Volume 21
Public Law 46–106
to amend and re-enact sections twenty-five hundred and fifty-two and twenty-five hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes.
Approved May 27, 1880
Statutory text
An act
to amend and re-enact sections twenty-five hundred and fifty-two and twenty-five hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph four of section twenty-five hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes be
Yorktown port of entry.
, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall read: The district of Yorktown: To comprise all the waters and shores from the
East River and Cumberland ports of delivery.
Richmond port of entry to include Manchester, Bermuda Hundreds, West Point.
point forming the south shore of the mouth of the Rappahannock River, and from the mouth of York River to Cappahoosic, in which Yorktown shall be the port of entry, and East River and Cumberland ports of delivery’.”
Sec. 2.
And that paragraph seventh of section twenty-five hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall read: “The district of Richmond: To comprise all the waters and shores of the James River, from its junction with the Appomattox River to the highest tidewaters of the James River, and all the waters and shores of the York River from Cappahoosic to its head, and the waters and shores of the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers, to the highest tidewaters in said rivers, in which the port of entry shall extend from Richmond and Manchester to Bermuda Hundreds, and to West Point, at the head of York River.”
Sec. 3.
And that paragraph seventh of section twenty-five hundred
R. S. 2553,
Amended.
Collector and surveyor to reside at Richmond, surveyor at Bermuda Hundred, and a deputy collector at West Point.
and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended, so that it shall read: “In the district of Richmond, a collector and a surveyor, who shall reside at Richmond; a surveyor, who shall reside at Bermuda Hundred; and a deputy-collector, who shall reside at West Point.”
Approved, May 27, 1880.