Chapter CCII. *to establish Columbus, in the State of Mississippi, Chattanooga, in the State of Tennessee, and Hickman, in the State of Kentucky, Ports of Delivery.* March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Columbus, in t
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Chap. CCII.— An Act *to establish Columbus, in the State of Mississippi, Chattanooga, in the State of Tennessee, and Hickman, in the State of Kentucky, Ports of Delivery.* March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Columbus, in the State Columbus, Miss., and Chattanooga, Tenn., and Hickman, Ky., made ports of delivery.of Mississippi, and within the collection district of Mobile,—Chattanooga, in the State of Tennessee, and Hickman, in the State of Kentucky, and within the collection district of Mississippi, be, and hereby are declared to be ports of delivery within their respective collection districts.
And there shall be appointed a surveyor of customs, to reside at each of said Surveyors to be appointed.ports, who shall perform the duties, and receive the compensation and emoluments prescribed in the act of Congress, approved March the second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, being “An act allowing the duties on 1831, ch. 87.foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at May be discontinued.those places:” *Provided,* That whenever the amount of duties paid at any one of said ports, shall be less than the sum of ten thousand dollars per year, the Secretary of the Treasury shall discontinue such port of delivery.
Approved, March 3, 1855.