United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/26th Congress

by United States Congress

1st Session

Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH 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 2d day of December, 1839, and ended the 21st day of July, 1840.

Martin Van Buren, President; Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Robert M. T. Hunter, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

	Chapter	Title	Date
1	Chapter I.	An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty.	Jan. 8, 1840
2	Chapter II.	An Act making appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary and the other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty.	Feb. 22, 1840
3	Chapter III.	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
4	Chapter IV.	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
5	Chapter V.	An Act additional to the act on the subject of Treasury Notes.	March 31, 1840
6	Chapter VI.	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
7	Chapter VII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	April 10, 1840
8	Chapter VIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	April 10, 1840
9	Chapter IX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	April 27, 1840
10	Chapter X.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
11	Chapter XI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
12	Chapter XII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
13	Chapter XIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
14	Chapter XIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
15	Chapter XV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
16	Chapter XVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
17	Chapter XVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
18	Chapter XVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
19	Chapter XIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 2, 1840
20	Chapter XX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 8, 1840
21	Chapter XXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 8, 1840
22	Chapter XXII.	An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty.	May 8, 1840
23	Chapter XXIII.	An Act for altering the time of holding the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, at Williamsport.	May 8, 1840
24	Chapter XXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 8, 1840
25	Chapter XXV.	An Act to revive 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.	May 27, 1840
26	Chapter XXVI.	An Act to extend for a longer period the several acts now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States.	May 27, 1840
27	Chapter XXVII.	An Act authorizing Sippican and Mattapoisett, within the township of Rochester, in the State of Massachusetts, to be known hereafter as ports under those names.	May 27, 1840
28	Chapter XXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 27, 1840
29	Chapter XXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 27, 1840
30	Chapter XXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 27, 1840
31	Chapter XXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 27, 1840
32	Chapter XXXII.	An Act supplemental to the act entitled “An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,” approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.	June 1, 1840
33	Chapter XXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	June 1, 1840
34	Chapter XXXIV.	An Act to carry into effect a convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic.	June 12, 1840
35	Chapter XXXV.	An Act to authorize registers and receivers to administer oaths required to be taken by purchasers of public land.	June 12, 1840
36	Chapter XXXVI.	An Act for the discontinuance of the office of Surveyor General in the several districts, so soon as the surveys therein can be completed, for abolishing land offices under certain circumstances and for other purposes.	June 12, 1840
37	Chapter XXXVII.	An Act concerning prisoners of the United States committed to the gaol in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island.	June 12, 1840
38	Chapter XXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	June 19, 1840
39	Chapter XXXIX.	An Act making provision for the payment of pensions to the executors or administrators of deceased pensioners in certain cases.	June 19, 1840
40	Chapter XL.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	June 19, 1840
41	Chapter XLI.	An Act to provide for the collection, safe keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue.	July 4, 1840
42	Chapter XLII.	An Act to amend an act approved the eighteenth of January eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to require the judge of the district of East and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson in said State,’ approved June the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight,” and for other purposes.	July 4, 1840
43	Chapter XLIII.	An Act in addition to the acts respecting the judicial system of the United States.	July 4, 1840
44	Chapter XLIV.	An Act to remove the land office from Chocchuma to Grenada, in the State of Mississippi.	July 4, 1840
45	Chapter XLV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 4, 1840
46	Chapter XLVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 4, 1840
47	Chapter XLVII.	An Act to amend the act, approved May thirteenth, eighteen hundred, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.’”	July 20, 1840
48	Chapter XLVIII.	An Act in addition to the several acts regulating the shipment and discharge of seamen, and the duties of consuls.	July 20, 1840
49	Chapter XLIX.	An Act to annex a certain tract of land to the Coosa land district, and for other purposes.	July 20, 1840
50	Chapter L.	An Act to provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year eighteen hundred and forty.	July 20, 1840
51	Chapter LI.	An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty.	July 20, 1840
52	Chapter LII.	An Act to provide for the expenses of making an exploration and survey of that part of the Northeastern boundary line of the United States which separates the States of Maine and New Hampshire from the British Provinces.	July 20, 1840
53	Chapter LIII.	An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty.	July 20, 1840
54	Chapter LIV.	An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty.	July 20, 1840
55	Chapter LV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
56	Chapter LVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
57	Chapter LVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
58	Chapter LVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
59	Chapter LIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
60	Chapter LX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
61	Chapter LXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
62	Chapter LXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
63	Chapter LXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
64	Chapter LXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
65	Chapter LXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
66	Chapter LXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
67	Chapter LXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
68	Chapter LXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
69	Chapter LXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
70	Chapter LXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
71	Chapter LXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
72	Chapter LXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
73	Chapter LXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
74	Chapter LXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
75	Chapter LXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
76	Chapter LXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
77	Chapter LXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
78	Chapter LXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
79	Chapter LXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
80	Chapter LXXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
81	Chapter LXXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
82	Chapter LXXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
83	Chapter LXXXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
84	Chapter LXXXIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
85	Chapter LXXXV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
86	Chapter LXXXVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
87	Chapter LXXXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
88	Chapter LXXXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
89	Chapter LXXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
90	Chapter XC.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
91	Chapter XCI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
92	Chapter XCII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
93	Chapter XCIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
94	Chapter XCIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
95	Chapter XCV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
96	Chapter XCVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
97	Chapter XCVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840
98	Chapter XCVIII.	An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty.	July 21, 1840
99	Chapter XCIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 21, 1840
100	Chapter C.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 21, 1840

Public Resolutions

Resolution	Date
No. 1. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to continue certain clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.	May 2, 1840
No. 2. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	May 16, 1840
No. 3. A Resolution concerning the statue of Washington, by Greenough.	May 27, 1840
No. 4. A Resolution to authorize the President to dispose of certain presents from the Imaum of Muscat and the Emperor of Morocco.	May 27, 1840
No. 5. Joint Resolution for the exchange of books and public documents for foreign publications.	July 20, 1840
No. 6. See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	July 20, 1840

2nd Session

Public Laws

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH 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 7th day of December, 1840, and ended the 3d day of March, 1841.

Martin Van Buren, President; Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Robert M. T. Hunter, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

	Chapter	Title	Date
1	Chapter I.	An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.	Dec. 18, 1840
2	Chapter II.	An Act supplementary to an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases.	Jan. 14, 1841
3	Chapter III.	An Act further to amend the act entitled “An 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.	Jan. 14, 1841
4	Chapter IV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 2, 1841
5	Chapter V.	An Act to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes.	Feb. 15, 1841
6	Chapter VI.	An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for other purposes.	Feb. 15, 1841
7	Chapter VII.	An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same,” passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six.	Feb. 18, 1841
8	Chapter VIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 18, 1841
9	Chapter IX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 18, 1841
10	Chapter X.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	Feb. 27, 1841
11	Chapter XI.	An Act to make further provision for the expenses of an exploration and survey of that part of the northeastern boundary line of the United States which separates the States of Maine and New Hampshire from the British provinces.	Feb. 27, 1841
12	Chapter XII.	An Act to confirm to the State of Indiana the land selected by her for that portion of the Wabash and Erie canal which lies between the mouth of the Tippecanoe river and Terre Haute, and for other purposes.	Feb. 27, 1841
13	Chapter XIII.	An Act further to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States.	Feb. 27, 1841
14	Chapter XIV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1841
15	Chapter XV.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1841
16	Chapter XVI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1841
17	Chapter XVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1841
18	Chapter XVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1841
19	Chapter XIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1841
20	Chapter XX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1841
21	Chapter XXI.	An Act making an appropriation to defray the expense of a delegation of the Seminole Indians west of the Mississippi to Florida, and for other purposes.	March 2, 1841
22	Chapter XXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1841
23	Chapter XXIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 2, 1841
24	Chapter XXIV.	An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.	March 3, 1841
25	Chapter XXV.	An Act to provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.	March 3, 1841
26	Chapter XXVI.	An Act to confirm land patents.	March 3, 1841
27	Chapter XXVII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1841
28	Chapter XXVIII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1841
29	Chapter XXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1841
30	Chapter XXX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1841
31	Chapter XXXI.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1841
32	Chapter XXXII.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1841
33	Chapter XXXIII.	An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.	March 3, 1841
34	Chapter XXXIV.	An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.	March 3, 1841
35	Chapter XXXV.	An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one.	March 3, 1841
36	Chapter XXXVI.	An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.	March 3, 1841
37	Chapter XXXVII.	An Act making an appropriation for the temporary support of certain destitute Kickapoo Indians, and to defray the expense of removing and subsisting the Swan Creek and Black River Indians of Michigan.	March 3, 1841
38	Chapter XXXVIII.	An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to amend the act approved May thirteenth eighteen hundred, entitled ‘An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.’”	March 3, 1841
39	Chapter XXXIX.	See Private Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Volume 6.	March 3, 1841
40	Chapter XL.	An Act to abolish the port of delivery and the office of Surveyor of the Customs at Currituck Inlet in North Carolina.	March 3, 1841

Public Resolutions

Resolution	Date
Joint Resolution to present incorporated universities, colleges, &c., with copies of the catalogue of the Library of Congress.	Jan. 14, 1841