Chapter CCLXIX. *to provide for and to regulate the Weighing of Exports, and for other Purposes.*July 26, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Upon certain weighable articles exported, three cents per hundred pounds to be collected
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CHAP. CCLXIX.— An Act *to provide for and to regulate the Weighing of Exports, and for other Purposes.*July 26, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Upon certain weighable articles exported, three cents per hundred pounds to be collected.That upon all weighable articles hereafter exported, upon which a drawback or return duty is allowed, and upon all weighable goods withdrawn from bonded warehouses for export, there shall be levied and collected, by the collectors of the several ports, three cents per hundred pounds, to be determined by the returns of the weighers.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, Office of mensurerer at New York abolished.That the office of measurer at the port of New York is hereby abolished, and the duties heretofore performed by them shall be performed by the weighers. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, Duties to be performed by weighers.Salary of weighers at New York.Proviso.That the weighers at the port of New York shall receive, from and after the passage of this act, an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the increase of compensation, over and above the present salary of said officers, shall not exceed, in any fiscal year, the amount of fees earned by them.
Approved, July 26, 1866.