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THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS Sess. II. Ch. 9. 1851. 567 to each district, to wit: Umpqua, Oregon, and I’uget’s Sound. The Boundaries or district of Umpqua shall include all the land, bays, harbors, rivers, and P}¤P*l'¤· DW shores embraced in that portion of the Territory aforesaid, lying between "°°’ the forty-second and forty-fourth degrees of north latitude; and a col- Collector. lectcr shall be appointed, in pursuance of existing laws for said district; and Scottsville shall be, and is hereby, made a port of entry and delivery Porf of amy. for said district, at which the collector shall reside. The district of Boundaries or Oregon shall include all the land, bays, rivers, harbors, and shores em- or¤z<>¤ Districtbraced within that portion of the Territory of Oregon, lying between the forty-fourth and forty-sixth and a half degrees of north latitude, embracing the coast of the Pacific west of the coast range of mountains, up to the forty-eighth degree of north latitude ; and Astoria shall pm of 8,,t,y_ be the port of entry for the district, at which the collector shall reside. The district of Puget’s Sound shall include all the land, bays, harbors, Bomdmes 0,- rivers, and shores in the Territory, not embraced in either of the before- Ppgers Sound mentioned districts, to wit : All that portion of the coast lying between D*““°t‘ the forty-eighth degree of north latitude and the northern boundary of said Territory, and embracing all the land and waters lying north of the forty-sixth and a half degree of latitude, and east of the coast range of mountains; and a collector shall be appointed, in pursuance of gone0W_ existing laws for said district; and Olympia shall be the port of entry port of envy_ and delivery for said district, at which place the collector shall reside. Nasqually and Portland, constituted ports of delivery, with surveyors Nasquauy ,,,,1 to reside thereat, in pursuance of the act of Congress, approved four- Portland continteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be continued as ‘5§gv:fy}’°'°’ °f ports of delivery for such districts created by this act, within the lim- 1848, eh_ 177. its of which they may respectively be situated. S20. 2. And be it fur!/zer enacted, That the collectors of the dis- compensation tricts of Umpqua, Oregon, and Puget’s Sound shall be allowed one ¤f ¤iH¤¤¤S· thousand dollars each per annum, with additional maximum compensation of two thousand dollars each per annum, should their respective ollicial emoluments and fees, provided by existing laws, amount to that sum; and the surveyors at Nasqually and Portland shall be allowed, in addition to the fees authorized by existing laws, a compensation of one thousand dollars each per annum. (V;) Src. 3. And be it further enacted, hat Pacific City, on Baker’s Pacific City Bay, and Milwaukie, on the Willamette River, in the collection district fg; LgL‘;;“k;$ of Oregon, established by this act, are hereby constituted ports of delivery, delivery; and surveyors of the customs hall be appointed, in con- Surveyors. formity to law, to reside thereat, whose compensations, in 'addition to the fees authorized by existing laws, shall not exceed one thousand dollars each per annum. Armovsu, February 14, 1851. CHAP. IX. *.H7I As: to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish the Territorial Feb. 19, 1861. Government of Oregon," and “An Act ta establish Zhc Territorial Gavernmenl -——-~·······‘ ·~’ ’·”m·**·*-" 1213, EK 13} Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ’` Uilited States of America in Congress assembled, That, in addition to 1 fuk °Yl%¥{l*· the number of officers already authorized by law to be employed by O? 1g,??:? afi the legislative assemblies of Oregon and Minnesota Territories, the Minnesota Tersaid legislative assemblies are hereby authorized, during their Sessions, "°°""· to employ one clerk for each branch thereof, whose pay per diem shall be the same as is now provided by law to be paid other clerks of said legislative assemblies. Armovun, February 19, 1851. (n) As to the fees allowed to collector and surveyors, see note in vol. III. 693, ¤mdtheact•of1839,ch.82, § 3; 1841,ch.35,§2; 1846, ch. 7; 1850,0 .27.