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Executive Order 5291—Abolishment of New Bern and Manteo, North Carolina, as Customs Ports of Entry

March 05, 1930

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of Congress approved August 1, 1914 (38 Stat. 623), making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915, New Bern, North Carolina, and Manteo, North Carolina, are hereby abolished as customs ports of entry in Customs Collection District No. 15 (North Carolina) with headquarters at Wilmington, North Carolina, effective thirty days from the date of this order.

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
March 5, 1930.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5291—Abolishment of New Bern and Manteo, North Carolina, as Customs Ports of Entry Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372912

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