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. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)
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. ❋ John Sherman (N/A)
We also visited some of the leading lighthouses along the coast and the principal customhouses between the Chesapeake ❋ John Sherman (N/A)
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. ❋ Melville Davisson Post (N/A)
In consequence, these goods are twice borne upon the registers of the Turkish customhouses, which, be it observed, are exceedingly badly kept. ❋ Various (N/A)
Already we begin to hear from abroad and from our customhouses that the prohibitory effect upon importations imputed to the act is not justified. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)
They seized forts, navy yards, arsenals, customhouses, post offices and other public buildings of the United States. ❋ John Sherman (N/A)
States has been glad to encourage and support American bankers who were willing to lend a helping hand to the financial rehabilitation of such countries because this financial rehabilitation and the protection of their customhouses from being the prey of would be dictators would remove at one stroke the menace of foreign creditors and the menace of revolutionary disorder. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)
United States with the Dominican Republic, which were threatened by the necessity of suspending the operation under American administration of the customhouses on the Haitian frontier, it was found necessary to dispatch special commissioners to the island to reestablish the customhouses and with a guard sufficient to insure needed protection to the customs administration. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)
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. ❋ Melville Davisson Post (N/A)
Confidence was restored, the customs receipts rose to higher figures than ever before, and the prospects of peace became brighter as revolutionists could no longer count on captured customhouses to replenish their exchequer. ❋ Otto Schoenrich (N/A)
President directed an examination into the conduct of the customhouses at New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco and perhaps other ports. ❋ John Sherman (N/A)
United States forts, arsenals, customhouses, and ships were seized by the States in which they were situated. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I will do more, sir, and what I hope will convince the most skeptical man that I am a lover of the American Union: that, in case Virginia shall not make punctual payment, the control of our customhouses and the whole regulation of trade shall be given to Congress, and that Virginia shall depend on Congress even for passports, till Virginia shall have paid the last farthing and furnished the last soldier. ❋ Unknown (1906)
In the Dominican Republic disturbances were frequent, notwithstanding the fact that American officials were in charge of the customhouses and by their presence were expected to exert a quieting influence. ❋ Unknown (1902)
Central American States with the primary objects of avoiding just such revolutions by assisting those Republics to rehabilitate their finances, to establish their currency on a stable basis, to remove the customhouses from the danger of revolutions by arranging for their secure administration, and to establish reliable banks. ❋ William H. Taft (1893)
States with the Dominican Republic, which were threatened by the necessity of suspending the operation under American administration of the customhouses on the Haitian frontier, it was found necessary to dispatch special commissioners to the island to reestablish the customhouses and with a guard sufficient to insure needed protection to the customs administration. ❋ William H. Taft (1893)
Hence the United States has been glad to encourage and support American bankers who were willing to lend a helping hand to the financial rehabilitation of such countries because this financial rehabilitation and the protection of their customhouses from being the prey of would be dictators would remove at one stroke the menace of foreign creditors and the menace of revolutionary disorder. ❋ William H. Taft (1893)
