United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 47
June 12, 1844.
Chap. XLVII.—An Act relating to the unlading of foreign merchandise on the right bank of the river Mississippi, opposite New Orleans.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Salt from foreign ports may be unladen on the right bank of the Mississippi, opposite New Orleans. That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, to permit salt imported from foreign places to be unladen on the right bank of the river Mississippi opposite the city of New Orleans, at any point on said right bank between the upper and lower corporate limits of the municipalities of said city.
Approved, June 12, 1844.