The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-12-27
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES


Passed at the Farsi Session Of the Thirty ninth
Congress.
[PUBLc-No 1851
AN ACT to NIX the compensation of certain collec-
tors OF customs, and for other purposes.
BE ii enacted by the Senate and House Of Rscre-
sentati0eS Of the United States Of Amersca in Con-
greSS assembled, That the collectors of Gus
toms hereinafter named shall from and after the
first day OF July eighteen hundred and sixty in
lieu OF the salaries to which they are now by law
respectively entitled, receive the salaries following
TO wit The collectors of the districts of Texas at
Galveston, Salura, and Brazos de Santiago, Texas
each at the rate of one thousand five hundred dol
lars year; the collectors of the districts of Beau
fort, south Carolina. and Pensacola, Florida. each
at the rate OF one thousand dollars year; the col
ectors OF the district of Georgetown in the District
OF Columbia and of the districts of Cherrysone, Vr-
ginia; Beaufort. North Carolina; Brunswick Geor-
gia; SAINT Augustine Saint Marks and Apalachico,
ia, Florida; and Ieche, Louisiana, five hundred
dollars year each.
/ SEQ. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That all
that part of the State of Texas and the waters there
| of included within the counties of Nueces, Starr,
Zapata. Duyal, Encinal, Webb. La Sale McMullen.
Live Oak, Bee, RetngiO. and San Patrico, shall be a
dlstlnct collection district to be called the district
OF corpus christi, and the town OF Corpus christi
snail De lis only port of entry and collector snail
be appointed to reside at said port, and Arkansas
shall be a port of delivery in said district;
Sec. B. And be 0flGFthe enacted That the town o.
Indianoa shall be the port of entry for the district
ofoalura in said State, instead of La Sale; ana al
pdFtS OF acIS Win
OF this act are hereby repealed: and this act sinai
take effect and after the first day of August next
! SEC. 4. A71d be it further e1a0cted Ihat IL
lieu Of the compensation now allowed by law thert
shall hereafter be paid to each of the deputy coec
tors at the ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia
Baltimore. New Orleans Portland and San Francis
leo, and to each Ofthe geneial appraisers and loca
appraisers at Boston. Philadelphia, Baltimore, New
Orleans. Portland and San Francisco three thousand
dollars per annum; to each of the deputy naval Off
GERS. and the deputy surveyors at New York, Bos
ton. Philadelphia, Baltimore. New Orleans, Port
land and San Francisco two thousand dollars pei
annum; to each of the custom house weighers a
orleans, Portland and San Francisco two Thousand
dollars per annum out of the appropriation for eX
penses Of collecting the revenue from customs Pro
0sded, That the additional compensation of twenty
five per centum now provided by law shall be con
tinued to officers aforesaid at the port of SaT
Francisco.
| Sec. 5.And be it further enacted That all blank
books blanks and stationery of every kind required
by collectors and other officers of the customs shall
so soon as they can be prepared for delivery by OF
under the direction of the Secretary OF the Treasury
be furnished to them for the of their respective
offices. upon requistion made by them, and the ex
pense OF such books blanks and stationery snail De
paid out OF the appropriation for defraying the eX
penses of collecting the revenue from customs.
SEC. z. And be 1t further enacted, That the
fourth section of the act of February twenty -eigh
eighteen hundred and sxty-fve, entitled An act t6
revive certain provisions of the act entitled An ac
further to provide for the collection of duties on i'm
ports and tonnage, Approved March three, eighteen
hundred and fifteen. and for other purposes, shall
not be construed to increase the per diem allowed
to appraisers by the first section of the act OF Apr
two, eighteen hundred and forty-four, which
amends
Approved, July %, 1866