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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 14 STAT. · April 13, 1866 · Chapter XLIV

Chapter XLIV. to establish the Collection District of Port Huron, the Collection District of Michigan, the Collection District of Montana and Idaho, and to change the Name of the Collection District of Penobscot

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CHAP. XLIV.— An Act to establish the Collection District of Port Huron, the Collection District of Michigan, the Collection District of Montana and Idaho, and to change the Name of the Collection District of Penobscot.April 13, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedCollection District of Port Huron in Michigan. States of America in Congress assembled,* That a new collection district, to be called the district of Port Huron, be, and the same is hereby, established in the State of Michigan, which shall embrace the mouth and entire shore of the Saint Clair river, and the counties of Saint Clair, Lapeer, Tuscola, and Saginaw, and all the territory and waters of the State of Michigan lying north of said counties and east of the principal meridian; and a collector shall be appointed to reside at Port Huron, which shall be the sole port of entry for said district.
And the said collector shall receivePay of collector. the same compensation provided for the collectors of Pembina, Chicago, and certain other ports, by the second section of the act entitled “An33THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44, 45. 1866. act to regulate the foreign coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. And all the1864, ch. 130, § 2.Vol. xiii. p. 134. territory and waters of the said State of Michigan lying west of the said principal meridian, and not included in the district of Michilimackinac, are hereby made a separate district, to be called the district of Michigan,District of Michigan. for which a collector, with the same compensation as above provided for the collector of Port Huron, shall be appointed to reside at Grand Haven,Pay of collector. which shall be the sole port of entry for said district of Michigan.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Territories of MontanaDistrict of Montana and Idaho. and Idaho, be, and the same are hereby, made a new collection district, to be called the district of Montana and Idaho; and that a collector, with the same salary as is above provided for each of the collectors of PortCollector, pay, &c. Huron and Michigan, shall be appointed to reside at the port of entry in said district, which shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the collection district of Penobscot,District of Castine, Maine. in the State of Maine, shall hereafter be called the District of Castine. Approved, April 13, 1866.
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