Executive Order 7474—Extending the Limits of Customs Port of Entry of Brownsville, Texas

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of August 1, 1914, ch. 223, 38 Stat. 609, 623 (U.S.C., title 19, sec. 2), the limits of the customs port of entry of Brownsville, Texas, in Customs Collection District No. 23 (San Antonio), are hereby extended, effective immediately, so as to include therein the following additional territory:

A strip of land on both sides of 14th Street Road (known as state highway No. 4 between the corporate limits of Brownsville and Boca Chica Road, and as state highway No. 48 running northeasterly from Boca Chica Road), having a width of 50 feet on each side from the center line thereof, beginning at the corporate limits of the city of Brownsville, and extending to the land of the Brownsville Navigation District, Cameron County, Texas, and including the land of the navigation district surrounding the turning basin for vessels, and said turning basin, as shown on the map prepared by the Brownsville Navigation District on May 14, 1935, on file in the Bureau of Customs, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 17, 1936.