United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress

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1st Session

Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

of the

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 31st day of May, 1841, and ended the 11th day of September, 1842.

John Tyler, President; Samuel L. Southard, President of the Senate, pro tempore. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

	Chapter	Title	Date
1	Chapter I.	An Act making appropriations for the present session of Congress.	June 25, 1841
2	Chapter II.	An Act for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President of the United States. See also Private Acts of the Twenty-Fourth Congress in Volume 6.	June 30, 1841
3	Chapter III.	An Act authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum of twelve millions of dollars.	July 21, 1841
4	Chapter IV.	An Act making appropriation for the pay, subsistence, &c., of a home squadron.	Aug. 1, 1841
5	Chapter V.	An Act making further provision for the maintenance of pauper lunatics in the District of Columbia.	Aug. 3, 1841
6	Chapter VI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 9, 1841
7	Chapter VII.	An Act 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 of embezzlers of public money, and for other purposes.	Aug. 13, 1841
8	Chapter VIII.	An Act to provide for the payment of Navy Pensions.	Aug. 16, 1841
9	Chapter IX.	An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States.	Aug. 19, 1841
10	Chapter X.	An Act further to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office.	Aug. 19, 1841
11	Chapter XI.	An Act 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
12	Chapter XII.	An Act to revive and extend the charters of certain banks in the District of Columbia.	Aug. 19, 1841
13	Chapter XIII.	An Act making an appropriation for the funeral expenses of William Henry Harrison, deceased, late President of the United States.	Sept. 1, 1841
14	Chapter XIV.	An Act in addition to an act entitled an act to carry into effect a Convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic.	Sept. 1, 1841
15	Chapter XV.	An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to provide for taking the Sixth census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States”, approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the acts amending the same.	Sept. 1, 1841
16	Chapter XVI.	An Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights.	Sept. 4, 1841
17	Chapter XVII.	An Act making appropriations for various fortification, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities.	Sept. 9, 1841
18	Chapter XVIII.	An Act to provide for placing Greenough’s Statue of Washington in the Rotundo of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned.	Sept. 9, 1841
19	Chapter XIX.	An Act authorizing the transmission of letters and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison, free of postage.	Sept. 9, 1841
20	Chapter XX.	An Act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department.	Sept. 9, 1841
21	Chapter XXI.	An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes.	Sept. 11, 1841
22	Chapter XXII.	An Act making appropriations for outfits and salaries of diplomatic agents, and for other purposes.	Sept. 11, 1841
23	Chapter XXIII.	An Act to provide for repairing the Potomac Bridge.	Sept. 11, 1841
24	Chapter XXIV.	An Act relating to duties and drawbacks.	Sept. 11, 1841
25	Chapter XXV.	An Act 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.	Sept. 11, 1841

Public Resolutions

Resolution	Date
No. 1. A Resolution manifesting the sensibility of Congress upon the event of the death of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States.	June 14, 1841
No. 2. A Resolution relating to the light-boats now stationed at Sandy Hook and Bartlett’s Reef.	Aug. 25, 1841
No. 3. A Resolution for the distribution of seven hundred copies of the Digest of Patents.	Sept. 1, 1841
No. 4. A Resolution to provide for the distribution of the printed returns of the Sixth Census.	Sept. 1, 1841
No. 5. A Resolution in relation to the purchase of domestic water-rotted hemp for the use of the United States Navy.	Sept. 11, 1841
No. 6. A Joint Resolution making it the duty of the Attorney General to examine into the titles of the lands or sites for the purpose of erecting thereon armories and other public works and buildings, and for other purposes.⁠	Sept. 11, 1841

2nd Session

Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

of the

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 6th day of December, 1841, and ended the 31st day of August, 1842.

John Tyler, President; Samuel L. Southard, President of the Senate, pro tempore. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

	Chapter	Title	Date
1	Chapter I.	An Act making appropriations, in part, for the civil department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.	Dec. 22, 1841
2	Chapter II.	An Act to authorize an issue of Treasury notes.	Jan. 31, 1842
3	Chapter III.	An Act making an appropriation for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries.	Feb. 12, 1842
4	Chapter IV.	An Act making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.	Feb. 12, 1842
5	Chapter V.	An Act 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.	March 4, 1842
6	Chapter VI.	An Act to authorize the Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to hold a special session of the said court.	March 19, 1842
7	Chapter VII.	An Act 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.”	March 19, 1842
8	Chapter VIII.	An Act to authorize the Governors of the States of Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri to cause to be selected the lands therein mentioned.	March 19, 1842
9	Chapter IX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 19, 1842
10	Chapter X.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 19, 1842
11	Chapter XI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 19, 1842
12	Chapter XII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 19, 1842
13	Chapter XIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 19, 1842
14	Chapter XIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 19, 1842
15	Chapter XV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 19, 1842
16	Chapter XVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	April 14, 1842
17	Chapter XVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	April 14, 1842
18	Chapter XVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	April 14, 1842
19	Chapter XIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	April 14, 1842
20	Chapter XX.	An Act to amend the several acts establishing a district court of the United States at Jackson, in the District of West Tennessee.	April 14, 1842
21	Chapter XXI.	An Act to confirm certain entries of lands in the State of Louisiana, and to authorize the issuing of patents for the same.	April 14, 1842
22	Chapter XXII.	An Act authorizing the construction of a war-steamer for harbor defence.	April 14, 1842
23	Chapter XXIII.	An Act to establish certain post roads.	April 14, 1842
24	Chapter XXIV.	An Act 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.	April 14, 1842
25	Chapter XXV.	An Act relative to the act entitled “An act granting lands to certain exiles from Poland,” approved, thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.	April 14, 1842
26	Chapter XXVI.	An Act 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.	April 15, 1842
27	Chapter XXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	May 10, 1842
28	Chapter XXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	May 10, 1842
29	Chapter XXIX.	An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two.	May 18, 1842
30	Chapter XXX.	An Act 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
31	Chapter XXXI.	An Act 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.”	June 1, 1842
32	Chapter XXXII.	An Act regulating commercial intercourse with the port of Cayenne, in the colony of French Guiana, and to remit certain duties.	June 1, 1842
33	Chapter XXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 1, 1842
34	Chapter XXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 4, 1842
35	Chapter XXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 4, 1842
36	Chapter XXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 4, 1842
37	Chapter XXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 4, 1842
38	Chapter XXXVIII.	An act to authorize the collector of the district of Fairfield to reside in either of the towns of Fairfield or Bridgeport.	June 4, 1842
39	Chapter XXXIX.	An Act to provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of Maine for the services of her militia.	June 13, 1842
40	Chapter XL.	An Act 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.”	June 13, 1842
41	Chapter XLI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 13, 1842
42	Chapter XLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 13, 1842
43	Chapter XLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 22, 1842
44	Chapter XLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 22, 1842
45	Chapter XLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 22, 1842
46	Chapter XLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 22, 1842
47	Chapter XLVII.	An Act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth census.	June 25, 1842
48	Chapter XLVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 27, 1842
49	Chapter XLIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	June 27, 1842
50	Chapter L.	An Act confirming certain land claims in Louisiana.	July 6, 1842
51	Chapter LI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 6, 1842
52	Chapter LII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
53	Chapter LIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
54	Chapter LIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
55	Chapter LV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
56	Chapter LVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
57	Chapter LVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
58	Chapter LVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
59	Chapter LIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
60	Chapter LX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
61	Chapter LXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
62	Chapter LXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
63	Chapter LXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 9, 1842
64	Chapter LXIV.	An Act 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-two.	July 17, 1842
65	Chapter LXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
66	Chapter LXVI.	An Act to regulate the value to be affixed to the pound sterling by the Treasury Department.	July 27, 1842
67	Chapter LXVII.	An Act making an appropriation for the repair of the custom-house in Providence.	July 27, 1842
68	Chapter LXVIII.	An Act 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.	July 27, 1842
69	Chapter LXIX.	An Act to provide for satisfying claims for bounty lands, for military services in the late war with Great Britain, and for other purposes.	July 27, 1842
70	Chapter LXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
71	Chapter LXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
72	Chapter LXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
73	Chapter LXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
74	Chapter LXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
75	Chapter LXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
76	Chapter LXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
77	Chapter LXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
78	Chapter LXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
79	Chapter LXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
80	Chapter LXXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
81	Chapter LXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
82	Chapter LXXXII.	An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of Georgetown.	July 27, 1842
83	Chapter LXXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
84	Chapter LXXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
85	Chapter LXXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
86	Chapter LXXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
87	Chapter LXXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
88	Chapter LXXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
89	Chapter LXXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
90	Chapter XC.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
90	Chapter XC.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
91	Chapter XCI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
92	Chapter XCII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
93	Chapter XCIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
94	Chapter XCIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
95	Chapter XCV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
96	Chapter XCVI.	An Act to provide for erecting and lighting lamps on Pennsylvania Avenue.	July 27, 1842
97	Chapter XCVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
98	Chapter XCVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
99	Chapter XCIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
100	Chapter C.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
101	Chapter CI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
102	Chapter CII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
103	Chapter CIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
104	Chapter CIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
105	Chapter CV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
106	Chapter CVI.	An Act in relation to marriages within the District of Columbia.	July 27, 1842
107	Chapter CVII.	An Act to provide for the permanent employment in the Post Office Department of certain clerks heretofore for several years temporarily employed in that Department.	July 30, 1842
108	Chapter CVIII.	An Act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia.	Aug. 1, 1842
109	Chapter CIX.	An Act 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
110	Chapter CX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
111	Chapter CXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
112	Chapter CXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
113	Chapter CXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
114	Chapter CXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
115	Chapter CXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
116	Chapter CXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
117	Chapter CXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
118	Chapter CXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
119	Chapter CXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 1, 1842
120	Chapter CXX.	An Act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.	Aug. 3, 1842
121	Chapter CXXI.	An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.	Aug. 4, 1842
122	Chapter CXXII.	An Act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the peninsula of East Florida.	Aug. 4, 1842
123	Chapter CXXIII.	An Act to regulate appeals and writs of error from the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama.	Aug. 4, 1842
124	Chapter CXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 4, 1842
125	Chapter CXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 9, 1842
126	Chapter CXXVI.	An Act 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
127	Chapter CXXVII.	An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia for the services of her militia.	Aug. 9, 1842
128	Chapter CXXVIII.	An Act to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas.	Aug. 11, 1842
129	Chapter CXXIX.	An Act regulating the services of the several judges in the Territory of Iowa.	Aug. 11, 1842
130	Chapter CXXX.	An Act in relation to the district court for the northern district of New York.	Aug. 11, 1842
131	Chapter CXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
132	Chapter CXXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
133	Chapter CXXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
134	Chapter CXXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
135	Chapter CXXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
136	Chapter CXXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
137	Chapter CXXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
138	Chapter CXXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
139	Chapter CXXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
140	Chapter CXL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
141	Chapter CXLI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
142	Chapter CXLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
143	Chapter CXLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
144	Chapter CXLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
145	Chapter CXLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
146	Chapter CXLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
147	Chapter CXLVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
148	Chapter CXLVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
149	Chapter CXLIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
150	Chapter CL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
151	Chapter CLI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
152	Chapter CLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
153	Chapter CLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
154	Chapter CLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
155	Chapter CLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
156	Chapter CLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
157	Chapter CLVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
158	Chapter CLVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
159	Chapter CLIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
160	Chapter CLX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
161	Chapter CLXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
162	Chapter CLXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
163	Chapter CLXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
164	Chapter CLXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
165	Chapter CLXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
166	Chapter CLXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
167	Chapter CLXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
168	Chapter CLXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
169	Chapter CLXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 11, 1842
170	Chapter CLXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 16, 1842
171	Chapter CLXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 16, 1842
172	Chapter CLXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 16, 1842
173	Chapter CLXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 16, 1842
174	Chapter CLXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 16, 1842
175	Chapter CLXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 16, 1842
176	Chapter CLXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 16, 1842
177	Chapter CLXXVII.	An Act explanatory of an act entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.”	Aug. 16, 1842
178	Chapter CLXXVIII.	An Act authorizing the settlement and payment of certain claims of the State of Alabama.	Aug. 16, 1842
179	Chapter CLXXIX.	An Act to change the name of the port of entry on Lake Erie, known as Portland, to that of Sandusky.	Aug. 16, 1842
180	Chapter CLXXX.	An Act 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
181	Chapter CLXXXI.	An Act requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress.	Aug. 16, 1842
182	Chapter CLXXXII.	An Act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the “Dubuque claim” so called, in the Territory of Iowa.	Aug. 16, 1842
183	Chapter CLXXXIII.	An Act 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
184	Chapter CLXXXIV.	An Act to establish an auxiliary watch for the protection of public and private property in the city of Washington.	Aug. 23, 1842
185	Chapter CLXXXV.	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
186	Chapter CLXXXVI.	An Act respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes.	Aug. 23, 1842
187	Chapter CLXXXVII.	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
188	Chapter CLXXXVIII.	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
189	Chapter CLXXXIX.	An Act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the navy pension fund.	Aug. 23, 1842
190	Chapter CXC.	An Act for the relief of certain settlers in the Territory of Wisconsin.	Aug. 23, 1842
191	Chapter CXCI.	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
192	Chapter CXCII.	An Act 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
193	Chapter CXCIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 23, 1842
194	Chapter CXCIV.	An Act 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
195	Chapter CXCV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 23, 1842
196	Chapter CXCVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 23, 1842
197	Chapter CXCVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 23, 1842
198	Chapter CXCVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 23, 1842
199	Chapter CXCIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 23, 1842
200	Chapter CC.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 23, 1842
201	Chapter CCI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 23, 1842
202	Chapter CCII.	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
203	Chapter CCIII.	An Act to establish a district court of the United States in the city of Wheeling, in the State of Virginia.	Aug. 26, 1842
204	Chapter CCIV.	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
205	Chapter CCV.	An Act to confirm the sale of public lands in certain cases.	Aug. 26, 1842
206	Chapter CCVI.	An Act to regulate the pay of pursers and other officers of the navy.	Aug. 26, 1842
207	Chapter CCVII.	An Act to define and establish the fiscal year of the Treasury of the United States.	Aug. 26, 1842
208	Chapter CCVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
209	Chapter CCIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
210	Chapter CCX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
211	Chapter CCXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
212	Chapter CCXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
213	Chapter CCXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
214	Chapter CCXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
215	Chapter CCXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
216	Chapter CCXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
217	Chapter CCXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
218	Chapter CCXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
219	Chapter CCXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
220	Chapter CCXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
221	Chapter CCXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
222	Chapter CCXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
223	Chapter CCXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
224	Chapter CCXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 26, 1842
225	Chapter CCXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
226	Chapter CCXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
227	Chapter CCXXVII.	An Act to make an appropriation for certain expenses in the erection of a penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa.	Aug. 29, 1842
228	Chapter CCXXVIII.	An Act to provide an insane hospital for the District of Columbia.	Aug. 29, 1842
229	Chapter CCXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
230	Chapter CCXXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
231	Chapter CCXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
232	Chapter CCXXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
233	Chapter CCXXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
234	Chapter CCXXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
235	Chapter CCXXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
236	Chapter CCXXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
237	Chapter CCXXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
238	Chapter CCXXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
239	Chapter CCXXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
240	Chapter CCXL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
241	Chapter CCXLI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
242	Chapter CCXLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
243	Chapter CCXLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
244	Chapter CCXLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
245	Chapter CCXLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
246	Chapter CCXLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
247	Chapter CCXLVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
248	Chapter CCXLVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
249	Chapter CCXLIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
250	Chapter CCL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
251	Chapter CCLI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
252	Chapter CCLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
253	Chapter CCLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
254	Chapter CCLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
255	Chapter CCLV.	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
256	Chapter CCLVI.	An Act 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
257	Chapter CCLVII.	An Act to provide further remedial justice in the courts of the United States.	Aug. 29, 1842
258	Chapter CCLVIII.	An Act 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
259	Chapter CCLIX.	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
260	Chapter CCLX.	An Act 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
261	Chapter CCLXI.	An Act 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
262	Chapter CCLXII.	An Act to authorize the States 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
263	Chapter CCLXIII.	An Act 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
264	Chapter CCLXIV.	An Act to provide for the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.	Aug. 29, 1842
265	Chapter CCLXV.	An Act making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, in North Carolina.	Aug. 29, 1842
266	Chapter CCLXVI.	An Act making appropriations for certain sites for marine hospitals therein mentioned.	Aug. 29, 1842
267	Chapter CCLXVII.	An Act to establish and regulate the navy ration.	Aug. 29, 1842
268	Chapter CCLXVIII.	An Act 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
269	Chapter CCLXIX.	An Act establishing a court at Charleston, in the Commonwealth of Virginia.	Aug. 29, 1842
270	Chapter CCLXX.	An Act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes.	Aug. 30, 1842
271	Chapter CCLXXI.	An Act to establish an additional land office in Florida.	Aug. 30, 1842
272	Chapter CCLXXII.	An act for the relief of the assistants of the Marshal of the United States for the District of Kentucky.	Aug. 30, 1842
273	Chapter CCLXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 30, 1842
274	Chapter CCLXXIV.	An Act [to] establish certain post roads.	Aug. 31, 1842
275	Chapter CCLXXV.	An Act making appropriations to carry into effect a treaty with the Wyandott Indians, and for other purposes.	Aug. 31, 1842
276	Chapter CCLXXVI.	An Act concerning professors of mathematics in the navy of the United States.	Aug. 31, 1842
277	Chapter CCLXXVII.	An Act to authorize the construction of a depot for charts and instruments of the navy of the United States.	Aug. 31, 1842
278	Chapter CCLXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 31, 1842
279	Chapter CCLXXIX.	An Act to regulate the appointment and pay of engineers in the navy of the United States.	Aug. 31, 1842
280	Chapter CCLXXX.	An Act concerning the payment of Florida militia.	Aug. 31, 1842
281	Chapter CCLXXXI.	An Act to extend the collection district of Wiscasset.	Aug. 31, 1842
282	Chapter CCLXXXII.	An Act to suppress the vending of lottery tickets in the District of Columbia.	Aug. 31, 1842
283	Chapter CCLXXXIII.	An Act to provide for purchasing materials and for the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia.	Aug. 31, 1842
284	Chapter CCLXXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 31, 1842
285	Chapter CCLXXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 31, 1842
286	Chapter CCLXXXVI.	An Act to reorganize the Navy Department of the United States.	Aug. 31, 1842
287	Chapter CCLXXXVII.	An Act to limit the sale of the public stock on par, and to authorize the issue of Treasury notes, in lieu thereof, to a certain amount.	Aug. 31, 1842
288	Chapter CCLXXXVIII.	An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.	Aug. 31, 1842

Public Resolutions

Resolution	Date
No. 1. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	April 14, 1842
No. 2. Joint Resolution on the subject of printing the tables of the sixth census.	April 14, 1842
No. 3. A Resolution further to provide for the distribution of the printed returned of the sixth census, and other documents connected with the same, the printing of which has been heretofore directed by law.⁠	April 15, 1842
No. 4. Joint Resolution to continue two clerks in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties.	May 18, 1842
No. 5. A Resolution to authorize the extension of the contract for carrying the mail on the route between Mobile and New Orleans.	June 1, 1842
No. 6. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	July 27, 1842
No. 7. Joint Resolution on the subject of printing the tables of the sixth census.	Aug. 11, 1842
No. 8. A Resolution declarative of the pension act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.	Aug. 16, 1842
No. 9. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 29, 1842
No. 10. Joint Resolution to institute proceedings to ascertain the title to Rush Island, ceded in the Caddo Treaty.	Aug. 30, 1842
No. 11. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Aug. 31, 1842
No. 12. Joint Resolution authorizing experiments to be made for the purpose of testing Samuel Colt’s submarine battery, and for other purposes.	Aug. 31, 1842
No. 13. A Resolution to provide for the payment of the expenses incurred by the Legation at Mexico.	Aug. 31, 1842
No. 14. A Resolution to authorize an extension of a contract for carrying the mail.	Aug. 31, 1842

3rd Session

Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

of the

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 5th day of December, 1842, and ended the 3d day of March, 1843.

John Tyler, President; Willie P. Mangum, President of the Senate, pro tempore. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

	Chapter	Title	Date
1	Chapter I.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Dec. 23, 1842
2	Chapter II.	An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three.	Dec. 24, 1842
3	Chapter III.	An Act to amend the act establishing a district court of the United States at Wheeling, Virginia.	Jan. 20, 1843
4	Chapter IV.	An Act to continue the office of Commissioner of Pensions.	Jan. 20, 1843
5	Chapter V.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
6	Chapter VI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
7	Chapter VII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
8	Chapter VIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
9	Chapter IX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
10	Chapter X.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
11	Chapter XI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
12	Chapter XII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
13	Chapter XIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
14	Chapter XIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
15	Chapter XV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 20, 1843
16	Chapter XVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 28, 1843
17	Chapter XVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 28, 1843
18	Chapter XVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 28, 1843
19	Chapter XIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 28, 1843
20	Chapter XX.	An Act 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
21	Chapter XXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 4, 1843
22	Chapter XXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 4, 1843
23	Chapter XXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 4, 1843
24	Chapter XXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 4, 1843
25	Chapter XXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 4, 1843
26	Chapter XXVI.	An Act 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
27	Chapter XXVII.	An Act making appropriations for pensions 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.	Feb. 14, 1843
28	Chapter XXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 15, 1843
29	Chapter XXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 15, 1843
30	Chapter XXX.	An Act to amend the charter of the town of Alexandria.	Feb. 15, 1843
31	Chapter XXXI.	An Act 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. 15, 1843
32	Chapter XXXII.	An Act to change the place of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Maine.	Feb. 15, 1843
33	Chapter XXXIII.	An Act to authorize the Legislatures of 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
34	Chapter XXXIV.	An Act 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
35	Chapter XXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 18, 1843
36	Chapter XXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 18, 1843
37	Chapter XXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 18, 1843
38	Chapter XXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 24, 1843
39	Chapter XXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 24, 1843
40	Chapter XL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 24, 1843
41	Chapter XLI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 24, 1843
42	Chapter XLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 24, 1843
43	Chapter XLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 24, 1843
44	Chapter XLIV.	An Act altering the times of holding the circuit court of the United States for the district of Connecticut.	Feb. 24, 1843
45	Chapter XLV.	An Act to continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore.	Feb. 24, 1843
46	Chapter XLVI.	An Act amendatory of an act establishing the branch mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, and defining the duties of assayer and coiner.	Feb. 27, 1843
47	Chapter XLVII.	An Act to amend an act entitled “An act making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, North Carolina.”	Feb. 27, 1843
48	Chapter XLVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 27, 1843
49	Chapter XLIX.	An Act amendatory of “An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.”	March 1, 1843
50	Chapter L.	An Act to perfect the titles to lands south of the Arkansas river, held under New Madrid locations, and pre-emption rights under the act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen [fifteen].	March 1, 1843
51	Chapter LI.	An Act in relation to the two per cent. fund of the State of Mississippi.	March 1, 1843
52	Chapter LII.	An Act 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.	March 1, 1843
53	Chapter LIII.	An Act 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.	March 1, 1843
54	Chapter LIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
55	Chapter LV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
56	Chapter LVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
57	Chapter LVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
58	Chapter LVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
59	Chapter LIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
60	Chapter LX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
61	Chapter LXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
62	Chapter LXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
63	Chapter LXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
64	Chapter LXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
65	Chapter LXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
66	Chapter LXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
67	Chapter LXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
68	Chapter LXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 1, 1843
69	Chapter LXIX.	An Act regulating the currency of foreign gold and silver coins in the United States.	March 3, 1843
70	Chapter LXX.	An Act 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.	March 3, 1843
71	Chapter LXXI.	An Act declaring Robbinston in the State of Maine, to be a port of delivery.	March 3, 1843
72	Chapter LXXII.	An Act to permit the entry of merchandise recovered from shipwreck, in certain cases, free from duty.	March 3, 1843
73	Chapter LXXIII.	An Act to reduce the salary of the surveyor of the port of Camden, New Jersey.	March 3, 1843
74	Chapter LXXIV.	An Act to change the times of holding the circuit and district courts for the district of East Tennessee.	March 3, 1843
75	Chapter LXXV.	An Act to fix the compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.	March 3, 1843
76	Chapter LXXVI.	An Act 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.	March 3, 1843
77	Chapter LXXVII.	An Act to set aside certain reservations of lands, on account of live oak in the southeastern district of Louisiana.	March 3, 1843
78	Chapter LXXVIII.	An act 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.	March 3, 1843
79	Chapter LXXIX.	An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act to extend the collection district of Wiscasset.”	March 3, 1843
80	Chapter LXXX.	An Act 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 on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and for other purposes.	March 3, 1843
81	Chapter LXXXI.	An Act authorizing the reissue of treasury notes and for other purposes.	March 3, 1843
82	Chapter LXXXII.	An Act to repeal the bankrupt act.	March 3, 1843
83	Chapter LXXXIII.	An Act 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.	March 3, 1843
84	Chapter LXXXIV.	An Act to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs by the United States.	March 3, 1843
85	Chapter LXXXV.	An Act for the protection of commerce on Lake Michigan.	March 3, 1843
86	Chapter LXXXVI.	An Act to authorize the investigation of alleged frauds under the pre-emption laws, and for other purposes.	March 3, 1843
87	Chapter LXXXVII.	An Act to provide, in certain cases, for the sale of the real estate of infants within the District of Columbia.	March 3, 1843
88	Chapter LXXXVIII.	An Act directing the survey of the northern line of the reservation for the half-breed of the Sochs [Sacs] and Fox tribes of Indians by the treaty of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.	March 3, 1843
89	Chapter LXXXIX.	An Act 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.	March 3, 1843
90	Chapter XC.	An act providing the means of future intercourse between the United States, and the Government of China.	March 3, 1843
91	Chapter XCI.	An Act 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.	March 3, 1843
92	Chapter XCII.	An Act to fix the value of certain foreign moneys of account, in computations at the custom-houses.	March 3, 1843
93	Chapter XCIII.	An Act authorizing an examination and survey or the harbor of Memphis, in Tennessee.	March 3, 1843
94	Chapter XCIV.	An Act 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.	March 3, 1843
95	Chapter XCV.	An Act 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.”	March 3, 1843
96	Chapter XCVI.	An Act providing for the settlement of claims for supplies furnished the Florida militia.	March 3, 1843
97	Chapter XCVII.	An Act to provide for holding circuit courts at Williamsport in the western district of Pennsylvania.	March 3, 1843
98	Chapter XCVIII.	An Act to amend the laws regulating imprisonment for debt within the District of Columbia.	March 3, 1843
99	Chapter XCIX.	An Act to authorize the election or appointment of officers in the Territory of Wisconsin.	March 3, 1843
100	Chapter C.	An Act 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.	March 3, 1843
101	Chapter CI.	An Act for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, in the Territory of Wiskonsan.	March 3, 1843
102	Chapter CII.	An Act granting a pension to certain revolutionary soldiers.	March 3, 1843
103	Chapter CIII.	An Act further to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States.	March 3, 1843
104	Chapter CIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
105	Chapter CV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
106	Chapter CVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
107	Chapter CVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
108	Chapter CVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
109	Chapter CIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
110	Chapter CX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
111	Chapter CXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
112	Chapter CXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
113	Chapter CXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
114	Chapter CXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
115	Chapter CXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
116	Chapter CXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
117	Chapter CXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
118	Chapter CXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
119	Chapter CXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
120	Chapter CXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
121	Chapter CXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
122	Chapter CXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
123	Chapter CXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
124	Chapter CXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
125	Chapter CXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
126	Chapter CXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
127	Chapter CXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
128	Chapter CXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
129	Chapter CXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
130	Chapter CXXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
131	Chapter CXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
132	Chapter CXXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
133	Chapter CXXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
134	Chapter CXXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
135	Chapter CXXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
136	Chapter CXXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
137	Chapter CXXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
138	Chapter CXXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
139	Chapter CXXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
140	Chapter CXL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
141	Chapter CXL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
142	Chapter CXLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
143	Chapter CXLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
144	Chapter CXLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
145	Chapter CXLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
146	Chapter CXLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
147	Chapter CXLVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
148	Chapter CXLVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
149	Chapter CXLIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
150	Chapter CL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
151	Chapter CLI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
152	Chapter CLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
153	Chapter CLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
154	Chapter CLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
155	Chapter CLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
156	Chapter CLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
157	Chapter CLVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
158	Chapter CLVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
159	Chapter CLIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
160	Chapter CLX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
161	Chapter CLXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
162	Chapter CLXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
163	Chapter CLXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
164	Chapter CLXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
165	Chapter CLXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
166	Chapter CLXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
167	Chapter CLXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
168	Chapter CLXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
169	Chapter CLXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
170	Chapter CLXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
171	Chapter CLXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
172	Chapter CLXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
173	Chapter CLXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
174	Chapter CLXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
175	Chapter CLXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
176	Chapter CLXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
177	Chapter CLXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
178	Chapter CLXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
179	Chapter CLXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
180	Chapter CLXXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
181	Chapter CLXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
182	Chapter CLXXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843

Public Resolutions

Resolution	Date
No. 1. Joint Resolution for the distribution of catalogues of the library of Congress.	Jan. 20, 1843
No. 2. Joint Resolution to establish agencies for water-rotted hemp.	Feb. 18, 1843
No. 3. A Resolution for the distribution of certain copies of the Census returns and of the Compendium of the Sixth Census.	Feb. 24, 1843
No. 4. Joint Resolution directing certain papers relating to titles to land in Louisiana, to be returned to the General Land Office.⁠	March 3, 1843
No. 5. Joint Resolution, in relation to certain property purchased for the United States in the city of Detroit.	March 3, 1843
No. 6. Joint Resolution for continuing an additional clerk in the Second Auditor’s office.	March 3, 1843
No. 7. Joint Resolution relating to patents for bounty lands.	March 3, 1843
No. 8. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843
No. 9. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1843