Chapter LXXXI. establishing a port of delivery at the town of the Bayou St
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Chap. LXXXI.— An Act establishing a port of delivery at the town of the Bayou St. John.April 26, 1816. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Bayou St. John a port of entry. United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the town of the Bayou St. John, in the state of Louisiana, shall be a port of delivery; that a surveyor shall be appointed to reside at said port; that all ships and vessels bound to said port shall, after proceeding thereto, and making report and entry at the port of New Orleans, within the time limited by law, be permitted to unlade their cargoes at the said town of the Bayou St.
John, or at the basin of the canal of Carondelet, adjoining the city of New Orleans, under the rules and regulations prescribed by law. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the sixth section of the act of Congress, passed on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled “An act for laying and Act of Feb. 24, 1804, ch. 13. collecting duties on imports and tonnage, within the territories ceded to the United States by the treaty of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French republic, and for other purposes,” as is contrary to this act, is hereby repealed.
Approved, April 26, 1816.