Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 7840—Extending the Limits of the Port of Entry of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

March 15, 1938

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 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Customs Collection District No. 11 (Philadelphia), are hereby extended to include the following territory:

     Borough of Brooklawn, County of Camden, New Jersey;
     Township of West Deptford, County of Gloucester, New Jersey;
     Borough of National Park, County of Gloucester, New Jersey;
     Borough of Paulsboro, County of Gloucester, New Jersey;
     Township of Greenwich, County of Gloucester, New Jersey;
     Township of Tinicum, County of Delaware, Pennsylvania.

This order shall become effective thirty days from the date hereof.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
March 15, 1938.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7840—Extending the Limits of the Port of Entry of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371780

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