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Volume 5

1836–1845 · 24th–28th Congress · sessions 1–3 · 611 public laws.

  1. Public Law 24–IChapter I: making an appropriation for repressing hostilities commenced by the Seminole Indians.Jan 14, 1836
  2. Public Law 24–IIIChapter III: making an additional appropriation for repressing hostilities commenced by the Seminole Indians.Jan 29, 1836
  3. Public Law 24–VChapter V: to extend the charters of certain Banks, in the District of Columbia, to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.Feb 9, 1836
  4. Public Law 24–VIIChapter VII: making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.Feb 11, 1836
  5. Public Law 24–XXXVIIIChapter XXXVIII: to incorporate a fire insurance company, in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.Feb 17, 1836
  6. Public Law 24–XLChapter XL: to extend the charters of the Bank of Columbia in Georgetown, and the Bank of Alexandria in the city of Alexandria.Feb 25, 1836
  7. Public Law 24–XLIChapter XLI: authorizing a special term of the Court of Appeals, for the Territory of Florida, and for other purposes.Feb 25, 1836
  8. Public Law 24–XLIIChapter XLII: for the relief of the sufferers by the fire in the city of New York.Mar 19, 1836
  9. Public Law 24–XLIIIChapter XLIII: authorizing the Secretary of War to transfer a part of the appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities in Florida, to the credit of subsistence.Mar 19, 1836
  10. Public Law 24–XLIVChapter XLIV: to provide for the payment of volunteers and militia corps, in the service of the United States.Mar 19, 1836
  11. Public Law 24–XLVIChapter XLVI: making a further appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities in Florida.Apr 1, 1836
  12. Public Law 24–XLVIIChapter XLVII: amendatory of “the act for the relief of the sufferers by fire in the city of New York,” passed March 19th, 1836.Apr 5, 1836
  13. Public Law 24–XLVIIIChapter XLVIII: to suspend the operation of the second proviso, third section of “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.”Apr 9, 1836
  14. Public Law 24–LChapter L: to repeal so much of the act entitled “An act transferring the duties of Commissioner of Loans to the Bank of the United States, and abolishing the office of Commissioner of Loans,” as requires the Bank of the United Stales to perform the duties of Commissioner of Loans for the several States.Apr 11, 1836
  15. Public Law 24–LIIChapter LII: making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.Apr 14, 1836
  16. Public Law 24–LIIIChapter LIII: to carry into effect the treaties concluded by the Chickasaw tribe of Indians on the twentieth October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.Apr 20, 1836
  17. Public Law 24–LIVChapter LIV: establishing the Territorial Government of Wisconsin.Apr 20, 1836
  18. Public Law 24–LVChapter LV: in addition to the act of the twenty fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “An act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fishery.”Apr 20, 1836
  19. Public Law 24–LVIChapter LVI: to prescribe the mode of paying pensions heretofore granted by the United States.Apr 20, 1836
  20. Public Law 24–LVIIChapter LVII: making a further appropriation for suppressing Indian hostilities in Florida.Apr 29, 1836
  21. Public Law 24–LVIIIChapter LVIII: to authorize the construction of a railroad, through lands of the United States in Springfield, Massachusetts.Apr 29, 1836
  22. Public Law 24–LVIXChapter LVIX: making appropriations far the civil and diplomatic expenses if Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.May 9, 1836
  23. Public Law 24–LXChapter LX: providing for the salaries of certain officers therein named, and for other purposes.May 9, 1836
  24. Public Law 24–LXIChapter LXI: making appropriations for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.May 14, 1836
  25. Public Law 24–LXIIChapter LXII: making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.May 14, 1836
  26. Public Law 24–LXXVIChapter LXXVI: to give effect to patents for public lands issued in the names of deceased persons.May 20, 1836
  27. Public Law 24–LXXVIIChapter LXXVII: explanatory of the act entitled “An act to prevent defalcations on the part of the disbursing agents of the Government, and for other purposes.”May 20, 1836
  28. Public Law 24–LXXIXChapter LXXIX: for the relief of the several corporate cities of the District of Columbia.May 20, 1836
  29. Public Law 24–LXXXChapter LXXX: authorizing the President of the United States to accept the service of volunteers, and to raise an additional regiment of dragoons or mounted riflemen.May 23, 1836
  30. Public Law 24–LXXXIChapter LXXXI: making appropriation for the suppression of hostilities by the Creek Indians.May 23, 1836
  31. Public Law 24–LXXXIIChapter LXXXII: to provide for the payment of expenses incurred and supplies furnished on account of the militia or volunteers received into the service of the United States for the defence of Florida.May 28, 1836
  32. Public Law 24–LXXXVChapter LXXXV: to provide for the payment of certain pensioners in the States of Virginia and Ohio.Jun 7, 1836
  33. Public Law 24–LXXXVIChapter LXXXVI: to extend the western boundary of the State of Missouri to the Missouri river.Jun 7, 1836
  34. Public Law 24–LXXXVIIChapter LXXXVII: to carry into effect a convention between the United States and Spain.Jun 7, 1836
  35. Public Law 24–LXXXVIIIChapter LXXXVIII: making appropriations for the current expenses of the Indian Department, for Indian annuities, and other similar objects, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.Jun 14, 1836
  36. Public Law 24–LXXXIXChapter LXXXIX: to establish an arsenal of construction in the State of North Carolina.Jun 14, 1836
  37. Public Law 24–XCVIIChapter XCVII: repealing the fourteenth section of the “Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States,” approved, April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixteen.Jun 15, 1836
  38. Public Law 24–XCVIIIChapter XCVIII: to divide the Green Bay land district in Michigan, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1836
  39. Public Law 24–XCIXChapter XCIX: to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide, for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed.Jun 15, 1836
  40. Public Law 24–CChapter C: for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the same, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1836
  41. Public Law 24–CXVChapter CXV: to regulate, the deposites of the public money.Jun 23, 1836
  42. Public Law 24–CXVIChapter CXVI: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to act as the agent of the United States in all matters relating to their stock in the Bank of the United States.Jun 23, 1836
  43. Public Law 24–CXVIIChapter CXVII: to settle and establish the northern boundary lite of the State of Ohio.Jun 23, 1836
  44. Public Law 24–CXVIIIChapter CXVIII: to remove the Land Office from Clinton to Jackson, in the State of Mississippi.Jun 23, 1836
  45. Public Law 24–CXIXChapter CXIX: to amend an act to grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahaba and Black Warrior river.Jun 23, 1836
  46. Public Law 24–CXXChapter CXX: supplementary to the act entitled “An act far the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the same, and fur other purposes.”Jun 23, 1836
  47. Public Law 24–CXXIChapter CXXI: supplementary to the act entitled “An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union on certain conditions.”Jun 23, 1836
  48. Public Law 24–CCXXXChapter CCXXX: to provide for the paying of certain pensioners of the United States, at Pulaski, in the State of Tennessee.Jun 28, 1836
  49. Public Law 24–CCXXXIChapter CCXXXI: to disapprove and annul certain acts of the Territorial Legislature of Florida, and for other purposes.Jul 1, 1836
  50. Public Law 24–CCXXXIIChapter CCXXXII: to change the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Virginia, holden at Clarksburg.Jul 1, 1836
  51. Public Law 24–CCXXXIIIChapter CCXXXIII: explanatory of an act entitled “An act to release from duty, iron prepared for, and actually laid on, railways and inclined, planes.Jul 1, 1836
  52. Public Law 24–CCXXXIVChapter CCXXXIV: to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the State of Michigan.Jul 1, 1836
  53. Public Law 24–CCXXXVChapter CCXXXV: making appropriation for the payment of charges incurred for the support of the Penitentiary in the District of Columbia, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and for the support of said Penitentiary for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.Jul 1, 1836
  54. Public Law 24–CCXXXVIChapter CCXXXVI: to authorize the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, to sell the lands heretofore reserved for the benefit of a general seminary of learning in said Territory.Jul 1, 1836
  55. Public Law 24–CCXLVIIIChapter CCXLVIII: authorizing the Winnisimmet Company to lay out and make a way on lands of the United States, in Chelsea, in the State of Massachusetts.Jul 1, 1836
  56. Public Law 24–CCXLIXChapter CCXLIX: to authorize the Shenandoah Bridge Company, at Harper’s Ferry, to erect a bridge on the lands of the United States, at or near the town of Harper’s Ferry.Jul 1, 1836
  57. Public Law 24–CCLIIChapter CCLII: to authorize and enable the President to assert and prosecute with effect, the claim of the United States to the legacy bequeathed to them by James Smithson, late of London, deceased, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.Jul 1, 1836
  58. Public Law 24–CCLIIIChapter CCLIII: to regulate the compensation of certain officers of revenue cutters.Jul 2, 1836
  59. Public Law 24–CCLIVChapter CCLIV: making appropriations for the suppression of Indian hostilities and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1836
  60. Public Law 24–CCLVChapter CCLV: to grant to the New Orleans and Nashville Railroad Company, the right of way through the public lands of the United States.Jul 2, 1836
  61. Public Law 24–CCLVIChapter CCLVI: to renew the gold medal struck and presented to General Morgan, by order of Congress, in honor of the battle of the Cowpens.Jul 2, 1836
  62. Public Law 24–CCLVIIChapter CCLVII: to repair and extend the United States Arsenal at Charleston, South Carolina.Jul 2, 1836
  63. Public Law 24–CCLVIIIChapter CCLVIII: to provide for the better protection of the western frontier.Jul 2, 1836
  64. Public Law 24–CCLIXChapter CCLIX: making additional appropriations for the Delaware breakwater, and for certain harbors, and removing obstructions in and at the mouths of certain rivers, and for other purposes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.Jul 2, 1836
  65. Public Law 24–CCLXChapter CCLX: to extend the charters of certain Banks in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1836
  66. Public Law 24–CCLXIChapter CCLXI: regulating the terms of the superior courts of the middle district of Florida, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1836
  67. Public Law 24–CCLXIIChapter CCLXII: for laying off the towns of Fort Martison and Burlington, in the county of Des Moines, and the towns of Belleview, Du Buque, and Peru, in the county of Du Buque, Territory of Wisconsin, and far other purposes.Jul 2, 1836
  68. Public Law 24–CCLXIIIChapter CCLXIII: for the payment of certain companies of the militia of Missouri and Indiana, for services rendered against the Indians in eighteen hundred and thirty-two.Jul 2, 1836
  69. Public Law 24–CCLXIVChapter CCLXIV: for the continuation of the Cumberland Hoad in the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.Jul 2, 1836
  70. Public Law 24–CCLXVChapter CCLXV: making appropriations for the Military Academy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six.Jul 2, 1836
  71. Public Law 24–CCLXVIChapter CCLXVI: to confirm the sales of public lands in certain cases.Jul 2, 1836
  72. Public Law 24–CCLXVIIChapter CCLXVII: Act making further appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.Jul 2, 1836
  73. Public Law 24–CCLXVIIIChapter CCLXVIII: making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1836
  74. Public Law 24–CCLXIXChapter CCLXIX: to amend an act entitled, “An act authorizing the laying off a town on Bean river, in the State of Illinois, and for other purposes,” approved fifth February, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine.Jul 2, 1836
  75. Public Law 24–CCLXXChapter CCLXX: to change the organization of the Post Office Department, and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof.Jul 2, 1836
  76. Public Law 24–CCLXXIChapter CCLXXI: to establish certain post roads, and to alter and discontinue others, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1836
  77. Public Law 24–CCXCChapter CCXC: to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages to Dolly P. Mailison.Jul 2, 1836
  78. Public Law 24–CCCLIIChapter CCCLII: to reorganize the General Land Office.Jul 4, 1836
  79. Public Law 24–CCCLIIIChapter CCCLIII: in addition to the act entitled “An act making appropriations, in part, far the support of Government, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and for other purposes.Jul 4, 1836
  80. Public Law 24–CCCLIVChapter CCCLIV: supplementary to an act entitled “An act to regulate the deposites of the public money,” passed twenty-third[of] June eighteen hundred and thirty-six.Jul 4, 1836
  81. Public Law 24–CCCLIVChapter CCCLIV: to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States in regard to the five per cent, fund, and the school reservations.Jul 4, 1836
  82. Public Law 24–CCCLVIChapter CCCLVI: to authorize the appointment of additional Paymasters, and for other purposes.Jul 4, 1836
  83. Public Law 24–CCCLVIIChapter CCCLVII: to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts heretofore made for that purpose.Jul 4, 1836
  84. Public Law 24–CCCLIXChapter CCCLIX: to suspend the discriminating duties upon goods imported in vessels of Portugal, and to reduce the duties on wines.Jul 4, 1836
  85. Public Law 24–CCCLXChapter CCCLX: for the purchase of certain rights or inventions of William H. Bell, of North Carolina.Jul 4, 1836
  86. Public Law 24–CCCLXIChapter CCCLXI: confirming claims to land in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes.Jul 4, 1836
  87. Public Law 24–CCCLXIIChapter CCCLXII: granting half pay to widows or orphans, where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States, in certain cases, and for other purposes.Jul 4, 1836
  88. Public Law 24–CCCLXIIIChapter CCCLXIII: appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors therein mentioned, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and for other purposes.Jul 4, 1836
  89. Public Law 24–CCCLXIVChapter CCCLXIV: to repeal so much of the act of March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as respects the issuing of certificates on the importation of wines.Jul 4, 1836
  90. Public Law 24–IChapter I: to regulate, in certain cases, the disposition of the proceeds of lands ceded by Indian tribes to the United States.Jan 9, 1837
  91. Public Law 24–IIChapter II: making an appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities.Jan 9, 1837
  92. Public Law 24–IIIChapter III: An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States.”Jan 18, 1837
  93. Public Law 24–IVChapter IV: making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.Jan 18, 1837
  94. Public Law 24–VChapter V: to provide for the payment of horses and other properly lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States.Jan 18, 1837
  95. Public Law 24–VIChapter VI: to admit the State of Michigan into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original States.Jan 26, 1837
  96. Public Law 24–IXChapter IX: to authorize certain rail-road companies to construct rail-roads through the public lands in the Territory of Florida.Jan 31, 1837
  97. Public Law 24–XIIChapter XII: to extend the limits of the Port of New Orleans.Feb 9, 1837
  98. Public Law 24–XIIIChapter XIII: to change the name of the Collection District of Dighton, in the State of Massachusetts, to Fall Direr, and for other purposes.Feb 13, 1837
  99. Public Law 24–XIVChapter XIV: to amend an act, entitled “An act to establish branches of the mini of the United States,” passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.Feb 13, 1837
  100. Public Law 24–XVChapter XV: to suspend certain provisoes of “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,” approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.Mar 1, 1837
  101. Public Law 24–XVIChapter XVI: to extend the jurisdiction of the District Court of the United States, for the district of Arkansas.Mar 1, 1837
  102. Public Law 24–XVIIChapter XVII: making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and for other purposes.Mar 1, 1837
  103. Public Law 24–XVIIIChapter XVIII: to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.Mar 2, 1837
  104. Public Law 24–XIXChapter XIX: respecting discriminating duties upon Dutch and Belgian vessels and their cargoes.Mar 2, 1837
  105. Public Law 24–XXChapter XX: making an additional appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.Mar 2, 1837
  106. Public Law 24–XXIChapter XXI: to provide for the enlistment of boys for the naval service, and to extend the term of the enlistment of seamen.Mar 2, 1837
  107. Public Law 24–XXIChapter XXI: concerning Pilots.Mar 2, 1837
  108. Public Law 24–XXIIIChapter XXIII: to extend for a longer period the several acts now in force for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States.Mar 2, 1837
  109. Public Law 24–XXVChapter XXV: to provide for the adjustment of title and final disposition of the four reserved sections in the tract of country allotted to the Tombecbee Association for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive.Mar 2, 1837
  110. Public Law 24–XXXChapter XXX: matting appropriations for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.Mar 3, 1837
  111. Public Law 24–XXXIChapter XXXI: making appropriations for the current expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.Mar 3, 1837
  112. Public Law 24–XXXIIChapter XXXII: to change the titles of certain officers in the navy.Mar 3, 1837
  113. Public Law 24–XXXIIIChapter XXXIII: making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.Mar 3, 1837
  114. Public Law 24–XXXIVChapter XXXIV: supplementary to the act entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States.Mar 3, 1837
  115. Public Law 24–XXXVChapter XXXV: to authorize the proper officers of the Treasury Department to credit the account of the Treasurer of the United States with the amount of unavailable funds standing to his debit on the books of the Treasury, to transfer the amount of the debit of banks and individuals indebted for the same, and to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise and settle said claims.Mar 3, 1837
  116. Public Law 24–XXXVIChapter XXXVI: to amend an act entitled “An act for laying off the towns of Fort Madison and Burlington, in the county of Des Moines, and the towns of Belleview, Du Buque, and Peru, in the county of Du Buque, and Mineral Point, in the county of Iowa, Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes,” approved July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.Mar 3, 1837
  117. Public Law 24–XXXVIIChapter XXXVII: to continue in force for a limited time the act entitled “An act to carry into effect a convention between the United States and Spain.”Mar 3, 1837
  118. Public Law 24–XXXVIIIChapter XXXVIII: for the more equitable administration of the Navy Pension Fund.”Mar 3, 1837
  119. Public Law 24–XXXIXChapter XXXIX: for the appointment of commissioners to adjust the claims to reservations of land under the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty with the Choctaw Indians.Mar 3, 1837
  120. Public Law 24–XLChapter XL: making appropriations for building light-houses, light-boats, beacon-lights, buoys, and dolphins, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.Mar 3, 1837
  121. Public Law 24–XLIChapter XLI: to authorize and sanction the sales of reserves, provided for Creek Indians in the treaty of March twenty-four, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, in certain cases, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1837
  122. Public Law 24–XLIIChapter XLII: explanatory of the act entitled An act granting half-pay to widows and orphans where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States, and, for other purposes.Mar 3, 1837
  123. Public Law 24–XLIIIChapter XLIII: to continue the office of Commissioner of Pensions.Mar 3, 1837
  124. Public Law 24–XLIVChapter XLIV: to provide for certain harbors, and for the removal of obstructions in and at the mouths of certain rivers, and for other purposes, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.Mar 3, 1837
  125. Public Law 24–XLVChapter XLV: in addition to the act to promote the progress of science and useful arts.Mar 3, 1837
  126. Public Law 24–XLVIChapter XLVI: to provide for continuing the construction, and for the repair of certain roads, and for other purposes, during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.Mar 3, 1837
  127. Public Law 24–XLIXChapter XLIX: to grant the Atchafalaya Railroad and Banking Company the right of way through the public lands of the United States.Mar 3, 1837
  128. Public Law 24–LIChapter LI: further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.Mar 3, 1837
  129. Public Law 24–LIIChapter LII: to authorize the New Orleans and Carrolton Railroad Company to construct a railroad from Carrolton to the fawn of Bayou Sara, in the State of Louisiana.Mar 3, 1837
  130. Public Law 24–LXXVChapter LXXV: to give the approval and confirmation of Congress to three several acts of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin incorporating banks.Mar 3, 1837
  131. Public Law 25–IChapter I: to postpone the fourth instalment of deposite with the States.Oct 2, 1837
  132. Public Law 25–IIChap. II: to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes.Oct 12, 1837
  133. Public Law 25–IIIChap. III: to regulate the Fees of District Attorneys in certain cases.Oct 12, 1837
  134. Public Law 25–IVChap. IV: to continue in force certain laws to the close of the next session of Congress.Oct 12, 1837
  135. Public Law 25–VChap. V: to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for the payment of horses lost, or destroyed in the military service of the United States, approved January 18, 1837.”Oct 14, 1837
  136. Public Law 25–VIChap. VI: for the relief of D. P. Madison.Oct 14, 1837
  137. Public Law 25–VIIChap. VII: making an additional appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.Oct 16, 1837
  138. Public Law 25–VIIIChap. VIII: authorizing a further postponement of payment upon duty bonds.Oct 16, 1837
  139. Public Law 25–IXChap. IX: for adjusting the remaining claims upon the late deposite banks.Oct 16, 1837
  140. Public Law 25–XChap. X: making further appropriations for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.Oct 16, 1837
  141. Public Law 25–IChap. I: to authorize the President of the United States to cause the public vessels to cruise upon the coast in the winter season and to relieve distressed navigators.Dec 22, 1837
  142. Public Law 25–IIChap. II: to ratify and confirm certain official acts of John Pope, late Governor of Arkansas.Jan 16, 1838
  143. Public Law 25–IIIChap. III: to provide for the payment of the annuities which will become due and payable to the Great and Little Osages, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes.Jan 16, 1838
  144. Public Law 25–IVChap. IV: making a partial appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Jan 30, 1838
  145. Public Law 25–VChap. V: making an appropriation for the protection of the northern frontier of the United States.Jan 30, 1838
  146. Public Law 25–XIIChap. XII: to abolish the Circuit Court at Huntsville in the State of Alabama and for other purposes.Feb 22, 1838
  147. Public Law 25–XIIIChap. XIII: to amend an act entitled “An act for the appointment of commissioners to adjust the claims to reservations of land under the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty with the Choctaw Indians.”Feb 22, 1838
  148. Public Law 25–XIVChap. XIV: to prevent the abatement of suits and actions now pending, in which the late Bank of the United States may be a party.Mar 2, 1838
  149. Public Law 25–XVChap. XV: to change the time of holding the terms of the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, and of the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, directed by law to be held in the city of Richmond.Mar 2, 1838
  150. Public Law 25–XXXIChap. XXXI: supplementary to an act entitled “An act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and to repeal the acts therein mentioned,” approved twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen.Mar 10, 1838
  151. Public Law 25–XXXIIChap. XXXII: making appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.Mar 10, 1838
  152. Public Law 25–XXXIIIChap. XXXIII: to change the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States in the seventh circuit.Mar 10, 1838
  153. Public Law 25–XXXIVChap. XXXIV: to continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore.Mar 19, 1838
  154. Public Law 25–XLVIChap. XLVI: to restore circuit jurisdiction to the district courts of the western district of Virginia.Mar 28, 1838
  155. Public Law 25–LIVChap. LIV: making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Apr 6, 1838
  156. Public Law 25–LVChap. LV: making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.Apr 6, 1838
  157. Public Law 25–LVIChap. LVI: directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States.Apr 6, 1838
  158. Public Law 25–LVIIChap. LVII: to amend the act for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers, within the District of Columbia, passed the thirty-first day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.Apr 20, 1838
  159. Public Law 25–LIXChap. LIX: making an appropriation for the removal of the great raft of Red River.Apr 20, 1838
  160. Public Law 25–LXXXIIChap. LXXXII: to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes to meet the current expenses of the Government.May 21, 1838
  161. Public Law 25–LXXXIVChap. LXXXIV: making appropriations for the continuation of the Cumberland road in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and for other purposes.May 25, 1838
  162. Public Law 25–LXXXVChap. LXXXV: supplementary to the act entitled “An act concerning the District of Columbia.”May 25, 1838
  163. Public Law 25–LXXXVIIIChap. LXXXVIII: to extend the charter of the Union Bank of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.May 25, 1838
  164. Public Law 25–XCIChap. XCI: to continue the corporate existence of the Banks in the District of Columbia.May 31, 1838
  165. Public Law 25–XCIIChap. XCII: making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.May 31, 1838
  166. Public Law 25–XCIIIChap. XCIII: to repeal certain provisos of “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,” approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.May 31, 1838
  167. Public Law 25–XCVIChap. XCVI: to divide the Territory of Wisconsin and to establish the Territorial Government of Iowa.Jun 12, 1838
  168. Public Law 25–XCVIIChap. XCVII: making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.Jun 12, 1838
  169. Public Law 25–XCVIIIChap. XCVIII: to secure the payment of certain commissions on duty bonds to collectors of customs.Jun 12, 1838
  170. Public Law 25–XCIXChap. XCIX: to create the office of Surveyor of Public Lands in the Wisconsin Territory.Jun 12, 1838
  171. Public Law 25–CChap. C: to establish two additional land offices in that part of Wisconsin Territory west of the river Mississippi.Jun 12, 1838
  172. Public Law 25–CIChap. CI: to ascertain and designate the boundary line between the State of Michigan and the Territory of Wisconsin.Jun 12, 1838
  173. Public Law 25–CXChap. CX: concerning a seminary of learning in the Territory of Wisconsin.Jun 12, 1838
  174. Public Law 25–CXIVChap. CXIV: to grant a quantity of land to the Territory of Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those of Rock river.Jun 18, 1838
  175. Public Law 25–CXVChap. CXV: to reorganize the district courts of the United States in the State of Mississippi.Jun 18, 1838
  176. Public Law 25–CXVIChap. CXVI: to authorize the President of the United States to cause the southern boundary line of the Territory of Iowa to be ascertained and marked.Jun 18, 1838
  177. Public Law 25–CXVIIChap. CXVII: making an appropriation for completing the public buildings in Wisconsin.Jun 18, 1838
  178. Public Law 25–CXVIIIChap. CXVIII: to require the judge of the district courts of East and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson, in said state.Jun 18, 1838
  179. Public Law 25–CXIXChap. CXIX: to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands.Jun 22, 1838
  180. Public Law 25–CXLVIIChap. CXLVII: authorizing the appointment of persons to test the usefulness of inventions to improve and render safe the boilers of steam engines against explosions.Jun 28, 1838
  181. Public Law 25–CXLVIIIChap. CXLVIII: relating to the Orphans’ Court of Alexandria county, in the District of Columbia.Jun 28, 1838
  182. Public Law 25–CLChap. CL: to confirm the act of the Legislative Council of Florida, incorporating the “Florida Peninsula Railroad and Steamboat Company,” and granting the right of way to said company through the public lands, and for other purposes.Jun 28, 1838
  183. Public Law 25–CLIIIChap. CLIII: to provide for paying certain pensions at Tuscaloosa, in the State of Alabama.Jun 28, 1838
  184. Public Law 25–CLIVChap. CLIV: to extend the charter of the Bank of Alexandria, in the city of Alexandria.Jul 5, 1838
  185. Public Law 25–CLVIIChap. CLVII: to grant to Cherokee county, Alabama, the tract of land on which the seat of justice of said county has been located.Jul 5, 1838
  186. Public Law 25–CLVIIIChap. CLVIII: to modify the last clause of the fifth section of the deposite act of the twenty-third of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.Jul 5, 1838
  187. Public Law 25–CLIXChap. CLIX: to amend “An act authorizing the Secretary of War to establish a pension agency in the town of Decatur in the State of Alabama, and to provide for the payment of certain pensioners in the said town of Decatur.”Jul 5, 1838
  188. Public Law 25–CLXChap. CLX: to authorize vessels bound for the ports of Mexico, and presented from completing the voyages in consequence of the existing blockade of those ports, to enter and store their cargoes in the ports of the United States.Jul 5, 1838
  189. Public Law 25–CLXIChap. CLXI: to authorize the issuing of patents to the last bona fide transferee of reservations under the treaty between the United States and the Creek tribe of Indians which was concluded on the twenty-fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.Jul 5, 1838
  190. Public Law 25–CLXIIChap. CLXII: to increase the present military establishment of the United States, and for other purposes.Jul 5, 1838
  191. Public Law 25–CLXIIIChap. CLXIII: supplementary to the act entitled “An act authorizing the appointment of persons to test the usefulness of inventions to improve and render safe the boilers of steam engines against explosions,” approved twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Jul 7, 1838
  192. Public Law 25–CLXIVChap. CLXIV: making appropriations for certain roads in the Territory of Florida.Jul 7, 1838
  193. Public Law 25–CLXVChap. CLXV: to authorize the sale of certain public lands of the United States near the Wabash and Erie canal, in the State of Ohio.Jul 7, 1838
  194. Public Law 25–CLXVIChap. CLXVI: to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office.Jul 7, 1838
  195. Public Law 25–CLXVIIChap. CLXVII: for the erection of a court-house in Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.Jul 7, 1838
  196. Public Law 25–CLXVIIIChap. CLXVIII: to reorganize the Legislative Council of Florida and for other purposes.Jul 7, 1838
  197. Public Law 25–CLXIXChap. CLXIX: to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes.Jul 7, 1838
  198. Public Law 25–CLXXChap. CLXX: to provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of New York for the services of her militia.Jul 7, 1838
  199. Public Law 25–CLXXIChap. CLXXI: to provide for certain harbors and for the removal of obstructions in and at the mouths of certain rivers, and for other purposes, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.Jul 7, 1838
  200. Public Law 25–CLXXIIChap. CLXXII: to establish certain post routes and to discontinue others.Jul 7, 1838
  201. Public Law 25–CLXXIIIChap. CLXXIII: making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.Jul 7, 1838
  202. Public Law 25–CLXXIVChap. CLXXIV: to remit the duties upon certain goods destroyed by fire at the late conflagration in the city of New York.Jul 7, 1838
  203. Public Law 25–CLXXVChap. CLXXV: to establish a new collection district in the State of Mississippi.Jul 7, 1838
  204. Public Law 25–CLXXVIChap. CLXXVI: to establish additional land offices in the States of Louisiana and Arkansas.Jul 7, 1838
  205. Public Law 25–CLXXVIIChap. CLXXVII: to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States.Jul 7, 1838
  206. Public Law 25–CLXXVIIIChap. CLXXVIII: exempting from duty the coal which may be on board of steamboats or vessels propelled by steam on their arrival at any port in the United States.Jul 7, 1838
  207. Public Law 25–CLXXIXChap. CLXXIX: making appropriation for the compilation of the laws of Florida.Jul 7, 1838
  208. Public Law 25–CLXXXChap. CLXXX: making appropriations for building light-houses, light-boats, beacon-lights, buoys, and making surveys, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.Jul 7, 1838
  209. Public Law 25–CLXXXIChap. CLXXXI: to establish a new judicial district in the Territory of Florida.Jul 7, 1838
  210. Public Law 25–CLXXXIIChap. CLXXXII: to increase and regulate the terms of the circuit and district courts for the northern district of the State of New York.Jul 7, 1838
  211. Public Law 25–CLXXXIIIChap. CLXXXIII: ceding to the State of Ohio the interest of the United States in a certain road within that State.Jul 7, 1838
  212. Public Law 25–CLXXXIVChap. CLXXXIV: to authorize the sale of certain bonds belonging to the United States.Jul 7, 1838
  213. Public Law 25–CLXXXVChap. CLXXXV: to prevent the issuing and circulation of the bills, notes and other securities of corporations created by acts of Congress which have expired.Jul 7, 1838
  214. Public Law 25–CLXXXVIChap. CLXXXVI: making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.Jul 7, 1838
  215. Public Law 25–CLXXXVIIChap. CLXXXVII: to repeal, in part, the act entitled “An act to provide for the safe keeping of the acts, records, and seal of the United States, and for other purposes.Jul 7, 1838
  216. Public Law 25–CLXXXVIIIChap. CLXXXVIII: to encourage the introduction and promote the cultivation of tropical plants in the United States.Jul 7, 1838
  217. Public Law 25–CLXXXIXChap. CLXXXIX: granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.Jul 7, 1838
  218. Public Law 25–CXCChap. CXC: making appropriations for certain roads in the Territory of Wisconsin.Jul 7, 1838
  219. Public Law 25–CXCIChap. CXCI: to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam.Jul 7, 1838
  220. Public Law 25–CXCIIChap. CXCII: to establish a criminal court in the District of Columbia.Jul 7, 1838
  221. Public Law 25–CXCIIIChap. CXCIII: to change the time of holding the United States Circuit Court in the District of East Tennessee and the District of Maryland.Jul 7, 1838
  222. Public Law 25–CXCIVChap. CXCIV: supplementary to an act entitled “An act to increase the present military establishment of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Jul 7, 1838
  223. Public Law 25–CCXIIChap. CCXII: to restrain the circulation of small notes, as a currency, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Jul 7, 1838
  224. Public Law 25–CCLXIVChap. CCLXIV: authorizing the printing of the Madison papers.Jul 9, 1838
  225. Public Law 25–IChap. I: making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government, for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.Dec 22, 1838
  226. Public Law 25–IIChap. II: to provide for carrying into effect the convention between the United Stales of America and the Republic of Texas for marking the boundary between them.Jan 11, 1839
  227. Public Law 25–IIIChap. III: to amend an act entitled “An act to require the judge of the district of East and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson, in said State,” approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Jan 18, 1839
  228. Public Law 25–IVChap. IV: further to regulate the transportation of the mail upon railroads.Jan 25, 1839
  229. Public Law 25–XXChap. XX: to reorganize the district courts of the United States in the State of Alabama.Feb 6, 1839
  230. Public Law 25–XXIVChap. XXIV: to provide for the location and temporary support of the Seminole Indians removed from Florida.Feb 13, 1839
  231. Public Law 25–XXVChap. XXV: making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.Feb 13, 1839
  232. Public Law 25–XXVIChap. XXVI: to repeal the proviso to the second section of an act approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, which authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claims of the United States against certain banks.Feb 16, 1839
  233. Public Law 25–XXVIIChap. XXVII: to amend “An act to reorganize the district courts of the United States in the State of Mississippi,” approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Feb 16, 1839
  234. Public Law 25–XXVIIIChap. XXVIII: making an appropriation for the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia.Feb 16, 1839
  235. Public Law 25–XXXChap. XXX: to prohibit the giving or accepting, within the District of Columbia, of a challenge to fight a duel, and for the punishment thereof.Feb 20, 1839
  236. Public Law 25–XXXIChap. XXXI: to amend an act entitled “An act to establish a criminal court in the District of Columbia.”Feb 20, 1839
  237. Public Law 25–XXXIIIChap. XXXIII: to prevent the abatement of suits and, actions now pending, in which the Bank of Columbia, in Georgetown, may be a party.Feb 28, 1839
  238. Public Law 25–XXXVChap. XXXV: to abolish imprisonment for debt incertain cases.Feb 28, 1839
  239. Public Law 25–XXXVIChap. XXXVI: in amendment of the acts respecting the Judicial System of the United States.Feb 28, 1839
  240. Public Law 25–XXXVIIChap. XXXVII: to revise and extend “An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes to meet the current expenses of tile Government,” approved the twenty-first of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Mar 2, 1839
  241. Public Law 25–LXXChap. LXX: to provide for the erection of public buildings in the Territory of Florida.Mar 3, 1839
  242. Public Law 25–LXXIChap. LXXI: making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.Mar 3, 1839
  243. Public Law 25–LXXIIChap. LXXII: to authorize the construction of certain improvements in the Territory of Wisconsin and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1839
  244. Public Law 25–LXXIIIChap. LXXIII: to repeal the second section of “An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office,” approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Mar 3, 1839
  245. Public Law 25–LXXIVChap. LXXIV: for the relief of umbrella-makers.Mar 3, 1839
  246. Public Law 25–LXXVChap. LXXV: to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to purchase a tract of land belonging to the heirs of John Harris, deceased, being within the limits of the navy yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts.Mar 3, 1839
  247. Public Law 25–LXXVIChap. LXXVI: making appropriations for building a pier at the northern extremity of Winnebago lake, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1839
  248. Public Law 25–LXXVIIChap. LXXVII: making a donation of land to the Territory of Iowa, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon.Mar 3, 1839
  249. Public Law 25–LXXVIIIChap. LXXVIII: for the improvement and survey of certain rivers, and the repair of certain roads in Florida.Mar 3, 1839
  250. Public Law 25–LXXIXChap. LXXIX: granting to the judges of the supreme court of Iowa the same compensation as by law is given to the judges of the supreme court of Wisconsin.Mar 3, 1839
  251. Public Law 25–LXXXChap. LXXX: to provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.Mar 3, 1839
  252. Public Law 25–LXXXIChap. LXXXI: to amend the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,’ and for other purposes.”Mar 3, 1839
  253. Public Law 25–LXXXIIChap. LXXXII: making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.Mar 3, 1839
  254. Public Law 25–LXXXIIIChap. LXXXIII: for the relief of the Brothertown Indians, in the Territory of Wisconsin.Mar 3, 1839
  255. Public Law 25–LXXXIVChap. LXXXIV: making an appropriation for the protection of the Northern and Northwestern frontier of the United States.Mar 3, 1839
  256. Public Law 25–LXXXVChap. LXXXV: to amend an act entitled “An act regulating the pay and emoluments of brevet officers,” passed April 16, 1818.Mar 3, 1839
  257. Public Law 25–LXXXVIChap. LXXXVI: to authorize the construction if a road from Dubuque, in the Territory of Iowa, to the northern boundary of the State of Missouri, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1839
  258. Public Law 25–LXXXVIIChap. LXXXVII: providing for the erection of a fire-proof building for the use of the General Post Office Department.Mar 3, 1839
  259. Public Law 25–LXXXVIIIChap. LXXXVIII: in addition to “An act to promote the progress of the useful arts.”Mar 3, 1839
  260. Public Law 25–LXXXIXChap. LXXXIX: giving to the President of the United States additional powers for the defence of the United States, in certain cases, against invasion, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1839
  261. Public Law 25–XCChap. XC: to alter and amend the organic law of the Territories of Wisconsin and Iowa.Mar 3, 1839
  262. Public Law 25–XCIChap. XCI: to define and establish the eastern boundary line of the Territory of Iowa.Mar 3, 1839
  263. Public Law 25–XCIIChap. XCII: to authorize the election or appointment of certain officers in the Territory of Iowa, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1839
  264. Public Law 25–XCIIIChap. XCIII: making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.Mar 3, 1839
  265. Public Law 25–XCIVChap. XCIV: making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.Mar 3, 1839
  266. Public Law 25–XCVChap. XCV: making appropriation for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.Mar 3, 1839
  267. Public Law 25–CCXXVIChap. CCXXVI: to provide for the erection of a new jail in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.Mar 3, 1839
  268. Public Law 25–CCXXIXChap. CCXXIX: to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of the city of Washington over the Potomac bridge.Mar 3, 1839
  269. Public Law 26–IChap. I: making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty.Jan 8, 1840
  270. Public Law 26–IIChap. II: making appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary and the other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty.Feb 22, 1840
  271. Public Law 26–IIIChap. III: to amend the act “to provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.Feb 26, 1840
  272. Public Law 26–IVChap. IV: to continue the office of commissioner of Pensions, and to transfer the pension business, heretofore transacted in the Navy Department, to that office.Mar 4, 1840
  273. Public Law 26–VChap. V: additional to the act on the subject of Treasury Notes.Mar 31, 1840
  274. Public Law 26–VIChap. VI: to cancel the bonds given to secure duties upon vessels and their cargoes, employed in the Whale Fishery, and to make registers, lawful papers for such vessels.Apr 4, 1840
  275. Public Law 26–XXIIChap. XXII: making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty.May 8, 1840
  276. Public Law 26–XXIIIChap. XXIII: for altering the time of holding the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, at Williamsport.May 8, 1840
  277. Public Law 26–XXVChap. XXV: to revive an act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them and to locate others in lieu thereof, and for other purposes.May 27, 1840
  278. Public Law 26–XXVIChap. XXVI: to extend for a longer period the several acts now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States.May 27, 1840
  279. Public Law 26–XXVIIChap. XXVII: authorizing Sippican and Mattapoisett, within the township of Rochester, in the State of Massachusetts, to be Known hereafter as ports under those names.May 27, 1840
  280. Public Law 26–XXXIIChap. XXXII: supplemental to the act entitled “An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,” approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Jun 1, 1840
  281. Public Law 26–XXXIVChap. XXXIV: to carry into effect a convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic.Jun 12, 1840
  282. Public Law 26–XXXVChap. XXXV: to authorize registers and receivers to administer oaths required to be taken by purchasers of public land.Jun 12, 1840
  283. Public Law 26–XXXVIChap. XXXVI: for the discontinuance of the office of Surveyor General in the several districts, so soon as the surveys therein can be completed, far abolishing land offices under certain circumstances and for other purposes.Jun 12, 1840
  284. Public Law 26–XXXVIIChap. XXXVII: concerning prisoners of the United States committed to the gaol in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island.Jun 12, 1840
  285. Public Law 26–XXXIXChap. XXXIX: making provision for the payment of pensions to the executors or administrators of deceased pensioners in certain cases.Jun 19, 1840
  286. Public Law 26–XLIChap. XLI: to provide far the collection, safe keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue.Jul 4, 1840
  287. Public Law 26–XLIIChap. XLII: to amend an act approved the eighteenth of January eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to require the judge of the district of East and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson in said State,’ approved June the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight,” and for other purposes.Jul 4, 1840
  288. Public Law 26–XLIIIChap. XLIII: in addition to the acts respecting the judicial system of the United States.Jul 4, 1840
  289. Public Law 26–XLIVChap. XLIV: to remove the land office from Chocchuma to Grenada, in the State of Mississippi.Jul 4, 1840
  290. Public Law 26–XLVIIChap. XLVII: to amend the act, approved May thirteenth, eighteen hundred, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to establish the judicial courts of the United Stales.’”Jul 20, 1840
  291. Public Law 26–XLVIIIChap. XLVIII: in addition to the several ads regulating the shipment and discharge of seamen, and the duties of consuls.Jul 20, 1840
  292. Public Law 26–XLIXChap. XLIX: to annex a certain tract of land to the Coosa land district, and for other purposes.Jul 20, 1840
  293. Public Law 26–LChap. L: to provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year eighteen hundred and forty.Jul 20, 1840
  294. Public Law 26–LIChap. LI: making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred, and forty.Jul 20, 1840
  295. Public Law 26–LIIChap. LII: to provide for the expenses of making an exploration and survey of that part of the Northeastern boundary line of the United States which separates the States of Maine and New Hampshire from the British Provinces.Jul 20, 1840
  296. Public Law 26–LIIIChap. LIII: making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty.Jul 20, 1840
  297. Public Law 26–LIVChap. LIV: making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty.Jul 20, 1840
  298. Public Law 26–XCVIIIChap. XCVIII: making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty.Jul 21, 1840
  299. Public Law 26–IChap. I: making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.Dec 18, 1840
  300. Public Law 26–IIChap. II: supplementary to an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases.Jan 14, 1841
  301. Public Law 26–IIIChap. III: further to amend the act entitled “An ad to provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.Jan 14, 1841
  302. Public Law 26–VChap. V: to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes.Feb 15, 1841
  303. Public Law 26–VIChap. VI: making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for other purposes.Feb 18, 1841
  304. Public Law 26–VIIChap. VII: to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same,” passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six.Feb 18, 1841
  305. Public Law 26–XIChap. XI: to make further provision for the expenses of an exploration and survey of that part of the northeastern boundary line of the United States which separates the States of Maine and New Hampshire from the British provinces.Feb 27, 1841
  306. Public Law 26–XIIChap. XII: to confirm to the State of Indiana the land selected by her for that portion of the Wabash, and Erie canal which lies between the mouth of the Tippecanoe river and Terre Haute, and for other purposes.Feb 27, 1841
  307. Public Law 26–XIIIChap. XIII: further to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States.Feb 27, 1841
  308. Public Law 26–XXIChap. XXI: making an appropriation to defray the expense of a delegation of the Seminole Indians west of the Mississippi to Florida, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1841
  309. Public Law 26–XXIVChap. XXIV: making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United Stales, for the year One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.Mar 3, 1841
  310. Public Law 26–XXVChap. XXV: to provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.Mar 3, 1841
  311. Public Law 26–XXVIChap. XXVI: to confirm land patents.Mar 3, 1841
  312. Public Law 26–XXXIIIChap. XXXIII: making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.Mar 3, 1841
  313. Public Law 26–XXXIVChap. XXXIV: making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.Mar 3, 1841
  314. Public Law 26–XXXVChap. XXXV: making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one.Mar 3, 1841
  315. Public Law 26–XXXVIChap. XXXVI: making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.Mar 3, 1841
  316. Public Law 26–XXXVIIChap. XXXVII: making an appropriation for the temporary support of certain destitute Kickapoo Indians, and to defray the expense of removing and subsisting the Swan Creek and Black River Indians of Michigan.Mar 3, 1841
  317. Public Law 26–XXXVIIIChap. XXXVIII: to amend the act entitled “An act to amend the act approved May thirteenth eighteen hundred, entitled ‘An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.’”Mar 3, 1841
  318. Public Law 26–XLChap. XL: to abolish the port of delivery and the office of Surveyor of the Customs at Currituck Inlet in North Carolina.Mar 3, 1841
  319. Public Law 27–IChap. I: making appropriations for the present session of Congress.Jun 25, 1841
  320. Public Law 27–IIChap. II: for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President of the United States.Jun 30, 1841
  321. Public Law 27–IIIChap. III: authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum of twelve millions of dollars.Jul 21, 1841
  322. Public Law 27–IVChap. IV: making appropriation for the pay, subsistence, &c., of a home squadron.Aug 1, 1841
  323. Public Law 27–VChap. V: making further provision for the maintenance of pauper lunatics in the District of Columbia.Aug 3, 1841
  324. Public Law 27–VIIChap. VII: to repeal the act entitled “An act to provide for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue,” and to provide for the punishment if embezzlers of public money, and for other purposes.Aug 13, 1841
  325. Public Law 27–VIIIChap. VIII: to provide for the payment of Navy Pensions.Aug 16, 1841
  326. Public Law 27–IXChap. IX: to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States.Aug 19, 1841
  327. Public Law 27–XChap. X: further to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office.Aug 19, 1841
  328. Public Law 27–XIChap. XI: to authorize the recovery of fines and forfeitures incurred under the charter, laws, and ordinances of Georgetown, before justices of the peace.Aug 19, 1841
  329. Public Law 27–XIIChap. XII: to revive and extend the charters of certain banks it the District of Columbia.Aug 25, 1841
  330. Public Law 27–XIIIChap. XIII: making an appropriation for the funeral expenses of William Henry Harrison, deceased, late President of the United States.Sep 1, 1841
  331. Public Law 27–XIVChap. XIV: in addition to an act entitled an act to carry into effect a Convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic.Sep 1, 1841
  332. Public Law 27–XVChap. XV: to amend the act entitled “An act to provide for taking the Sixth Census, or enumeration of the inhabitants if the United States,” approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the acts amending the same.Sep 1, 1841
  333. Public Law 27–XVIChap. XVI: to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights.Sep 4, 1841
  334. Public Law 27–XVIIChap. XVII: making appropriations for various fortification, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities.Sep 9, 1841
  335. Public Law 27–XVIIIChap. XVIII: to provide far placing Greenough’s Statue of Washington in the Rotundo of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned.Sep 9, 1841
  336. Public Law 27–XIXChap. XIX: authorizing the transmission of letters and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison, free of postage.Sep 9, 1841
  337. Public Law 27–XXChap. XX: to make appropriations for the Post Office Department.Sep 9, 1841
  338. Public Law 27–XXIChap. XXI: making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes.Sep 11, 1841
  339. Public Law 27–XXIIIChap. XXIII: making appropriations for outfits and salaries of diplomatic agents, and for other purposes.Sep 11, 1841
  340. Public Law 27–XXIIIChap. XXIII: to provide for repairing the Potomac Bridge.Sep 11, 1841
  341. Public Law 27–XXIVChap. XXIV: relating to duties and drawbacks.Sep 11, 1841
  342. Public Law 27–XXVChap. XXV: to repeal a part of the sixth section of the act, entitled “An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes,” passed July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Sep 11, 1841
  343. Public Law 27–IChap. I: making appropriations, in part, for the civil department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.Dec 22, 1841
  344. Public Law 27–IIChap. II: to authorize an issue of Treasury notes.Jan 31, 1842
  345. Public Law 27–IIIChap. III: making an appropriation for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries.Feb 12, 1842
  346. Public Law 27–IVChap. IV: making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.Feb 12, 1842
  347. Public Law 27–VChap. V: to provide for the early disposition of the lands lying in the State of Alabama, acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of twenty-ninth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.Mar 4, 1842
  348. Public Law 27–VIChap. VI: to authorize the Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to hold a special session of the said court.Mar 19, 1842
  349. Public Law 27–VIIChap. VII: supplementary to an act entitled “An act to amend the act approved May thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred, entitled An act to amend an act entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.”Mar 19, 1842
  350. Public Law 27–VIIIChap. VIII: to authorize the Governors of the States of Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri to cause to be selected the lands therein mentioned.Mar 19, 1842
  351. Public Law 27–XXChap. XX: to amend the several acts establishing a district court of the United States at Jackson, in the District of West Tennessee.Apr 14, 1842
  352. Public Law 27–XXIChap. XXI: to confirm certain entries of lands in the State of Louisiana, and to authorize the issuing of patents for the same.Apr 14, 1842
  353. Public Law 27–XXIIChap. XXII: authorizing the construction of a war-steamer for harbor defence.Apr 14, 1842
  354. Public Law 27–XXIIIChap. XXIII: to establish certain post roads.Apr 14, 1842
  355. Public Law 27–XXIVChap. XXIV: to provide for the allowance of invalid pensions to certain Cherokee warriors, under the provisions of the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five.Apr 14, 1842
  356. Public Law 27–XXVChap. XXV: relative to the act entitled, “An act granting lands to certain exiles from Poland,” approved, thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.Apr 14, 1842
  357. Public Law 27–XXVIChap. XXVI: for the extension of the loan of eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for an addition of five millions of dollars thereto; and for allowing interest on Treasury notes due.Apr 15, 1842
  358. Public Law 27–XXIXChap. XXIX: making appropriations fir the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two.May 18, 1842
  359. Public Law 27–XXXChap. XXX: changing the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the districts of East and West Tennessee.May 18, 1842
  360. Public Law 27–XXXIChap. XXXI: to amend the act of the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “An act to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Ohio.Jun 1, 1842
  361. Public Law 27–XXXIIChap. XXXII: regulating commercial intercourse with the part of Cayenne, in the colony if French Guiana, and to remit certain duties.Jun 1, 1842
  362. Public Law 27–XXXVIIIChap. XXXVIII: to authorize the collector of the district of Fairfield to reside in either if the towns of Fairfield or Bridgeport.Jun 4, 1842
  363. Public Law 27–XXXIXChap. XXXIX: to provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of Maine for the services of her militia.Jun 13, 1842
  364. Public Law 27–XLChap. XL: to amend an act entitled “An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States with regard to the five per cent, fund and the school reservations.”Jun 13, 1842
  365. Public Law 27–XLVIIChap. XLVII: for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth census.Jun 25, 1842
  366. Public Law 27–LChap. L: confirming certain land claims in Louisiana.Jul 6, 1842
  367. Public Law 27–LXIVChap. LXIV: making appropriations for Ike current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.Jul 17, 1842
  368. Public Law 27–LXVIChap. LXVI: to regulate the value to be affixed to the pound sterling by the Treasury Department.Jul 27, 1842
  369. Public Law 27–LXVIIChap. LXVII: making an appropriation for the repair of the custom-house in Providence.Jul 27, 1842
  370. Public Law 27–LXVIIIChap. LXVIII: to amend “An act for altering the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania at Williamsport,” approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and forty.Jul 27, 1842
  371. Public Law 27–LXIXChap. LXIX: to provide for satisfying claims for bounty lands, for military services in the late war with Great Britain, and for other purposes.Jul 27, 1842
  372. Public Law 27–LXXXIIChap. LXXXII: to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of Georgetown.Jul 27, 1842
  373. Public Law 27–XCVIChap. XCVI: to provide for erecting and lighting lamps on Pennsylvania Avenue.Jul 27, 1842
  374. Public Law 27–CVIChap. CVI: in relation to marriages within the District of Columbia.Jul 27, 1842
  375. Public Law 27–CVIIChap. CVII: to provide for the permanent employment in the Post Office Department of certain clerks heretofore for several years temporarily employed in that Department.Jul 30, 1842
  376. Public Law 27–CVIIIChap. CVIII: to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia.Aug 1, 1842
  377. Public Law 27–CIXChap. CIX: to extend the provisions of an act entitled “An act to regulate processes in the courts of the United States,” passed the nineteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.Aug 1, 1842
  378. Public Law 27–CXXChap. CXX: to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.Aug 3, 1842
  379. Public Law 27–CXXIChap. CXXI: making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.Aug 4, 1842
  380. Public Law 27–CXXIIChap. CXXII: to provide for the armed occupation and settlement if the unsettled part of the peninsula if East Florida.Aug 4, 1842
  381. Public Law 27–CXXIIIChap. CXXIII: to regulate appeals and writs of error from the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama.Aug 4, 1842
  382. Public Law 27–CXXVIChap. CXXVI: to annex a part of the town of Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, to the collection district of Fall River in the State of Massachusetts.Aug 9, 1842
  383. Public Law 27–CXXVIIChap. CXXVII: to provide for the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia for the services of her militia.Aug 11, 1842
  384. Public Law 27–CXXVIIIChap. CXXVIII: to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas.Aug 11, 1842
  385. Public Law 27–CXXIXChap. CXXIX: regulating the services of the several judges in the Territory of Iowa.Aug 11, 1842
  386. Public Law 27–CXXXChap. CXXX: in relation to the district court for the northern district of New York.Aug 11, 1842
  387. Public Law 27–CLXXVIIChap. CLXXVII: explanatory of an ad entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.”Aug 16, 1842
  388. Public Law 27–CLXXVIIIChap. CLXXVIII: authorizing the settlement and payment of certain claims of the State of Alabama.Aug 16, 1842
  389. Public Law 27–CLXXIXChap. CLXXIX: to change the name of the part of entry on Lake Erie, known as Portland, to that of Sandusky.Aug 16, 1842
  390. Public Law 27–CLXXXChap. CLXXX: to amend the act entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States.’”Aug 16, 1842
  391. Public Law 27–CLXXXIChap. CLXXXI: requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress.Aug 16, 1842
  392. Public Law 27–CLXXXIIChap. CLXXXII: to grant preemption rights to settlers on the “Dubuque claim” so called, in the Territory of Iowa.Aug 16, 1842
  393. Public Law 27–CLXXXIIIChap. CLXXXIII: making appropriations for the support of the army, and of the military academy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.Aug 23, 1842
  394. Public Law 27–LXXXIVChap. LXXXIV: to establish an auxiliary watch for the protection of public and private property in the city of Washington.Aug 23, 1842
  395. Public Law 27–CLXXXVChap. CLXXXV: to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for the payment of horses, or other property, lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States,” approved the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.Aug 23, 1842
  396. Public Law 27–CLXXXVIChap. CLXXXVI: respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes.Aug 23, 1842
  397. Public Law 27–CLXXXVIIChap. CLXXXVII: to provide for the satisfaction of claims arising under the fourteenth and nineteenth articles of the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek, concluded in September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.Aug 23, 1842
  398. Public Law 27–CLXXXVIIIChap. CLXXXVIII: further supplementary to an act entitled, “An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,” passed the twenty-fourth of September, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine.Aug 23, 1842
  399. Public Law 27–CLXXXIXChap. CLXXXIX: making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the navy pension fund.Aug 23, 1842
  400. Public Law 27–CXCChap. CXC: for the relief of certain settlers in the Territory of Wisconsin.Aug 23, 1842
  401. Public Law 27–CXCIChap. CXCI: to amend the acts of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows.Aug 23, 1842
  402. Public Law 27–CXCIIChap. CXCII: for the payment of Florida militia called into service in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and eighteen hundred and forty.Aug 23, 1842
  403. Public Law 27–CXCIVChap. CXCIV: to authorize the selection of school lands in lieu of those granted to the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox Indians.Aug 23, 1842
  404. Public Law 27–CCIIChap. CCII: legalizing and malting appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the Departments and offices of the Government, and for other purposes.Aug 26, 1842
  405. Public Law 27–CCIIIChap. CCIII: establish a district court of the United States in the city of Wheeling, in the State of Virginia.Aug 26, 1842
  406. Public Law 27–CCIVChap. CCIV: to provide for publishing an account if the discoveries made by the Exploring Expedition, under the command of Lieutenant Willies, of the United States Navy.Aug 26, 1842
  407. Public Law 27–CCVChap. CCV: to confirm the sale of public lands in certain cases.Aug 26, 1842
  408. Public Law 27–CCVIChap. CCVI: to regulate the pay of pursers and other officers of the navy.Aug 26, 1842
  409. Public Law 27–CCVIIChap. CCVII: to define and establish the fiscal year of the Treasury of the United States.Aug 26, 1842
  410. Public Law 27–CCXXVIIChap. CCXXVII: to make an appropriation for certain expenses in the erection of a penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa.Aug 29, 1842
  411. Public Law 27–CCXXVIIIChap. CCXXVIII: to provide an insane hospital for the District of Columbia.Aug 29, 1842
  412. Public Law 27–CCLVChap. CCLV: to provide for the publication of a new edition of the laws and regulations of the Post Office Department, and a perfect list of the past-offices in the United States.Aug 29, 1842
  413. Public Law 27–CCLVIChap. CCLVI: for creating a new land district in the State of Missouri, and for changing the boundaries of the southwestern and western land districts in said State.Aug 29, 1842
  414. Public Law 27–CCLVIIChap. CCLVII: to provide further remedial justice in the courts of the United States.Aug 29, 1842
  415. Public Law 27–CCLVIIIChap. CCLVIII: in relation to lands sold in the Greensburgh, late St. Helena, land district, in the State of Louisiana, and authorizing the resurvey of certain lands in said district.Aug 29, 1842
  416. Public Law 27–CCLIXChap. CCLIX: to provide for the settlement of certain accounts for the support of Government in the Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes.Aug 29, 1842
  417. Public Law 27–CCLXChap. CCLX: supplementary to “An act to provide for the adjustment of titles to land in the town of Detroit, and Territory of Michigan, and for other purposes,” passed April twenty-one, eighteen hundred and six.Aug 29, 1842
  418. Public Law 27–CCLXIChap. CCLXI: to provide for the payment to the State of Louisiana of the balance due said State for expenditures incurred in raising, equipping and paying off a regiment of volunteer militia, mustered into the service of the United States, and employed in the Florida war in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.Aug 29, 1842
  419. Public Law 27–CCLXIIChap. CCLXII: to authorize the Stales of Indiana and Illinois to select certain quantities of land, in lieu of like quantities heretofore granted to the said States, for the construction of the Wabash and Erie, and the Illinois and Michigan canals.Aug 29, 1842
  420. Public Law 27–CCLXIIIChap. CCLXIII: in addition to an act to promote the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts heretofore made for that purpose.Aug 29, 1842
  421. Public Law 27–CCLXIVChap. CCLXIV: to provide for the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.Aug 29, 1842
  422. Public Law 27–CCLXVChap. CCLXV: making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, in North Carolina.Aug 29, 1842
  423. Public Law 27–CCLXVIChap. CCLXVI: making appropriations for certain sites for marine hospitals therein mentioned.Aug 29, 1842
  424. Public Law 27–CCLXVIIChap. CCLXVII: to establish and regulate the navy ration.Aug 29, 1842
  425. Public Law 27–CCLXVIIIChap. CCLXVIII: authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to contract for the purchase, for the United States, of the right to use Babbit’s anti-attrition metal.Aug 29, 1842
  426. Public Law 27–CCLXIXChap. CCLXIX: establishing a court at Charleston, in the Commonwealth of Virginia.Aug 29, 1842
  427. Public Law 27–CCLXXChap. CCLXX: to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes.Aug 30, 1842
  428. Public Law 27–CCLXXIChap. CCLXXI: to establish an additional land office in Florida.Aug 30, 1842
  429. Public Law 27–CCLXXIIChap. CCLXXII: for the relief of the assistants of the Marshal of the United States for the District of Kentucky.Aug 30, 1842
  430. Public Law 27–CCLXXIVChap. CCLXXIV: [to] establish certain post roads.Aug 31, 1842
  431. Public Law 27–CCLXXVChap. CCLXXV: making appropriations to carry into effect a treaty with the Wyandott Indians, and for other purposes.Aug 31, 1842
  432. Public Law 27–CCLXXVIChap. CCLXXVI: concerning professors of mathematics in the navy of the United States.Aug 31, 1842
  433. Public Law 27–CCLXXVIIChap. CCLXXVII: to authorize the construction of a depot for charts and instruments of the navy of the United States.Aug 31, 1842
  434. Public Law 27–CCLXXIXChap. CCLXXIX: to regulate the appointment and pay of engineers in the navy of the United States.Aug 31, 1842
  435. Public Law 27–CCLXXXChap. CCLXXX: concerning the payment of Florida militia.Aug 31, 1842
  436. Public Law 27–CCLXXXIChap. CCLXXXI: to extend the collection district of Wiscasset.Aug 31, 1842
  437. Public Law 27–CCLXXXIIChap. CCLXXXII: to suppress the vending of lottery tickets in the District of Columbia.Aug 31, 1842
  438. Public Law 27–CCLXXXIIIChap. CCLXXXIII: to provide for purchasing materials and for the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia.Aug 31, 1842
  439. Public Law 27–CCLXXXVIChap. CCLXXXVI: to reorganize the Navy Department of the United States.Aug 31, 1842
  440. Public Law 27–CCLXXXVIIChap. CCLXXXVII: to limit the sale of the public stock to par, and to authorize the issue of Treasury notes, in lieu thereof, to a certain amount.Aug 31, 1842
  441. Public Law 27–CCLXXXVIIIChap. CCLXXXVIII: making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.Aug 31, 1842
  442. Public Law 27–IIChap. II: making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses if Government for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three.Dec 24, 1842
  443. Public Law 27–IIIChap. III: to amend the act establishing a district court of the United States at Wheeling, Virginia.Jan 20, 1843
  444. Public Law 27–IVChap. IV: to continue the office of Commissioner of Pensions.Jan 20, 1843
  445. Public Law 27–XXChap. XX: to re-enact and continue in operation the several acts now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States.Jan 28, 1843
  446. Public Law 27–XXVIChap. XXVI: for the payment of seven companies of Georgia militia, for services rendered in the years eighteen hundred and forty and eighteen hundred and forty-one.Feb 4, 1843
  447. Public Law 27–XXVIIChap. XXVII: making appropriations for pensions for the half calendar year beginning the first day if January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.Feb 14, 1843
  448. Public Law 27–XXXChap. XXX: to amend the charter of the town of Alexandria.Feb 15, 1843
  449. Public Law 27–XXXIChap. XXXI: to authorize the chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of State to frank public and official documents sent from that office.Feb 15, 1843
  450. Public Law 27–XXXIIChap. XXXII: to change the place of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Maine.Feb 15, 1843
  451. Public Law 27–XXXIIIChap. XXXIII: to authorize the Legislatures if the States of Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee, to sell the lands heretofore appropriated for the use of schools in those States.Feb 15, 1843
  452. Public Law 27–XXXIVChap. XXXIV: for the relief of the owners of the fund received from the British Government as an indemnity for slaves lost from on board the Comet and Encomium at Nassau, Bahamas.Feb 18, 1843
  453. Public Law 27–XLIVChap. XLIV: altering the times of holding the circuit court of the United States for the district of Connecticut.Feb 24, 1843
  454. Public Law 27–XLVChap. XLV: to continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore.Feb 24, 1843
  455. Public Law 27–XLVIChap. XLVI: amendatory of an act establishing the branch mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, and defining the duties of assayer and coiner.Feb 27, 1843
  456. Public Law 27–XLVIIChap. XLVII: to amend an act entitled “An act mailing an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, North Carolina.”Feb 27, 1843
  457. Public Law 27–XLIXChap. XLIX: amendatory of “An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.”Mar 1, 1843
  458. Public Law 27–LChap. L: to perfect the titles to lands south if the Arkansas river, held under New Madrid locations, and pre-emption rights under the act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen [fifteen].Mar 1, 1843
  459. Public Law 27–LIChap. LI: in relation to the two per cent, fund of the State of Mississippi.Mar 1, 1843
  460. Public Law 27–LIIChap. LII: making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.Mar 1, 1843
  461. Public Law 27–LIIIChap. LIII: regulating the mode of paying over to the State of Alabama the two per cent, fund relinquished to said State by the act approved on the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.Mar 1, 1843
  462. Public Law 27–LXIXChap. LXIX: regulating the currency of foreign gold and silver coins in the United States.Mar 3, 1843
  463. Public Law 27–LXXChap. LXX: making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the half calendar year beginning on the first day of January and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.Mar 3, 1843
  464. Public Law 27–LXXIChap. LXXI: declaring Robbinston in the State of Maine, to be a port of delivery.Mar 3, 1843
  465. Public Law 27–LXXIIChap. LXXII: to permit the entry of merchandise recovered from shipwreck, in certain cases, free from duly.Mar 3, 1843
  466. Public Law 27–LXXIIIChap. LXXIII: to reduce the salary of the surveyor of the port of Camden, New Jersey.Mar 3, 1843
  467. Public Law 27–LXXIVChap. LXXIV: to change the times of holding the circuit and district courts for the district of East Tennessee.Mar 3, 1843
  468. Public Law 27–LXXVChap. LXXV: to fix the compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.Mar 3, 1843
  469. Public Law 27–LXXVIChap. LXXVI: making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.Mar 3, 1843
  470. Public Law 27–LXXVIIChap. LXXVII: to set aside certain reservations of lands, on account of live oak in the southeastern district of Louisiana.Mar 3, 1843
  471. Public Law 27–LXXVIIIChap. LXXVIII: authorizing the sale of lands, with the improvements thereon erected by the United States, for the use of their agents, teachers, farmers, mechanics, and other persons employed amongst the Indians.Mar 3, 1843
  472. Public Law 27–LXXIXChap. LXXIX: to repeal an act entitled “An act to extend the collection district of Wiscasset.”Mar 3, 1843
  473. Public Law 27–LXXXChap. LXXX: making appropriations for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, for the half calendar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1843
  474. Public Law 27–LXXXIChap. LXXXI: authorizing the reissue of treasury notes and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1843
  475. Public Law 27–LXXXIIChap. LXXXII: to repeal the bankrupt act.Mar 3, 1843
  476. Public Law 27–LXXXIIIChap. LXXXIII: making appropriations for the naval service for the half calendar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.Mar 3, 1843
  477. Public Law 27–LXXXIVChap. LXXXIV: to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs by the United States.Mar 3, 1843
  478. Public Law 27–LXXXVChap. LXXXV: for the protection of commerce on Lake Michigan.Mar 3, 1843
  479. Public Law 27–LXXXVIChap. LXXXVI: to authorize the investigation of alleged frauds under the pre-emption laws, awl for other purposes.Mar 3, 1843
  480. Public Law 27–LXXXVIIChap. LXXXVII: to provide, in certain cases, far the sale of the real estate of infants within the District of Columbia.Mar 3, 1843
  481. Public Law 27–LXXXVIIIChap. LXXXVIII: directing the survey of the northern line of the reservation for the half-breeds of the Socks [Sacs] and Fox tribes of Indians by the treaty if August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.Mar 3, 1843
  482. Public Law 27–LXXXIXChap. LXXXIX: to provide for carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.Mar 3, 1843
  483. Public Law 27–XCChap. XC: providing the means of future intercourse between the United States, and the Government of China.Mar 3, 1843
  484. Public Law 27–XCIChap. XCI: providing for the sale of certain lands in the States of Ohio and Michigan, ceded by the Wyandot tribe of Indians, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1843
  485. Public Law 27–XCIIChap. XCII: to fix the value of certain foreign moneys of account, in computations at the custom-houses.Mar 3, 1843
  486. Public Law 27–XCIIIChap. XCIII: authorizing an examination and survey of the harbor of Memphis, in Tennessee.Mar 3, 1843
  487. Public Law 27–XCIVChap. XCIV: to modify the act entitled “An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam,” approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Mar 3, 1843
  488. Public Law 27–XCVChap. XCV: in relation to the exemplifications of the records of land patents and other evidences of title, and amendatory of the act entitled “An act to reorganize the General Land Office.”Mar 3, 1843
  489. Public Law 27–XCVIChap. XCVI: providing for the settlement of claims for supplies furnished the Florida militia.Mar 3, 1843
  490. Public Law 27–XCVIIChap. XCVII: to provide for holding circuit courts at Williamsport in the western district of Pennsylvania.Mar 3, 1843
  491. Public Law 27–XCVIIIChap. XCVIII: to amend the laws regulating imprisonment for debt within the District of Columbia.Mar 3, 1843
  492. Public Law 27–XCIXChap. XCIX: to authorize the election or appointment of officers in the Territory of Wisconsin.Mar 3, 1843
  493. Public Law 27–CChap. C: making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four.Mar 3, 1843
  494. Public Law 27–CIChap. CI: for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, in the Territory of Wiskonsan.Mar 3, 1843
  495. Public Law 27–CIIChap. CII: granting a pension to certain revolutionary soldiers.Mar 3, 1843
  496. Public Law 27–CIIIChap. CIII: further to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States.Mar 3, 1843
  497. Public Law 28–IChap. I: to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the relief and protection of American seamen.Jan 22, 1844
  498. Public Law 28–IIChap. II: to refund the fine imposed on General Andrew Jackson.Feb 16, 1844
  499. Public Law 28–IIIChap. III: to authorize the President of the United States to direct transfers of appropriation in the naval service, under certain circumstances.Feb 23, 1844
  500. Public Law 28–IVChap. IV: changing the time of holding the courts at Clarksburg and at Wheeling, in the western district of Virginia, and the circuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas.Mar 4, 1844
  501. Public Law 28–VChap. V: to repeal the act entitled “An act to amend the act of the tenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, entitled ‘An act to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Ohio.’”Mar 26, 1844
  502. Public Law 28–VIIChap. VII: to amend the act entitled “An act to establish branches of the Mint of the United States.”Apr 2, 1844
  503. Public Law 28–VIIIChap. VIII: directing the disposition of certain unclaimed goods, wares, or merchandise, seized for being illegally imported into the United States.Apr 2, 1844
  504. Public Law 28–XChap. X: requiring one of the judges of the circuit court for the District of Columbia hereafter to reside in Alexandria.Apr 4, 1844
  505. Public Law 28–XIChap. XI: to repeal so much of the act approved the twenty-third of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, as requires the second regiment of dragoons to be converted into a regiment of riflemen after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.Apr 4, 1844
  506. Public Law 28–XIIChap. XII: to change the time of holding the Spring term of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, and of the Circuit Court of Alabama.Apr 12, 1844
  507. Public Law 28–XIIIChap. XIII: making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.Apr 12, 1844
  508. Public Law 28–XIVChap. XIV: making an appropriation of certain moneys in the Treasury for the naval service.Apr 22, 1844
  509. Public Law 28–XVChap. XV: making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.Apr 30, 1844
  510. Public Law 28–XVIChap. XVI: giving the assent of Congress to the holding of an extra session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa.Apr 30, 1844
  511. Public Law 28–XVIIChap. XVII: for the relief of the citizens of towns upon the lands of the United States, under certain circumstances.May 23, 1844
  512. Public Law 28–XVIIIChap. XVIII: to authorize the transfer of the names of pensioners from the agencies in the State of Kentucky to the agency in Cincinnati in the State of Ohio.May 23, 1844
  513. Public Law 28–XXXChap. XXX: relating to the port of entry in the district of Passamaquoddy, in the State of Maine.May 31, 1844
  514. Public Law 28–XXXIChap. XXXI: to amend the judiciary act passed the twenty fourth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.May 31, 1844
  515. Public Law 28–XXXIIChap. XXXII: making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July 1844, and ending on the thirtieth of June 1845.May 31, 1844
  516. Public Law 28–XXXVIIChap. XXXVII: directing a disposition of the maps and charts of the Survey of the Coast.Jun 3, 1844
  517. Public Law 28–XXXVIIIChap. XXXVIII: to alter the places of holding the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.Jun 4, 1844
  518. Public Law 28–XXXIXChap. XXXIX: relating to bonds to be given by custom-house officers.Jun 4, 1844
  519. Public Law 28–XLIVChap. XLIV: making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers.Jun 11, 1844
  520. Public Law 28–XLVChap. XLV: to amend an act entitled “An act to reorganize the General Land Office.”Jun 12, 1844
  521. Public Law 28–XLVIChap. XLVI: to establish a port of delivery at the city of Lafayette, in the State of Louisiana.Jun 12, 1844
  522. Public Law 28–XLVIIChap. XLVII: relating to the unlading of foreign merchandise on the right bank of the river Mississippi, opposite New Orleans.Jun 12, 1844
  523. Public Law 28–XLIXChap. XLIX: for repairing the roof of the court-house in Alexandria.Jun 15, 1844
  524. Public Law 28–LChap. L: granting a section of land for the improvement of Grant river at the town of Potosi, in Wisconsin Territory.Jun 15, 1844
  525. Public Law 28–LIChap. LI: relating to certain collection districts, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1844
  526. Public Law 28–LIIChap. LII: to establish a navy yard and depot at or adjacent to the city of Memphis, on the Mississippi river, in the State of Tennessee.Jun 15, 1844
  527. Public Law 28–LIIIChap. LIII: for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen and marines of the United States schooner Grampus, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1844
  528. Public Law 28–LIVChap. LIV: to repeal an act entitled “An act directing the survey of the northern line of the reservation for the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox tribes of Indians, by the treaty of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four,” approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.Jun 15, 1844
  529. Public Law 28–LVChap. LV: to authorize the selection of certain school lands in the Territories of Florida, Iowa, and Wisconsin.Jun 15, 1844
  530. Public Law 28–LVIChap. LVI: granting to the county of Dubuque, certain lots of ground in the town of Dubuque.Jun 15, 1844
  531. Public Law 28–LVIIChap. LVII: to confirm to the city of Fernandina in Florida, certain lots reserved for public use by the Spanish Government.Jun 15, 1844
  532. Public Law 28–LVIIIChap. LVIII: making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.Jun 15, 1844
  533. Public Law 28–LIXChap. LIX: to test the utility of the sub-marine telescope.Jun 15, 1844
  534. Public Law 28–LXChap. LX: making appropriations for certain improvements on the western shore of Lake Michigan.Jun 15, 1844
  535. Public Law 28–LXIChap. LXI: making appropriations to aid in completing the harbor at Racine, on the western shore of Lake Michigan.Jun 15, 1844
  536. Public Law 28–LXIIChap. LXII: making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department, for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.Jun 15, 1844
  537. Public Law 28–LXIIIChap. LXIII: transferring the execution of a certain act from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of War.Jun 15, 1844
  538. Public Law 28–LXIVChap. LXIV: making appropriations for certain objects of expenditure therein named in the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and forty-four.Jun 15, 1844
  539. Public Law 28–LXVChap. LXV: to establish certain post roads in the Territory of Florida.Jun 15, 1844
  540. Public Law 28–LXVIChap. LXVI: making appropriation for certain improvements in the Territory of Iowa.Jun 15, 1844
  541. Public Law 28–LXVIIChap. LXVII: making appropriations for certain improvements in the Territory of Florida.Jun 15, 1844
  542. Public Law 28–LXVIIIChap. LXVIII: to provide for the erection of a marine hospital at Key West, in the Territory of Florida.Jun 15, 1844
  543. Public Law 28–LXIXChap. LXIX: to authorize the Legislature of the several Territories to regulate the apportionment of representation, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1844
  544. Public Law 28–LXXChap. LXX: to authorize the issuing of Patents for certain lands in the St. Augustine land district in Florida, the sales of which were not regularly reported.Jun 15, 1844
  545. Public Law 28–LXXIChap. LXXI: to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the peninsula of Florida.”Jun 15, 1844
  546. Public Law 28–LXXIIChap. LXXII: making appropriation for the support of insane persons in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1844
  547. Public Law 28–LXXIIIChap. LXXIII: making an appropriation for the payment of horses lost by the Missouri volunteers in the Florida war.Jun 15, 1844
  548. Public Law 28–LXXIVChap. LXXIV: to confirm certain entries of land in the St. Augustine land district, in the Territory of Florida, made under the pre-emption law of 22d June, 1838.Jun 15, 1844
  549. Public Law 28–LXXVChap. LXXV: for the relief of persons residing within the reputed limits of the States of Arkansas or Louisiana, and beyond the boundary line between the United States and the Republic of Texas, as established by the commissioners appointed to ascertain the same.Jun 15, 1844
  550. Public Law 28–XCIVChap. XCIV: to amend the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Alexandria Canal Company,” approved on the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty.Jun 17, 1844
  551. Public Law 28–XCVChap. XCV: to provide for the adjustment of land claims within the States of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and in those parts of the States of Mississippi and Alabama south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and between the Mississippi and Perdido rivers.Jun 17, 1844
  552. Public Law 28–XCVIChap. XCVI: concerning the Supreme Court of the United States.Jun 17, 1844
  553. Public Law 28–XCVIIChap. XCVII: respecting the northern boundary of the State of Missouri.Jun 17, 1844
  554. Public Law 28–XCVIIIChap. XCVIII: to extend the charters of the District Banks.Jun 17, 1844
  555. Public Law 28–XCIXChap. XCIX: to enable the War Department to supply certain balances of appropriation, and for other purposes.Jun 17, 1844
  556. Public Law 28–CChap. C: supplementary to an act entitled “An act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia,” approved August first, eighteen hundred and forty-two.Jun 17, 1844
  557. Public Law 28–CIChap. CI: concerning conveyances, or devises of places of public worship in the District of Columbia.Jun 17, 1844
  558. Public Law 28–CIIChap. CII: to continue the pensions of certain widows.Jun 17, 1844
  559. Public Law 28–CIIIChap. CIII: supplementary to the act entitled “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” passed thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.Jun 17, 1844
  560. Public Law 28–CIVChap. CIV: explanatory of the Treaty made with the Chippewa Indians at Saganaw, the twenty-third of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.Jun 17, 1844
  561. Public Law 28–CVChap. CV: making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and for other purposes.Jun 17, 1844
  562. Public Law 28–CVIChap. CVI: making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.Jun 17, 1844
  563. Public Law 28–CVIIChap. CVII: making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.Jun 17, 1844
  564. Public Law 28–CVIIIChap. CVIII: making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July, 1844, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, 1845.Jun 17, 1844
  565. Public Law 28–CXVIIChap. CXVII: to authorize the entry of certain lands, occupied by the branch pilots of the port of New Orleans, and others, in the State of Louisiana.Jun 17, 1844
  566. Public Law 28–IChapter I: to establish a uniform time for holding elections for electors of President and Vice President in all the States of the Union.Jan 23, 1845
  567. Public Law 28–IIChapter II: to correct a clerical error in the act supplementary to an act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia, and to amend the title thereof.Feb 4, 1845
  568. Public Law 28–IVChapter IV: confirming and assenting to an act of the Legislature of Virginia, entitled “An in act further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,”Feb 7, 1845
  569. Public Law 28–VChapter V: to repeal “An act for the better organization of the district court of the United States within the State of Louisiana,” and for other purposes.Feb 13, 1845
  570. Public Law 28–XIIIChapter XIII: for the purchase of certain copies of the History of Oregon, California, and the other Territories on the Northwest coast of America.Feb 20, 1845
  571. Public Law 28–XIVChapter XIV: making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.Feb 20, 1845
  572. Public Law 28–XVChapter XV: restricting the grant of pensions in certain cases.Feb 20, 1845
  573. Public Law 28–XVIChapter XVI: to quiet the titles to certain lots of land in the towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, in the State of Ohio.Feb 20, 1845
  574. Public Law 28–XVIIChapter XVII: to amend the act entitled “An act to provide for the enlistment of boys for the naval service, and to extend the term of enlistment of seamen.”Feb 20, 1845
  575. Public Law 28–XVIIIChapter XVIII: to organize a new land district in the southern part of the State of Arkansas.Feb 20, 1845
  576. Public Law 28–XIXChapter XIX: supplementary to “An act to repeal an act for the better organization of the district court of the United States within the State of Louisiana,” and for other purposes, approved February thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.Feb 26, 1845
  577. Public Law 28–XXChapter XX: extending the jurisdiction of the district courts to certain cases, upon the lakes and navigable waters connecting the same.Feb 26, 1845
  578. Public Law 28–XXIIChapter XXII: explanatory of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.”Feb 26, 1845
  579. Public Law 28–XXIVChapter XXIV: to authorize the South Carolina Railroad Company to import certain pipes and machinery free of duty.Feb 26, 1845
  580. Public Law 28–XXVChapter XXV: to amend an act entitled “An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States with regard to the five per cent, fund and the school reservations.”Feb 26, 1845
  581. Public Law 28–XXVIChapter XXVI: to amend the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day if June, one thousand eight hundred and forty five.”Feb 26, 1845
  582. Public Law 28–XXVIIIChapter XXVIII: to authorise a relocation of land warrants number three, four, and five, granted by Congress to General Lafayette.Feb 26, 1845
  583. Public Law 28–XXXVChapter XXXV: to change the time for holding the Circuit and Criminal Courts in the county if Washington.Mar 1, 1845
  584. Public Law 28–XXXVIChapter XXXVI: in alteration of an act entitled “An act to establish a port of delivery at the city of Lafayette, in the State of Louisiana.”Mar 1, 1845
  585. Public Law 28–XXXVIIChapter XXXVII: making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.Mar 1, 1845
  586. Public Law 28–XXXVIIIChapter XXXVIII: to authorize the sale of two Arabian horses, received as a present by the Consul of the United States at Zanzibar, from the Imaum of Muscat.Mar 1, 1845
  587. Public Law 28–XXXIXChapter XXXIX: to change the time of holding the Federal courts in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana.Mar 1, 1845
  588. Public Law 28–XLIChapter XLI: renewing certain naval pensions for the term of five years.Mar 3, 1845
  589. Public Law 28–XLIIChapter XLII: to grant certain lands to the State of Indiana, the better to enable the said State to extend and complete the Wabash and Erie canal from Terre Haute to the Ohio river.Mar 3, 1845
  590. Public Law 28–XLIIIChapter XLIII: to reduce the rates of postage, to limit the use and correct the abuse of the franking privilege, and for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the Post Office Department.Mar 3, 1845
  591. Public Law 28–XLIVChapter XLIV: making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department, for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.Mar 3, 1845
  592. Public Law 28–XLVChapter XLV: supplementary to an act entitled “An act to fix the value of certain foreign moneys of account in computations at the custom-houses.”Mar 3, 1845
  593. Public Law 28–XLVIChapter XLVI: to confirm the survey and location of claims for lands in the State of Mississippi, east of the Pearl river, and south of thirty-first degree of north latitude.Mar 3, 1845
  594. Public Law 28–XLVIIChapter XLVII: making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.Mar 3, 1845
  595. Public Law 28–XLVIIIChapter XLVIII: for the admission of the States of Iowa and Florida into the Union.Mar 3, 1845
  596. Public Law 28–LXIIIChapter LXIII: making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.Mar 3, 1845
  597. Public Law 28–LXIVChapter LXIV: providing payment for certain military services in Florida.Mar 3, 1845
  598. Public Law 28–LXVChapter LXV: making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.Mar 3, 1845
  599. Public Law 28–LXVIChapter LXVI: regulating commercial intercourse with the Islands of Miquelon and St. Pierre.Mar 3, 1845
  600. Public Law 28–LXVIIChapter LXVII: to continue the harbor improvement already commenced at the town of Southport, in the town of Southport, in the Territory of Wisconsin.Mar 3, 1845
  601. Public Law 28–LXVIIIChapter LXVIII: for the construction and improvement of certain roads in the Territory of Wisconsin.Mar 3, 1845
  602. Public Law 28–LXIXChapter LXIX: to provide for the transportation of the mail between the United States and foreign countries, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1845
  603. Public Law 28–LXXChapter LXX: allowing drawback upon foreign merchandise exported in the original packages to Chihuahua and Santa Fé, in Mexico: and to the British North American provinces adjoining the United States.Mar 3, 1845
  604. Public Law 28–LXXIChapter LXXI: making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1845
  605. Public Law 28–LXXIIChapter LXXII: making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.Mar 3, 1845
  606. Public Law 28–LXXIIIChapter LXXIII: making appropriations for certain improvements in the Territory of Iowa.Mar 3, 1845
  607. Public Law 28–LXXIVChapter LXXIV: to establish certain post routes.Mar 3, 1845
  608. Public Law 28–LXXVChapter LXXV: supplemental to the act for the admission of Florida and Iowa into the Union, and for other purposes.Mar 3, 1845
  609. Public Law 28–LXXVIChapter LXXVI: supplemental to the act for the admission of the States of lowa and Florida into the Union.Mar 3, 1845
  610. Public Law 28–LXXVIIChapter LXXVII: making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.Mar 3, 1845
  611. Public Law 28–LXXVIIIChapter LXXVIII: relating to revenue cutters and steamers.Mar 3, 1845