Sec. 6. Debates in the House of Representatives of the United States on the Sminole war, in January and February, 1819. (State Department.) Sec. 7. Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser, from 1791 to 1793. (Congress brary.) (Cong. Lib.) (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 8. Dunlap & Claypole's Advertiser, from 1794 to 1795. (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 20. Virginia Argus, from 1797 to 1803. (Cong. Lib.) (Cong.Lib.) (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 21. Virginia Argus and Enquirer, (bound together,) from 1804 to 1808 (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 22. Richmond Enquirer, from 1809 to 1814. (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 23. Washington City Gazette, from 1815 to 1826. (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 24. National Journal, from 1826 to 1831. (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 25. United States Telegraph, from 1828 to 1837. (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 26. Globe, from 1832 to 1845. (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 27. Madisonian, from 1837 to 1838. (Cong. Lib.) Sec. 28. Register of Debates in Congress, comprising the leading debates and incidents of each session, with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and the laws of a public nature enacted during each session, with an index to the subject of debate and to the names of the speakers in each House of Congress for each session, viz.: 2d Session, 18th Congress, 1824-5, in 1st volume. Sec. 29. The Congressional Globe and Appendix, containing sketches of the proceedings and incidental debates, and also the debates at large in the two Houses of Congress, with an index of the subject of debate, and names of the speakers in each House for each session, viz: THIS CLASS WILL EMBRACE THE SEVERAL EDITIONS OR SERIES OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND INDEXES TO THE LAWS. Sec. 1. The series containing in separate volumes the laws usually published in pamphlet form at the termination of each session of Congress. In this series the laws are published in extenso, none being omitted. The first of this series was published in 1797, in 3 volumes, by Richard Folwell, embracing the laws, resolutions, and treaties, from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1797. These were continued by Matthew Carey, to include the 4th volume, to March 3, 1799; by William Duane to include the 5th and 6th volumes, to March 3, 1803; by Roger C. Weightman, to include the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th volumes, to March 3, 1811; and were continued by various individuals, "By authority," in pamphlet form at the termination of every session of Congress, down to March 3, 1851. Sec. 2. An edition of the laws was published in 1815 by Bioren & Duane and R. C. Weightman. This edition was compiled by J. B. Colvin, upon the basis of a plan prepared by Richard Rush, then Attorney-General of the United States, and adopted by James Monroe, Secretary of State, in conformity with the act of Congress of the 18th April, 1814. It consists of five volumes, and embraces the laws of the United States from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1815, with the exception of "the local judiciary acts, and all acts confiding power to corporate bodies in the District of Columbia, or which have been otherwise passed by Congress in their character of Legislature for the District," which were excluded. Vol. 1 contains-The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation. The Constitution, and proceedings which led to its adoption. Treaties with foreign nations and Indian tribes, from 1778 to 1814. Grants, treaties, and cessions, by which lands have been acquired by the United States, from 1783 to 1814. Old proclamations and grants of lands, and treaties between foreign governments relating to titles to lands, and boundaries of territories now included within the United States. Grant to the Hudson's Bay Company. Cessions of land by several States to the United States. Title of the United States to Louisiana.-Grant to Crozat. Evidence respecting Yazoo and other land claims. Treaty of Paris, of 10th February, 1763, between Great Britain, France, and Spain. Titles to, and boundaries of the Floridas. Explanatory notes of the acquisition, surveys, sales, donations, and other disposition of, and regulations concerning, the public lands in the early periods of the Government. Important claims to land, either rejected or requiring a critical examination. Ordinance for the government of the territory north-west of the river Ohio. Ohio company's claims to land. Illinois company's claims to land. Wabash company's claims to land. Wilkins' grant and Governor St. Clair's confirmation. Spanish regulations for the allotment of lands. Grand Maison's claim on Washita. Houma's claim on New Orleans Island. Bastrop's, St. Vrain, now John Smith, T. Renaut's, Dubuque's, and Chouteau's claims to lands and lead mines. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. Boundary lines between Virginia and Kentucky ascertained. Location of Virginia military bounty land. Powers of the board of Treasury to contract for the sale of western territory. Relinquishment of a tract of land to Pennsylvania. Bounties to foreign deserters. Provision for refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia. Resolutions of old Congress relative to military bounty land. Donation to Arnold Henry Dohrman. Donation to the Society of the United Brethren. Claims and donations in territories of Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. ORIGIN, &C., OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. Commencement and progress of Indian affairs. ORIGIN, &C., OF THE NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT of the United States. ORIGIN, &C., OF THE MINT of the United States. ORIGIN, &C., OF THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE of the United States. An ordinance for settling the accounts between the United States and the indi vidual States. Light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and cessions of land for same from the States to the United States. Military establishment of the United States in 1787, and lands held for military purposes. Concerning the seat of the general Government.-FLAG of the United States.Device for a GREAT SEAL.-Device for copper coinage. Half pay.-Commutation.-Invalids.-Pensions.-Acts of limitation. Vol. 2 contains the Laws of the United States, from March 4, 1789 to March 3, 1797. Vol. 3 contains do. from March 3, 1797, to March 3, 1805. Vol. 4 contains do. from March 3, 1805, to March 3, 1815. Vol. 5 contains, 1. A list of all acts and resolutions from 1789 to 1815. 2. A General Index to private acts from 1789 to 1815. 3. Statement of Receipts and Expenditures from 1759 to 1815. 4. A General Index Laws United States from 1789 to 1815. The series of Laws contained in the preceding volumes of the edition of Bioren and Duane, have been continued to March 3, 1845, by a 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th volumes: Vol. 6, Printed by Davis & Force in 1822, contains Laws of the United States including Treaties, from March 3, 1815, to March 3, 1821, with an Index thereto. Vol. 7. Printed by P. Force in 1827. Ditto March 3, 1821, to March 3, 1827, do. With this volume there was printed a general index of all the Acts, Resolutions, Treaties, and other matter contained in the seven preceding volumes. It was prepared by Samuel Burch, under a resolution of the House of Representatives, and is one of the best, most full and systematic Indexes of the Laws of the United States extant, for the time it embraces, viz., March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1827. It has been separately bound. Vol. 8. Printed by W. A. Davis in 1835, and contains the Acts, Resolutions and Treaties from March 3, 1827, to March 3, 1833. Vol. 9. Printed by order of Congress in 1839, and contains the Acts, Resolutions and Treaties from March 3, 1833, to March 3, 1839. Vol. 10. Printed by J. and G. S. Gideon in 1845, and contains the Acts, Resolu tions and Treaties, from March 3, 1839, to March 3, 1845. From March 3, 1845, to March 3, 1851, the Laws and Treaties will be found in pamphlet form. Sec. 3. The Public and General Statutes of the United States, from 1789 to 1827 inclusive, whether expired, repealed, or in force: arranged in chronological order, with marginal references, and a copious index: to which is added the Constitution and an Appendix: published under the inspection of Judge Story. Boston, 1827. Sec. 4. An edition of the Statutes at large was edited by Richard Peters, and published by Little & Brown, in 1845.* *This edition of the Statutes has been continued in pamphlet form for each Bession of Congress. Vol. 1 contains, 1. The Declaration of Independence. 2. The Articles of Confederation. 3. The Constitution of the United States. 4. The Public acts of Congress from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1799. Vol. 2 contains the Public Acts of Congress from March 3, 1799, to March 3, 1813. Vol. 3 contains do. do. from March 3, 1813, to March 3, 1823. Also Acts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Proceedings and Charter of Potomac Company relating to Act of Alabama to incorporate the Cahawba Navigation Com. Proclamations by the President of the United States on Com mercial Affairs with Foreign Nations. Vol. 5 contains the Public Acts of Congress from March 3, 1835, to March 3, 1845. Also a Proclamation of the President on extinguishment of In Idian title to land in Missouri. An act of Virginia relating to Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com. pany, February 27, 1829. Vol. 6 contains Private Statutes at large, from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1845. Vol. 7 contains Treaties with Indian tribes, from September 17, 1778, to March 3, 1845. Vol. 8 contains the Treaties with Foreign Nations, from February 6, 1778, to March 3, 1845. Each of the preceding volumes contains an index to the matter therein; this 8th volume also contains: 1. Table showing relative chapters of this and other editions of the Laws. 2. Tables of Acts of Congress, from 1789, to 1845 inclusive, relating to the Judiciary. 3. Table of Acts of do. relating to Imports and Tonnage., 4. Table of Acts of do. relating to Public Lands. 5. Table of Acts of do. relating to the Post-Office. 3. Index to the five volumes of Public Statutes. 7. A General Index to the matter contained in the 8 volumes above mentioned. Sec. 4. The Acts of Congress in relation to the District of Columbia from July 16, 1790, to March 4, 1831 inclusive, and of the Legislatures of Virginia and Maryland, passed especially in regard to that District, or to persons or property within the same, with preliminary notes of the proceedings of the Congress, under the Cor.federation, as well as under the present Constitution, in regard to the permanent seat of the Government of the United States. Printed by William A. Davis, 183.. |