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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.

Vol. 4 contains do. do. from March 3, 1823, to March 3, 1835.

Also Acts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

Proceedings and Charter of Potomac Company relating to
Chesapeake and Ohio canal.

Act of Alabama to incorporate the Cahawba Navigation Com

pany.

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

dian 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. 5. 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 Confederation, 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, 1831.

CLASS No. 13.

ABRIDGMENTS AND DIGESTS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED

STATES.

Sec. 1. DIGEST of all such Acts of Congress as concern the United States at large; all existing Treaties, &c., by William Graydon, in 1813.

Sec. 2. DIGEST of the Laws of the United States, including an abstract of the Judicial Decisions relating to the Constitutional and Statutory Law, with Notes explanatory and historical, by Thomas F. Gordon. Printed in 1827.

Sec. 3. AN ABRIDGMENT of the Acts of Congress now in force, excepting those of a private and local application, with notes of Decisions, giving construction to the same, in the Supreme Court of the United States, by Edward Ingersoll. Printed in 1825.

Sec. 4. DIGEST of the Laws of the United States including the Treaties with Foreign Powers, and an abstract of the Judicial Decisions relating to the Constitutional and Statutory Law. By Thomas F. Gordon, printed in 1844.

CLASS No. 14.

INDEXES PREPARED IN CONFORMITY WITH ORDERS OR RESOLUTIONS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, RESPECTIVELY.

Sec. 1. GENERAL INDEX to the Laws of the United States of America, from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1827, including all Treaties entered into between those periods; in which the principles involved in acts for the relief of individuals, or of a private or local nature, are arranged under general heads, to which such principles appropriately belong: arranged to the edition commenced by Bioren, Duane & Weightman, in 1815, and subsequently continued by Davis & Force, and William A. Davis. [This is the most complete and useful index of the laws, up to March 3, 1827, extant; and it would add to the public convenience if a similar one were made of the laws from that period up to the present time.]

Sec. 2. INDEX to the Executive Communications made to the House of Representatives, from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1817: first, by a reference, in alphabetical order, to the printed and also to the manuscript reports, according to the subject-matter; second, by a reference to the same matter, arranged under the head of the department whence it came. Also, an

Sec. 3. INDEX to all the printed Reports of Committees, alphabetically arranged, from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1817: printed in 1824.

Sec. 4. INDEX to the Executive Communications and Reports of Committees made to the House of Representatives, from December 3, 1817, to March 3, 1823: printed in 1823.

Sec. 5. A DIGESTED INDEX to the Executive Documents (that is, all documents ordered to be printed) and Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives, from March 3, 1823, to March 3, 1831, inclusive: printed in 1832.

Sec. 6. A DIGESTED INDEX to the Executive Documents and Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives, from March 4, 1831, to March 3 1839, inclusive.

Sec. 7. INDEX, or alphabetical list of Private Claims which have been before the SENATE, from December 4, 1815, to March 3, 1849, with the proceedings of the Senate thereon: showing the names of the claimants; the nature or object of each claim; at what session, and in what manner, it was brought before the Senate; to what committee it was referred; the nature of the report, and (where special reports were made) the number of the report, if printed, and, if not, the date of the report; the number of the bill, distinguishing between Senate and House bills; the manner in which the claim was disposed of by the Senate; and, in cases where it passed both Houses, the date of the act of Congress: the whole compiled from the journals of the Senate, and by reference, when necessary, to the journals of the House of Representatives, the reports of committees, the bills of the two Houses, and the laws of the United States. Prepared by orders of the Senate of April 9, 1840, February 27, 1841, and February 8, 1849.

CLASS No. 15.

REPORTS OF THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

1. By ALEXANDER JAMES DALLAS, from February term, 1790, to August term, 1800, inclusive.

2. By WILLIAM CRANCH, from August term, 1801, to February term, 1815, inclusive.

3. By HENRY WHEATON, from February term, 1816, to January term, 1827, inclusive.

4. By RICHARD PETERS, jun., from January term, 1828, to January term, 1842, inclusive.

5. By BENJAMIN C. HOWARD, from January term, 1843, to January term, 1851, inclusive.

6. Condensed Reports of cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, containing the whole series of the decisions of the court from its organization to the commencement of Peters' Reports, at January term, 1827, with copious notes and parallel cases in the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the United States.

CLASS No. 16.

PUBLICATIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE PUBLIC LANDS AND PRI VATE LAND CLAIMS UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES.

1. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, Resolutions of Congress under the Confederation, Treaties, Proclamations, and other documents, having operation and respect to the Public Lands: collected, digested, and arranged, pursuant to the act of Congress, approved April 27, 1810, by Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury: revised, completed, and printed, under the act of January 20, 1817:

This is a valuable treatise and compilation of charters, treaties, grants, cessions, compacts, resolutions, acts relating to the early history, acquisition, regu!ation, and disposition of the public lands, and evidence of the nature and exten. of private land claims.]

2. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, Resolutions of Congress under the Confederation, Treaties, Proclamations, Spanish Regulations, and other documents, respecting the Public Lands: compiled, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of March 1, 1826, by M. St. C. Clarke, and printed by order of the House of Representatives of February 19, 1827: in one volume.

3. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, Treaties, Regulations, and other documents, respecting the Public Lands; with the Opinions of the Courts of the United States in relation thereto, from 1826 to 1833: by M. St. C. Clarke, under a resolution of the House of Representatives of March 1, 1833.

4. DOCUMENTS, LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE, of the Congress of the United States, in relation to the Public Lands, from March 4, 1789, to June 15, 1824, in five volumes: compiled under the resolutions of the Senate of Febru ary 26, 1833, and January 3, 1834. Printed by Duff Green.

5. GENERAL PUBLIC ACTS OF CONGRESS respecting the sale and disposition of the Public Lands; with Instructions issued from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury and Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Official Opinions of the Attorney-General on questions arising under the land laws; in two parts, or volumes:

Part 1 contains the laws from March 4, 1789, to July 9, 1838.

Part 2 contains the instructions and pinions, from March 4, 1789, to August 17, 1838.

Prepared and printed under the resolution of the Senate of February 28, 1837.

CLASS No. 17.

REVENUE LAWS, COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS, DIGESTS OF TARIFF LAWS, &c.

1. A SELECTION OF ALL THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES in force, relative to commercial subjects, with marginal notes and references, classed under separate heads, viz.: Acts for collection of duties on imports and tonnage; Table of tonnage duty and fees of office; Registering, recording, enrolling, and licensing of ships or vessels; Mediterranean passports; Quarantine and health; Remission of fines, penalties, and forfeitures; Fisheries; Naturalization; Restriction of trade with an enemy; Letters of marque and reprisal; Salvage; Slave trade; Consuls and vice-consuls; Seamen in the merchants' service; Sea letters; British licenses; and for regulating foreign coins, &c.: by John Brice: 1814.

2. COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS OF THE FOREIGN COUNTRIES with which the United States have commercial intercourse: collected, digested, and printed, under the direction of the President of the United States, conforma bly to a resolution of the Senate of March 3, 1817.

3. A DIGEST OF THE COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT FOREIGN NATIONS with which the United States have intercourse; in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of January 21, 1823.

4. JONES'S DIGEST: being a particular and detailed account of the duties

performed by the various officers belonging to the custom-house departments of the United States; together with a description of some of the principal books and documents in general use in the several offices of the custom-house, with the usual routine through which merchants and captains must pass on entering vessels and merchandise, &c.: by Andrew A. Jones, in 1835.

5. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE ON THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES WITH FOREIGN NATIONS: comparative tariffs of the United States and other nations; tabular statements of the domestic exports of the United States; duties on importation of the staple or principal productions of the United States into foreign countries; navigation; and British tariff, corn-laws, &c.: prepared in compliance with the resolutions of the House of Representatives of Sept. 3, 1841, and January 31, 1842.

6. TARIFFS, from 1789 to 1833, with the votes in each House of Congress thereon, arranged according to States.

7. A COLLECTION OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES relating to revenue, navigation, and commerce and light-houses, including treaties with foreign powers, up to March 4, 1843: compiled for the Treasury Department of the United States, by Thomas F. Gordon: 1844.

8. A DIGEST of the existing commercial regulations of foreign countries with which the United States have intercourse: prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of March 3, 1831. Printed in 1833, in 3 volumes octavo.

9. A STATISTICAL VIEW OF THE COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES: its connection with agriculture and manufactures; and an account of the public debt, revenues, and expenditures of the United States; with a brief review of the trade, agriculture, and manulactures of the Colonies, previous to their independence; and a table illustrative of the principles and objects of the work: by Timothy Pitkin; 1817.

10. A DICTIONARY, practical, theoretical, and historical, of commerce and commercial navigation; in 2 volumes: by J. R. McCulloch: 1840.

CLASS No. 18.

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS PRINTED OR FURNISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OR PATRONAGE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND NOT NOTICED UNDER PARTICULAR HEADS.

1. THE "BLUE BOOK,” or Biennial Register of all officers and agents, civil, military and naval, in the service of the United States. Compiled by the Secretary of State, as required by the resolution of Congress, approved April 27, 1816. The printers of the Laws, printers to Congress, the allowances to each, allowances to contractors for carrying the mail, were directed to be included in the Biennial Register by the resolution of July 14, 1832.

2. WAIT'S STATE PAPERS and public documents of the United States, from March 4, 1789, to August 1, 1818. [These are believed to have been included in folio State Papers in the series on Foreign Relations.]

3. CONTESTED ELECTIONS in Congress of Senators and Representatives,

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