Every law Congress has passed

525 laws of the 27th Congress, 1841–1843

1. An Act for the relief of Isaac Hull.

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

2. An Act for the relief of William Polk.

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

3. An Act for the relief of F. B. De Bellevue.

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

4. An Act giving Catharine Lehman the benefit of the act of the seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

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

5. An Act for the relief of Hannah Carrier.

   Ch. CCL · 6 Stat. 874 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act to permit the Solicitor of the Treasury to adjust and compromise a claim of the United States against Henry Daniel and Thomas Triplett, jr., deceased, now or late of the state of Kentucky.

   Ch. CCLI · 6 Stat. 874 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act for the relief of Jacob Greaves.

   Ch. CCLII · 6 Stat. 874 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act for the relief of Amey Babbitt.

   Ch. CCLIII · 6 Stat. 874 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

9. An Act for the relief of Thomas B. Parsons.

   Ch. CCLIV · 6 Stat. 874 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

10. Joint Resolution for the relief of Ferdinand Pettrich.

    Resolution 9 · 6 Stat. 877 · August 29, 1842 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CCLXX · 5 Stat. 548 · August 30, 1842 · Original text

12. An Act to establish an additional land office in Florida.

    Ch. CCLXXI · 5 Stat. 567 · August 30, 1842 · Original text

13. An Act for the relief of the assistants of the Marshal of the United States for the District of Kentucky.

    Ch. CCLXXII · 5 Stat. 567 · August 30, 1842 · Original text

14. Joint Resolution to institute proceedings to ascertain the title to Rush Island, ceded in the Caddo Treaty.

    Public Resolution 10 · 5 Stat. 584 · August 30, 1842 · Original text

15. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of William D. Cheever, deceased.

    Ch. CCLXXIII · 6 Stat. 875 · August 30, 1842 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act [to] establish certain post roads.

    Ch. CCLXXIV · 5 Stat. 568 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

17. An Act making appropriations to carry into effect a treaty with the Wyandott Indians, and for other purposes.

    Ch. CCLXXV · 5 Stat. 576 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

18. An Act concerning professors of mathematics in the navy of the United States.

    Ch. CCLXXVI · 5 Stat. 576 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

19. An Act to authorize the construction of a depot for charts and instruments of the navy of the United States.

    Ch. CCLXXVII · 5 Stat. 576 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

20. An Act to regulate the appointment and pay of engineers in the navy of the United States.

    Ch. CCLXXIX · 5 Stat. 577 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

21. An Act concerning the payment of Florida militia.

    Ch. CCLXXX · 5 Stat. 578 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

22. An Act to extend the collection district of Wiscasset.

    Ch. CCLXXXI · 5 Stat. 578 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

23. An Act to suppress the vending of lottery tickets in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CCLXXXII · 5 Stat. 578 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

24. An Act to provide for purchasing materials and for the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia.

    Ch. CCLXXXIII · 5 Stat. 579 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

25. An Act to reorganize the Navy Department of the United States.

    Ch. CCLXXXVI · 5 Stat. 579 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

26. An Act to limit the sale of the public stock to par, and to authorize the issue of Treasury notes, in lieu thereof, to a certain amount.

    Ch. CCLXXXVII · 5 Stat. 581 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

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

    Ch. CCLXXXVIII · 5 Stat. 582 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

28. Joint Resolution authorizing experiments to be made for the purpose of testing Samuel Colt’s submarine battery, and for other purposes.

    Public Resolution 12 · 5 Stat. 584 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

29. A Resolution to provide for the payment of the expenses incurred by the Legation at Mexico.

    Public Resolution 13 · 5 Stat. 585 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

30. A Resolution to authorize an extension of a contract for carrying the mail.

    Public Resolution 14 · 5 Stat. 585 · August 31, 1842 · Original text

31. An Act for the relief of certain companies of Missouri volunteers commanded by Captains Stevenson and Allen.

    Ch. CCLXXVIII · 6 Stat. 875 · August 31, 1842 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act for the relief of the heirs, or assignees, or legal representatives of James May.

    Ch. CCLXXXIV · 6 Stat. 875 · August 31, 1842 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act for the relief of Hugh Stewart.

    Ch. CCLXXXV · 6 Stat. 876 · August 31, 1842 · Private law · Original text

34. Joint Resolution to authorize the Postmaster General to settle the accounts of Patton Pitcher and Company.

    Resolution 11 · 6 Stat. 877 · August 31, 1842 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act to authorize the issuing of a new register for the American ship Westchester if New York, by the name of the Atlantic of New York.

    Ch. I · 6 Stat. 878 · December 23, 1842 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses if Government for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three.

    Ch. II · 5 Stat. 586 · December 24, 1842 · Original text

37. An Act to amend the act establishing a district court of the United States at Wheeling, Virginia.

    Ch. III · 5 Stat. 597 · January 20, 1843 · Original text

38. An Act to continue the office of Commissioner of Pensions.

    Ch. IV · 5 Stat. 597 · January 20, 1843 · Original text

39. Joint Resolution for the distribution of catalogues of the library of Congress.

    Public Resolution 1 · 5 Stat. 648 · January 20, 1843 · Original text

40. An Act for the relief of Cornelius Wilson and James Canter.

    Ch. V · 6 Stat. 878 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act for the relief of James M. Morgan.

    Ch. VI · 6 Stat. 879 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act for the relief of Elisha Moreland, William M. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, and Mason E. Lewis.

    Ch. VII · 6 Stat. 879 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act for the relief of John R. Delany.

    Ch. VIII · 6 Stat. 879 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act for the relief of Snow Y. Sears.

    Ch. IX · 6 Stat. 879 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act for the relief of Joshua Drew.

    Ch. X · 6 Stat. 880 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Shannon, deceased.

    Ch. XI · 6 Stat. 880 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act for the relief of Ferdinand Leibert.

    Ch. XII · 6 Stat. 880 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

48. An Act for the relief of Isaac and Thomas S. Winslow.

    Ch. XIII · 6 Stat. 880 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

49. An Act for the relief of Burr and Smith.

    Ch. XIV · 6 Stat. 880 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

50. An Act for the relief of Peter Lionberger.

    Ch. XV · 6 Stat. 881 · January 20, 1843 · Private law · Original text

51. An Act to re-enact and continue in operation the several acts now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States.

    Ch. XX · 5 Stat. 597 · January 28, 1843 · Original text

52. An Act to revive the act for the relief of Mary Pucher.

    Ch. XVI · 6 Stat. 881 · January 28, 1843 · Private law · Original text

53. An Act for the relief of the administrator of John Jackson.

    Ch. XVII · 6 Stat. 881 · January 28, 1843 · Private law · Original text

54. An Act for the relief of Samuel Hambleton.

    Ch. XVIII · 6 Stat. 881 · January 28, 1843 · Private law · Original text

55. An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Munroe.

    Ch. XIX · 6 Stat. 882 · January 28, 1843 · Private law · Original text

56. An Act for the payment of seven companies of Georgia militia, for services rendered in the years eighteen hundred and forty and eighteen hundred and forty-one.

    Ch. XXVI · 5 Stat. 598 · February 4, 1843 · Original text

57. An Act for the relief of the Steamboat Company of Nantucket.

    Ch. XXI · 6 Stat. 882 · February 4, 1843 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act for the relief of J. R. Vienne.

    Ch. XXII · 6 Stat. 882 · February 4, 1843 · Private law · Original text

59. An Act for the relief of Samuel Dicy.

    Ch. XXIII · 6 Stat. 882 · February 4, 1843 · Private law · Original text

60. An Act for the relief of John P. Skinner and the legal representatives of Isaac Green.

    Ch. XXIV · 6 Stat. 882 · February 4, 1843 · Private law · Original text

61. An Act for the relief of Barent Stryker.

    Ch. XXV · 6 Stat. 883 · February 4, 1843 · Private law · Original text

62. An Act making appropriations for pensions for the half calendar year beginning the first day if January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

    Ch. XXVII · 5 Stat. 598 · February 14, 1843 · Original text

63. An Act to amend the charter of the town of Alexandria.

    Ch. XXX · 5 Stat. 599 · February 15, 1843 · Original text

64. An Act to authorize the chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of State to frank public and official documents sent from that office.

    Ch. XXXI · 5 Stat. 600 · February 15, 1843 · Original text

65. An Act to change the place of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Maine.

    Ch. XXXII · 5 Stat. 600 · February 15, 1843 · Original text

66. An Act to authorize the Legislatures if the States of Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee, to sell the lands heretofore appropriated for the use of schools in those States.

    Ch. XXXIII · 5 Stat. 600 · February 15, 1843 · Original text

67. An Act for the relief of Casper W. Wever.

    Ch. XXVIII · 6 Stat. 883 · February 15, 1843 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act for the relief of the representatives of Alexander Macomb, Robert Jennings, and the heirs and legal representatives of James Roddy, deceased, sureties if Samuel Champlin, late a paymaster in the army of the United States.

    Ch. XXIX · 6 Stat. 883 · February 15, 1843 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act for the relief of the owners of the fund received from the British Government as an indemnity for slaves lost from on board the Comet and Encomium at Nassau, Bahamas.

    Ch. XXXIV · 5 Stat. 601 · February 18, 1843 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution to establish agencies for water-rotted hemp.

    Public Resolution 2 · 5 Stat. 648 · February 18, 1843 · Original text

71. An Act to authorize the enrolment or register of the brig Nueva Granada.

    Ch. XXXV · 6 Stat. 883 · February 18, 1843 · Private law · Original text

72. An Act for the relief of William W. Street.

    Ch. XXXVI · 6 Stat. 884 · February 18, 1843 · Private law · Original text

73. An Act for the relief if William De Buys, postmaster at New Orleans.

    Ch. XXXVII · 6 Stat. 884 · February 18, 1843 · Private law · Original text

74. An Act altering the times of holding the circuit court of the United States for the district of Connecticut.

    Ch. XLIV · 5 Stat. 601 · February 24, 1843 · Original text

75. An Act to continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore.

    Ch. XLV · 5 Stat. 602 · February 24, 1843 · Original text

76. A Resolution for the distribution of certain copies of the Census returns and of the Compendium of the Sixth Census.

    Public Resolution 3 · 5 Stat. 648 · February 24, 1843 · Original text

77. An Act for the relief of Asahel Brainard.

    Ch. XXXVIII · 6 Stat. 884 · February 24, 1843 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act for the relief of Samuel D. Rose and others.

    Ch. XXXIX · 6 Stat. 884 · February 24, 1843 · Private law · Original text

79. An Act for the relief of Nancy Hambright, widow of Captain John Hambright, deceased.

    Ch. XL · 6 Stat. 884 · February 24, 1843 · Private law · Original text

80. An Act for the relief of Thomas King.

    Ch. XLI · 6 Stat. 885 · February 24, 1843 · Private law · Original text

81. An Act for the relief of certain companies of Michigan militia.

    Ch. XLII · 6 Stat. 885 · February 24, 1843 · Private law · Original text

82. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of George Mayfield” approved July twenty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

    Ch. XLIII · 6 Stat. 885 · February 24, 1843 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act amendatory of an act establishing the branch mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, and defining the duties of assayer and coiner.

    Ch. XLVI · 5 Stat. 602 · February 27, 1843 · Original text

84. An Act to amend an act entitled “An act mailing an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, North Carolina.”

    Ch. XLVII · 5 Stat. 602 · February 27, 1843 · Original text

85. An Act for the relief of Jacob White.

    Ch. XLVIII · 6 Stat. 885 · February 27, 1843 · Private law · Original text

86. An Act amendatory of “An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.”

    Ch. XLIX · 5 Stat. 602 · March 1, 1843 · Original text

87. An Act to perfect the titles to lands south if the Arkansas river, held under New Madrid locations, and pre-emption rights under the act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen [fifteen].

    Ch. L · 5 Stat. 603 · March 1, 1843 · Original text

88. An Act in relation to the two per cent, fund of the State of Mississippi.

    Ch. LI · 5 Stat. 603 · March 1, 1843 · Original text

89. An Act making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

    Ch. LII · 5 Stat. 604 · March 1, 1843 · Original text

90. An Act regulating the mode of paying over to the State of Alabama the two per cent, fund relinquished to said State by the act approved on the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

    Ch. LIII · 5 Stat. 606 · March 1, 1843 · Original text

91. An Act for the relief of Benjamin J. Totten.

    Ch. LIV · 6 Stat. 886 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text

92. An Act for the relief of Joseph Hover, Abelard Guthrie and Edmund Ogden.

    Ch. LV · 6 Stat. 886 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text

93. An Act for the relief of Mary Crawford.

    Ch. LVI · 6 Stat. 886 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text

94. An Act for the relief of William Allen.

    Ch. LVII · 6 Stat. 886 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text

95. An Act granting to James Lowe one thousand dollars and a section of land.

    Ch. LVIII · 6 Stat. 886 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text

96. An Act for the relief of John Core.

    Ch. LIX · 6 Stat. 887 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text

97. An Act for the relief of the heirs of Madam De Lusser, and their legal representatives.

    Ch. LX · 6 Stat. 887 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text

98. An Act for the relief of John E. Hunt and others.

    Ch. LXI · 6 Stat. 887 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text

99. An Act for the relief of Thomas D. Gilson.

    Ch. LXII · 6 Stat. 887 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text

100. An Act for the relief of William G. Sanders.

     Ch. LXIII · 6 Stat. 888 · March 1, 1843 · Private law · Original text