Chapter CCXXV. *to abolish the Office of Surveyor at the Port of Chester, in Pennsylvania, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. CCXXV.— An Act *to abolish the Office of Surveyor at the Port of Chester, in Pennsylvania, and for other Purposes*. March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Office of surveyor at the port of Chester abolished.1867, ch. 16. Vol. xv. p. 10. That the office of surveyor at the port of Chester, in the district of Philadelphia, provided by the act establishing said port, approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, abolished.
Sec. 2. Inspector of customs to be appointed for such port.Powers, duties, and pay.That an inspector of customs, to reside at the said port of Chester, with the powers of a deputy collector, shall be appointed for said port, and shall perform such duties as may he devolved on 1dm according to law, but the compensation of such officer shall not exceed that allowed by law to inspectors of customs at the port of Philadelphia. Approved, March 3, 1873.