Every law Congress has passed

262 laws of the 15th Congress, 1817–1819

1. An Act establishing a separate territorial government in the southern part of the territory of Missouri.

   Ch. XLIX · 3 Stat. 493 · March 2, 1819 · Original text

2. An Act authorizing the Postmaster General to contract, as in other cases, for carrying the mail in steamboats, between New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, and Louisville, in the state of Kentucky.

   Ch. LII · 3 Stat. 496 · March 2, 1819 · Original text

3. An Act confirming the claim of Alexander Macomb to a tract of land in the Territory of Michigan.

   Ch. L · 6 Stat. 228 · March 2, 1819 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act for the relief of John B. Timberlake.

   Ch. LI · 6 Stat. 228 · March 2, 1819 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act to authorize William Prout to institute a Bill in Equity before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, against the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, and to direct a defence therein.

   Ch. LIII · 6 Stat. 228 · March 2, 1819 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

   Ch. LIV · 3 Stat. 496 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

7. An Act extending the term of half-pay pensions to the widows and children of certain officers, seamen, and marines, who died in the public service.

   Ch. LX · 3 Stat. 502 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

8. An Act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state if Illinois.

   Ch. LXX · 3 Stat. 503 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

9. An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act to authorize and empower the president and managers of the Washington Turnpike Company of the state of Maryland, when organized, to extend and make their turnpike road to or from Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, through the said district, to the line thereof.”

   Ch. LXXI · 3 Stat. 503 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

10. An Act to alter and establish certain post-roads.

    Ch. LXXII · 3 Stat. 503 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

11. An Act to enforce those provisions of the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States,” which relate to the right of voting for directors, and for other purposes.

    Ch. LXXIII · 3 Stat. 508 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

12. An Act further to suspend, for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon.

    Ch. LXXIV · 3 Stat. 509 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

13. An Act in addition to “An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties in certain cases.”

    Ch. LXXV · 3 Stat. 510 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

14. to protect the commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of piracy.

    Ch. LXXVII · 3 Stat. 510 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

15. An Act to continue in force, for a further term, the act entitled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” and for other purposes.

    Ch. LXXX · 3 Stat. 514 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

16. An Act regulating the payments to invalid pensioners.

    Ch. LXXXI · 3 Stat. 514 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

17. An Act to regulate the duties on certain wines.

    Ch. LXXXII · 3 Stat. 515 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

18. An Act respecting the location of certain sections of lands to be granted for the seat of government in the state of Indiana.

    Ch. LXXXIII · 3 Stat. 515 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

19. An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, fur the purchase of a lot of land, and furnishing a supply of water for the use of certain public buildings.

    Ch. LXXXIV · 3 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

20. An Act making provision for the civilization of the Indian tribes adjoining the frontier settlements.

    Ch. LXXXV · 3 Stat. 516 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

21. An Act explanatory of the act entitled “An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana and territory of Missouri.”

    Ch. LXXXVI · 3 Stat. 517 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

22. An Act making appropriations to carry into effect treaties concluded with several Indian tribes therein mentioned.

    Ch. LXXXVII · 3 Stat. 518 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

23. An Act authorizing the sale of certain military sites.

    Ch. LXXXVIII · 3 Stat. 520 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

24. An Act in addition to, and alteration of an act, entitled “An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries.”

    Ch. LXXXIX · 3 Stat. 520 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

25. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to convey a lot or parcel of land, belonging to the United States, lying in Jefferson county, in the stale of Virginia.

    Ch. XC · 3 Stat. 521 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

26. An Act to authorize the Secretary at War to appoint an additional agent for paying pensioners of the United States, in the state of Tennessee.

    Ch. XCI · 3 Stat. 521 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

27. An Act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices for the disposal of the public lands not heretofore offered for sale in the states of Ohio and Indiana.

    Ch. XCII · 3 Stat. 521 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

28. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to take possession of East and West Florida, and establish a temporary government therein.

    Ch. XCIII · 3 Stat. 523 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

29. An Act concerning the allowance of pensions upon a relinquishment of bounty lands.

    Ch. XCIV · 3 Stat. 524 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

30. An Act granting a donation of land to the state of Illinois, for the seat of government of said state.

    Ch. XCV · 3 Stat. 525 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

31. An Act authorizing the purchase of fire engines and for building houses for the safe keeping of the same.

    Ch. XCVI · 3 Stat. 525 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

32. An Act to continue in force an act regulating the currency, within the United States, of the gold coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain, and the crowns of France, and five-franc pieces.

    Ch. XCVII · 3 Stat. 525 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

33. An Act providing for the correction of errors in making entries of land at the land offices.

    Ch. XCVIII · 3 Stat. 526 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

34. An Act concerning invalid pensions.

    Ch. XCIX · 3 Stat. 526 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

35. for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices, in the districts cast of the island of New Orleans.

    Ch. C · 3 Stat. 528 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

36. An Act in addition to the Acts prohibiting the slave trade.

    Ch. CI · 3 Stat. 532 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

37. An Act to authorize the building, eroding, and placing, lighthouses, beacons, and buoys, on places designated in Boston, Buzzard and Chesapeake, Bays, Lakes Ontario and Erie, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CII · 3 Stat. 534 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

38. An Act to repeal part of an act passed on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, entitled “An act in addition to “An act regulating the Post-office establishment.”

    Ch. CVII · 3 Stat. 536 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

39. Resolution directing the manner in which the printing of Congress shall be executed, fixing the prices thereof, and providing for the appointment of a printer or printers.

    Public Resolution VI · 3 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

40. Resolution declaring the manner in which the vessels composing the navy of the United States shall be named.

    Public Resolution VII · 3 Stat. 538 · March 3, 1819 · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of Phebe Stuart.

    Ch. LV · 6 Stat. 229 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of John Rice Jones.

    Ch. LVI · 6 Stat. 229 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act in behalf of the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb.

    Ch. LVII · 6 Stat. 229 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act in addition to an act, supplementary to an act, entitled “An act for the relief of Thomas Wilson.”

    Ch. LVIII · 6 Stat. 229 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act for the relief of Aquila Giles.

    Ch. LIX · 6 Stat. 230 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act for the relief of Robert M’Calla and Matthew H. Jouett.

    Ch. LXI · 6 Stat. 230 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act for the relief of Henry Batman.

    Ch. LXII · 6 Stat. 230 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act for the relief of Harold Smyth.

    Ch. LXIII · 6 Stat. 230 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act for the relief of Daniel Moss.

    Ch. LXIV · 6 Stat. 230 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act for the relief of B. and P. Jourdan, brothers.

    Ch. LXV · 6 Stat. 230 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act for the relief of George M. Brook and Edmund P. Kennedy.

    Ch. LXVI · 6 Stat. 231 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act for the relief of Michael Hogan.

    Ch. LXVII · 6 Stat. 231 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the relief of Rees Hill.

    Ch. LXVIII · 6 Stat. 231 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the relief of Hannah Ring and others.

    Ch. LXIX · 6 Stat. 231 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.

    Ch. LXXVI · 6 Stat. 232 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act for the relief of Isaac Minis and others.

    Ch. LXXVIII · 6 Stat. 232 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act for the relief of Patrick Callan.

    Ch. LXXIX · 6 Stat. 232 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act concerning Invalid Pensions.

    Ch. XCIX · 6 Stat. 232 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act for the relief of John M’Causland.

    Ch. CIII · 6 Stat. 234 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act for the relief of Robert Kid, Seth Webber, and Thomas Page.

    Ch. CIV · 6 Stat. 234 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the relief of James Orr.

    Ch. CV · 6 Stat. 235 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act for the relief of Nathan G. Birdseye and Daniel Booth.

    Ch. CVI · 6 Stat. 235 · March 3, 1819 · Private law · Original text