Every law Congress has passed

147 laws of the 26th Congress, 1839–1841

1. An Act for the relief of the children of Stephen Johnston, deceased.

   Ch. XCVI · 6 Stat. 812 · July 20, 1840 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act for the relief of Boggs and Thompson, Robert and Thomas Hutchinson, and others.

   Ch. XCVII · 6 Stat. 812 · July 20, 1840 · Private law · Original text

3. A Resolution authorizing an examination and payment of the claims of the stone-cutters and other workmen upon the public buildings.

   Resolution 6 · 6 Stat. 817 · July 20, 1840 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty.

   Ch. XCVIII · 5 Stat. 407 · July 21, 1840 · Original text

5. An Act for the relief of Chaatelain and Ponvert, and for other purposes.

   Ch. XCIX · 6 Stat. 813 · July 21, 1840 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act for the relief of Hyacinth Lassel.

   Ch. C · 6 Stat. 816 · July 21, 1840 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

   Ch. I · 5 Stat. 410 · December 18, 1840 · Original text

8. An Act supplementary to an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases.

   Ch. II · 5 Stat. 410 · January 14, 1841 · Original text

9. An Act further to amend the act entitled “An ad to provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

   Ch. III · 5 Stat. 411 · January 14, 1841 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution to present incorporated universities, colleges, &c., with copies of the catalogue of the Library of Congress.

    Resolution · 5 Stat. 436 · January 14, 1841 · Original text

11. An Act making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. IV · 6 Stat. 818 · February 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes.

    Ch. V · 5 Stat. 411 · February 15, 1841 · Original text

13. An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for other purposes.

    Ch. VI · 5 Stat. 412 · February 18, 1841 · Original text

14. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same,” passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six.

    Ch. VII · 5 Stat. 412 · February 18, 1841 · Original text

15. An Act for the relief of Gurdon S. Hubbard, Robert A. Kinzie, and others.

    Ch. VIII · 6 Stat. 818 · February 18, 1841 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to encourage the introduction, and promote the cultivation of tropical plants,” approved seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

    Ch. IX · 6 Stat. 819 · February 18, 1841 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act to make further provision for the expenses of an exploration and survey of that part of the northeastern boundary line of the United States which separates the States of Maine and New Hampshire from the British provinces.

    Ch. XI · 5 Stat. 413 · February 27, 1841 · Original text

18. An Act to confirm to the State of Indiana the land selected by her for that portion of the Wabash, and Erie canal which lies between the mouth of the Tippecanoe river and Terre Haute, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XII · 5 Stat. 414 · February 27, 1841 · Original text

19. An Act further to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States.

    Ch. XIII · 5 Stat. 414 · February 27, 1841 · Original text

20. An Act for the relief of Mary Tucker.

    Ch. X · 6 Stat. 819 · February 27, 1841 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act making an appropriation to defray the expense of a delegation of the Seminole Indians west of the Mississippi to Florida, and for other purposes.

    Ch. XXI · 5 Stat. 414 · March 2, 1841 · Original text

22. An Act for the relief of Lieutenant John E. Bispham.

    Ch. XIV · 6 Stat. 820 · March 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act for the relief of Jean Baptiste Comeau.

    Ch. XV · 6 Stat. 820 · March 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act for the relief of John Carter.

    Ch. XVI · 6 Stat. 820 · March 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act granting a pension to Hannah Leighton.

    Ch. XVII · 6 Stat. 820 · March 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act for the relief of William Jones.

    Ch. XVIII · 6 Stat. 821 · March 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act for the relief of Charles M. Keller and Henry Stone.

    Ch. XIX · 6 Stat. 821 · March 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act for the relief of William P. Rathbone.

    Ch. XX · 6 Stat. 821 · March 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of Joab Seely.

    Ch. XXII · 6 Stat. 821 · March 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act granting a pension to Lemuel White.

    Ch. XXIII · 6 Stat. 822 · March 2, 1841 · Private law · Original text

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

    Ch. XXXIV · 5 Stat. 119 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

32. An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United Stales, for the year One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

    Ch. XXIV · 5 Stat. 415 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

33. An Act to provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

    Ch. XXV · 5 Stat. 415 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

34. An Act to confirm land patents.

    Ch. XXVI · 5 Stat. 416 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

35. An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

    Ch. XXXIII · 5 Stat. 417 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

36. An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one.

    Ch. XXXV · 5 Stat. 421 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

37. An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

    Ch. XXXVI · 5 Stat. 433 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

38. An Act making an appropriation for the temporary support of certain destitute Kickapoo Indians, and to defray the expense of removing and subsisting the Swan Creek and Black River Indians of Michigan.

    Ch. XXXVII · 5 Stat. 435 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

39. An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to amend the act approved May thirteenth eighteen hundred, entitled ‘An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.’”

    Ch. XXXVIII · 5 Stat. 436 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

40. An Act to abolish the port of delivery and the office of Surveyor of the Customs at Currituck Inlet in North Carolina.

    Ch. XL · 5 Stat. 436 · March 3, 1841 · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of Avery, Saltmarsh, and Company.

    Ch. XXVII · 6 Stat. 822 · March 3, 1841 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Miguel Eslava.

    Ch. XXVIII · 6 Stat. 822 · March 3, 1841 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act for the relief of Joseph Bogy.

    Ch. XXIX · 6 Stat. 823 · March 3, 1841 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the duties collected on the French ship Alexandre.

    Ch. XXX · 6 Stat. 823 · March 3, 1841 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act respecting the heirs of Agness Dundas.

    Ch. XXXI · 6 Stat. 823 · March 3, 1841 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act to incorporate the Washington City Benevolent Society.

    Ch. XXXII · 6 Stat. 823 · March 3, 1841 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act to authorize the enrolment or register of the schooner Amistad.

    Ch. XXXIX · 6 Stat. 824 · March 3, 1841 · Private law · Original text