# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 45

Chap. XLV.—An Act to amend, in the cases therein mentioned, the “Act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.”
1799, ch. 22. Collector of Great Egg Harbor may reside anywhere in his district approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the “Act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” as requires the collector for the district of Great Egg Harbor, in the state of New Jersey, to reside at Somer’s Point, be, and the same hereby is repealed; and the said collector shall reside at such place within said district, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Town of Darien in Georgia made a port of delivery, to be annexed to the district of Brunswick.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the town or landing place of Darien, on the Alatamaha river, in the state of Georgia, shall be a port of delivery, to be annexed to the district of Brunswick, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States; and a surveyor shall be appointed to reside at the said port of delivery, who shall be entitled to receive one hundred dollars, annual salary, together with the other emoluments of office, as fixed by existing laws.
Ocracocke inlet in North Carolina, made the district of “Ocracocke.” Port of entry to be designated by the President. Collector to reside there. His compensation. Duties on what articles to be laid and collected.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Ocracocke inlet, in North Carolina, together with Shell Castle and Beacon islands, and all the shores, islands, shoals, bays, and waters within two miles of the shores of said inlet, on each side thereof, shall be a district, to be called the district of Ocracocke; the President of the United States shall be authorized to designate such place in the said district, as he shall think proper, to be the port of entry; and a collector for said district shall be appointed to reside at such port of entry, who, in addition to his other emoluments, shall be entitled to receive the salary now allowed to the surveyor of Beacon island, and no other; and shall also perform the duties heretofore enjoined by law on the said surveyor; but no duties shall be paid, or secured to be paid, in the said district of Ocracocke, on any articles intended for any other port connected with the waters of the ​said inlet of Ocracocke, such only excepted as may be cast away within the said district.Office of surveyor of Beacon island abolished. The office of surveyor of Beacon island shall be henceforth abolished, and the masters or commanders of every ship or vessel coming in at Ocracocke inlet, and intending to unlade her cargo, or any part thereof, at any port, other than the district of Ocracocke, connected with the waters of the said inlet, as well as the masters or commanders of all lighters or coasting vessels, who shall receive goods, wares or merchandise, to be transported to any such port, shall be bound to exhibit their reports and manifests to the said collector, and to perform all the other duties, which, by the eighteenth section of the act, intituled1799, ch. 22. “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” they are now bound to perform, under similar circumstances, in the inlet aforesaid.
Approved, April 21, 1806.