Chapter CCXCIII. *to fix the Compensation of certain Collectors of Customs, and for other Purposes.*July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Salaries of certain collectors of customs changed and established
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CHAP. CCXCIII.— An Act *to fix the Compensation of certain Collectors of Customs, and for other Purposes.*July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Salaries of certain collectors of customs changed and established.That the collectors of customs hereinafter named shall, from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in lieu of the salaries to which they are now by law respectively entitled, receive the salaries following, to wit:
The collectors of the districts of Texas, at Galveston, Salaria, Corpus Christi, and Brazos de Santiago, Texas, each at the rate of one thousand five hundred Maximum.dollars a year in addition to the fees of office: *Provided,* That such compensation shall in no case exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum in the aggregate; the collectors of the districts of Beaufort, South Carolina, and Pensacola, Florida, each at the rate of one thousand dollars a year; the collectors of the district of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, and of the districts of Cherrytone, Virginia;
Brunswick, Georgia; [Saint] Augustine, Saint Mark’s, and Apolachieola, Florida, and Techâ, Louisiana, five hundred dollars a year each. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, District of Corpus Christi in Texas established, and collector authorized.Corpus Christi to be port of entry, and Aransas a port of delivery.That all that part of the State of Texas and the waters thereof included within the counties of Nueces, Starr, Zapata, Duval, Encinao, Webb, La Salle, McMullen, Live Oak, Bee, Refugio, and San Patricio, shall be a distinct collection district, to be called the district of Corpus Christi, and the town of Corpus Christi shall be its only port of entry; and a collector shall be appointed to reside at said port.
And Aransas shall be a port of delivery in sail district. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, Indianola to be port of entry for district of Salaria.This net to take effect August 1, 1866.That the town of Indianola shall hereafter be the port of entry for the district of Saluria, in said State, instead of La Salle. And all acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed: and this act shall take effect on mid after the first day of August next.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, Pay of certain deputy collectors, general and local appraisers;That in lieu of the compensation now allowed by law there shall hereafter be paid to each of the deputy collectors at the ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, and San Francisco and to each of the general appraisers and local appraisers at Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, and San Francisco, three thousand dollars per annum; to each of the deputy naval officers and the deputy surveyors at New York, Boston, deputy naval officers and surveyors;custom-house weighers.Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, and San Francisco, two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and to each of the custom-house weighers at the ports of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, and San Francisco, two thousand dollars per annum, out of the appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs: *Provided,* That the additional compensation of twenty-THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 293, 294, 295. 1866.309five per centum, as nowTwenty-five per cent additional to officers at San Francisco. provided by law, shall be continued to officers as aforesaid at the port of San Francisco. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, Blank books, blanks, and stationery for officers of customs.That all blank books, blanks, and stationary of every kind required by collectors and other officers of the customs, shall, so soon as they can be prepared for delivery, by or under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be furnished to them for the use of their respective offices, upon requisition made by them, and the expense of such books, blanks, and stationary shall be paid out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted*, Per diem compensation of appraisers not increased by act. 1865, ch. 67, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 442That the fourth section of the act of February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, entitled “An act to revive certain provisions of the act entitled ‘An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,’ approved March three, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes,” shall not be construed to increase the per diem allowed to appraisers by the first section of the act of April two. eighteen hundred and forty-four, which it amends.
Approved, July 28, 1866.