Volume 15
Public Law 40–XLII
to establish the Collection District of Aroostook in the State of Maine, and to more accurately define the Boundaries of the District of Newark, New Jersey.
Approved February 22, 1869
Statutory text
An Act
to establish the Collection District of Aroostook in the State of Maine, and to more accurately define the Boundaries of the District of Newark, New Jersey.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sta t es of America in Congress assembled,
That that portion of the State
Aroostook collection district established.
of Maine now included within the limits of the county of Aroostook be, and the same is hereby, constituted a customs collection district, to be called the district of Aroostook, of which Houlton, in the said county, shall be the only port of entry.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That a collector of customs shall be
Collector, residence, pay, &c.
appointed for the said district, who shall reside at said port of entry, and shall be entitled to the same compensation that is allowed to other collectors of customs on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers
1864, ch. 130, §2.
Vol. xiii. p. 134.
of the United States by the second section of the act approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four: Provided, That the aggregate
Proviso.
maximum compensation of the collector of Aroostook shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars, and which shall be the entire compensation allowed.
Sec. 3.
And be it further enacted, That the district of Newark, in the
Collection district of Newark, N. J., extended.
State of New Jersey, shall be extended so as to embrace all the waters and shores of Newark bay and the rivers and bays tributary thereto, the northern shore of the strait or passage known as Kill Van Kull, and all that part of the western shore of the strait or passage known as Staten Island sound, or Arthur Kill, which lies north of the northern boundary line of the town of Rahway.
Approved, .