An act supplementary to the act relative
to the election of the President and
Vice-President of the United States,
and declaring the officer who shall act
as President in case of vacancies in
the offices both of President and Vice-
President,
. II. 295
An act to provide for the accommodation
of the President of the United States, II. 346
The President may call out the land and
naval forces of the United States to
suppress insurrections,

-

II. 443
An act providing for the further accom-
modation of the President of the Uni-
ted States,
II. 533
An act vesting in the President of the
United States the power of retaliation,
II. 829
Appropriations for furniture for the Pre-
sident's house,
II. 55; III. 48
An act to provide for the accommodation
of the household of the President, III. 48
The President authorized to employ the
land or naval force for co-operating
with the officers of the customs in cer-
tain cases,
The President may employ the army and
navy or the militia to compel the de-
parture of a vessel which ought not to
remain in the United States by the
laws of nations or the treaties of the
United States, -

III. 200

III. 449

The President authorized to regulate and
increase from time to time the sums
in bonds required from officers of the
United States,

III. 582

III. 683

The President authorized to require ad-
ditional security and in larger amounts
from persons charged with the dis-
bursement of public money,
Resolution directing an inventory of the
furniture in the President's house to
be taken, -

IV. 136

A uniform time for holding elections of
electors of the President and Vice-Pre-
sident of the United States,
See Appropriations- Government of the
United States.

Printing for Congress.

V. 721

Proposals for printing for Congress to be
invited by publications in newspapers,
III. 249

Surety paying a bond to the United
States to have the priority of the Uni-
ted States,
Prisoners.

I. 263, 646

An act for the relief of persons impri-
soned for debt,
II.
Prisoners for debt on process issued out
of the courts of the United States to
have the privilege of jail-yards, II.
Discharge in case of insolvency of per-
sons imprisoned for debt, . II.
Any person imprisoned on execution for
debt to the United States and unable
to pay the same, may apply to the Pre-
sident of the United States, who may
discharge him from imprisonment.
The judgment to remain good and
sufficient in law,

4

4

5

III. 399

Prisoners of the United States in Rhode
Island.

The prisoners of the United States to be
kept under the like restrictions and
penalties as prisoners committed un-
der the authority of Rhode Island, V. 385
Prisoners of War.

The President may exchange or send
away French citizens captured under
the act of June 28, 1798, Vol. I., 574,
to protect the commerce, &c., of the
United States, (obsolete,)
I. 624
An act providing for the safe-keeping of
prisoners of war. (Repealed,) II. 777
Repeal of the above act,
III. 358
Private Armed Vessels of the United States.
An act allowing a bounty to the owners,
officers, and crews of the private arm-
ed vessels of the United States, (obso-
lete,)
III. 81
Privateering.

Commissions to issue to private armed
vessels to capture French vessels, I. 579
Commissions against Tripoli to be issued
to private armed vessels,

Capture of British vessels by privateers

&c., captured by private armed vessels,
relinquished,

III. 4

Resolution directing the manner in which
the printing of Congress shall be exe-
cuted, fixing the prices thereof, and
providing for the appointment of a
printer or printers thereof,
III. 538
Resolution in relation to the manner of
executing the printing ordered by
either house of Congress,
Election of printer to each house of Con-
gress to commence within thirty days
before the adjournment of Congress,

Notes of the decisions of the courts of the
United States on prizes and the prize
acts,

Act of May 8, 1792,

I. 275

In places ceded to the United States,

II. 760

An act in addition to the act concerning
letters of marque, prizes, and prize
goods,

II. 792

I. 426

process issued from the courts of a
state shall not be executed,
I. 426
All process, civil and criminal, may be
served and executed within places the
jurisdiction of which has been ceded
to the United States,
Writs of execution upon any judgment
obtained for the use of the United
States in one state may run and be
executed in any other state,
I. 515
Act of March 13, 1797, sect. 3, - I. 517
Where suits are commenced for the re-
covery of duties or penalties by the
United States, persons against whom
process may be issued may be held to
special bail, &c.,
I. 676
Notes of the decisions of the courts of the
United States on the subjects of pro-
cess and proceeding, I. 93; II. 278
An act to extend the power of granting
injunctions to the District Courts of
the United States,

II. 418

An act to amend the laws now in force
as to the issuing of original writs and
final process in the Circuit Courts
within the state of Tennessee, III. 661
An act to regulate the mode of practice
in the courts of the United States for
the district of Louisiana, -
IV. 62
Notes of the decisions of the Supreme
Court as to the practice and principles
regulating the proceedings of the courts
of law which prevail in the federal
courts of Louisiana,
IV. 62
An act further to regulate processes in
the courts of the United States, IV. 278
See Courts Judiciary.

Prohibition.

The Supreme Court shall have power to
issue writs of prohibition to the Dis-
trict Courts when proceeding in cases
of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,

I. 91

The act providing for the payment for
horses and other property lost in the
revolutionary service of the United
States, passed January 18, 1837, chap.
5, continued in force for two years,
V. 648
Appropriation for the payment for horses
lost by the Missouri volunteers in the
Florida war,
- V. 673
Property seized by the United States.
The judge of any court of the United
States may, in vacation, deliver ves-
sels, &c., seized by the United States,
on bond or security, -

IV. 503

Property seized by the United States.

Provisions for the execution of the bond
given as security,
IV. 503

See Index to the Private Laws.
Property of the United States.

Resolution respecting the property of the
United States in possession of Thomas
Claxton and others, doorkeepers to
Congress,
II. 127
The banking-house of the Bank of
Michigan, which has been purchased
by the United States, to be set apart
for the courts of the United States and
the post-office at Detroit,
V. 649
The property of the Bath Bank, in the
state of Maine, purchased by the
United States, to be in the charge of
the Secretary of the Treasury, V. 717
The use of the building of the United
States at Lazaretto Point given to the
Corporation of Baltimore,

Protection

. V. 717

A Treaty of Amity and Commerce be-
tween his Majesty the King of Prus-
sia and the United States of America.
July, Aug., and Sept., 1783, - VIII. 84
Treaty of Amity and Commerce with
the King of Prussia. July 11, 1799,

VIII. 162
Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
between the United States of America
and his Majesty the King of Prussia.
May 1, 1828,

Sce Discriminating Duties.

Public Accounts.

VIII. 378

Limitation of claims of officers and sol-
diers by resolutions of November 2,
1785, and June 1787, suspended, I. 245

I. 512

Furniture of the President's house to be
of American manufacture,

IV. 194

I. 513

Appropriations for the public buildings,

IV. 265

IV. 362

Accounts between the United States and
receivers of public money,
Notes of the decisions of the courts of the
United States on Treasury statements,
transcripts, and documents,
Between the United States and indi-
viduals,
I. 441, 512, 561
Accounts between the several states and
the United States, their regulation and
settlement, I. 49, 178, 371, 409, 616
An act for the prompt settlement of
public accounts,
III. 366
Offices of accountants of the War and
Navy Department and superintendent-
general of military supplies abolished,

Appropriations for public buildings, (ob-
solete,)
Appropriations for public buildings, IV. 474
Appropriations for the penitentiary,
Capitol, President's house, &c., IV. 649
The public walks to be improved, and
the public grounds enclosed, IV. 651
Appropriation for the public buildings
and grounds in the city of Washing-
ton,

IV. 722
The claims of workmen, &c., on the
public buildings to be examined by
the Commissioner of Public Buildings
and paid,
V. 365

III. 366
All accounts to be settled at the Trea-
sury,
III. 366
Offices of auditors and comptrollers esta-
blished, their duties,

III. 366

Salaries of the second comptroller and

auditor,
The second auditor to receive unsettled
accounts of Indian affairs, his duties,

A loan not exceeding twelve millions
of dollars authorized,
IV. 129

The Bank of the United States author-
ized to loan the said sum or any part
thereof,

IV. 129
The Secretary of the Treasury author.
ized to appropriate ten millions of dol-
lars annually to the sinking fund.
Surplus to be applied by the commis-
sioners of the sinking fund to the
extinguishment of the public debt, IV. 396
The act of May 7, 1822, chap. 112, re-
lating to certificates, revived and con-
tinued in force,
IV. 602

III. 389

Public Documents.

III. 405

Appropriation for repairs of public build-

ings,

IV. 152

III. 475
The publication and distribution of the
Journal directed,
III. 475
Public documents to be transmitted free
of postage,
III. 537

V. 581
No certificates of stock to be issued but
to the owner of a bona fide loan to the
United States,
See Debt of the United States-Loans
-Treasury Notes.

V. 581

III. 537

Documents relating to the Bank of the
United States to be franked by mem-
bers of Congress, &c.,
Documents printed by order of the
Senate and House of Representatives,
relating to the sixteenth Congress, to
be transmitted free of postage by the
members of Congress, the secretary
of the Senate, and the clerk of the
House of Representatives,
III. 539
Members and delegates to Congress, the
secretary of the Senate, and the clerk
of the House of Representatives au-
thorized to transmit, free of postage,
documents printed by order of either
house,
III. 649
Resolution providing for the distribution
of certain public documents, &c., IV. 321
Exchange of books in the library, and
documents authorized,
Additional copies of the journals and
documents to be printed,
V. 717

Public Lands.

V. 409

An act to provide for the extinguishment
of the debt due the United States by
the purchasers of public lands,. IV. 24
The benefits of the act of May 18, 1824,
chap. 88, extended to certain persons,

IV. 60
Relinquishments under the act, - IV. 60
Further provision for the extinguishment
of the debts due by the purchasers of
public lands,
IV. 158

An act to revive and continue in force
the several acts making provision for
the extinguishment of the debt due to
the United States by the purchasers
of public lands,
IV. 259
Notes of acts which have been passed for
the relief of purchasers of public lands,

IV. 259
An act for the relief of the purchasers of
public lands which have reverted for
the non-payment of the purchase-mo-
ney,
IV. 286
Manner of redeeming lands which have
reverted to the United States on ac-
count of the balance due thereon not
having been paid,
IV. 390