Proposals for printing for Congress to be in-
vited by publications in newspapers, 249
Resolution directing the manner in which the
printing of Congress shall be executed, fix-
ing the prices thereof, and providing for the
appointment of a printer or printers thereof,
March 3, 1819,

Prisoners of War.

538

and 1817, chap. 110, transferred for adjust-
ment to the office of the third auditor of the
Treasury, April 20, 1818, (obsolete,) 466

The act of April, 1818, chap. 105, relating to
discriminating duties extended to Prussian
vessels, March 3, 1819,
- 510

Public Accounts.

An act for the prompt settlement of public ac-
- 366
counts, March 3, 1817,
Offices of accountants of the War and Navy
Department and superintendent-general of
military supplies abolished,

-

366
All accounts to be settled at the Treasury, 366
Offices of auditors and comptrollers established,
their duties,
366
Salaries of the second comptroller and au-
ditor,
- 368
The second auditor to receive unsettled ac-
counts of Indian affairs, his duties, February
24, 1819,
- 487
The Treasurer to disburse moneys for the In-
dian department,
- 487
An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act
for the prompt settlement of public accounts,
and for the punishment of the crime of per-
jury," March 1, 1823,
- 770
Expenditures in certain cases to be admitted, 771
Any person swearing falsely shall suffer as for
- 771
wilful and corrupt perjury,
Notes of the decisions of the Supreme Court
on an indictment under the third section of
the act for swearing falsely,
- 771
Public Buildings and Public Squares in the City of
Washington.

Appropriation for repairing public buildings
and for the enclosure of public squares, 389
Appropriation for repairs of public buildings,

405

5

5

Repairs of the roof of the General Post-office,
606

A copy of the documents printed by order of
Congress to be transmitted to each of the
judges of the Supreme Court,
. 341
An act authorizing a subscription to Waite &
Son's tenth volume of Public Documents,
398
Public documents to be printed in royal octavo
pages,
· 400
Distribution of T. B. Waite & Son's edition
of Public Documents,
- 473
The members of Congress, &c., to transmit,
free of postage, the message of the President
of March 14, 1818,
474
Judges of the Supreme Court to be furnished
with Waite & Son's edition of the Public
Documents,
475
Journal of the convention which formed the
Constitution of the United States, - 475
The publication and distribution of the Journal
directed, -

475
Public documents to be transmitted free of
postage,
537
Documents relating to the Bank of the United
States, to be franked by members of Con-
gress, &c.,
- 537
Documents printed by order of the Senate and
House of Representatives, relating to the
sixteenth Congress, to be transmitted free
of postage by the members of Congress, the
secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the
House of Representatives, -
539
Members and delegates to Congress, the secre-
tary of the Senate, and the clerk of the
House of Representatives authorized to trans-
mit, free of postage, documents printed by
order of either house, December 19, 1821,

Public Lands,

nois territory, and providing for their loca-
tion, April 16, 1814,
- 125
Relief granted to the purchasers of lands in the
Mississippi territory,
- 130
Time for delivering notices, and the evidence
of claims to lands in that part of Louisiana
which lies east of the river Mississippi and
island of Orleans, extended, August 18,
1814,
137
Evidence of claims to be reported to the com-
missioner of the land-office,
137
Lands in the district west of the Perdido, 137
An act concerning certificates of confirmation
of claims to lands in the State of Louisi-
ana,
139

Public Lands.
certain sections in every township, shall be
offered for sale in half and quarter sec-
tions,
. 346
The Secretary of the Navy to cause vacant
lands of the United States to be explored,
and selections made for the timber upon
them for the use of the navy of the United
States, and the tracts so selected to be re-
served from public sales,
: 347
Penalties for cutting and carrying away tim-
ber on the reserved lands, -
347
Lands in the Mississippi territory set apart for
the cultivation of the vine and the olive, 374
A surveyor of lands in the northern part of the
Mississippi territory, to be appointed, 375
Sale of lands in the Mississippi territory, 375
Location of lands reserved for the chiefs and
warriors of the Creek Indians, March 3,
1817,
380
The claimants to certain donation rights in the
district of Detroit, allowed until the first of
December to file their claims,
390

The act of March 25, 1816, chap. 35, con-
tinued in force for one year, March 3, 1817,
(expired,)
- 393
An additional land-office established in the
Missouri territory, February 17, 1818, 406
Sales of lands in the Missouri territory, - 407
Two townships for support of a seminary of
learning, in Missouri,
407

Sale of certain lands in the district of Marietta
and Vincennes,
409
Settlement of accounts with William Rector as
principal deputy-surveyor, -
412
The State of Tennessee authorized to dispose
of certain lands, April 4, 1818,
415
Claims to lands granted to the inhabitants of
New Madrid in the Missouri territory, 417
Further suspension of the sale, or forfeiture, of
public lands which have not been paid for,
April 18, 1818, (obsolete,)
433
Public lots of ground in Mobile to be sold, 465
Sale and survey of the public lands in the Ala-
bama territory, April 20, 1818,
466
The lands reserved to chiefs, &c., of the Creek
nation by the act of March 3, 1817, chap.
88, to be purchased by the President, - 484
The lands acquired by this act to be offered
for sale,
484
The sale of lands forfeited for non-payment of
the purchase money, further suspended,
March 3, 1819, (expired,)
509

-

Lands for the seat of government of the State
of Indiana.
516
An act to designate the boundaries of districts
and establish land-offices for the disposal of
public lands, not heretofore offered for sale,
in the States of Ohio and Indiana, March 3,
1819,
521
Sale of public lands in Indiana not heretofore
offered for sale,
521
An act to provide for correction of errors, in
making entries of land at the land-offices, 526
A receiver and register of the land-office in
Lawrence county, in the Arkansas territory,
to be appointed,

554

Public Lands.

- 555

Claimants to pre-emption, of lands, to make
known their claims, -
- 554
An act further to suspend for a limited time
the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in
completing the payment of them, March
30, 1820, (expired,)
Forfeitures suspended until March 31,1821, 555
An act making further provision for the sale
of the public lands, April 24, 1820, - 566
No credit on sales of public lands, - - 566
Price of lands one dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre,
566
Regulation of the sales of public lands, - 566
An act to establish additional land-offices in
the States of Alabama and Illinois, May 11,
1820,

An act to revive the powers of the commis-
sioners for ascertaining claims to lands in
the district of Detroit, and for settling claims
to lands at Green Bay, and Prairie des
Chiens, in the territory of Michigan, May
11, 1820,
An act supplementary to the several acts for
the adjustment of land claims in the State
of Louisiana, May 11, 1820,
- 573
Land reserved in the State of Ohio for the
Delaware tribe of Indians, to be sold, 575
An act to annex certain lands within the terri-
tory of Michigan to the district of Detroit,
May 11, 1820,
577
An act to authorize the governor of Illinois to
obtain certain abstracts of lands for certain
- 602
public offices,
Abstracts of military bounty land patented to
soldiers in Illinois, to be made out and de-
livered to the governor of Illinois, - 602
Right of pre-emption of certain public lands,
granted to the State of Ohio for the esta-
blishment of a seat of justice, in certain coun-
ties,
- 607
The Secretary of the Treasury to pay three per
cent. of the proceeds of public lands in Illi-
nois to the State of Illinois, to be applied to
the encouragement of learning, December
12, 1820,
610
Account of the application to be transmitted
annually to the Secretary of the Trea-
sury,
- 610
An act for the relief of purchasers of public
lands prior to the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and twenty, March 2, 1821, - 612
Provisions for their relief, 612, 613, 614
Notes of the act for the relief of the purchasers
of public lands,
612
The President authorized to remove the land-
office in the district of Lawrence county, in
the territory of Arkansas,
622
The assignees of warrants issued to the Cana-
dian volunteers, to locate them, - - 641
The President of the United States authorized
to sell land in Northumberland, Virginia, and
appropriate the proceeds to the payment of a
debt due by Sharp Delany,
- 641
An act supplementary to the act entitled "An
act for the relief of the purchasers of public

lands prior to the first of July, 1820," April
20, 1822, (expired,)
Purchasers allowed to avail themselves of
the act of July 20, until September 30,
1822,

665

668

A supplement to the act for the encouragement
of the cultivation of the vine and the olive,
passed March 3, 1817, chap. 51, . 667
An act to perfect certain locations of public
lands in Missouri, April 26, 1822, (obso-
lete,)
.668
Locations under the act for the relief of suffer-
ers by earthquakes at New Madrid, may be
perfected into grants, &c., -
An act providing for the disposal of public
lands in the State of Mississippi, and for the
better organizing of land districts in Alabama
680
and Mississippi, May 6, 1822,
Unsold lots in the towns of Perrysburg and
Croghansville, Ohio, to be sold for county
696
purposes,
Purchasers of public lands to have copies of
papers affecting their titles to public lands,
and the copies to be evidence,
721
An act to revive and continue in force certain
acts for the adjustment of land claims in the
territory of Michigan, February 21, 1823, 724
Provisions for the sale of the public lands, 756
An act making the gold coins of Great Britain,
France, and Portugal receivable in payment
on account of public lands,
The act of April 20, 1822, chap. 30, for the
relief of the purchasers of public lands, ex-
tended to September 30, 1823,
- 781
The officers of the Treasury to audit and settle
accounts for clerk hire of the surveyors of
public lands in Illinois, Missouri, and Ar-
kansas,
- 784
Lands ceded by the Iowa Indians to be attach-
ed to the Terre Haute district, and to be sold
at the land-office of that district,
784
Compensation of the register and receiver, 784
Public Warehouses.

779

- 333

Court.

An act to provide for reports of the decisions
of the Supreme Court, March 3, 1817, (ex-
376
pired,)
Distribution of the copies of the reports, - 376
- 376
Salary of the reporter,
Notes of acts in relation to reporter and
reports of the decisions of the Supreme
Court,

376

A reporter of the decisions of the Supreme
Court to be appointed, with a salary of
$1000 annually,

- 376
The act of March 3, 1817, continued in force
for three years, May 15, 1820, - 606
An act to continue in force the act entitled
"An act to provide for reports of the deci-
sions of the Supreme Court of the United
States," passed the third of March, 1817.
March 3, 1823, (obsolete,)

- 768

Representation in Congress according to the
fourth census,
Ripley, Brigadier-General.

Thanks of Congress for his gallant services, 247
Roads.-See Cumberland Road. See District of
Columbia.

The road laid out from the foot of the rapids
of the river Miami of Lake Erie to be al-
tered,
285
Repairs of roads in Tennessee, Louisiana, and
Georgia,

315

An act authorizing the surveying and making
a road in the territory of Illinois, 318
Four thousand dollars appropriated for cutting
a road from Tennessee river to near the
south end of the Chickasaw old town, 377
Appropriation for repair of the roads in Georgia,

Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, - 412
An act to authorize the appointment of com-
missioners to lay out a road from Wheeling
to the Mississippi river, May 15, 1820, 604
Provisions for the construction of the road, 604
A road to be made from the lower rapids of
the Miami of Lake Erie, to Connecticut
- 727
western reserve,
The President to cause the United States mail
road from Nashville to New Orleans to be
repaired and improved,