Judiciary.

District Courts of Tennessee, January 18,
1839,
313
District Courts in Alabama, February 6, 1839,

315
District Court of Mississippi, February 16,
1839,
317
Jurisdiction may be entertained of suits in
which some of the parties may be found in
the State in which the suit shall be brought,
and where other expedients are not found.
Judgment not to prejudice parties not
found, February 28, 1839,
321

An act for altering the time of holding the
District Court of the United States for the
western district of Pennsylvania at Wil-
liamsport, May 8, 1840,
380
District Court of Tennessee, July 4, 1840,
392

Adjournment of the Circuit Courts, July 4,
1840,
392

Special Sessions of the Circuit Courts, 393
Liens of judgments and decrees in the Cir-
cuit and District Courts of the United States,
393
Jurors in the courts of the United States,
July 20, 1840,
394
The District Court of the eastern district of
Pennsylvania, to hold a special session,
470
Commissioners to be appointed to select jurors
for the courts in Pennsylvania, March 19,
1842,
471
Appeals from the District Court of Jackson,
Tennessee, to the Circuit Court, April 14,
1842,
472
Fall terms of the District Court at Jackson
and Knoxville,
472
Circuit and District Courts in East and West
Tennessee, and Ohio,
488
The act of May 19, 1828, chap. 68, relating to
process, made applicable to States since ad-
mitted into the Union, August 1, 1842, 499
Appeals to lie to the Supreme Court from the
District Court of the northern district of
Alabama, at Huntsville, August 4, 1842,
504

Assignment of the Judges in the Territory
of Iowa, to the districts to which the Judges
were assigned by the laws of Iowa, Au-
gust 11, 1842,
505
Appointment of a deputy by the Clerk of the
District Court of the northern district of
New York, August 11, 1842,
506
Establishment of the fourth, fifth, and sixth
circuits, August 16, 1842,
507
The Justices of the Supreme Court to allot
the several districts among the justices of
the court,

507

Commissioners to be appointed by the Circuit
Courts to take bail and to exercise the
powers of justices of the peace in certain
cases, August 23, 1842,
516

District Courts to have concurrent jurisdic-
tion with the Circuit Courts in all offences
not capital,
517
Punishment prescribed by the 16th section of
the act of April 30, 1790, chap. 9, changed,

517

The District Court of Western Virginia to
hold an annual term at Wheeling, August
26, 1842,
534
An act to provide further remedial justice in
the courts of the United States, August 29,
1842,

539
The Justices of the Supreme Court empower-
ed to grant writs of habeas corpus when
subjects of foreign states are in custody
under process of the courts of the United
States, or of any of the courts of the State,
August 29, 1842,
539
If the prisoner shall be entitled to be dis
charged, he shall be discharged forthwith,
539
Until final judgment, and after discharge, pro-
ceedings against him in the State Courts to
be null and void,
- - 540
The District Court of Western Virginia shall
hold a term at Charleston, in Kenawha, in-
stead of Lewisburg, in Greenbriar county,
547

Additional appropriations for the expenses of
the judiciary, August 31, 1842, - 576
An act establishing a District Court at Wheel-
ing, January 20, 1843,
597
Change of the place of holding the Circuit
and District Courts of the district of Maine,
600
The time of holding the Circuit Court in the
district of Connecticut altered, February
24, 1843,
601
The time of holding the Circuit and District
Courts in East Tennessee changed, March
3, 1843,
610
Establishment of a Circuit Court at Williams-
port, in the western district of Pennsylva-
nia, March 3, 1843,
628
The time of holding the District Courts at
Clarksburg and Wheeling, in Western Vir-
ginia, changed,
- 652
The Circuit Court of Arkansas to sit on the
second Monday in April in each year, 652
A Circuit and District Court in Ohio, 652
District Courts of Eastern Virginia,
Circuit Courts of Alabama,

655
655

658

Appeals to lic to the Supreme Court from the
Circuit Court in any case arising under the
revenue laws, May 31, 1844,
Alteration of the time of holding the District
Court in the district of New Jersey, 660
The Courts of Arkansas to have jurisdiction
over certain Indian country, June, 17, 1844,
680
The business of the District Court for the
western district of Louisiana, transferred
to the District Court for the eastern district,
and to be there disposed of, and one term
of the Court to be held annually for the
business of the western district, February
13, 1845,
722

Judiciary.

Admiralty jurisdiction given to the District
Courts of the United States upon the lakes,
February 26, 1845,

726
The Circuit Court of the eastern district of
Louisiana, to transact the business of the
Circuit Court for the western district, Feb-
ruary 26, 1845,
726
The times of holding the Circuit Courts in
Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, and the southern district of Ala.
bama and Louisiana, March 1, 1845,
730
District Judges of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
and Missouri. Their salaries to be fifteen
hundred dollars per annum,
789
Application of the laws of the United States
to Florida, March 3, 1845,
788
Florida to compose one district, and one dis-
trict judge to be appointed,
788
Jurisdiction the same as given to the District
Judge of Kentucky by the act of Septem-
ber 24, 1789, ch. 20,
788
District Attorney, Clerk and Marshal to be
appointed,

788

Annual and extra sessions of the District
Court,

788

Compensation of the Judge,

District Court in Iowa, March 3, 1845, 789
Laws of the U. States applicable to Iowa, 789
Jurisdiction of the District Court,

Compensation of the Judge,
Marshal and District Attorney,

Jurors.

789

789

789

435

Division of Green Bay land district in Mi-
chigan, June 15, 1836,
48
Register and Receiver to be appointed, 48
Certain lands ceded by the Fox and Sac In-
dians attached to the Wisconsin land dis-
trict,
49
An act to annex a certain tract of land to the
Coosa land district, and for other purposes,
397
July 20, 1840,
Land acquired from the Cherokee Indians by
treaty of 1835, added to the land districts
of Huntsville and Coosa, March 4, 1842,
470
Land Office for the Coosa district to be re-
moved to Lebanon in the county of De
Kalb, March 4, 1842,

470

A resolution to authorize the Attorney-Gene-
ral to contract for copies of a proposed edi
tion of the laws of the United States, March
3, 1845, -
798
Library of Congress.

Appropriation for printing the catalogue of
the library,
462

Copies of the catalogue of the library of Con-
gress to be distributed to the colleges and
universities in the United States that have
not already received them, January 20,
1843,
648
Light-Houses, &c.

An act making appropriations for building
light-houses, light-boats, beacon-lights,
buoys and dolphins, for the year 1837,
March 3, 1837,
181
Appropriations for building light-houses,
light-boats, beacon-lights, buoys, and mak-
ing surveys, for the year 1838, July 7, 1838,

289

Lottery Tickets in the District of Columbia.
An act to suppress the vending of lottery
tickets in the district of Columbia, August
31, 1842,
578
Louisiana.

Circuit Court of Louisiana, March 3, 1839,
337

Representatives in Congress according to the
491
sixth census,
Certain papers relating to titles to lands in
Louisiana to be returned to the General
649
Land Office,
Time of holding the Circuit Court in Louisi-
722

ana,

An act to repeal an act for the better organi-
zation of the District Court of the United
States within the State of Louisiana, Feb-
ruary 13, 1845,
Actions pending in the District Court of the

722

Massachusetts.

Representatives in Congress according to the
sixth census,

Memphis.

491

A navy yard established at Memphis in the
State of Tennessee, June 15, 1844, - 665
The third section of the joint resolution re-
lating to the examination by the Attorney-
General of sites for fortifications and im-
provements by the United States, suspended
in the case of the national depôt at Mem-
phis, February 13, 1845,
- 796
Merchandise recovered from Shipwreck.

Merchandise recovered from shipwreck which
has been sunk in any of the harbors of the
United States, may be entered free of duty,
March 3, 1843,
- 609

Michigan Land Claims.

The Mayor of Detroit authorized to adjust
541
claims, August 29, 1842,

Military Academy.

600

546

Appropriations for certain sites for marine
hospitals, August 29, 1842,
Appropriation for a marine hospital at Key
West, to be expended under the direction
of the Secretary of the Treasury, June 15,
1844,
670

72

151

264

397

Appropriations for the Military Academy for
the year 1836, July 3, 1836,
Appropriations for the Military Academy for
the year 1837, March 2, 1837,
Appropriations for the Military Academy for
the year 1838, July 7, 1838,
An act to provide for the Military Academy
for the year 1840, July 20, 1840,
Appropriations for the Military Academy for
the year 1841, March 3, 1841,
Appropriations for the Military Academy, 508
Appropriations for the Military Academy for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1845, April
12, 1844,
655

Militia.

415

The State of Maine to be paid for the militia
in the service of the State, June 13, 1842,
490

Appropriation to pay the State of Louisiana

Militia.

for the expenses incurred in raising a regi
ment of volunteer militia, August 29, 1842,
542
Payment of the militia of Florida called into
service in 1839 and 1840, August 23, 1842,
522

Payment of the Florida militia, August 31,
1842,
578
The claims for supplies to the Florida militia
to be settled on principles of equity and
justice, March 3, 1843,
628
Resolution relative to settlements for supplies
furnished to the militia of the United States
under act of 1842, chap. 192, April 30,
1844,

See Volunteers and Militia.

Mint of the United States.

716

An act supplementary to an act entitled "An
act establishing a mint and regulating the
coins of the United States, January 18,
1837,

Organization of the mint,

136

136

137

Regulations of the standard and weight of
coins,
Deposites and assay of bullion and coinage,

Annual trial of coins,

Losses in coinage,

138
141

141

147

Officers of the branch mint at New Orleans,
Charlotte and Dahlonega, and their sala-
ries, February 13, 1837,
The duties of melter and refiner transferred
from the assayer to the coiner in the branch
mints at Dahlonega, in Georgia, and Char-
lotte, in North Carolina, Feb. 27, 1843, 602
The oath required by the third section of the
act of March 3, 1835, chap. 37, may be
taken before any Judge of the Supreme
Court, or of any court of record, in the State
where the officer taking the same is situ-
ated, April 2, 1844, -

Mississippi.

652

Mississippi divided into two districts, June
18, 1838,
247

Northern and southern districts-sessions of
the courts,
247

District Courts of the United States in the
State of Mississippi,
247
District Court of Mississippi, February 16,
1839,
317
Representatives in Congress according to the
sixth census,

491
An act in relation to the two per cent. fund
in the State of Mississippi, March 1, 1843,
603

153

153

-

navy,
Re-enlistment,
Appropriations for the naval service of the
United States for the year 1837, March 3,
1837,
155
The titles of "Masters Commandant" changed
to "Commanders," and "Sailing-Masters"
to "Masters" in the navy, March 3, 1837,
163
The President authorized to cause the public
armed vessels to cruise on the coast for the
relief of distressed navigators, December
22, 1837,
208

3T2

The Secretary of the Navy authorized to pur-
chase certain lands for the navy yard at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, March 3,
1839,

359

329
Note of the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States in the case of Harris v.
329
Elliott, (10 Peters, 25,)
Appropriations for the naval service for the
year 1839, March 3, 1839,
Appropriations for the purchase of naval ord-
nance and ordnance stores, September 11,
1841,
461
The Secretary of the navy authorized to con-
tract with R. L. Stevens for a war steamer,
472
April 14, 1842,
Appropriations for the navy for the year 1842,
August 4, 1842,

.

500

An act to regulate the pay of pursers and
other officers in the navy, August 26, 1842,

535
535

Regulations for the purchase of stores,
Advance of money, or any commodity to
officers, unlawful,

536

536

536

Pay of boatswains and gunners,
Officers performing duty of a higher grade
by order of the Secretary of the Navy or
the commander of a fleet, squadron or ship,
to receive the pay of such grade, of which
he performs the duty,
Appropriation for building a depôt of charts
and instruments of the navy, August 31,
1842,
576
Professors of mathematics in the navy entitled
to mess with the lieutenants, and to receive
rations as received by lieutenants of the
ship, August 31, 1842,
An act to regulate the pay of engineers in
the navy, August 31, 1842,

576

577

579

580

611

An act to reorganize the navy department of
the United States, August 31, 1842, 579
Chiefs of bureaus to be appointed,
Duties of chiefs of bureaus,
Papers of the navy commissioners to be dis-
tributed among the chiefs of bureaus, 580
Certain reservations to be made of lands in
the south-eastern district of Louisiana of
live oak timber for the navy, March 3,
611
1843,
Right of pre-emption to said lands to be ad-
mitted,
Appropriations for the navy from January 1,
1843, to June 30, 1843, and for the fiscal
year from July 1, 1843, to July 1, 1844,
March 3, 1843,
615
The President of the United States authorized
to direct the transfer of certain appropria-
tions in the naval service under certain
circumstances,
651
Appropriation for the increase of the navy,
656
April 22, 1844,
Appropriations for arrearages and expenses
beyond former appropriations, June 15,
1844,

Appropriations for the navy for the fiscal year,
ending June 30, 1845, June 17, 1844, 699
Seamen in the service of the United States to
be detained after the period of their enlist-
ment until the arrival of the vessel in which
they shall be so detained, and until dis-
charged by the Secretary of the Navy; the
detention not to exceed thirty days after
the arrival of the vessel in a port of the
725
United States, February 20, 1845,
The provisions of the act of 1844, chap. 107,
as to the pay of officers performing the
duties of higher grades, not to apply to
officers on foreign stations until after re-
ceipt of information of the passage of the
729
act, February 26, 1845,
The commanding officer of any vessel, squad-
ron or fleet of the navy, when on the high
seas, or in a port where there is no resi-
dent consul of the United States, authorized
to exercise all the powers of consul in re-
lation to mariners of the United States, 725
Appropriations for the naval service for the
year ending June 30, 1846, March 3, 1845,
790
Pension Fund.

Half pay allowed to widows and children of
officers, seamen and marines, March 3,
180
1837,
Pensions to commence from the time of the
180
officer, &c., being disabled,
Appropriations for navy pensions for the fiscal
667
year, ending June 30, 1845,
Appropriations for the payment of navy pen-
sions for the year ending June 30, 1846,
March 1, 1845,
- 730
The pensions heretofore granted to widows
continued for five years, March 3, 1845,
731

Representatives in Congress according to the
- 491
sixth census,
New Jersey.

Representatives in Congress according to the
491
sixth census,
The places of holding the District Court of
New Jersey altered, June 4, 1834, - 660
New Madrid Locations of Lands.

The titles to be perfected to lands south of the
Arkansas river, held under New Madrid
locations, and pre-emption rights under the
act of February 17, 1815, chap. 45, March
603
1, 1843, -
Owners of warrants on the lands in which
the locations have been made and sold, may
603
enter other lands,
Settlers south of the Arkansas entitled to the
benefits of the act of February 17, 1815,
603
chap. 45,