# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress

The Fourteenth 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 the Old Brick Capitol in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1815, to March 4, 1817, during the seventh and eighth years of James Madison's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Third Census of the United States in 1810. Both chambers had a Democratic-Republican majority.Warning: template has been deprecated.

## 1st Session

PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH 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 fourth day of December 1815, and ended the thirtieth day of April, 1816.
James Madison, President; John Gaillard, President of the Senate pro tempore; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

### Private Acts

| Chapter | Title | Date |
| Chapter IV. | An Act for the relief of Henry Fanning. | Jan. 17, 1816 |
| Chapter V. | An Act for the relief of Jonathan B. Eastman. | Jan. 17, 1816 |
| Chapter VI. | An Act for the relief of Joseph Anderson. | Jan. 22, 1816 |
| Chapter VIII. | An Act for the relief of John G. Camp. | Feb. 1, 1816 |
| Chapter XI. | An Act for the relief of Jonathan White. | Feb. 6, 1816 |
| Chapter XII. | An Act for the relief of Charles Markin. | Feb. 6, 1816 |
| Chapter XIII. | An Act for the relief of Martin Cole, John Pollock, George Westner, and Abraham Welty. | Feb. 6, 1816 |
| Chapter XV. | An Act for the relief of William Morrissett. | Feb. 15, 1816 |
| Chapter XVII. | An Act to increase the pensions of Robert White, Jacob Wrighter, John Young, and John Crampersey. | Feb. 22, 1816 |
| Chapter XIX. | An Act for the relief of Jonathan Rogers, junior, of Waterford, in the State of Connecticut. | Feb. 22, 1816 |
| Chapter XX. | An Act for the relief of John Redman Coxe. | Feb. 22, 1816 |
| Chapter XXIII. | An Act for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel William Lawrence, of the army of the United States, and of the officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, composing the garrison of Fort Boyer, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. | March 5, 1816 |
| Chapter XXVII. | An Act for the relief of Gustavus Loomis. | March 19, 1816 |
| Chapter XXVIII. | An Act to extend certain privileges, as therein mentioned, to Bernard Edme Verjon, and Robert Lowe Stobie. | March 19, 1816 |
| Chapter XXIX. | An Act for the relief of John M. Forbes. | March 19, 1816 |
| Chapter XXXIV. | An Act for the relief of Erastus Loomis. | March 25, 1816 |
| Chapter XXXVI. | An Act for the relief of John T. Wirt. | April 2, 1816 |
| Chapter XXXVII. | An Act placing certain persons on the list of Navy Pensioners. | April 2, 1816 |
| Chapter XXXVIII. | An Act authorizing and requiring the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Andrew Kurtz. | April 2, 1816 |
| Chapter XLII. | An Act for the remission of certain duties on the importation of books for the use of Harvard College, and on the carriage and personal baggage of his excellency William Gore, Governor of the British Province of Upper Canada. | April 9, 1816 |
| Chapter XLVIII. | An Act confirming to the Navigation Company of New Orleans the use and possession of a lot in the said city. | April 16, 1816 |
| Chapter L. | An Act to increase the pension of William Munday. | April 16, 1816 |
| Chapter LI. | An Act authorizing the sale of a lot of ground belonging to the United States, situated in the town of Knoxville, and State of Tennessee. | April 16, 1816 |
| Chapter LIV. | An Act to authorize the legislature of the State of Ohio to sell a certain part of a tract of land, reserved for the use of that state. | April 16, 1816 |
| Chapter LIX. | An Act for the relief of Richard Mitchell. | April 20, 1816 |
| Chapter LX. | An Act for the relief of Xaviero Naudi. | April 20, 1816 |
| Chapter LXI. | An Act for the relief of the Baltimore and Massachusetts Bible Societies. | April 20, 1816 |
| Chapter LXII. | An Act for the relief of Edward Wilson. | April 20, 1816 |
| Chapter LXVI. | An Act for the relief of William Flood. | April 24, 1816 |
| Chapter LXX. | An Act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of Edward Hallowell.” | April 24, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXII. | An Act for the relief of Patrick O’Flyng, and Abigail O’Flyng and Edmund O’Flyng. | April 24, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXVIII. | An Act for the relief of Charles Levaux Trudeau. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXX. | An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John T. Courtnay and Samuel Harrison, or their legal representatives. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXXIII. | An Act for the relief of Ephraim Shaler. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXXIV. | An Act for the relief of a company of the twentieth brigade of Virginia militia, commanded by Captain Jonathan Wamsly. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXXV. | An Act for the relief of the supervisors of the county of Clinton, in the State of New York. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXXVI. | An Act for the relief of Joseph Wilson. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXXVII. | An Act for the relief of Thomas Ap Catesby Jones. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXXVIII. | An Act for the relief of Asher Palmer. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter LXXXIX. | An Act for the relief of William Hamon. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter XC. | An Act for the relief of Joseph Wheaton. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter XCI. | An Act granting to Amos Spafford the right of pre-emption. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter XCII. | An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to James Levins. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter XCIII. | An Act directing the discharge of Moses Lewis from imprisonment. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter XCIV. | An Act for the relief of the widow and children of Charles Dolph, deceased. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter XCVI. | An Act for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Roxburgh. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter XCVII. | An Act for the relief of Young King, a chief of the Seneca tribe of Indians. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter XCIX. | An Act for the relief of John Crosby and John Crosby, junior. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter C. | An Act for the relief of the president and directors of the Washington bridge company. | April 26, 1816 |
| Chapter CV. | An Act for the benefit of John P. Maxwell, and Hugh H. Maxwell. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CVI. | An Act allowing pay to certain persons made prisoners with the revenue cutter “Surveyor.” | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CVIII. | An Act for the relief of certain owners of goods, entered at Hampden, in the district of Maine. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CIX. | An Act concerning Pharaoh Farrow and others. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXI. | An Act for the relief of Thomas H. Boyle. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXIII. | An Act for the relief of Samuel Dick, William Bruce and Asa Kitchel. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXIV. | An Act for the relief of Joseph S. Newall. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXV. | An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Rogers and others. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXVI. | An Act directing the discharge of Ebenezer Keeler, and John Francis, from imprisonment. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXVII. | An Act for the relief of Rufus S. Reed and Daniel Dobbins. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXVIII. | An Act confirming the titles of certain purchasers of land who purchased from the board of trustees of the Vincennes university. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXXII. | An Act for the relief of Samuel Manac. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXXIV. | An Act for the relief of George T. Ross, Daniel T. Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXXV. | An Act for the relief of Charles Todd. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXXVI. | An Act for the relief of Paul D. Butler. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXXVIII. | An Act for the relief of Thomas Farrer, William Young, William Moseley, and William Leech. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXXXIII. | An Act for the relief of Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXXXIV. | An Act for the relief of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, deceased. | April 27, 1816 |
| Chapter CXXXVI. | An Act for the relief of Menassah Miner and Isaac Denison. | April 29, 1816 |
| Chapter CXLIV. | An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Hamilton. | April 29, 1816 |
| Chapter CXLVI. | An Act authorizing the Comptroller of the Treasury to cancel certain export bonds executed by Caspar C. Schutte. | April 29, 1816 |
| Chapter CXLVII. | An Act for the relief of Moses Turner. | April 29, 1816 |
| Chapter CXLVIII. | An Act for the relief of David Coffin, Samuel and William Rodman, and Samuel Rodman, Junior. | April 29, 1816 |
| Chapter CLVI. | An Act for the relief of William Crawford, Frederick Bates, William Garrard, and Thomas B. Robertson. | April 29, 1816 |
| Chapter CLVII. | An Act for the relief of Jabez Mowry and others. | April 29, 1816 |
| Chapter CLVIII. | An Act for the relief of John Holkar, formerly consul general of France, to the United States. | April 29, 1816 |
| Chapter CLXI. | An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others. | April 29, 1816 |
| Chapter CLXVII. | An Act concerning invalid pensioners. | April 30, 1816 |
| Chapter CLXIX. | An Act for the relief of Peter Audrain. | April 30, 1816 |

### Private Resolutions

| Resolution | Date |
| Resolution 2 to indemnify the sureties of Commodore John Rodgers. | Feb. 15, 1816 |
| Resolution 3 requesting the president to present medals to Captain Stewart and the officers of the frigate Constitution. | Feb. 22, 1816 |
| Resolution 4 requesting the president to present medals to Captain James Biddle, and the officers of the sloop of war Hornet. | Feb. 22, 1816 |
| Resolution 6 requiring the Secretary of State to compile and print, once in every two years, a register of all officers and agents, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States. | Feb. 27, 1816 |

## 2nd Session
### Private Acts

| Chapter | Title | Date |
| Chapter I. | An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Williams. | Jan. 2, 1817 |
| Chapter II. | An Act directing the discharge of Nathaniel Taft from imprisonment. | Jan. 14, 1817 |
| Chapter V. | An Act for the relief of William Haslet. | Jan. 20, 1817 |
| Chapter VI. | An Act directing the discharge of John Ricaud from imprisonment. | Jan. 22, 1817 |
| Chapter VIII. | An Act directing the discharge of Oliver Spellman from imprisonment. | Jan. 22, 1817 |
| Chapter XI. | An Act for the relief of Henry Malcolm. | Feb. 8, 1817 |
| Chapter XII. | An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others.” | Feb. 8, 1817 |
| Chapter XIV. | An Act in addition to “An act for the relief of George T. Ross, and Daniel T. Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command.” | Feb. 22, 1817 |
| Chapter XVI. | An Act for the relief of Jacint Laval. | Feb. 8, 1817 |
| Chapter XVII. | An Act directing the discharge of Lewis Olmsted from imprisonment. | Jan. 22, 1817 |
| Chapter XIX. | An Act granting a pension to Commodore Richard Taylor. | March 1, 1817 |
| Chapter XX. | An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of John J. Yarnall, deceased. | March 1, 1817 |
| Chapter XXVI. | An Act for the relief of Park Holland. | March 1, 1817 |
| Chapter XXVII. | An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Ignace Chalmet Delino, deceased, and of Anthony Cruzat and L.P. Deverges. | March 1, 1817 |
| Chapter XXVIII. | An Act authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Flavil Sabin, deceased. | March 1, 1817 |
| Chapter XXXII. | An Act for the relief of Robert Burnside. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter XLVI. | An Act for the relief of Madame Montriuel. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter XLVII. | An Act for the relief of Henry Lee. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter XLVIII. | An Act for the relief of Isaac Lawrence and others, merchants, residing in the city of New York. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LII. | An Act for the relief of Charles Williams. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LIII. | An Act for the relief of William Chism. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LIV. | An Act for the relief of Peter Caslard. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LV. | An Act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were lost in the United States brig Epervier. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXIV. | An Act concerning invalid pensioners. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXVI. | An Act for the relief of Joseph Summers and John Allen. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXVIII. | An Act for the relief of certain Creek Indians. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXX. | An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Cazeau, late merchant at Montreal. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXI. | An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Nathaniel Seavy and others. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXII. | An Act directing the discharge of William Smith from imprisonment. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXIII. | An Act for the relief of Peyton Short. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXIV. | An Act for the relief of Anthony Buck. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXV. | An Act for the relief of James Villere. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXVI. | An Act for the relief of John de Castinado. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXVII. | An Act for the relief of Peter Kindall. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXVIII. | An Act for the relief of the widow and children of Arnold Henry Dohrman, deceased. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXIX. | An Act for the relief of Joseph I. Green. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXX. | An Act for the relief of Journonville de Villiers. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXXI. | An Act compensating Peter Hagner. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXXII. | An Act for the relief of Asa Wells. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXXIII. | An Act for the relief of Caleb Nicholls. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXXIV. | An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Teakle Savage and others. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter LXXXIX. | An Act for the relief of Mary Wells, executrix of William Wells. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter XC. | An Act for the relief of George Buckmaster. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter XCV. | An Act for the relief of James H. Boisgervais. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter XCVII. | An Act for the relief of the widow and children of Abraham Owen. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter XCVIII. | An Act for the relief of Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough. | March 3, 1817 |
| Chapter CXIII. | An Act for the relief of William Oliver. | March 3, 1817 |