# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress

The 27th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. between March 4, 1841, and March 4, 1843, during the one-month administration of U.S. President William Henry Harrison and the first two years of the presidency of his successor, John Tyler. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Fifth Census of the United States in 1830. Both chambers had a Whig majority.Warning: template has been deprecated.
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## 1st Session
### Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 31st day of May, 1841, and ended the 11th day of September, 1842.
John Tyler, President; Samuel L. Southard, President of the Senate, pro tempore. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
| | Chapter | Title | Date |
| 1 | Chapter I. | An Act making appropriations for the present session of Congress. | June 25, 1841 |
| 2 | Chapter II. | An Act for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President of the United States. See also Private Acts of the Twenty-Fourth Congress in Volume 6. | June 30, 1841 |
| 3 | Chapter III. | An Act authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum of twelve millions of dollars. | July 21, 1841 |
| 4 | Chapter IV. | An Act making appropriation for the pay, subsistence, &c., of a home squadron. | Aug. 1, 1841 |
| 5 | Chapter V. | An Act making further provision for the maintenance of pauper lunatics in the District of Columbia. | Aug. 3, 1841 |
| 6 | Chapter VI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 9, 1841 |
| 7 | Chapter VII. | An Act to repeal the act entitled “An act to provide for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue,” and to provide for the punishment of embezzlers of public money, and for other purposes. | Aug. 13, 1841 |
| 8 | Chapter VIII. | An Act to provide for the payment of Navy Pensions. | Aug. 16, 1841 |
| 9 | Chapter IX. | An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States. | Aug. 19, 1841 |
| 10 | Chapter X. | An Act further to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office. | Aug. 19, 1841 |
| 11 | Chapter XI. | An Act to authorize the recovery of fines and forfeitures incurred under the charter, laws, and ordinances of Georgetown, before justices of the peace. | Aug. 19, 1841 |
| 12 | Chapter XII. | An Act to revive and extend the charters of certain banks in the District of Columbia. | Aug. 19, 1841 |
| 13 | Chapter XIII. | An Act making an appropriation for the funeral expenses of William Henry Harrison, deceased, late President of the United States. | Sept. 1, 1841 |
| 14 | Chapter XIV. | An Act in addition to an act entitled an act to carry into effect a Convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic. | Sept. 1, 1841 |
| 15 | Chapter XV. | An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to provide for taking the Sixth census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States”, approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the acts amending the same. | Sept. 1, 1841 |
| 16 | Chapter XVI. | An Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights. | Sept. 4, 1841 |
| 17 | Chapter XVII. | An Act making appropriations for various fortification, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities. | Sept. 9, 1841 |
| 18 | Chapter XVIII. | An Act to provide for placing Greenough’s Statue of Washington in the Rotundo of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned. | Sept. 9, 1841 |
| 19 | Chapter XIX. | An Act authorizing the transmission of letters and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison, free of postage. | Sept. 9, 1841 |
| 20 | Chapter XX. | An Act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department. | Sept. 9, 1841 |
| 21 | Chapter XXI. | An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes. | Sept. 11, 1841 |
| 22 | Chapter XXII. | An Act making appropriations for outfits and salaries of diplomatic agents, and for other purposes. | Sept. 11, 1841 |
| 23 | Chapter XXIII. | An Act to provide for repairing the Potomac Bridge. | Sept. 11, 1841 |
| 24 | Chapter XXIV. | An Act relating to duties and drawbacks. | Sept. 11, 1841 |
| 25 | Chapter XXV. | An Act to repeal a part of the sixth section of the act, entitled “An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes,” passed July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. | Sept. 11, 1841 |

### Public Resolutions

| Resolution | Date |
| No. 1. A Resolution manifesting the sensibility of Congress upon the event of the death of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States. | June 14, 1841 |
| No. 2. A Resolution relating to the light-boats now stationed at Sandy Hook and Bartlett’s Reef. | Aug. 25, 1841 |
| No. 3. A Resolution for the distribution of seven hundred copies of the Digest of Patents. | Sept. 1, 1841 |
| No. 4. A Resolution to provide for the distribution of the printed returns of the Sixth Census. | Sept. 1, 1841 |
| No. 5. A Resolution in relation to the purchase of domestic water-rotted hemp for the use of the United States Navy. | Sept. 11, 1841 |
| No. 6. A Joint Resolution making it the duty of the Attorney General to examine into the titles of the lands or sites for the purpose of erecting thereon armories and other public works and buildings, and for other purposes. | Sept. 11, 1841 |

## 2nd Session
### Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 6th day of December, 1841, and ended the 31st day of August, 1842.
John Tyler, President; Samuel L. Southard, President of the Senate, pro tempore. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
| | Chapter | Title | Date |
| 1 | Chapter I. | An Act making appropriations, in part, for the civil department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. | Dec. 22, 1841 |
| 2 | Chapter II. | An Act to authorize an issue of Treasury notes. | Jan. 31, 1842 |
| 3 | Chapter III. | An Act making an appropriation for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries. | Feb. 12, 1842 |
| 4 | Chapter IV. | An Act making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. | Feb. 12, 1842 |
| 5 | Chapter V. | An Act to provide for the early disposition of the lands lying in the State of Alabama, acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of twenty-ninth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. | March 4, 1842 |
| 6 | Chapter VI. | An Act to authorize the Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to hold a special session of the said court. | March 19, 1842 |
| 7 | Chapter VII. | An Act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to amend the act approved May thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred, entitled An act to amend an act entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.” | March 19, 1842 |
| 8 | Chapter VIII. | An Act to authorize the Governors of the States of Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri to cause to be selected the lands therein mentioned. | March 19, 1842 |
| 9 | Chapter IX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 19, 1842 |
| 10 | Chapter X. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 19, 1842 |
| 11 | Chapter XI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 19, 1842 |
| 12 | Chapter XII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 19, 1842 |
| 13 | Chapter XIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 19, 1842 |
| 14 | Chapter XIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 19, 1842 |
| 15 | Chapter XV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 19, 1842 |
| 16 | Chapter XVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | April 14, 1842 |
| 17 | Chapter XVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | April 14, 1842 |
| 18 | Chapter XVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | April 14, 1842 |
| 19 | Chapter XIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | April 14, 1842 |
| 20 | Chapter XX. | An Act to amend the several acts establishing a district court of the United States at Jackson, in the District of West Tennessee. | April 14, 1842 |
| 21 | Chapter XXI. | An Act to confirm certain entries of lands in the State of Louisiana, and to authorize the issuing of patents for the same. | April 14, 1842 |
| 22 | Chapter XXII. | An Act authorizing the construction of a war-steamer for harbor defence. | April 14, 1842 |
| 23 | Chapter XXIII. | An Act to establish certain post roads. | April 14, 1842 |
| 24 | Chapter XXIV. | An Act to provide for the allowance of invalid pensions to certain Cherokee warriors, under the provisions of the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five. | April 14, 1842 |
| 25 | Chapter XXV. | An Act relative to the act entitled “An act granting lands to certain exiles from Poland,” approved, thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. | April 14, 1842 |
| 26 | Chapter XXVI. | An Act for the extension of the loan of eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for an addition of five millions of dollars thereto; and for allowing interest on Treasury notes due. | April 15, 1842 |
| 27 | Chapter XXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | May 10, 1842 |
| 28 | Chapter XXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | May 10, 1842 |
| 29 | Chapter XXIX. | An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two. | May 18, 1842 |
| 30 | Chapter XXX. | An Act changing the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the districts of East and West Tennessee. | May 18, 1842 |
| 31 | Chapter XXXI. | An Act to amend the act of the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “An act to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Ohio.” | June 1, 1842 |
| 32 | Chapter XXXII. | An Act regulating commercial intercourse with the port of Cayenne, in the colony of French Guiana, and to remit certain duties. | June 1, 1842 |
| 33 | Chapter XXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 1, 1842 |
| 34 | Chapter XXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 4, 1842 |
| 35 | Chapter XXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 4, 1842 |
| 36 | Chapter XXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 4, 1842 |
| 37 | Chapter XXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 4, 1842 |
| 38 | Chapter XXXVIII. | An act to authorize the collector of the district of Fairfield to reside in either of the towns of Fairfield or Bridgeport. | June 4, 1842 |
| 39 | Chapter XXXIX. | An Act to provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of Maine for the services of her militia. | June 13, 1842 |
| 40 | Chapter XL. | An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States with regard to the five per cent. fund and the school reservations.” | June 13, 1842 |
| 41 | Chapter XLI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 13, 1842 |
| 42 | Chapter XLII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 13, 1842 |
| 43 | Chapter XLIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 22, 1842 |
| 44 | Chapter XLIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 22, 1842 |
| 45 | Chapter XLV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 22, 1842 |
| 46 | Chapter XLVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 22, 1842 |
| 47 | Chapter XLVII. | An Act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth census. | June 25, 1842 |
| 48 | Chapter XLVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 27, 1842 |
| 49 | Chapter XLIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | June 27, 1842 |
| 50 | Chapter L. | An Act confirming certain land claims in Louisiana. | July 6, 1842 |
| 51 | Chapter LI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 6, 1842 |
| 52 | Chapter LII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 53 | Chapter LIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 54 | Chapter LIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 55 | Chapter LV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 56 | Chapter LVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 57 | Chapter LVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 58 | Chapter LVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 59 | Chapter LIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 60 | Chapter LX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 61 | Chapter LXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 62 | Chapter LXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 63 | Chapter LXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 9, 1842 |
| 64 | Chapter LXIV. | 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-two. | July 17, 1842 |
| 65 | Chapter LXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 66 | Chapter LXVI. | An Act to regulate the value to be affixed to the pound sterling by the Treasury Department. | July 27, 1842 |
| 67 | Chapter LXVII. | An Act making an appropriation for the repair of the custom-house in Providence. | July 27, 1842 |
| 68 | Chapter LXVIII. | 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. | July 27, 1842 |
| 69 | Chapter LXIX. | An Act to provide for satisfying claims for bounty lands, for military services in the late war with Great Britain, and for other purposes. | July 27, 1842 |
| 70 | Chapter LXX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 71 | Chapter LXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 72 | Chapter LXXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 73 | Chapter LXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 74 | Chapter LXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 75 | Chapter LXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 76 | Chapter LXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 77 | Chapter LXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 78 | Chapter LXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 79 | Chapter LXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 80 | Chapter LXXX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 81 | Chapter LXXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 82 | Chapter LXXXII. | An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of Georgetown. | July 27, 1842 |
| 83 | Chapter LXXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 84 | Chapter LXXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 85 | Chapter LXXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 86 | Chapter LXXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 87 | Chapter LXXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 88 | Chapter LXXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 89 | Chapter LXXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 90 | Chapter XC. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 90 | Chapter XC. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 91 | Chapter XCI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 92 | Chapter XCII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 93 | Chapter XCIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 94 | Chapter XCIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 95 | Chapter XCV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 96 | Chapter XCVI. | An Act to provide for erecting and lighting lamps on Pennsylvania Avenue. | July 27, 1842 |
| 97 | Chapter XCVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 98 | Chapter XCVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 99 | Chapter XCIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 100 | Chapter C. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 101 | Chapter CI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 102 | Chapter CII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 103 | Chapter CIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 104 | Chapter CIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 105 | Chapter CV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| 106 | Chapter CVI. | An Act in relation to marriages within the District of Columbia. | July 27, 1842 |
| 107 | Chapter CVII. | 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. | July 30, 1842 |
| 108 | Chapter CVIII. | An Act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 109 | Chapter CIX. | 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. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 110 | Chapter CX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 111 | Chapter CXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 112 | Chapter CXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 113 | Chapter CXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 114 | Chapter CXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 115 | Chapter CXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 116 | Chapter CXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 117 | Chapter CXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 118 | Chapter CXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 119 | Chapter CXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 1, 1842 |
| 120 | Chapter CXX. | An Act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district. | Aug. 3, 1842 |
| 121 | Chapter CXXI. | An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. | Aug. 4, 1842 |
| 122 | Chapter CXXII. | An Act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the peninsula of East Florida. | Aug. 4, 1842 |
| 123 | Chapter CXXIII. | An Act to regulate appeals and writs of error from the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama. | Aug. 4, 1842 |
| 124 | Chapter CXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 4, 1842 |
| 125 | Chapter CXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 9, 1842 |
| 126 | Chapter CXXVI. | 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. | Aug. 9, 1842 |
| 127 | Chapter CXXVII. | An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia for the services of her militia. | Aug. 9, 1842 |
| 128 | Chapter CXXVIII. | An Act to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 129 | Chapter CXXIX. | An Act regulating the services of the several judges in the Territory of Iowa. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 130 | Chapter CXXX. | An Act in relation to the district court for the northern district of New York. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 131 | Chapter CXXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 132 | Chapter CXXXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 133 | Chapter CXXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 134 | Chapter CXXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 135 | Chapter CXXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 136 | Chapter CXXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 137 | Chapter CXXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 138 | Chapter CXXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 139 | Chapter CXXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 140 | Chapter CXL. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 141 | Chapter CXLI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 142 | Chapter CXLII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 143 | Chapter CXLIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 144 | Chapter CXLIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 145 | Chapter CXLV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 146 | Chapter CXLVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 147 | Chapter CXLVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 148 | Chapter CXLVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 149 | Chapter CXLIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 150 | Chapter CL. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 151 | Chapter CLI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 152 | Chapter CLII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 153 | Chapter CLIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 154 | Chapter CLIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 155 | Chapter CLV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 156 | Chapter CLVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 157 | Chapter CLVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 158 | Chapter CLVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 159 | Chapter CLIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 160 | Chapter CLX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 161 | Chapter CLXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 162 | Chapter CLXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 163 | Chapter CLXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 164 | Chapter CLXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 165 | Chapter CLXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 166 | Chapter CLXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 167 | Chapter CLXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 168 | Chapter CLXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 169 | Chapter CLXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| 170 | Chapter CLXX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 171 | Chapter CLXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 172 | Chapter CLXXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 173 | Chapter CLXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 174 | Chapter CLXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 175 | Chapter CLXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 176 | Chapter CLXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 177 | Chapter CLXXVII. | An Act explanatory of an act entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.” | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 178 | Chapter CLXXVIII. | An Act authorizing the settlement and payment of certain claims of the State of Alabama. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 179 | Chapter CLXXIX. | An Act to change the name of the port of entry on Lake Erie, known as Portland, to that of Sandusky. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 180 | Chapter CLXXX. | 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.’” | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 181 | Chapter CLXXXI. | An Act requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 182 | Chapter CLXXXII. | An Act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the “Dubuque claim” so called, in the Territory of Iowa. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| 183 | Chapter CLXXXIII. | 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. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 184 | Chapter CLXXXIV. | An Act to establish an auxiliary watch for the protection of public and private property in the city of Washington. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 185 | Chapter CLXXXV. | 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. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 186 | Chapter CLXXXVI. | An Act respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 187 | Chapter CLXXXVII. | 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. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 188 | Chapter CLXXXVIII. | 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. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 189 | Chapter CLXXXIX. | An Act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the navy pension fund. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 190 | Chapter CXC. | An Act for the relief of certain settlers in the Territory of Wisconsin. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 191 | Chapter CXCI. | An Act to amend the acts of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 192 | Chapter CXCII. | An Act for the payment of Florida militia called into service in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and eighteen hundred and forty. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 193 | Chapter CXCIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 194 | Chapter CXCIV. | An Act to authorize the selection of school lands in lieu of those granted to the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox Indians. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 195 | Chapter CXCV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 196 | Chapter CXCVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 197 | Chapter CXCVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 198 | Chapter CXCVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 199 | Chapter CXCIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 200 | Chapter CC. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 201 | Chapter CCI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 23, 1842 |
| 202 | Chapter CCII. | An Act legalizing and making 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. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 203 | Chapter CCIII. | An Act to establish a district court of the United States in the city of Wheeling, in the State of Virginia. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 204 | Chapter CCIV. | An Act to provide for publishing an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring Expedition, under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes, of the United States Navy. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 205 | Chapter CCV. | An Act to confirm the sale of public lands in certain cases. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 206 | Chapter CCVI. | An Act to regulate the pay of pursers and other officers of the navy. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 207 | Chapter CCVII. | An Act to define and establish the fiscal year of the Treasury of the United States. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 208 | Chapter CCVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 209 | Chapter CCIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 210 | Chapter CCX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 211 | Chapter CCXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 212 | Chapter CCXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 213 | Chapter CCXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 214 | Chapter CCXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 215 | Chapter CCXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 216 | Chapter CCXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 217 | Chapter CCXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 218 | Chapter CCXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 219 | Chapter CCXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 220 | Chapter CCXX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 221 | Chapter CCXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 222 | Chapter CCXXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 223 | Chapter CCXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 224 | Chapter CCXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 26, 1842 |
| 225 | Chapter CCXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 226 | Chapter CCXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 227 | Chapter CCXXVII. | An Act to make an appropriation for certain expenses in the erection of a penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 228 | Chapter CCXXVIII. | An Act to provide an insane hospital for the District of Columbia. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 229 | Chapter CCXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 230 | Chapter CCXXX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 231 | Chapter CCXXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 232 | Chapter CCXXXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 233 | Chapter CCXXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 234 | Chapter CCXXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 235 | Chapter CCXXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 236 | Chapter CCXXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 237 | Chapter CCXXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 238 | Chapter CCXXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 239 | Chapter CCXXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 240 | Chapter CCXL. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 241 | Chapter CCXLI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 242 | Chapter CCXLII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 243 | Chapter CCXLIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 244 | Chapter CCXLIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 245 | Chapter CCXLV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 246 | Chapter CCXLVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 247 | Chapter CCXLVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 248 | Chapter CCXLVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 249 | Chapter CCXLIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 250 | Chapter CCL. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 251 | Chapter CCLI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 252 | Chapter CCLII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 253 | Chapter CCLIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 254 | Chapter CCLIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 255 | Chapter CCLV. | 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 post-offices in the United States. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 256 | Chapter CCLVI. | 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. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 257 | Chapter CCLVII. | An Act to provide further remedial justice in the courts of the United States. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 258 | Chapter CCLVIII. | 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. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 259 | Chapter CCLIX. | An Act to provide for the settlement of certain accounts for the support of Government in the Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 260 | Chapter CCLX. | 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. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 261 | Chapter CCLXI. | 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. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 262 | Chapter CCLXII. | An Act to authorize the States 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. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 263 | Chapter CCLXIII. | 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. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 264 | Chapter CCLXIV. | An Act to provide for the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 265 | Chapter CCLXV. | An Act making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, in North Carolina. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 266 | Chapter CCLXVI. | An Act making appropriations for certain sites for marine hospitals therein mentioned. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 267 | Chapter CCLXVII. | An Act to establish and regulate the navy ration. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 268 | Chapter CCLXVIII. | 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. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 269 | Chapter CCLXIX. | An Act establishing a court at Charleston, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| 270 | Chapter CCLXX. | An Act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes. | Aug. 30, 1842 |
| 271 | Chapter CCLXXI. | An Act to establish an additional land office in Florida. | Aug. 30, 1842 |
| 272 | Chapter CCLXXII. | An act for the relief of the assistants of the Marshal of the United States for the District of Kentucky. | Aug. 30, 1842 |
| 273 | Chapter CCLXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 30, 1842 |
| 274 | Chapter CCLXXIV. | An Act [to] establish certain post roads. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 275 | Chapter CCLXXV. | An Act making appropriations to carry into effect a treaty with the Wyandott Indians, and for other purposes. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 276 | Chapter CCLXXVI. | An Act concerning professors of mathematics in the navy of the United States. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 277 | Chapter CCLXXVII. | An Act to authorize the construction of a depot for charts and instruments of the navy of the United States. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 278 | Chapter CCLXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 279 | Chapter CCLXXIX. | An Act to regulate the appointment and pay of engineers in the navy of the United States. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 280 | Chapter CCLXXX. | An Act concerning the payment of Florida militia. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 281 | Chapter CCLXXXI. | An Act to extend the collection district of Wiscasset. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 282 | Chapter CCLXXXII. | An Act to suppress the vending of lottery tickets in the District of Columbia. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 283 | Chapter CCLXXXIII. | An Act to provide for purchasing materials and for the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 284 | Chapter CCLXXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 285 | Chapter CCLXXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 286 | Chapter CCLXXXVI. | An Act to reorganize the Navy Department of the United States. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 287 | Chapter CCLXXXVII. | An Act to limit the sale of the public stock on par, and to authorize the issue of Treasury notes, in lieu thereof, to a certain amount. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| 288 | Chapter CCLXXXVIII. | An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. | Aug. 31, 1842 |

### Public Resolutions

| Resolution | Date |
| No. 1. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | April 14, 1842 |
| No. 2. Joint Resolution on the subject of printing the tables of the sixth census. | April 14, 1842 |
| No. 3. A Resolution further to provide for the distribution of the printed returned of the sixth census, and other documents connected with the same, the printing of which has been heretofore directed by law. | April 15, 1842 |
| No. 4. Joint Resolution to continue two clerks in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties. | May 18, 1842 |
| No. 5. A Resolution to authorize the extension of the contract for carrying the mail on the route between Mobile and New Orleans. | June 1, 1842 |
| No. 6. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | July 27, 1842 |
| No. 7. Joint Resolution on the subject of printing the tables of the sixth census. | Aug. 11, 1842 |
| No. 8. A Resolution declarative of the pension act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. | Aug. 16, 1842 |
| No. 9. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 29, 1842 |
| No. 10. Joint Resolution to institute proceedings to ascertain the title to Rush Island, ceded in the Caddo Treaty. | Aug. 30, 1842 |
| No. 11. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| No. 12. Joint Resolution authorizing experiments to be made for the purpose of testing Samuel Colt’s submarine battery, and for other purposes. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| No. 13. A Resolution to provide for the payment of the expenses incurred by the Legation at Mexico. | Aug. 31, 1842 |
| No. 14. A Resolution to authorize an extension of a contract for carrying the mail. | Aug. 31, 1842 |

## 3rd Session
### Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 5th day of December, 1842, and ended the 3d day of March, 1843.
John Tyler, President; Willie P. Mangum, President of the Senate, pro tempore. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
| | Chapter | Title | Date |
| 1 | Chapter I. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Dec. 23, 1842 |
| 2 | Chapter II. | An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three. | Dec. 24, 1842 |
| 3 | Chapter III. | An Act to amend the act establishing a district court of the United States at Wheeling, Virginia. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 4 | Chapter IV. | An Act to continue the office of Commissioner of Pensions. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 5 | Chapter V. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 6 | Chapter VI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 7 | Chapter VII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 8 | Chapter VIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 9 | Chapter IX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 10 | Chapter X. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 11 | Chapter XI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 12 | Chapter XII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 13 | Chapter XIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 14 | Chapter XIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 15 | Chapter XV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| 16 | Chapter XVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 28, 1843 |
| 17 | Chapter XVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 28, 1843 |
| 18 | Chapter XVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 28, 1843 |
| 19 | Chapter XIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 28, 1843 |
| 20 | Chapter XX. | 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. | Jan. 28, 1843 |
| 21 | Chapter XXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 4, 1843 |
| 22 | Chapter XXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 4, 1843 |
| 23 | Chapter XXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 4, 1843 |
| 24 | Chapter XXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 4, 1843 |
| 25 | Chapter XXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 4, 1843 |
| 26 | Chapter XXVI. | 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. | Feb. 4, 1843 |
| 27 | Chapter XXVII. | An Act making appropriations for pensions for the half calendar year beginning the first day of 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. | Feb. 14, 1843 |
| 28 | Chapter XXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 15, 1843 |
| 29 | Chapter XXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 15, 1843 |
| 30 | Chapter XXX. | An Act to amend the charter of the town of Alexandria. | Feb. 15, 1843 |
| 31 | Chapter XXXI. | 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. | Feb. 15, 1843 |
| 32 | Chapter XXXII. | An Act to change the place of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Maine. | Feb. 15, 1843 |
| 33 | Chapter XXXIII. | An Act to authorize the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee, to sell the lands heretofore appropriated for the use of schools in those States. | Feb. 15, 1843 |
| 34 | Chapter XXXIV. | 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. | Feb. 18, 1843 |
| 35 | Chapter XXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 18, 1843 |
| 36 | Chapter XXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 18, 1843 |
| 37 | Chapter XXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 18, 1843 |
| 38 | Chapter XXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 24, 1843 |
| 39 | Chapter XXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 24, 1843 |
| 40 | Chapter XL. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 24, 1843 |
| 41 | Chapter XLI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 24, 1843 |
| 42 | Chapter XLII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 24, 1843 |
| 43 | Chapter XLIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 24, 1843 |
| 44 | Chapter XLIV. | An Act altering the times of holding the circuit court of the United States for the district of Connecticut. | Feb. 24, 1843 |
| 45 | Chapter XLV. | An Act to continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore. | Feb. 24, 1843 |
| 46 | Chapter XLVI. | An Act amendatory of an act establishing the branch mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, and defining the duties of assayer and coiner. | Feb. 27, 1843 |
| 47 | Chapter XLVII. | An Act to amend an act entitled “An act making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, North Carolina.” | Feb. 27, 1843 |
| 48 | Chapter XLVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 27, 1843 |
| 49 | Chapter XLIX. | An Act amendatory of “An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.” | March 1, 1843 |
| 50 | Chapter L. | An Act to perfect the titles to lands south of the Arkansas river, held under New Madrid locations, and pre-emption rights under the act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen [fifteen]. | March 1, 1843 |
| 51 | Chapter LI. | An Act in relation to the two per cent. fund of the State of Mississippi. | March 1, 1843 |
| 52 | Chapter LII. | 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. | March 1, 1843 |
| 53 | Chapter LIII. | 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. | March 1, 1843 |
| 54 | Chapter LIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 55 | Chapter LV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 56 | Chapter LVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 57 | Chapter LVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 58 | Chapter LVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 59 | Chapter LIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 60 | Chapter LX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 61 | Chapter LXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 62 | Chapter LXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 63 | Chapter LXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 64 | Chapter LXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 65 | Chapter LXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 66 | Chapter LXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 67 | Chapter LXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 68 | Chapter LXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 1, 1843 |
| 69 | Chapter LXIX. | An Act regulating the currency of foreign gold and silver coins in the United States. | March 3, 1843 |
| 70 | Chapter LXX. | An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the half calendar year beginning on the first day of January and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. | March 3, 1843 |
| 71 | Chapter LXXI. | An Act declaring Robbinston in the State of Maine, to be a port of delivery. | March 3, 1843 |
| 72 | Chapter LXXII. | An Act to permit the entry of merchandise recovered from shipwreck, in certain cases, free from duty. | March 3, 1843 |
| 73 | Chapter LXXIII. | An Act to reduce the salary of the surveyor of the port of Camden, New Jersey. | March 3, 1843 |
| 74 | Chapter LXXIV. | An Act to change the times of holding the circuit and district courts for the district of East Tennessee. | March 3, 1843 |
| 75 | Chapter LXXV. | An Act to fix the compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. | March 3, 1843 |
| 76 | Chapter LXXVI. | An Act making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. | March 3, 1843 |
| 77 | Chapter LXXVII. | An Act to set aside certain reservations of lands, on account of live oak in the southeastern district of Louisiana. | March 3, 1843 |
| 78 | Chapter LXXVIII. | An act authorizing the sale of lands, with the improvements thereon erected by the United States, for the use of their agents, teachers, farmers, mechanics, and other persons employed amongst the Indians. | March 3, 1843 |
| 79 | Chapter LXXIX. | An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act to extend the collection district of Wiscasset.” | March 3, 1843 |
| 80 | Chapter LXXX. | An Act making appropriations for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, for the half calendar year beginning the first day of 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 on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and for other purposes. | March 3, 1843 |
| 81 | Chapter LXXXI. | An Act authorizing the reissue of treasury notes and for other purposes. | March 3, 1843 |
| 82 | Chapter LXXXII. | An Act to repeal the bankrupt act. | March 3, 1843 |
| 83 | Chapter LXXXIII. | An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the half calendar year beginning the first day of 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. | March 3, 1843 |
| 84 | Chapter LXXXIV. | An Act to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs by the United States. | March 3, 1843 |
| 85 | Chapter LXXXV. | An Act for the protection of commerce on Lake Michigan. | March 3, 1843 |
| 86 | Chapter LXXXVI. | An Act to authorize the investigation of alleged frauds under the pre-emption laws, and for other purposes. | March 3, 1843 |
| 87 | Chapter LXXXVII. | An Act to provide, in certain cases, for the sale of the real estate of infants within the District of Columbia. | March 3, 1843 |
| 88 | Chapter LXXXVIII. | An Act directing the survey of the northern line of the reservation for the half-breed of the Sochs [Sacs] and Fox tribes of Indians by the treaty of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. | March 3, 1843 |
| 89 | Chapter LXXXIX. | An Act to provide for carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. | March 3, 1843 |
| 90 | Chapter XC. | An act providing the means of future intercourse between the United States, and the Government of China. | March 3, 1843 |
| 91 | Chapter XCI. | An Act providing for the sale of certain lands in the States of Ohio and Michigan, ceded by the Wyandot tribe of Indians, and for other purposes. | March 3, 1843 |
| 92 | Chapter XCII. | An Act to fix the value of certain foreign moneys of account, in computations at the custom-houses. | March 3, 1843 |
| 93 | Chapter XCIII. | An Act authorizing an examination and survey or the harbor of Memphis, in Tennessee. | March 3, 1843 |
| 94 | Chapter XCIV. | An Act to modify the act entitled “An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam,” approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. | March 3, 1843 |
| 95 | Chapter XCV. | An Act in relation to the exemplifications of the records of land patents and other evidences of title, and amendatory of the act entitled “An act to reorganize the General Land Office.” | March 3, 1843 |
| 96 | Chapter XCVI. | An Act providing for the settlement of claims for supplies furnished the Florida militia. | March 3, 1843 |
| 97 | Chapter XCVII. | An Act to provide for holding circuit courts at Williamsport in the western district of Pennsylvania. | March 3, 1843 |
| 98 | Chapter XCVIII. | An Act to amend the laws regulating imprisonment for debt within the District of Columbia. | March 3, 1843 |
| 99 | Chapter XCIX. | An Act to authorize the election or appointment of officers in the Territory of Wisconsin. | March 3, 1843 |
| 100 | Chapter C. | An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four. | March 3, 1843 |
| 101 | Chapter CI. | An Act for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, in the Territory of Wiskonsan. | March 3, 1843 |
| 102 | Chapter CII. | An Act granting a pension to certain revolutionary soldiers. | March 3, 1843 |
| 103 | Chapter CIII. | 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. | March 3, 1843 |
| 104 | Chapter CIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 105 | Chapter CV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 106 | Chapter CVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 107 | Chapter CVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 108 | Chapter CVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 109 | Chapter CIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 110 | Chapter CX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 111 | Chapter CXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 112 | Chapter CXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 113 | Chapter CXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 114 | Chapter CXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 115 | Chapter CXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 116 | Chapter CXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 117 | Chapter CXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 118 | Chapter CXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 119 | Chapter CXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 120 | Chapter CXX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 121 | Chapter CXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 122 | Chapter CXXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 123 | Chapter CXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 124 | Chapter CXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 125 | Chapter CXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 126 | Chapter CXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 127 | Chapter CXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 128 | Chapter CXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 129 | Chapter CXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 130 | Chapter CXXX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 131 | Chapter CXXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 132 | Chapter CXXXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 133 | Chapter CXXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 134 | Chapter CXXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 135 | Chapter CXXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 136 | Chapter CXXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 137 | Chapter CXXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 138 | Chapter CXXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 139 | Chapter CXXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 140 | Chapter CXL. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 141 | Chapter CXL. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 142 | Chapter CXLII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 143 | Chapter CXLIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 144 | Chapter CXLIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 145 | Chapter CXLV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 146 | Chapter CXLVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 147 | Chapter CXLVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 148 | Chapter CXLVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 149 | Chapter CXLIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 150 | Chapter CL. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 151 | Chapter CLI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 152 | Chapter CLII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 153 | Chapter CLIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 154 | Chapter CLIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 155 | Chapter CLV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 156 | Chapter CLVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 157 | Chapter CLVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 158 | Chapter CLVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 159 | Chapter CLIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 160 | Chapter CLX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 161 | Chapter CLXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 162 | Chapter CLXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 163 | Chapter CLXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 164 | Chapter CLXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 165 | Chapter CLXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 166 | Chapter CLXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 167 | Chapter CLXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 168 | Chapter CLXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 169 | Chapter CLXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 170 | Chapter CLXX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 171 | Chapter CLXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 172 | Chapter CLXXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 173 | Chapter CLXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 174 | Chapter CLXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 175 | Chapter CLXXV. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 176 | Chapter CLXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 177 | Chapter CLXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 178 | Chapter CLXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 179 | Chapter CLXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 180 | Chapter CLXXX. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 181 | Chapter CLXXXI. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| 182 | Chapter CLXXXII. | See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |

### Public Resolutions

| Resolution | Date |
| No. 1. Joint Resolution for the distribution of catalogues of the library of Congress. | Jan. 20, 1843 |
| No. 2. Joint Resolution to establish agencies for water-rotted hemp. | Feb. 18, 1843 |
| No. 3. A Resolution for the distribution of certain copies of the Census returns and of the Compendium of the Sixth Census. | Feb. 24, 1843 |
| No. 4. Joint Resolution directing certain papers relating to titles to land in Louisiana, to be returned to the General Land Office. | March 3, 1843 |
| No. 5. Joint Resolution, in relation to certain property purchased for the United States in the city of Detroit. | March 3, 1843 |
| No. 6. Joint Resolution for continuing an additional clerk in the Second Auditor’s office. | March 3, 1843 |
| No. 7. Joint Resolution relating to patents for bounty lands. | March 3, 1843 |
| No. 8. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |
| No. 9. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1843 |