APPENDIX. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE An act to authorize the President of the United States to lease, for the term therein mentioned, the new building on Capitol Hill, with the appurtenances, for the better accomodation of Congress. An act making additional appropriations to defray the expenses of the army and militia, during the late war with Great Britain. An act to enlarge the time for ascertaining the annual transfers and changes of property subject to the direct tax, and for other purposes. An act for the relief of Henry Fanning. An act for the relief of Jonathan B. Eastman. An act for the relief of Joseph Anderson. An act to repeal so much of an act passed on the 23d of December, 1814, as imposes additional duties on postage. An act for the relief of John G. Camp. An act continuing in force certain acts laying duties on bank notes, refined sugars, and for other purposes. An act to continue in force the act, entitled "An act for imposing additional duties upon all goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from any foreign port or place, and for ether purposes. An act for the relief of Jonathan White. An act for the relief of Charles Markin. An act for the relief Martin Cole, John Pollock, George Westner, and Abraham Welty. An act to continue in force an act, entitled" An act laying a duty on imported salt; granting a bounty on pickled fish exported; and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries." An act for the relief of William Morrissett. An act concerning certain courts of the United States in the State of New-York. An act to increase the pensions of Robert Whi'e, Jacob Wrighter, John Young, and John Crampersey. An act to repeal the duties on certain articles manufactured within the United States. An act for the relief of Jonathan Rogers, junior, of Waterford, in the State of Connecticut. An act for the relief John Redman Coxe. An act rewarding the officers and crew of the sloop of war Hornet, for the capture and destruction of the British sloop of war Penguin. An act concerning the convention to regulate the commerce between the territories of the United States and his britannic majesty. An act for the relief of lieutenant colonel William Lawrence, of the army, and of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, composing the garrison of Fort Bowyer, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. An act to reduce the amount of the direct tax upon the United States, and the District of Columbia, for the year 1816; and to repeal, in part, the act, entitled "an act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying a direct tax upon the United States, and to provide for assessing and collecting the same;" and also the act entitled "an act to provide additional revenue for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit by laying a direct tax upon the District of Columbia." An act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers. An act making appropriations for ordnance and ordnance stores, for the year 1816. An act for the relief of Gustavus Loomis. An act to extend certain privileges, as therein mentioned, to Bernard Edme Verjon and Robert Lowe Stobie. An act for the relief of John M. Forbes. An act to change the mode of compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the delegates from Territories. An act to alter the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States, for the district of Vermont. An act relative to evidence in cases of naturalization. An act authorizing a subscription for the printing of a second edition of the public documents. An act for the relief of Erastus Loomis. An act relating to settlers on the land of the United States. An act for the relief John T. Wirt. An act placing certain persons on the list of navy pensioners. An act authorizing and requiring the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Andrew Kurtz. An act to limit the right of appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes. An act to repeal the act, entitled "an act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public cridit, by laying duties on household furniture, and on gold and silver watches.” 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. An act in addition to an act to regulate the postoffice establishment. An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States. An act making appropriations for the support of government, for the year 1816. An act providing for the settlement of certain accounts against the library of Congress, for extending the privilege of using the books therein, and for establishing the salary of the librarian. An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act to incorporate a company for making certain turnpike roads within the District of Columbia." An act confirming to the Navigation Company of New-Orleans the use and possession of a lot in the said city. An act further extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants, and for other purposes. An act to increase the pension of William Munday. 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. An act for the relief of certain claimants to land in the district of Vincennes. An act to authorize the President of the United States to alter the road laid out from the foot of the rapids of the river Miami of Lake Erie to the western line of the Connecticut Reserve. 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. An act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes. An act in addition to an act entitled an act in relation to the navy pension fund." An act to enable the people of the Indiana 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. An act to abolish the existing duties on spirits distilled within the United States, and to lay other |