Chapter CXCI. constituting Madison, in the State of Indiana, a Port of Delivery
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Chap. CXCI.— An Act constituting Madison, in the State of Indiana, a Port of Delivery. August 2, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Madison made a port of delivery. That Madison, in the State of Indiana, shall be and is hereby constituted a port of delivery, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery Surveyor—appointment, duties, and salary.in the United States; and there shall be appointed a Surveyor of Customs to reside at said port, who shall, in addition to his own duties, perform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments of surveyor, prescribed by the act of Congress, approved on the second of March, 1831, ch. 87.eighteen hundred and thirty-one, providing for the payment of duties on imported goods, at certain ports therein mentioned, entitled “An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places;” and the said town of Madison, Annexed to the collection district of New Orleans.Privileges of act 1831, ch. 87, extended to said port.and the said port of delivery be, and is hereby, annexed to and made a part of the Collection District of New Orleans, and all the facilities and privileges afforded by the said act of Congress of the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, be and are hereby extended to the said port of Madison.
Approved, August 2, 1854.