Chapter 372. To extend the limits of the port of entry of New Orleans, Louisiana
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CHAP. 372.— An Act To extend the limits of the port of entry of New Orleans, Louisiana.August 24, 1912.[[H. R. 23112](/us/bill/62/hr/23112).][[Public, No. 319](/us/pl/62/319).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Customs.New Orleans, La., port limits extended.[R. S., sec. 2568, p. 507, amended](/us/rs//). That the limits of the port of entry of New Orleans, Louisiana, be, and the same are hereby, extended to include that portion of the parish of Saint Bernard within the following boundaries:
Beginning at a point where the boundary line between the parishes of Orleans and Saint Bernard inter-sect the east bank of the Mississippi River; thence along said east bank to where the boundary line between lots sixteen and seventeen of the Corinne and Myrtle Grove plantations (according to a plan by A. C. Bell, civil engineer, July eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and annexed to an act of sale by A. L. Richardson to Jules Mereaux, passed before Charles T. Soniat, esquire, notary public in the parish of Orleans, January second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four) intersects said east bank, said point of intersection being at a distance of four miles and four thousand two hundred and eighty feet below the point at which the boundary between the parishes of Orleans and Saint Bernard intersects said east bank; thence along said boundary between said lots sixteen and seventeen a distance of four thousand feet; thence along a line parallel to the Mississippi River to the point where said boundary line intersects the boundary between the parishes of Orleans and Saint Bernard; thence along said boundary line to the point of beginning.
Approved, August 24, 1912.