The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-18
HastY Legislation.

We alluded in an article yesterday to the effects
Of hasty legislation in connection with the Gus
tom-house at this port We continue our remarks.
Under the operation of this beautiful proviso the
Collector is bound to dismiss the Night Inspectors,
Boarding Officers, Storekeepers, and all other In
spectors not employed discharging foreign vessels
What will be the result? Let us look into the
duty of the Night Inspectors. They patrol the
Levee from the upper end Of Lafayette to the
lower end of the Third Municipality 1t is their
duty Immediately the arrival of foreign vessel
go hoard, and there remain until relieved by
i Day Inspector at daylight, Discharge these Night
Inspectors, and what security is there against the
landing OF any all the cargo before Day In
spector goes on board Discharge the Boarding
Officer-who is to give notice to the Surveyor OF
he arrival of foreign vessel, in order that he may
send an Inspector OH board Dismiss the Store
re epers, who is to take charge of the immense
amount of goods entered for warehousing? In
short the operation of this proviso is to open the
doors to smuggling, and place the collection of the
evenue entirely at the mercy of captains, crews,
| and passengers.
1 In the same California bill which made such
sad havoc with the Inspectors, they tackled on
another rider in relation to the appointment of tive
has grown to such an extent within the last twenty
years. that it found impossible to attend to the
business of this department of the revenue without
more aid and indeed, so important did it appear
20 the late Collector, that he granted permission tc
Mr.. Garfield to visit Washington with the view o.
| aging the matter before the Department fof thel
| consideration. The result of his mission was, tina
The Secretary of the Treasury applied to Congress,
4 tha # A
No other means offering at the close of the session.
hey made perfect omnibus of the California bill
and section q gives to the President the power to
appoint the two Assistant Appraisers. But how
reads the section2 Why" that the President shall
appoint two additional Assistant Appraisers, with
he same salary as is now allowed to the Assistant
Appraisers of this port" Any would suppose
that at Washington they ought to know how many
Appraisers by law allowed to New Orleans,
and what the salary But it is not So There never
Assistant Appraiser for NewOrleans, and,
consequently, there is no law fixing the salary.
The Appraiser gets $1,000 year, and, according
the law 1t reads, the poor Assistants will
get nothing, they to receive the same salary
that is now allowed the Assistant Appraisers of this
port" This error may be corrected by The Secre-
airy of the Treasury perhaps he may have the
he power to tx -stary- he has not, then they
| fmust wait until the assembled wfsS RsaiJ con,
/ gregates and passes another law giving y the
compensation. 1t therefore appears that thil Proved
night legislation has, after all, done nothing rln NJ
in the of the Inspectors alluded to-;ship and
/ and to-day, they must reoeal pei my Pes'94i
make it of some service, and in the present cast
they have to pass another law to fix the salary o
| The Assistant Appraisers
w intend at o11r 1ais ,1re IN dpvnfe occasion.
ally, some little space to the different laws attend.
ing the collection of the revenue. 1t is matter o
much interest to the community, and very few
except those having constant business with the
Custom-house, know any thing about it.