Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-17

or t0rfelture, or of any concealment orabsence
of the property, shall not be reckoned within
this period of Limitation.
SEC % That in lieu of the salaries, mole
ties. and Perquisites of whatever name or ma
ture, and commissions or disbursements, now
paid to and received by the collectors,
naval otheers, and surveyors connected with
the customs service in the several collection
districts of the United States hereinafter
named, there shall be paid, from and after the
enty -four, an annual salary, follows:
To the collector of the district of New
York twelve thousand dollars.
10 the collectors of the districts of Boston
and CharIestown, Massachusetts; and Phila-
de!Phia, Pennsylvania, each eight thousand
dollars.
To collectors of the districts of San Fran
cisco, California; Baltimore, Maryland; and
New Orleans, Louisiana, each seven thousand
dollars.
To the collector of the district of Portland
and Falmouth, Maine, six thousand dollars.
To the naval officer for the district of New
York, eight thousand dollars.
To the naval officer OF the district of Bos-
ton and Charlestown, Massachusetts,; and San
Francisco, California and Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania each five thousand dollars.
To the surveyor of the port of New York,
eight thousand dollars.
To the surveyors of the ports of Boston,
Massachusetts,; and San Francisco, California;
and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, each five
thousand dollars.
SEC. "a. That the Secretary of the Treasu-
rV shall, from time to time, make such regu-
lations as he may deem necessary for the con.
duct and management of the bonded ware
houses, general order stores. and other depos-
itories of the imported merchandise through
out the United States; all regulations or
ders issued by collectors of customs in regard
thereto shall be subject to revision. alteration
or revocation by him; and no warehouse shall
be bonded and no general order store estab
lished without his authority and approval.
And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of
the Treasury, in granting permits to establish
general order warehouses, to require such
warehouse or warehouses to be located con-
tiguOus, or as near as may be, to the landing
places of steamers and vessels from foreign
ports; and that no officer of the customs shall
have any personal ownership of, or interestin,
any bonded warehouse or general order store.
SEC. 25. That public carriage of merchan-
disc in the custody of the Government shall
be let after not less than thirty days notice
of such letting to the lowest responsible bid
der giving sufficient security, and shall be
subject to regulations approved by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
Sec. 26. That all acts and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed; that nothing herein contained
shall affect existing rights of the United
have been actually commenced for forfeitures
incurred, the Secretary of the Treasury shall
haye power to make compensation, as provI-
ded in the fourth section of this act, to the
persons who would, under former laws, have
been entitled to share in the distribution OF
such for FIXTURES.
Approved, June %, 1874