Chapter CCLXVIII. to establish a Port of Delivery at Kansas City, Missouri
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CHAP. CCLXVIII.— An Act to establish a Port of Delivery at Kansas City, Missouri.July 14, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the city of Kansas, in theKansas City, Mo., made a port of delivery in the collection district of New Orleans.1831, ch. 87.Vol. iv. p. 460. State of Missouri, shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, annexed to and made a part of the collection district of New Orleans, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States; and all the privileges and facilities afforded by the act of Congress of the second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, entitled “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,” shall be extended to said port.
A surveyor of customs shall be appointed to reside at said port and perform the duties prescribed by law, who shall receiveSurveyor, residence, duties, and pay. the same compensation now provided or which may hereafter be provided by law for surveyors of the same grade. Approved, July 14, 1870.