On the 1st of August, 1862, Victor Smith, Collector of Customs for the District of Puget Sound, sails into Port Townsend on the lighthouse tender USS Shubrick to move the Customs records to Port Angeles, designated as Washington Territory’s new Port of Entry. The citizens lock up the records, but Smith threatens to order the Shubrick to shell the Customs House and commercial district with her three 12-pound cannons. 
Reluctantly, the city council relents and Smith takes the records to Port Angeles. Over the next four years, the citizens of Port Townsend in Jefferson County will persist in their attempts to have Smith dismissed from office and will finally succeed.
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