Chapter LI. relating to certain collection districts, and for other purposes
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Chap. LI.— An Act relating to certain collection districts, and for other purposes.June 15, 1844. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That from and after Certain collection districts abolished, and annexed to other districts. the passage of this act, the districts of Ipswich, Massachusetts, St. Mary’s, and Snow Hill, Maryland, Folly Landing and East River, Virginia, and Sunbury, Hardwick, and Brunswick, Georgia, shall be and hereby are, abolished as separate collection districts, and shall hereafter be annexed to other districts, as follows, that is to say:
Ipswich, to the district of Newburyport; St. Mary’s, Maryland, to Annapolis; Snow Hill, to Vienna; Folly Landing, to Cherrystone; East River, to Yorktown; Sunbury and Hardwick to Savannah; and Brunswick, to St. Mary’s, Georgia: *Provided,* That the following places shall be, and are Proviso. hereby, constituted ports of delivery, at each or any of which the President of the United States is authorized (if deemed necessary for the public interests) to appoint surveyors of the customs, to wit:
At Ipswich, Massachusetts; St. Mary’s and Snow Hill, Maryland; Sunbury, Hardwick, and Brunswick, Georgia; at or near Folly Landing, East River, Virginia: *And provided,* That the following mentioned ports of Proviso. delivery are hereby discontinued, and the office of surveyor established at said ports, respectively, is hereby abolished, to wit: Chester and Nungemoy, Maryland; South Quay, Virginia; Hertford, Murfreesborough, and Swansborough, North Carolina: *And provided, also,* That Proviso. the office of assistant collector, to reside at the town of Jersey, in the State of New Jersey, authorized by the act approved March two, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, is hereby abolished.1811, ch. 33.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That, from and after the passage Shieldsborough, Miss., to be a port of entry, and Pearlington not. of this act, the town of Shieldsborough, on the bay of St. Louis, in the State of Mississippi, shall be the port of entry for the district of Pearl River, and the collector of said district shall reside at said Shieldsborough; and the present port of entry at Pearlington, in said district, shall cease to be the port of entry: *Provided,* That Pearlington for said district, shall be, and hereby is, constituted a port of delivery.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the name of the district To be called the district of New Orleans. hereinafter mentioned shall be changed, and bear the following name, that is to say, Mississippi to be called the district of New Orleans. Approved, June 15, 1844.