# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress

The Sixteenth 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. from March 4, 1819, to March 4, 1821, during the third and fourth years of James Monroe'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.
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## 1st Session
### Public Laws

| | Chapter | Title | Date |
| 1 | Chapter I. | An Act authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage. | Dec. 14, 1819 |
| 2 | Chapter II. | An Act making a partial appropriation for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty. | Jan. 14, 1820 |
| 3 | Chapter III. | An Act in addition to the “Act making appropriation for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.” | Jan. 14, 1820 |
| 4 | Chapter IV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 14, 1820 |
| 5 | Chapter V. | An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of the clerks in the different offices,” passed the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. | Jan. 14, 1820 |
| 6 | Chapter VI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 19, 1820 |
| 7 | Chapter VII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 28, 1820 |
| 8 | Chapter VIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 28, 1820 |
| 9 | Chapter IX. | An Act to alter the terms of the court of the western district of Virginia. | Feb. 10, 1820 |
| 10 | Chapter X. | An Act making appropriations to supply the deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for the completion of the repairs of the north and south wings of the Capitol, for finishing the President’s house, and the erection of two new executive offices. | Feb. 10, 1820 |
| 11 | Chapter XI. | An Act to provide for obtaining accurate statements of the foreign commerce of the United States. | Feb. 10, 1820 |
| 12 | Chapter XII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 18, 1820 |
| 13 | Chapter XIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 18, 1820 |
| 14 | Chapter XIV. | An Act to remit the duties on a statue of George Washington. | Feb. 24, 1820 |
| 15 | Chapter XV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 28, 1820 |
| 16 | Chapter XVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 28, 1820 |
| 17 | Chapter XVII. | An Act further to extend the charter of the city of Washington. | Feb. 28, 1820 |
| 18 | Chapter XVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 28, 1820 |
| 19 | Chapter XIX. | An Act for the admission of the state of Maine into the Union. | March 3, 1820 |
| 20 | Chapter XX. | An Act to continue in force for a further time, the act entitled “An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes.” | March 4, 1820 |
| 21 | Chapter XXI. | An Act altering the place of holding the circuit and district court in the district of Ohio. | March 4, 1820 |
| 22 | Chapter XXII. | An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories. | March 6, 1820 |
| 23 | Chapter XXIII. | An Act in addition to an act, entitled “An act regulating the post-office establishment.” | March 13, 1820 |
| 24 | Chapter XXIV. | An Act to provide for taking the fourth census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, and for other purposes. | March 14, 1820 |
| 25 | Chapter XXV. | An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty. | March 17, 1820 |
| 26 | Chapter XXVI. | An Act to authorize the President of the United States to appoint a receiver of the public moneys and register of the land office for the district of Lawrence county, in the Arkansas territory. | March 17, 1820 |
| 27 | Chapter XXVII. | An Act establishing a circuit court within and for the district of Maine. | March 30, 1820 |
| 28 | Chapter XXVIII. | An Act further to suspend, for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands, for failure in completing the payment thereon. | March 30, 1820 |
| 29 | Chapter XXIX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 5, 1820 |
| 30 | Chapter XXX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 5, 1820 |
| 31 | Chapter XXXI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 5, 1820 |
| 32 | Chapter XXXII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 5, 1820 |
| 33 | Chapter XXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 5, 1820 |
| 34 | Chapter XXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 5, 1820 |
| 35 | Chapter XXXV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 5, 1820 |
| 36 | Chapter XXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 5, 1820 |
| 37 | Chapter XXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 7, 1820 |
| 38 | Chapter XXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 7, 1820 |
| 39 | Chapter XXXIX. | An Act for apportioning the representatives in the seventeenth Congress, to be elected in the state of Massachusetts and Maine, and for other purposes. | April 7, 1820 |
| 40 | Chapter XL. | An Act making appropriations for the support of government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty. | April 11, 1820 |
| 41 | Chapter XLI. | An Act making further appropriations for continuing the work upon the centre building of the Capitol, and other public buildings. | April 11, 1820 |
| 42 | Chapter XLII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 11, 1820 |
| 43 | Chapter XLIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 11, 1820 |
| 44 | Chapter XLIV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 11, 1820 |
| 45 | Chapter XLV. | An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty. | April 14, 1820 |
| 46 | Chapter XLVI. | An Act to continue in force the act passed on the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act supplementary to an act, entitled ‘An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,’ passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine,” and for other purposes. | April 18, 1820 |
| 47 | Chapter XLVII. | An Act to establish a district court in the state of Alabama. | April 21, 1820 |
| 48 | Chapter XLVIII. | An Act relative to the Arkansas territory. | April 21, 1820 |
| 49 | Chapter XLIX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | April 24, 1820 |
| 50 | Chapter L. | An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to cause the laws of the Michigan territory to be printed and distributed, and for other purposes. | April 24, 1820 |
| 51 | Chapter LI. | An Act making further provision for the sale of the public lands. | April 24, 1820 |
| 52 | Chapter LII. | An Act in addition to the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments. | May 1, 1820 |
| 53 | Chapter LIII. | An Act in addition to an act, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. | May 1, 1820 |
| 54 | Chapter LIV. | An Act to increase the allowance of the judges of the Orphans’ Court in the counties of Washington and Alexandria. | May 1, 1820 |
| 55 | Chapter LV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 1, 1820 |
| 56 | Chapter LVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 1, 1820 |
| 57 | Chapter LVII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 2, 1820 |
| 58 | Chapter LVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 2, 1820 |
| 59 | Chapter LIX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 2, 1820 |
| 60 | Chapter LX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 2, 1820 |
| 61 | Chapter LXI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 4, 1820 |
| 62 | Chapter LXII. | An Act concerning the banks of the district of Columbia. See also Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 1, 1820 |
| 63 | Chapter LXIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 4, 1820 |
| 64 | Chapter LXIV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 4, 1820 |
| 65 | Chapter LXV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 4, 1820 |
| 66 | Chapter LXVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 4, 1820 |
| 67 | Chapter LXVII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 4, 1820 |
| 68 | Chapter LXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 7, 1820 |
| 69 | Chapter LXIX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 70 | Chapter LXX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 71 | Chapter LXXI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 72 | Chapter LXXII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 73 | Chapter LXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 74 | Chapter LXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 75 | Chapter LXXV. | An Act further to regulate the medical department of the army. | May 8, 1820 |
| 76 | Chapter LXXVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 77 | Chapter LXXVII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 78 | Chapter LXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 79 | Chapter LXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 80 | Chapter LXXX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 81 | Chapter LXXXI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 82 | Chapter LXXXII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 83 | Chapter LXXXIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 8, 1820 |
| 84 | Chapter LXXXIV. | An Act to establish additional land offices in the states of Alabama and Illinois. | May 11, 1820 |
| 85 | Chapter LXXXV. | An Act to revive the powers of the commissioners of ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Prarie des Chiens, in the territory of Michigan. | May 11, 1820 |
| 86 | Chapter LXXXVI. | An Act for the relief of certain settlers in the state of Illinois who reside within the Vincennes land district. | May 11, 1820 |
| 87 | Chapter LXXXVII. | An Act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana. | May 11, 1820 |
| 88 | Chapter LXXXVIII. | An Act extending the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct taxes, in certain cases. | May 11, 1820 |
| 89 | Chapter LXXXIX. | An Act authorizing the sale of thirteen sections of land, lying within the land district of Canton, in the state of Ohio. | May 11, 1820 |
| 90 | Chapter XC. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 11, 1820 |
| 91 | Chapter XCI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 11, 1820 |
| 92 | Chapter XCII. | An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes.” | May 11, 1820 |
| 93 | Chapter XCIII. | An Act to alter the times of the session of the circuit and district courts in the District of Columbia. | May 11, 1820 |
| 94 | Chapter XCIV. | An Act to annex certain lands within the territory of Michigan to the district of Detroit. | May 11, 1820 |
| 95 | Chapter XCV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 11, 1820 |
| 96 | Chapter XCVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 11, 1820 |
| 97 | Chapter XCVII. | An Act to establish an uniform mode of discipline and field exercises for the militia of the United States. | May 12, 1820 |
| 98 | Chapter XCVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 12, 1820 |
| 99 | Chapter XCIX. | An Act to alter and establish certain post-roads. | May 13, 1820 |
| 100 | Chapter C. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 13, 1820 |
| 101 | Chapter CI. | An Act fixing the time for the next meeting of Congress. | May 13, 1820 |
| 102 | Chapter CII. | An Act to limit the term of office of certain officers therein named, and for other purposes. | May 15, 1820 |
| 103 | Chapter CIII. | An Act to authorize the President of the United States to borrow a sum not exceeding three millions of dollars. | May 15, 1820 |
| 104 | Chapter CIV. | An Act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, and to repeal all acts heretofore passed for that purpose. | May 15, 1820 |
| 105 | Chapter CV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 106 | Chapter CVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 107 | Chapter CVII. | An Act providing for the better organization of the Treasury Department. | May 15, 1820 |
| 108 | Chapter CVIII. | An Act authorizing the building of a certain number of small vessels of war. | May 15, 1820 |
| 109 | Chapter CIX. | An Act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” and for other purposes. | May 15, 1820 |
| 110 | Chapter CX. | An Act designating the ports within which only foreign armed vessels shall be permitted to enter. | May 15, 1820 |
| 111 | Chapter CXI. | An Act for altering the times for holding the court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes. | May 15, 1820 |
| 112 | Chapter CXII. | An Act to authorize the erection of a lighthouse on one of the Isles of Shoals, near Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, and for other purposes. | May 15, 1820 |
| 113 | Chapter CXIII. | An Act to continue in force “An act to protect the commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of piracy,” and also to make further provisions for punishing the crime of piracy. | May 15, 1820 |
| 114 | Chapter CXIV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 115 | Chapter CXV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 116 | Chapter CXVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 117 | Chapter CXVII. | An Act for the relief of persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for lands in the state of Illinois. | May 15, 1820 |
| 118 | Chapter CXVIII. | An Act in addition to the act, entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty,” and for other purposes. | May 15, 1820 |
| 119 | Chapter CXIX. | An Act to provide for the building an addition to the custom-house now erecting in the city of New Orleans, for the use of the district court of the United States for the state of Louisiana. | May 15, 1820 |
| 120 | Chapter CXX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 121 | Chapter CXXI. | An Act to authorize the governor of Illinois to obtain certain abstracts of lands from certain public offices. | May 15, 1820 |
| 122 | Chapter CXXII. | An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act concerning navigation.” | May 15, 1820 |
| 123 | Chapter CXXIII. | An Act to authorize the appointment of commissioners to lay out the road therein mentioned. | May 15, 1820 |
| 124 | Chapter CXXIV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 125 | Chapter CXXV. | An Act for the relief of the inhabitants of the village of Peoria, in the state of Illinois. | May 15, 1820 |
| 126 | Chapter CXXVI. | An Act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels. | May 15, 1820 |
| 127 | Chapter CXXVII. | An Act to provide for the expense of surveying certain parts of the coast of North Carolina, and for other purposes. | May 15, 1820 |
| 128 | Chapter CXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 129 | Chapter CXXIX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 130 | Chapter CXXX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |
| 131 | Chapter CXXXI. | An Act to continue in force the act, entitled “An act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court,” approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. | May 15, 1820 |
| 132 | Chapter CXXXII. | An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act to amend the act authorizing the employment of an additional naval force.” | May 15, 1820 |
| 133 | Chapter CXXXIII. | An Act to provide for repairing the roof of the general post-office, and to procure an engine for the protection of said building. | May 15, 1820 |
| 134 | Chapter CXXXIV. | An Act to increase the number of clerks in the Department of War. | May 15, 1820 |
| 135 | Chapter CXXXV. | An Act granting to the state of Ohio the right of pre-emption to certain quarter sections of land. | May 15, 1820 |
| 136 | Chapter CXXXVI. | An Act to amend “An act making reservation of certain public lands for naval purposes,” passed first March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. | May 15, 1820 |
| 137 | Chapter CXXXVII. | An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect the treaties concluded with the Chippewa and Kickapoo nations of Indians. | May 15, 1820 |
| 138 | Chapter CXXXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | May 15, 1820 |

### Public Resolutions

| Resolution | Date |
| Resolution I declaring the admission of the state of Alabama into the Union. | Dec. 14, 1819 |
| Resolution II for the further distribution of the journal of the convention which formed the Constitution of the United States. | Jan. 19, 1820 |
| Resolution III to authorize the publication of part of the secret journal of Congress, under the articles of confederation. | April 21, 1820 |
| Resolution IV for the distribution of certain copies of the journal of the convention which formed the Constitution. | May 5, 1820 |
| Resolution V giving the consent of Congress to a compact concluded between the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, for the settlement of their boundary line. | May 12, 1820 |

## 2nd Session
### Public Laws

| | Chapter | Title | Date |
| 1 | Chapter I. | An Act to alter the terms of the district court in Alabama. | Nov. 27, 1820 |
| 2 | Chapter II. | An Act to provide for paying to the state of Illinois three per cent. of the net proceeds arising from the sale of public lands within the same. | Dec. 12, 1820 |
| 3 | Chapter III. | An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act to alter the times of the session of the circuit and district courts in the District of Columbia.” | Dec. 29, 1820 |
| 4 | Chapter IV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Dec. 29, 1820 |
| 5 | Chapter V. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Dec. 29, 1820 |
| 6 | Chapter VI. | An Act to alter the time of holding the district court in the district of Mississippi. | Jan. 11, 1821 |
| 7 | Chapter VII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 11, 1821 |
| 8 | Chapter VIII. | An Act making a partial appropriation for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. | Jan. 17, 1821 |
| 9 | Chapter IX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Jan. 17, 1821 |
| 10 | Chapter X. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | Feb. 9, 1821 |
| 11 | Chapter XI. | An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the general land office. | Feb. 9, 1821 |
| 12 | Chapter XII. | An Act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty. | March 2, 1821 |
| 13 | Chapter XIII. | An Act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States. | March 2, 1821 |
| 14 | Chapter XIV. | An Act further to regulate the entry of merchandise imported into the United States from any adjacent territory. | March 2, 1821 |
| 15 | Chapter XV. | An Act extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army. | March 2, 1821 |
| 16 | Chapter XVI. | An Act to establish the district of Pearl river. | March 2, 1821 |
| 17 | Chapter XVII. | An Act confirming the location of the seat of government of the state of Illinois, and for other purposes. | March 2, 1821 |
| 18 | Chapter XVIII. | An Act to extend the charters of certain banks in the District of Columbia. | March 2, 1821 |
| 19 | Chapter XIX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 20 | Chapter XX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 21 | Chapter XXI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 22 | Chapter XXII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 23 | Chapter XXIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 24 | Chapter XXIV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 25 | Chapter XXV. | An Act authorizing the President of the United States to remove the land office in the district of Lawrence county, in the territory of Arkansas. | March 2, 1821 |
| 26 | Chapter XXVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 27 | Chapter XXVII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 28 | Chapter XXVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 29 | Chapter XXIX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 30 | Chapter XXX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 31 | Chapter XXXI. | An Act for the relief of the family of the late Oliver Hazard Perry, Esquire. See also Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 2, 1821 |
| 32 | Chapter XXXII. | An Act to alter the times of holding the district court in the northern district of New York. | March 2, 1821 |
| 33 | Chapter XXXIII. | An Act to alter and establish certain post-roads. | March 3, 1821 |
| 34 | Chapter XXXIV. | An Act making appropriations for the support of government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. | March 3, 1821 |
| 35 | Chapter XXXV. | An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. | March 3, 1821 |
| 36 | Chapter XXXVI. | An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. | March 3, 1821 |
| 37 | Chapter XXXVII. | An Act making appropriations for the public buildings. | March 3, 1821 |
| 38 | Chapter XXXVIII. | An Act to authorize the President of the United States to borrow a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars. | March 3, 1821 |
| 39 | Chapter XXXIX. | An Act for carrying into execution the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded at Washington on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. | March 3, 1821 |
| 40 | Chapter XL. | An Act establishing the salaries of the commissioners and agents appointed under the treaty of Ghent. | March 3, 1821 |
| 41 | Chapter XLI. | An Act to authorize the collectors of customs to pay debentures issued on the exportation of loaf sugar and spirits distilled from molasses. | March 3, 1821 |
| 42 | Chapter XLII. | An Act to extend the time for unloading vessels arriving from foreign ports, in certain cases. | March 3, 1821 |
| 43 | Chapter XLIII. | An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to sell and convey a certain tract of land in Northumberland county, in the state of Virginia. | March 3, 1821 |
| 44 | Chapter XLIV. | An Act to regulate the location of land warrants, and the issuing of patents, in certain cases. | March 3, 1821 |
| 45 | Chapter XLV. | An Act to continue in force, for a further time, the act, entitled “An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes.” | March 3, 1821 |
| 46 | Chapter XLVI. | An Act to release French ships and vessels, entering the ports of the United States prior to the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, from the operation of the act, entitled “An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels,” and for other purposes. | March 3, 1821 |
| 47 | Chapter XLVII. | An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act for the gradual increase of the navy of the United States.” | March 3, 1821 |
| 48 | Chapter XLVIII. | An Act to establish a port of entry in the district of Sandusky, in the state of Ohio, and for other purposes. | March 3, 1821 |
| 49 | Chapter XLIX. | An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act to provide for taking the fourth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, and for other purposes.” | March 3, 1821 |
| 50 | Chapter L. | An Act to authorize the clerk of the district court of the United States for the district of Louisiana, to appoint a deputy to aid him in the discharge of the duties of his office. | March 3, 1821 |
| 51 | Chapter LI. | An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act for regulating process in the courts of the United States.” | March 3, 1821 |
| 52 | Chapter LII. | An Act to authorize the building of lighthouses therein mentioned, and for other purposes. | March 3, 1821 |
| 53 | Chapter LIII. | An Act to continue in force an act, entitled “An act regulating the currency, within the United States, of the gold coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain,” passed on the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, so far as the same relates to the crowns and five franc pieces of France. | March 3, 1821 |
| 54 | Chapter LIV. | An Act to revive and continue in force “An act fixing the compensations of the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, of the clerks employed in their offices, and of the librarian,” approved the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. | March 3, 1821 |
| 55 | Chapter LV. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1821 |
| 56 | Chapter LVI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1821 |
| 57 | Chapter LVII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1821 |
| 58 | Chapter LVIII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1821 |
| 59 | Chapter LIX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1821 |
| 60 | Chapter LX. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1821 |
| 61 | Chapter LXI. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1821 |
| 62 | Chapter LXII. | See Private Acts of the Sixteenth Congress in Volume 6. | March 3, 1821 |

### Public Resolutions

| Resolution | Date |
| Resolution I providing for the admission of the state of Missouri into the Union, on a certain condition. | March 2, 1821 |
| Resolution II providing for jails in certain cases, for the safe custody of persons committed under the authority of the United States. | March 3, 1821 |
| Resolution III authorizing the President of the United States to cause astronomical observations to be made, to ascertain the longitude of the Capitol, in the city of Washington, from some known meridian in Europe. | March 3, 1821 |