A Digest of the Proceedings and Reports of the London Committee for Reform of the Board of CustomsEffingham Wilson, 1852 - 672 pàgines |
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Pàgina 24
... fact that the Commissioners are at once the creatures and the victims , ( in the case of their subordinate officers ) of a vicious distribution of ministerial patronage ; and that as no qualifications of fitness are attached to their ...
... fact that the Commissioners are at once the creatures and the victims , ( in the case of their subordinate officers ) of a vicious distribution of ministerial patronage ; and that as no qualifications of fitness are attached to their ...
Pàgina 34
... fact of the existence of such an army of persons , called into professional being solely to make the forms of the foreign revenue system an exclusive study , is of itself a complete condemnation of the whole management of the Board ...
... fact of the existence of such an army of persons , called into professional being solely to make the forms of the foreign revenue system an exclusive study , is of itself a complete condemnation of the whole management of the Board ...
Pàgina 36
... fact that the merchant who should adopt the principle , and be guided by the decision , of the Surveyor - General in the entry of his goods , would have his property seized and himself regularly fined by the Chairman of the Board ...
... fact that the merchant who should adopt the principle , and be guided by the decision , of the Surveyor - General in the entry of his goods , would have his property seized and himself regularly fined by the Chairman of the Board ...
Pàgina 37
... fact , was it not the intention of the legislature , who framed the policy of the tariff , under which these duties are levied , to admit the cheap goods of foreign countries to competition with similar dearer articles in this country ...
... fact , was it not the intention of the legislature , who framed the policy of the tariff , under which these duties are levied , to admit the cheap goods of foreign countries to competition with similar dearer articles in this country ...
Pàgina 38
... fact that the goods seized for under - value are on the whole sold at a loss to the Crown ; and that the petitions to amend are no evidence of originally fraudulent under - entries , is notorious from the circumstance that in many cases ...
... fact that the goods seized for under - value are on the whole sold at a loss to the Crown ; and that the petitions to amend are no evidence of originally fraudulent under - entries , is notorious from the circumstance that in many cases ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 118 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Pàgina 23 - GENTLEMEN : I am commanded by the lords commissioners of her Majesty's treasury to inform you that, in...
Pàgina 303 - In the report of the Commissioners of Customs to the Lords of the Treasury...
Pàgina 77 - SIR, I AM commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that, the...
Pàgina 20 - ORDERS, and to report their Observations thereupon, together with the MINUTES OF THE EvIDENCE taken before them from time to time, to the House...
Pàgina 520 - And the sweepings of the sugar warehouses are to be charged with the molasses duty, subject to such allowance for dirt, &c., mixed therewith, as the proper officers shall consider the sweepings entitled to.— BM 31st August, 1832.
Pàgina 91 - The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have had under their consideration your...
Pàgina 580 - Her Majesty's Attorney General, it is ordered by the Court that the said defendants do within a week after service of this Rule, or a copy thereof, show cause to this Court why the verdict found for the defendants upon the trial of this cause before the Right...
Pàgina 3 - TO THE HONORABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. "The humble petition of the undersigned...
Pàgina 322 - They are composed of the expenses of quarantine ; the expenses of the warehousing department ; the expenses of officers connected with the Acts of navigation, and for keeping...