Chapter CLX. making Appropriations for the Expenses of Collecting the Revenue from Customs
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Chap. CLX.— An Act making Appropriations for the Expenses of Collecting the Revenue from Customs.June 14, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be, and hereby is,Collection of revenue from customs each half year. appropriated for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for each half year, the sum of one million eight hundred thousand dollars, payable out of any money’s in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, together with such sums as may be received from storage, cartage, drayage, and labor for said half year.
Sec. 2.*And be it further enacted,* That from and after the *said* firstLaws authorizing the payment of expense of collecting revenue from customs in the Pacific ports out of accruing revenue, repealed from July 1, 1858. day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, all laws and parts of which authorize the payment of the expenses, or any portion of the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs to any port or ports on the Pacific coast of the United States out of the accruing revenue, before the same is paid into the treasury, shall be, and hereby are, repealed.
Sec. 3.*And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the TreasurySecretary of Treasury to report to next session of Congress, plan, &c. for reducing expenses of collecting revenue. shall report to the next session of Congress, a plan and estimates for the due diligence expenses of the collection of the revenue, in accordance with the general recommendations of his last annual report. Sec. 4.*And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the TreasurySecretary of Treasury may discontinue ports of delivery, where the revenue does not amount to $10,000. be, and he is hereby, authorized, at his discretion, to discontinue all ports of delivery, the revenue received at each of which does not amount to sum of ten thousand dollars.
Sec. 5.*And be it further enacted,* That no collector of the customs,No collector, &c. shall receive more pay than 25 per cent. greater than such officers now have at the port of New York.Proviso. deputy collector, naval officer, deputy naval officer, surveyor, deputy surveyor, general appraiser, superintendent of warehouses, or appraisers, receive a compensation more than twenty-five percent greater than the new paid to the officers and persons engaged in said services at the New York: *Provided,* That this section shall not be so construed as to increase the compensation of any officer of the customs, or of any person engaged in the collection thereof.
Approved, June 14, 1858.