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Volume 40

1917–1919 · 65th Congress · sessions 1–3 · 453 public laws.

  1. Public Law 65–1Chap. 1: Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same.Apr 6, 1917
  2. Public Law 65–2Chap. 2: Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, and for other purposes.Apr 11, 1917
  3. Public Law 65–3Chap. 3: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.Apr 17, 1917
  4. Public Law 65–4Chap. 4: To authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes.Apr 24, 1917
  5. Public Law 65–5Chap. 5: To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” relative to the Fleet Naval Reserve.Apr 25, 1917
  6. Public Law 65–6Chap. 6: To provide for the extension of minority enlistments in the naval service.Apr 25, 1917
  7. Public Law 65–7Chap. 7: To authorize the detail of additional officers to the Hydrographic Office.Apr 25, 1917
  8. Public Law 65–8Chap. 8: To increase the number of midshipmen at the Naval Academy until September first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.Apr 25, 1917
  9. Public Law 65–9Chap. 9: To increase the age limit for persons appointed as officers in the Naval Reserve.Apr 25, 1917
  10. Public Law 65–10Chap. 10: To amend an Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and entitled “An Act to authorize the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia to sell, hold, and convey certain real estate.”Apr 30, 1917
  11. Public Law 65–11Chap. 11: To amend section ten of chapter two of the Criminal Code.May 7, 1917
  12. Public Law 65–12Chap. 12: Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.May 12, 1917
  13. Public Law 65–13Chap. 13: Authorizing the President to take over for the United States the possession and title of any vessel within its jurisdiction, which at the time of coming therein was owned in whole or in part by any corporation, citizen, or subject of any nation with which the United States may be at war, or was under register of any such nation, and for other purposes.May 12, 1917
  14. Public Law 65–15Chap. 15: To authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.May 18, 1917
  15. Public Law 65–16Chap. 16: Authorizing the county of Morrison, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said county.May 22, 1917
  16. Public Law 65–17Chap. 17: Authorizing the city of Bemidji, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near that place.May 22, 1917
  17. Public Law 65–18Chap. 18: To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” relative to enrollments in the Naval Reserve Force.May 22, 1917
  18. Public Law 65–19Chap. 19: Granting consent to Ernest B. Denison, A. J. Barchfield, and Ethan I. Dodds to construct a bridge across the Wabash River within or near the city limits of the city of Vincennes, Indiana.May 22, 1917
  19. Public Law 65–20Chap. 20: To temporarily increase the commissioned and warrant and enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes.May 22, 1917
  20. Public Law 65–21Chap. 21: To grant authority for the erection of temporary buildings at the headquarters of the American Red Cross, Washington, District of Columbia.May 22, 1917
  21. Public Law 65–22Chap. 22: Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.May 29, 1917
  22. Public Law 65–23Chap. 23: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” as amended, in respect of car service, and for other purposes.May 29, 1917
  23. Public Law 65–24Chap. 24: Making immediately available moneys appropriated for the investigation of the pneumatic mail-tube service in the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen.Jun 1, 1917
  24. Public Law 65–25Chap. 25: Authorizing the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to permit the Secretary of War to erect temporary buildings in the Smithsonian Grounds.Jun 9, 1917
  25. Public Law 65–26Chap. 26: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department, ” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.Jun 12, 1917
  26. Public Law 65–27Chap. 27: Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.Jun 12, 1917
  27. Public Law 65–28Chap. 28: To authorize the issue to States and Territories and the District of Columbia of rifles and other property for the equipment of organizations of home guards.Jun 14, 1917
  28. Public Law 65–29Chap. 29: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1917
  29. Public Law 65–30Chap. 30: To punish, acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1917
  30. Public Law 65–31Chap. 31: Relating to the service of certain retired officers of the Army.Jun 15, 1917
  31. Public Law 65–32Chap. 32: To amend the Act approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, known as the Federal reserve Act, as amended by the Acts of August fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen.Jun 21, 1917
  32. Public Law 65–33Chap. 33: To correct an error in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.Jun 21, 1917
  33. Public Law 65–34Chap. 34: Extending the time within which the “Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River” shall remain in effect.Jun 30, 1917
  34. Public Law 65–35Chap. 35: To authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes.Jul 2, 1917
  35. Public Law 65–36Chap. 36: Providing for the modification of the designs of the current quarter dollar.Jul 9, 1917
  36. Public Law 65–37Chap. 37: To fix the status and rights of officers of the Public Health Service when serving with the Coast Guard, the Army, or the Navy.Jul 9, 1917
  37. Public Law 65–38Chap. 38: Making appropriations for certain session employees of the Senate and House of Representatives.Jul 17, 1917
  38. Public Law 65–39Chap. 39: To relieve the owners of mining claims who have been mustered into the military or naval service of the United States as officers or enlisted men from performing assessment work during the term of such service.Jul 17, 1917
  39. Public Law 65–40Chap. 40: To authorize the President to increase temporarily the Signal Corps of the Army and to purchase, manufacture, maintain, repair, and operate airships, and to make appropriations therefor, and for other purposes.Jul 24, 1917
  40. Public Law 65–41Chap. 41: Granting the consent of Congress to the Sebastian bridge district to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River, at the foot of Garrison Avenue, at Fort Smith, Arkansas.Jul 27, 1917
  41. Public Law 65–42Chap. 42: Authorizing the President to take possession, on behalf of the United States, for use as sites for permanent aviation stations for the Army and Navy and for aviation school purposes, of the whole of North Island in the harbor of San Diego, California, and for other purposes.Jul 27, 1917
  42. Public Law 65–44Chap. 44: For the relief of homestead entrymen or settlers who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war.Jul 28, 1917
  43. Public Law 65–45Chap. 45: To authorize the county of Cass, in the State of Indiana, to construct a bridge across the Wabash River east of the city of Logansport, at a point known as Cedar or Rock Island, in said Wabash River.Jul 28, 1917
  44. Public Law 65–46Chap. 46: Granting the consent of Congress to the Pritchard-Wheeler Lumber Company, of Wisner, Louisiana, to construct a bridge across Bayou Macon, in Louisiana, at a point east of the town of Wisner, Louisiana.Jul 28, 1917
  45. Public Law 65–47Chap. 47: To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, at or near the foot of the gar hole about one-half mile south of the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railway bridge across Little River, Arkansas.Aug 3, 1917
  46. Public Law 65–48Chap. 48: For the protection of desert-land entrymen who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war.Aug 7, 1917
  47. Public Law 65–49Chap. 49: Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.Aug 8, 1917
  48. Public Law 65–50Chap. 50: To amend the Act to regulate commerce, as amended, and for other purposes.Aug 9, 1917
  49. Public Law 65–51Chap. 51: To amend the Act to regulate commerce, as amended, and for other purposes.Aug 10, 1917
  50. Public Law 65–52Chap. 52: To provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products.Aug 10, 1917
  51. Public Law 65–53Chap. 53: To provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel.Aug 10, 1917
  52. Public Law 65–54Chap. 54: To authorize and empower the Southwest Louisiana Waterways Association, of the State of Louisiana, to construct a lock and dam in Mermentau River, in the State of Louisiana.Sep 19, 1917
  53. Public Law 65–55Chap. 55: For improving Willapa Harbor and River, Washington.Sep 19, 1917
  54. Public Law 65–56Chap. 56: To authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign Governments, and for other purposes.Sep 24, 1917
  55. Public Law 65–57Chap. 57: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas.Sep 25, 1917
  56. Public Law 65–58Chap. 58: To authorize the construction of a building for the use of the Treasury Department.Sep 27, 1917
  57. Public Law 65–59Chap. 59: To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River near Warfield, Kentucky, and Kermit, West Virginia, authorized by an Act approved January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.Sep 28, 1917
  58. Public Law 65–60Chap. 60: To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Saline River, at or near Suttons Ferry, Arkansas.Oct 1, 1917
  59. Public Law 65–61Chap. 61: To create the Aircraft Board and provide for its maintenance.Oct 1, 1917
  60. Public Law 65–62Chap. 62: To authorize exploration for and disposition of potassium.Oct 2, 1917
  61. Public Law 65–63Chap. 63: To provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes.Oct 3, 1917
  62. Public Law 65–64Chap. 64: To authorize the Gulf Ports Terminal Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Florida, to construct a bridge over and across the headwaters of Mobile Bay and such navigable channels as are between the east side of the Bay and Blakely Island, in Baldwin and Mobile Counties, Alabama.Oct 5, 1917
  63. Public Law 65–65Chap. 65: Granting the consent of Congress to the Gainesville Red River Bridge Company to construct a bridge across Red River.Oct 5, 1917
  64. Public Law 65–66Chap. 66: Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Elgin, Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Fox River at Elgin.Oct 5, 1917
  65. Public Law 65–67Chap. 67: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River in Aitkin County, Logan Township, State of Minnesota.Oct 5, 1917
  66. Public Law 65–68Chap. 68: Defining the status of citizens of the United States who have entered the military or naval services of certain countries during the existing war in Europe.Oct 5, 1917
  67. Public Law 65–69Chap. 69: Authorizing the county of Clallam, in the State of Washington, to convey to the city of Port Angeles certain lands.Oct 5, 1917
  68. Public Law 65–70Chap. 70: Authorizing the counties of Cass and Itasca, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River between said counties.Oct 5, 1917
  69. Public Law 65–71Chap. 71: Authorizing the counties of Itasca and Cass, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said counties.Oct 5, 1917
  70. Public Law 65–72Chap. 72: Granting the consent of Congress to Webbers Falls Railroad Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River, between the towns of Webbers Falls and Gore, in the State of Oklahoma.Oct 5, 1917
  71. Public Law 65–73Chap. 73: Granting the consent of Congress to The Whiteville Lumber Company to construct a bridge across Waccamaw River.Oct 5, 1917
  72. Public Law 65–74Chap. 74: To amend the laws relating to the denominations of circulating notes by national banks and to permit the issuance of notes of small denominations, and for other purposes.Oct 5, 1917
  73. Public Law 65–75Chap. 75: To suspend the requirements of annual assessment work on mining claims during the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.Oct 5, 1917
  74. Public Law 65–76Chap. 76: Authorizing the payment of October salaries to officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the day of adjournment of the present session.Oct 5, 1917
  75. Public Law 65–77Chap. 77: To provide for the acquisition of an air station site for the United States Navy.Oct 6, 1917
  76. Public Law 65–78Chap. 78: Granting the consent of Congress to the Gilmer-Pittsburgh Coal Company to construct a bridge across the Little Kanawha River.Oct 6, 1917
  77. Public Law 65–79Chap. 79: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.Oct 6, 1917
  78. Public Law 65–80Chap. 80: For the establishment of Northgate, in the State of North Dakota, as a port of entry for immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.Oct 6, 1917
  79. Public Law 65–81Chap. 81: Making further provision for the allotment of pay of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, and for other purposes.Oct 6, 1917
  80. Public Law 65–82Chap. 82: To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, in Poinsett County, Arkansas, at or near the section line between sections thirty-five and thirty-six, township eleven north, range six east.Oct 6, 1917
  81. Public Law 65–83Chap. 83: To prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes.Oct 6, 1917
  82. Public Law 65–84Chap. 84: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across Flint River, in the State of Georgia.Oct 6, 1917
  83. Public Law 65–85Chap. 85: To provide for the reimbursement of officers, enlisted men, and others in the naval service of the United States for property lost or destroyed in such service.Oct 6, 1917
  84. Public Law 65–86Chap. 86: Providing for an amendment to section twenty-two hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, allowing homestead and other public land affidavits to be taken before the military commander of any person engaged in military or naval service of the United States.Oct 6, 1917
  85. Public Law 65–87Chap. 87: Amending the Act to increase the limit of the cost of certain public buildings, and so forth.Oct 6, 1917
  86. Public Law 65–88Chap. 88: Giving the United States Shipping Board power to suspend present provisions of law and permit vessels of foreign registry and foreign-built vessels admitted to American registry under the Act of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to engage in the coastwise trade during the present war and for a period of one hundred and twenty days thereafter, except the coastwise trade with Alaska.Oct 6, 1917
  87. Public Law 65–89Chap. 89: To provide for the payment of six months’ gratuity to the widow, children, or other previously designated dependent relative of retired officers or enlisted men on active duty.Oct 6, 1917
  88. Public Law 65–90Chap. 90: Granting the consent of Congress to the Trumbull Steel Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.Oct 6, 1917
  89. Public Law 65–91Chap. 91: To authorize the issuance of Reserve Corps and National Army commissions in the lower grades of staff corps and to remove the fixed age limits requiring the discharge of Reserve Corps officers.Oct 6, 1917
  90. Public Law 65–92Chap. 92: To promote the efficiency of the United States Navy.Oct 6, 1917
  91. Public Law 65–93Chap. 93: To provide for the service of officers of auxiliary naval forces on naval courts.Oct 6, 1917
  92. Public Law 65–94Chap. 94: Authorizing appointment of chaplains at large for the United States Army.Oct 6, 1917
  93. Public Law 65–95Chap. 95: To prevent the publication of inventions by the grant of patents that might be detrimental to the public safety or convey useful information to the enemy, to stimulate invention, and provide adequate protection to owners of patents, and for other purposes.Oct 6, 1917
  94. Public Law 65–96Chap. 96: Granting the consent of Congress to the Wolf Creek Lumber Company to maintain a bridge already constructed across Tug River.Oct 6, 1917
  95. Public Law 65–97Chap. 97: To amend sections twenty-four and two hundred and fifty-six of the Judicial Code, relating to the jurisdiction of the district courts, so as to save to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen’s compensation law of any State.Oct 6, 1917
  96. Public Law 65–98Chap. 98: Authorizing the Secretary of War to donate to the State of North Carolina two brass cannon, with carriage.Oct 6, 1917
  97. Public Law 65–99Chap. 99: Granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta.Oct 6, 1917
  98. Public Law 65–100Chap. 100: Granting the consent of Congress to the city of El Paso, Texas, to construct a bridge across the Rao Grande River within or near the city limits of El Paso, Texas, such construction to be made with the consent and cooperation of the Republic of Mexico.Oct 6, 1917
  99. Public Law 65–101Chap. 101: To provide for the promotion of first lieutenants in the Regular Army and National Guard to the grade of captain, and respecting the Dental Corps of the Army and medical and dental students, and for other purposes.Oct 6, 1917
  100. Public Law 65–102Chap. 102: To amend section fifteen hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States.Oct 6, 1917
  101. Public Law 65–103Chap. 103: To establish certain new ratings in the United States Navy, and for other purposes.Oct 6, 1917
  102. Public Law 65–104Chap. 104: To authorize the President to organize provisionally as Field Artillery or Infantry and to use as Field Artillery or Infantry during the existing emergency such regiments of Cavalry as he may designate.Oct 6, 1917
  103. Public Law 65–105Chap. 105: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.Oct 6, 1917
  104. Public Law 65–106Chap. 106: To define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes.Oct 6, 1917
  105. Public Law 65–107Chap. 107: To authorize the Secretary of Interior to expend funds in New Mexico and Texas for drainage purposes.Oct 6, 1917
  106. Public Law 65–108Chap. 108: Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the entry of distilled spirits into bonded warehouses under bond, conditioned for the export of such distilled spirits to some foreign country within one year from the date of entry into the United States.Oct 6, 1917
  107. Public Law 65–109Chap. 109: Authorizing the expenditure of money upon lands purchased for use of the Ordnance Department of the Army without reference to section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes.Oct 6, 1917
  108. Public Law 65–1Chap. 1: Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the Government and the people of the United States, and making provision to prosecute the same.Dec 7, 1917
  109. Public Law 65–3Chap. 3: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.Dec 15, 1917
  110. Public Law 65–4Chap. 4: Authorizing the payment of salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, nineteen hundred and seventeen.Dec 18, 1917
  111. Public Law 65–5Chap. 5: To increase the number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.Dec 20, 1917
  112. Public Law 65–6Chap. 6: To authorize absence by homestead settlers and entrymen, and for other purposes.Dec 20, 1917
  113. Public Law 65–7Chap. 7: Extending the commission provided for in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, with the same authorities, powers, and provisions until on or before March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.Dec 26, 1917
  114. Public Law 65–8Chap. 8: Extending until January first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the effective date of section ten of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,” approved October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.Jan 12, 1918
  115. Public Law 65–9Chap. 9: Amending section thirty-two, Federal Farm Loan Act, approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.Jan 18, 1918
  116. Public Law 65–10Chap. 10: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River at or near the city of Fairmont, West Virginia.Jan 26, 1918
  117. Public Law 65–11Chap. 11: To authorize the calling into the service of the United States the militia and other locally created armed forces in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.Jan 26, 1918
  118. Public Law 65–12Chap. 12: Providing for the sale of the coal and asphalt deposits in the segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma.Feb 8, 1918
  119. Public Law 65–13Chap. 13: For the purpose of promoting efficiency, for the utilization of the resources and industries of the United States, for lessening the expenses of the war, and restoring the loss caused by the war by providing for the employment of a discovery or invention called the “Garabed,” claiming to make possible the utilization of free energy.Feb 8, 1918
  120. Public Law 65–14Chap. 14: To extend the time for the completion of the municipal bridge approaches, and extensions or additions thereto, by the city of Saint Louis, within the States of Illinois and Missouri.Feb 11, 1918
  121. Public Law 65–15Chap. 15: To authorize and empower officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve under the Government of the Dominican Republic, and for other purposes.Feb 11, 1918
  122. Public Law 65–16Chap. 16: To amend section four of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an auxiliary reclamation project in connection with the Yuma project Arizona.”Feb 11, 1918
  123. Public Law 65–17Chap. 17: Granting to certain persons in the active war service an extension of time within which application for insurance may be made under section four hundred and one of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.Feb 12, 1918
  124. Public Law 65–19Chap. 19: To authorize and empower the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to purchase, lease, requisition, or otherwise acquire, and to sell or otherwise dispose of improved or unimproved land, houses, buildings, and for other purposes.Mar 1, 1918
  125. Public Law 65–20Chap. 20: To extend protection to the civil rights of members of the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States engaged in the present war.Mar 8, 1918
  126. Public Law 65–21Chap. 21: Providing additional time for the payment of purchase money under homestead entries within the former Colville Indian Reservation, Washington.Mar 11, 1918
  127. Public Law 65–22Chap. 22: Granting the consent of Congress to the village of East Dundee and the village of West Dundee to construct a bridge across the Fox River.Mar 13, 1918
  128. Public Law 65–23Chap. 23: To authorize the Secretary of War to grant furloughs without pay and allowances to enlisted men of the Army of the United States.Mar 16, 1918
  129. Public Law 65–24Chap. 24: To save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States.Mar 19, 1918
  130. Public Law 65–25Chap. 25: To provide for the operation of transportation systems while under Federal control, for the just compensation of their owners, and for other purposes.Mar 21, 1918
  131. Public Law 65–26Chap. 26: To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and for prior years, and for other purposes.”Mar 21, 1918
  132. Public Law 65–27Chap. 27: Amending the Act of July second, nineteen hundred and nine, governing the holding of civil service examinations.Mar 27, 1918
  133. Public Law 65–28Chap. 28: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.Mar 28, 1918
  134. Public Law 65–29Chap. 29: Authorizing the assistant to the Secretary of the Interior to sign official papers and documents.Mar 28, 1918
  135. Public Law 65–30Chap. 30: To permit the use of certain refined products of petroleum as stores on steam vessels carrying passengers.Mar 29, 1918
  136. Public Law 65–31Chap. 31: To provide for the disposition of the effects of deceased persons in the naval service.Mar 29, 1918
  137. Public Law 65–32Chap. 32: To amend section fifteen hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United States.Mar 29, 1918
  138. Public Law 65–33Chap. 33: To authorize the payment of gun pointers and gun captains while temporarily absent from their regular stations, and for other purposes.Mar 29, 1918
  139. Public Law 65–34Chap. 34: Authorizing the erection of a memorial in Washington to the memory and in honor of the members of the various orders of sisters who gave their services as nurses on battle fields, in hospitals, and on floating hospitals during the Civil War.Mar 29, 1918
  140. Public Law 65–36Chap. 36: To authorize the appointment of officers of the Philippine Scouts as officers in the militia or other locally created armed forces of the Philippine Islands drafted into the service of the United States, and for other purposes.Mar 30, 1918
  141. Public Law 65–37Chap. 37: To provide for restoration to their former grades of enlisted men discharged to accept commissions, and for other purposes.Mar 30, 1918
  142. Public Law 65–39Chap. 39: To authorize the President to drop from the rolls any naval or Marine Corps officer absent without leave for three months, or who has been convicted of any offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary by the civil authorities, and prohibiting such officer’s reappointment.Apr 2, 1918
  143. Public Law 65–40Chap. 40: To authorize the President to reduce temporarily the course of instruction at the United States Naval Academy.Apr 2, 1918
  144. Public Law 65–41Chap. 41: Authorizing the granting of insurance under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on application by a person other than the person to be insured.Apr 2, 1918
  145. Public Law 65–42Chap. 42: To authorize the change of name of the steamship Caldera to A. T. Kinney.Apr 4, 1918
  146. Public Law 65–43Chap. 43: Providing for the disposal of certain lands in block thirty-two, in the city of Port Angeles, State of Washington.Apr 4, 1918
  147. Public Law 65–44Chap. 44: To amend an Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes.”Apr 4, 1918
  148. Public Law 65–45Chap. 45: To provide further for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to provide credits for industries and enterprises in the United States necessary or contributory to the prosecution of the war, and to supervise the issuance of securities, and for other purposes.Apr 5, 1918
  149. Public Law 65–46Chap. 46: To amend an Act entitled. “An Act providing for an Assistant Secretary of War,” approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.Apr 6, 1918
  150. Public Law 65–47Chap. 47: To ratify the compact and agreement between the States of Oregon and Washington regarding concurrent jurisdiction over the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries in connection with regulating, protecting, and preserving fish.Apr 8, 1918
  151. Public Law 65–48Chap. 48: Granting the consent of Congress to the Forsyth special road district of Taney County, Missouri, to construct a bridge across White River at Forsyth, Missouri.Apr 8, 1918
  152. Public Law 65–49Chap. 49: To regulate the pay of retired chief warrant officers and warrant officers on active duty.Apr 10, 1918
  153. Public Law 65–50Chap. 50: To promote export trade, and for other purposes.Apr 10, 1918
  154. Public Law 65–51Chap. 51: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.Apr 11, 1918
  155. Public Law 65–52Chap. 52: Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.Apr 15, 1918
  156. Public Law 65–53Chap. 53: To provide quarters or commutation thereof to commissioned officers in certain cases.Apr 16, 1918
  157. Public Law 65–54Chap. 54: Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Bonner County, Idaho, to construct a bridge across the Clark Fork River in Bonner County, Idaho.Apr 16, 1918
  158. Public Law 65–55Chap. 55: To amend section four thousand and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes by extending its scope to include women.Apr 16, 1918
  159. Public Law 65–56Chap. 56: To suspend for the period of the present war sections forty-five, forty-six, and fifty-six of an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.Apr 17, 1918
  160. Public Law 65–57Chap. 57: To give indemnity for damages caused by American forces abroad.Apr 18, 1918
  161. Public Law 65–58Chap. 58: To prevent interference with the use of homing pigeons by the United States, to provide a penalty for such interference, and for other purposes.Apr 19, 1918
  162. Public Law 65–59Chap. 59: To punish the willful injury or destruction of warmaterial, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes.Apr 20, 1918
  163. Public Law 65–60Chap. 60: To provide for reimbursement of actual expenses or flat per diem for enlisted men traveling on duty under competent orders.Apr 20, 1918
  164. Public Law 65–61Chap. 61: To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.Apr 20, 1918
  165. Public Law 65–62Chap. 62: To amend the emergency shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, so as to empower the President and his designated agents to take over certain transportation systems for the transportation of shipyard and plant employees, and for other purposes.Apr 22, 1918
  166. Public Law 65–63Chap. 63: To conserve the gold supply of the United States; to permit the settlement in silver of trade balances adverse to the United States; to provide silver for subsidiary coinage and for commercial use; to assist foreign governments at war with the enemies of the United States; and for the above purposes to stabilize the price and encourage the production of silver.Apr 23, 1918
  167. Public Law 65–64Chap. 64: To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to increase the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, and for other purposes.Apr 26, 1918
  168. Public Law 65–65Chap. 65: To authorize the extension of a spur track or siding from the existing lines of railroad in the District of Columbia across First Street Northeast, between L and M Streets, to the buildings occupied by the field medical supply depot of the Army.Apr 29, 1918
  169. Public Law 65–66Chap. 66: To authorize the incorporated town of Seward, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $25,000 for the purpose of constructing dikes, flumes, and other works to confine the waters of Lowell Creek for the protection of said town.May 1, 1918
  170. Public Law 65–67Chap. 67: To provide for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse of the District of Columbia.May 6, 1918
  171. Public Law 65–68Chap. 68: Making an appropriation for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives.May 6, 1918
  172. Public Law 65–69Chap. 69: To amend the naturalization laws and to repeal certain sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States and other laws relating to naturalization, and for other purposes.May 9, 1918
  173. Public Law 65–70Chap. 70: Authorizing the President during the existing emergency to sell supplies, materials, equipment, or other property, heretofore or hereafter purchased, acquired, or manufactured by the United States, in connection with, or incidental to, the prosecution of the war.May 10, 1918
  174. Public Law 65–71Chap. 71: Authorizing postage rates on aeroplane mail.May 10, 1918
  175. Public Law 65–72Chap. 72: To amend the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An Act to regulate the officering and manning of vessels subject to the inspection laws of the United States.”May 11, 1918
  176. Public Law 65–73Chap. 73: To fix the age limits for candidates for admission to the United States Naval Academy.May 14, 1918
  177. Public Law 65–74Chap. 74: To authorize the President to provide housing for war needs.May 16, 1918
  178. Public Law 65–75Chap. 75: To amend section three, title one, of the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.May 16, 1918
  179. Public Law 65–76Chap. 76: Providing for the calling into military service of certain classes of persons registered and liable for military service under the terms of the Act of Congress approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”May 16, 1918
  180. Public Law 65–77Chap. 77: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and an Act in amendment thereto, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.May 20, 1918
  181. Public Law 65–78Chap. 78: Authorizing the President to coordinate or consolidate executive bureaus, agencies, and offices, and for other purposes, in the interest of economy and the more efficient concentration of the Government.May 20, 1918
  182. Public Law 65–79Chap. 79: Providing for the registration for military service of all male persons citizens of the United States and all male persons residing in the United States who have, since the fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and on or before the day set for the registration by proclamation by the President, attained the age of twenty-one years, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe under the terms of the Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”May 20, 1918
  183. Public Law 65–80Chap. 80: Authorizing national banks to subscribe to the American National Red Cross.May 22, 1918
  184. Public Law 65–81Chap. 81: To prevent in time of war departure from or entry into the United States contrary to the public safety.May 22, 1918
  185. Public Law 65–82Chap. 82: To regulate the practice of podiatry in the District of Columbia.May 23, 1918
  186. Public Law 65–83Chap. 83: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys of the District of Columbia,” approved September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.May 23, 1918
  187. Public Law 65–84Chap. 84: To prohibit the sale, manufacture, and importation of intoxicating liquors in the Territory of Hawaii during the period of the war, except as hereinafter provided.May 23, 1918
  188. Public Law 65–85Chap. 85: To amend section fifteen of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.”May 25, 1918
  189. Public Law 65–86Chap. 86: Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.May 25, 1918
  190. Public Law 65–87Chap. 87: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Bayou Bartholomew, in Ashley County, Wilmot Township, State of Arkansas.May 29, 1918
  191. Public Law 65–88Chap. 88: To authorize the establishment of a town site on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho.May 31, 1918
  192. Public Law 65–89Chap. 89: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange for lands in private ownership lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company.May 31, 1918
  193. Public Law 65–90Chap. 90: To prevent rent profiteering in the District of Columbia.May 31, 1918
  194. Public Law 65–91Chap. 91: To authorize the coinage of fifty-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union.Jun 1, 1918
  195. Public Law 65–92Chap. 92: Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of war expenses and for other purposes.Jun 4, 1918
  196. Public Law 65–93Chap. 93: To require numbering and recording of undocumented vessels.Jun 7, 1918
  197. Public Law 65–95Chap. 95: To provide for appeals from decisions of boards of local inspectors of vessels, and for other purposes.Jun 10, 1918
  198. Public Law 65–96Chap. 96: To amend an Act entitled “An Act granting pensions to certain enlisted men, soldiers, and officers who served in the Civil War and the War with Mexico,” approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve.Jun 10, 1918
  199. Public Law 65–97Chap. 97: Granting to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii additional powers relative to elections and qualification of electors.Jun 13, 1918
  200. Public Law 65–98Chap. 98: To amend section one hundred and one of the Judicial Code.Jun 13, 1918
  201. Public Law 65–99Chap. 99: To increase the salary of the United States marshal for the western district of Michigan.Jun 13, 1918
  202. Public Law 65–100Chap. 100: To amend section one hundred and eleven of the Judicial Code.Jun 13, 1918
  203. Public Law 65–101Chap. 101: To provide for a determination of heirship in cases of deceased members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, conferring jurisdiction upon district courts to partition lands belonging to full-blood heirs of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes.Jun 14, 1918
  204. Public Law 65–102Chap. 102: Granting the consent of Congress to Marion and Horry Counties, South Carolina, to construct a bridge across Little Peedee River.Jun 19, 1918
  205. Public Law 65–103Chap. 103: To authorize aids to navigation and for other works in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes.Jun 20, 1918
  206. Public Law 65–104Chap. 104: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended.Jun 25, 1918
  207. Public Law 65–105Chap. 105: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” approved February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven.Jun 26, 1918
  208. Public Law 65–106Chap. 106: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a deed to G. H. Beckwith for certain land within the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.Jun 27, 1918
  209. Public Law 65–107Chap. 107: To provide for vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes.Jun 27, 1918
  210. Public Law 65–108Chap. 108: Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.Jun 27, 1918
  211. Public Law 65–109Chap. 109: Authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a statue of James Buchanan, a former President of the United States.Jun 27, 1918
  212. Public Law 65–110Chap. 110: To amend the homestead law in its application to Alaska, and for other purposes.Jun 28, 1918
  213. Public Law 65–111Chap. 111: Authorizing the Secretary of War to issue permits for the diversion of water from the Niagara River.Jun 29, 1918
  214. Public Law 65–112Chap. 112: Authorizing the readmission to the United States of certain aliens who have been conscripted or have volunteered for service with the military forces of the United States or cobelligerent forces.Jun 29, 1918
  215. Public Law 65–113Chap. 113: Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.Jul 1, 1918
  216. Public Law 65–114Chap. 114: Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.Jul 1, 1918
  217. Public Law 65–115Chap. 115: To amend sections forty-four hundred and two, forty-four hundred and four, and forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States.Jul 2, 1918
  218. Public Law 65–116Chap. 116: Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1918
  219. Public Law 65–117Chap. 117: Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1918
  220. Public Law 65–118Chap. 118: Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Aurelio Collazo, citizen of Cuba.Jul 2, 1918
  221. Public Law 65–128Chap. 128: To give effect to the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded at Washington, August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.Jul 3, 1918
  222. Public Law 65–129Chap. 129: To authorize the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, a corporation, to construct bridges across the branches and tributaries of the Big Sandy and their tributaries, in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, in the State of Virginia.Jul 3, 1918
  223. Public Law 65–130Chap. 130: Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.Jul 3, 1918
  224. Public Law 65–137Chap. 137: 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.Jul 8, 1918
  225. Public Law 65–138Chap. 138: Providing for the protection of the uniform of friendly nations, and for other purposes.Jul 8, 1918
  226. Public Law 65–139Chap. 139: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.Jul 8, 1918
  227. Public Law 65–140Chap. 140: Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia for the months of July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.Jul 8, 1918
  228. Public Law 65–142Chap. 142: To authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign Governments, and for other purposes.Jul 9, 1918
  229. Public Law 65–143Chap. 143: Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.Jul 9, 1918
  230. Public Law 65–144Chap. 144: To equip the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, for the manufacture of supplies for the use of the Government, for the compensation of prisoners for their labor, and for other purposes.Jul 10, 1918
  231. Public Law 65–145Chap. 145: To amend the war-risk insurance Act.Jul 11, 1918
  232. Public Law 65–149Chap. 149: Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Trumbull County, Ohio, to construct, operate, and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River in the State of Ohio.Jul 12, 1918
  233. Public Law 65–150Chap. 150: Providing for the disposition of moneys represented in the Alfred Bernard Nobel peace prize, awarded in nineteen hundred and six.Jul 12, 1918
  234. Public Law 65–151Chap. 151: Granting the consent of Congress to the P. M. C. Coal Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Tug River, connecting Pike County, Kentucky, and Mingo County, West Virginia.Jul 15, 1918
  235. Public Law 65–152Chap. 152: To amend the Act approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act to establish a United States Shipping Board for the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its Territories and possessions and with foreign countries; to regulate carriers by water in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States; and for other purposes.”Jul 15, 1918
  236. Public Law 65–153Chap. 153: To pension widows and minor children of officers and enlisted men who served in the War with Spain, Philippine insurrection, or in China.Jul 16, 1918
  237. Public Law 65–154Chap. 154: To authorize the President, in time of war, to supervise or take possession and assume control of any telegraph, telephone, marine cable, or radio system or systems or any part thereof and to operate the same in such manner as may be needful or desirable for the duration of the war, and to provide just compensation therefor.Jul 16, 1918
  238. Public Law 65–155Chap. 155: Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.Jul 18, 1918
  239. Public Law 65–156Chap. 156: To provide for the appointment of a commission to standardize screw threads.Jul 18, 1918
  240. Public Law 65–157Chap. 157: To confer on the President power to prescribe charter rates and freight rates and to requisition vessels, and for other purposes.Jul 18, 1918
  241. Public Law 65–158Chap. 158: For the establishment of Oswego, in the State of New York, as a port of entry for immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.Jul 20, 1918
  242. Public Law 65–159Chap. 159: For the establishment of Bar Harbor, in the State of Maine, as a port of entry and delivery for the immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.Jul 20, 1918
  243. Public Law 65–161Chap. 161: To validate certain public-land entries.Jul 25, 1918
  244. Public Law 65–162Chap. 162: To repeal the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the National German-American Alliance,” approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven.Jul 30, 1918
  245. Public Law 65–163Chap. 163: To authorize the payment of indemnities to the Government of Greece for injuries inflicted on its nationals during riots occurring in South. Omaha, Nebraska, February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and nine.Aug 30, 1918
  246. Public Law 65–164Chap. 164: Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.Aug 31, 1918
  247. Public Law 65–165Chap. 165: To authorize the importation without the payment of duty of sundry articles for the American National Red Cross to be donated or used by it solely to or for the benefit of the land or naval forces of the United States or its allies, or for the relief of the civilian population of the United States or of its allies.Aug 31, 1918
  248. Public Law 65–166Chap. 166: Amending the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.Aug 31, 1918
  249. Public Law 65–167Chap. 167: Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government for the month of September, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.Aug 31, 1918
  250. Public Law 65–168Chap. 168: To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to convey to the city of Bozeman, Montana, certain land for alley purposes.Sep 10, 1918
  251. Public Law 65–169Chap. 169: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River at or near the city of Fairmont, West Virginia.Sep 11, 1918
  252. Public Law 65–170Chap. 170: Authorizing the President to establish zones in which intoxicating liquors may not be sold, manufactured, or distributed.Sep 12, 1918
  253. Public Law 65–171Chap. 171: Authorizing the State of Montana to select other lands in lieu of lands in section sixteen, township two north, range thirty east, within the limits of the Huntley irrigation project and the ceded portion of Crow Indian Reservation in said State.Sep 13, 1918
  254. Public Law 65–172Chap. 172: To approve mutual cessions of territory by the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota and the consequent changes in the boundary line between said States.Sep 13, 1918
  255. Public Law 65–173Chap. 173: Amending section eight of the amendment to the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.Sep 13, 1918
  256. Public Law 65–174Chap. 174: To protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and for other purposes.Sep 19, 1918
  257. Public Law 65–175Chap. 175: Authorizing the resurvey or retracement of lands heretofore returned as surveyed public lands of the United States under certain conditions.Sep 21, 1918
  258. Public Law 65–176Chap. 176: To supplement the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and for other purposes.Sep 24, 1918
  259. Public Law 65–177Chap. 177: To amend and reenact sections four, eleven, sixteen, nineteen, and twenty-two of the Act approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and known as the Federal reserve Act, and sections fifty-two hundred and eight and fifty-two hundred and nine, Revised Statutes.Sep 26, 1918
  260. Public Law 65–178Chap. 178: Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.Oct 1, 1918
  261. Public Law 65–179Chap. 179: To aid in combating “Spanish influenza” and other communicable diseases.Oct 1, 1918
  262. Public Law 65–180Chap. 180: Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government for the month of October, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.Oct 1, 1918
  263. Public Law 65–181Chap. 181: To provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.Oct 5, 1918
  264. Public Law 65–186Chap. 186: To exclude and expel from the United States aliens who are members of the anarchistic and similar classes.Oct 16, 1918
  265. Public Law 65–187Chap. 187: To prevent corrupt practices in the election of Senators, Representatives, or Delegates in Congress.Oct 16, 1918
  266. Public Law 65–188Chap. 188: To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to purchase from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a large dry dock and appurtenant lands.Oct 17, 1918
  267. Public Law 65–189Chap. 189: To authorize the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, its lessees, successors, and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Susquehanna River from the city of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to the borough of Lemoyne, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.Oct 19, 1918
  268. Public Law 65–190Chap. 190: Authorizing the readmission to the United States of certain aliens who have been conscripted or have volunteered for service with the military forces of the United States or cobelligerent forces.Oct 19, 1918
  269. Public Law 65–191Chap. 191: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent for certain land to school district numbered nine, of Sanders County, Montana.Oct 21, 1918
  270. Public Law 65–192Chap. 192: To reserve as a part of the Oregon National Forest certain lands that were revested in the United States pursuant to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Oregon and California Railroad Company against the United States.Oct 21, 1918
  271. Public Law 65–193Chap. 193: Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange the present Federal building site at Eatonton, Georgia, for another site on the public square in said city.Oct 22, 1918
  272. Public Law 65–194Chap. 194: To amend section thirty-five of the Criminal Code of the United States.Oct 23, 1918
  273. Public Law 65–195Chap. 195: To amend section three of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes,” approved December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.Oct 25, 1918
  274. Public Law 65–196Chap. 196: To establish a reserve of the Public Health Service.Oct 27, 1918
  275. Public Law 65–197Chap. 197: Providing for the protection of the users of the telephone and telegraph service and the properties and funds belonging thereto during Government operation and control.Oct 29, 1918
  276. Public Law 65–198Chap. 198: Authorizing the construction of a building for the Public Health Service in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.Oct 30, 1918
  277. Public Law 65–199Chap. 199: Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government for the month of November, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.Nov 1, 1918
  278. Public Law 65–200Chap. 200: To provide for enlistments in the National Guard of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Nov 4, 1918
  279. Public Law 65–201Chap. 201: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.Nov 4, 1918
  280. Public Law 65–203Chap. 203: Authorizing the conveyance of the United States jail and land on which the same is located at Guthrie, Oklahoma, to Logan County, Oklahoma.Nov 5, 1918
  281. Public Law 65–204Chap. 204: To authorize the construction and maintenance of a dike on Depot Slough, Lincoln County, Oregon.Nov 7, 1918
  282. Public Law 65–205Chap. 205: To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across Pearl River, between Pearl River County, Mississippi, and Washington Parish, Louisiana.Nov 7, 1918
  283. Public Law 65–206Chap. 206: Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Winnebago, in the State of Illinois, and the town of Rockford, in said county and State, to construct a bridge across Rock River, at or near Camp Grant.Nov 7, 1918
  284. Public Law 65–207Chap. 207: To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Little Calumet River, in Cook County, State of Illinois, at or near the village of Riverdale, in said county.Nov 7, 1918
  285. Public Law 65–208Chap. 208: Transferring jurisdiction and control for the period of the war over the Southern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers from the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to the Secretary of War for use for Army hospital purposes.Nov 7, 1918
  286. Public Law 65–209Chap. 209: To provide for the consolidation of national banking associations.Nov 7, 1918
  287. Public Law 65–210Chap. 210: Amending the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, providing for the purchase of a site for a public building at Nogales, Arizona.Nov 21, 1918
  288. Public Law 65–211Chap. 211: To authorize the county of Loudon, in the State of Tennessee, to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Loudon, Tennessee.Nov 21, 1918
  289. Public Law 65–212Chap. 212: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products,” and for other purposes.Nov 21, 1918
  290. Public Law 65–1Chap. 1: To amend section thirty-five hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes.Dec 2, 1918
  291. Public Law 65–2Chap. 2: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River, at the foot of Garrison Avenue, at Fort Smith, Arkansas.Jan 1, 1919
  292. Public Law 65–3Chap. 3: Authorizing payment of the salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, nineteen hundred and eighteen.Jan 1, 1919
  293. Public Law 65–4Chap. 4: Providing for the transportation from the District of Columbia of governmental employees whose services no longer are required.Jan 7, 1919
  294. Public Law 65–5Chap. 5: To authorize the sale of certain lande to school district numbered twenty-eight, of Missoula County, Montana.Jan 7, 1919
  295. Public Law 65–6Chap. 6: Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress.Jan 7, 1919
  296. Public Law 65–7Chap. 7: To provide for the temporary promotion of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps serving with the Army.Jan 12, 1919
  297. Public Law 65–8Chap. 8: Providing for the purchase of uniforms, accouterments, and equipment by officers of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and midshipmen at the Naval Academy from the Government at cost.Jan 12, 1919
  298. Public Law 65–9Chap. 9: Granting the consent of Congress to Norman County, Minnesota, and Traill County, North Dakota, to construct a bridge across the Red River of the North on the boundary line between said States.Jan 13, 1919
  299. Public Law 65–10Chap. 10: To amend section three hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the annual report on the statistics of commerce and navigation of the United States with foreign countries.Jan 25, 1919
  300. Public Law 65–11Chap. 11: Authorizing the President to reappoint Major Chalmers G. Hall, retired, to the active list of the Army.Jan 25, 1919
  301. Public Law 65–12Chap. 12: To amend Senate joint resolution numbered seventy-eight, approved October fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “Joint resolution to suspend requirements of the annual assessment work on mining claims during the year nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.”Jan 25, 1919
  302. Public Law 65–13Chap. 13: For the sale of isolated tracts of the public domain in Minnesota.Feb 4, 1919
  303. Public Law 65–14Chap. 14: To provide for the award of medals of honor, distinguished-service medals, and Navy crosses, and for other purposes.Feb 4, 1919
  304. Public Law 65–18Chap. 18: To provide revenue, and for other purposes.Feb 24, 1919
  305. Public Law 65–19Chap. 19: To authorize the sale of certain lands at or near Yellowstone, Montana, for hotel and other purposes.Feb 25, 1919
  306. Public Law 65–20Chap. 20: To authorize the addition of certain lands to the Wyoming National Forest.Feb 25, 1919
  307. Public Law 65–21Chap. 21: To provide for a leave of absence for homestead entrymen in one or two periods, and for longer times.Feb 25, 1919
  308. Public Law 65–22Chap. 22: To authorize the purchase by the city of McMinnville, Oregon, of certain lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested in the United States by the Act approved June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.Feb 25, 1919
  309. Public Law 65–23Chap. 23: Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make investigations, through the Bureau of Mines, of lignite coals and peat, to determine the practicability of their utilization as a fuel and in producing commercial products.Feb 25, 1919
  310. Public Law 65–24Chap. 24: To amend the public-building Act, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.Feb 25, 1919
  311. Public Law 65–25Chap. 25: Extending the time for completion of the bridge across the Delaware River authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company, or their successors, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Delaware River,” approved the twenty-fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and twelve.Feb 25, 1919
  312. Public Law 65–26Chap. 26: Increasing the limit of cost for the acquisition of a public building site at Yonkers, New York.Feb 25, 1919
  313. Public Law 65–27Chap. 27: To convey a strip of land on the site of the Federal building at Princeton, Indiana.Feb 25, 1919
  314. Public Law 65–28Chap. 28: Granting the consent of Congress to the Great Southern Lumber Company, a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania, doing business in the State of Mississippi, to construct a bridge across Pearl River, at or near the north line of section twenty-two, township eight north, range twenty-one west, west of the basis meridian, in the land district east of Pearl River, in the State of Mississippi.Feb 25, 1919
  315. Public Law 65–29Chap. 29: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.Feb 25, 1919
  316. Public Law 65–30Chap. 30: To increase the cost of the public building at El Dorado, Kansas.Feb 25, 1919
  317. Public Law 65–31Chap. 31: Granting the consent of Congress to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.Feb 25, 1919
  318. Public Law 65–32Chap. 32: Granting the consent of Congress to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.Feb 25, 1919
  319. Public Law 65–33Chap. 33: Extending the time for construction of a bridge and for the maintenance of a pontoon and pile bridge by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company across the Missouri River at or near Chamberlain, South Dakota, and providing additional requirements for the bridge to be constructed.Feb 25, 1919
  320. Public Law 65–34Chap. 34: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River near and above the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, or for the construction of a tunnel or tunnels under said river in lieu of said bridge.Feb 25, 1919
  321. Public Law 65–35Chap. 35: To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Red River of the North, between Traill County, North Dakota, and Polk County, Minnesota.Feb 25, 1919
  322. Public Law 65–36Chap. 36: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and an Act in amendment thereto approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.Feb 25, 1919
  323. Public Law 65–37Chap. 37: To extend the provisions of the homestead laws touching credit for period of enlistment to the soldiers, nurses, and officers of the Army and the seamen, marines, nurses, and officers of the Navy and the Marine Corps of the United States who have served or will have served with the Mexican border operations or during the war between the United States and Germany and her allies.Feb 25, 1919
  324. Public Law 65–38Chap. 38: Providing for the relief of such populations in Europe, and countries contiguous thereto, outside of Germany, German-Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, as may be determined upon by the President as necessary.Feb 25, 1919
  325. Public Law 65–39Chap. 39: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.Feb 25, 1919
  326. Public Law 65–40Chap. 40: Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.Feb 25, 1919
  327. Public Law 65–41Chap. 41: For the appointment of four members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Feb 25, 1919
  328. Public Law 65–44Chap. 44: To establish the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona.Feb 26, 1919
  329. Public Law 65–45Chap. 45: To establish the Lafayette National Park in the State of Maine.Feb 26, 1919
  330. Public Law 65–46Chap. 46: Extending the use of the special fund for vocational education provided by section seven of the vocational rehabilitation Act, approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.Feb 26, 1919
  331. Public Law 65–47Chap. 47: To accept from the Southern Oregon Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oregon, a reconveyance of the lands granted to the Stade of Oregon by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled “An Act granting lands to the State of Oregon to aid in the construction of a military wagon road from the navigable waters of Coos Bay to Roseburg, in said State,” commonly known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant, to provide for the disposition of said lands, and for other purposes.Feb 26, 1919
  332. Public Law 65–48Chap. 48: To amend section two hundred and sixty-nine of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.”Feb 26, 1919
  333. Public Law 65–49Chap. 49: To fix the salaries of the clerks of the United States district courts and to provide for their office expenses, and for other purposes.Feb 26, 1919
  334. Public Law 65–50Chap. 50: Providing for the appointment of an additional district judge for the northern judicial district of the State of Texas.Feb 26, 1919
  335. Public Law 65–51Chap. 51: To increase the salary of the United States district attorney for the district of Connecticut.Feb 26, 1919
  336. Public Law 65–52Chap. 52: Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress.Feb 26, 1919
  337. Public Law 65–53Chap. 53: Authorizing and directing the accounting officers of the Treasury to allow credit to the disbursing clerk of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in certain cases.Feb 26, 1919
  338. Public Law 65–54Chap. 54: Providing that one term of the United States District Court for the Eastern Judicial District of Oklahoma shall be held annually at Hugo, Oklahoma.Feb 26, 1919
  339. Public Law 65–55Chap. 55: To authorize the counties of Morton and Burleigh, in the State of North Dakota, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River near Bismarck, North Dakota.Feb 27, 1919
  340. Public Law 65–56Chap. 56: For the construction of a bridge across Rock River at or near South Jackson Street in the city of Janesville, Wisconsin.Feb 27, 1919
  341. Public Law 65–57Chap. 57: Granting the consent of Congress to Wenatchee-Beebe Orchard Company to construct a bridge across the Columbia River at or within four miles northerly from the town of Chelan Falls, in the State of Washington.Feb 27, 1919
  342. Public Law 65–58Chap. 58: Granting the consent of Congress to the Fall Branch Coal Company to construct a bridge across Tug River.Feb 27, 1919
  343. Public Law 65–59Chap. 59: Granting the consent of Congress to Oliver Cabana, junior, Myron S. Hall, E. G. Connette, William F. MacGlashan, John H. Bradley, and M. A. Hurt to construct a bridge across Niagara River within or near the city limits of Buffalo, and for other purposes.Feb 27, 1919
  344. Public Law 65–60Chap. 60: Granting the consent of Congress to the counties of Martin and Bertie, in the State of North Carolina, to construct a bridge across the Roanoke River at or near Williamston, North Carolina.Feb 27, 1919
  345. Public Law 65–61Chap. 61: Granting the consent of Congress to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company to construct, maintain, and operate a combined bridge and dam across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.Feb 27, 1919
  346. Public Law 65–62Chap. 62: To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Connecticut River between Springfield and West Springfield, in Hampden County, Massachusetts.Feb 27, 1919
  347. Public Law 65–63Chap. 63: To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the city of South Sioux City, in the State of Nebraska, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River between the States of Nebraska and Iowa,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve.Feb 27, 1919
  348. Public Law 65–64Chap. 64: Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Monongahela River, at or near the borough of Wilson, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Feb 27, 1919
  349. Public Law 65–65Chap. 65: Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near McKees Rocks Borough, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Feb 27, 1919
  350. Public Law 65–66Chap. 66: Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Allegheny River at or near Millvale Borough, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Feb 27, 1919
  351. Public Law 65–67Chap. 67: Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Allegheny River, at or near Sixteenth Street, in the city of Pittsburgh, county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Feb 27, 1919
  352. Public Law 65–68Chap. 68: Granting the consent of Congress to the board of supervisors of Itawamba County, Mississippi, to construct a bridge across the Tombigbee River at or near Barr’s Ferry, in said county.Feb 27, 1919
  353. Public Law 65–69Chap. 69: Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.Feb 28, 1919
  354. Public Law 65–70Chap. 70: Permitting any person who has served in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps in the present war to retain his uniform and personal equipment, and to wear the same under certain conditions.Feb 28, 1919
  355. Public Law 65–71Chap. 71: To provide for stock-watering privileges on certain unallotted lands on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.Feb 28, 1919
  356. Public Law 65–72Chap. 72: For the relief of settlers on certain railroad lands in Montana.Feb 28, 1919
  357. Public Law 65–73Chap. 73: To consolidate certain forest lands within the Cache National Forest, Utah, and to add certain lands thereto.Feb 28, 1919
  358. Public Law 65–74Chap. 74: To authorize an exchange of lands with the State of Montana in connection with Muddy Creek Reservoir site, Sun River project, and Nelson Reservoir site, Milk River project, and for other purposes.Feb 28, 1919
  359. Public Law 65–75Chap. 75: Granting lands for school purposes in lots numbered one hundred and eleven in each of the townsites of Fort Shaw and Simms, Sun River reclamation project, Montana.Feb 28, 1919
  360. Public Law 65–76Chap. 76: Granting to the city of San Diego certain lands in the Cleveland National Forest and the Capitan Grande Indian Reservation for dam and reservoir purposes for the conservation of water, and for other purposes.Feb 28, 1919
  361. Public Law 65–77Chap. 77: To consolidate certain forest lands within the Cache National Forest, Utah, and to add certain lands thereto.Feb 28, 1919
  362. Public Law 65–78Chap. 78: For the relief of entrymen within the Castle Peak irrigation project, in Utah.Feb 28, 1919
  363. Public Law 65–79Chap. 79: To authorize the resumption of voluntary enlistment in the Regular Army, and for other purposes.Feb 28, 1919
  364. Public Law 65–80Chap. 80: To amend section four of Chapter V of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen,” approved July ninth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and to make said amendment retroactive.Feb 28, 1919
  365. Public Law 65–81Chap. 81: To amend the fiftieth article of war.Feb 28, 1919
  366. Public Law 65–82Chap. 82: To authorize the payment of allotments out of the pay of enlisted men in certain cases in which these payments have been discontinued.Feb 28, 1919
  367. Public Law 65–83Chap. 83: To extend the time for the completion of the dams across the Savannah River by authority granted to Twin City Power Company by an Act approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, as amended by Acts approved June third, nineteen hundred and twelve, and March first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.Feb 28, 1919
  368. Public Law 65–84Chap. 84: Authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a memorial to Francis Asbury.Feb 28, 1919
  369. Public Law 65–85Chap. 85: To suspend the legal requirements of assessment work on mining claims in Alaska for the years nineteen hundred and seventeen, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and nineteen hundred and nineteen, and extending to that Territory the provisions of public resolution numbered ten, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and public resolution numbered twelve, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved October fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as amended, and for other purposes.Feb 28, 1919
  370. Public Law 65–86Chap. 86: Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.Mar 1, 1919
  371. Public Law 65–87Chap. 87: To fix the time of holding court in the Amarillo division of the northern district of Texas.Mar 1, 1919
  372. Public Law 65–88Chap. 88: To repeal the last proviso of section four of an Act to establish the Rocky Mountain National Park, in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes, approved January twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.Mar 1, 1919
  373. Public Law 65–89Chap. 89: To provide for the fitting up of quarters in the post-office building at the city of Sacramento, California, for the accommodation of the district court of the northern district of California and its officers.Mar 1, 1919
  374. Public Law 65–90Chap. 90: Providing for an increase of authorization for the Federal Building at Steubenville, in the State of Ohio.Mar 1, 1919
  375. Public Law 65–91Chap. 91: To extend the time for the construction by Kratka Township of a bridge across the Red Lake River, in Pennington County, Minnesota.Mar 1, 1919
  376. Public Law 65–92Chap. 92: Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Halifax, in the State of North Carolina, to construct a bridge across the Roanoke River.Mar 1, 1919
  377. Public Law 65–93Chap. 93: For the establishment of Gulfport, Mississippi, as a port of entry and delivery for immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.Mar 2, 1919
  378. Public Law 65–94Chap. 94: To provide relief in cases of contracts connected with, the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1919
  379. Public Law 65–95Chap. 95: Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1919
  380. Public Law 65–96Chap. 96: To amend an Act to provide for the appointment of a commission to standardize screw threads.Mar 3, 1919
  381. Public Law 65–97Chap. 97: To provide for the fourteenth and subsequent decennial Censuses.Mar 3, 1919
  382. Public Law 65–98Chap. 98: To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines.Mar 3, 1919
  383. Public Law 65–99Chap. 99: Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1919
  384. Public Law 65–100Chap. 100: To amend the Liberty Bond Acts and the War Finance Corporation Act, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1919
  385. Public Law 65–101Chap. 101: To amend sections seven, ten, and eleven of the Federal reserve Act, and section fifty-one hundred and seventy-two, Revised Statutes of the United States.Mar 3, 1919
  386. Public Law 65–102Chap. 102: To include certain lands in the counties of Modoc and Siskiyou, California, in the Modoc National Forest, California, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1919
  387. Public Law 65–103Chap. 103: Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, consider, and determine certain claims of the Cherokee Nation against the United States.Mar 3, 1919
  388. Public Law 65–104Chap. 104: To grant certain lands to the town of Olathe, Colorado, for the protection of its water supply.Mar 3, 1919
  389. Public Law 65–105Chap. 104: To authorize construction of a lock And dam in Old River, in the State of Texas, and the making of improvements enabling the passage of fresh water from a portion of Trinity River above the mouth of Old River into Old River above such lock and dam, and for the protection of rice crops against salt water.Mar 3, 1919
  390. Public Law 65–106Chap. 106: To authorize the contesting and cancellation of certain homestead entries, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1919
  391. Public Law 65–107Chap. 107: To add certain lands to the Minam National Forest, Oregon.Mar 3, 1919
  392. Public Law 65–108Chap. 108: Providing for the appraisal and sale of the Gig Harbor abandoned military reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1919
  393. Public Law 65–109Chap. 109: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent in fee simple to the National Lincoln-Douglass Sanatorium and Consumptive Hospital Association (a corporation), of Denver, Colorado, for a certain-described tract of land.Mar 3, 1919
  394. Public Law 65–110Chap. 110: Authorizing the sale of certain lands in South Dakota for cemetery purposes.Mar 3, 1919
  395. Public Law 65–111Chap. 111: To grant to citizens of Malheur County, Oregon, the right to cut timber in the State of Idaho for agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, and to remove such timber to Malheur County, Oregon.Mar 3, 1919
  396. Public Law 65–112Chap. 112: Granting to members of the Army Nurse Corps (female) and Navy Nurse Corps (female). Army field clerks, field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, and civil employees of the Army pay and allowances during any period of involuntary captivity by the enemy of the United States.Mar 3, 1919
  397. Public Law 65–113Chap. 113: To validate and confirm certain erroneously allowed entries in the State of Minnesota.Mar 3, 1919
  398. Public Law 65–114Chap. 114: Providing for the extension of time for the reclamation of certain lands in the State of Oregon under the Carey Act.Mar 3, 1919
  399. Public Law 65–115Chap. 115: To grant to citizens of Modoc County, California, the right to cut timber in the State of Nevada for agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, and to remove such timber to Modoc County, California.Mar 3, 1919
  400. Public Law 65–116Chap. 116: Creating a Commission for the maintenance, control, care, and so forth, of the Perry’s victory memorial on Put in Bay Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1919
  401. Public Law 65–117Chap. 117: Authorizing and directing the payment of the usual compensation of Representatives in Congress to those Members of the House who have been discharged from their military or naval duties.Mar 3, 1919
  402. Public Law 65–122Chap. 122: To amend and reenact an Act for the establishment of a probation system for the District of Columbia.Mar 4, 1919
  403. Public Law 65–123Chap. 123: Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920.Mar 4, 1919
  404. Public Law 65–124Chap. 124: Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.Mar 4, 1919
  405. Public Law 65–125Chap. 125: To enable the President to carry out the price guaranties made to producers of wheat of the crops of nineteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen and to protect the United States against undue enhancement of its liabilities thereunder.Mar 4, 1919
  406. Private Law 65–14Chap. 14: To authorize Peter Goelet Gerry to enter into a contract with the Secretary of the Navy, in behalf of the United States, for the use of the steam yacht Owera.May 12, 1917
  407. Private Law 65–43Chap. 43: For the relief of Mrs. Nancy E. Mullins.Jul 27, 1917
  408. Private Law 65–2Chap. 2: Granting six months’ pay to Ida Cottrell Hodgson, widow of Frederick Grady Hodgson, deceased, colonel, United States Army, retired.Dec 8, 1917
  409. Private Law 65–18Chap. 18: To authorize the President of the United States to appoint Harry Graham captain of Infantry.Feb 19, 1918
  410. Private Law 65–35Chap. 35: Authorizing the Postmaster General to cancel or readjust the screen-wagon contract of H. H. Hogan at Kansas City, Missouri.Mar 29, 1918
  411. Private Law 65–38Chap. 38: To extend the time for cutting timber on the Coconino and Tusayan National Forests, Arizona.Apr 1, 1918
  412. Private Law 65–94Chap. 94: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.Jun 8, 1918
  413. Private Law 65–119Chap. 119: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 2, 1918
  414. Private Law 65–120Chap. 120: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 2, 1918
  415. Private Law 65–121Chap. 121: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 2, 1918
  416. Private Law 65–122Chap. 122: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 2, 1918
  417. Private Law 65–123Chap. 123: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 2, 1918
  418. Private Law 65–124Chap. 124: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 2, 1918
  419. Private Law 65–125Chap. 125: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 2, 1918
  420. Private Law 65–126Chap. 126: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 2, 1918
  421. Private Law 65–127Chap. 127: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 2, 1918
  422. Private Law 65–131Chap. 131: Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell and convey certain land to the city of Faribault, Minnesotta.Jul 3, 1918
  423. Private Law 65–132Chap. 132: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.Jul 3, 1918
  424. Private Law 65–133Chap. 133: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.Jul 3, 1918
  425. Private Law 65–134Chap. 134: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.Jul 3, 1918
  426. Private Law 65–135Chap. 135: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.Jul 3, 1918
  427. Private Law 65–136Chap. 136: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.Jul 3, 1918
  428. Private Law 65–141Chap. 141: For the construction of a private conduit across Michigan Avenue northeast, in the District of Columbia.Jul 8, 1918
  429. Private Law 65–146Chap. 146: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy and of Wars other than the Civil War, and to certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.Jul 11, 1918
  430. Private Law 65–147Chap. 147: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy and of wars other than the Civil War, and to certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.Jul 11, 1918
  431. Private Law 65–148Chap. 148: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy and of wars other than the Civil War, and to certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.Jul 11, 1918
  432. Private Law 65–160Chap. 160: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Jul 20, 1918
  433. Private Law 65–182Chap. 182: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.Oct 5, 1918
  434. Private Law 65–183Chap. 183: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.Oct 5, 1918
  435. Private Law 65–184Chap. 184: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.Oct 5, 1918
  436. Private Law 65–185Chap. 185: To authorize the health officer of the District of Columbia to permit the disinterment of the bodies of Eliza Hill Bowles, Bernice Worthen Bowles, and Bessie Vivian Bowles.Oct 10, 1918
  437. Private Law 65–202Chap. 202: Providing for the sale of certain lands in the original town site Port Angeles, Washington.Nov 4, 1918
  438. Private Law 65–15Chap. 15: For the relief of Alexander F. McCollam.Feb 4, 1919
  439. Private Law 65–16Chap. 16: For the relief of Alma Harris.Feb 4, 1919
  440. Private Law 65–17Chap. 17: For the relief of Ira G. Kilpatrick and Guy D. Dill.Feb 4, 1919
  441. Private Law 65–42Chap. 42: Granting a pension to Edith Carow Roosevelt.Feb 25, 1919
  442. Private Law 65–43Chap. 43: For the relief of David E. Gray.Feb 25, 1919
  443. Private Law 65–118Chap. 118: For the relief of Mrs. W. E. Crawford.Mar 3, 1919
  444. Private Law 65–119Chap. 119: To compensate Thomas G. Allen for injuries received while employed in the General Land Office of the United States, and making an appropriation therefor.Mar 3, 1919
  445. Private Law 65–120Chap. 120: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.Mar 3, 1919
  446. Private Law 65–121Chap. 121: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy and of wars other than the Civil War, and to certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.Mar 3, 1919
  447. Private Law 65–126Chap. 126: Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands, and for other purposes.Mar 4, 1919
  448. Private Law 65–127Chap. 127: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors.Mar 4, 1919
  449. Private Law 65–128Chap. 128: Striking from the pension roll the name of Jennie M. Heath.Mar 4, 1919
  450. Private Law 65–129Chap. 129: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of said war.Mar 4, 1919
  451. Private Law 65–130Chap. 130: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and Bailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.Mar 4, 1919
  452. Private Law 65–131Chap. 131: Granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the Civil War, and to widows of such soldiers and sailors.Mar 4, 1919
  453. Private Law 65–132Chap. 132: For the relief of the claimants of certain unsurveyed lands in Mississippi County, Arkansas.Mar 4, 1919