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LIST OF THE PUBLIC ACTS OF CONGRESS.
 


 

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Boundary of Iowa. An act to define and establish the eastern boundary line of the Territory of Iowa.March 3, 1839.
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Iowa. An act to authorize the election or appointment of certain officers in the Territory of Iowa, and for other purposes.March 3, 1839.
357
Hostilities with the Seminole Indians. An act making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (Obsolete.)March 3, 1839.
357
Appropriations for the support of the Army. An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. (Obsolete.)March 3, 1839.
359
Appropriations for the support of the Navy. An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. (Obsolete.)March 3, 1839.
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Jail in the City of Washington. An act to provide for the erection of a new jail in the City of Washington, District of Columbia.March 3, 1839.
364
Potomac Bridge. An act to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of the City of Washington over the Potomac bridge.March 3, 1839.
364

RESOLUTIONS.

 

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No. 1. Claims of the Workmen upon the Public Buildings. Resolution authorizing an examination and payment of the claims of the workmen upon the public buildings.Jan. 18, 1839.
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No. 2. Purchase of an Island at the Confluence of the St. Peters and Mississippi Rivers. A resolution for the purchase of the island at the confluence of the St. Peters and Mississippi rivers.Feb. 13, 1839.
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No. 3. Land Titles in the District of Columbia. A resolution directing the manner in which certain laws of the District of Columbia shall be executed.Feb. 16, 1839.
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No. 4. Certificates of Deposite. A resolution authorizing certain certificates of deposite to be cancelled and re-issued.Feb. 28, 1839.
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No. 5. Purchase of the Pea-Patch, in the Delaware. A resolution to authorize the purchase of an island in the river Delaware, called the Pea-Patch, and for other purposes.March 3, 1839.
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Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress of the United States.


STATUTE Ⅰ.—1840.

 

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Appropriations for the support of Government. An act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty. (Obsolete.)Jan. 8, 1840.
367
Pensions. An act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty.Feb. 22, 1840.
367
Census. An act to amend the act “to provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.Feb. 26, 1840.
368
Commissioner of Pensions. An act to continue the office of Commissioner of Pensions, and to transfer the pension business heretofore transacted in the Navy Department, to that office.March 4, 1840.
369
Treasury Notes. An act additional to the act on the subject of Treasury Notes.March 31, 1840.
370
Vessels employed in the Whale Fishery. An act to cancel the bonds given to secure duties upon vessels and their cargoes employed in the whale fishery, and to make registers lawful papers for such vessels.April 4, 1840.
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Appropriations for Civil and Diplomatic Expenses. An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty.May 8, 1840.
371