Every law Congress has passed

525 laws of the 27th Congress, 1841–1843

1. An Act for the relief of George W. Paschal.

   Ch. CLXII · 6 Stat. 858 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act for the relief of Robert Miller.

   Ch. CLXIII · 6 Stat. 858 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act for the relief of Thomas Haskins and Ralph Haskins.

   Ch. CLXIV · 6 Stat. 858 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act for the relief of Hezekiah L. Thistle.

   Ch. CLXV · 6 Stat. 859 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act for the relief of Sebastian Butcher, and the heirs and legal representatives of Bartholomew Butcher, Michael Butcher and Peter Bloom.

   Ch. CLXVI · 6 Stat. 859 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Richard T. Ranks, of the state of Arkansas.

   Ch. CLXVII · 6 Stat. 859 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act for the relief of Daniel Kleiss.

   Ch. CLXVIII · 6 Stat. 860 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act for the relief f Isabella Hill, widow, and John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs at law of Samuel Hill, deceased.

   Ch. CLXIX · 6 Stat. 860 · August 11, 1842 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act explanatory of an ad entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.”

   Ch. CLXXVII · 5 Stat. 506 · August 16, 1842 · Original text

10. An Act authorizing the settlement and payment of certain claims of the State of Alabama.

    Ch. CLXXVIII · 5 Stat. 506 · August 16, 1842 · Original text

11. An Act to change the name of the part of entry on Lake Erie, known as Portland, to that of Sandusky.

    Ch. CLXXIX · 5 Stat. 507 · August 16, 1842 · Original text

12. An Act to amend the act entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States.’”

    Ch. CLXXX · 5 Stat. 507 · August 16, 1842 · Original text

13. An Act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the “Dubuque claim” so called, in the Territory of Iowa.

    Ch. CLXXXII · 5 Stat. 507 · August 16, 1842 · Original text

14. An Act requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress.

    Ch. CLXXXI · 5 Stat. 509 · August 16, 1842 · Original text

15. A Resolution declarative of the pension act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

    Public Resolution 8 · 5 Stat. 584 · August 16, 1842 · Original text

16. An Act for the relief of George Sheffler.

    Ch. CLXX · 6 Stat. 860 · August 16, 1842 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act granting a pension to Mary Johnson.

    Ch. CLXXI · 6 Stat. 860 · August 16, 1842 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act for the relief of John Jorden.

    Ch. CLXXII · 6 Stat. 861 · August 16, 1842 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Thomas Atkinson, deceased.

    Ch. CLXXIII · 6 Stat. 861 · August 16, 1842 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act for the relief of the president, directors, and company of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi.

    Ch. CLXXIV · 6 Stat. 861 · August 16, 1842 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act for the relief of Joseph F. Caldwell.

    Ch. CLXXV · 6 Stat. 861 · August 16, 1842 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act to compensate the township of Dublin, in Mercer county, Ohio, for the loss of school lands.

    Ch. CLXXVI · 6 Stat. 862 · August 16, 1842 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act making appropriations for the support of the army, and of the military academy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

    Ch. CLXXXIII · 5 Stat. 508 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

24. An Act to establish an auxiliary watch for the protection of public and private property in the city of Washington.

    Ch. LXXXIV · 5 Stat. 511 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

25. An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for the payment of horses, or other property, lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States,” approved the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.

    Ch. CLXXXV · 5 Stat. 511 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

26. An Act respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CLXXXVI · 5 Stat. 512 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

27. An Act to provide for the satisfaction of claims arising under the fourteenth and nineteenth articles of the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek, concluded in September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

    Ch. CLXXXVII · 5 Stat. 513 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

28. An Act further supplementary to an act entitled, “An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,” passed the twenty-fourth of September, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine.

    Ch. CLXXXVIII · 5 Stat. 516 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

29. An Act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the navy pension fund.

    Ch. CLXXXIX · 5 Stat. 519 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

30. An Act for the relief of certain settlers in the Territory of Wisconsin.

    Ch. CXC · 5 Stat. 521 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

31. An Act to amend the acts of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows.

    Ch. CXCI · 5 Stat. 521 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

32. An Act for the payment of Florida militia called into service in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and eighteen hundred and forty.

    Ch. CXCII · 5 Stat. 522 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

33. An Act to authorize the selection of school lands in lieu of those granted to the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox Indians.

    Ch. CXCIV · 5 Stat. 522 · August 23, 1842 · Original text

34. An Act for the relief of John Underwood.

    Ch. CXCIII · 6 Stat. 863 · August 23, 1842 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act for the relief of Jehosaphat Briggs.

    Ch. CXCV · 6 Stat. 863 · August 23, 1842 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act for the relief of the Springfield Manufacturing Company.

    Ch. CXCVI · 6 Stat. 863 · August 23, 1842 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.

    Ch. CXCVII · 6 Stat. 863 · August 23, 1842 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Gibbs.

    Ch. CXCVIII · 6 Stat. 863 · August 23, 1842 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act for the relief of Christiana Low.

    Ch. CXCIX · 6 Stat. 864 · August 23, 1842 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of Charles F. Sibbald.

    Ch. CC · 6 Stat. 864 · August 23, 1842 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of Hezekiah Cunningham.

    Ch. CCI · 6 Stat. 864 · August 23, 1842 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act legalizing and malting appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the Departments and offices of the Government, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CCII · 5 Stat. 523 · August 26, 1842 · Original text

43. An Act establish a district court of the United States in the city of Wheeling, in the State of Virginia.

    Ch. CCIII · 5 Stat. 534 · August 26, 1842 · Original text

44. An Act to provide for publishing an account if the discoveries made by the Exploring Expedition, under the command of Lieutenant Willies, of the United States Navy.

    Ch. CCIV · 5 Stat. 534 · August 26, 1842 · Original text

45. An Act to confirm the sale of public lands in certain cases.

    Ch. CCV · 5 Stat. 534 · August 26, 1842 · Original text

46. An Act to regulate the pay of pursers and other officers of the navy.

    Ch. CCVI · 5 Stat. 535 · August 26, 1842 · Original text

47. An Act to define and establish the fiscal year of the Treasury of the United States.

    Ch. CCVII · 5 Stat. 536 · August 26, 1842 · Original text

48. An Act for the relief of Charles D. Hammond and Augustus H. Kenan.

    Ch. CCVIII · 6 Stat. 864 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act for the relief of John Pratt, or his legal representative.

    Ch. CCIX · 6 Stat. 865 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act granting a pension to Frederick Perrigo.

    Ch. CCX · 6 Stat. 865 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act to increase the revolutionary invalid pension of John Looney.

    Ch. CCXI · 6 Stat. 865 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

52. An Act for the relief of John King.

    Ch. CCXII · 6 Stat. 865 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the relief of Phillis Patton.

    Ch. CCXIII · 6 Stat. 865 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the relief of Mary Hand.

    Ch. CCXIV · 6 Stat. 866 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act for the relief of James Tongue, John Scrivener, and the legal representatives of William Hodson, deceased.

    Ch. CCXV · 6 Stat. 866 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act for the relief of David Freelove.

    Ch. CCXVI · 6 Stat. 866 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

57. An Act for the relief of John Flood.

    Ch. CCXVII · 6 Stat. 866 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Colfax.

    Ch. CCXVIII · 6 Stat. 866 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act for the relief of Randolph Carter.

    Ch. CCXIX · 6 Stat. 866 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act for the relief of Jacob Jackson.

    Ch. CCXX · 6 Stat. 867 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the relief of Dorothy Bowman.

    Ch. CCXXI · 6 Stat. 867 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act for the relief of Joseph Parker.

    Ch. CCXXII · 6 Stat. 867 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

63. An Act for the relief of Nathan Smith and others.

    Ch. CCXXIII · 6 Stat. 867 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

64. An Act for the relief of Samuel R. Slaymaker.

    Ch. CCXXIV · 6 Stat. 867 · August 26, 1842 · Private law · Original text

65. An Act to make an appropriation for certain expenses in the erection of a penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa.

    Ch. CCXXVII · 5 Stat. 537 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

66. An Act to provide an insane hospital for the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CCXXVIII · 5 Stat. 537 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

67. An Act to provide for the publication of a new edition of the laws and regulations of the Post Office Department, and a perfect list of the past-offices in the United States.

    Ch. CCLV · 5 Stat. 538 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

68. An Act for creating a new land district in the State of Missouri, and for changing the boundaries of the southwestern and western land districts in said State.

    Ch. CCLVI · 5 Stat. 538 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

69. An Act to provide further remedial justice in the courts of the United States.

    Ch. CCLVII · 5 Stat. 539 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

70. An Act in relation to lands sold in the Greensburgh, late St. Helena, land district, in the State of Louisiana, and authorizing the resurvey of certain lands in said district.

    Ch. CCLVIII · 5 Stat. 540 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

71. An Act to provide for the settlement of certain accounts for the support of Government in the Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CCLIX · 5 Stat. 540 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

72. An Act supplementary to “An act to provide for the adjustment of titles to land in the town of Detroit, and Territory of Michigan, and for other purposes,” passed April twenty-one, eighteen hundred and six.

    Ch. CCLX · 5 Stat. 541 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

73. An Act to provide for the payment to the State of Louisiana of the balance due said State for expenditures incurred in raising, equipping and paying off a regiment of volunteer militia, mustered into the service of the United States, and employed in the Florida war in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

    Ch. CCLXI · 5 Stat. 542 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

74. An Act to authorize the Stales of Indiana and Illinois to select certain quantities of land, in lieu of like quantities heretofore granted to the said States, for the construction of the Wabash and Erie, and the Illinois and Michigan canals.

    Ch. CCLXII · 5 Stat. 542 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

75. An Act in addition to an act to promote the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts heretofore made for that purpose.

    Ch. CCLXIII · 5 Stat. 543 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

76. An Act to provide for the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.

    Ch. CCLXIV · 5 Stat. 545 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

77. An Act making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, in North Carolina.

    Ch. CCLXV · 5 Stat. 545 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

78. An Act making appropriations for certain sites for marine hospitals therein mentioned.

    Ch. CCLXVI · 5 Stat. 546 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

79. An Act to establish and regulate the navy ration.

    Ch. CCLXVII · 5 Stat. 546 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

80. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to contract for the purchase, for the United States, of the right to use Babbit’s anti-attrition metal.

    Ch. CCLXVIII · 5 Stat. 547 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

81. An Act establishing a court at Charleston, in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

    Ch. CCLXIX · 5 Stat. 547 · August 29, 1842 · Original text

82. An Act for the relief of William Willis, of Monroe county, Virginia.

    Ch. CCXXV · 6 Stat. 868 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act to authorize the inhabitants of township eight north, range thirty-two west, in the state of Arkansas, to enter u section of land in lieu of the sixteenth section in said township, upon condition that the same is surrendered to the United States for military purposes.

    Ch. CCXXVI · 6 Stat. 868 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

84. An Act to authorize the issuing of a patent to the heirs or legal representatives of Francis Rivard, deceased, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CCXXIX · 6 Stat. 868 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

85. An Act for the relief of Elisha Burnet.

    Ch. CCXXX · 6 Stat. 869 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act for the relief of Thomas Brownell.

    Ch. CCXXXI · 6 Stat. 869 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act to confirm the title of the heirs if James Sympson, deceased, to a certain tract of land in the state of Louisiana.

    Ch. CCXXXII · 6 Stat. 869 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

88. An Act for the relief of Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson, of the army of the United States.

    Ch. CCXXXIII · 6 Stat. 869 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

89. An Act for the relief of Andrew Forrest.

    Ch. CCXXXIV · 6 Stat. 870 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

90. An Act for the relief of Henry Fry.

    Ch. CCXXXV · 6 Stat. 870 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

91. An Act for the relief of John Compton, assignee and representative of Garrigues Flaujac.

    Ch. CCXXXVI · 6 Stat. 870 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Therese Malette, widow of Gaspard Phiole.

    Ch. CCXXXVII · 6 Stat. 870 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act for the relief of Jean Baptist Comeau.

    Ch. CCXXXVIII · 6 Stat. 871 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act for the relief of Enoch Hidden.

    Ch. CCXXXIX · 6 Stat. 871 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Eckford, deceased.

    Ch. CCXL · 6 Stat. 871 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act for the relief of William H, Kobertson, Samuel H. Garrow, and J. W. Simonton.

    Ch. CCXLI · 6 Stat. 872 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act for the relief if the legal heirs and representatives of Hugo Krebs, deceased.

    Ch. CCXLII · 6 Stat. 872 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act for the relief of Dennis Dygert.

    Ch. CCXLIII · 6 Stat. 872 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act granting a pension to Amaziah Goodwin.

    Ch. CCXLIV · 6 Stat. 872 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act for the relief of Effie Van Ness.

     Ch. CCXLV · 6 Stat. 873 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text