Every law Congress has passed

525 laws of the 27th Congress, 1841–1843

1. An Act making appropriations for Ike 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-two.

   Ch. LXIV · 5 Stat. 493 · July 17, 1842 · Original text

2. An Act to regulate the value to be affixed to the pound sterling by the Treasury Department.

   Ch. LXVI · 5 Stat. 496 · July 27, 1842 · Original text

3. An Act making an appropriation for the repair of the custom-house in Providence.

   Ch. LXVII · 5 Stat. 496 · July 27, 1842 · Original text

4. An Act to amend “An act for altering the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania at Williamsport,” approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and forty.

   Ch. LXVIII · 5 Stat. 496 · July 27, 1842 · Original text

5. An Act to provide for satisfying claims for bounty lands, for military services in the late war with Great Britain, and for other purposes.

   Ch. LXIX · 5 Stat. 497 · July 27, 1842 · Original text

6. An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of Georgetown.

   Ch. LXXXII · 5 Stat. 497 · July 27, 1842 · Original text

7. An Act to provide for erecting and lighting lamps on Pennsylvania Avenue.

   Ch. XCVI · 5 Stat. 498 · July 27, 1842 · Original text

8. An Act in relation to marriages within the District of Columbia.

   Ch. CVI · 5 Stat. 498 · July 27, 1842 · Original text

9. An Act granting a right of preemption to certain lots in the town if Perrysburg, in the state of Ohio.

   Ch. LXV · 6 Stat. 836 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act for the relief of James Morrow and Jonathan Tipton.

    Ch. LXX · 6 Stat. 837 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act for the relief of Henry J. Defrees and Stephen Jenny.

    Ch. LXXI · 6 Stat. 837 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act for the relief of Joshua Atwood, junior.

    Ch. LXXII · 6 Stat. 837 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act for the relief of Joseph J. Martin.

    Ch. LXXIII · 6 Stat. 837 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased.

    Ch. LXXIV · 6 Stat. 838 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act for the relief of Jabez L. and Asa White, of the state of Connecticut.

    Ch. LXXV · 6 Stat. 838 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act for the relief of Sarah Besly, widow of William Besly, deceased, and, previous thereto, widow of Doctor Henry Adams.

    Ch. LXXVI · 6 Stat. 838 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act for the relief of Betsey Breeland.

    Ch. LXXVII · 6 Stat. 838 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act for the relief of George Mayfield.

    Ch. LXXVIII · 6 Stat. 838 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act for the relief of George Mayfield.

    Ch. LXXIX · 6 Stat. 839 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act for the relief of Henry Welk.

    Ch. LXXX · 6 Stat. 839 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act to incorporate the German Benevolent Society of the city of Washington.

    Ch. LXXXI · 6 Stat. 839 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act for the relief of Daniel Chase.

    Ch. LXXXIII · 6 Stat. 840 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act for the relief of John Randall and Charles York.

    Ch. LXXXIV · 6 Stat. 840 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act for the relief of James Williams.

    Ch. LXXXV · 6 Stat. 840 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act for the relief of Thomas Collins.

    Ch. LXXXVI · 6 Stat. 840 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act for the relief of Samuel B. Hugo.

    Ch. LXXXVII · 6 Stat. 841 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act for the relief of John E. Alexander.

    Ch. LXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 841 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act for the relief of Daniel Homans.

    Ch. LXXXIX · 6 Stat. 841 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act for the relief of Isaac Fessenden.

    Ch. XC · 6 Stat. 841 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to issue to the heirs of John Campbell a patent for the remainder of private land claim number twenty, at Prairie du Chien, in the Territory of Wiskonsan.

    Ch. XCI · 6 Stat. 841 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act to grant to Van Buren county, Missouri, the tract of land on which the seal of justice of said county has been located.

    Ch. XCII · 6 Stat. 842 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act for the relief of William Markham.

    Ch. XCIII · 6 Stat. 842 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act for the relief of William Harper.

    Ch. XCIV · 6 Stat. 842 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act for the relief of Sarah Moore, of the state of Maryland.

    Ch. XCV · 6 Stat. 842 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act to relinquish to William Waller the interest of the United Slates in a certain tract of land therein named.

    Ch. XCVII · 6 Stat. 843 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act for the relief of Ingoldshy W. Crawford and Samuel Phillips.

    Ch. XCVIII · 6 Stat. 843 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act for the relief of Josiah Holmes.

    Ch. XCIX · 6 Stat. 843 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.

    Ch. C · 6 Stat. 843 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act for the relief of Archibald McCallum.

    Ch. CI · 6 Stat. 844 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of John P. Campbell.

    Ch. CII · 6 Stat. 844 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of George M. Bedinger, of the state of Kentucky.

    Ch. CIII · 6 Stat. 844 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act to authorize the county commissioners of Linn county, in the Territory if Iowa, to enter, by legal subdivisions, a quarter section of land, upon which the county seat has been located.

    Ch. CIV · 6 Stat. 844 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act to incorporate a society in the District of Columbia by the name of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.

    Ch. CV · 6 Stat. 845 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

44. Joint Resolution for the benefit of George Schnabel and Robert Barber, jr.

    Resolution 6 · 6 Stat. 876 · July 27, 1842 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act to provide for the permanent employment in the Post Office Department of certain clerks heretofore for several years temporarily employed in that Department.

    Ch. CVII · 5 Stat. 498 · July 30, 1842 · Original text

46. An Act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CVIII · 5 Stat. 498 · August 1, 1842 · Original text

47. An Act to extend the provisions of an act entitled “An act to regulate processes in the courts of the United States,” passed the nineteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

    Ch. CIX · 5 Stat. 499 · August 1, 1842 · Original text

48. An Act granting to the county of Johnson, in the territory of Iowa, the right of pre-emption to a trad of land for a seat of justice for said county, and repealing the second section of an act approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act making a donation of land to the territory of Iowa, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon.”

    Ch. CX · 6 Stat. 846 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act for the benefit of the county of Holt, in the state of Missouri.

    Ch. CXI · 6 Stat. 847 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act to confirm the sale of a certain school section in the state of Illinois, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CXII · 6 Stat. 847 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act authorizing a patent to be issued to Bartholomew Pellerin, his heirs or assigns.

    Ch. CXIII · 6 Stat. 847 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act for the relief of John P. Converse and Henry J. Hees.

    Ch. CXIV · 6 Stat. 848 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the relief of Benjamin F. Hard.

    Ch. CXV · 6 Stat. 848 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the relief of Sylvester Phelps and the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Landon, deceased.

    Ch. CXVI · 6 Stat. 848 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act for the relief of Edwin H. Childers, administrator of John P. Hickman.

    Ch. CXVII · 6 Stat. 848 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act to authorize the Shenandoah Bridge Company, at Harper’s Ferry, to erect a Bridge on the land of the United States at the town of Harper’s Ferry.

    Ch. CXVIII · 6 Stat. 848 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act for the relief of John A. Rockwell.

    Ch. CXIX · 6 Stat. 849 · August 1, 1842 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.

    Ch. CXX · 5 Stat. 499 · August 3, 1842 · Original text

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

    Ch. CXXI · 5 Stat. 500 · August 4, 1842 · Original text

60. An Act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement if the unsettled part of the peninsula if East Florida.

    Ch. CXXII · 5 Stat. 502 · August 4, 1842 · Original text

61. An Act to regulate appeals and writs of error from the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama.

    Ch. CXXIII · 5 Stat. 504 · August 4, 1842 · Original text

62. An Act explanatory of an act entitled “ An act for the relief of Clark Woodrooff,” passed May tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-two.

    Ch. CXXIV · 6 Stat. 849 · August 4, 1842 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act to annex a part of the town of Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, to the collection district of Fall River in the State of Massachusetts.

    Ch. CXXVI · 5 Stat. 504 · August 9, 1842 · Original text

64. An Act for the relief of David M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson.

    Ch. CXXV · 6 Stat. 849 · August 9, 1842 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia for the services of her militia.

    Ch. CXXVII · 5 Stat. 504 · August 11, 1842 · Original text

66. An Act to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas.

    Ch. CXXVIII · 5 Stat. 505 · August 11, 1842 · Original text

67. An Act regulating the services of the several judges in the Territory of Iowa.

    Ch. CXXIX · 5 Stat. 505 · August 11, 1842 · Original text

68. An Act in relation to the district court for the northern district of New York.

    Ch. CXXX · 5 Stat. 506 · August 11, 1842 · Original text

69. Joint Resolution to authorize the commission appointed to prepare rules and regulations for the naval service to appoint a clerk.

    Public Resolution 7 · 5 Stat. 584 · August 11, 1842 · Original text

70. An Act for the relief of Daniel B. Bush.

    Ch. CXXXI · 6 Stat. 850 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

71. An Act for the relief of Alexander Hammett.

    Ch. CXXXII · 6 Stat. 850 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act for the relief of George H. Walker.

    Ch. CXXXIII · 6 Stat. 850 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act for the relief of Rees B. Ward.

    Ch. CXXXIV · 6 Stat. 850 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act for the relief of William Wynn.

    Ch. CXXXV · 6 Stat. 851 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

75. An Act for the relief of the inhabitants of the reserved township in Gibson county, in the state of Indiana.

    Ch. CXXXVI · 6 Stat. 851 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

76. An Act for the relief of Zachariak Jettison.

    Ch. CXXXVII · 6 Stat. 851 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act to authorize Chapman Levy to purchase as a pre-emptor a certain quarter section of land now occupied by him, at the minimum price per acre.

    Ch. CXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 852 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act for the relief of John C. Reynolds, late disbursing agent of the Indian Department.

    Ch. CXXXIX · 6 Stat. 852 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act for the relief of Marston G. Clark.

    Ch. CXL · 6 Stat. 852 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Francis Newman.

    Ch. CXLI · 6 Stat. 852 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act for the relief of William Osteen, of Illinois.

    Ch. CXLII · 6 Stat. 853 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act for the relief of J. K. Tefft, administrator of Francis Didier Petit de Fillers, deceased.

    Ch. CXLIII · 6 Stat. 853 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act for the relief of Beckford C. Mathews.

    Ch. CXLIV · 6 Stat. 853 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act for the relief of Richard Higgins.

    Ch. CXLV · 6 Stat. 853 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act for the relief of Thomas M. Isett.

    Ch. CXLVI · 6 Stat. 854 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act for the relief of Gregoire Sarpy, or his legal representatives.

    Ch. CXLVII · 6 Stat. 854 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to audit and settle the accounts between the United States and David Gelston, formerly collector if the port of New York.

    Ch. CXLVIII · 6 Stat. 854 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act for the relief of Thankful Reynolds.

    Ch. CXLIX · 6 Stat. 854 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act for the relief of Valerian Allain.

    Ch. CL · 6 Stat. 855 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act in favor of Mary Snow.

    Ch. CLI · 6 Stat. 855 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Scott.

    Ch. CLII · 6 Stat. 855 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act for the relief of Mary Prettyman.

    Ch. CLIII · 6 Stat. 855 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act for the relief of Jubal B. Hancock.

    Ch. CLIV · 6 Stat. 856 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act for the relief of Eli Wheat and Stephen White.

    Ch. CLV · 6 Stat. 856 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act for the relief of John Johnston.

    Ch. CLVI · 6 Stat. 856 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act for the relief of John B. Pierce.

    Ch. CLVII · 6 Stat. 856 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act for the relief of Henry Gee.

    Ch. CLVIII · 6 Stat. 857 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act for the relief of Benjamin C. Roberta.

    Ch. CLIX · 6 Stat. 857 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act for the relief of James Seaburn.

    Ch. CLX · 6 Stat. 857 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act for the settlement of the accounts of Silas Deane.

     Ch. CLXI · 6 Stat. 857 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text