FOREWORD This volume is an exact photo-reproduction of an original copy of UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE VOLUME 3 As a copy of the original is practically unobtainable, this reprint is offered to enable Law Libraries to complete their set. The edition has a limited printing. Buffalo, N. Y. DENNIS & CO., INC. THE Public Statutes at Large OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT IN 1789, TO MARCH 3, 1845. ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. WITH REFERENCES TO THE MATTER OF EACH ACT AND TO THE SUBSEQUENT ACTS AND COPIOUS NOTES OF THE DECISIONS OF THE Courts of the United States CONSTRUING THOSE ACTS, AND UPON THE SUBJECTS OF THE LAWS. WITH AN INDEX TO THE CONTENTS OF EACH VOLUME, AND A FULL GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE WORK, IN THE CONCLUDING VOLUME. TOGETHER WITH The Declaration of Endependence, the Articles of Confederation, and AND ALSO, TABLES, IN THE LAST VOLUME, CONTAININg lists of the acts relatING TO THE JUDICIARY, IMPOSTS AND tonnage, the public lands, etc. EDITED BY RICHARD PETERS, ESQ., COUNSELLOR AT LAW. The rights and Interest of the United States in the stereotype plates from which this work is printed, are hereby recognised, VOL. III. BOSTON: CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN. |