Chapter XCII. *abolishing certain Collection Districts and reducing Compensation of Officers of Customs in California.* June 2, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the collection districts ofCertain collection districts aboli
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Chap. XCII.— An Act *abolishing certain Collection Districts and reducing Compensation of Officers of Customs in California.* June 2, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the collection districts ofCertain collection districts abolished. Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento, Sonoma, San Joaquin, and San Pedro, heretofore established by law, are hereby abolished, and the same attached to the collection district of San Francisco; and there shall be appointed,Inspectors to be appointed. in the usual manner, an inspector at each of the following places:
Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento, Benicia, Stockton, San Pedro; and the salary of each of the said inspectors shall be one thousand dollars perSalary. annum. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That from and after the first day ofPay of officers of the customs at San Francisco. July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the annual compensation of the collector of the customs for the district of San Francisco shall be six thousand dollars; of the naval officer, four thousand five hundred dollars; of the surveyor, four thousand dollars; of the principal appraisers, twenty-five hundred dollars each: and of the assistant appraisers, two thousand dollars each; and the office of an additional appraiser general to be employed on the Pacific coast, created by the act of Congress entitledOffice of additional appraiser general abolished.
“An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen1853, ch. 97.Vol. x. p. 901. hundred and fifty-four,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, be and the same is hereby abolished. Approved, June 2, 1862.