Every law Congress has passed

234 laws of the 20th Congress, 1827–1829

1. An Act making partial appropriations for the support of government during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

   Ch. I · 4 Stat. 246 · January 3, 1828 · Original text

2. An Act to prevent defalcations on the part of the disbursing agents of the government, and for other purposes.

   Ch. II · 4 Stat. 246 · January 25, 1828 · Original text

3. An Act for the relief of Simeon Broadmeadow.

   Ch. III · 6 Stat. 370 · January 25, 1828 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States.

   Ch. IV · 4 Stat. 247 · February 12, 1828 · Original text

5. An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

   Ch. VI · 4 Stat. 247 · February 12, 1828 · Original text

6. An Act for the relief of General Thomas Flournoy, of Georgia.

   Ch. V · 6 Stat. 370 · February 12, 1828 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of Chauncey Bulkley, deceased.

   Ch. VII · 6 Stat. 371 · February 21, 1828 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act for the relief of Hampton L. Boone, of Missouri.

   Ch. VIII · 6 Stat. 371 · February 21, 1828 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act to revive and continue in force “An act declaring the assent of Congress to a certain act of Maryland.”

   Ch. XV · 4 Stat. 254 · March 10, 1828 · Original text

10. An Act to alter the time of holding the district courts of the United States in the district of North Carolina.

    Ch. XVI · 4 Stat. 254 · March 10, 1828 · Original text

11. An Act authorizing a register to be issued for the brig Liberator, of Bath.

    Ch. IX · 6 Stat. 371 · March 10, 1828 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act for the relief of William Thompson.

    Ch. X · 6 Stat. 371 · March 10, 1828 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act for the relief of Joshua T. Chase and others.

    Ch. XI · 6 Stat. 372 · March 10, 1828 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act for the relief of Henry G. Rice.

    Ch. XII · 6 Stat. 372 · March 10, 1828 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of the late General William Hull.

    Ch. XIII · 6 Stat. 372 · March 10, 1828 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act for the relief of William Cloyd.

    Ch. XIV · 6 Stat. 372 · March 10, 1828 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.

    Ch. XVII · 4 Stat. 254s · March 19, 1828 · Original text

18. An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

    Ch. XVIII · 4 Stat. 256 · March 19, 1828 · Original text

19. An Act granting the right of preference in the purchase of public lands, to certain settlers in the St. Helena land district, in the state of Louisiana.

    Ch. XIX · 4 Stat. 256 · March 19, 1828 · Original text

20. An Act for the relief of the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XX · 6 Stat. 373 · March 19, 1828 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

    Ch. XXI · 4 Stat. 257 · March 21, 1828 · Original text

22. An Act to revive and continue in force the several acts making provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of the public lands.

    Ch. XXII · 4 Stat. 259 · March 21, 1828 · Original text

23. An Act authorizing a subscription for the statistical tables prepared by George Watterston and Nicholas B. Van Zandt.

    Ch. XXIII · 4 Stat. 260 · April 3, 1828 · Original text

24. Resolution authorizing the Speaker of the House of Representatives to frank letters and packages.

    Resolution I · 4 Stat. 320 · April 3, 1828 · Original text

25. Resolution in relation to Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.

    Resolution III · 4 Stat. 320 · April 3, 1828 · Original text

26. An Act for the relief of William Augustus Archbald.

    Ch. XXIV · 6 Stat. 373 · April 3, 1828 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act for the relief of George Johnston, Jonathan W. Ford, Josiah Mason, and John English.

    Ch. XXV · 6 Stat. 373 · April 3, 1828 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act for the relief of Catharine Stearns.

    Ch. XXVI · 6 Stat. 374 · April 3, 1828 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of Mrs. Brown, widow of the late Major General Brown.

    Ch. XXVII · 6 Stat. 374 · April 3, 1828 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act to confirm certain claims to lands in the territory of Michigan.

    Ch. XXVIII · 4 Stat. 260 · April 17, 1828 · Original text

31. An Act providing for the appointment of an additional judge of the superior court for the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXIX · 4 Stat. 261 · April 17, 1828 · Original text

32. An Act authorizing the President of the United States to appoint certain agents therein mentioned.

    Ch. XXX · 4 Stat. 262 · April 17, 1828 · Original text

33. An Act explanatory of “An act to grant a certain quantity of land to the state of Ohio for the purpose of making a road from Columbus to Sandusky.”

    Ch. XXXI · 4 Stat. 263 · April 17, 1828 · Original text

34. An Act for the relief of Thomas Flowers, and the legal representatives of John Kingsbury.

    Ch. XXXII · 6 Stat. 374 · April 17, 1828 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act for the benefit of Mary Ann Bond, and Mary Loveless.

    Ch. XXXIII · 6 Stat. 374 · April 17, 1828 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act for the relief of John Shirkey.

    Ch. XXXIV · 6 Stat. 375 · April 17, 1828 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act to extend the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct taxes in certain cases.

    Ch. XXXIX · 4 Stat. 263 · April 28, 1828 · Original text

38. An Act extending the limits of certain land offices in Indiana, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XL · 4 Stat. 264 · April 28, 1828 · Original text

39. An Act in addition to the act, entitled “An act to provide for the sale of lands, conveyed to the United States, in certain cases, and for other purposes,” passed the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four.

    Ch. XLI · 4 Stat. 264 · April 28, 1828 · Original text

40. An Act authorizing the legislative council of Florida to meet in October instead of December; and repealing the proviso in the sixth section of the act, entitled “An act to amend an act, for the establishment of a territorial government in Florida, and for other purposes,” approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.

    Ch. XLII · 4 Stat. 264 · April 28, 1828 · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of Anthony Hermange.

    Ch. XXXV · 6 Stat. 375 · April 28, 1828 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of William Benning.

    Ch. XXXVI · 6 Stat. 375 · April 28, 1828 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act for the relief of Richard Taylor.

    Ch. XXXVII · 6 Stat. 376 · April 28, 1828 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act for the relief of Asa Herring.

    Ch. XXXVIII · 6 Stat. 376 · April 28, 1828 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act making a supplementary appropriation for the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

    Ch. XLIV · 4 Stat. 265 · May 2, 1828 · Original text

46. An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XLV · 4 Stat. 265 · May 2, 1828 · Original text

47. An Act to authorize the cancelling of a bond, therein mentioned.

    Ch. XLIII · 6 Stat. 376 · May 2, 1828 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act to authorize the purchase and distribution of the seventh volume of the Laws of the United States.

    Ch. XLVI · 4 Stat. 267 · May 9, 1828 · Original text

49. An Act making appropriations for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

    Ch. XLVII · 4 Stat. 267 · May 9, 1828 · Original text

50. An Act to authorize a railroad within the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XLVIII · 4 Stat. 268 · May 9, 1828 · Original text

51. An Act regulating commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe.

    Ch. XLIX · 4 Stat. 269 · May 9, 1828 · Original text

52. An Act for the relief of William Gentry, of Missouri.

    Ch. L · 6 Stat. 377 · May 9, 1828 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the relief of Elvington Roberts, of Mississippi.

    Ch. LI · 6 Stat. 377 · May 9, 1828 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act supplementary to “An act to provide for the adjustment of claims of persons entitled to indemnification, under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, and for the distribution among such claimants, of the sum paid, and to be paid by the Government of Great Britain, under a convention between the United States and his Britannic Majesty, concluded at London, on the thirteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six,” passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

    Ch. LII · 4 Stat. 269 · May 15, 1828 · Original text

55. An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution.

    Ch. LIII · 4 Stat. 269 · May 15, 1828 · Original text

56. An Act for the relief of Willoughby Barton.

    Ch. LIV · 6 Stat. 377 · May 15, 1828 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports.

    Ch. LV · 4 Stat. 270 · May 19, 1828 · Original text

58. An Act making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbours, the completion of the Cumberland road to Zanesville, the securing the lighthouse on the Brandywine Shoal, and the making of surveys.

    Ch. LVI · 4 Stat. 275 · May 19, 1828 · Original text

59. An Act for the punishment of contraventions of the fifth article of the treaty between the United States and Russia.

    Ch. LVII · 4 Stat. 276 · May 19, 1828 · Original text

60. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to run and mark a line, dividing the territory of Arkansas from the state of Louisiana.

    Ch. LVIII · 4 Stat. 276 · May 19, 1828 · Original text

61. An Act concerning the orphans’ court of Alexandria county, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. LIX · 4 Stat. 277 · May 19, 1828 · Original text

62. An Act to reduce the duty on Greek and Latin books, printed previous to the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

    Ch. LX · 4 Stat. 277 · May 19, 1828 · Original text

63. An Act to continue the mint at the city of Philadelphia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. LXVII · 4 Stat. 277 · May 19, 1828 · Original text

64. further to regulate processes in the courts of the United States.

    Ch. LXVIII · 4 Stat. 278 · May 19, 1828 · Original text

65. An Act for the benefit of John B. Dupuis.

    Ch. LXI · 6 Stat. 377 · May 19, 1828 · Private law · Original text

66. An Act granting compensation to Rebecca Blodget, for her right of dower in the property therein mentioned.

    Ch. LXII · 6 Stat. 378 · May 19, 1828 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act for the relief of the representatives of Patience Gordon, widow, deceased.

    Ch. LXIII · 6 Stat. 378 · May 19, 1828 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act for the relief of William Bell.

    Ch. LXIV · 6 Stat. 378 · May 19, 1828 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act for the relief of Thomas Brown and Aaron Stanton, of the state of Indiana.

    Ch. LXV · 6 Stat. 378 · May 19, 1828 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act for the relief of William McClure.

    Ch. LXVI · 6 Stat. 379 · May 19, 1828 · Private law · Original text

71. Resolution authorizing an examination of the claims to land of John F. Carmichael.

    Resolution 2 · 6 Stat. 394 · May 19, 1828 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act to authorize the building of lighthouses, and for other purposes.

    Ch. LXIX · 4 Stat. 282 · May 23, 1828 · Original text

73. An Act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement and confirmation of private land claims in Florida.

    Ch. LXX · 4 Stat. 284 · May 23, 1828 · Original text

74. An Act for the relief of purchasers of the public lands that have reverted for non-payment of the purchase money.

    Ch. LXXI · 4 Stat. 286 · May 23, 1828 · Original text

75. An Act to provide for extending the term of certain pensions, chargeable on the navy and privateer pension fund.

    Ch. LXXII · 4 Stat. 288 · May 23, 1828 · Original text

76. An Act to authorize the improving of certain harbours, the building of piers, and for other purposes.

    Ch. LXXIII · 4 Stat. 288 · May 23, 1828 · Original text

77. An Act to grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers.

    Ch. LXXV · 4 Stat. 290 · May 23, 1828 · Original text

78. An Act making an appropriation for the erection of a breakwater near the mouth of Delaware bay.

    Ch. LXXVI · 4 Stat. 290 · May 23, 1828 · Original text

79. to establish a southern judicial district in the territory of Florida.

    Ch. LXXVII · 4 Stat. 291 · May 23, 1828 · Original text

80. An Act to amend and explain an act, entitled “An act confirming an act of the legislature of Virginia, incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and an act of the state of Maryland, for the same purpose.”

    Ch. LXXXV · 4 Stat. 292 · May 23, 1828 · Original text

81. An Act making an appropriation to extinguish the Indian title to a reserve allowed to Peter Lynch, of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, within the limits of the state of Georgia, by the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the United States and said tribe of Indians.

    Ch. LXXIV · 6 Stat. 379 · May 23, 1828 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act for the relief of Marinus W. Gilbert.

    Ch. LXXVIII · 6 Stat. 379 · May 23, 1828 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Merriwether Lewis.

    Ch. LXXIX · 6 Stat. 380 · May 23, 1828 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act for the relief of Francis English, of Indiana.

    Ch. LXXX · 6 Stat. 380 · May 23, 1828 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act for the relief of Dodd and Barnard, and others.

    Ch. LXXXI · 6 Stat. 380 · May 23, 1828 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act for the relief of Alexander Garden.

    Ch. LXXXII · 6 Stat. 380 · May 23, 1828 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act for the benefit of Andrew Wesbrook.

    Ch. LXXXIII · 6 Stat. 380 · May 23, 1828 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act for the relief of Edward Mien Talbot.

    Ch. LXXXIV · 6 Stat. 381 · May 23, 1828 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the state of Alabama.

    Ch. CX · 4 Stat. 24 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

90. An Act authorizing a subscription to the stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

    Ch. LXXXVI · 4 Stat. 293 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

91. An Act to enlarge the powers of the several corporations of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. LXXXVII · 4 Stat. 294 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

92. An Act making appropriations for custom-houses and warehouses.

    Ch. LXXXIX · 4 Stat. 297 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

93. An Act to continue in force for a limited time, and to amend an act, entitled “An act to enable claimants to lands within the limits of the state of Missouri and territory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims.”

    Ch. XC · 4 Stat. 298 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

94. An Act to authorize the legislature of the state of Indiana io sell the lands heretofore appropriated far the use if schools in that state.

    Ch. XCI · 4 Stat. 298 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

95. An Act supplementary to the several acts providing for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Mississippi.

    Ch. XCIII · 4 Stat. 299 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

96. An Act making appropriations to carry into effect certain Indian treaties.

    Ch. XCIV · 4 Stat. 300 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

97. An Act malting appropriations for the purchase of books, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XCV · 4 Stat. 301 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

98. An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An Act providing for the correction of errors in making entries of lands at the land offices,” passed March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen.

    Ch. XCVI · 4 Stat. 301 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

99. An Act to enable the President of the United States to hold a treaty with the Chippewas, Ottawas, Pattawattimas, Winnebagoes, Fox and Sacs nations of Indians.

    Ch. XCVII · 4 Stat. 302 · May 24, 1828 · Original text

100. An Act making an appropriation for the suppression of the slave trade.

     Ch. XCVIII · 4 Stat. 302 · May 24, 1828 · Original text