Chapter XVII. to create a Port of Delivery at Potomac, Virginia, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. XVII.— An Act to create a Port of Delivery at Potomac, Virginia, and for other Purposes.April 19, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatPortion of the Tappahannock collection district annexed to that of Alexandria. all the waters, shores, bays, harbors, creeks, and inlets on the south side of the river Potomac, comprehended between Boyd’s Hole and Cockpit Point, now a part of the collection district of Tappahannock, Virginia, be, and the same are hereby, annexed to the collection district of Alexandria, Virginia.
Sec. 2. ThatPotomac made a port of delivery. Potomac, in the State of Virginia, shall be, and is hereby, constituted and created a port of delivery within the collection district of Alexandria, and there shall be appointed, at a compensation not exceeding the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, a deputy collectorFORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 17, 18, 19, 21. 1871.5 of customs,Deputy collector salary, duties, &c. to reside at said port, who shall perform such duties as may be conferred upon him, in pursuance of law, by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 3. ThatPort of delivery at Dumfries abolished. all acts and parts of acts establishing at Dumfries, in the collection district of Tappahannock, Virginia, a port of delivery be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, April 19, 1871.