Chapter CV. creating a Collection District in New York, to be called the District of Dunkirk, and constituting Dunkirk a Port of Entry, and the Ports of Barcelona, Silver Creek, and Cattaraugus Creek, Ports of Delivery
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Chap. CV.— An Act creating a Collection District in New York, to be called the District of Dunkirk, and constituting Dunkirk a Port of Entry, and the Ports of Barcelona, Silver Creek, and Cattaraugus Creek, Ports of Delivery. July 27, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Collection district of Dunkirk established. That the counties of Cattaraugus and Chautauque and the harbors, rivers, and waters on the southern Said district designated.shore of Lake Erie, in the State of New York, west of and including Cattaraugus Creek and the shores, on each side of said creek, and west along the shore and territory bordering on Lake Erie aforesaid, to the Pennsylvania State line, and the islands in the said lake contiguous thereto, heretofore embraced in the District of Buffalo Creek, shall be and are hereby constituted a collection district to be called the District of Dunkirk made the port of entry.Dunkirk; and a port of entry for said district is hereby established atTHIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 106, 107. 1854.311 Dunkirk, and the ports of Barcelona, Silver Creek, and Cattaraugus CreekThe ports of delivery. shall be ports of delivery. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That there shall be appointed, inCollector to be appointed. the manner prescribed by law, a Collector of Customs for the aforesaid district, who shall thereafter and during his continuance in office reside at the port of entry created by this act, together with such other subordinate officers of the customs as are provided for by law, and the compensationHis compensation. of said collector shall be such sum as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury in the classification of the compensation of collectors of customs, not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum: *Provided*, That in case no classification of the compensation of collectorsProviso. of customs shall be made, then the compensation of the collector for the port of entry established by this act shall be five hundred dollars per annum, together with such fees and emoluments as are authorized by existing laws.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That deputy collectors of customsDeputy collectors for the ports of delivery—their powers, duties, and compensation. for the several ports of delivery constituted by this act shall be appointed and compensated for their services in the mode prescribed by existing laws, and said officers shall exercise all the powers and duties vested in deputy collectors of customs under existing laws. Approved, July 27, 1854.