# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 135

Chap. CXXXV.—An Act to establish a port of entry at Natchez, in Mississippi, and creating certain ports of delivery, and for other purposes.
Port of entry at Natchez.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the ports, harbours, shores and waters of the Mississippi river, within the state of Mississippi, be, and they are hereby constituted a collection district, by the name of the Natchez district, and a port of entry shall be established at Natchez for said district, and a collector shall be appointed, who shall give the usual bond required of such officers, and be entitled to a salary of five hundred dollars per annum.
Vessels bound for Natchez to report at New Orleans.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all vessels proceeding to the said port of Natchez, from any port or place in foreign countries, shall stop and report her arrival at the port of New Orleans; and before such vessel shall proceed on her voyage to the said port of Natchez, it shall be the duty of the collector of the said port of New Orleans to order on board any such vessel, a custom-house officer, who shall remain on board such vessel until her arrival at the said port of Natchez; and it shall be the duty of such custom-house officer, to take possession and safely keep all the papers belonging to such vessel, having relation to the freight or cargo on board, which papers he shall deliver to the collector of the port of Natchez, immediately after his arrival at that port; and any such vessel, which shall depart from the said port of New Orleans, without such custom-house officer on board, shall be subject to all the pains and penalties provided for by law for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States.
Owners to pay expenses of custom-house officer.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the expenses of the custom-house officer which may be put on board of any such vessel at New Orleans, from the time of his being put on board, until his return to New Orleans, shall be paid by the owner or owners of such vessel.
Dorchester, in Massachusetts, a port of entry.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That Dorchester, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be a port of delivery.
Port of entry at Philadelphia extended.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the port of entry and delivery for the district of Philadelphia, shall be bounded by the navy yard on the south, and Gunner’s run on the north; any thing in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Camden, New Jersey, a port of delivery.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the town of Camden, in the district of Bridgeton, in the state of New Jersey, shall be a port of delivery, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States; and there shall be appointed a surveyor of the customs to reside at said port, who shall also perform the duties of an inspector, and who shall be entitled to receive the annual salary of one thousand dollars and no more.
Surveyor of Camden to enrol and license fishing and coasting vessels. Act of Feb. 11, 1830, ch. 14.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor of the port of Camden shall be authorized to enrol and license ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, under the regulations and ​provisions of the act, entitled “An act to authorize surveyors, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to enrol and license ships and vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries,” passed the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty, as to all ships and vessels belonging to that part of the district of Bridgeton, which lies northward of Alloway’s creek, in the county of Salem.
Detroit collection district extended.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all the waters, shores, inlets and harbours of Lake Michigan, lying south of a point fifty miles north of the mouth of Grand river, on the east side, and the like distance north of the Milwauke river on the west side of said lake, shall be, and hereby are, attached to, and made a part of, the collection district of Detroit, in the territory of Michigan, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Port of entry and district of Newark, New Jersey.Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the thirtieth day of September next, all that part of the state of New Jersey, lying north and east of Elizabethtown and Staten Island, extending eastward as far as the Mouth of the Kill Van Kull, where it empties into the bay of New York, with all the waters of the Passaick and Hackensack rivers, shall form a collection district, to be called the district of Newark, of which the town of Newark shall be the port of entry.
Appointment and duties of collector.Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That a collector for the said district shall be appointed, to reside at Newark, who shall give bond with security, as provided by law, for the true and faithful performance of the duties of his office, in the sum of five thousand dollars, and shall be allowed three per centum on all moneys received on account of the duties arising on goods, wares, and merchandise imported, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels; and the said collector shall also receive, in addition to his other fees and emoluments allowed by law, the annual sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, subject, however, to the limitations provided by law.
Custom-house at Frenchman’s bay to be removed to Ellsworth.Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to remove the seat of the custom-house of the district of Frenchman’s bay, in the state of Maine, from its present situation to the town of Ellsworth, in said district.
Approved, June 30, 1834.