CHAP. 79. AN ACT to create additional collection districts in the State of California, and to change the existing district therein, and to modify the existing collection districts in the United States.

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[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be in the State of California six col. Six collection lection districts, to wit: San Francisco, Monterey, San Diego, fornia. Sacramento, Sonoma and San Joaquin. The district of San Francisco shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers and shores embraced within the counties of San Francisco, Santa Clara, Contra-Costa, Marin, Mondocino and Trinidad, and a collector, naval officer and surveyor for the district shall be appointed, to reside at the city of San Francisco, which shall be the sole port of entry for the district.

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Officers to be

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Collector.

The district of Monterey shall include all the territory, bays, District of Monharbors, rivers and shores embraced within the counties of Monterey. terey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz, and a collector shall be appointed for said district to reside at the town of Monterey, which shall be the sole port of entry for the district.

The district of San Diego shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers and shores of the counties of San Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara; and a collector shall be appointed for said district, to reside at the town of San Diego, which shall be the sole port of entry for said district.

The district of Sacramento shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers and shores of the counties of Sacramento, Sutter, El Dorado, Yuba, Butte Yolo, Coluse and Shasta; and a collector for the district shall be appointed to reside at Sacramento city, which shall be the sole port of entry for the district.

The district of Sonoma shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers and shores embraced within the counties of Sonoma, Napa, and Solano, and a collector shall be appointed for said district to reside at the town of Benicia, which together with the town of Ballejo, shall be the sole port of entry for the district.

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Collector.

District of Sacramento.

Collector.

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Collector.

District of San Joaquin.

Collector.

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The district of San Joaquin shall include all the territory, bays, harbors, rivers and [shores] embraced within the counties of Calaveras, San Joaquin, Tuolumne and Mariposa, and a collector of the district shall be appointed to reside at the town of Stocktonw hich shall be the sole port of entry for the district. And the towns of Santa Barbara and San Pedro in the collection district of San Diego, shall be, and are hereby constituted ports of delivery for said districts, and surveyors shall be ap- livery. pointed to reside at each, with such other officers as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary for the public service. SEC. 2. And be it. further enacted, That in addition to the officers hereinbefore provided for, at the port of San Francisco, there shall be appointed two principal and two assistant appraisers for said port, and the compensations of the officers provided for in this act, shall be as follows, to wit: the collector of the district of San Francisco shall be allowed a compensation not exceeding ten thousand dollars per annum; the naval officer Francisco.

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a compensation not exceeding eight thousand dollars per annum; the surveyor a compensation not exceeding seven thousand dollars per annum. The principal appraisers a compensation not exceeding six thousand each per annum, and the assistant appraisers each a sum not exceeding three thousand Compensation five hundred dollars per annum. The collectors of the districts Monterey, San of Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento, Sonoma and San JoaDiego, Sacra- quin shall be allowed three thousand dollars each per annum, and San Joaquin. with additional maximum compensation of two thousand dol lars each per annum, should their official emoluments and fees provided by existing laws amount to that sum respectively. Surveyors at The surveyors at Santa Barbara and San Pedro shall be allowed in addition to the fees authorized by existing laws, a conpensation of two thousand dollars per annum, and the deputy Deputy collee collector appointed in pursuance of existing laws at the port of San Francisco, shall be allowed a compensation not to exceed five thousand dollars per annum.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That until otherwise the revenue, ex- directed by Congress, the provisions of law in relation to the payment of, expenses incidental to the collection of the reve nue from customs, existing prior to the act of 3d March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act requiring all moneys receivable from customs and from all other sources to be paid immediately into the Treasury without abatement or reduction, and for other purposes," shall be, and are hereby, made applicable to the several collection districts in the State of California and the Territory of Oregon, any thing in the aforesaid act to the contrary notwithstanding.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of fine, thorized to remit penalty or forfeiture mentioned and embraced in the act entior mitigate finealed "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeiteurred undercer- ures, penalties and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned," or in any act in addition to or amendatory of said act, that have occurred or may occur in the collection districts in the State of California and Territory of Oregon, the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized, if in his opinion, the said fine, penalty, or forfeiture was incurred, without wilful negligence or intention of fraud, to prescribe such rules and mode of proceeding to ascertain the facts, as in his opinion, may be convenient and proper, without regard to the provisions of the act above referred to, and upon the said facts so to be ascertained as aforesaid, the said Secretary may exercise all the power conferred upon him in and by said act as fully as he might have done, had said facts been ascertained under and according to the provisions of said act: Provided, That where any ships or vessels or any goods, wares, and merchandise, may have been subjected to seizure or confiscation or detention by any officer of the customs in the collection district of Upper California or the district of Oregon, prior to the passage of this act, and it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the owner or owners of any such ships or vessels, or the owner or owners or import

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ers of any such goods, wares, and merchandise, has, or have sustained damage or loss by reason of any improper seizure, confiscation or detention thereof, the said Secretary is hereby authorized to extend such relief in the respective cases, as he may deem just and proper.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all the territory, harbors, rivers and waters, on the eastern shore of the State of Wisconsin, bordering on Lake Michigan lying south of the forty-fourth parallel of north latitude, heretofore embraced in the district of Chicago, as are contained within the limits and jurisdiction of the State of Wisconsin, shall be, and are hereby, constituted a collection district to be called the district of Milwaukie, and the port of entry for said district is hereby established at Milwaukie; and Southport, Racine, Sheboygan, Green Bay and Depré, shall be ports of delivery only. And the town of Wawkegan in the State of Illinois in the collection district of Chicago, shall be a port of delivery also. And all the territory, harbors, rivers and waters on the eastern shore of the State of Wisconsin bordering on Lake Michigan and Green Bay, lying north of the said forty-fourth parallel of latitude, shall be and the same are hereby attached to and made a part of the collection district of Mackinac.

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SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed in pursuance of law, a collector of the customs for the appointed. aforesaid district, who shall reside at the port of entry created by this act, together with such other subordinate officers of the customs as are provided for by law, and the compensation of Compensation. said collector shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, together with such commissions and fees as are authorized by existing laws.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That deputy collectors of the customs shall be appointed and compensated for their services, in the mode prescribed by existing laws, to reside at the respective ports of delivery constituted by this act, and said officers shall exercise all the powers and duties vested in deputy collectors of the customs under existing laws.

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The collection district of Minne

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That all that part of the territory of the United States lying north of the northern sota created. boundary line of the States of Wisconsin and Iowa and east of the Rocky Mountains is hereby created a collection district, to be called the Minnesota District, whereof Pembina shall be the port of entry; and a collector shall be appointed who shall give the usual bond required of such officers, and who shall be entitled to a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum, and who shall not receive any other compensation whatever in the shape of extra allowance or fees of any description whatever.

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SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is bereby authorized at his discretion to appoint tor a deputy collector or an inspector of the customs for said district at a rate of compensation not to exceed three dollars per day when he is employed.

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Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the town of Jeffersonville in the State of Indiana shall be attached to, and made and made a part of the port of delivery as now existing at Louisville in the State of Kentucky, and goods imported into the port of Louisville in pursuance of existing laws, and destined for Jeffersonville, may be landed and warehoused under the provisions of the warehousing act of the sixth of August eighteen hundred and forty-six, at Jeffersonville under the control of the surveyor of the port of Louisville.

SEC. 11 And be it further enacted, That the town of a port of delivery. Memphis in the State of Tennessee shall be a port of delive ry, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States; and there shall Surveyor to be be appointed a surveyor of the customs to reside at the said port, who shall in addition to his own duties also perform the duties and receive the salary and emolument of surveyors prescribed by the act of Congress passed on the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, providing for the payment of duties on imported goods at certain ports therein mentioned, the same being entitled "An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville and Natchez, to be received and paid at those places" and the said town of Memphis and the said port of delivery be, and the same is hereby annexed tached to the dis- to and made part of the collection district of New Orleans and all the privileges and facilities afforded to Pittsburg and Wheeling and Cincinnati &c. by the act of Congress of second March eighteen hundred and thirty-one, be and the same are hereby extended to the said port of Memphis.

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SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the port of entry ferred to Toledo, now existing by law, as the port of entry in the collection district of Miami, Ohio, be and the same is hereby changed and transferred to the town of Toledo, in the State of Ohio, and all the laws now inforce in regard to said port of entry in the said collection district of Miami be, and the same are hereby declared to be in full force, and to apply to the new port of entry of Toledo, and the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authoArchives and rized and directed to cause the archives and custom-house of said custom-house to district of of Miami to be transferred to the town of Toledo. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the town of Chelsea, Mass., attached to dis- Chelsea in the State of Massachusetts, shall be attached to and inade part of the port of entry and collection district of Boston and Charlestown in the State of Massachusetts, as now existing 'by law, and goods imported into the port of Boston and Charlestown and destined for the port of Chelsea may be landed and warehoused under the provisions of the Warehousing act of sixth of August eighteen hundred and forty-six, at Chelsea, under the custody and control of the collector of Boston and Charlestown, and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint an inspector of customs for said port of Chelsea.

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SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the towns of Evansville and Evansville and New Albany shall be ports of delivery, and shall made ports of debe subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports livery. of delivery in the United States: and there shall be appointed a surveyor of the customs to reside at each of said ports, who shall, in addition to their own duties, also perform the duties and receive the salary and emolument of surveyors prescribed by the act of Congress, passed on the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, providing for the payment of duties on imported goods at certain ports therein mentioned, the same being entitled "An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St, Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be received and paid at those places," and the said towns of Evansville and New Albany, and the said ports of delivery, be, and the same are, hereby annexed to, and made part of, the collection district of New Or- "Attached to disleans; and all the privileges and facilities afforded to Pittsburg, leans. and Wheeling, and Cincinnati, &c., by the act of Congress of second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, be, and the same are, hereby extended to said ports of Evansville and New Albany.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act entitled "An act to establish a port of entry at Saluna, in the State of Texas, and for other purposes," approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, as fixes the said port of entry at Sulana, and requires the residence of the collector to be there, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and hereafter the port of entry and the residence of the collector shall be at La Salle, in said district.

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act of March 3,

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SEC. 16 And be it further enacted, That the provisions Modification of of the seventh section of the act entitled "An act allowing draw- 1845, allowing backs upon foreign merchandise, exported in the original pack- drawbacks on ages to Chihuahua and Santa Fé, in Mexico, and to the British dise. North American provinces adjoining the United States," approv ed third March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, be and the same are hereby, so far modified as to allow any foreign imported merchandise in the original packages, which has been entered and the duties paid according to law, to be transported with benefit of drawback, by land or by water, or partly by land and partly by water, to either of the ports designated in said section, or such ports as may have been, or may hereafter be designated, in pursuance of the authority conferred'therein, and any such merchandise may be exported from either of the aforesaid ports, or from such ports on the seaboard, from which merchandise may, under existing laws be exported for benefit of drawback and be transported thence in like manner to ports in the adjoining British provinces, and the ports and places in Mexico, under such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, Provided, That so Proviso. much of the eighth section of said act as requires the production of the affidavit of the master of the vessel in which any such goods, may be exported, may be dispensed with when such