Chapter CCII. to constitute Palatka and Bayport, in the State of Florida, Ports of Delivery, respectively, and Keokuk and Dubuque, in the State of Iowa
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Chap. CCII.— An Act to constitute Palatka and Bayport, in the State of Florida, Ports of Delivery, respectively, and Keokuk and Dubuque, in the State of Iowa. August 3, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the Uni fed States of America in Congress assembled*, Palatka and Bayport, Florida, made ports of delivery. That Palatka and Bayport, in the State of Florida, shall be, and are hereby created ports of delivery, respectively, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States; and there shall Surveyor—his salary and duties.be appointed a Surveyor of the Customs, to reside at each of said ports, who shall, in addition to his own duties, also perform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments of surveyors prescribed by the act of 1831, ch. 87.Congress passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, providing for the payment of duties on imported goods, at certain ports therein mentioned, the same being entitled “An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St.
Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places,” and said Palatka be made a part and annexed to the collection district of St. John’s in said State; and Annexed to collection district of St. Mark’s.said Bayport be made a part and annexed to the collection district of St. Marks, in said State of Florida; and all the privileges and facilities afforded to Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, by the act of Congress aforesaid, be, and the same Its privileges.are hereby extended to the said ports of Palatka and Bayport.
Sec. 2. Keokuk and Dubuque, Iowa, made ports of delivery.*And be it further enacted*, That Keokuk and Dubuque, in the State of Iowa, be, and hereby are, constituted ports of delivery within the Collection District of New Orleans, and there shall be appointed a Surveyor—his duties and salary.Surveyor of the Customs for each of said ports, who shall be residents thereat; said surveyors shall perform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments prescribed by the act of Congress approved on the secondTHIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 204, 227. 1854.347 day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, entitled “An act allowing1881, ch. 87. the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville and Natchez, to be secured and paid paid at those places.” Approved, August 3, 1854.