In this relation it would be his especial duty to support the petition of the custom-house officers in upholding the Writs of Assistance and in constraining the executive officers of the province to support them in doing so.
Some of the custom-house officers seized a vessel belonging to John Hancock.
These were all in due form--were undoubtedly genuine, and had been signed by the proper custom-house officers.
I gave the custom-house officers a copy of our bill of lading; and as to the other papers, they sent a man off with the pilot, to whom I gave them.
Besides, you must have something on the panels of your carriage, to escape being searched by the custom-house officers.
When the custom-house officers succeeded in seizing contraband goods they were again taken from them by main force.
On the 2d of July a serious contest took place at Brinskham between the custom-house officers and a party of peasantry, in which the latter remained masters of eighteen wagons laden with English goods: many were wounded on both sides.
They had not gone a hundred toises from the shore when they were perceived by the custom-house officers, who set out in pursuit of them, and brought them back again.
There was only one difficulty that still remained to be overcome, and that was the evading of the vigilance of the custom-house officers, who still remained on board the yacht.
I shall raise my taxes, and increase my custom-house officers, my army, and my navy.
Thirty or forty thousand custom-house officers will do the business.
Will any man look for them any where else than in your treaties with foreign nations, and in your statutes regulating your custom-houses and custom-house officers?
This I accordingly did next day, borrowing one of their flags to hoist as our boat, without which we had met with much trouble from the Hoppo-men, or custom-house officers.
Custom-house officers employed to prevent fraud on the revenue in vessels arriving at, or departing from, a port.
The Portuguese police were on hand in full force, as well as a squad of custom–house officers.
Every bag and valise was opened by the custom–house officers; and all the freight and baggage cars were locked and sealed, so that they should not be opened till they arrived at Lisbon.
The doctor and his pupils were sent to the Hotel Braganza, after they had gone through another ordeal with the custom–house officers.
And it was that flame of hope and that longing for revenge which made her so coquettish with the custom-house officers, for she hoped to find a possible avenger among her inflammable admirers.
The others took their revenge on them all by saying that the man with the dogs sold his wife to the custom-house officers, like he did his dogs.
No peasant ever set foot in his cottage, although Bistaud's wife kept a small shop and was a handsome woman, and the only persons who went there were the custom-house officers.
At Seyssel, the little troop fell in with the custom-house officers.
They landed, and were met by the custom-house officers of Vimereux.
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