Chapter CXC. *to create a Port of Delivery at Vallejo, California*
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CHAP. CXC.— An Act *to create a Port of Delivery at Vallejo, California*. July 1, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Vallejo, in California, made a port of delivery.Surveyor of customs.1831, ch. 87. Vol. iv. p. 480. That Vallejo, in the State of California, shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, within the collection district of San Francisco, 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.
” Sec. 2. Certain vessels may proceed directly to Vallejo and report to collector at San Francisco.*And be it further enacted*, That any vessel of five hundred tons, or over, coming from or going to sea, may proceed directly to or from Vallejo, and report through said surveyor to the collector of customs at San Francisco, and avoid the risk, expenses, and delay, by anchoring there. Approved, July 1, 1870.