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- noun Plural form of
customhouse .
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As a wedding present, he had been given the city of Lahore, all the buildings contained within, the taxes from its bazaars, the people who lived there, the duties from its customhouses.
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As a wedding present, he had been given the city of Lahore, all the buildings contained within, the taxes from its bazaars, the people who lived there, the duties from its customhouses.
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As a wedding present, he had been given the city of Lahore, all the buildings contained within, the taxes from its bazaars, the people who lived there, the duties from its customhouses.
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At the beginning of the administration of President Hayes, and for months previous, there had been complaints as to the conduct of business in the principal customhouses of the United States.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
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We also visited some of the leading lighthouses along the coast and the principal customhouses between the Chesapeake
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
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They're afraid of the border an 'they're afraid of the customhouses, so they runs the loot down here in an automobile, hides it up about the Inlet, and plans to go out with it to one of them fruit steamers passing on the way to Tampico.
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The only report was progress in linking things up; not only along the Canadian and Mexican borders and the customhouses, but we had also done a further unusual thing, we had an agent on every ship going out of America to follow through to the foreign port and look out for anything picked up on the way.
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In consequence, these goods are twice borne upon the registers of the Turkish customhouses, which, be it observed, are exceedingly badly kept.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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They seized forts, navy yards, arsenals, customhouses, post offices and other public buildings of the United States.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
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President directed an examination into the conduct of the customhouses at New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco and perhaps other ports.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
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