United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 33
Chap. XXXIII.—An Act to annex a part of the state of New Jersey to the collection district of New York; to remove the office of Collector of Niagara to Lewistown; to make Cape St. Vincent, in the district of Sacket’s Harbor, a port of delivery; and out of the districts of Miami and Mississippi to make two new districts, to be called the Districts of Sandusky and Teche; and for other purposes.
Part of the state of New Jersey added to the district of New York.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of the state of New Jersey, which lies north and east of Elizabethtown and Staten Island, be, and the same is hereby annexed to the district of New York; that an assistant collector, to be appointed and commissioned by the President of the United States, shall reside at the town of Jersey, who shall have power to enter and clear vessels in like manner as the collector of New York is authorized by law to do; but such assistant collector shall nevertheless act in conformity to such instructions1799, ch. 22, sec. 5. and regulations as he shall from time to time receive from the collector of New York; and that the said assistant collector shall receive for his annual salary one thousand dollars, in full for all services to be by him performed, and in lieu of commissions and fees.
District of Sandusky.
1805, ch. 34.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all that part of the Miami district, lying east of the western cape of Sandusky bay, shall be a district, to be called the district of Sandusky; and the President is hereby authorized to designate such place in the district of Sandusky, as he shall judge expedient, to be the port of entry of the said district; and a collector for the said district shall be appointed to reside at the port of entry.
Cape Vincent made a port of delivery only.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Cape Vincent in the district of Sacket’s Harbor shall, from and after the thirty-first day of May next, be a port of delivery only; and a surveyor shall be appointed to reside at the said port.
Transfer of the collector’s office from Niagara to Lewistown, &c. &c.1799, ch. 22, sec. 2.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the collector’s office shall, after the thirty-first day of May next, be removed from Fort Niagara to Lewistown, which last mentioned place shall in future be the residence of the collector; and also that the office of the collector of the customs, for the district of Buffaloe creek, shall be kept at such place or places in the town of Buffaloe as the President of the United States shall designate.
Vessels from or beyond the Cape of Good Hope may enter at Plymouth.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That ships or vessels, arriving from and after the first day of May next from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any place beyond the same, shall be admitted to make entry at Plymouth and Nantucket ports of entry in the state of Massachusetts.
Bangor made a port of delivery.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of May next, Bangor, in the district of Penobscot, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and the same is hereby made a port of delivery, to be annexed to the district of Penobscot; and that a surveyor be appointed to reside at the said port of delivery.
District of Teche established.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all that part of the collection district of Mississippi, which includes the waters of the river Teche, and all the shores, bays and rivers, west of the Atchafalaya, be, and the same is hereby established as a new district, to be called the district of Teche; that Nova Iberia be the port of entry for the same; and that a collector be appointed to reside at the port of entry.
Surveyor to be appointed, to reside at the mouth of Rappahannock.
Compensations of the collectors and surveyors.
1799, ch. 22.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That a surveyor be appointed to reside at or near the mouth of the Rappahannock river, at such place as the President of the United States shall designate.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the several collectors and surveyors, who may be appointed by virtue of this act, and whose salaries are not fixed by a preceding section, shall, in addition to the fees and commissions authorized by law, receive respectively the same annual salary which by law is allowed to the collectors and surveyors of the districts bordering on Lake Erie.
Approved, March 2, 1811.