By authority of congress. 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 on the same subject. 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 declaratio of independence, the articles of confederation, and the constitution of the United States; 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. acknowiedged, and declared by the publishers, according to the provisions of the joint resolution of Congress, passed march 3, 1845
