United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 51
Chap. LI.—An Act relating to certain collection districts, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Certain collection districts abolished, and annexed to other districts. That from and after the passage of this act, the districts of Ipswich, Massachusetts, St. Mary’s, and Snow Hill, Maryland, Folly Landing and East River, Virginia, and Sunbury, Hardwick, and Brunswick, Georgia, shall be, and hereby are, abolished as separate collection districts, and shall hereafter be annexed to other districts, as follows, that is to say: Ipswich, to the district of Newburyport; St. Mary’s, Maryland, to Annapolis; Snow Hill, to Vienna; Folly Landing, to Cherrystone; East River, to Yorktown; Sunbury and Hardwick to Savannah; and Brunswick to St. Mary’s, Georgia:Proviso. Provided, That the following places shall be, and are hereby, constituted ports of delivery, at each or any of which the President of the United States is authorized (if deemed necessary for the public interests) to appoint surveyors of the customs, to wit: At Ipswich, Massachusetts; St. Mary’s and Snow Hill, Maryland; Sunbury, Hardwick, and Brunswick, Georgia; at or near Folly Landing, East River, Virginia;Proviso. And provided, That the following mentioned ports of delivery are hereby discontinued, and the office of surveyor established at said ports, respectively, is hereby abolished, to wit: Chester and Nanjemoy, Maryland; South Quay, Virginia; Hertford, Murfreesborough, and Swansborough, North Carolina:Proviso.
1811, ch. 33. And provided, also, That the office of assistant collector, to reside at the town of Jersey, in the State of New Jersey, authorized by the act approved March two, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, is hereby abolished.
Shieldsborough, Miss., to be a port of entry, and Perlington not.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, the town of Shieldsborough, on the bay of St. Louis, in the State of Mississippi, shall be a port of entry for the district of Pearl River, and the collector of said district shall reside at said Shieldsborough; and the present port of entry at Pearlington, in said district, shall cease to be the port of entry:Proviso. Provided, That Pearlington for said district, shall be, and hereby is, constituted a port of delivery.
To be called the district of New Orleans.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the name of the district hereinafter mentioned shall be changed, and bear the following name, that is to say, Mississippi to be called the district of New Orleans.
Approved, June 15, 1844.