Washington telegraph., 1850-12-11
BY AUTHORITY.
PUBLIC ACTS.


AN ACT to create additional collection districts
in the State Of California, and to change the
existing district therein, and 10 modify the ex.
:sting collection districts in the Uaited States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of Rep.
yesentdtiues of the United States Of America in
Congress assembled, That there shall he in the
State Of California six collection districts, to wit:
San Francisco, Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento,
Sonoma a~d San Joaquin. The district of San
Francisco shall include all the territory, bays,
haroors, rivers and shores embraced within the
counties of San Francisco, Santa Clara, Contra
Costa, Marin, Mondocino aud Trinidad, and a
collector, naval officer and surveyor for the district
shall be appointed, to reside at the city OF San
Francisco, which shall be the sole port Of entry for
the district.
The district of Monterey shah include all the
territory, bays harbors, aud shores embraced
withlH the counties Of Monterey, San Luis Obispo
aud Santa Cruz, and collector shall he appointed
tor said district to reside at the town Of Monterey,
which shall be the sole port Of elry for the district
The district Of San Diego shall INCLUDE all the
territory, bays, harbors. rivers and shores OF the
counties of San Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa
Barbara; and a collector shall be appointed Tor
said district, TO reside at the town of San Diego,
which shall be the sole port Of entry for said dis
trict.
The district Of Sacramento shall include all the
territory, bays, harbors, rivers and shores OF the
counties Of Sacramento, Suttef, Ef Dorado, Y uba.
Butte Yolo, Celuse and Shasta; and collector for
the district shall be appointed TO reside at Sacra-
nento city, which shall be the sole port of entry
for The district. t..t
The district of Sonoma shall include all the ter
ritory, bays, harbors, rivers and shores embraced
within the counties of Sonoma, Napa, and Solano,
and collector shall be appointed for said district
TO reside at the town Of Benicia, which together
with the town of Ballejo shall be the sole port OF
entry for the district.
The district of San Joaquin shall include all the
territory. bays, harhors, rivers aud lshOresl en-
braced within the counties OF Cahveras, San JOa-
qIin Tuoumne and Mariposa, and collector ol
the district shall be appointed to reside at the town
Of Stockton, which shall be the sole port of entry
for the district. And the towns Df Santa Barbara
and San Pedro in the collection district Of San
Diego, shall be, and hereby constituted ports
of delivery for said districts, and surveyors shall
be app,inted TO reside at each. with such other
officers as the Secretary Of thu Treasury may
deem necessary for the public service
SEC. 2 And be i1 further enacted, That in ad-
diion to the officers hereinbefoe provided for, at
the port Of San Francisco. there shall be appointed
two principal and two assistant appraisers Tor SAID
port, and the compensatiOns Of the officers pro-
vded for in this act, shall be as follows, to wit
be allowed a com ,ensalon not exceeding ten
thousand dollars per annum; the naval officer a
compensation sot exceeding eight thousand dol
lars per annum; the surveyor compensation not
exceeding seven thousand dollars per annain
The principal appraisers compensation not ex
ceedng six thousand each per annum, and the
assistant appraisers each SUM not exceeding
three Thousand five hundred dollars per annum
The collectors Of the districts Of Monterey. San
Diego, Sacramento, Sonoma and San Joaquin
shall be allowed three thousand dollars each per
annum, with additional maximu,n cemprns alton
Of two thousand dollars each per annum, should
the official emoiuments and fees provided by ex-
isting laws amount to that sum respectively. The
surveyors al Santa Barbara and San Pedro shall
b. allowed in addition 10 the fees authorized by
exsting laws, compensation Of two thousand
dollars per aanum, and the deputy collector ap-
pointed IN pursu ance Of existing laws at the port
of San Francisco, shall De allowed a compensa-
ton not to exceed five Thousand dollars per annum.
SEC. ). And be it further enaeked, That until
otherwise diree ed hv Congress, the provisions OF
Ia " in relation I" the payment Of expenses Incl
deatal to the collection Of the revenue from GUS
TOMS existing prior to the act of third March,
eighteen hundred and forty nine, entitled "An act
requiring all moneys receivable from customs and
from all other sources to be paid immediately into
the Treasury without abatement or reduciisn, and
for other purposes, shall be, and hereby, made
apple able to the several collection districts ia the
STATE of California and the Territory of Oregon,
any thing in the aforesaid act to the contrary
notwthst anding.
SEC. 4 And b. it further enacted, That in all
Cases Of fine, penalty or forfeiture mentioned and
embraced in the act entitled "An act to provide
for tiaatng or remtting the forieitures. penalties
and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein
.cfi adj InnfO n n n
latorv of said act, that have occurred or may oc-
cur in the collection districts in the State o: Cali
fornia aud Territory of Oregon, the Secretary Of
The Treasury be and he is hereby authorized II IN
his npisiom, the said e, penalty, or forfeiture was
without wiifuI negligence or lhtention OF
fraud, to prescribe such rules and mode Of pro-
crediuy TO ascertain the FACTS as in his op mon,
NAV b., coas~Biea4 aud proper, without regard 10
The provisions Of the act above referred to, and
upon the said facts SO to be ascertained as atore-
said, the said Secretary may exercise all the power
conferred upon him in aud by said act as fully as
he might have cone, had said facts been ascer-
tanned under and according 10 the provisions Of
said act: Provided, That where any ships or Fes-
sells or any goods, wares, and merchandise, may
have been subjected Ia seizure or conflscatIon or
detention by any officer of the customs in the col
lection district Of Upper California or the district
Of Oregon, prior to the passage OF this act and it
shall be made to appear to the satisfaction OF the
Secretary of the Treasury that the owner or ow-
mers of any ships vessels, or the owner or owners
or importers of any such goods. wares, and mer-
chaudse, has, or have susiained damage or loss
by reason .f any improper seizure, confiscat,on or
detention thereof, the said Secretary is hereby
authorized to extend such relief in the respective
cases, as he may deem just and proper.
SEC S. And be it further enacted, That all
the territory, harbors, rivers aud waters, on the
eastern shore of the State of Wisconsin, bordering
on Lake Michigan lying south of the forty fourth
parallel Of north latitude, heretofore embraced IN
the district Of Chicago arr contained within the
limits and jurisdiction Of the State OF Wisconsin,
shall be, aud are herebv, constituted collection
district to b.. called the district Of Milwaukee, and
the port OF entry for said district is hereby estab-
iisned at Milwaukee; aud Southport, Racine, She
boygan, Green Bay and Depre, shall be ports OF
delivery only. Aud the town Of Wawkegan IN