Chapter CXXX. *to create Ports of Delivery at Eureka and Wilmington, in California, and provide for Appointment of Deputy Collector of Vallejo, California, and to abolish the Office of Surveyor of said Port*
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CHAP. CXXX.— An Act *to create Ports of Delivery at Eureka and Wilmington, in California, and provide for Appointment of Deputy Collector of Vallejo, California, and to abolish the Office of Surveyor of said Port*. March 3, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Eureka and Wilmington, in California, made ports of delivery.Deputy collector, duties, pay, &c. That Eureka, in the county of Humboldt, and Wilmington, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, shall be, and are hereby, respectively, constituted ports of delivery, within the collection district of San Francisco; and there may be appointed a deputy collector of customs for each of said ports, who shall perform the duties of such office and receive the compensation of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum as salary.
Sec. 2. That any vessel of one hundred tons, or over, coming from orCertain vessels may proceed directly, &c. going to sea, may proceed directly to or from Eureka or Wilmington, and report, through the deputy collector of said port, to the collector of customs at San Francisco. Sec. 3. That the office of surveyor of customs, created by act of CongressOffice of surveyor of customs at Vallejo abolished.Deputy collector authorized. July one, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the port of Vallejo, in California, is abolished, and in lieu of such surveyor of customs a deputy collector of customs is hereby authorized to perform the same services and receive the same rate of compensation as is provided in this act for the deputy collector at the port of Eureka or the port of Wilmington.
Approved, March 3, 1871.