Chapter 278. to define the boundaries of the collection districts of Miami and Sandusky, in the State of Ohio
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CHAP. 278.— An Act to define the boundaries of the collection districts of Miami and Sandusky, in the State of Ohio.Feb. 28, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Miami and Sandusky collection districts, Ohio.[R. S., sec. 2603, p. 514. amended](/us/rs/t/s2603/p514).Boundaries. That section twenty-six hundred and three of the Revised Statutes is hereby so amended that the district of Miami, in the State of Ohio, shall comprise all the waters and shores of Lake Erie within the jurisdiction of the United States from the western bank of the Portage River to the western bank of the Miami River, in which Toledo shall be the port of entry; and so that the district of Sandusky shall comprise all the waters and shores of Lake Erie within the jurisdiction of the United States from the eastern bank of the Vermillion River to and including the western bank of the Portage River, and all the islands at the head of Lake Erie, lying east of a line drawn north from the west bank of the Portage River at its mouth, in which Sandusky shall be the port of entry.
Vessels shall be allowed to ply between the port of Toledo, in the Miami district, and any of the said islands, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions only as if said islands were in the district of Miami. Approved, February 28, 1887.