Chapter CCLXIV. creating the Collection District of Southern Oregon
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CHAP. CCLXIV.— An Act creating the Collection District of Southern Oregon.March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatSouthern collection district of Oregon established.Port of entry.Collector, appointment, pay, &c. all the ports, harbors, bays, rivers, and waters of the main land of all that portion of the State of Oregon lying south and east of the north bank of the Siuslaw river, shall constitute a collection district by the name of the southern collection district of Oregon; and a port of entry shall be, and hereby is, established for said district at Coos bay, in Coos county, of said State; and a collector of customs shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to reside at Empire city.
Sec. 2. ThatPorts of delivery.Three deputy collectors authorized. ports of delivery shall be, and are hereby, established in the collection district aforesaid, at Ellinsburgh, at the mouth of Rogue river, Port Orford, out at Gardner on the Umpqua river; and the collector of customs of said district is hereby authorized to appoint, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, three deputy collectors, to be stationed at the ports of delivery aforesaid. Sec. 3. ThatPay of collector and deputies. the collector of said district shall be allowed a compensation of one thousand dollars per annum, with the fees allowed by law,602FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 265–268. 1873. and a commission on all customs money collected and accounted for by him, such salary, fees, and commissions not to exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and said deputy collectors shall each be allowed a compensation of one thousand dollars per annum. Approved, March 3, 1873.