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Public Law 7–XXVI
to make Beaufort and Passamaquoddy, ports of entry and delivery ; to make Easton and Tiverton, ports if delivery ; and to authorize the establishment of a new collection district on Lake Ontario.
Approved March 3, 1803
Statutory text
An Act
to make Beaufort and Passamaquoddy, ports of entry and delivery ; to make Easton and Tiverton, ports if delivery ; and to authorize the establishment of a new collection district on Lake Ontario.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the last
District of Beaufort formed from Newborn, North Carolina.
day of June next, a district shall be formed from the district of Newbern, in North Carolina, to be called the district of Beaufort, which shall include the town of Beaufort, and all the water and shore north
Beaufort port of entry.
Collector appointed.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 12.
and east of the said town, to Harbor Island, and all the water and shore south and west of the said town, to Dog Island, inclusive. And the town of Beaufort shall be the sole port of entry and delivery for the said district; and a collector for the said port shall be appointed, to reside and keep his office at the said town of Beaufort, who shall be entitled
Salary.
to receive, in addition to the fees and other emoluments established by law, the annual salary of two hundred dollars.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That from and after the said
Easton, Maryland, and Tiverton, Rhode Island, parts of delivery.
thirtieth day of June, Easton, in the district of Oxford, in the stateSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 27. 1803. of Maryland, and Tiverton, in the district of Newport, and state of
Surveyor to each.
Salaries.
Rhode Island,shall be ports of delivery, and a surveyorshall be appointed to each ; each of whom shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the fees and emoluments already allowed by law, a salary of two hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. 3.
And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the
Additional port of entry and delivery, on Lake Ontario.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 5.
With a collector.
President of the United States to establish, when it shall appear to him to be proper, in addition to the port of entry and delivery already established on Lake Ontario, one other port of entry and delivery on the said lake, or on the waters or rivers emptying therein, and to appoint a collector of the customs, to reside and keep an office thereat.
Sec. 4.
And be it further enacted, That from and after the said thirtieth
Port of entry and delivery in Passamaquoddy, Massachusetts.
day of June next, such place within the district of Passamaquoddy, in the state of Massachusetts, as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, shall be a port of entry and delivery, (at which place the collector shall reside) as well for foreign as for vessels of the United States.
Approved, .