United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/7th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 26
Chap. XXVI.—An Act to make Beaufort and Passamaquoddy, ports of entry and delivery; to make Easton and Tiverton, ports of delivery; and to authorize the establishment of a new collection district of Lake Ontario.
District of Beaufort formed from Newbern, North Carolina.
Beaufort port of entry.
Collector appointed.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 12.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 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 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 to receive, in addition to the fees and other emoluments established by law, the annual salary of two hundred dollars.Salary.
Easton, Maryland, and Tiverton, Rhode Island, ports of delivery.
Surveyor to each.
Salaries.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said thirtieth day of June, Easton, in the district of Oxford, in the state or Maryland, and Tiverton, in the district of Newport, and the state of Rhode Island, shall be ports of delivery, and a surveyor shall 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.
Additional port of entry and delivery, on Lake Ontario.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 5.
With a collector.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the 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.
Port of entry and delivery in Passamaquoddy, Massachusetts.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said thirtieth 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, March 3, 1803.