So far as the reduction is specifically made by the adoption of the report, it should be made by the 1st day of June, and it should be made as to each particular division or department of the customhouse as early as practicable.
The action of the President on the New York customhouse cases turned upon the general question of change there, and not upon Cornell's case.
Much of it came through the customhouse in New York, but most of it was in payment for cotton and provisions.
The State of South Carolina has seized the customhouse in the city of Charleston, has closed that port, and prevented the United States from the exercise of their conceded exclusive power of collecting the revenue from imports.
I have, however, been thinking over the customhouse problem of which you asked my opinion.
On the 31st, she took possession of the United States arsenal, post office, and customhouse in Charleston, the arsenal containing seventy thousand stand of arms and other stores.
The reforms proposed in the customhouse at New York were carried out.
Thus, nearly all the officers of the customhouse are appointed by the collector, and, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may be removed at pleasure.
From the customhouse came fabulous tales of millionaires ransacking the world.
There were not, excepting the military and those attached to them and the customhouse officials, to exceed twenty-five men in both towns.
The increase in the amount of shipping led to the establishment of the customhouse at Astoria in 1849.
With the change of the national administration in 1861, new officers who were friendly to the lower town were appointed and the post office and the customhouse were moved to the lower town.
Hustle up to the customhouseand get it recorded; then make out a bill of sale for a one-third interest to the West Coast Trading Company and record that also.
Inquiry at the customhouse and at the Mexican consulate shows that the vessel has been sold, and the trail leads straight to the office of the West Coast Trading Company.
They were going to use it in the construction of barracks or a new customhouse or something--and Joey knew this.
A customhouse officer who searches ships for unentered goods.
No sooner had we landed on the Hungarian side of the river than up came a customhouse official, who informed me that I must pay duty for my horse.
Here we began to ascend again, and about mid-day got to a place called La Durs, a customhouse for cattle coming from Roumania; it is not absolutely on the frontier, but very near it.
In seizing the customhouse he encountered for many hours the heaviest and most pernicious concealed fire of the entire day, but his courage and coolness under trying conditions was marked.
I must say, he did n't neglect the opportunity, for he insulted the passport people and the customhouse officers, and the man at the bridge of boats, and the postmasters and postilions everywhere.
How they got there is not for me to inquire, but I suppose that a vow to a chamberlain is like a customhouse oath, and can always be reconciled to an easy conscience.
The next morning when Gregory and his society manner strolled into the customhouse in New York he found the place buzzing.
We are told he packed his tobacco himself, and sent such good flour to the West Indies that barrels marked "George Washington" were always allowed to pass the customhouse without being examined.
As the coast was very long, and there were customhouse officers in only a few of the towns, some foreign vessels managed to slip into small bays unseen, and thus began smuggling goods in and out of the country.
The money raised by these taxes was to be used partly for paying the salaries of governors, judges, customhouse and other colonial officers.
A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties.
The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.
To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
The students, amongst other privileges, would not suffer their trunks to be searched by customhouse authorities, and no ordinary policeman would have dared to arrest one of them.
As soon as we reached Rome I went to the customhouse and put in the document relating to Betty's trunk.
We lunched that day on Espia Hill, used formerly as a customhouse post of observation, but the Apache chief Geronimo, raiding through here, collected a poll tax of one scalp apiece, and since then the post has been abandoned.
Here, again, in the far-off woods and hills were more customhouse officials.
There is this peculiarity about Mexican frontier customs: after passing the first one you are by no means through with them, for the next two, three, or even four towns may also have customhouse officers.
A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
Vera Cruz, he sent a broker (agiotista) to the minister of the treasury, and by paying a sum in advance he obtained drafts on the Vera Cruz customhouse that were receivable at par for the duties.
The worst consequence was that the customhouse at Vera Cruz did not pass into Mexican hands at the appointed time, because no one had authority to surrender it.
A merchant had but to load his ship at New York or Philadelphia, go to some port in the French West Indies, take on a new cargo and bring it to Savannah, enter it at the customhouse and pay the import duties.
The Boston Port Bill, which shut the port of Boston to trade and commerce, forbade ships to come in or go out, and moved the customhouse to Marblehead.
That the presents coming for the king and prince, should not be opened at the port, but sent up to court under the seals of the customhouse officers.
You fancy, perhaps, that theCustomhouse is merely an instrument of taxation, like the octroi or the toll-bar?
Napoleon said that "the customhouse should not be made an instrument of revenue, but a means of protecting industry.
They are called Customhouse officers, and they act in precisely the same way as ruts and bad roads.
At the same time, the Customhouse books bore an entry of 200.
We maintain the contrary, and we contend that the customhouse ought not to become in the hands of the working classes an instrument of reciprocal rapine, but that it may be used as an instrument of revenue as legitimately as any other.
The Customhouse affords compensation, but it gives also something far more precious.
Go and clear out the canal; and we shall reform the Customhouse afterwards.
And by this process we should have saved the 200 millions which the railway cost, plus the expense of Customhouse surveillance, for this last would be reduced in proportion to the diminished encouragement held out to smuggling.
It is not in the labour of the Customhouse officials that it discovers a gain.
It was already occupied by two customhouse officers, the only representatives of Uncle Sam whom we encountered in the whole region.
I spent the next day in wandering around town in a desultory fashion, and on returning to the customhouse found the door locked.
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