Chapter CCXLIV. to establish a Port of Delivery at St
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CHAP. CCXLIV.— An Act to establish a Port of Delivery at St. Joseph, Missouri.July 11, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the city of St. Joseph, inSt. Joseph, Missouri, made a port of delivery and annexed to New Orleans collection district.1831, ch. 87.Vol. iv. p. 480. the 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, St.
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 resideSurveyor, residence, duties, and pay. at said port and perform the duties prescribed by law, who shall receive the same compensation now provided, or which may hereafter be provided, by law for surveyors of the same grade. Approved, July 11, 1870.