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Page 19
... customs had become a farce . Cargoes of slaves and every conceivable article were landed on Grande Terre and openly auctioned weekly . Hand bills advertising the sales were post- ed brazenly in New Orleans , and the federal gov- ernment ...
... customs had become a farce . Cargoes of slaves and every conceivable article were landed on Grande Terre and openly auctioned weekly . Hand bills advertising the sales were post- ed brazenly in New Orleans , and the federal gov- ernment ...
Page 34
... customs officer in America in the twelve months . " During the eighteenth century , smuggling was extensively carried on along the Connecticut coasts , especially at the eastern and western ex- tremities of Long Island Sound . At ...
... customs officer in America in the twelve months . " During the eighteenth century , smuggling was extensively carried on along the Connecticut coasts , especially at the eastern and western ex- tremities of Long Island Sound . At ...
Page 37
... customs may be gleaned from an article in the PENNSYLVANIA JOUR- NAL of October , 1773. In connection with the arrival of a revenue spy , Eben Richardson , who had been sent from Boston to Philadelphia , the paper says : " All lovers of ...
... customs may be gleaned from an article in the PENNSYLVANIA JOUR- NAL of October , 1773. In connection with the arrival of a revenue spy , Eben Richardson , who had been sent from Boston to Philadelphia , the paper says : " All lovers of ...
Page 39
... customs re- ceipts and while , in those days , the Treasury ac- counts were most involved and difficult to untangle , the following table will give some idea of what import duties amounted to . Thus , for the year 1795 , the total customs ...
... customs re- ceipts and while , in those days , the Treasury ac- counts were most involved and difficult to untangle , the following table will give some idea of what import duties amounted to . Thus , for the year 1795 , the total customs ...
Page 40
... Customs , coastguard , naval and many other items were mixed or consolidated and there was no detailed tabulation or itemization of expenses . But that it was an expensive undertaking to wipe out the smugglers and safeguard the revenues ...
... Customs , coastguard , naval and many other items were mixed or consolidated and there was no detailed tabulation or itemization of expenses . But that it was an expensive undertaking to wipe out the smugglers and safeguard the revenues ...
Common terms and phrases
American ashore Baratarians Barhona boat brandy Brazil brigantine British captain captured cargo carried casks chance channel chase cigars coast guard confiscated contraband contrabandistas craft crew customs officers DANIEL CHATER daring deck declared despite diamonds dollars drugs dutiable duties England fact famous fellow fleet force Francis Bourgeois French gang gems glers gling Goudhurst hands Hawkhurst gang horse hundred islands Jabez Lafitte land lawless liquor smugglers Long Island Sound lugger matter ment Montmorillon mountain mystery never Owlers passed passengers picturesque pirate pistol ports possess pounds prison profits Pyrenees realize result revenue cutter revenue officers rum runners rum-runners safe sail schooner secret seized ship shore skipper slave smugglers sloop sloop-of-war smug smuggling Spanish stealing wool stones story suspicion tain thousand tion traband trade vessels watched West Indies whalemen whaling wool
Popular passages
Page 71 - ... restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board; couchant or levant we must pay.
Page 82 - If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Page 71 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he...
Page 71 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Page 31 - ... wood, of the growth, production, or manufacture of any English plantations in America, Asia, or Africa, shall be shipped, carried, conveyed, or transported from any of the said English plantations, to any land, island, territory, dominion, port, or place whatsoever, other than to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty...
Page 71 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers...
Page 31 - ... any land, island, territory, dominion, port, or place whatsoever, other than to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty, his...
Page 141 - A little tea, one leaf I did not steal. For guiltless bloodshed I to God appeal ; Put tea in one scale, human blood in t'other And think what 'tis to slay a harmless brother.
Page 142 - I am not dead, but sleepeth here, And when the Trumpet Sound I will appear. Four balls thro' me Pearced there way. Hard it was. I'd no time to pray. This stone that here you Do see My Comerades erected for the sake of me.