LIST OF THE PUBLIC ACTS OF CONGRESS.
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Payment for Horses and other Property lost or destroyed in the Military Service of the United States. An act 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.
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Reduction of Dragoons, and of the Army, &c. An act respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes.Aug. 23, 1842.
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Claims under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. An act 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.
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Supreme, Circuit and District Courts. An act 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.
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Navy Pension Fund. An act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the navy pension fund. (Oboslete.)Aug. 23, 1842.
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Relief of settlers in Wisconsin. An act for the relief of certain settlers in the territory of Wisconsin.Aug. 23, 1842.
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Pensions. An act 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.
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Payment of the Florida Militia. An act for the payment of Florida militia called into service in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and eighteen hundred and forty. (Obsolete.)Aug. 23, 1842.
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Selection of School Lands granted to Sac and Fox Indians. An act to authorize the selection of school lands in lieu of those granted to half-breeds of the Sac and Fox Indians.Aug. 23, 1842.
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Appropriations for objects not specially included in the former Appropriation Acts. An act legalizing and making 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.
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District Court in Western Virginia. An act to establish a District Court of the United States in the city of Wheeling, in the State of Virginia.Aug. 26, 1842.
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Publication of the Discoveries made by the Exploring Expedition. An act to provide for publishing an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring Expedition, under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes, of the United States Navy.Aug. 26, 1842.
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Patents for Lands entered under Pre-emption Rigths. An act to confirm the sale of public lands in certain cases.Aug. 26, 1842.
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Pay of Pursers and other Officers in the Navy. An act to regulate the pay of pursers and other officers of the navy.Aug. 26, 1842.
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Definition and establishment of the Fiscal Year at the Treasury. An act to define and establish the fiscal year of the Treasury of the United States.Aug. 26, 1842.
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Penitentiary in Iowa. An act to make an appropriation for certain expenses in the erection of a penitentiary in the territory of Iowa.Aug. 29, 1842.
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Insane Hospital in the District of Columbia. An act to provide an insane hospital for the District of Columbia.Aug. 29, 1842.
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An Edition of the Laws of the United States and Regulations of the Post-Office Department. An act 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 post-offices in the United States.Aug. 29, 1842.
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Land District in Missouri, &c. An act for creating a new land district in the State of Missouri, and for changing the boundaries of the south-western and western land districts in said State.Aug. 29, 1842.
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The Justices of the Supreme Court, &c. empowered to grant Writs of Habeas Corpus when Subjects of Foreign Countries are in custody. An act to provide further remedial justice in the Courts of the United States.Aug. 29, 1842.
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Lands in Louisiana. An act in relation to lands sold in the Greensburgh, late St. Helena, land district, in the State of Louisiana, and authorizing the re-survey of certain lands in said district.Aug. 29, 1842.
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Accounts for the support of Government in the Territory of Wisconsin. An act 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.
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