VOL. III. Page 381 An ACT to continue in force for a limited time, the act, in addition to the act, for the punishment of certain crimes against the united states. 383 An ACT in addition to an act, entitled, "An act concerning the registering and recording of ships or vessels," and to an act, entitled "An act for enrolling and licensing ships. or vessels employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same." 397 An ACT for raising a further sum of money, by additional duties on certain articles imported; and for other purposes. An ACT to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures penalties and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned. 403 405 An ACT to authorize the receipt of evidences of the public debt, in payment for the lands of the united states. 414 An ACT in addition to the act, entitled, "An act to establish the post-office and post-roads within the united states." An ACT to provide more effectually for the settlement of accounts between the united states and receivers of public 421 428 431 437 VOL. IV. money. An ACT providing for certain buoys, to be placed in and near the harbor of Boston. An ACT concerning the circuit courts of the united states. A RESOLUTION directing the distribution of the laws of the united states. Page 3 An ACT to prevent citizens of the united states from priva teering against nations in amity with, or against citizens of the united states. 7 An ACT to provide for the further defence of the ports and harbors of the united states. 11 An ACT in addition to an act, entitled "An act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels." 16 An ACT in addition to the law of the united states, concerning consuls and vice consuls. 37 An ACT laying an additional duty on salt imported into the united states, and for other purposes. 56 62 67 An ACT to prescribe the mode of taking evidence in cases of contested elections for members of the house of representatives of the united states, and to compel the attendance of witnesses. An ACT supplementary to the act entitled, "An act regulating foreign coins; and for other purposes." An ACT for the erection of a light-house, and placing buoys at the several places therein mentioned. 32 An ACT declaring the consent of congress to an act of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. 90 An ACT for an amicable settlement of limits with the state of Georgia, and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Missisippi territory. VOL. IV. An ACT supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act authorizing a loan for the use of the city of Washington, in the district of Columbia; and for other purposes therein mentioned." 99 An ACT for erecting light-houses, and placing buoys and stakes at the places therein mentioned. 100 An ACT to establish an executive department, to be denominated the department of the navy. 102 103 104 121 123 152 An ACT to authorize certain officers and other persons to An ACT supplementary to the act providing for the further An ACT respecting loan office and final settlement certifi- An ACT to punish frauds committed on the bank of the united states. 168 An ACT providing arms for the militia throughout the united states. 160 An ACT respecting alien enemies. 199 An ACT for the establishing and organizing a marine corps. 225 231 233 An ACT in further addition to the act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the united states." An ACT to alter and amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the treasury, war and navy departments. 243 An ACT for the punishment of certain crimes therein specified. 250 257 258 259 An ACT respecting balances reported against certain states, An ACT making appropriations for defraying the expenses An ACT respecting quarantines, and health laws. 266 An ACT authorizing the establishment of docks. 267 An ACT authorizing the purchase of timber for naval pur 272 poses. An ACT for providing compensation for the marshals, clerks, attornies, jurors, and witnesses in the courts of the united states, and to repeal certain parts of the acts therein mentioned; and for other purposes. VOL. IV. Page 279 An ACT to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage. 447 An ACT to establish the compensations of the officers employed in the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage; and for other purposes. 481 An ACT to regulate the medical establishment. 487 An ACT to amend the act, entitled "An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the united brethren, for propagating the gospel among the heathen." 487 An ACT in addition to an act, entitled, "An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the united states." 492 An ACT providing for the security of bail in certain cases. 494 An ACT to authorize the sale of certain lands between the Great and Little Miami rivers in the territory of the united states north west of the river Ohio; and for giving a pre-emption to certain purchasers and settlers. 497 An ACT in addition to "An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen." 498 An ACT authorizing an augmentation of the marine corps. An ACT to augment the salaries of the officers therein 499 mentioned. 500 An ACT to erect a beacon on Boon Island. 500 502 505 VOL. V. An ACT to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks. An ACT to establish the post office of the united states. Page 6 An ACT for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt. 12 An ACT to repeal part of an act, entitled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mention. ed, and to continue in force the residue of the same." An ACT giving further time to the holders of military warrants, to register and locate the same. 13 32 An ACT in addition to an act entitled "An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the united brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen." 38 45 84 An ACT providing for salvage in cases of recapture. An ACT to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported VOL. V. 88 92 An ACT to continue in force "An act concerning certain fisheries of the united states, and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein,” and for other purposes as therein mentioned. An ACT to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions, to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees. An ACT to continue in force, for a limited time, an act, entitled "An act to prescribe the mode of taking evidence in cases of contested elections for members of the house of representatives of the united states, and to compel the attendance of witnesses." 93 An ACT fixing the rank and pay of the commanding officer of the corps of marines. 101 108 127 128 130 133 An ACT to alter and to establish sundry post-roads. united states. An ACT respecting the mint. An ACT to continue in force the act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the united states. An ACT to make further provision for the removal and ac- 136 An ACT to provide for rebuilding the light-house at NewLondon; for the support of a light-house at Clark's Point; for the erection and support of a light-house at Wigwam Point, and for other purposes. 139 144 145 147 161 164 An ACT to divide the territory of the united states north west of the Ohio, into two separate governments. An ACT to continue in force "An act laying an additional duty on salt imported into the united states; and for other purposes." An ACT to authorize the sale and conveyance of lands, in certain cases, by the marshals of the united states, and to confirm former sales. An ACT for the regulation of public arsenals and magazines. An ACT to establish the district of Kennebunk, and to annex Lyme to New-London; and to alter the district of Bermuda Hundred and City Point; and therein to amend the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." An ACT supplemental to the act, entitled, "An act for an amicable settlement of limits with the state of Georgia; and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Missisippi territory." VOL. V. Page 167 An ACT in addition to the act, entitled, "An act to prohibit the carrying on the slave trade from the united states to any foreign place or country." 172 An ACT supplementary to an act, entitled, " An act to establish the compensation of the officers employed in the collection of the duties on impost and tonnage." 174 An ACT to amend the act, entitled "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the united states, in the territory north west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river." 187 An ACT to ascertain the compensation of public ministers. .190 An ACT supplementary to the act, entitled, "An act to establish the treasury department." 191 195 196 198 An ACT to authorize the issuing certain patents. An ACT to amend an act, entitled, "An act to establish the judicial courts of the united states." An ACT to appropriate a certain sum of money to defray the expense of holding a treaty or treaties with the Indians. An ACT to retain a further sum on drawbacks, for the expenses incident to the allowance and payment thereof, and in lieu of stamp duties on debentures. 201 An ACT to lay additional duties on certain articles imported. 201 An ACT to make provision relative to rations for Indians, and to their visits to the seat of government. 229 An ACT to provide for the erection and support of a lighthouse on Cape Poge, at the north-easterly part of Martha's Vineyard. 260 An ACT making the port of Biddeford and Pepperrelborough, and the port of New Bedford in Massachusetts, ports of entry for ships or vessels, arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same. An ACT to establish the district of Bristol, and to annex the towns of Kittery and Berwick to the district of Portsmouth. An ACT to allow the transportation of goods, wares and merchandise, to and from Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Appoquinimink and Sassafras. 260 266 268 274 An ACT concerning the district of Columbia. An ACT supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act to divide the territory of the united states north west of the Ohio, into two separate governments." 275 An ACT to add to the district of Massac on the Ohio, and to discontinue the district of Palmyra in the state of Tennessee, and therein to amend the act, entitled, "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." An ACT to amend the act, entitled, "An act to establish a general stamp-office. 279 280 281 An ACT providing for a naval peace establishment, and for other purposes. An ACT giving a right of pre-emption to certain persons who have contracted with John Cleves Symmes, or his associates, for lands lying between the Miami rivers, in the territory of the united states north west of the Ohio. |