ORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT IN 1789, TO MARCH 3, 1845. ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. WITH REFERENCES TO THE MATTER OF EACH ACT AND TO THE SUBSEQUENT ACTS AND COPIOUS NOTES OF THE DECISIONS OF THE Courts of the United States CONSTRUING THOSE ACTS, AND UPON THE SUBJECTS OF THE LAWS. WITH AN INDEX TO THE CONTENTS OF EACH VOLUME, AND A FULL GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE WORK, IN THE CONCLUDING VOLUME. TOGETHER WITH The Declaration of Endependence, the Articles of Confederation, and AND ALSO, TABLES, IN THE LAST VOLUME, CONTAINING LISTS OF THE ACTS RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY, EDITED BY RICHARD PETERS, ESQ., COUNSELLOR AT LAW. The rights and interest of the United States in the stereotype plates from which this work printed, are hereby recognised, YOL. IV. BOSTON: CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN. 50 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by CHARLES C. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. LIST OF THE PUBLIC ACTS OF CONGRESS, CONTAINED IN VOLUME FOURTH. Acts of the Eighteenth Congress of the United States. STATUTE I.-1824. An Abstract of the Military Bounty Lands, lying in the Territory of Arkansas, to be furnished for the Use of the Territory. An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish, for the use of the territory of Arkansas, an abstract of the military bounty lands lying within the same. Jan. 1, 1824................ Imprisonment for Debt. An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt." Jan. 7, 1824...... Pago 1 1 Discriminating Duties. An act concerning discriminating duties of tonnage and impost. Jan. 7, 1824... ... .... ... .... 2 Partial Appropriation for 1824. An act making a partial appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. (Obsolete.) Jan. 19, 1824........ Relief of Distillers in Berks County, Pennsylvania. An act for the relief of certain distillers within the county of Berks, in the state of Pennsylvania. (Obsolete.) Jan. 19, 1824........ Pensions. An act further extending the term of half-pay pensions to the widows and children of officers, seamen, marines, who died in the public service. (Expired.) Jan. 22, 1824..... Commissioners of the Sinking Fund authorized to purchase the Seven per cent. Stock. An act authorizing the commissioners of the sinking fund to purchase the seven per cent. stock of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. (Obsolete.) Jan. 22, 1824.... Road from opposite Memphis to Little Rock. An act to authorize the surveying and making a road from a point opposite to Memphis, in the state of Tennessee, to Little Rock, in the territory of Arkansas. Jan. 31, 1824...... Compensation of the Officers of Congress and the Librarian. An act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled "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." (Expired.) Feb. 20, 1824...... 3 3 5 5 Public Roads in Florida. An act to authorize the laying out and opening certain public roads in the territory of Florida. (Obsolete.) Feb. 28, 1824...... Survey of public and private Lands in the southern part of Alabama. An act to regulate the surveying of public and private lands in the southern part of Alabama. Feb. 28, 1824. The Time for the Settlement of private Land Claims in Florida extended. An act to extend the time limited for the settlement of private land claims in the territory of Florida. (Expired.) Feb. 28, 1824...... Repeal of the Act to lessen the Compensation of Marshals, Clerks, and Attorneys. An act to repeal, in part, an act, entitled "An act to lessen the compensation for marshals, clerks, and attorneys, in the cases therein mentioned. March 8, 1824..... 5 6 iii |