Chapter 311.
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CHAP. 311.— An act establishing a customs-collection district in Florida, to be known as the collection district of Tampa, and for other purposes.March 1, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Tampa, Fla. Made a customs collection district. That a customs collection district be. and the same is hereby, established on the gulf coast of the State of Florida, to be known as the collection district of Tampa.
Sec. 2. That said district shall include the territory south of aBoundaries. line immediately north of Anclote Key light-house, running easterly across the peninsula to Indian River, and thence south to a point opposite to and north of Charlotte Harbor, and thence westerly across the peninsula to the coast north of Charlotte Harbor, and midway between Manatee Bay and Peace River and Charlotte Harbor. Sec. 3. That the collector for the port of Tampa shall be appointedCollector. by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall be paid a salary of two thousand dollars per annum.
There shall also be appointed an appraiser and such inspecting and otherAppraiser, etc. officers as the Secretary of the Treasury shall consider useful or necessary for the transaction of the business of the port and for the prevention of smuggling within the district. Approved, March 1, 1889.