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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · July 14, 1870 · Chapter CCLXIX

Chapter CCLXIX. to create a Port of Delivery at Houston, Texas

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CHAP. CCLXIX.— An Act to create a Port of Delivery at Houston, Texas.July 14, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Houston, in the StateHouston, Texas, made a port of delivery in collection district of Galveston.Surveyor, residence, duties, pay.1831, ch. 87.Vol. iv. p. 480. of Texas, shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery within the collection district of Galveston, and there shall be appointed a surveyor of customs, to reside at said port, who shall perform the duties and receive the compensation and emoluments prescribed in the act of Congress approved March two, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, being “An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, Saint Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places.
” Approved, July 14, 1870.
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