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

The Sixth 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 at Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1799 to March 3, 1801, during the last two years of John Adams's presidency. It was the last Congress of the 18th century and the first to convene in the 19th. The apportionment of seats in House of Representatives was based on the First Census of the United States in 1790. Both chambers had a Federalist majority.Warning: template has been deprecated.

## 1st Session

PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the second day of December, 1799, and ended the fourteenth day of May, 1800.
John Adams, President; Thomas Jefferson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Samuel Livermore, President of the Senate pro tempore on the twenty-fourth day of December, 1799; Uriah Tracy, President of the Senate pro tempore on the fourteenth day of May, 1800; Theodore Sedgwick, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
| Chapter | Title | Date |
| Chapter VII. | An Act for the relief of John Vaughan. | Feb. 11, 1800 |
| Chapter XI. | An Act for the relief of James Yard. | Feb. 27, 1800 |
| Chapter XVII. | An Act for the relief of Campbell Smith. | March 29, 1800 |
| Chapter XVIII. | An Act to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages to Martha Washington. | April 3, 1800 |
| Chapter XX. | An Act to discharge Robert Sturgeon from his imprisonment. | April 5, 1800 |
| Chapter XXIV. | An Act for the relief of the corporation of Rhode Island college. | April 16, 1800 |
| Chapter XLIV. | An Act to authorize the allowance of a credit to William Tazewell. | May 7, 1800 |
| Chapter LII. | An Act for the relief of Ithamar Canfield. | May 10, 1800 |
| Chapter LXXI. | An Act to make further provision for the children of Colonel John Harding, and Major Alexander Trueman, deceased. | May 14, 1800 |

## 2nd Session

PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventeenth day of November, 1800, and ended on the third day of March, 1801.
John Adams, President; Thomas Jefferson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; James Hillhouse, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the second day of March, 1800; Theodore Sedgwick, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
| Chapter | Title | Date |
| Chapter II. | An Act for the relief of Solomon Boston. | Jan. 30, 1801 |
| Chapter V. | An Act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia. | Feb. 18, 1801 |
| Chapter VIII. | An Act to discharge Samuel Lewis, senior, from his imprisonment. | Feb. 25, 1801 |
| Chapter X. | An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Holmes. | Feb. 25, 1801 |
| Chapter XIV. | An Act for the relief of Arnold Henry Dorhman, or his legal representatives. | Feb. 27, 1801 |
| Chapter XXVI. | An Act authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the care of the officers of the customs, in Providence, Rhode Island. | March 3, 1801 |