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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875

Bills and Resolutions, Senate: Index --INDEX TO THE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.

Senate Bills : Index to 22nd Congress, 1st Session
INDEX TO THE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.

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RESOLUTIONS.
• ... No.
• Navy to allow interest in certain cases. To authorize the Secretary of the ... 1
• Maps for the use of the committees of the Senate. Directing the Secretary to purchase, (Not printed) ... 2
• Secret Journals of the Old Congress. For distribution of certain copies of the ... 3
• Washington. Authorizing the President to contract for a pedestrian statue of ... 4
• Pensions, to be performed by the Secretary of war. Directing certain duties, relating to (Not printed) ... 5
• Congressional documents. Directing distribution of a compilation of ... 6
• State Department. Authorizing the Secretary of State to employ persons to arrange and make an index for the papers in the (Not printed) ... 7
• Washington. Directing the purchase of Peale's original portrait of ... 8
• Vault on the ground allotted for the interment of members of Congress. To construct a (Not printed) ... 9
• Census. Providing for binding certain copies of returns of the fifth (Not printed) ... 10

BILLS.
• A.
• Adams, late Collector of internal revenue in South Carolina. For release of one of the sureties of Francis ... 17
• Advances made to United States during last war. For final settlement of claims of States for interest on ... 5
• Advances for the pay of soldiers of the United States' army. To refund to Bartholomew Shaumburgh the amount of ... 77
• Agent of the Treasury. To compensate Stephen Pleasanton, as late ... 75
• Alabama, for purposes of female education. Granting a township of land to ... 163
• Alabama. Confirming certain land claims in the district of St. Stephens, ... 191
• Alabama for improving the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers. Supplement to act granting lands to ... 201
• Alabama. To amend an act for the better organization of the District Courts of the United States in ... 207
• Allen, late marshal of Vermont. To allow poundage fees to Heman ... 41
• Andrews to roll of revolutionary pensioners. To restore the name of Samuel ... 140
• American Annual Register. For purchase of 100 copies of the ... 65
• Appeals, writs of error, and supersedeas, from district courts to the Supreme Court of the United States, in certain cases. Authorizing (Not printed) ... 3

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• Arkansas one thousand acres of land for erection of a court-house and jail at Little Rock. Granting to Territory of ... 54
• Arkansas. To create the office of Surveyor of the public lands in the Territory of ... 159
• Arkansas. Authorizing the President to cause a road to be opened from Helena to the mouth of Cache river, in the Territory of ... 174
• Armament of fortifications. Providing for the ... 7
• Army of the United States. To authorize the mounting and equipment of a part of the ... 6
• Army, for property destroyed by the conflagration of Fort Delaware. To pay officers and soldiers of the ... 73
• Army. To repeal so much of law as authorize the President to confer brevet rank on the officers of the ... 119
• Army. To increase the number of Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons in the ... 120
• Army. To increase and regulate the pay of Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons of the ... 139
• Arts, authorizing the issue of new patents, in lieu of others, erroneously issued. Supplementary to the acts to promote the progress of the useful ... 142
• Astor, of New York. To authorize the Secretary of War to release the title of the United States to land at Fort Gansevoort to John Jacob ... 109
• Augusta College, in Kentucky, by making a donation to it one township of land For encouragement of ... 128
• Austill, for repair of post road. To pay Thomas Rhodes and Jeremiah ... 204
• Avenue, in the City of Washington. For improvement of the Pennsylvania ... 148
• B.
• Back lands. To authorize the inhabitants of Louisiana to enter the ... 34
• Bail of the claimants of property seized, &c. To authorize the judges of the courts of the United States to take ... 79
• Bailey and James Rinker for slaves taken for the public service, during the late war. To pay Thomas ... 143
• Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Authorizing a subscription of stock in the ... 93
• Bank of the United States. To modify and continue the act to incorporate the subscribers to the ... 147

  Do. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 147

• Bank of the United States. Supplement to the act for punishment of certain crimes, and to punish forgeries, &c., against the ... 182
• Bank of Indiana. To compromise the claim of the United States on the Farmers and Mechanics' (Not printed) ... 194
• Bank of Wooster. To compromise the claim of the United States on the German ... 198
• Barracks, quarters, store-houses, in the vicinity of New-Orleans. For purchase of a site and erection of ... 43

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 43

• Barry, deceased, for property destroyed in the navy yard, at Washington, during the late war. To pay the heirs of Edward ... 103

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• Bay and others, grants of lands in the district west of Pearl river. Confirming to Elihu Hall ... 78
• Beard for merchandise seized at the commencement of last war. To pay David ... 213
• Bills drawn on that Department, in certain cases. Resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to allow interest on ... 1
• Binding certain copies of the returns of the fifth census. Providing for (Not printed) ... 10
• Blackwell, deceased, on account of revolutionary services. To grant land to E. Scott, heir at law of Captain William ... 110
• Blackwell, one year's pay on account of revolutionary services. To allow Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Captain William ... 177
• Blake on the roll of revolutionary pensioners. To place the name of John ... 129
• Blankets, and other Indian goods. To reduce the duty on ... 44
• Blodget, widow of Samuel Blodget, deceased, for dower right in property held by the United States. To satisfy Rebecca ... 195
• Blunt's American Annual Register. To purchase 100 copies of ... 65
• Boundary line of Ohio. For taking observations for settling the northern ... 155
• Braham and John Read, Receiver and Register of the land office at Huntsville, Alabama. Relief of John ... 50
• Brantly, patents for lands relinquished by mistake. To authorize the issue to Anthony M. Mentor and John ... 124
• Brashears, and afterwards sold by the United States. To authorize Elizabeth Magruder to locate a quantity of land, in lieu of land confirmed to Ann ... 59
• Brevet rank on officers of the army. To repeal so much of the laws as authorize the President to confer ... 119
• Brevet rank. To make certain allowances to officers of the marine corps on account of ... 151
• Bridge and draw over the Potomac river, in the District of Columbia. To alter the ... 8

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives.) ... 8

• Bridge over the Chattahoochie river. Granting to the town of Columbus, in Georgia, a lot of ground for the abutment of a ... 60
• Bridge over the Potomac river, at Georgetown, D. C. To erect a ... 210
• Brightwell, for his services as acting marshal of Washington district, Mississippi. To pay heirs of Theodore ... 206
• Brooks, for the apprehension of a mail robber. To pay Christopher ... 81
• Brown, deceased, late collector of direct tax and internal duties. For the relief of the sureties of George ... 82
• Brunson for property destroyed during the late war. To pay John ... 62
• Bryant. [Introduced as amendment to bill for relief S. G. Peabody.] To allow arrearage of pension to John (Amended and not printed) ... 146
• Burial ground, allotted to the interment of members of Congress. Resolution to construct a vault in the (Not printed) ... 19
• Burr to the roll of revolutionary pensioners. To restore the name of Daniel ... 134
• Burris, of Mississippi. For the relief of William (Not printed) ... 106
• C.
• Canal to connect the waters of Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan. To amend an act to grant land to Illinois for opening ... 64
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• Canal, and subscribing for stock. To give effect to an act of the Legislature of Virginia, for the commencement of the western section of the Chesapeake and Ohio (Not printed) ... 164
• Canal in the Big Swamp. To grant land to Missouri to open a (Not printed) ... 165
• Canals between Chipola river and St. Andrews bay, and from Matanzas to Halifax river, in said Territory. Supplementary to an act to authorize Florida to open ... 176
• Canal, and make the navigation of the Ohio river free. To purchase the stock of the Louisville and Portland (Not printed) ... 200
• Carruth. For the relief of the representatives of Elias Earle, late one of the sureties of Adam ... 49
• Carter an additional allowance for salt, furnished during the last war. To grant to Farish ... 171
• Census. Providing for binding certain copies of the returns of the fifth (Not printed) ... 10
• Certificate, held by John Brickwood Taylor, To pay a final settlement ... 32
• Certificate, held by Richard G. Morris. To pay a final settlement ... 70
• Certificates. To revive and continue in force an act authorizing the payment of certain ... 136
• Certificates held by Gertrude Gates. To pay a final settlement ... 162
• Chamberlain as an invalid. To allow an arrearage of pension to ... 24
• Champlain, late a Paymaster in the army of the United States. Relief of one of the sureties of Samuel ... 96
• Chandler and William Johnson, sureties of J. B. Griffin. Relief of John (Not printed) ... 39
• Chandonai, a half-breed Potawatamie, for services rendered last war. To grant a section of land to John B. ... 196
• Chaplin to roll of revolutionary pensioners. To restore David ... 48
• Chapman, formerly Collector of Georgetown, South Carolina. Relief of Thomas ... 184
• Charter of the Provident Association of Clerks. To extend the ... 185
• Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and subscribing for stock. To give effect to an act of the Legislature of Virginia for the commencement of the western section of the (Not printed) ... 164
• Chocktaw women. Land granted to E. Debrill and S. Hancock ... 102
• Claims of South Carolina against the United States. For the adjustment and settlement of the (Not printed) ... 2
• Claims of States for interest on advances made to the United States during last war. For final settlement of the ... 5
• Claims on account of French spoliations, prior to 1800. For the satisfaction of ... 9
• Claims of Virginia, on account of half-pay, &c., of the officers of the line of that State, in the war of the revolution. To liquidate and settle the ... 88
• Clark to roll of revolutionary pensioners. To restore the name of James ... 145
• Clerks in the General Land Office. To establish the number, and fix the compensation of the ... 94
• Clerks in the Surveyor General's Office, in Mississippi and Missouri, Ohio and Indiana, and Territory of Michigan. Making appropriations to employ additional ... 156
• Clerks. To extend the charter of the Provident Association of ... 185

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• Cockburn for lands purchased at public sale. Directing patents to be issued to Walter ... 117
• College, in Mississippi, to relinquish certain lands, and locate other tracts. To authorize the trustees of Jefferson ... 47
• College of St. Louis. To grant a township of land to the French ... 53
• College, in Kentucky. Making a donation of land to Augusta ... 128
• College. Granting lots of ground in Washington to the Columbian ... 150
• Columbian College. Granting lots of ground in Washington to the ... 150
• Columbus, in Georgia, for the abutment of a bridge, &c. Granting a lot of ground to the town of ... 60
• Commissioners of the Navy. To provide for the distribution of the duties of the ... 35
• Commissioner of Indian Affairs. To provide for the appointment of a ... 125
• Commutation of pay as a lieutenant in the revolution. To pay to John J. Jacob the amount of his ... 28
• Compromise the claim of the United States on the firm of Thomas H. Smith and Sons, &c. To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ... 183
• Compromise the claim of the United States on the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Indiana. To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to (Not printed) ... 194
• Compromise the claim of the United States on the German Bank of Wooster. To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ... 198
• Congress. Resolution to construct a vault on the ground allotted for the interment of members of (Not printed) ... 9
• Congressional documents. Resolution directing the distribution of a compilation of ... 6
• Court of the United States. Authorizing appeals, writs of error, and supersedeas, from the district courts to the Supreme (Not printed) ... 3
• Courts of the United States to take bail of claimants of property seized, and perform other acts in vacation. To authorize the judges of the ... 79
• Court of the United States in Illinois. To alter the times of holding the district ... 112
• Courts of the United States in Alabama. To amend the act for the better organization of the District ... 207
• Crane to roll of revolutionary pensioners. To restore the name of Abijah ... 95
• Creek Indians, in lieu of reservations sold by the United States. To grant land to certain friendly ... 187
• Crimes against the United States, &c. Supplementary to the act for the punishment of certain ... 182
• Cumberland road in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. For continuation of the ... 61
• Cumberland road. Giving the assent of Congress to act of Pennsylvania and Maryland for preservation and repair of the ... 111
• Cumberland road from Vandalia, Illinois, to Jefferson, Missouri. For continuation of the (Not printed) ... 213
• Cushman to roll of revolutionary pensioners. To restore name of Andrew ... 144
• D.
• Dameron, for extra services as Receiver and Register of the land office at Augusta. To pay Will. Howze and George B. ... 107
• Davenport five years' full pay, on account of his revolutionary services, with interest thereon. To pay the heirs of Thomas ... 168

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• Debenture to port of Key West. To extend further the right of ... 127
• Debrill and S. Hancock, Chocktaw women. Land granted to Elzira ... 102
• Delassus. For the relief of Don Carlos Dehault ... 21
• Dennis, and legal representatives of Asa Hartfield. For relief of Thomas ... 67
• Dickson. Authority to issue land script to William ... 122
• Distribution of a compilation of Congressional documents. Resolution directing the ... 6
• District of Columbia. To alter the bridge and draw over the Potomac river, in the ... 8
• Dobson, deceased. To issue a duplicate revolutionary land warrant to the assignee of Henry ... 203
• Dohrman to certain land in the Steubenville land district, Ohio. Confirming the claim of the representatives of Arnold Henry ... 90
• Documents. Resolution directing the distribution of a compilation of Congressional ... 6
• Draw over the Potomac river, in the District of Columbia. To alter the bridge and ... 8
• Drawback of duties on indigo to John and Benjamin Wells, of Boston. To allow ... 97
• Du Commun, of twenty dollars per month, as an invalid. To allow a pension to Joseph ... 181
• Duties on articles for the use of the Church, remitted to Benedict Joseph Flaget, bishop of Bairdstown ... 26
• Duties under the tariff act of 1828. Te exempt merchandise, under certain circumstances, from the payment of ... 69

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives.) ... 69

• Duties on indigo to John and Benjamin Wells, of Boston. To allow a drawback of ... 97
• Duties on imports. To repeal, in part the ... 167

  Ditto. (Amendment, by Mr. Dickerson) ... 167

  Ditto. (Amendment, by M. Tazewell) ... 167

• Duties on tonnage. To exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of ... 178
• Duties on imports. Further to amend the several acts imposing ... 190
• Duty on alum salt. To abolish the ... 31
• Duty imposed by tariff act of 1828. To refund to John F. Lewis additional ... 84
• Duty on blankets, and other Indian goods. To reduce the ... 44
• Duty iron prepared for railways or inclined planes. To release from ... 131
• Duty on Spanish vessels. Concerning tonnage ... 211
• E.
• Earle, deceased. For the relief of the representatives of Elias ... 49
• Education. Granting land to certain States for purposes of female ... 163
• Edwards, the late collector of direct taxes and internal duties, in Kentucky. Relief of sureties of Amos ... 37
• Elliott. The right of the United States to a reservation of land, vested in Joseph ... 76
• Engineers. To organize the corps of Topographical ... 137
• Evans, late collector of direct taxes, in Massachusetts. To refund money paid by Ebenezer T. Warren, as one of the sureties of Daniel ... 66

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• F.
• Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Indiana. To compromise the claim of the United States on the (Not printed) ... 194
• Final settlement certificate held by John Brickwood Taylor. To pay a ... 32
• Final settlement certificate held by Richard G. Morris. To pay a ... 70
• Final settlement certificate held by Gertrude Gates. To pay a ... 162
• Flaget, bishop of Bairdstown. Duties on articles, for the use of the Church, remitted to Benedict Joseph ... 26
• Florida to open canals between Chipola river and St. Andrews bay, and from Matanzas to Halifax river, in said Territory. Supplementary to an act authorizing ... 176
• Fort Delaware. To pay officers and soldiers for property destroyed by the conflagration of ... 73
• Fort Delaware has been erected. To authorize the Secretary of War to enter into compromise to secure to the United States a title to the island on which ... 130
• Fort Gansevoort, New York. To authorize the Secretary of War to release the title of the United States to land at ... 109
• Fortifications. Providing for the armament of ... 7
• French College of St. Louis. To grant a township of land to the ... 53
• French spoliations, prior to September, 1800. For the satisfaction of claims on account of ... 9
• Frontiers. To raise five companies of rangers for the defence of the north-western (Not printed) ... 208
• G.
• Gales and Seaton. Resolution directing distribution of a compilation of Consional documents, printed by ... 6
• Gardner. For the relief of Sophia (Not printed) ... 12
• Gates, the amount of a final settlement certificate. To pay to Gertrude ... 162
• Georgetown, D. C. To erect a bridge over the Potomac at ... 210
• German Bank of Wooster. To compromise the claim of the United States on the ... 198
• Girod, for land purchased by him. Directing a patent to be issued to John F. ... 132
• Green, printer to Congress. Providing for subscription to a number of copies of a stereotype edition of the laws of the United States, proposed to be published by Duff ... 86
• Griffin For the relief of John Chandler and William Johnson, sureties of J. B. (Not printed) ... 39
• H.
• Hale to roll of revolutionary pensioners. To restore Israel ... 48
• Hamilton, late surety of Amos Edwards, &c. For relief of heirs of Joseph D. ... 37
• Hamlin to roll of revolutionary pensioners. To restore America ... 48
• Half-pay of the officers of the line of that State in the war of the revolution. To liquidate and settle the claims of Virginia, on account of the ... 88
• Hancock, Choctaw women. Land granted to Elzira Debrill and Sophy ... 102
• Harrison, one of the sureties of Francis Adams, late Collector of internal duties in South Carolina. For release of John H. ... 17
• Hartfield. For relief of Thomas Dennis, and legal representatives of Asa ... 67
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• Hickman, for eight rifles furnished during the late war. To pay to the widow of Captain Paschal ... 170
• Holliday to a tract of land in Louisiana Confirming the claim of Maria ... 46
• Howard, as an invalid. [Introduced as an amendment to a bill for relief of S. G. Peabody. ] To allow arrearage of pension to Geo. W. (Amendment not printed) ... 146
• Howard, as an invalid. To allow arrears of pension to Geo. W. ... 180
• Howze and George B. Dameron, as Receiver and Register of the land office at Augusta, To pay to William ... 107
• I.
• Illinois to sell 20,000 acres of the saline lands in said State. To authorize ... 23
• Illinois, for opening a canal to connect the Illinois river with Lake Michigan. To amend an act to grant land to ... 64
• Illinois. To extend right of pre-emption to certain settlers of township 5 north, one west of third principal meridian, of land in ... 104
• Illinois. To alter the times of holding the district court of the United States in ... 112
• Illinois, for purposes of female education. Granting a township of land to ... 163
• Index to be made to the papers in the State Department. Resolution authorizing an (Not printed) ... 7
• Indian title to land in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. To enable the President to extinguish the (Amendments not printed) ... 11
• Indian goods. To reduce the duty on blankets, and other ... 44
• Indian reservations of land, as applies to George Stiggins. To amend so much of an act relinquishing reversionary interest of the United States to ... 89
• Indian Affairs. To provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of ... 125
• Indians, in lieu of reservations sold by the United States. To grant land to certain friendly Creek ... 187
• Indian killed in service of the United States. To grant land to child of a Creek ... 192
• Indian, for services during last war. To grant land to a half breed Potawatamie ... 196
• Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. To enable the President to extinguish the Indian title to land in (Amendments not printed) ... 11
• Indiana. To establish an additional land office at the southern bend of St. Josephs of Lake Michigan, in ... 29

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 29

• Indiana to sell and convey certain lands granted to said State. To authorize ... 105
• Indiana, for purposes of female education. Granting a township of land to ... 163
• Indiana. To compromise the claim of the United States on the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of (Not printed) ... 194
• Interest on bills drawn on the Department, in certain cases. Resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to allow ... 1
• Interest on advances made to the United States during the last war. For final settlement of claims of the States for ... 5

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 5

• Interest thereon. To allow the heirs of Thomas Davenport five years' full pay, on account of his revolutionary services, with ... 168
• Internal improvement. To grant a certain quantity of land to Missouri for purposes of ... 157
• Iron prepared for railways or inclined planes. To release from duty ... 131

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• J.
• Jacob, the amount of his commutation of pay, as a lieutenant in the revolution. To pay John J. ... 28

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 28

• Jefferson. Making a donation of land to Martha Randolph, only surviving child of Thomas ... 16
• Jefferson College,in Mississippi, to relinquish certain lands, and locate other tracts. Authorizing the trustees of ... 47
• Johnston. To amend an act for the relief of George ... 18
• Johnson, sureties of J. B. Griffin. Relief of John Chandler and William (Not printed) ... 39
• Jordan, for a quarter section of land, on his surrendering one before issued. To authorize the issue of a patent to Jacob C. ... 175
• Journals of the Old Congress. Resolution for distribution of certain copies of the Secret ... 3
• Judgment obtained against him. To release James W. Zachary from a ... 51
• Judgments against D. E. Twiggs, J. M. Street, and Stephen W. Kearney, on account of procedures in discharge of their official duties. To discharge suits and ... 160
• Judges of courts of the United States to take bail of the claimants of property seized, and perform other acts in vacation, &c. To authorize the ... 79
• K.
• Kaskaskia river. Making an appropriation for survey of the (Not printed) ... 154
• Kearney, on account of procedures in discharge of their official duties. To discharge suits and judgments against D. E. Twiggs, J. M. Street, and Stephen W. ... 160
• Kennedy to a tract of land in Mobile. Confirming claim of Joshua ... 10
• Kennedy for property destroyed during the last war. To pay Joshua ... 57
• Key West. To extend further the right of debenture, and to alter the limits of the district of ... 127
• L.
• Land in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. To enable the President to extinguish Indian title to (Amendments not printed) ... 11
• Lands heretofore in market, and to grant a preference to actual settlers. To reduce the price of a portion of the public ... 20
• Lands, providing that those lands shall be offered at public sale, in quarter sections. Supplementary to the several laws for the sale of public ... 22

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 22

• Lands. Supplementary to an act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on public ... 25
• Lands. Supplemental to act granting the right of pre-emption to settlers on the public ... 56

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 56

• Land in Illinois. To extend the right of pre-emption to settlers of township five north, one west of the principal meridian of ... 104
• Lands reserved from sale at Fort Jackson, Alabama. To authorize the sale of ... 108

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• Lands that have reverted for non-payment. To amend an act for the relief of the purchasers of public ... 158
• Lands. To appropriate, for a limited time, the proceeds of the sales of the public ... 179

  Ditto. (Amendment by Mr. Poindexter) ... 179

• Land office at the southern bend of St. Josephs of Lake Michigan, in Indiana. To establish a new ... 29

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 29

• Land Office, and prescribing the mode by which patents for public lands shall be executed, granted, and issued. Providing for the appointment of a Recorder of the ... 83
• Land Office. To establish the number, and fix the compensation, of clerks in the General ... 94
• Lands in Mississippi and Missouri, Ohio and Indiana, and Territory of Michigan. Making appropriations to employ additional clerks in the offices of the Surveyors General of public ... 156
• Lands in the Territory of Arkansas. To create the office of Surveyor of the public ... 159
• Lands south of Tennessee. To remove the office of Surveyor General of public ... 166
• Land offices in the Choctaw purchase, and for the more convenient organization of the land districts in the State of Mississippi. To create a new ... 169
• Land office at Huntsville, Alabama. To compensate the late Register and Receiver of the ... 50
• Land offices. To allow office rent to the Registers and Receivers of the several ... 113
• Land office at Tallahassee, Forida. To make additional compensation to the Register and Receiver of the ... 188
• Lands in said State. To authorize the State of Illinois to sell 20,000 acres of the saline ... 23
• Lands. To authorize the inhabitants of Louisiana to enter the back ... 34
• Lands granted for the use of schools in States and Territories, and the entry of other lands in lieu thereof. Authorizing the relinquishment of the sixteenth sections of ... 52

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 52

• Land for the erection of a court house and jail at Little Rock. Granting to the Territory of Arkansas one thousand acres of ... 54
• Land for the abutment of a bridge over the Chattahoochie river. Granting to the town of Columbus, in Georgia, a lot of ... 60
• Land to Illinois for opening a canal to connect the waters of Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan. To amend an act to grant ... 64
• Lands granted to said State. To authorize Indiana to sell and convey certain ... 105
• Land to Missouri for purposes of internal improvement. To grant a certain quantity of ... 157
• Land to each of the States of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama, for purposes of female education. Granting a township of (Amendments not printed) ... 163
• Land to Missouri, to open a canal in the Big Swamp. To grant (Not printed) ... 165
• Lands in Louisiana. To pay five per cent. of the nett proceeds of the sales of the public ... 173

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• Land to Alabama, for the improvement of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers. Supplementary to act granting ... 201
• Land in Mobile. Confirming the claim of Joshua Kennedy to a tract of ... 10
• Land in Mississippi. The legal representatives of Peter, Catharine, and Charles Surget, authorized to locate certain Spanish grants of ... 45
• Land, in Louisiana. Confirming the claim of Maria Holliday to a tract of ... 46
• Land, in lieu of land confirmed to Ann Brashears and afterwards sold by the United States. To authorize Elizabeth Magruder to locate a quantity of ... 59
• Land in district west of Pearl river. Confirming to Elihu Hall Bay and others grants of ... 78
• Land as applied to George Stiggins. To amend so much of an act relinquishing reversionary interest of the United States to Indian reservations of ... 89
• Land in the Steubenville land district, Ohio. Confirming the claim of the representatives of Arnold Henry Dohrman to ... 90
• Land in lieu of land granted by the Spanish Government. To authorize Nathaniel A. Ware to locate a tract of ... 101
• Land claims in Missouri. For the final adjustment of private ... 114
• Land granted by the Spanish Government, and sold by the United States. To authorize heirs of P. C. Walker and others, deceased, to locate 500 acres of land in lieu of a tract of ... 133
• Land to certain friendly Creek Indians in lieu of reservations made in their favor, and sold by the United States. To grant ... 187
• Land claims in the district of St. Stephens, Alabama. Confirming certain ... 191
• Lands. To enable the heirs of Elisha Winter and Sons to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims to ... 197
• Land confirmed to him by a board of commissioners. To authorize heirs of Lawrence Milligan to locate a quantity of ... 205
• Land. To enable Dixon Spears to correct an error made in entering a quarter section of ... 13
• Land. To enable John Proctor to correct a mistake in entering a quarter section of ... 14
• Land sold him which was afterwards found not to belong to the United States. To return to Hartwell Vick a sum of money paid for ... 27
• Lands, and locate other tracts. Authorizing the trustees of Jefferson College, in Mississippi, to relinquish certain ... 47
• Land in lieu of the reservation given him by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. Granting to Middleton McKay a section of ... 55
• Land purchased from the United States, and directing a patent withheld on account of some informality or mistake in the land office to be issued. To correct a mistake in the entry or location of a tract of ... 67
• Land reserved for the Miami Indians. To pay Wm. Wayne Wells for a section of ... 99
• Land purchased at public sale. Directing patents to be issued to Walter Cockburn for ... 117
• Lands forfeited for non-payment. Authority to issue scrip to Wm. Dickson for ... 122
• Lands relinquished by mistake. To authorize the issue to Anthony M. Mentor and John Brantly patents for ... 124
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• Land purchased by him, and directing the return of money improperly paid by him for said land. Authorizing a patent to be issued to John F. Girod for ... 132
• Land, on his surrendering one before issued. To authorize the issue of patent to Jacob C. Jordan for a quarter section of ... 175
• Land warrant. To issue to heirs of Lewis Miller, deceased, a duplicate revolutionary ... 203
• Land to Martha Randolph, only surviving child of Thomas Jefferson. Making a donation of ... 16
• Land to the French College of St. Louis. To grant a township of ... 53
• Land vested in Joseph Elliott. The right of the United States to a reservation of ... 76
• Land granted to Eliza Debrill and Sophy Hancock, Choctaw women ... 102
• Land to the heirs of Captain W. Blackwell, deceased, on account of revolutionary services. To grant 300 acres of ... 110
• Land warrants for services in Virginia line, &c. during revolutionary war. To authorize the issue to Timothy Risley of ... 123
• Land to Augusta College, in Kentucky. Making a donation of one township of ... 128
• Land in Washington to St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum. Granting lots of ... 149
• Land in Washington to the Columbian College. Granting lots of ... 150
• Land to Susan Marlow, child of a Creek Indian who was killed in United States' service. To grant ... 192
• Land in Washington to the Washington City Orphan Asylum. Granting lots of ... 193
• Land to John B. Chandanai, a half breed Potawatamie, for services last war. To grant a section of ... 196
• Land Company. For relief of Thomas L. Winthrop and others, directors of an association called the New England Mississippi ... 63
• Land at Fort Gansevoort, New York. To authorize the Secretary of War to release the title of United States to ... 109
• Land, or island on which Fort Delaware has been erected. To secure title to ... 130
• Laurens. Relief of the personal representatives of Colonel John ... 40
• Law department of the Library of Congress. To increase and improve the ... 68
• Laws United States proposed to be published by the printer to Congress. Providing for subscription to a stereotype edition of the ... 86

  Amendment to above, authorizing the Attorney General of the United States to contract with Richard Peters for an edition of the Laws United States (Not printed) ... 86

• Leglise, a sum of money erroneously paid for a tract of land. To refund to Pierre ... 115
• Lewis additional duty imposed by tariff act of 1828. To refund to John F. ... 84
• Lewis for services as a clerk in the War Office in 1818, '19. To pay Edward ... 87
• Library of Congress. To increase and improve the law department of the ... 68
• Lippincott & Co. for damages sustained by illegal seizures of teas by the collector of Philadelphia. To pay J. & W. ... 172
• Louisiana to enter the back lands. To authorize the inhabitants of ... 34
• Louisiana. To pay five per cent. of the nett proceeds of the sales of public lands in ... 173
• Louisville and Portland Canal, and make the navigation of the Ohio river free. To purchase the stock of the (Not printed) ... 200

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• M.
• Mac Ghee, a friendly Creek Indian, in lieu of reservation sold by United States. To grant land to Lynn ... 187
• McKay a section of land in lieu of the reservation given him by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek. Granting to Middleton ... 55
• McPherson of the revolutionary army. Relief of the heirs of General William ... 186
• Magruder to locate a quantity of land in lieu of land confirmed to Ann Brashears, and afterwards sold by the United States. To authorize Elizabeth ... 59
• Mail robber. To pay Christopher Brooks for the apprehension of a ... 81
• Mail road between Louisville and St. Louis. For improvement of the ... 161
• Marine corps on account of brevet rank. To make certain allowances to officers of the ... 151
• Marlow, child of a Creek Indian who was killed in service United States. To grant land to Susan ... 192
• Marshal of Vermont. To allow poundage fees to Heman Allen, late ... 41
• Marshal of Mississippi. To pay representatives of Theodore Brightwell for services as acting ... 206
• Maryland for preservation and repair of the Cumberland road. Giving the assent of Congress to acts of Pennsylvania and ... 111
• May for property destroyed during the late war. To compensate Samuel ... 100
• Meeder. To allow arrearage of pension to Edward S. ... 15
• Medical staff of the army. To increase and regulate the pay of the ... 139
• Members of Congress. Resolution to authorize the erection of a vault on the ground allotted for the interment of (Not printed) ... 9
• Mentor and John Brantly, patents for lands relinquished by mistake. To authorize the issue to Anthony M. ... 124
• Merchandise, under certain circumstances, from the operation of the tariff act of 1828. To exempt ... 69

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 69

• Mexican States. To carry into effect treaty of limits between the United States and the United (Not printed) ... 209
• Michigan. To enable the President to extinguish Indian title to lands in Indiana, Illinois, and (Amendments not printed) ... 11
• Militia of the revolution. Providing for State troops, volunteers, or ... 1
• Miller, deceased. To issue duplicate revolutionary land warrant to heirs of Lewis ... 203
• Milligan to locate a quantity of land confirmed to him by a board of commissioners. To authorize heirs of Lawrence ... 205
• Mississippi for purposes of female education. Granting a township of land to ... 163
• Mississippi. To create new land offices in the late Choctaw purchase, and for the more convenient organization of the land districts in the State of ... 169
• Missouri. For the final adjustment of private land claims in ... 114
• Missouri for purposes of internal improvement. To grant a certain quantity of land to ... 157
• Missouri for purposes of female education. Granting a township of land to ... 163
• Missouri to open a canal in the Big Swamp. To grant land to (Not printed) ... 165

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• Mix, as an invalid. To grant increase of pension to Ransom ... 80
• Mobile. Confirming claim of Joshua Kennedy to a tract of land in ... 10
• Morris. To pay a final settlement certificate held by Richard G. ... 70
• Mounting and equipment of a part of the army of the United States. To authorize the ... 6
• Murphy for property destroyed by the Indians. To pay Benjamin ... 138
• N.
• Naismith arrears of pension as an invalid. To allow to Alexander ... 153
• Navigation of the Wabash river, and for surveys with a view to improvements of the Kaskaskia and White rivers. Making an appropriation for the improvement of the (Not printed) ... 154
• Navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers. To grant land to Alabama for improving the ... 201
• Navy to allow interest on bills drawn on that department in certain cases. Resolution to authorize the Secretary of the ... 1
• Navy. Regulating the duties, and providing for the compensation of Pursers in the ... 33
• Navy. To provide for the distribution of the duties of the Commissioners of the ... 35
• Navy Agents, and for appointment of a Navy Agent to act as general agent for the Navy Department at Washington. Relative to the compensation of ... 36
• Navy. To establish the office of Surgeon General of the ... 42
• Navy as prize money for a piratical vessel. To make an allowance to Captain Stevens and others of the ... 152
• Nelson, deceased, prize money for British squadron captured during late war. To pay W. Nelson, administrator of estate of Andrew ... 85
• New England Mississippi Land Company. For relief of Thomas L. Winthrop and others, directors of the ... 63
• New Orleans. For purchase of site, and erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, in vicinity of ... 43

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 43

• Newspapers. To repeal the postage on ... 199
• Northwestern frontiers. To raise five companies of Rangers for the defence of the (Not printed) ... 208
• Nourse, late Register of the Treasury. To audit and settle the claims of Joseph ... 202
• O.
• Officers and soldiers of the revolution, and providing for State troops, volunteers, and militia. Supplementary to act for relief of ... 1
• Officers and soldiers of Fort Delaware for property destroyed by conflagration of said fort. To pay the ... 73
• Officers of the army. To repeal so much of laws as authorize the President to confer brevet rank on ... 119
• Ohio. For taking observations for settling the northern boundary line of ... 155

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• Old Congress. Resolution for distribution of certain copies of the Secret Journals of the ... 3
• Ordnance Department. For the better organization of the ... 4
• Orphan Asylum in city of Washington. Granting lots of ground to St. Vincent's Female ... 149
• Orphan Asylum. Granting certain lots, &c. to Washington city ... 193
• P.
• Patents for public lands shall be executed, granted, and issued. Providing for the appointment of a Recorder of the General Land Office, and prescribing the mode by which ... 83
• Patents for inventions in lieu of others erroneously issued, &c. To authorize the issue of new ... 142
• Pay on account of his revolutionary services, with interest thereon. To allow heirs of Thomas Davenport five years' full ... 168
• Pay on account of revolutionary services. To allow E. Scott, daughter of Captain William Blackwell, one year's ... 177
• Peabody, with amendments to include John Bryant and George W. Howard. To allow arrearages of pension as an invalid to Stephen G. (Amendments not printed) ... 146
• Peale's original portrait of Washington. Resolution directing the purchase of ... 8
• Pennsylvania and Maryland for preservation and repair of the Cumberland road. Giving the assent of Congress to acts of ... 111
• Pennsylvania Avenue, in the city of Washington. For improvement of the ... 148
• Pensions from Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of War, and embracing officers of the Hospital Department and Medical Staff of the revolution. Resolution transferring certain duties relating to (Not printed) ... 5
• Pensions for State troops, volunteers, and militia. Supplementary to act for relief of officers and soldiers of the revolution, and providing ... 1

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 1

• Pensioners. To restore sundry persons to roll of revolutionary ... 48
• Pensioners. To restore names of sundry persons to roll of revolutionary ... 95 134 135 140 144 145
• Pensions. For the relief of certain applicants for (Not printed) ... 116
• Pensioners. To place Bradford Steele on the roll of revolutionary ... 126
• Pensioners. To place John Blake on the roll of revolutionary ... 129
• Pension to Edward S. Meeder as an invalid. To allow an arrearage of ... 15
• Pension to Joseph Chamberlain as an invalid. To allow an arrearage of ... 24
• Pension roll. To place the name of William Scott on the ... 71
• Pension to Ransom Mix as an invalid. To grant increase of ... 80
• Pension to S. G. Peabody and others. To allow arrearges of ... 146
• Pension as an invalid. To allow to Alexander Naismith arrears of ... 153
• Pension as an invalid. To allow to George W. Howard arrears of ... 180
• Pension of $20 per month to Joseph Du Commun as an invalid. To allow a ... 181
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• Peters, for an edition of the laws of the United States, (proposed as an amendment to a bill.) To authorize the Attorney General of the United States to contract with Richard (Not printed) ... 86
• Pleasanton, as late agent of the Treasury. To compensate Stephen ... 75
• Portugal from the payment of duties on tonnage. To exempt the vessels of ... 178
• Posner, for a house destroyed during last war. To pay Silvia ... 72
• Postage on newspapers. To repeal the ... 199
• Potawatamie Indian, for services during last war. To grant land to John B. Chandanai, a half breed ... 196
• Poundage fees to Heman Allen, late marshal of Vermont. To allow ... 41
• Pre-emption to settlers on the public lands. Supplemental to act granting right of ... 56
• Pre-emption to settlers of township five north, one west of the third principal meridian in Illinois. To extend the right of ... 104
• Prize money for British squadron captured during late war. To pay administrator of Andrew Nelson, deceased, ... 85
• Prize money for a piratical vessel captured and taken into service United States. To make an allowance to Captain Stephens and others, of the navy, as ... 152
• Proctor to correct a mistake in entering a quarter section of land. To enable John ... 14
• Property destroyed during last war. To pay Joshua Kennedy for ... 57
• Property destroyed during the last war. To pay John Brunson for ... 62
• Property destroyed during last war. To pay Silvia Posner for ... 72
• Property destroyed by conflagration of Fort Delaware. To pay the officers and soldiers for ... 73
• Property destroyed during the late war. To pay Augustine Taney for ... 91
• Property destroyed during the late war. To compensate Samuel May for ... 100
• Property destroyed at the navy yard, Washington, during the late war. To pay the heirs of Edward Barry, deceased, for ... 103
• Property destroyed by the Indians. To pay Benjamin Murphy for ... 138
• Property destroyed by the enemy during late war. To pay Henry Waller for ... 141
• Property or slaves taken during last war. To pay Thomas Baily and James Rinker for ... 143
• Property of said Hickman furnished during last war. To pay widow of Captain Paschal Hickman for eight rifles, the ... 170
• Provident Association of Clerks. To extend the charter of the ... 185
• Public lands. (See Lands.)
• Public money from him. To allow Guy W. Smith for losses and expenses on account of theft of ... 92
• Purchasers of public lands that have reverted for non-payment. To amend an act entitled an act for the relief of the ... 158
• Pursers in the navy. Regulating the duties, and providing for the compensation of ... 33
• Q.
• Quarters, and store-houses, in the vicinity of New Orleans. For purchase of a site, and erection of barracks, ... 43
• R.
• Randolph, only surving child of Thomas Jefferson. Making a donation of land to Martha ... 16

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• Railroad Company. Authorizing a subscription of stock in the Baltimore and Ohio ... 93
• Railways or inclined planes. To release from duty iron prepared for ... 131
• Rangers for the defence of the northwestern frontiers. To raise five companies of (Not printed) ... 208
• Read, late Register of the land office at Huntsville, Alabama. Relief of John ... 50
• Receiver of the land office at Tallahassee, Florida. To make additional compensation to the ... 188
• Recorder of the General Land Office, &c. Providing for the appointment of a ... 83
• Rector for selecting certain lands for a University in Arkansas. To pay Elias ... 98
• Register and Receiver of the land office at Huntsville, Alabama, for extra services while acting in that office. To compensate the ... 50
• Register. For the purchase of 100 copies of the American Annual ... 65
• Register and Receiver of the land office at Augusta, for extra services, under instructions from the Commissioner of the General Land Office. To pay the ... 107
• Registers and Receivers of the several land offices. To allow office rent the ... 113
• Register and Receiver of the land office at Tallahassee, Florida. To make additional compensation to the ... 188
• Release James W. Zachary from a judgment obtained against him. To ... 51
• Reports of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. To revive and continue an act providing for ... 19
• Revolution, and providing for State troops, volunteers, and militia. Supplementary to act for relief of officers and soldiers of the ... 1

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives.) ... 1

• Revolution. To pay to John J. Jacob the amount of his commutation of pay as a lieutenant of the ... 28
• Revolutionary services. To settle the account of the personal representatives of Col. John Laurens, on account of his ... 40
• Revolutionary pensioners. (See Pensioners.)
• Revolutionary services. To allow to the heirs of Thomas Davenport five years' full pay on account of ... 168
• Revolutionary services. To allow E. Scott, daughter of Captain W. Blackwell, one year's pay on account of ... 177
• Revolutionary army. Relief of heirs of Gen. William McPherson, of the ... 186
• Revolutionary land warrant to heirs of Lewis Miller. To issue duplicate ... 203
• Rhodes and Jeremiah Austill for repair of post road. To pay Thomas ... 204
• Rinker for slaves taken during last war. To pay Thomas Bailey and James (Not printed) ... 143
• Risley, for services in the Virginia line, &c., during the revolutionary war. To authorize the issue of land warrants to Timothy ... 123
• Rivers. Making an appropriation for improving the navigation and surveying the Wabash, Kaskaskia, and White (Not printed) ... 154
• Road from Line creek to Chattahoochie, and for repairing the road on which the mail is carried. To authorize the laying out and constructing of a post ... 30
• Road in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. For continuation of the Cumberland ... 61
• Road. Giving assent of Congress to acts of Pennsylvania and Maryland for preservation and repair of the Cumberland ... 111
• Road between Louisville and St. Louis. or improvement of the mail ... 161

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• Road to be opened from Helena to the mouth of Cachee river, in Arkansas. Authorizing the President to cause a ... 174
• Road. To pay T. Rhodes and J. Austill for repair of a post ... 204
• Road from Vandalia, Illinois, to Jefferson, Missouri. For continuation of the Cumberland (Not printed) ... 212
• Roddey, deceased, one of the sureties of Samuel Champlain. For relief of executors of James ... 96

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives) ... 96

• S.
• St. Louis. To grant a township of land to the French College of ... 53
• St. Stephens, Alabama. Confirming certain land claims in the district of ... 191
• Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum, in the city of Washington. Granting lots of ground to ... 149
• Saline lands in said State. To authorize Illinois to sell 20,000 acres of ... 23
• Salt. To abolish the duty on alum ... 31
• Schools in States and Territories, and the entry of other lands in lieu thereof. Authorizing the relinquishment of the sixteenth sections of lands granted for ... 52

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives.) ... 52

• Scott on the pension roll. To place the name of William ... 71
• Scott, only surviving child of Captain William Blackwell, deceased, on account of revolutionary services. To grant 300 acres of land to Elizabeth ... 110
• Scott, junior, the amount due him as inspector of the customs at Pensacola. To pay to Elizabeth Scott, assignee of Alexander ... 121
• Scott, daughter of Captain William Blackwell, one year's pay on account of revolutionary services. To allow to Elizabeth ... 177
• Secret Journals of the old Congress. Resolution for distribution of certain copies of the ... 3
• Semoir, a friendly Creek Indian, in lieu of reservation in his favor sold by the United States. To grant land to ... 187
• Settlers. To reduce the price of a portion of the public lands heretofore in market, and to grant a preference to actual ... 20
• Settlers on public lands. Supplementary to an act to grant pre-emption rights to ... 25
• Settlers on public lands. Supplemental to act granting right of pre-emption to ... 56

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives.) ... 56

• Settlers of township five north, one west of the third principal meridian of lands in Illinois. To extend right of pre-emption to ... 104
• Sisters of Charity. Granting lots of ground to St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, in Washington, under the direction of the ... 149
• Shaumburgh the amount of advances for the pay of soldiers of the army. To refund to Bartholomew ... 77
• Smith for losses and expenses on account of theft of public money from him. To allow Guy W. ... 92
• Smith and Son, and their securities, the claim of the United States upon them. To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise with the late firm of Thomas H. ... 183
• Smith, a friendly Creek Indian, in lieu of reservation in his favor sold by the United States. To grant land to Samuel ... 187

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• Smoot, late a sutler in the army. Relief of Benjamin S. ... 58
• South Carolina against the United States. For the adjustment and settlement of the claims of (Not printed) ... 2
• Spanish grants of land in Mississippi. The legal representatives of Peter, Catharine, and Charles Surget, authorized to locate certain ... 45
• Spanish vessels. Concerning tonnage duty on ... 211
• Spears to correct an error made in entering a quarter section of land. To enable Dixon ... 13
• Statue of George Washington. Resolution authorizing the President to contract for a pedestrian ... 4
• State Department. Resolution authorizing the Secretary to employ persons to arrange and make an index for the papers in the (Not printed) ... 7
• State troops, volunteers, or militia, of the revolution. Providing for ... 1
• States for interest on advances to the United States during last war. For final settlement of the claims of ... 5

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives.) ... 5

• Steel on roll of revolutionary pensioners. To place the name of Bradford ... 126
• Sereotype edition of the laws of the United States, proposed to be published by the printer to Congress. Providing for subscription to copies of a ... 86
• Stevens and others of the navy, as prize money for a piratical vessel captured and taken into the service of the United States. To make an allowance to Captain Holdup ... 152
• Spoliations prior to September, 1800. For satisfaction of claims on account of French ... 9
• Stiggins. To amend so much of an act relinquishing reversionary interest of the United States to Indian reservations of land as applies to George ... 89
• Stock of the Louisville and Portland canal, and make the navigation of the Ohio free. To purchase the (Not printed) ... 200
• Street and others, on account of procedures in discharge of their official duties. To discharge suits and judgments against Joseph M. ... 160
• Suits and judgments against D. E. Twiggs, J. M. Street, and Stephen W. Kearney, on account of procedures in discharge of their official duties. To discharge ... 160
• Supreme Court of the United States in certain cases. Authorizing appeals, writs of error, and supersedeas, to the (Not printed) ... 3
• Supreme Court of the United States. To revive and continue an act providing for reports of decisions of the ... 19
• Supreme Court to select books for the law department of the Library of Congress. The Chief Justice of the ... 68
• Sureties of Francis Adams, late Collector of internal duties in South Carolina. For release of John H. Harrison, as one of the ... 17
• Sureties of Amos Edwards, late Collector of direct tax and internal duties in Kentucky. For relief of the ... 37
• Sureties of Adam Carruth. For relief of the representatives of Elias Earle, deceased, who was one of the ... 49
• Sureties of Daniel Evans, late Collector of direct taxes in Massachusetts. To refund money paid by Ebenezer T. Warren, as one of the ... 66
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• Sureties of George Brown, deceased, late Collector of direct tax and internal duties. Relief of ... 82
• Sureties of Samuel Champlain, late a Paymaster in the army of the United States. For relief of the executors of James Roddey, deceased, one of the ... 96
• Surgeon General of the Navy. To establish the office of ... 42
• Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons of the army. To increase the number of ... 120
• Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons of the army. To increase and regulate the pay of ... 139
• Surget authorized to locate certain Spanish grants of land in Mississippi. The legal representatives of Peter, Catharine, and Charles ... 45
• Surveyor General's Office in Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, and Territory of Michigan. Making appropriations to employ additional clerks in the ... 156
• Surveyor of the public lands in the Territory of Arkansas. To create the office of ... 159
• Surveyor General of the public lands south of Tennessee. To remove the office of the ... 166
• Sutler in the army. Relief of Benjamin S. Smoot, late a ... 58
• T.
• Taney for property destroyed during the late war. To pay Augustine ... 91
• Tariff act of 1828. To exempt merchandise, under certain circumstances, from the operation of the ... 69

  Ditto. (Printed by order of the House of Representatives.) ... 69

• Tariff of 1828. To refund, in case of John F. Lewis, additional duty imposed by ... 84
• Tariff, by repealing in part the duties on imports. To amend the ... 167
• Tariff, by altering and reducing certain duties on imports. To amend the ... 190
• Taylor. To pay a final settlement certificate held by John Brickwood ... 32
• Taylor, of Kentucky, late District Paymaster and Quartermaster General. To adjust the claims of James ... 189
• Teas illegally seized by Collector of Philadelphia. To pay J. and W. Lippincott and Co. damages for ... 172
• Tennille, late quartermaster general in the service of Georgia. For the relief of William A. ... 118

  Ditto. (Amendment printed by order of the House of Representatives.) ... 118

• Tingle. For the relief of George E. ... 38
• Tonnage duties on Spanish vessels. Concerning ... 211
• Topographical Engineers. To organize the Corps of ... 137
• Treasury to the Secretary of War. Resolution transfering certain duties relating to pensions from the Secretary of the (Not printed) ... 5
• Treasury. To compensate S. Pleasanton, as late Agent of the ... 75
• Twiggs and others, on account of procedures in discharge of their official duties. To discharge suits and judgments against David E. ... 160
• V.
• Vault on the ground allotted for the interment of members of Congress. Resolution to construct a ... 9
• Vessels of Portugal from the payment of tonnage duties. To exempt the ... 178
• Vick a sum of money paid for land sold him, which was afterwards found not to belong to the United States. To return to Hartwell ... 27

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• Virginia, on account of half pay, &c. of the officers of the line of that State in the war of the revolution. To liquidate and settle the claims of ... 88
• Virginia line, for services during the revolutionary war. To authorize the issue of land warrants to Timothy Risley, of the ... 123
• Virginia, authorizing the commencement of the western section of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and making subscription for stock, &c. To give effect to an act of the Legislature of (Not printed) ... 164
• Volunteers or militia of the revolution. Providing for State troops ... 1
• W.
• Wabash river. Making an appropriation for the improvement of the navigation of the (Not printed) ... 154
• Walker, of Mississippi, to locate 500 acres of land, in lieu of a tract granted by the Spanish Government, and sold by the United States. To authorize the the heirs of P. C. Walker, John P. Walker, deceased, and of Joseph ... 133
• War. Resolution transferring certain duties relating to pensions from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of (Not printed) ... 5
• Ware to locate a tract of land in lieu of land granted to James Moore by the Spanish Government. Authorizing Nathaniel A. ... 101
• Warren and others. For the relief of Abiah ... 66
• Washington. Resolution authorizing the President to contract for a pedestrian statue of George ... 4
• Washington. Resolution directing the purchase of Peale's original portrait of ... 8
• Washington. For improvement of Pennsylvania avenue, in the city of ... 148
• Washington. Granting lots of ground to St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, in ... 149
• Washington city Orphan Asylum. Granting certain lots, &c., to the ... 193
• Watson for services in the Indian Department in Michigan Territory. To compensate Joseph ... 74
• Wells, of Boston. To allow drawback of duties to John and Benjamin ... 97
• Wells, of Indiana, for a section of land reserved for the Miami Indians. To pay William Wayne ... 99
• White river. Making an appropriation for survey of the (Not printed) ... 154
• Whitaker, surety of Amos Edwards, &c. Relief of William W. ... 37
• Wilson, surety of Amos Edwards, &c. Relief of James ... 37
• Winter and Sons to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims to certain lands. To enable the heirs of Elisha ... 197
• Winthrop and others, directors of the Mississippi Land Company. For relief of Thomas L ... 63
• Wyman to roll of revolutionary pensioners. To restore the name of Daniel ... 135
• Z.
• Zachary, of New Orleans, from a judgment obtained against him. To release James W. ... 51

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