Chapter IX. to constitute Quincy, in the State of Illinois, a Port of Delivery
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Chap. IX.— An Act to constitute Quincy, in the State of Illinois, a Port of Delivery. Feb. 2, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Quincy, Illinois, made a port of delivery. That Quincy, in the State of Illinois, shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of deli-Surveyor to be appointed.very 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 1831, ch. 87.prescribed by the act of Congress, approved on the second of March, 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 city of Quincy and the Quincy made port of the collection district of New Orleans.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 said act of Congress, of the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, be and hereby are extended to the said port of 1831, ch. 87.Quincy. Approved, February 2, 1854.