Every law Congress has passed

262 laws of the 15th Congress, 1817–1819

1. An Act in addition to “An act to prohibit the introduction (importation) of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight,” and to repeal certain parts of the same.

   Ch. XCI · 3 Stat. 450 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

2. An Act to establish and alter certain post roads.

   Ch. XCII · 3 Stat. 453 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

3. An Act to increase the salaries of the judges of the circuit court for the District of Columbia.

   Ch. XCIV · 3 Stat. 457 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

4. An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and for furnishing the Capitol and President’s house.

   Ch. XCVII · 3 Stat. 458 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

5. An Act to increase the duties on certain manufactured articles imported into the United States.

   Ch. XCVIII · 3 Stat. 458 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

6. An Act to increase the pay of the militia while in actual service, and for other purposes.

   Ch. CI · 3 Stat. 459 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

7. An Act respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes.

   Ch. CII · 3 Stat. 460 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

8. An Act to increase the duties on iron in bars and bolts, iron in pigs, castings, nails, and alum.

   Ch. CIII · 3 Stat. 460 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

9. An Act fixing the compensation of Indian agents and factors.

   Ch. CIV · 3 Stat. 461 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

10. An Act to continue in force, from and after the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the fourth paragraph of the first section of the act, entitled “An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage.”

    Ch. CVII · 3 Stat. 461 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

11. An Act to divide the state of Pennsylvania into two judicial districts.

    Ch. CVIII · 3 Stat. 462 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

12. An Act supplementary to the several acts making appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

    Ch. CIX · 3 Stat. 463 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

13. An Act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties, in certain cases.

    Ch. CX · 3 Stat. 464 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

14. An Act authorizing a subscription for the Statistical Annals of Adam Seybert, and the purchase of Pitkin’s Commercial Statistics.

    Ch. CXII · 3 Stat. 464 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

15. An Act making the port of Bath, in Massachusetts, a port of entry for ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same; and for establishing a collection district, whereof Belfast shall be the port of entry.

    Ch. CXIII · 3 Stat. 464 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

16. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to repay or remit certain alien duties therein described.

    Ch. CXIV · 3 Stat. 465 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

17. An Act authorizing the disposal of certain lots of public ground in the city of New Orleans and town of Mobile.

    Ch. CXV · 3 Stat. 465 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

18. An Act for changing the compensation of receivers and registers of the land offices.

    Ch. CXXIII · 3 Stat. 466 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

19. An Act for transferring the claims in the office of the commissioner to the third auditor of the Treasury Department.

    Ch. CXXIV · 3 Stat. 466 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

20. An Act respecting the surveying and sale of the public lands in the Alabama territory.

    Ch. CXXVI · 3 Stat. 466 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

21. An Act to alter and amend an act, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled “An act to establish a separate territorial government for the eastern part of the Mississippi territory.”

    Ch. CXXVII · 3 Stat. 468 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

22. An Act to adjust the claims to lots in the town of Vincennes, and for the sale of the land appropriated as a common for the use of the inhabitants of the said town.

    Ch. CXXVIII · 3 Stat. 468 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

23. An Act providing for the deposit of wines and distilled spirits in public warehouses, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CXXIX · 3 Stat. 469 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

24. Resolution directing the completion of the survey of the waters of the Chesapeake bay, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution XIII · 3 Stat. 476 · April 20, 1818 · Original text

25. An Act for the relief of the widow and children of Jacob Graeff, deceased.

    Ch. LXXXI · 6 Stat. 210 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act for the relief of Major Loring Austin and George R. Wells.

    Ch. LXXXV · 6 Stat. 210 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act for the relief of Captain Henry Gist and Captain Benjamin Johnson.

    Ch. LXXXIX · 6 Stat. 211 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.

    Ch. XCIII · 6 Stat. 211 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of John Seybold.

    Ch. XCV · 6 Stat. 211 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act for the relief of John Hall, late a major of marines.

    Ch. XCVI · 6 Stat. 211 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act for the relief of John B. Dabney.

    Ch. XCIX · 6 Stat. 211 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act for the relief of John Dillon.

    Ch. C · 6 Stat. 212 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act for the relief of Madame Poidevin.

    Ch. CV · 6 Stat. 212 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act for the relief of the houses of Thomas and John Clifford, Elisha Fisher and Company, Thomas Clifford and Son, and Thomas Clifford, of Philadelphia, and Charles Wirgman, of Baltimore.

    Ch. CVI · 6 Stat. 212 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act for the relief of Richard M. Johnson.

    Ch. CXI · 6 Stat. 212 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act for the relief of Jonas Harrison.

    Ch. CXVI · 6 Stat. 212 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act for the relief of Benjamin Berry.

    Ch. CXVII · 6 Stat. 213 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act for the relief of James Mackay, of the Missouri Territory.

    Ch. CXVIII · 6 Stat. 213 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act for the relief of Peggy Bailey.

    Ch. CXIX · 6 Stat. 213 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of Jonathan Amory, junior, and of the Representatives of Thomas C. Amory, deceased.

    Ch. CXX · 6 Stat. 214 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of John Work.

    Ch. CXXI · 6 Stat. 214 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of Benjamin Birdsall and William S. Foster.

    Ch. CXXII · 6 Stat. 214 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act to incorporate the Columbian Institute, for the promotion of Arts and Sciences.

    Ch. CXXV · 6 Stat. 214 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act for the relief of Cornelia Mason.

    Ch. CXXX · 6 Stat. 215 · April 20, 1818 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act to provide for the removal of the library of Congress to the north wing of the Capitol.

    Ch. I · 3 Stat. 477 · December 3, 1818 · Original text

46. Resolution declaring the admission if the state of Illinois into the Union.

    Public Resolution I · 3 Stat. 536 · December 3, 1818 · Original text

47. An Act to increase the number of clerks in the Department of War.

    Ch. II · 3 Stat. 477 · December 5, 1818 · Original text

48. Resolution authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage.

    Public Resolution II · 3 Stat. 537 · December 5, 1818 · Original text

49. An Act making a partial appropriation for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and to make good a deficit in the appropriation for holding treaties with the Indians.

    Ch. III · 3 Stat. 478 · December 16, 1818 · Original text

50. An Act concerning the western district court of Pennsylvania.

    Ch. IV · 3 Stat. 478 · December 16, 1818 · Original text

51. An Act for the relief of William Barton.

    Ch. V · 6 Stat. 216 · December 28, 1818 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act for the relief of Major-General John Stark.

    Ch. VI · 6 Stat. 216 · December 28, 1818 · Private law · Original text

53. Taking into view the peculiar situation of Spain, and of her American provinces; and considering the influence which the destiny of the territory adjoining the southern border of the United States may have upon their…

    Resolution · 3 Stat. 471 · 1818 · Original text

54. An Act to enable the President of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the country lying east of the river Perdido, and south of the stale of Georgia and the Mississippi territory, and for other purposes.

    unknown · 3 Stat. 471 · 1818 · Original text

55. An Act concerning an act to enable the President of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the country lying east of the river Perdido, and south of the state of Georgia and the Mississippi territory, and for other purposes, and the declaration accompanying the same.

    unknown · 3 Stat. 472 · 1818 · Original text

56. An Act authorizing the President of the United States to take possession of a tract of country lying south of the Mississippi territory and west of the river Perdido.

    unknown · 3 Stat. 472 · 1818 · Original text

57. An Act for the relief of William B. Lewis.

    Ch. VIII · 6 Stat. 217 · January 8, 1819 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased.

    Ch. IX · 6 Stat. 217 · January 8, 1819 · Private law · Original text

59. Resolution directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina.

    Public Resolution III · 3 Stat. 537 · January 19, 1819 · Original text

60. An Act for the relief of Doctor Mottrom Ball.

    Ch. X · 6 Stat. 217 · January 19, 1819 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the relief of Frederick Brown.

    Ch. XI · 6 Stat. 217 · January 19, 1819 · Private law · Original text

62. Resolution for the distribution of Seybert’s Statistical Annals; and directing Pitkins Commercial Statistics to be deposited in the library.

    Public Resolution IV · 3 Stat. 537 · January 23, 1819 · Original text

63. An Act to establish a judicial district in Virginia, west of the Allegheny Mountain.

    Ch. XII · 3 Stat. 478 · February 4, 1819 · Original text

64. An Act to authorize the payment, in certain cases, on account of treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed.

    Ch. XIII · 3 Stat. 479 · February 4, 1819 · Original text

65. An Act authorizing the distribution of a sum of money among the representatives of Commodore Edward Preble, and the officers and crew of the brig Syren.

    Ch. XV · 3 Stat. 480 · February 4, 1819 · Original text

66. An Act for the relief of Sampson S. King.

    Ch. XIV · 6 Stat. 217 · February 4, 1819 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act for the relief of Samuel H. Harper.

    Ch. XVI · 6 Stat. 218 · February 4, 1819 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act for the relief of Thomas B. Parish.

    Ch. XVII · 6 Stat. 218 · February 4, 1819 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and nineteen.

    Ch. XVIII · 3 Stat. 480 · February 15, 1819 · Original text

70. An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States to cases arising under the law relating to patents.

    Ch. XIX · 3 Stat. 481 · February 15, 1819 · Original text

71. An Act to authorize the President and Managers of the Rockville and Washington turnpike road company, of the state of Maryland, to extend and make their turnpike road to or from the boundary of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, through the said district, to the line thereof.

    Ch. XXI · 3 Stat. 482 · February 15, 1819 · Original text

72. Resolution authorizing the transmission of the documents accompanying the report of the committee to examine into the proceedings of the Bank of the United [States] free of postage.

    Public Resolution V · 3 Stat. 537 · February 15, 1819 · Original text

73. An Act for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.

    Ch. XX · 6 Stat. 218 · February 15, 1819 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the civil department of the government of the United States, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XXIII · 6 Stat. 218 · February 15, 1819 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act authorizing the election of a delegate from the Michigan territory to the Congress of the United States, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of said territory.

    Ch. XXII · 3 Stat. 482 · February 16, 1819 · Original text

76. An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

    Ch. XXV · 3 Stat. 483 · February 16, 1819 · Original text

77. An Act for the relief of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H. Heath.

    Ch. XXIV · 6 Stat. 221 · February 16, 1819 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XXVI · 6 Stat. 221 · February 16, 1819 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act to increase the salaries of certain officers of government.

    Ch. XXVII · 3 Stat. 484 · February 20, 1819 · Original text

80. An Act authorizing the President of the United States to purchase the lands reserved by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to certain chiefs, warriors, or other Indians, of the Creek nation

    Ch. XXVIII · 3 Stat. 484 · February 20, 1819 · Original text

81. An Act providing for a grant of land for the seat of government in the state of Mississippi, and for the support of a seminary of learning within the said state.

    Ch. XXXI · 3 Stat. 485 · February 20, 1819 · Original text

82. An Act supplemental to the act, entitled “An act further to amend the charter of the City of Washington.”

    Ch. XXXV · 3 Stat. 485 · February 20, 1819 · Original text

83. An Act providing additional penalties for false entries for the benefit of drawback, or bounty on exportation.

    Ch. XXXVI · 3 Stat. 486 · February 20, 1819 · Original text

84. An Act for the relief of Benjamin Pool.

    Ch. XXIX · 6 Stat. 223 · February 20, 1819 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act for the relief of Adam Kinsley, Thomas French, and Charles S. Leonard.

    Ch. XXX · 6 Stat. 223 · February 20, 1819 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act for the relief of Henry Davis.

    Ch. XXXII · 6 Stat. 223 · February 20, 1819 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act for the relief of John Clark.

    Ch. XXXIII · 6 Stat. 224 · February 20, 1819 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act directing the payment of certain bills drawn by General Armstrong in favor of William Morgan.

    Ch. XXXIV · 6 Stat. 224 · February 20, 1819 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act allowing further time to complete the issuing and locating of military land warrants.

    Ch. XLI · 3 Stat. 487 · February 24, 1819 · Original text

90. An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts.”

    Ch. XLIII · 3 Stat. 487 · February 24, 1819 · Original text

91. An Act for the relief of Thomas Hall Jervey.

    Ch. XXXVII · 6 Stat. 224 · February 24, 1819 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act concerning the heirs and legatees of Thomas Turner, deceased.

    Ch. XXXVIII · 6 Stat. 224 · February 24, 1819 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act for the relief of Kenzie and Forsyth.

    Ch. XXXIX · 6 Stat. 225 · February 24, 1819 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act making provision for the claim of M. Poirey.

    Ch. XL · 6 Stat. 225 · February 24, 1819 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act making provision for the claim of M. de Vienne.

    Ch. XLII · 6 Stat. 225 · February 24, 1819 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act to incorporate a company to build a bridge over the eastern branch of [the] Potomac, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets east, in the city of Washington.

    Ch. XLIV · 6 Stat. 225 · February 24, 1819 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act to regulate the pay of the army when employed on fatigue duty.

    Ch. XLV · 3 Stat. 488 · March 2, 1819 · Original text

98. An Act regulating passenger ships and vessels.

    Ch. XLVI · 3 Stat. 488 · March 2, 1819 · Original text

99. An Act to enable the people of the Alabama territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states.

    Ch. XLVII · 3 Stat. 489 · March 2, 1819 · Original text

100. An Act supplementary to the acts concerning the coasting trade.

     Ch. XLVIII · 3 Stat. 492 · March 2, 1819 · Original text