, late Treasurer of the United States.Aug 11, 1894
  468. Private Law 53–286Chap. 286: For the relief of Benjamin Alford.Aug 13, 1894
  469. Private Law 53–291Chap. 291: For the relief of Louis Pelham.Aug 15, 1894
  470. Private Law 53–292Chap. 292: Granting a pension to Amanda J. Lane.Aug 15, 1894
  471. Private Law 53–293Chap. 293: For the relief of the owners of the schooner Henry R. Tilton, and of personal effects thereon.Aug 15, 1894
  472. Private Law 53–294Chap. 294: To correct the naval record, of James Fay and grant him an honorable discharge.Aug 15, 1894
  473. Private Law 53–295Chap. 295: Granting a pension to Rebecca H. Chambers.Aug 15, 1894
  474. Private Law 53–296Chap. 296: For the relief of James E. North.Aug 15, 1894
  475. Private Law 53–297Chap. 297: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay John T. Heard for professional services rendered the “Old Settlers” or Western Cherokee Indians out of the funds of said Indians.Aug 15, 1894
  476. Private Law 53–298Chap. 298: To authorize the appointment of James William Abert to the retired list of the Army.Aug 17, 1894
  477. Private Law 53–303Chap. 303: Granting a pension to Nettie N. Seaver.Aug 20, 1894
  478. Private Law 53–304Chap. 304: To amend an Act granting a pension to Elizabeth Voss.Aug 20, 1894
  479. Private Law 53–305Chap. 305: Granting a pension to Eliza Holmes.Aug 20, 1894
  480. Private Law 53–306Chap. 306: To perfect the military record of Warren Alonzo Alden.Aug 20, 1894
  481. Private Law 53–321Chap. 321: Granting a pension to Maria Hall, widow of Joseph E. Doak, deceased.Aug 23, 1894
  482. Private Law 53–322Chap. 322: Providing for reconveyance by District Commissioners of certain lauds to Andrew J. Curtis and Mary E. Curtis.Aug 23, 1894
  483. Private Law 53–323Chap. 323: For the relief of Marlin Parks.Aug 23, 1894
  484. Private Law 53–324Chap. 324: For the relief of B. D. Greene.Aug 23, 1894
  485. Private Law 53–325Chap. 325: Granting a pension to Henry C. Field.Aug 23, 1894
  486. Private Law 53–326Chap. 326: For the relief of Henry W. Lee.Aug 23, 1894
  487. Private Law 53–327Chap. 327: For the relief of Johanna Gleason.Aug 23, 1894
  488. Private Law 53–331Chap. 331: Granting a pension to Jesse Davenport, of Company A, Second Regiment Oregon Mounted Volunteers, in Oregon Indian wars of eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six.Aug 24, 1894
  489. Private Law 53–332Chap. 332: Granting a pension to Hannah Welch.Aug 24, 1894
  490. Private Law 53–333Chap. 333: To pension John Maholm, dependent father.Aug 24, 1894
  491. Private Law 53–334Chap. 334: For the relief of Druzilla J. Rigg, of Macomb, Illinois.Aug 24, 1894
  492. Private Law 53–335Chap. 335: To pension Margaret A. Woods, widow of William W. Woods, late of Company E, Sixteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.Aug 24, 1894
  493. Private Law 53–336Chap. 336: For the relief of Mrs. Mary A. Menefee.Aug 24, 1894
  494. Private Law 53–337Chap. 337: Granting a pension to Adaline J. Props.Aug 24, 1894
  495. Private Law 53–338Chap. 338: To grant a pension to Pauline J. Smith.Aug 24, 1894
  496. Private Law 53–339Chap. 339: For the relief of P. W. Mitchell, M. C. Felmet, George H. Smathers, and others.Aug 24, 1894
  497. Private Law 53–340Chap. 340: To reimburse George C. Tanner, late consul, and so forth, the sum of two hundred dollars, paid by him for rent of rooms.Aug 25, 1894
  498. Private Law 53–353Chap. 353: Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the heirs or legal representatives of C. P. Gooch certain money due him for carrying the mail.Aug 27, 1894
  499. Private Law 53–354Chap. 354: Directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check drawn by Captain W. H. Bixby, Engineers United States Army, at Newport, Rhode Island, in favor of Messrs. Hughes Brothers and Bangs.Aug 27, 1894
  500. Private Law 53–355Chap. 355: For the relief of S. E. Hallford, of Alabama.Aug 28, 1894
  501. Private Law 53–2Chap. 2: Granting a pension to Mary Martin.Dec 10, 1894
  502. Private Law 53–4Chap. 4: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a duplicate of a certain land warrant to Emma A. Ripley.Dec 13, 1894
  503. Private Law 53–5Chap. 5: For the relief of B. F. Berry.Dec 13, 1894
  504. Private Law 53–13Chap. 13: For the relief of the legal representatives of James C. Booth.Dec 27, 1894
  505. Private Law 53–16Chap. 16: To pension Mrs. Ann Bradford, mother of William K. Bradford.Dec 29, 1894
  506. Private Law 53–17Chap. 17: For the relief of Dollie E. Vedder.Dec 29, 1894
  507. Private Law 53–18Chap. 18: To correct the military record of Alexander P. Magaan, of Battery H, Fourth United States Artillery.Jan 3, 1895
  508. Private Law 53–22Chap. 22: Granting a pension to Mary Palmer Banks, widow of Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks.Jan 9, 1895
  509. Private Law 53–30Chap. 30: For the relief of Zimri Elliott, of Wilsey, Kansas.Jan 16, 1895
  510. Private Law 53–31Chap. 31: To remove the charge of desertion from William H. H. Cook.Jan 17, 1895
  511. Private Law 53–32Chap. 32: For the relief of I. H. Hathaway and Company.Jan 17, 1895
  512. Private Law 53–35Chap. 35: For the relief of Oliver P. Coshow and others.Jan 19, 1895
  513. Private Law 53–40Chap. 40: For the relief of Moses W. Carpenter, of Johnson County, Arkansas, Mexican war veteran.Jan 22, 1895
  514. Private Law 53–41Chap. 41: To pension Willis Manasco.Jan 22, 1895
  515. Private Law 53–42Chap. 42: Granting a pension to Mary Levans.Jan 22, 1895
  516. Private Law 53–47Chap. 47: To remove the charge of desertion from the military record of James McConnell, late private in Company 15, Fifth Regiment Connecticut InfantryJan 25, 1895
  517. Private Law 53–48Chap. 48: For the relief of the widow and legal representatives of the late Orsemus B. Boyd, captain in Eighth United States Cavalry.Jan 25, 1895
  518. Private Law 53–49Chap. 49: For the relief of Mrs Victor Thunot.Jan 25, 1895
  519. Private Law 53–51Chap. 51: Authorizing the sale of title of United States to a tract of land in Montgomery County, in the State of Maryland, to William H. and George Bobinger.Jan 26, 1895
  520. Private Law 53–52Chap. 52: To repeal the Act entitled “An Act granting a pension to Nettie N. Seaver.”Jan 28, 1895
  521. Private Law 53–53Chap. 53: For the relief of Michael Scanlon.Jan 31, 1895
  522. Private Law 53–57Chap. 57: For discharge of Julius L. Briggs as sergeant.Feb 4, 1895
  523. Private Law 53–58Chap. 58: To remove the charge of desertion standing against the name of Edward J. Butler.Feb 4, 1895
  524. Private Law 53–65Chap. 65: Granting a pension to Mrs. Katharine Todd Crittenden.Feb 8, 1895
  525. Private Law 53–66Chap. 66: For the relief of Grace Roberts, doctor of medicine.Feb 8, 1895
  526. Private Law 53–67Chap. 67: Granting a pension to Martha A. Geer.Feb 8, 1895
  527. Private Law 53–68Chap. 68: To increase the pension of Marcus D. Box.Feb 8, 1895
  528. Private Law 53–69Chap. 69: For the relief of John J. Patman.Feb 8, 1895
  529. Private Law 53–70Chap. 70: To pension G. O. Greiner, of Texas.Feb 8, 1895
  530. Private Law 53–71Chap. 71: Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Margaret Smith.Feb 8, 1895
  531. Private Law 53–72Chap. 72: To increase the pension of Pickens T. Reynolds, of Hall County, Georgia.Feb 8, 1895
  532. Private Law 53–73Chap. 73: Granting a pension to Mary Finnerty.Feb 8, 1895
  533. Private Law 53–74Chap. 74: Granting a pension to Rosanna Cobb, widow of Edmond Cobb, deceased, late of Sac and Fox war.Feb 8, 1895
  534. Private Law 53–75Chap. 75: To pension Nancy Gabrilla Anderson.Feb 8, 1895
  535. Private Law 53–76Chap. 76: Granting a pension to Sarah M. Brown.Feb 8, 1895
  536. Private Law 53–77Chap. 77: For the relief of Harriet Clayton.Feb 8, 1895
  537. Private Law 53–85Chap. 85: For the relief of William T. Holman.Feb 12, 1895
  538. Private Law 53–86Chap. 86: To pension Maria Davis.Feb 12, 1895
  539. Private Law 53–89Chap. 89: Granting a pension to Julia E. Lock, formerly widow of the late General Daniel McCook.Feb 13, 1895
  540. Private Law 53–90Chap. 90: Granting a pension to Josephine P. Kelton, widow of Brigadier-General John C. Kelton, late Adjutant-General United States Army, deceased.Feb 13, 1895
  541. Private Law 53–91Chap. 91: Granting a pension to Elizabeth Ellery.Feb 13, 1895
  542. Private Law 53–93Chap. 93: To correct the military record of George Whittaker, late a private of Company C, Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers.Feb 16, 1895
  543. Private Law 53–99Chap. 99: For the relief of the representatives of Daniel C. Rodman, deceased, and others.Feb 18, 1895
  544. Private Law 53–104Chap. 104: To relieve Abraham D. Prince.Feb 19, 1895
  545. Private Law 53–116Chap. 116: Granting a pension to Elizabeth Brower, a hospital nurse during the war of the rebellion.Feb 21, 1895
  546. Private Law 53–117Chap. 117: To repeal the special Act granting a pension to Louisa M. Sippell.Feb 21, 1895
  547. Private Law 53–118Chap. 118: Granting an increase of pension to Julia Weeks.Feb 21, 1895
  548. Private Law 53–119Chap. 119: To pension Mrs. Mary L. Clark.Feb 21, 1895
  549. Private Law 53–120Chap. 120: Granting a pension to William Armstrong.Feb 21, 1895
  550. Private Law 53–121Chap. 121: To pension Samuel F. Tenant.Feb 21, 1895
  551. Private Law 53–122Chap. 122: To pension Mary R. Williams.Feb 21, 1895
  552. Private Law 53–123Chap. 123: Granting a pension to Pauline M. Pooler.Feb 22, 1895
  553. Private Law 53–124Chap. 124: Granting a pension to Marrilla Parsons, of Detroit, Michigan.Feb 22, 1895
  554. Private Law 53–125Chap. 125: To grant a pension to Sarah E. Roebuck.Feb 22, 1895
  555. Private Law 53–126Chap. 126: Granting a pension to Richard R. Knight.Feb 22, 1895
  556. Private Law 53–136Chap. 136: Granting a pension to Caroline E. Wessells.Feb 26, 1895
  557. Private Law 53–141Chap. 141: For the relief of Charles A. Edwards.Feb 28, 1895
  558. Private Law 53–142Chap. 142: For the relief of Dennis McIntyre.Feb 28, 1895
  559. Private Law 53–143Chap. 143: For the relief of the First State Bank of Mound City, Illinois.Feb 28, 1895
  560. Private Law 53–151Chap. 151: For the relief of Mrs. Evalyn N. Van Vliet.Mar 1, 1895
  561. Private Law 53–152Chap. 152: For the relief of Captain Ceran Saint Vrain’s Company of New Mexico Mounted Volunteers.Mar 1, 1895
  562. Private Law 53–153Chap. 153: For the relief of Mathew S. Priest.Mar 1, 1895
  563. Private Law 53–154Chap. 154: For the relief of Witherby and Gaffney.Mar 1, 1895
  564. Private Law 53–155Chap. 155: For the relief of James Phelan, internal-revenue collector at Detroit, Michigan.Mar 1, 1895
  565. Private Law 53–156Chap. 156: For relief of William W. Buckley, late first lieutenant, One hundred and ninety-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteers.Mar 1, 1895
  566. Private Law 53–157Chap. 157: For the relief of Glenmore Distilling Company, of Daviess County, Kentucky.Mar 1, 1895
  567. Private Law 53–158Chap. 158: For the relief of the heirs and devisees of Jonathan Kirkwood, deceased.Mar 1, 1895
  568. Private Law 53–196Chap. 196: Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Martha Custis Carter, widow of the late Rear-Admiral S. P. Carter.Mar 2, 1895
  569. Private Law 53–197Chap. 197: For the relief of Washington College (now known as Washington and Lee University), located at Lexington, Virginia.Mar 2, 1895
  570. Private Law 53–198Chap. 198: For the relief of Maria T. Karge.Mar 2, 1895
  571. Private Law 53–199Chap. 199: To grant a pension to Ida C. MartinMar 2, 1895
  572. Private Law 53–200Chap. 200: Granting a pension to Marian C. Gurney.Mar 2, 1895
  573. Private Law 53–201Chap. 201: To increase the pension of Mrs. Mary Tassin.Mar 2, 1895
  574. Private Law 53–202Chap. 202: For the relief of John and Sarah Griffin.Mar 2, 1895
  575. Private Law 53–203Chap. 203: For the relief of the trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Bethel Springs, Tennessee.Mar 2, 1895
  576. Private Law 53–204Chap. 204: Granting a pension to Bridget Devine.Mar 2, 1895
  577. Private Law 53–205Chap. 205: Granting a pension to Ellen Carney.Mar 2, 1895
  578. Private Law 53–206Chap. 206: To pension John B. Leach.Mar 2, 1895
  579. Private Law 53–207Chap. 207: To pension Jane Webster.Mar 2, 1895
  580. Private Law 53–208Chap. 208: To remove the charge of desertion from the record of William Albin, late of Company D, Thirty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry.Mar 2, 1895
  581. Private Law 53–209Chap. 209: To pension David H. Sexton for services in Oregon Indian wars.Mar 2, 1895
  582. Private Law 53–210Chap. 210: Granting a pension to Joseph R. Brooks, father, by adoption, of Henry M. Brooks.Mar 2, 1895
  583. Private Law 53–211Chap. 211: To pension Mary E. Hamilton, widow of David Hamilton, soldier in Indian war of eighteen hundred and eighteen.Mar 2, 1895
  584. Private Law 53–212Chap. 212: To pension Albert Munson.Mar 2, 1895
  585. Private Law 53–213Chap. 213: To pension Susannah Kepford, of Noble County, Indiana.Mar 2, 1895
  586. Private Law 53–214Chap. 214: To pension Joseph W. Snyder, crippled son of a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve.Mar 2, 1895
  587. Private Law 53–215Chap. 215: Granting a pension to Elizabeth L. Markham.Mar 2, 1895
  588. Private Law 53–216Chap. 216: Granting a pension to Saloma Mangold.Mar 2, 1895
  589. Private Law 53–217Chap. 217: Granting a pension to Josephine Foote Fairfax.Mar 2, 1895
  590. Private Law 53–218Chap. 218: Granting a pension to Harrison C. Hobart, brevet brigadier-general of volunteers.Mar 2, 1895
  591. Private Law 53–219Chap. 219: To increase the pension of Major-General Julius H. Stahel.Mar 2, 1895
  592. Private Law 53–220Chap. 220: Granting a pension to James Jones.Mar 2, 1895
  593. Private Law 53–221Chap. 221: Granting a pension to Alexander M. Laughlin.Mar 2, 1895
  594. Private Law 53–222Chap. 222: Granting an increase of pension to Mary A. L. Eastman.Mar 2, 1895
  595. Private Law 53–223Chap. 223: Granting a pension to Major-General John A. McClernand.Mar 2, 1895
  596. Private Law 53–224Chap. 224: Granting a pension to Charity Ann Smith.Mar 2, 1895
  597. Private Law 53–225Chap. 225: Granting increase of pension to Jesse C. Pinney.Mar 2, 1895
  598. Private Law 53–226Chap. 226: For the relief of Thorwald Olsen.Mar 2, 1895
  599. Private Law 53–227Chap. 227: To grant a pension to Mrs. Mary Button, of Arkansas, widow of Asa Button, deceased.Mar 2, 1895
  600. Private Law 53–228Chap. 228: For the relief of James Berry Duckett.Mar 2, 1895
  601. Private Law 53–229Chap. 229: To amend the military record of Angus V. Wilson.Mar 2, 1895
  602. Private Law 53–230Chap. 230: To increase the pension of Alexander Williamson.Mar 2, 1895
  603. Private Law 53–231Chap. 231: To provide increase of pension to Hosea Brown, of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve.Mar 2, 1895
  604. Private Law 53–232Chap. 232: Granting a pension to Alice K. Potter, widow of General Joseph H. Potter, deceased.Mar 2, 1895
  605. Private Law 53–233Chap. 233: For the relief of Fred Kormann.Mar 2, 1895
  606. Private Law 53–234Chap. 234: Granting an increase of pension to Thomas M. Chill.Mar 2, 1895
  607. Private Law 53–235Chap. 235: Granting a pension to Charles F. Holly.Mar 2, 1895
  608. Private Law 53–236Chap. 236: Granting an increase of pension to Eugenia R. Sweeny.Mar 2, 1895
  609. Private Law 53–237Chap. 237: For the relief of James Curran.Mar 2, 1895