United States Statutes at Large/Volume 17/42nd Congress
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1st Session
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Passed at the First Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Saturday, the fourth day of March, A. D. 1871, and was adjourned without day on Thursday the twentieth day of April, A. D. 1871.
Ulysses S. Grant, President. Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President and President of the Senate. Henry B. Anthony was elected President of the Senate pro tempore on the seventeenth day of April, A. D. 1871, and so acted until the end of the session. James G. Blaine, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
| Chapter | Title | Date | |
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| 1 | Chapter I. | An Act to amend "An Act to establish the Smithsonian Institution for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge among Men," approved August 10, 1846. | March 20, 1871 |
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| 33 | Chapter XXXIII. | An Act to enable the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company to mortgage its Road. | April 20, 1871 |
2nd Session
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UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December, A. D. 1871, and was adjourned without day on Monday, the tenth day of June, A. D. 1872.
Ulysses S. Grant, President. Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President and President of the Senate. Henry B. Anthony was elected President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the twenty-third day of February, A. D. 1872, and so acted until the twenty-sixth day of the same month: he was again elected as such officer on the eighth day of June, A. D., 1872, and so acted until the end of the session. James G. Blaine, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
| Chapter | Title | Date | |
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| 1 | Chapter I. | An Act to provide for a Deficiency in the Appropriations for the Expenses of taking the ninth Census of the United States. | Dec. 16, 1871 |
| 2 | Chapter II. | An Act relating to the Limitation of Steam Pressure on towing and freight Boats on the Mississippi River and its Tributaries. | Dec. 20, 1871 |
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| 11 | Chapter XI. | An Act for the Apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth Census. | Feb. 2, 1872 |
| 12 | Chapter XII. | An Act to authorize the Payment of duplicate Checks of disbursing Officers. | Feb. 2, 1872 |
| 13 | Chapter XIII. | An Act to admit certain Machinery imported from foreign Countries free of duty. | Feb. 2, 1872 |
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| 235 | Chapter CCXXXV. | An Act to increase the capital Stock and to extend the Works of the Washington Gas-Light Company. | May 29, 1872 |
| 239 | Chapter CCXXXIX. | An Act supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act for the Apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States according to the ninth Census." | May 30, 1872 |
| 240 | Chapter CCXL. | An Act fixing the Rank of Professors of Mathematics in the United States Navy. | May 31, 1872 |
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| 437 | Chapter CDXXXVII. | An Act to grant the Right of Way through the public Lands to the Eastern Nevada Railroad Company. | June 10, 1872 |
3rd Session
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Passed at the Third Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December, A. D. 1872, and was adjourned without day on Tuesday the fourth day of March, A. D. 1873.
Ulysses S. Grant, President. Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President and President of the Senate. James G. Blaine, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
| Chapter | Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapter I. | An Act making an Appropriation for the Repairs, Furnishing, and Ornamentation of the United States Custom-house and Post-office at Bath, Maine. | Dec. 10, 1872 |
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| 237 | Chapter CCXXXVII. | An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. | March 3, 1873 |
| 238 | Chapter CCXXXVIII. | An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish the Department of Justice, and for other Purposes." | March 3, 1873 |
| 239 | Chapter CCXXXIX. | An Act fixing the Time for the Election of Representatives from the State of California to the forty-fourth Congress. | March 3, 1873 |
| 240 | Chapter CCXL. | An Act to authorize the Unlading of Steamships at Night. | March 3, 1873 |
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| 334 | Chapter CCCXXXIV. | An Act to quiet the Title to the Lands of the Settlers on Lands claimed by the West Wisconsin Railway Company. | March 3, 1873 |