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LIST OF THE PUBLIC ACTS OF CONGRESS.
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Codification and Revision. An act to provide for the codification and revision of the laws of the District of Columbia. May 20, 1862, ch. 79 403
Medical Storekeepers and Chaplains of Hospitals. An act to authorize the appointment of medical storekeepers and chaplains of hospitals. May 20, 1862, ch. 80 403
Clearance to Vessels may be refused, and Transportation of Property prohibited. An act supplementary to an act approved on the thirteenth July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An act to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes." May 20, 1862, ch. 81 404
Wafer Tax, Georgetown may Collect. An act to authorize the corporation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, to lay and collect a water tax, and for other purposes. May 21, 1821, ch. 82 405
Colored Children, Education of. An act providing for the education of colored children in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, District of Columbia, and for other purposes. May 21, 1862, ch. 83 407
Cleric of Circuit and Criminal Courts of the District of Columbia; Accounts and Salary of. An act to provide for the settlement of the accounts of John A. Smith, clerk of the circuit court and criminal court of the District of Columbia. May 26, 1862, ch. 84 408
Twenty-five additional Clerks in Post-Office Department to be Paid from certain former Appropriation. An act to amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the service of the Poet-office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three," approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. May 26, 1862, 85 408
Public Lands. An act to reduce the expenses of the survey and sale of the public lands in the United States. May 30, 1882, ch. 86 409
Survey of Land Grants or Claims. An act for the survey of grants or claims of land. June 2, 1862, ch. 90 410
Representation of California in Congress. An act to allow the State of California an additional Representative in the Thirty-seventh Congress. Jane 2, 1862, ch. 91 411
Collection Districts and Customs in California. An act abolishing certain collection districts and reducing compensation of officers of customs in California. June 2, 1862, ch. 92 411
Frauds in Contracts. An act to prevent and punish fraud on the part of officers entrusted with making of contracts for the government. June 2, 1862, ch. 93 411
Land-Office in Colorado. Officers. Pre&eumalut;mption Act extended to Lands of the United States in which the Indian Title is or may be extinguished. Repeal of Act graduating the Price of Public Lands. An act to establish a land-office in Colorado Territory, and for other purposes. June 2, 1862, ch. 94 413
Post Routes. Change of Termini. Salaries of Special Agents. An act to establish certain post routes, and for other purposes. June 2, 1862 , ch. 95 413
Hayti and Liberia, Diplomatic Representatives to. An act to authorize the President of the United States to appoint diplomatic representatives to the republics of Hayti and Liberia, respectively. June 5, 1862, ch. 96 421
Railway in Missouri, Time for Completion of extended. An act supplemental to "An act wanting the right of way to the State of Missouri, and a portion of the public lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. June 6, 1862, ch. 97 422
Direct Taxes. An act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes. June 7, 1862, ch. 98 422
Mount Olivet Cemetery Company. An act to incorporate the Mount Olivet Cemetery Company in the District of Columbia June 10, 1862, ch. 99 426
Indians, Protection to the Property of certain. An act to protect the property of Indians who have adopted the habits of civilized life. June 14, 1862, ch. 101 427
Jurors in the District of Columbia. An act providing for the selection of jurors to serve in the several courts in the District of Columbia. June 16, 1862, ch. 102 428
Jurors in the United States Courts. An act defining additional causes of challenge and prescribing an additional oath far grand and petit jurors in the United States courts. June 17, 1862, ch. 103 430
Raising sunken Property. An act making provision for raising property of the United States sunk in the waters thereof. June 17, 1862, ch. 104 431
Vessels, Names of certain. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the names of certain vessels. June 17, 1862, ch. 105 431
Register to issue to the North Star and Dolphin. An act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue American registers to certain vessels. June 18 1862, ch. l08 431
