Volume 29
Public Law 54–2
To amend section twenty-six hundred and one of the Revised Statutes relative to Ports of Entry.
Approved December 27, 1895
Statutory text
An Act
To amend section twenty-six hundred and one of the Revised Statutes relative to Ports of Entry.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section twenty-six hundred and one, Revised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
Section 2601. There shall be in the States of Indiana and Illinois one Collection District as follows:
The District of Chicago; to comprise the State of Illinois, and the
Chicago district.
waters and shores of Lake Michigan, within the State of Indiana; in which Chicago shall be the port of entry, and Waukegan and Michigan City ports of delivery: Provided, That all present ports of delivery in
Provisos.
Transfer of ports of delivery, New Orleans district.
R. S., sec. 2568, p. 508, amended.
the State of Illinois now a part of the New Orleans District, shall be ports of delivery in the new District of Illinois and shall have all privileges which they have under existing law: Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal the provisions of the Act approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, which embraces East Saint Louis, Illinois, within the limits
East St. Louis.
Vol. 22, p. 349.
of the port of Saint Louis, Missouri.
Approved, .