United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress

by United States Congress

1st Session

Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS

of the

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and ended on the thirty-first day of May, 1830.

Andrew Jackson, President; J. C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

	Chapter	Title	Date
1	Chapter I.	An Act making an appropriation for repairing and fitting out the frigate Brandywine.	Dec. 29, 1829
2	Chapter II.	An Act to authorize the exchange of certain lots of land between the university of Michigan territory and Martin Baum and others.	Jan. 13, 1830
3	Chapter III.	An Act to extend the time for locating certain donations in Arkansas.	Jan. 13, 1830
4	Chapter IV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 13, 1830
5	Chapter V.	An Act making appropriations for certain arrearages in the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.	Jan. 30, 1830
6	Chapter VI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 30, 1830
7	Chapter VII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 30, 1830
8	Chapter VIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 30, 1830
9	Chapter IX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 30, 1830
10	Chapter X.	An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and invalid pensioners.	Feb. 3, 1830
11	Chapter XI.	An Act to alter the time of holding the circuit court of the United States for the district of Maryland.	Feb. 11, 1830
12	Chapter XII.	An Act authorizing the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to pay to the state of Pennsylvania, a debt due to that state by the United States.	Feb. 11, 1830
13	Chapter XIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
14	Chapter XIV.	An Act to authorize surveyors, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to enrol and license ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries.	Feb. 11, 1830
15	Chapter XV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
16	Chapter XVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
17	Chapter XVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
18	Chapter XVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
19	Chapter XIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
20	Chapter XX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
21	Chapter XXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
22	Chapter XXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
23	Chapter XXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
24	Chapter XXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 11, 1830
25	Chapter XXV.	An Act to continue in force an act authorizing the importation and allowance of drawback on brandy in casks of a capacity not less than fifteen gallons.	Feb. 27, 1830
26	Chapter XXVI.	An Act making appropriations for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.	Feb. 27, 1830
27	Chapter XXVII.	An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.	Feb. 27, 1830
28	Chapter XXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 27, 1830
29	Chapter XXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 27, 1830
30	Chapter XXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1830
31	Chapter XXXI.	An Act making appropriations for the military service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.	March 11, 1830
32	Chapter XXXII.	An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.	March 11, 1830
33	Chapter XXXIII.	An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.	March 18, 1830
34	Chapter XXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 18, 1830
35	Chapter XXXV.	An Act for the further regulation of vessels bound up James river, in the state of Virginia.	March 23, 1830
36	Chapter XXXVI.	An Act to continue in force “An act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof,” and for other purposes.	March 23, 1830
37	Chapter XXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 23, 1830
38	Chapter XXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 23, 1830
39	Chapter XXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 23, 1830
40	Chapter XL.	An Act to provide for taking the fifth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.	March 23, 1830
41	Chapter XLI.	An Act making appropriations to carry into effect certain Indian treaties.	March 25, 1830
42	Chapter XLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 25, 1830
43	Chapter XLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 25, 1830
44	Chapter XLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 25, 1830
45	Chapter XLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 25, 1830
46	Chapter XLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 25, 1830
47	Chapter XLVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 25, 1830
48	Chapter XLVIII.	An Act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands, and for the suppression of fraudulent practices at the public sales of the lands of the United States.	March 31, 1830
49	Chapter XLIX.	An Act to change the port of entry from Nova Iberia to Franklin, in the state of Louisiana.	March 31, 1830
50	Chapter L.	An Act changing the residence of the collector in the district of Burlington, in the state of New Jersey.	March 31, 1830
51	Chapter LI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 31, 1830
52	Chapter LII.	An Act to change the time and place of holding the court for the county of Crawford, in the territory of Michigan.	April 2, 1830
53	Chapter LIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 2, 1830
54	Chapter LIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 2, 1830
55	Chapter LV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 2, 1830
56	Chapter LVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 2, 1830
57	Chapter LVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 2, 1830
58	Chapter LVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 2, 1830
59	Chapter LIX.	An Act amending and supplementary to the act to aid the state of Ohio in extending the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said state, to aid in the construction of canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to certain persons in Arkansas territory.	April 2, 1830
60	Chapter LX.	An Act making appropriations to pay the expenses in holding certain Indian treaties.	April 2, 1830
61	Chapter LXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 7, 1830
62	Chapter LXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 7, 1830
63	Chapter LXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 7, 1830
64	Chapter LXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 7, 1830
65	Chapter LXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 7, 1830
66	Chapter LXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 7, 1830
67	Chapter LXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 7, 1830
68	Chapter LXVIII.	An Act authorizing the appointment of an additional brigadier general for the territory of Arkansas.	April 15, 1830
69	Chapter LXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 15, 1830
70	Chapter LXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 15, 1830
71	Chapter LXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 15, 1830
72	Chapter LXXII.	An Act making additional appropriations for the improvement of certain harbours, and for removing obstructions at the mouths of certain rivers, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.	April 23, 1830
73	Chapter LXXIII.	An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the general land office,” approved the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.	April 23, 1830
74	Chapter LXXIV.	An Act to regulate and fix the compensation of the clerks in the Department of State.	April 23, 1830
75	Chapter LXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 23, 1830
76	Chapter LXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 23, 1830
77	Chapter LXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 23, 1830
78	Chapter LXXVIII.	An Act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund to redeem the public debt of the United States.	April 24, 1830
79	Chapter LXXIX.	An Act to extend the time for commencing the improvement of the navigation of the Tennessee river.	April 24, 1830
80	Chapter LXXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 24, 1830
81	Chapter LXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 24, 1830
82	Chapter LXXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 24, 1830
83	Chapter LXXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	April 24, 1830
84	Chapter LXXXIV.	An Act for the re-appropriation of certain unexpended balances of former appropriations.	April 30, 1830
85	Chapter LXXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 5, 1830
86	Chapter LXXXVI.	An Act to authorize the registers of the several land offices in Louisiana, to receive entries in certain cases, and to give to the purchasers thereof certificates for the same.	May 5, 1830
87	Chapter LXXXVII.	An Act to authorize the appointment of a marshal for the northern district of the state of Alabama.	May 5, 1830
88	Chapter LXXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 5, 1830
89	Chapter LXXXIX.	An Act to change the time of holding the court of the United States for the district of Mississippi, and the circuit court of the United States in the district of Ohio.	May 5, 1830
90	Chapter XC.	An Act for further extending the powers of the judges of the superior court of the territory of Arkansas, under the act of the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and for other purposes.	May 8, 1830
91	Chapter XCI.	An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act to authorize the citizens of the territories of Arkansas and Florida to elect their officers, and for other purposes.”	May 8, 1830
92	Chapter XCII.	An Act to authorize the re-conveyance of a lot of land to the mayor and corporation of the city of New York.	May 10, 1830
93	Chapter XCIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 10, 1830
94	Chapter XCIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 10, 1830
95	Chapter XCV.	An Act to alter the bridge and draws across the Potomac, from Washington city to Alexandria.	May 14, 1830
96	Chapter XCVI.	An Act to alter the time of holding the sessions of the legislative council of the territory of Florida.	May 14, 1830
97	Chapter XCVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 20, 1830
98	Chapter XCVIII.	An Act to establish a port of delivery at Delaware City.	May 20, 1830
99	Chapter XCIX.	An Act making appropriations to carry into effect the treaty of Butte des Mortes.	May 20, 1830
100	Chapter C.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 20, 1830
101	Chapter CI.	An Act to reduce the duties on coffee, tea, and cocoa.	May 20, 1830
102	Chapter CII.	An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to regulate the practice in the courts of the United States, for the district of Louisiana.”	May 20, 1830
103	Chapter CIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 20, 1830
104	Chapter CIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 26, 1830
105	Chapter CV.	An Act to quiet the titles of certain purchasers of lands, between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio.	May 26, 1830
106	Chapter CVI.	An Act to provide for the final settlement of land claims in Florida.	May 26, 1830
107	Chapter CVII.	An Act for the distribution of certain books therein mentioned.	May 26, 1830
108	Chapter CVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 26, 1830
109	Chapter CIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 26, 1830
110	Chapter CX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 26, 1830
111	Chapter CXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 26, 1830
112	Chapter CXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 26, 1830
113	Chapter CXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 26, 1830
114	Chapter CXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 26, 1830
115	Chapter CXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 26, 1830
116	Chapter CXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
117	Chapter CXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
118	Chapter CXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
119	Chapter CXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
120	Chapter CXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
121	Chapter CXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
122	Chapter CXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
123	Chapter CXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
124	Chapter CXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
125	Chapter CXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
126	Chapter CXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
127	Chapter CXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
128	Chapter CXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
129	Chapter CXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
130	Chapter CXXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
131	Chapter CXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
132	Chapter CXXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
133	Chapter CXXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
134	Chapter CXXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
135	Chapter CXXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
136	Chapter CXXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
137	Chapter CXXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
138	Chapter CXXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
139	Chapter CXXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
140	Chapter CXL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
141	Chapter CXLI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
142	Chapter CXLII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
143	Chapter CXLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
144	Chapter CXLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
145	Chapter CXLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 28, 1830
146	Chapter CXLVI.	An Act to confirm certain claims to lands in the district of Jackson courthouse, in the state of Mississippi.	May 28, 1830
147	Chapter CXLVII.	An Act for the more effectual collection of the impost duties.	May 28, 1830
148	Chapter CXLVIII.	An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi.	May 28, 1830
149	Chapter CXLIX.	An Act to authorize the register and receiver of the St. Helena land district, in Louisiana, to receive evidence, and report upon certain claims to land mentioned therein.	May 28, 1830
150	Chapter CL.	An Act to repeal a part of an act, passed the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand and four, entitled “An act making provisions for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes.”	May 28, 1830
151	Chapter CLI.	An Act relative to the plan of Detroit, in Michigan territory.	May 28, 1830
152	Chapter CLII.	An Act to repeal the proviso in “An act to authorize masters of vessels in certain cases to clear out either at the custom-house of Petersburg, or that of Richmond.”	May 28, 1830
153	Chapter CLIII.	An Act to provide for the appointment of a solicitor of the treasury.	May 29, 1830
154	Chapter CLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
155	Chapter CLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
156	Chapter CLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
157	Chapter CLVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
158	Chapter CLVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
159	Chapter CLIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
160	Chapter CLX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
161	Chapter CLXI.	An Act to vest in the state of Indiana certain lands within the limits of the canal grant.	May 29, 1830
162	Chapter CLXII.	An Act relating to the orphans’ courts in the District of Columbia.	May 29, 1830
163	Chapter CLXIII.	An Act to protect the surveyors of the public lands of the United States, and to punish persons guilty of interrupting and hindering, by force, surveyors in discharge of their duty.	May 29, 1830
164	Chapter CLXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
165	Chapter CLXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
166	Chapter CLXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
167	Chapter CLXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
168	Chapter CLXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
169	Chapter CLXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
170	Chapter CLXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
171	Chapter CLXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
172	Chapter CLXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
173	Chapter CLXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
174	Chapter CLXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
175	Chapter CLXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
176	Chapter CLXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
177	Chapter CLXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
178	Chapter CLXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
179	Chapter CLXXIX.	An Act to alter and amend the sixty-fifth article of the first section of an act, entitled “An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States,” passed the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six.	May 29, 1830
180	Chapter CLXXX.	An Act to authorize the selection of certain school lands in the territory of Arkansas.	May 29, 1830
181	Chapter CLXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
182	Chapter CLXXXII.	An Act to provide for surveying certain lands in the territory of Arkansas.	May 29, 1830
183	Chapter CLXXXIII.	An Act to exempt deserters, in time of peace, from the punishment of death.	May 29, 1830
184	Chapter CLXXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
185	Chapter CLXXXV.	An Act to reduce the duty on molasses, and to allow a drawback on spirits distilled from foreign materials.	May 29, 1830
186	Chapter CLXXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
187	Chapter CLXXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
188	Chapter CLXXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
189	Chapter CLXXXIX.	An Act to reduce the duty on salt.	May 29, 1830
190	Chapter CXC.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
191	Chapter CXCI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
192	Chapter CXCII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
193	Chapter CXCIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
194	Chapter CXCIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
195	Chapter CXCV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
196	Chapter CXCVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
197	Chapter CXCVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
198	Chapter CXCVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
199	Chapter CXCIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
200	Chapter CC.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
201	Chapter CCI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
202	Chapter CCII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
203	Chapter CCIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
204	Chapter CCIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
205	Chapter CCV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
206	Chapter CCVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
207	Chapter CCVII.	An Act to amend the acts regulating the commercial intercourse between the United States and certain colonies of Great Britain.	May 29, 1830
208	Chapter CCVIII.	An Act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands.	May 29, 1830
209	Chapter CCIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
210	Chapter CCX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
211	Chapter CCXI.	An Act to revive and continue in force “An act fixing 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.”	May 29, 1830
212	Chapter CCXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
213	Chapter CCXIII.	An act increasing the terms of the judicial courts of the United States for the southern district of New York, and adding to the compensation of several district judges of the United States.	May 29, 1830
214	Chapter CCXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 29, 1830
215	Chapter CCXV.	An Act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army, during the revolutionary war.	May 30, 1830
216	Chapter CCXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 30, 1830
217	Chapter CCXVII.	An Act making appropriations for certain expenditures on account of the engineer, ordnance, and quartermaster’s department.	May 31, 1830
218	Chapter CCXVIII.	An Act making a re-appropriation of a sum heretofore appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade.	May 31, 1830
219	Chapter CCXIX.	An Act to repeal the tonnage duties upon ships and vessels of the United States, and upon certain foreign vessels.	May 31, 1830
220	Chapter CCXX.	An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the present site of the national mint to be sold, and making an appropriation for completing the new buildings now erecting.	May 31, 1830
221	Chapter CCXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 31, 1830
222	Chapter CCXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 31, 1830
223	Chapter CCXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 31, 1830
224	Chapter CCXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 31, 1830
225	Chapter CCXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 31, 1830
226	Chapter CCXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 31, 1830
227	Chapter CCXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 31, 1830
228	Chapter CCXXVIII.	An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution.”	May 31, 1830
229	Chapter CCXXIX.	An Act to amend the charter of Georgetown.	May 31, 1830
230	Chapter CCXXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 31, 1830
231	Chapter CCXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	May 31, 1830
232	Chapter CCXXXII.	An Act making appropriations for examinations and surveys, and also, for certain works of internal improvement.	May 31, 1830
233	Chapter CCXXXIII.	An Act making additional appropriations for pay of the marine corps.	May 31, 1830
234	Chapter CCXXXIV.	An Act to authorize the payment of the claim of the state of Massachusetts, for certain services of her militia during the late war.	May 31, 1830
235	Chapter CCXXXV.	An Act for the relief of sundry citizens of the United States, who have lost property by the depredations of certain Indian tribes.	May 31, 1830

Public Resolutions

Resolution	Date
Resolution I authorizing the purchase of fifty copies of the sixth volume of the Laws of the United States.	Dec. 29, 1829
Resolution II granting the use of the books in the library of Congress, to the Heads of Departments, to certain officers of Congress, and to Ex-Presidents of the United States.⁠	Jan. 13, 1830
Resolution III authorizing the transmission of papers, by mail, relating to the fifth census.	April 30, 1830
Resolution IV for obtaining the aggregate returns of former enumerations of the population of the United States.	May 28, 1830
Resolution V to suspend proceedings against the corporation of the house of refuge in New York.	May 29, 1830
Resolution VI in relation to the compensation of officers of the marine corps.	May 29, 1830
Resolution VII requiring annual reports to be made to Congress, in relation to applications for pensions.	May 29, 1830

2nd Session

Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS

of the

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 sixth day of December, 1830, and ended March third, 1831.

Andrew Jackson, President; J. C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

	Chapter	Title	Date
1	Chapter I.	An Act to change the time of holding the rule term of the circuit court of the district of West Tennessee.	Jan. 13, 1831
2	Chapter II.	An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for paying to the state of Illinois three per centum of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same.”	Jan. 13, 1831
3	Chapter III.	An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.	Jan. 13, 1831
4	Chapter IV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 13, 1831
5	Chapter V.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 13, 1831
6	Chapter VI.	An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for paying to the states of Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama, three per centum of the net proceeds arising from the sale of the public lands within the same.”	Jan. 19, 1831
7	Chapter VII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 19, 1831
8	Chapter VIII.	An Act for closing certain accounts, and making appropriations for arrearages in the Indian department.	Jan. 27, 1831
9	Chapter IX.	An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and invalid pensioners.	Jan. 27, 1831
10	Chapter X.	An Act to alter the times of holding the district courts of the United States for the districts of Maine and Illinois, and northern district of Alabama.	Jan. 27, 1831
11	Chapter XI.	An Act to extend the time for entering certain donation claims to land in the territory of Arkansas.	Jan. 27, 1831
12	Chapter XII.	An Act further supplemental to the act entitled “An act making further provision for settling the claims to land, in the territory of Missouri,” passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.	Jan. 27, 1831
13	Chapter XIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Jan. 19, 1831
14	Chapter XIV.	An Act making provision for the compensation of witnesses, and payment of other expenses attending the trial of the impeachment of James H. Peck.	Feb. 3, 1831
15	Chapter XV.	An Act to authorize the construction of three schooners for the naval service of the United States.	Feb. 3, 1831
16	Chapter XVI.	An Act to amend the several acts respecting copy rights.	Feb. 3, 1831
17	Chapter XVII.	An Act to amend the act for taking the fifth census.	Feb. 3, 1831
18	Chapter XVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 3, 1831
19	Chapter XIX.	An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to quiet the title of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio,” approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty.	Feb. 12, 1831
20	Chapter XX.	An Act to repeal the charges imposed on passports and clearances.	Feb. 12, 1831
21	Chapter XXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 12, 1831
22	Chapter XXII.	An Act authorizing the sale of a tract of land therein mentioned.	Feb. 12, 1831
23	Chapter XXIII.	An Act to amend the act granting “certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Blacwarrior rivers,” approved the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.	Feb. 12, 1831
24	Chapter XXIV.	An Act to authorize the transportation of merchandise by land or by water with the benefit of debenture.	Feb. 12, 1831
25	Chapter XXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 12, 1831
26	Chapter XXVI.	An Act to provide hereafter for the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Seneca Indians, and for other purposes.	Feb. 19, 1831
27	Chapter XXVII.	An Act to establish a land office in the territory of Michigan, and for other purposes.	Feb. 19, 1831
28	Chapter XXVIII.	An Act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts.	Feb. 19, 1831
29	Chapter XXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 19, 1831
30	Chapter XXX.	An Act to alter and amend “An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive.”	Feb. 19, 1831
31	Chapter XXXI.	An Act making appropriations for the completion and support of penitentiary in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.	Feb. 25, 1831
32	Chapter XXXII.	An Act to authorize the appointment of a sub-agent to the Winnebago Indians, on Rock river.	Feb. 25, 1831
33	Chapter XXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 25, 1831
34	Chapter XXXIV.	An Act supplemental to an act, passed on the thirty-first March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled “An act for the relief of purchasers of public lands, and for the suppression of fraudulent practices at the public sales of lands of the United States.”	Feb. 25, 1831
35	Chapter XXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 25, 1831
36	Chapter XXXVI.	An Act to provide for the adjustment of claims of persons entitled to indemnification under the convention between the United States and his majesty the King of Denmark, of the twenty-eighth March, eighteen hundred and thirty, and for the distribution among such claimants of the sums to be paid by the Danish government to that of the United States according to the stipulation of the said convention.	Feb. 25, 1831
37	Chapter XXXVII.	An Act for the punishment of crimes in the District of Columbia.	March 2, 1831
38	Chapter XXXVIII.	An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.	March 2, 1831
39	Chapter XXXIX.	An Act for the relief of certain importers of foreign merchandise.	March 2, 1831
40	Chapter XL.	An Act for the sale of the lands in the state of Illinois reserved for the use of the salt springs on the Vermillion river, in that state.	March 2, 1831
41	Chapter XLI.	An Act for the relief of the citizens of Shawneetown.	March 2, 1831
42	Chapter XLII.	An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to purchase an additional quantity of land for the fortifications at fort Washington, upon the river Potomac.	March 2, 1831
43	Chapter XLIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
44	Chapter XLIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
45	Chapter XLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
46	Chapter XLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
47	Chapter XLVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
48	Chapter XLVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
49	Chapter XLIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
50	Chapter L.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
51	Chapter LI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
52	Chapter LII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
53	Chapter LIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
54	Chapter LIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
55	Chapter LV.	An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.	March 2, 1831
56	Chapter LVI.	An Act making additional appropriations for the improvement of certain harbours, and removing obstructions in the mouths of certain rivers.	March 2, 1831
57	Chapter LVII.	An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.	March 2, 1831
58	Chapter LVIII.	An Act making appropriations for carrying on certain roads and works of internal improvement, and for providing for surveys.	March 2, 1831
59	Chapter LIX.	An Act making appropriation for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.	March 2, 1831
60	Chapter LX.	An Act to carry into effect certain Indian treaties.	March 2, 1831
61	Chapter LXI.	An Act making appropriations for the military service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.	March 2, 1831
62	Chapter LXII.	An Act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States.	March 2, 1831
63	Chapter LXIII.	An Act for the continuation of the Cumberland road in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.	March 2, 1831
64	Chapter LXIV.	An Act making appropriations for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.	March 2, 1831
65	Chapter LXV.	An Act making provision for a subscription to a compilation of Congressional documents.	March 2, 1831
66	Chapter LXVI.	An Act to provide for the punishment of offences committed in cutting, destroying, or removing live oak and other timber or trees reserved for naval purposes.	March 2, 1831
67	Chapter LXVII.	An Act granting a quantity of land to the territory of Arkansas for the erection of a public building at the seat of government of said territory.	March 2, 1831
68	Chapter LXVIII.	An Act confirming the selections heretofore made of lands for the construction of the Michigan road, in the state of Indiana.	March 2, 1831
69	Chapter LXIX.	An Act to extend the act, entitled “An act for the further extending the powers of the judges of the superior court of the territory of Arkansas, under the act of the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and for other purposes.”	March 2, 1831
70	Chapter LXX.	An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and for other purposes.	March 2, 1831
71	Chapter LXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
72	Chapter LXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
73	Chapter LXXIII.	An Act to authorize the territory of Florida to open a canal through the public lands between Chipola river and Saint Andrew’s bay, in West Florida.	March 2, 1831
74	Chapter LXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
75	Chapter LXXV.	An Act to authorize the state of Illinois to surrender a township of land granted to said state for a seminary of learning, and to locate other lands in lieu thereof.	March 2, 1831
76	Chapter LXXVI.	An Act to establish ports of delivery at port Pontchartrain and Delaware city, and for other purposes.	March 2, 1831
77	Chapter LXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
78	Chapter LXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
79	Chapter LXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
80	Chapter LXXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
81	Chapter LXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
82	Chapter LXXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
83	Chapter LXXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
84	Chapter LXXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
85	Chapter LXXXV.	An Act to authorize the extension, construction, and use of a lateral branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, into and within the District of Columbia.	March 2, 1831
86	Chapter LXXXVI.	An Act to ascertain and mark the line between the state of Alabama and the territory of Florida, and the northern boundary of the state of Illinois, and for other purposes.	March 2, 1831
87	Chapter LXXXVII.	An Act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places.	March 2, 1831
88	Chapter LXXXVIII.	An Act to repeal the act to establish the district of Blakely.	March 2, 1831
89	Chapter LXXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
90	Chapter XC.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
91	Chapter XCI.	An Act to provide for the further compensation of the marshal of the district of Rhode Island.	March 2, 1831
92	Chapter XCII.	An Act for the relief of certain holders of certificates issued in lieu of lands injured by earthquakes in Missouri.	March 2, 1831
93	Chapter XCIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
94	Chapter XCIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
95	Chapter XCV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
96	Chapter XCVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
97	Chapter XCVII.	An Act declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the general assembly of the state of Ohio, hereinafter recited.	March 2, 1831
98	Chapter XCVIII.	An Act to regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, north-eastern, and north-western frontiers of the United States, and for other purposes.	March 2, 1831
99	Chapter XCIX.	An Act declaratory of the law concerning contempts of court.	March 2, 1831
100	Chapter C.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1831
101	Chapter CI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
102	Chapter CII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
103	Chapter CIII.	An Act declaratory of the law concerning contempts of court.	March 3, 1831
104	Chapter CIV.	An Act for the benefit of Percis Lovely, and for other purposes.	March 3, 1831
105	Chapter CV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
106	Chapter CVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
107	Chapter CVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
108	Chapter CVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
109	Chapter CIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
110	Chapter CX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
111	Chapter CXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
112	Chapter CXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
113	Chapter CXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
114	Chapter CXIV.	An Act for the relief of John Culbertson, and to provide an interpreter for the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana.	March 3, 1831
115	Chapter CXV.	An Act concerning vessels employed in the whale fishery.	March 3, 1831
116	Chapter CXVI.	An Act to create the office of surveyor of the public lands for the state of Louisiana.	March 3, 1831
117	Chapter CXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
118	Chapter CXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
119	Chapter CXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
120	Chapter CXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
121	Chapter CXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
122	Chapter CXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
123	Chapter CXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
124	Chapter CXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831
125	Chapter CXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-First Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1831

Public Resolutions

Resolution	Date
Resolution I in relation to the transmission of public documents printed by order of either House of Congress.	Jan. 13, 1831
Resolution II directing the Secretary of State to subscribe for seventy copies of Peters’ Condensed Reports of decisions of the Supreme Court.⁠	March 2, 1831