Chapter 60. to amend and reenact sections twenty-five hundred and seventeen and twenty-five hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes and changing the boundaries of a customs district in the State of Maine
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CHAP. 60.— An Act to amend and reenact sections twenty-five hundred and seventeen and twenty-five hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes and changing the boundaries of a customs district in the State of Maine.Feb. 17, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,R. S. 2517, 2518, amended and reenacted. That section twenty-five hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by inserting after the word “sixty-nine,” in the third line of the first clause of said section, the following words:
“Excepting those towns, plantations, and townships lying on the line of the European and North American Railway,” so that said clause, as amended, shall read as follows: “ First. The district of Aroostook, Customs district of Aroostook.to comprise the county of Aroostook as bounded on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, excepting those towns, plantations, and townships lying on the line of the European and North American Railway, in which Houlton shall be the only port of entry.
” Also, that said section twenty-five hundred and seventeen be further amended by inserting after the word “forty-seven,” in the fourth line of the sixth clause thereof the following words: “ And the several towns, plantations, and townships in the counties of Aroostook and Washington lying on the line of the European and North American Railway,” so that said clause, as amended, shall read as follows: “Sixth. The district of Bangor, to comprise the counties of PenobscotCustoms district of Bangor. and Piscataquis and the town of Frankfort, in the county of Waldo, as bounded on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and the several towns, plantations, and townships in the counties of Aroostook and Washington lying on the line of the European and North American Railway, in which Bangor shall be the port of entry and delivery, and Frankfort and Hampden ports of delivery.” 326 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 60, 61, 62, 64. 1881. Sec. 2. That the sixth clause of section twenty-five hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read as follows: " “Sixth. In the district of Bangor, a collector, who shall reside atCollector to reside at Bangor, a deputy collector at Frankfort, and deputy collector at Vanceboro. Bangor; a deputy collector, who shall reside at Frankfort; and a deputy collector, who shall reside at Vanceboro.” " Approved, February 17, 1881.