# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/7th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 45

Chap. XLV.—An Act to provide for the establishment of certain districts, and therein to amend an act intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage;” and for other purposes.
Act of 1799, ch. 22. Act of 1817, ch. 109. A district formed, to be called the district of East River, from the district of Yorktown, in Virginia. Port of entry and delivery may be designated by the President, and a collector and surveyor to be appointed by him.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the last day of June next, a district shall be formed from the district of Yorktown in Virginia, to be called the district of East River, which shall comprehend the waters, shores, harbors, and inlets of North and East river, and Mobjack bay, and all other navigable waters, shores, harbors and inlets within the county of Mathews, in said state; and it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to designate a proper place to be port of entry and delivery within the said district; and to appoint a collector and surveyor of the customs to reside and keep their offices thereat, who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the fees and other emoluments established by law, the annual salary of two hundred dollars each.*
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said last day of June next, Bennet’s creek, within the district of Edenton, and state of North Carolina, shall cease to be a port of delivery, as heretofore established, and the office, authority,Their compensations. Bennet’s creek in the district of Edenton to be discontinued, as a port of delivery. A port of delivery substituted on Salmon creek, at Tombstone. and emoluments of the surveyor of said port, shall also from thenceforth terminate and be discontinued; and a port of delivery, in lieu thereof, shall be established on Salmon creek within the district aforesaid, at a place called the Tombstone; and a surveyor of the customs shall be appointed to reside and keep an office thereat, who shall be entitled to receive for his services, in addition to the fees established by law, the annual salary heretofore allowed to the surveyor of Bennet’s creek.
Surveyor to reside there. His compensation. A port of delivery established at the mouth of Slade’s creek. *1799, ch. 23. 1804, ch. 13.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said last day of June next, a port of delivery shall be established at the mouth of Slade’s creek on the north side thereof, within the district of Washington, and the state of North Carolina, on a certain tract of land, intended and designated for a town, whereon William Parmley resides; and a surveyor of the customs shall be appointed to reside and keep an office thereat, who shall be entitled to receive for his services, in addition to the fees established by law, an annual salary of one hundred and fifty dollars.
District of Marietta established. A collector to be appointed to reside at Marietta. No other port of entry and delivery in the district. Collector’s salary.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That in the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio, there shall, from and after the passing of this act, be established a district, to be called the district of Marietta, which shall include all the waters, shores and inlets of the river Ohio, on the northern side, and the rivers, waters and shores connected therewith, above or to the eastward of, and including the river Scioto, from the mouth thereof, upwards, as far as the same may be navigable: and a collector of the customs shall be appointed to reside and keep an office at the town of Marietta, which shall be the sole port of entry and delivery for the said district; and the said collector shall be entitled to receive for his services, in addition to the fees and other emoluments established by law, an annual salary of one hundred and fifty dollars.
President may establish another port of entry and delivery on the Mississippi:— May appoint a collector to reside there—and one or more surveyors at such places as he shall designate for ports of delivery only on the Mississippi.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to establish, when it shall appear to him to be proper, in addition to the port of entry and delivery already established on the Mississippi, south of the state of Tennessee, one other port of entry and delivery on the said river; and to appoint a collector of the customs to reside and keep an office thereat, and to appoint one or more surveyors to reside at such place or places as he may think proper to designate as ports of delivery only; and the surveyor or surveyors thus appointed, shall be subject to the control and direction of the collector within whose district he or they shall reside.
​Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this act, no duty shall be demanded or collected on merchandise of the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States, or of any foreign country, transported coastwise between the Atlantic ports of the United States,No duty to be collected on merchandise not subject to it in other cases, because landed at New Orleans. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. Act of April 5, 1800. Act of Nov. 25, 1803. Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President, to prescribe certain forms to prevent frauds in cases of debentures. Repealed. and the districts of the United States on the river Mississippi, or any of its branches, although landed at the port of New Orleans, on its passage; provided the same would not be subject to duty, or liable to seizure, if transported from one district of the United States, on the sea-coast, to another: And provided likewise, that no debenture for a drawback shall have been issued upon the export of such merchandise from the Atlantic ports of the United States to any foreign port or place; and to the end as well that frauds on the revenue may be prevented, as that the coasting vessels of the United States may be permitted to participate in the said trade, the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President, is hereby authorized to prescribe and establish such forms and regulations, and the same from time to time, with like approbation, to alter and amend, for the government of the officers of the customs in this respect, as he may think proper and necessary; on the observance of which, merchandise thus transported shall be exempted from duty; and it shall be lawful for the coasting vessels of the United States to be employed in the said trade, and not otherwise.
Sec. 7. And whereas, it is provided by the hundred and fourth section of the collection law, that merchandise belonging to British subjects may be brought (without regard to the character of the vessel importing the same) into the ports of the United States on the northern and northwestern frontiers, subject to no higher or other duties than are or shall be payable by the citizens of the United States, on the importation of the same in American vessels into the Atlantic ports of the United States, and it being just and reasonable that the same privilege should be extended to vessels and merchandise belonging to persons residing at New Orleans, and other ports of Louisiana and Florida, on the Mississippi, or any of its branches:Goods brought to ports on the Mississippi from Louisiana, in vessels belonging thereto—to what duties subject. Be it further enacted, that from and after the last day of June next, all goods and merchandise, the importation of which into the United States shall not be wholly prohibited, shall and may freely, for the purposes of commerce, be brought into the ports of the United States on the Mississippi, or any of its branches, in vessels belonging to New Orleans, or any other port of Louisiana or Florida, on the Mississippi; and such goods or merchandise shall be subject to no higher or other duties than are, or shall be payable by the citizens of the United States, on the importation of the same in American vessels into the Atlantic ports of the United States.
No duty demandable on the tonnage of boats, flats, &c. in the districts on the Mississippi. Cases in which this exemption does not apply. October 31, 1803, ch. 1.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That from and after the last day of June next, no duty on the tonnage of any boat, flat, raft, or other vessel, shall be demanded, or collected on the arrival or entry of such boat, flat, or raft, or other vessel, in any district which is or may be established on the Mississippi, or any of its branches, and on the northern and northwestern boundaries of the United States: Provided nevertheless, that this exemption shall not be construed to extend to any vessel above fifty tons burthen, and which shall not be wholly employed in carrying on inland trade between the ports of the United States on the Mississippi, and its branches, and the ports of Louisiana and Florida, on the same, including New Orleans, and between the ports of the northern and northwestern boundaries of the United States and the British provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.
Collector of the district of Georgetown may reside out of that town. Vol. i. 627.Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all that part of the act, intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, that directs that the collector of the district of Georgetown shall reside at Georgetown, be, and is hereby repealed.
Approved, May 1, 1802.