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'1‘WENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 59, 60. 1347. 183 no more, and that the surveyor for the port of Cavallo shall be discontinued. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor for the port $¤"¤Y°1’ I0! of Sabine shall be discontinued, and a deputy-collector shall be ap- ggfontguuggbalxs pointed for said port of Sabine, with the same powers as the deputy- aepntyeolleecollector of Aransas, provided for in third section of this act, whose mi tf; l’° ‘P‘ salary shall be at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum. Pm Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the salary of the collector Sah-YY °" ¤°l· for the District of Texas, residing at Galveston, shall be, from and at Gd` after the thirtieth day of June next, not exceeding seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, including in that sum the fees allowed by law; and that the amount he shall collect in any one year for fees, exceeding the said sum of seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury of the United States. Ar·1>novnn·, March 3, 1847. Can. LIX. — An Act to amend an Act, entitled “An Act toraise for n limited March 3, l847· Time an additional military Force." and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqzresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That under the provisions of the ninth section of the act approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled "An Act to raise for a limited Time an additional military Force, and for other Purposes," it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue treasury scrip therein provided, on the certificate of the Secretary of War, Howscrip shall showing the claimant entitled thereto, and not otherwise; and that l’,$€‘S§,‘l,°ds;‘}?:;` the stock thus issued shall bear interest from the day of presenting to of sc; of perm,- the Treasury Department such certificate of the Secretary of War in *:17811*; 1847. due form, and the interest thereon shall be payable on the first days ° {,,,],,8,, when of January and July in each year, and shall be transferable on the payable. books of the Treasury Department kept in the register’s office. Such certificates of stock shall be signed by the register of the treas- How certifiury under the direction of the of the Secretary, who shall cause the ;‘;‘*°:d s:;]; b° seal of the department to be anixed thereto, and no other signature sgié.; shall be required to said stock. Approved, March 3, 1847. Cin?. LX.——An Act creating a Collection District in Maine, and constituting Much 3, 1847. Bangor, in said District, a Port of Entry and Delivery. ——-—-——- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Collection Dis- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the counties ”'l<=*w3f B=¤·8°* of Penobscot and Piscataquis, and the town of Frankfort, in the °r°° county of Waldo, be, and they hereby are, created a collection district, which shall be known and called the District of Bangor; and Ban or, within said county of Penobscot, is hereby made a port of Baz?"' ’““d°‘* entr? and delivery for said district. Pm entry' Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a collector Collector to be of customs appointed for said district, together with such other officers °PP°““°d~ as are provided for by law; and the compensation of said collector shall be such fees and commissions as he by law may be entitled to. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Frankfort, in the county Frankfort to of Waldo, shall form a part of said District of Bangor, in the same f°Fé¤dPtH¤;* °*` manner that it now forms a part of the District of Belfast; and there sm is nc ` shall be a deputy-collector at Frankfort, as is now provided by law, who shall perform all the duties, and exercise all the powers, in the