Chapter VIII. to create additional Collection Districts in the Territory of Oregon, and for other Purposes
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Chap. VIII.— An Act to create additional Collection Districts in the Territory of Oregon, and for other Purposes.Feb. 14, 1851. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Three collection districts established.Ports of entry. United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in the Territory of Oregon there shall be three collection districts, with a port of entry 567THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 9. 1851. to each district, to wit: Umpqua, Oregon, and Puget’s Sound.
The Boundaries of Umpqua District. district of Umpqua shall include all the land, bays, harbors, rivers, and shores embraced in that portion of the Territory aforesaid, lying between the forty-second and forty-fourth degrees of north latitude; and a collector Collector. shall be appointed, in pursuance of existing laws for said district; and Scottsville shall be, and is hereby, made a port of entry and delivery Port of entry. for said district, at which the collector shall reside.
The district of Boundaries of Oregon District. Oregon shall include all the land, bays, rivers, harbors, and shores embraced within that portion of the Territory of Oregon, lying between the forty-fourth and forty-sixth and a half degrees of north latitude, embracing the coast of the Pacific west of the coast range of mountains, up to the forty-eighth degree of north latitude; and Astoria shall Port of entry. be the port of entry for the district, at which the collector shall reside.
The district of Puget’s Sound shall include all the land, bays, harbors, Boundaries of Puget’s Sound District. rivers, and shores in the Territory, not embraced in either of the before-mentioned districts, to wit: All that portion of the coast lying between the forty-eighth degree of north latitude and the northern boundary of said Territory, and embracing all the land and waters lying north of the forty-sixth and a half degree of latitude, and east of the coast range of mountains; and a collector shall be appointed, in pursuance of Collector. existing laws for said district; and Olympia shall be the port of entry Port of entry. and delivery for said district, at which place the collector shall reside.
Nasqually and Portland, constituted ports of delivery, with surveyors Nasqually and Portland continued as ports of delivery.1848, ch. 177. to reside thereat, in pursuance of the act of Congress, approved fourteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be continued as ports of delivery for such districts created by this act, within the limits of which they may respectively be situated. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the collectors of the districts Compensation of officers. of Umpqua, Oregon, and Puget’s Sound shall be allowed one thousand dollars each per annum, with additional maximum compensation of two thousand dollars each per annum, should their respective official emoluments and fees, provided by existing laws, amount to that sum; and the surveyors at Nasqually and Portland shall be allowed, in addition to the fees authorized by existing laws, a compensation of one thousand dollars each per annum.(*a*)(*a*) As to the fees allowed to collector and surveyors, see note in vol.
III. p. 693, and the acts of 1839, ch. 82, § 3; 1841, ch. 35, § 2; 1846, ch. 7; 1850, ch. 27. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That Pacific City, on Baker’s Pacific City and Milwaukie made ports of delivery.Surveyors. Bay, and Milwaukie, on the Willamette River, in the collection district of Oregon, established by this act, are hereby constituted ports of delivery; and surveyors of the customs shall be appointed, in conformity to law, to reside thereat, whose compensations, in addition to the fees authorized by existing laws, shall not exceed one thousand dollars each per annum.
Approved, February 14, 1851.