Here's a sample of the silk," announced the Collector of the Port at Seattle, producing a piece of very heavy material, evidently of foreign manufacture.
When a second and then a third shipment was reported, Marks was notified by wire to get to Seattle as fast as he could, and there to confer with the Collector of the Port.
More than that, it was made from material which Marks would have sworn had been cut from the same bolt as the sample which the Collector had shown him in Seattle!
No," and the Collector of Customs was positive in his reply.
On their return, they brought with them a letter containing the requisitions of the King; and were soon followed by Randolph, who had been appointed collectorat Boston.
The rate-collector knocks at the cottage door as well as at the farmer's.
It is the collector calling the second time for the poor rates, which have grown heavier of late.
He is a rate-collector for his parish, and has called about some technicalities.
By this time they were nearly a hundred yards past, and Shaddy looked at the enthusiasticcollector with a comical expression on his face.
Day's father was a collector of Customs who died a year after his son's birth, leaving him a very comfortable fortune of twelve hundred a year.
Connolly, Collector of Malabar in the Madras Presidency, began to plant Teak on a large scale at Nilambur.
A few of his friends, under the guidance of the Collector of the port, steamed down in the custom-house boat to welcome him.
A] Colonel George Mercer, of Stafford, who had been compelled to resign the office of stamp collector before the commencement of the revolutionary struggle, retired to England.
Being collector of the customs in the lower district of James River, he volunteered to go on board the Shoram, and after behaving with undaunted courage, standing on the quarter-deck near the governor, was killed by a small shot.
Giles Bland, collector of the customs for James River, owing to a quarrel with Sir William Berkley, became a partisan of Bacon, and was executed during the rebellion.
Renous alluding to me, asked him what he thought of the King of England sending out a collector to their country, to pick up lizards and beetles, and to break stones?
One day, a German collector in natural history, of the name of Renous, called, and nearly at the same time an old Spanish lawyer.
To procure specimens from the water is a matter of some difficulty if managed badly, but easy enough when the collector knows his business.
A collector in Leghorn, unable to procure one of these latter, wrote a letter to himself without stamping it, expecting one of the then new labels to be affixed before delivery.
Sanderson, internal revenue collector for the eighth district, employed two young ladies as clerks, Miss Brown and Miss Price, the former of whom is said to be his best clerk.
Banks, for some years a teacher of colored schools in South Carolina, has been appointed collector of internal revenue for the Sumter district.
In his earlier life he was District Attorney and later Collector of the Port of New York.
They were daughters of Maltby Gelston, President of the Manhattan Bank, and granddaughters of David Gelston, who was appointed Collector of the Port of New York by Jefferson and retained that position for twenty years.
During President Johnson's administration Mr. King, whileCollector of the Port of New York, boarded a Jersey City ferry boat one morning, attached weights to his person and jumped into the river.
Stack)] The plant and flowercollector should combine his field work with a study of botany.
In addition to the net, the collector will require a small pail to hold his trophies.
Illustration: The Moth Collector and His Outfit (Photograph by F.
The botanical collector descended into one of the valleys nearest to us, and found the sides of it clothed with the timber before mentioned: it was quite new to us.
Our collector descended one of those nearest to us, and was amply repaid by the acquisition of nearly sixty most desirable plants, some of which appeared even to constitute new genera.
Our botanical collector ascended the peaked hill on our left, and had a most extensive prospect.
He intended to penetrate the veil of mystery which enveloped this good go-to-meeting collector of insurance premiums.
The house-to-house visits of the insurance collector of those fat dividend paying companies who insure the lives of the lower classes are truly fraught with many strange dramas and stirring tales of poverty and misfortune.
And then the honest, hard-working collector of insurance premiums of the poor of Hammersmith went forth upon his daily round, trudging from street to street, knocking or ringing at the doors of the insured.
Why Boyne, the humble collector of insurance premiums, should possess a latchkey to a house in Pont Street, and emerge from there dressed in evening clothes as a gentleman of means, sorely puzzled Gerald Durrant.
Vainly, therefore, will the most vigilant collectorsearch for French caricatures of Napoleon Bonaparte published during his reign.
This was the explanation given of these remarkable pictures to the trustees of the Museum by the collector of whom they bought the volume.
In reading these controversies, it is convenient to keep in mind the remark of the collector of the Calvin pictures: "When two theologians accuse one another, both of them lie.
Besides visiting at the house of the collector of the port, where there is a houseful of young girls, we have been hospitably treated by some people to whom Armstrong was able to be of use.
We had been in camp but a short time when the daughter of the newly appointed collector of the port came from their plantation near to see us.
L--Surgeon and collector of objects of natural history.
The bronze-winged dove, because of its wide distribution, is a species little valued by the collector but its solitary and unobtrusive habits usually lead the novice to mistake it for a rarity.
The color of the soft parts and sex are, I fancy, only given on the authority of the collector from whom the bird was obtained.
The same collector secured specimens in Lepanto and I have seen a living example which was reported as having come from Nueva Ecija.
Charles Cavileer, while not a fur trader, was a contemporary of these men, and acted as collector of customs at Pembina.
Thomas Key, the invaluable bailiff and rent-collector mentioned above, got the rather small salary of 13s.
