Chapter LXII. to establish Augusta, in the State of Georgia, a Port of Delivery
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Chap. LXII.— An Act to establish Augusta, in the State of Georgia, a Port of Delivery. March 2, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Augusta (Ga.) made a port of delivery. That Augusta, in the State of Georgia, within the collection district of Savannah, be and the same is hereby declared to be a port of delivery, within the said collection Surveyor.district, and there shall be appointed a surveyor of customs, to reside at said port of Augusta, who shall perform similar duties towards, and in connection with, the collector at the port of entry, as are prescribed for surveyors of the ports of Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St.
Louis, and Nashville, by the act of Congress approved second March, 1831. ch, 87.eighteen hundred and thirty-one, being entitled “An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandize imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Vol. iv. p. 480.Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places,” the duties of the collector at Savannah in reference Duties of collector at Savannah as to importations for Augusta.to all foreign merchandize entered for the port of Augusta, and to be shipped from Savannah to Augusta, either by the river or railroad, shall be the same as those prescribed for the collector at New Orleans, in reference to merchandize entered by importer or his agent there for the Importations how made.ports above mentioned in said act.
And importations of foreign merchandize to Augusta may be made through the port of Savannah in the same way, and under like instructions, [restrictions,] penalties, and forfeitures, as by the said act they are allowed to be made to the places above mentioned through the port of New Orleans. Approved, March 2, 1857.