Every law Congress has passed

119 laws of the 11th Congress, 1809–1811

1. An Act respecting the ships or vessels owned by citizens or subjects of foreign nations with which commercial intercourse is permitted.

   Ch. I · 2 Stat. 547 · May 30, 1809 · Original text

2. An Act making further appropriations to complete the fortifications commenced for the security of the ports and harbors of the United States, and to erect such fortifications as may be necessary for the protection of the northern and western frontiers of the United States.

   Ch. II · 2 Stat. 547 · June 14, 1809 · Original text

3. An Act authorizing the appointment of an agent for the land-office at Kaskaskia, and allowing compensation to the commissioners and clerk.

   Ch. III · 2 Stat. 548 · June 15, 1809 · Original text

4. An Act supplementary to an act, entituled “An act making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians; and to establish a land-office in the Mississippi Territory.”

   Ch. IV · 2 Stat. 548 · June 15, 1809 · Original text

5. An Act to continue in force “An act declaring the assent of Congress to a certain act of the state of South Carolina, passed the twenty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and four.”

   Ch. V · 2 Stat. 549 · June 15, 1809 · Original text

6. An Act authorizing the discharge of John Heard from his imprisonment.

   Ch. VI · 6 Stat. 86 · June 20, 1809 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act to fix the time for the next meeting of Congress.

   Ch. VII · 2 Stat. 549 · June 24, 1809 · Original text

8. An Act for the remission of certain penalties and forfeitures, and for other purposes.

   Ch. VIII · 2 Stat. 549 · June 28, 1809 · Original text

9. An Act to amend and continue in force certain parts of the act entituled “An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes.”

   Ch. IX · 2 Stat. 550 · June 28, 1809 · Original text

10. An Act supplementary to the act, entituled “An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt.”

    Ch. X · 2 Stat. 551 · June 28, 1809 · Original text

11. An Act making an appropriation to finish and furnish the Senate chamber, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XI · 2 Stat. 552 · June 28, 1809 · Original text

12. An Act to suspend for a limited time the recruiting service.

    Ch. XII · 2 Stat. 552 · June 28, 1809 · Original text

13. An Act freeing from postage all letters and packets from Thomas Jefferson.

    Ch. XIV · 2 Stat. 552 · June 28, 1809 · Original text

14. An Act making appropriations for defraying the expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives, during the present session of Congress.

    Ch. XV · 2 Stat. 552 · June 28, 1809 · Original text

15. An Act authorizing the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to give credit to certain collectors of the customs for allowances paid by them to the owners and crews of fishing vessels.

    Ch. XVI · 2 Stat. 552 · June 28, 1809 · Original text

16. An Act concerning the Naval Establishment.

    Ch. XVII · 2 Stat. 553 · June 28, 1809 · Original text

17. An Act authorizing the discharge of Joseph Wilkinson, junior, from his imprisonment.

    Ch. XIII · 6 Stat. 86 · June 28, 1809 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act to authorize the transportation of certain Documents free of postage.

    Ch. I · 2 Stat. 554 · December 9, 1809 · Original text

19. An Act supplemental to an act entituled “An act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. II · 2 Stat. 554 · December 15, 1809 · Original text

20. An Act extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants.

    Ch. III · 2 Stat. 555 · December 19, 1809 · Original text

21. An Act for the relief of William and Elias Rector.

    Ch. IV · 6 Stat. 87 · December 28, 1809 · Private law · Original text

22. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the expressions contained in the official letter of Francis J. Jackson, minister plenipotentiary of his…

    Resolution I · 2 Stat. 612 · January 1, 1810 · Original text

23. An Act to revive and continue in force for a further time, the first section of the act entituled “An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Barbary powers.”

    Ch. V · 2 Stat. 555 · January 12, 1810 · Original text

24. An Act to extend certain privileges therein mentioned to Joseph Joshua Dyster.

    Ch. VI · 6 Stat. 87 · February 5, 1810 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act for the relief of Harry Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, Jeremiah Reynolds, and Levin Jones.

    Ch. VII · 6 Stat. 87 · February 5, 1810 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act in addition to the “Act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio.”

    Ch. VIII · 2 Stat. 555 · February 14, 1810 · Original text

27. An Act for the relief of John N. Stout.

    Ch. IX · 6 Stat. 88 · February 14, 1810 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act authorizing the discharge of William Hawkins from his imprisonment.

    Ch. X · 6 Stat. 87 · February 20, 1810 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act to prescribe the mode in which application shall be made for the purchase of land at the several land-offices; and for the relief of Joab Garret.

    Ch. XI · 2 Stat. 556 · February 24, 1810 · Original text

30. An Act further to provide for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XII · 2 Stat. 556 · February 24, 1810 · Original text

31. An Act making appropriations for the support of Government during the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.

    Ch. XIII · 2 Stat. 557 · February 26, 1810 · Original text

32. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.

    Ch. XIV · 2 Stat. 562 · March 2, 1810 · Original text

33. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.

    Ch. XV · 2 Stat. 563 · March 2, 1810 · Original text

34. An Act for the appointment of an additional judge, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of Madison county, in the Mississippi territory.

    Ch. V · 2 Stat. 563 · March 2, 1810 · Original text

35. An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and for returning the surveys thereon to the Secretary of the department of War.

    Ch. XXXI · 2 Stat. 589 · March 16, 1810 · Original text

36. An Act providing for the third census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.

    Ch. XVII · 2 Stat. 564 · March 26, 1810 · Original text

37. An Act for altering the time for holding the District Court in Ohio.

    Ch. XVIII · 2 Stat. 568 · March 26, 1810 · Original text

38. An Act to prevent the issuing of sea letters except to certain vessels.

    Ch. XIX · 2 Stat. 568 · March 26, 1810 · Original text

39. An Act making an appropriation for the purpose of trying the practical use of the Torpedo or Submarine Explosion.

    Ch. XX · 2 Stat. 569 · March 30, 1810 · Original text

40. An Act to make public a Road in Washington County, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XXI · 2 Stat. 569 · March 30, 1810 · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of Tristram Hussey.

    Ch. XXII · 6 Stat. 87 · April 11, 1810 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act to alter and amend an act, entituled “An act providing for the third census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” passed the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten.

    Ch. XXIII · 2 Stat. 570 · April 12, 1810 · Original text

43. An Act to incorporate a company for making certain turnpike roads in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XXVI · 2 Stat. 570 · April 20, 1810 · Original text

44. An Act authorizing the discharge of John Kerr from his imprisonment.

    Ch. XXIV · 6 Stat. 89 · April 20, 1810 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act for the relief of William Baynham.

    Ch. XXV · 6 Stat. 89 · April 20, 1810 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act to amend an act, entituled “An act for the establishment of a Turnpike Company in the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.”

    Ch. XXVII · 2 Stat. 577 · April 25, 1810 · Original text

47. An Act to allow the benefit of drawback on merchandise transported, by land conveyance from Newport to Boston, and from Boston to Newport, in like manner as if the same were transported coastwise.

    Ch. XXIX · 2 Stat. 578 · April 25, 1810 · Original text

48. An Act for the relief of Moses Young.

    Ch. XXVIII · 6 Stat. 89 · April 25, 1810 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act providing for the printing and distributing of such Laws of the United States, as respect the Public Lands.

    Ch. XXXIII · 2 Stat. 589 · April 27, 1810 · Original text

50. An Act concerning invalid pensioners.

    Ch. XXXII · 6 Stat. 90 · April 27, 1810 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act to establish Post Roads.

    Ch. XXX · 2 Stat. 579 · April 28, 1810 · Original text

52. An Act providing for the better accommodation of the General Post-office and Patent Office, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXXIV · 2 Stat. 589 · April 28, 1810 · Original text

53. An Act providing for the sale of certain lands in the Indiana, territory, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXXV · 2 Stat. 564 · April 30, 1810 · Original text

54. An Act to extend the time for making payment for the Public Lands if the United States in certain cases.

    Ch. XXXVI · 2 Stat. 591 · April 30, 1810 · Original text

55. An Act regulating the Post-office Establishment.

    Ch. XXXVII · 2 Stat. 592 · April 30, 1810 · Original text

56. An Act further to alter and amend “An act providing for the third census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the Lnited States.”

    Ch. XXXVIII · 2 Stat. 605 · May 1, 1810 · Original text

57. An Act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXXIX · 2 Stat. 605 · May 1, 1810 · Original text

58. An Act confirming the decisions of the Commissioners in favour of the claimants of land in the district of Kaskaskia.

    Ch. XL · 2 Stat. 607 · May 1, 1810 · Original text

59. An Act making further appropriations for completing the Capitol, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XLI · 2 Stat. 607 · May 1, 1810 · Original text

60. An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.

    Ch. XLIII · 2 Stat. 607 · May 1, 1810 · Original text

61. An Act fixing the compensation of public Ministers, and of Consuls residing on the coast of Barbary, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XLIV · 2 Stat. 608 · May 1, 1810 · Original text

62. An Act authorizing a loan of money, for a sum not exceeding the amount of the principal of the public debt, reimbursable during the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.

    Ch. XLV · 2 Stat. 610 · May 1, 1810 · Original text

63. An Act to erect a Lighthouse at the entrance of Scituate harbor, a stone column on a spit of sand at the entrance into Boston harbor, and a beacon on Beach Point near Plymouth harbor in the state of Massachusetts; a light at the entrance of Bayou St. John into Lake Ponchartrain, and two lights on Lake Erie, and for beacons and buoys near the entrance of Beverly harbor.

    Ch. XLVII · 2 Stat. 611 · May 1, 1810 · Original text

64. An Act in addition to an act, entituled “An act concerning the Library for the use of both Houses of Congress.”

    Ch. L · 2 Stat. 612 · May 1, 1810 · Original text

65. An Act allowing compensation to Robert Robinson.

    Ch. XLII · 6 Stat. 94 · May 1, 1810 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act for the relief of P. C. L’Enfant.

    Ch. XLVI · 6 Stat. 94 · May 1, 1810 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act for the relief of Arthur St. Clair.

    Ch. XLVIII · 6 Stat. 94 · May 1, 1810 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act for the relief of William W. Weymouth and Joseph P. Weeks.

    Ch. XLIX · 6 Stat. 95 · May 1, 1810 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act to authorize the transportation of certain documents free of postage.

    Ch. I · 2 Stat. 614 · December 17, 1810 · Original text

70. Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

    Proposed Constitutional Amendment II · 2 Stat. 613 · 1810 · Original text

71. An Act making an additional appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the relief and protection of distressed American Seamen, during the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.

    Ch. II · 2 Stat. 614 · January 7, 1811 · Original text

72. An Act to continue in force for a further time the first section of the act, entituled “An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers.”

    Ch. III · 2 Stat. 614 · January 7, 1811 · Original text

73. Resolution relative to the occupation of the Floridas by the United States of America.

    Resolution 1 · 2 Stat. 666 · January 15, 1811 · Original text

74. An Act to fix the compensation of the additional assistant Postmaster-General.

    Ch. IV · 2 Stat. 615 · January 17, 1811 · Original text

75. An Act for the relief of George Armroyd and Company.

    Ch. V · 6 Stat. 96 · January 19, 1811 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act for the relief of the heirs of the late Major-General Anthony Wayne.

    Ch. VI · 6 Stat. 96 · January 21, 1811 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act to authorize the Secretary at War to ascertain and settle by the appointment of Commissioners, the exterior line of the Public Land at West Point, with the adjoining proprietor.

    Ch. VII · 2 Stat. 615 · January 22, 1811 · Original text

78. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

    Ch. IX · 2 Stat. 615 · February 6, 1811 · Original text

79. An Act to change the name of Lewis Grant to that of Lewis Grant Davidson.

    Ch. VIII · 6 Stat. 97 · February 6, 1811 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

    Ch. XI · 2 Stat. 616 · February 7, 1811 · Original text

81. An Act for the relief of William Mills.

    Ch. X · 6 Stat. 97 · February 7, 1811 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act making compensation to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for services rendered the United States in the war with Tripoli.

    Ch. XII · 2 Stat. 617 · February 13, 1811 · Original text

83. An Act malting compensation to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for services rendered the United States in the war with Tripoli.

    Ch. XII · 6 Stat. 97 · February 13, 1811 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act authorizing the discharge of Nathaniel F. Fosdickfrom his imprisonment.

    Ch. XIII · 6 Stat. 97 · February 13, 1811 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act providing for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands in the territories if Orleans and Louisiana.

    Ch. XIV · 2 Stat. 617 · February 15, 1811 · Original text

86. An Act concerning the Bank of Alexandria.

    Ch. XV · 2 Stat. 621 · February 15, 1811 · Original text

87. An Act to incorporate the Bank of Washington.

    Ch. XVI · 2 Stat. 625 · February 15, 1811 · Original text

88. An Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Farmers’ Bank of Alexandria.

    Ch. XVII · 2 Stat. 629 · February 16, 1811 · Original text

89. An Act to incorporate the Bank if Potomac.

    Ch. XVIII · 2 Stat. 629 · February 16, 1811 · Original text

90. An Act to incorporate the Union Bank of Georgetown.

    Ch. XIX · 2 Stat. 629 · February 18, 1811 · Original text

91. An Act making a further distribution of such laws of the United States, as respect the Public Lands.

    Ch. XX · 2 Stat. 641 · February 18, 1811 · Original text

92. An Act to enable the people of the Territory of Orleans to form a constitution and state government, and fur the admission if such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXI · 2 Stat. 641 · February 20, 1811 · Original text

93. An Act making appropriations for the support if Government for the pear one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

    Ch. XXII · 2 Stat. 643 · February 20, 1811 · Original text

94. An Act to enable the Georgetown Potomac Bridge Company to levy money for the object of its incorporation.

    Ch. XXIII · 2 Stat. 648 · February 22, 1811 · Original text

95. An Act providing for the sale of a tract of land lying in the state of Tennessee, and a tract in the Indiana territory.

    Ch. XXIV · 2 Stat. 649 · February 25, 1811 · Original text

96. An Act providing for the removal of the land-office established at Nashville, in the state of Tennessee, and Canton in the state of Ohio; and to authorize the register and receiver of public monies to superintend the public sales of land in the district east of Pearl river.

    Ch. XXV · 2 Stat. 649 · February 25, 1811 · Original text

97. An Act providing for the sale of a tract of land lying in the state of Tennessee, and a tract in the Indiana territory.

    Ch. XXIV · 6 Stat. 98 · February 25, 1811 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act establishing Navy Hospitals.

    Ch. XXVI · 2 Stat. 650 · February 26, 1811 · Original text

99. An Act for the relief of Peter Audrain.

    Ch. XXVII · 6 Stat. 98 · February 26, 1811 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act in addition in the act entituled “An act supplementary in the act concerning Consuls and Vice Consuls,” and for the further protection of American seamen.

     Ch. XXVIII · 2 Stat. 651 · February 28, 1811 · Original text