Every law Congress has passed

370 laws of the 21st Congress, 1829–1831

1. An Act for the relief of John Glass.

   Ch. CXCIV · 6 Stat. 442 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act for the relief of David Rogers and Sons.

   Ch. CXCI · 6 Stat. 443 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act for the relief of Benjamin Homans.

   Ch. CXCII · 6 Stat. 443 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act for the relief of Samuel Sprigg, of Virginia.

   Ch. CXCIII · 6 Stat. 443 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Childers.

   Ch. CXCV · 6 Stat. 443 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act for the relief of Alexander Love.

   Ch. CXCVI · 6 Stat. 444 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act for the relief of Martha Yeomans, widow of John Yeomans, deceased.

   Ch. CXCVII · 6 Stat. 444 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ellis, deceased.

   Ch. CXCVIII · 6 Stat. 444 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act for the relief of David Brooks.

   Ch. CXCIX · 6 Stat. 445 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act for the benefit of Charles Brown, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

    Ch. CC · 6 Stat. 445 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act for the relief of William Price.

    Ch. CCI · 6 Stat. 445 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased.

    Ch. CCII · 6 Stat. 445 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act for the relief of George Ermatinger.

    Ch. CCIII · 6 Stat. 445 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act for the settlement of the accounts of Samuel Sitgreaves.

    Ch. CCIV · 6 Stat. 446 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker and John J. Jacobs.

    Ch. CCV · 6 Stat. 446 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act to repeal the proviso in the act for the relief of Philip Slaughter, passed the twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

    Ch. CCVI · 6 Stat. 446 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Williams.

    Ch. CCIX · 6 Stat. 446 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act for the relief of Jasper Parish.

    Ch. CCX · 6 Stat. 447 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act for the relief of Benjamin Wells.

    Ch. CCXII · 6 Stat. 447 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.

    Ch. CCXIV · 6 Stat. 447 · May 29, 1830 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army, during the revolutionary war.

    Ch. CCXV · 4 Stat. 422 · May 30, 1830 · Original text

22. An Act for the relief of Lewis Rouse.

    Ch. CCXVI · 6 Stat. 448 · May 30, 1830 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act making appropriations for certain expenditures on account of the engineer, ordnance, and quartermaster’s department.

    Ch. CCXVII · 4 Stat. 424 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

24. An Act making a re-appropriation of a sum heretofore appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade.

    Ch. CCXVIII · 4 Stat. 425 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

25. An Act to repeal the tonnage duties upon ships and vessels of the United Slates, and upon certain foreign vessels.

    Ch. CCXIX · 4 Stat. 425 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

26. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the present site of the national mint to be sold, and making an appropriation for completing the new buildings now erecting.

    Ch. CCXX · 4 Stat. 425 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

27. An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution.”

    Ch. CCXXVIII · 4 Stat. 426 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

28. An Act to amend the charter of Georgetown.

    Ch. CCXXIX · 4 Stat. 426 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

29. An Act making appropriations for examinations and surveys, and also, for certain works of internal improvement.

    Ch. CCXXXII · 4 Stat. 427 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

30. An Act making additional appropriations for pay of the marine corps.

    Ch. CCXXXIII · 4 Stat. 428 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

31. An Act to authorize the payment of the claim of the state of Massachusetts, for certain services of her militia during the late war.

    Ch. CCXXXIV · 4 Stat. 428 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

32. An Act for the relief of sundry citizens of the United States, who have lost property by the depredations of certain Indian tribes.

    Ch. CCXXXV · 4 Stat. 428 · May 31, 1830 · Original text

33. An Act authorizing the county of Allen to purchase a portion, of the reservation including Fort Wayne.

    Ch. CCXXI · 6 Stat. 448 · May 31, 1830 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act for the relief of John Reily.

    Ch. CCXXII · 6 Stat. 448 · May 31, 1830 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act for the relief of John Raptiste Jerome.

    Ch. CCXXIII · 6 Stat. 448 · May 31, 1830 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Simeon Theus, deceased.

    Ch. CCXXIV · 6 Stat. 449 · May 31, 1830 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act for the relief of John F. Carmichael, of the state of Mississippi.

    Ch. CCXXV · 6 Stat. 449 · May 31, 1830 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy.

    Ch. CCXXVI · 6 Stat. 450 · May 31, 1830 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act for the relief of Samuel Ward.

    Ch. CCXXVII · 6 Stat. 450 · May 31, 1830 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of David Beard.

    Ch. CCXXX · 6 Stat. 450 · May 31, 1830 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of Isaac Finney.

    Ch. CCXXXI · 6 Stat. 450 · May 31, 1830 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act to change the time of holding the rule term of the circuit court of the district of West Tennessee.

    Ch. I · 4 Stat. 431 · January 13, 1831 · Original text

43. An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for paying to the state of Illinois three per centum of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same.”

    Ch. II · 4 Stat. 431 · January 13, 1831 · Original text

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

    Ch. III · 4 Stat. 432 · January 13, 1831 · Original text

45. Resolution in relation to the transmission of public documents printed by order of either House of Congress.

    Resolution I · 4 Stat. 495 · January 13, 1831 · Original text

46. An Act for the benefit of schools in Lawrence county, Mississippi.

    Ch. IV · 6 Stat. 451 · January 13, 1831 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald.

    Ch. V · 6 Stat. 451 · January 13, 1831 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for paying to the states of Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama, three per centum of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same.”

    Ch. VI · 4 Stat. 432 · January 19, 1831 · Original text

49. An Act for the relief of Thomas Fitzgerald.

    Ch. VII · 6 Stat. 451 · January 19, 1831 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act for closing certain accounts, and making appropriations for arrearages in the Indian department.

    Ch. VIII · 4 Stat. 433 · January 27, 1831 · Original text

51. An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and invalid pensioners.

    Ch. IX · 4 Stat. 433 · January 27, 1831 · Original text

52. An Act to alter the times of holding the district courts of the United States for the districts of Maine and Illinois, and northern district of Alabama.

    Ch. X · 4 Stat. 434 · January 27, 1831 · Original text

53. An Act to extend the time for entering certain donation claims to land in the territory of Arkansas.

    Ch. XI · 4 Stat. 434 · January 27, 1831 · Original text

54. An Act further supplemental to the act entitled “An act making further provision for settling the claims to land, in the territory of Missouri,” passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.

    Ch. XII · 4 Stat. 435 · January 27, 1831 · Original text

55. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Edward Moore, deceased.

    Ch. XIII · 6 Stat. 452 · January 27, 1831 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act making provision for the compensation of witnesses, and payment of other expenses attending the trial of the impeachment of James H. Peck.

    Ch. XIV · 4 Stat. 435 · February 3, 1831 · Original text

57. An Act to authorize the construction of three schooners far the naval service of the United States.

    Ch. XV · 4 Stat. 436 · February 3, 1831 · Original text

58. An Act to amend the several acts respecting copy rights.

    Ch. XVI · 4 Stat. 436 · February 3, 1831 · Original text

59. An Act to amend the act for taking the fifth census.

    Ch. XVII · 4 Stat. 439 · February 3, 1831 · Original text

60. An Act for the relief of Matthias Roll and William Jackson.

    Ch. XVIII · 6 Stat. 452 · February 3, 1831 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to quiet the title of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio,” approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty.

    Ch. XIX · 4 Stat. 440 · February 12, 1831 · Original text

62. An Act to repeal the charges imposed on passports and clearances.

    Ch. XX · 4 Stat. 441 · February 12, 1831 · Original text

63. An Act authorizing the sale of a tract of land therein named.

    Ch. XXII · 4 Stat. 441 · February 12, 1831 · Original text

64. An Act to amend the act granting “certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation if the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Blackwarrior rivers,” approved the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

    Ch. XXIII · 4 Stat. 441 · February 12, 1831 · Original text

65. An Act to authorize the transportation of merchandise by land or by water with the benefit of debenture.

    Ch. XXIV · 4 Stat. 442 · February 12, 1831 · Original text

66. An Act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to John Powell.

    Ch. XXI · 6 Stat. 452 · February 12, 1831 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act for the relief of William Smith, administrator of John Taylor, deceased.

    Ch. XXV · 6 Stat. 452 · February 12, 1831 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act to provide hereafter for the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Seneca Indians, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXVI · 4 Stat. 442 · February 19, 1831 · Original text

69. An Act to establish a land office in the territory of Michigan, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXVII · 4 Stat. 442 · February 19, 1831 · Original text

70. An Act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts.

    Ch. XXVIII · 4 Stat. 444 · February 19, 1831 · Original text

71. An Act to alter and amend “An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands far the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive.”

    Ch. XXX · 4 Stat. 444 · February 19, 1831 · Original text

72. An Act for the relief of William Burris, of Mississippi.

    Ch. XXIX · 6 Stat. 453 · February 19, 1831 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act making appropriations for the completion and support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXXI · 4 Stat. 445 · February 25, 1831 · Original text

74. An Act to authorize the appointment of a sub-agent to the Winnebago Indians, on Rock river.

    Ch. XXXII · 4 Stat. 445 · February 25, 1831 · Original text

75. An Act supplemental to an act, passed on the thirty-first March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled “An act far the relief of purchasers of public lands, and for the suppression of fraudulent practices at the public sales of lands of the United States.”

    Ch. XXXIV · 4 Stat. 445 · February 25, 1831 · Original text

76. An Act to provide for the adjustment of claims of persons entitled to indemnification under the convention between the United States and his majesty the King of Denmark, of the twenty-eighth March, eighteen hundred and thirty, and for the distribution among such claimants of the sums to be paid by the Danish government to that of the United States according to the stipulation of the said convention.

    Ch. XXXVI · 4 Stat. 446 · February 25, 1831 · Original text

77. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make compensation to the heirs of Taliaferro Livingston and Francis W. Armstrong for the maintenance of fifteen Africans illegally imported into the United States.

    Ch. XXXIII · 6 Stat. 453 · February 25, 1831 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act to incorporate Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XXXV · 6 Stat. 453 · February 25, 1831 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act for the punishment of crimes in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. XXXVII · 4 Stat. 448 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

80. An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

    Ch. XXXVIII · 4 Stat. 450 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

81. An Act for the relief of certain importers if foreign merchandise.

    Ch. XXXIX · 4 Stat. 451 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

82. An Act for the sale of the lands in the state of Illinois reserved for the use of the salt springs on the Vermillion river, in that state.

    Ch. XL · 4 Stat. 451 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

83. An Act for the relief of the citizens of Shawneetown.

    Ch. XLI · 4 Stat. 451 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

84. An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to purchase an additional quantity of land for the fortifications at fort Washington, upon the river Potomac.

    Ch. XLII · 4 Stat. 452 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

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

    Ch. LV · 4 Stat. 452 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

86. An Act making additional appropriations fur the improvement of certain harbours, and removing obstructions in the mouths of certain rivers.

    Ch. LVI · 4 Stat. 459 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

87. An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

    Ch. LVII · 4 Stat. 460 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

88. An Act making appropriations for carrying on certain roads and works of internal improvement, and for providing far surveys.

    Ch. LVIII · 4 Stat. 462 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

89. An Act making appropriation for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.

    Ch. LIX · 4 Stat. 463 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

90. An Act to carry into effect certain Indian treaties.

    Ch. LX · 4 Stat. 464 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

91. An Act making appropriations for the military service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

    Ch. LXI · 4 Stat. 465 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

92. An Act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States.

    Ch. LXII · 4 Stat. 467 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

93. An Act for the continuation of the Cumberland road in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

    Ch. LXIII · 4 Stat. 469 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

94. An Act making appropriations for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

    Ch. LXIV · 4 Stat. 470 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

95. An Act making provision for a subscription to a compilation of Congressional documents.

    Ch. LXV · 4 Stat. 471 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

96. An Act to provide for the punishment of offences committed in cutting, destroying, or removing live oak and Other timber or trees reserved for naval purposes.

    Ch. LXVI · 4 Stat. 472 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

97. An Act granting a quantity of land to the territory of Arkansas for the erection of a public building at the seat of government of said territory.

    Ch. LXVII · 4 Stat. 473 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

98. An Act confirming the selections heretofore made of lands for the construction of the Michigan road, in the state of Indiana.

    Ch. LXVIII · 4 Stat. 473 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

99. An Act to extend the act, entitled “An act for the further extending the powers of the judges of the superior court of the territory of Arkansas, under the act of the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and for other purposes.”

    Ch. LXIX · 4 Stat. 473 · March 2, 1831 · Original text

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

     Ch. LXX · 4 Stat. 474 · March 2, 1831 · Original text