* The Homestead Strike ( 1891 ), the direct impetus for the federal Anti-Pinkerton Act of 1893, prohibiting the federal government from hiring its detectives

The federal Anti-Pinkerton Act of 1893 continues to prohibit an " individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similar organization " from being employed by " the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia.

On 18 August 2006, the US Comptroller General rejected bid protest arguments that US Army contracts violated the Anti-Pinkerton Act by requiring that contractors provide armed convoy escort vehicles and labor, weapons, and equipment for internal security operations at Victory Base Complex, Iraq.

* 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.

* 1893 – Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.

By 1893, his views on silver had evolved, and on the floor of the House of Representatives, he delivered a riveting three-hour address against repeal of the Silver Purchase Act.

The city's fortunes declined with the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893, although afterwards there was another small gold boom.

The law was replaced in 1890 by the similar Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which in turn was repealed by Congress in 1893.

After the Panic of 1893 broke, President Grover Cleveland oversaw the repeal of the Act in 1893 to prevent the depletion of the country's gold reserves.

The Dawes Commission, set up under an Indian Office appropriation bill in 1893, was created, not to administer the Dawes Act, but to attempt to get the Five Civilized Tribes, which were excluded under the Dawes Act, to agree to an allotment plan.

On January 27, 1893, Idaho Governor William J. McConnell signed an Act authorizing the establishment of the Lewiston State Normal School in Lewiston.

In 1893, the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act aligned licensing districts with parliamentary electorates.

Riverton was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on December 18, 1893, from portions of Cinnaminson Township, based on the results of a referendum held six days earlier.

Elmer was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on January 28, 1893, from portions of Pittsgrove Township and Upper Pittsgrove Township, based on the results of a referendum held four days earlier.

This was enshrined in a new Act of Parliament obtained on 31 July 1893, but the clause about railway representation meant that the Aire and Calder declined to purchase any shares, and the company struggled to raise the capital.

It was built in 1903 to a design by Leeds architect Edward J Dodgshun by the Rothwell, Methley and Hunslet Joint Isolation Hospital Committee which was formed under the Isolation Hospitals Act 1893 by an order of the West Riding County Council 10 January 1900.

President Grover Cleveland, in his second term of office ( 1893 – 1897 ), directed the national government to sue the Knight Company under the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act to prevent the acquisition.

They replaced Statutory Rules and Orders, made under the Rules Publication Act 1893, in 1948.

The United States Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act in 1893 making the use of some automatic brake system mandatory.

* Sale of Goods Act 1893

Despite this, in 1893 she published A Phantom's Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin, an anti-Nationalist pamphlet against William Ewart Gladstone's proposed second Home Rule Act.

Nelson convened an interstate Anti-Trust Conference in Chicago on June 5, 1893, where he spoke against the lumber trust and in favor of strengthening the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890.

Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 () created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 () is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands acquired by the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

It replaced the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1936 () and the earlier temporary provisions ().

It was subsequently amended by () which prohibited political or religious tests but required a loyalty oath as qualification to any office or public trust, by the Virgin Islands Elective Governor Act () which made the Governor an elected office, by (), and by (), which removed the reight to indictment for certain crimes and removed the jurisdiction of the admiralty courts.

Victoria University of Wellington () was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a former constituent college of the University of New Zealand.

Bedřich Smetana incorporated the polka in his opera The Bartered Bride () and in particular, Act 1.

The post was created with the formation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development on September 9, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson's signing of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act () into law.

The Post Office Act of 1872 () elevated the Post Office Department to Cabinet status.

In Sweden, per The Instrument of Government () in the constitution, when the present King is abroad, the next in the line of succession ( as defined by the Swedish Act of Succession ) becomes lord protector ():

After holding hearings on abuses on interstate frauds ( commonly known as the Pecora Commission ), Congress passed the Securities Act of 1933 () which regulates interstate sales of securities ( original issues ) at the federal level.

The subsequent Securities Exchange Act of 1934 () regulates sales of securities in the secondary market.

The Reclamation Act ( also known as the Lowlands Reclamation Act or National Reclamation Act ) of 1902 () is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.

The Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 () was a United States federal law aimed at increasing credit to rural, family farmers.

The U. S. Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 ( TRA ) () to simplify the income tax code, broaden the tax base and eliminate many tax shelters and other preferences.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 () is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U. S.

The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973 () was the renewal of the highway bill for the next five years, authorizing $ 18. 35 billion.

The Sudan Peace Act () is a United States federal law sponsored by Thomas Tancredo condemning Sudan for genocide.

* The 1810 Act of Succession ()